ACTRESS EMMA ROBERTS HAS BEEN ARRESTEDFOR ALLEGATIONS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
In her upcoming movie We're The Millers, Emma Roberts plays a street-wise toughie not afraid to mix it up, who then becomes part of a fake family that's helping smuggle pot across the Mexican border.
That scrappiness takes on a new resonance in the wake of allegations of domestic violence against the actress. According to TMZ, Roberts was arrested in a Canadian hotel on July 7 after a guest reported a fight in a neighbouring room and cops showed up to find Roberts' boyfriend, actor Evan Peters, with a bloody nose and a bite mark, in the room with Roberts.
The 22-year-old actress is key to bringing in a younger demographic for Rawson Marshall Thurber's We're The Millers, an R-rated comedy starring Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston that opens the first week of August in the United States. Even if she maintains the same media schedule she did before the arrest, the Roberts incident (Peters did not press charges) is likely to be a distraction for some reporters who would otherwise be talking about the movie. And most actors don't keep the same media schedule.
After an early film career embodying teen sweetness in the likes of Nancy Drew, Roberts has gone to a more mature place over the last few years, starring as a fragile-but-gritty high-schooler in It's Kind Of A Funny Story, a more duplicitous than you'd think girl-next-door in Scream 4 and now the street kid of We're The Millers.
How much do actors' real-life woes affect their box-office perception? In some cases it can bounce right off. Christian Bale's on-set rant to a cinematographer didn't ding Terminator: Salvation even after the rant went viral, in part because much of the young male demographic that the movie was aimed at dug the freak-out. The Rupert Sanders-Kristen Stewart affair only seemed to help Snow White And The Huntsman. Then again, there's plenty of fallout when something like this happens right before a movie's release. Stars keep a low profile, media forget about the film and audiences can be left with a bad taste. It's hard to watch Roberts confronting street thugs on screen when that hotel image keeps lingering in one's mind. - Los Angeles Times/McClatchy-Tribune Information ServicesMOWGLI AND FRIENDS ARE RETURNING ... TO THE BIG SCREEN.
SEVERAL movie studios are simultaneously working on the famed adventures of Mowgli, first told in Rudyard Kipling's 19th-century fables, yet again for the big screen.
The Jungle Book has already been adapted numerous times, though the most famous version is still Disney's animated musical of 1967. Nonetheless, this collection of fables clearly hasn't yet exhausted the imagination of movie studios in Hollywood and abroad.
After adapting Alice In Wonderland (2010), Sleeping Beauty, Maleficient (due out in 2014) and Cinderella (directed by Kenneth Branagh and slated for 2015), Disney continues to co-opt the classics.
Justin Marks, who wrote The Raven (2012) and Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li (2007), has been attached to script a live-action Jungle Book for Disney.
Meanwhile, Warner Bros has put its own scribe on it, attaching Steve Kloves, who has adapted all but one of the Harry Potter series, to write and direct this project.
As if that weren't enough, DQ Entertainment (Ireland) Limited is planning to start up its own features department with a 3D adaptation in 2014.
So the next few years are going to be chock-a-block with little jungle boys raised by she-wolves, along with happy-go-lucky "bare necessities" bears, benevolent black panthers and bloodthirsty tigers. - AFP Relaxnews
DEL TORO'S MONSTER
BRITISH actor Benedict Cumberbatch, known for the BBC series Sherlock and as Khan in this year's Star Trek Into Darkness, is set to play the Mary Shelley classic in a remake which Guillermo del Toro has been developing for years.
According to the Daily Telegraph, del Toro has not given up on his idea of adapting the novel for the silver screen. The project was initially supposed to star his longtime collaborator Doug Jones (Hellboy), but apparently the director has finally opted for Cumberbatch instead.
The English actor, who'll also be starring in del Toro's gothic haunted house flick Crimson Peak, has the advantage of already having played Frankenstein on stage.
In 2011 director Danny Boyle had Cumberbatch and co-star Jonny Lee Miller take turns playing Dr Frankenstein and his creature at the Royal National Theatre in London.
Before del Toro's project gets under way at Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox is already planning its own version by 2014, featuring Daniel Radcliffe as Dr Frankenstein's assistant Igor. - AFP RelaxnewsAdam Horovitz, aka Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys, is in discussions to join Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts in Noah Baumbach's indie movie While We're Young, an individual familiar with the New York-set project has told TheWrap.
Horovitz made his acting debut as a troubled Los Angeles youth opposite Donald Sutherland in the 1989 drama Lost Angels, though he hasn't tackled a substantial movie role in two decades. Written and directed by Baumbach, While We're Young stars Stiller and Watts as a married couple that strikes up an unlikely friendship with a free-spirited younger couple, to be played by Adam Driver (Girls) and Amanda Seyfried (Lovelace).
Schedule permitting, Horovitz would play a married friend of Stiller and Watts' characters who just had a baby and can no longer relate to the childless couple or why they feel the need to hang out with twentysomething hipsters.
Scott Rudin and Eli Bush are producing the long-gestating project, which will start production this fall. After Lost Angels, Horovitz went on to tackle a supporting role alongside Matt Dillon and Max von Sydow in the 1991 thriller A Kiss Before Dying, as well as appear in the 1992 road trip movie Roadside Prophets.
He recently played himself in a 2009 episode of 30 Rock and starred in the Beastie Boys concert documentary Awesome: I F***** Shot That, as well as Spike Jonze's Funny Or Die short Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win.
On the music side, the Beastie Boys had songs on the soundtracks for both of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies. Horovitz also provided music for The Ben Stiller Show in 1992. He's represented by WME. -- Reuters
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