After winning coveted acting prizes at the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild, it wouldn’t be much a stretch to predict that Sandra Bullock will win the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in The Blind Side. However, the actress herself isn’t planning on taking home a statuette. She told reporters gathered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival:

I’m so not winning an Oscar.

She says she trusts her own judgment, since she’s …Read More

The New Orleans Saints came back from a weak start, early in the game, to win Superbowl XLVI, which started out promisingly enough but didn’t really deliver. The Who could have used a wardrobe malfunction to amp up their halftime show, which featured a tired medley of their classic hits. Drew Brees may have been voted MVP, but Betty White deserved it more, seeing as …Read More

Schmaltz won out over the highest grossing movie ever at the box office this weekend. The poorly reviewed romantic weepie Dear John raked in $32.1M, unseating Avatar from the top spot. Like The Lovely Bones, it scored big, through the use of viral marketing to teen girls. During the press junket, Channing Tatum, who stars in the movie along with Amanda Seyfried, promoted the website Post the Love, which was supposedly set up by the actor himself. Tatum explained the idea behind the site …Read More

The Superbowl, the annual celebration of gluttony, drinking and tacky halftime shows that may or may not involve exposed nipples, is approaching once again. On Sunday the New Orleans Saints will face off against the Indianapolis Colts. The Colts may be at a disadvantage since their star defensive lineman, Dwight Feeney, could be out for the count due to a knee injury. Coach Jim Caldwell told the Associated Press:

He feels that he’s going to be able to play. It’s just kind of up to the doctors … if he’s able to run and run without any inhibitions whatsoever. He’s moving along and moving well and we’ll see.

No matter what transpires, this years Superbowl is sure to be remembered as much for its commercials as for the game itself. The costly ads featured in between the high stakes competition always get a lot of attention and the media frenzy has already begun …Read More

Rolling into theaters this weekend as official counter-programming to both Avatar and the Superbowl is the romantic weepie, Dear John. It’s based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, an author who has made a career out of “opposites attract” melodramas that have been adapted for the big screen (Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe). When a formula works for audiences, it really works. All of those movies have made a lot of money and …Read More

An Australian Federal Court has ruled against many of the major Hollywood studios in their lawsuit against internet service provider iiNet. Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox and Disney banded together to sue the company, claiming that it should be held responsible for customers who illegally download movies online. Judge Dennis Cowdry said in his ruling:

While I find that iiNet had knowledge of infringements occurring, and did not act to stop them, such findings do not necessitate a finding of authorization.

Following the decision, iiNet CEO …Read More

So it took a man in a bikini for this season to finally make the headlines. Yikes. And it’s not even anything new. The Soup has been using that gimmick for years (see Mankini).

From time to time celebrities do step out of LA and New York to venture over to the windy city! They’re not always A-list, but what the heck, we’ll take what we can get. This week’s sightings:

• Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum were in town as part of the promotional junket for their new movie Dear John. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Seyfried, who has recently locked lips with Megan Fox in the vampire thriller Jennifer’s Body and shares a steamy scene with Tatum in Dear John, talked about her preference for kissing men onscreen. …Read More