Leonardo DiCaprio’s relationship with Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho has come back to bite him in the ass. Jho has been accused of a mult-billion investment fraud scheme and DiCaprio’s name has surfaced in legal proceedings. It seems Jho financed the 2013 movie, “The Wolf of Wall Street.”...
Emily Blunt is blunt about Hollywood. The British actress wouldn’t recommend movie-making as a career to any budding actress. Does this explain why she’s never even been nominated for an Oscar? Few actresses of her generation have demonstrated her strength, range and sexuality on screen. Yet, her discomfort with Hollywood’s sharper edges, and her willingness to speak out about it, may be short-circuiting the industry accolades she deserves....
Leonardo DiCaprio isn’t up for an Oscar this year, but his trophy may be on his arm. The actor has been dating supermodel Nina Agdal for almost a year, which is a lifetime for the playboy actor. ...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, (HFPA) which sponsors the Golden Globes, has long been known for its sketchy awards process, even though the national obsession with celebrity news coverage has lifted it out of the shadows. But has it really changed its act? The problem begins with the composition of the association itself....
Sandra Bullock led “Gravity” to the top of the leaderboard for Oscar nominations, along with “American Hustle” and “12 Years a Slave,” setting up an interesting match up for Academy Awards. But as always, some snubs and notable omissions overshadowed the picks. Let’s get the snubs out of the way, right off the bat....
Hollywood trade papers Variety and The Hollywood Reporter could get a much needed boost from the decision to push the Oscars ceremony into March next year. Both would benefit from the extension to sell more advertising and boost their flagging revenues....
Jessica Chastain, who is stunning audiences in her new film “Zero Dark Thirty,” breaks into high fashion with an equally stunning spread by renowned photographer Bruce Weber for Vogue Germany. Chastain, 35, appears in the jazz-themed pictorial as an exotic chanteuse, wearing a strapless black dress. She also gets up close and personal with a set of bongos, a saxophone and French actor Omar Sy, posing as a sax player. She literally exploded on the big screen last year in two films, Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life,” with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn and “The Help,,” for which she received a best supporting actress Oscar nomination....
Kristen Stewart has her relationship back with Robert Pattinson. Now her career could use some of the same kind of love from Oscar. Will she’ll get it for “On the Road?” Although she built a huge fan base through five “Twilight” films, she never caught a break from critics, who generally panned her performance in every movie. But “On the Road” is different. Stewart is finally allowed to cut loose in a role that really gave her the chance to act. An Oscar or even Golden Globe really isn’t out of the question. ...
