Iron Man Film Trailer and Wallpapers

Posted in Films and Movies on Jan 12th, 2008 | 1 comment

Iron Man is an upcoming 2008 superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Iron Man. The film is directed by Jon Favreau and stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man.

The film is slated for a May 2, 2008 release, and is the first film independently produced by Marvel Studios.

Weapons designer Tony Stark is in Afghanistan to introduce his new missile design to the Air Force until the unit he is traveling with is attacked and Stark is taken hostage.

Injured by shrapnel embedded near his heart, his captors order him to assemble a missile for them, giving him access to a workshop.

He puts his creativity to use by assembling a bulletproof set of power armor, complete with pacemaker and flamethrowers, and uses it to free himself. Back at home, he becomes Iron Man, developing a flying suit with the red and gold scheme and advanced weapon capabilities. Stark faces the Iron Monger.

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Cast:

  • Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man: A billionaire industrialist who builds the ultimate technological suit. Favreau originally planned to cast a newcomer in the role, but cast Downey, who is a big fan of the comic book. Favreau said that Downey’s own personal problems, including cocaine abuse, made him an appropriate choice for the part. “The best and worst moments of Robert’s life have been in the public eye,” the director explained. “He had to find an inner balance to overcome obstacles that went far beyond his career. That’s Tony Stark. Robert brings a depth that goes beyond a comic-book character who is having trouble in high school, or can’t get the girl.” Downey described his challenge as “making a wealthy, establishmentarian, weapons manufacturing, hard drinking, womanizing prick into someone who is likable and a hero.” Downey set up an office next to Favreau, discussing his role and becoming highly involved in pre-production. He spent five days a week weight training and practised martial arts to get into shape for the role.
  • Terrence Howard as Lt. Colonel James “Rhodey” Rhodes: A pilot who befriends Stark when Iron Man saves his life after a plane crash left him stranded behind enemy lines. He is the liaison between Stark’s Enterprises and the military in the department of acquisitions. Howard’s casting in the role was part of long-term planning, as Favreau felt he could play War Machine. Howard prepared for the role by visiting Nellis Air Force Base on March 16, 2007, where he observed HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopters and F-22 Raptors.
  • Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia “Pepper” Potts: Stark’s personal secretary. Paltrow went to the source material, reading many of her husband’s (Chris Martin) comic books.
  • Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger: Tony Stark’s mentor, and now his main business rival. Bridges read some of the comics, and enjoyed shaving his hair off for the role, which was something he always wanted to do.
  • Shaun Toub as Yin Sen: Stark’s fellow captive in Afghanistan.
  • Leslie Bibb as Christine Everhart: A “fast-talking” reporter.
  • Bill Smitrovich in an unnamed role.
  • Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Gerard Sanders as Tony Stark’s father.
  • Actress Hilary Swank will have a cameo in the film. Iron Man co-creator Stan Lee will also cameo, where he appears with three blonde women and is mistaken for Hugh Hefner by Tony Stark. Rapper and Iron Man fan Ghostface Killah also has a cameo. The director himself also has a cameo. Favreau announced the Mandarin as the film’s villain at Comic-Con International on July 22, 2006. After filming, Favreau compared the Mandarin to Sauron in The Lord of the Rings, in that his role is a menacing presence rather than a physical antagonist.

Filming: The film was shot primarily in California,] with production based at the Playa Vista in the former Hughes Company soundstages. Favreau said he rejected the East Coast setting of the comic books as many superhero films were set there, and wanted to avoid repetition in his film. For filming, Favreau preferred improvisation in dialogue scenes, calling back to his Altman influence. Jeff Bridges noted, “I know Jon is very interested in grounding it as much in reality as he possibly can.”

Filming began on March 12, 2007, with the first few weeks were spent on Stark’s captivity in Afghanistan. One of the sets built was the cave where Stark is imprisoned, which was 150-200 yards long, with movable forks in the caverns. Filming at Edwards Air Force Base began in mid-April, and was completed on May 2. Filming concluded on June 25, 2007 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Special effects: Favreau stated he wanted the film to feel believable, and key to this was seeing the full construction of the suit in its three stages. Iron Man comic book artist Adi Granov created the suit design with Phil Saunders, which was built by Stan Winston Studios. Granov’s designs were the primary inspiration for the film’s design, and he came on board the film after he recognized his work on Jon Favreau’s MySpace page. Armor designs by graphic artist Brandon Perlow were considered by Iron Man’s visual effects supervisor John Nelson but were later rejected

Robert Downey Jr. will be involved with motion capture work eight months after the completion of filming in order to realistically portray the suited Iron Man’s movements. On May 14, 2007, Industrial Light & Magic was hired to create the visual effects, while Skywalker Sound will manage the audio production. EFilm will do color timing and mastering.

Sequel: Director Jon Favreau said that the first film’s plot would not deal with Tony Stark’s personal problems, such as alcoholism. Favreau noted that if there were sequels, Tony Stark’s personal problems would be explored. Favreau plans Iron Man to be the first in a trilogy, with all the actors signed on. Favreau has also stated he would like to develop the Mandarin into a physical threat, or use Fin Fang Foom if he could fit the tone of the films.

Definitely, Maybe Film Trailer and Wallpapers

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Definitely, Maybe is a film starring Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Banks, and Abigail Breslin. Ryan Reynolds stars as Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year-old daughter, Maya (Abigail Breslin), starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love.

Will’s story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as an idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women.

Will hopelessly attempts a “PG” version of his story for his daughter and changes the names so Maya has to guess who is the woman her father finally married. Is her mother Will’s college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily (Elizabeth Banks)? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, the apolitical April (Isla Fisher)? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist Summer (Rachel Weisz)?

As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad’s romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it’s definitely never too late to go back…and maybe even possible to find a happy ending.

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Wentworth Miller for most searched on actors !

Posted in Actors, News, TV on Jan 12th, 2008 | 0 comments

Every once and a while, an actor appears in a role that seems tailor-made. For Wentworth Miller, that role came when he was cast as young Coleman Silk in “The Human Stain” (2003), a race drama about a man (the older version played by Sir Anthony Hopkins) hiding the true nature of his identity—one born from a white mother and black father. Miller’s own background was a mirror image of the character, which naturally gave him an edge on the competition despite his sparse resume.

Prior to his feature debut, Miller paid his dues in small unforgiving roles on various television shows. Eventually, Miller began appearing in more prominent parts, including the lead role on the escape drama, “Prison Break” (Fox, 2005- ), an action-packed series that had set him up to become a breakthrough star.

Though Miller was born in Chipping Norton, England, where his father was a Rhodes Scholar, he grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, back when it was far less trendy. The cultural diversity of his neighborhood allowed him to ignore issues of race—with so many around and within him, Miller never really thought much about it.

His family later moved to Sewickley, Pennsylvania where he attended Quaker Valley High School his senior year. After graduation, he attended Princeton and majored in English. Though he loved acting and appeared in school productions since he was in kindergarten, Miller blenched at the prospect of pursuing acting in the business-oriented climate of the Ivy League school. Upon graduation in 1995, Miller moved to Los Angeles and began his entertainment career as a lowly assistant at a development company, presumably to put his Princeton degree to good use.

Working at the development company rekindled his desire to act, however, and later, while working behind the counter at a Border’s Bookstore, he began going on auditions. Three years after landing in Los Angeles., he got his first role on an episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (WB-UPN, 1996-2003), then went on to a recurring role on the short-lived Fox series, “The Time of Your Life” (1999-2000), a spin-off from “Party of Five” (Fox, 1994-2000) starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. In a 2000 episode of “ER” (NBC, 1994- ), he played a high school quarterback injured in a student riot.

After another recurring role on the teen comedy “Popular” (WB, 1999-2001) was cut short, Miller appeared as a waiter in “Room 302” (2001), a short film featured in Showtime’s 9th annual Black Filmmaker Showcase. An appearance in the cliché-ridden miniseries, “Dinotopia” (ABC, 2002), a CGI fantasy about a lost continent where humans and dinosaurs co-exist peacefully, added a major—albeit cheesy—role to his resume.

In 2003, Miller was set to make a major breakthrough after being cast as a younger version of Anthony Hopkins in “The Human Stain.” Miller had an intense personal connection to the racially ambiguous character—as a person of mixed racial make-up, he ran into trouble for making derogatory, though misconstrued, remarks about African-Americans, much like the character in the movie.

While a junior at Princeton, he published a cartoon in the Daily Princetonian featuring Cornel West, then professor of African-American studies who was hired away by Harvard, as teaching white students a class called ‘Rhythm – Why None of You Have It, and How You Can Get It.” The cartoon also referred to West as “newly-purchased,” an innocent academic term for newly hired that was taken as a reference to slavery. The New York Times ran a story, novelist Toni Morrison wrote an angry letter and Miller—despite his racial background—was considered a campus racist. And like Coleman Silk, Miller refrained from revealing his true nature.

After filming the movie, Miller wrote a letter to West apologizing for the cartoon, but it went unanswered. West was, however, a friend of actress Anna Deveare Smith, who played Silk’s mother, and showed up at the premiere. He unexpectedly gave Miller a bear hug and all was well.

The film, on the other hand, did not fair so well—it made a paltry $5 million at the box office despite the star power of Hopkins and Nicole Kidman.

Meanwhile, Miller had a small supporting role in, “Underworld” (2003), a sci-fi thriller about a secret war between vampires and werevolves.

But the weak showing of “The Human Stain” forced Miller to take a step back to reevaluate his life and career, leaving him without an appearance in 2004. He did make a strong comeback in 2005, starting with the music video for Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together,” in which he steals the singer away from Eric Roberts at the alter. Not exactly a shining moment, but it got him back into circulation—repeatedly on VH1, at least.

After a couple of episodes on “Joan of Arcadia” (CBS, 2003-2005), he gave his best HAL impression in the big budget bomb, “Stealth” (2005), voicing EDI, the onboard computer of a runaway aerial combat plane equipped with nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence gone haywire.

Miller then landed the role of Michael Scofield on the Fox series, “Prison Break,” playing a structural engineer who robs a bank in order to get arrested and placed in the same prison as his brother (Dominic Purcell), a wrongly-accused death row inmate. Despite criticism for stretching the boundaries of plausibility, the show was hailed for its suspense and excitement. The show made an impressive debut, pulling 10.5 million viewers its first night and holding 8.5 million its second episode. Meanwhile, he appeared in the pilot episode of “The Ghost Whisperer” (CBS, 2005), which was set to air late September.

Nicole Richie and Joel Madden Welcome Baby Girl

Posted in Celebrities, News on Jan 12th, 2008 | 0 comments

Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have welcomed a baby girl, her rep tells Usmagazine.com.  Harlow Winter Kate Madden was born Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A.

She weighed 6 lbs., 7 oz.  A pal was spotted walking into her room with a giant bundle of pink and white balloons, flowers and a stuffed black and white horse.

As Usmagazine.com reported exclusively, she arrived at the hospital late Thursday. Her parents arrived Friday as she went into labor. Madden’s brother Benji and his girlfriend Sophie Monk were also at the hospital.

In November, Richie said they could not agree on a baby name. “I figure I’ll be in the hospital for at least a day, so I’ll figure it out then,” she told Access Hollywood. In the same interview, Richie indicated the couple would wed “eventually.”

Earlier that month, Richie celebrated her pregnancy with a Wizard of Oz-themed baby shower, attended by Lauren Conrad, among other guests.

Richie and Madden have been actively supporting families and children in need since they launched the Richie-Madden Foundation in December. They threw a “winter wonderland” party for more than 200 children and their families.”

Kelly Ripa Photos and Biography

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Kelly Maria Ripa (born October 2, 1970) an American Daytime Emmy Award-winning actress, television personality and talk show host. Since February 2001, she has served as the co-host of Live with Regis and Kelly.

Earlier in her career, Ripa played Hayley Vaughan Santos on All My Children; She also played Faith Fairfield on Hope & Faith, both television series on ABC.

While attending Eastern High School in Voorhees Township, New Jersey, Ripa began acting in high school plays. This led to roles at local theaters and a regular spot on the USA Network’s Dance Party USA – an afternoon teen music program.

She was then cast as gothic teen turned suffering heroine Hayley Vaughan on the soap opera All My Children. Starting on the show in 1990, the character of Hayley quickly drew a large following. While she was selected to work alongside Regis Philbin for the long-running talk show, Live, Ripa was on double duty, but the following year in 2002, Ripa left All My Children.

In September 2003, Ripa was back on double duty when she co-starred (with Faith Ford) on Hope & Faith, a situation comedy. She portrayed Faith Fairfield, a former soap star whose character is killed off and who moves in with (and subsequently wreaks havoc on) her sister Hope’s family. Hope & Faith survived for three seasons before a ratings decline led to its cancellation.

In June 2004, Ripa agreed to continue as Live co-host for at least five more years, at a salary that the tabloid television show Extra reported was $8 million/year.

In October 2006, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos, also a actor, were partnering with producers from Hope & Faith on a sitcom for The CW Television Network that would be loosely based on the couple’s experiences as soap opera actors.

In April 2007, Ripa hosted the 2007 TV Land Awards. In May 2007, Ripa stated that she most likely is done with acting for the time being.

On August 14, 2002, guest Judith Light created a stir on Live with Regis and Kelly when she got into a shouting match with Kelly after Kelly corrected Judith’s pronuciation of “worcestershire”.  This became a recurring topic on the show, with the on-air talent frequently making light of the incident. On November 3, 2002, Light made a public apology to Kelly.

On November 17, 2006, Clay Aiken was a guest host on Live with Regis and Kelly. During an interview, Aiken covered Kelly Ripa’s mouth with his hand. There was considerable reaction after Kelly mentioned the incident on her show 4 days later. Aiken mocked the controversy on the 2006 American Music Awards a few days later with Tori Spelling.

Ripa won five Soap Opera Digest Awards for playing Hayley on All My Children in 1996, 1998 & 2000. She has been nominated for 8 Daytime Emmy Awards. Three of these nominations were for playing Hayley on All My Children, and 5 were for performing hosting duties alongside Regis.

In April 2006, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Special for co-hosting the 2005 Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade with Regis Philbin and Ryan Seacrest.

On September 15, 2006, Ripa broke the Guinness World Record for custard pie throwing, tossing 24 banana cream pies in one minute at actor Wilmer Valderrama, as part of a Guinness World Record Breaker theme week on Live with Regis and Kelly. She beat the record broken by NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth on the previous day, when he threw 17 pies at Ripa herself.

Ripa was born in Camden County, New Jersey to Joseph and Esther Ripa. In 1995, Ripa met Mark Consuelos, her co-star on All My Children; the two married on May 1, 1996. The couple have three children — Michael Joseph Consuelos, born June 2, 1997; Lola Grace Consuelos, born June 16, 2001; and Joaquin Antonio Consuelos, born February 24, 2003. Ripa’s father has been a freeholder for Camden County, New Jersey since January 2004.