Emma Stone Joins Friends With Benefits

Written July 14, 2010 by Candyman

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Easy A Director Will Gluck is pulling off the Zombieland reunion we’ve been wanting for a while, albeit with just two of the leads, Emma Stone and Woody Harrelson, signing on to his new comedy Friends With Benefits.

According to The Wrap, the pair has jumped aboard the film, which already features Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis as two friends who are both emerging from disastrous relationships and decide to keep things strictly friendly between them. Except things don’t work out quite that way when their sex-with-no-strings attitude changes to a lurve connection.

And Gluck is also adding more comedy talent, with Andy Samberg and Jenna Elfman aboard, plus experienced character types Richard Jenkins and Patricia Clarkson.

Oh, and while few in the UK will care all that much, New York Yankees baseball player Alex Rodriguez is also joining the cast, making his film debut.

After polishing David Newman and Keith Merryman’s script, Gluck is getting set to direct the thing later this month in New York.
 

Game Addict Mila Kunis

Written May 09, 2010 by Candyman

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Mila Kunis spends hours playing computer games with her boyfriend Macaulay Culkin.

The actress - who provides the voice of Meg Griffin on animated series 'Family Guy' - recently had to go cold turkey on her favourite pixelated adventures because she was getting so "obsessive", but since then she's become hooked on Facebook's FarmVille game.

She said: "All you do is grow wheat. And then you grow blueberries. It's so monotonous and yet great at the same time. I'm obsessed."

The 28-year-old star also stops herself from playing poker because of her competitive nature.

Mila Kunis Wil Be Friends With Benefits

Written May 05, 2010 by Candyman

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Mila Kunis, last seen in Book Of Eli and Date Night, has signed to star in relationship comedy Friends With Benefits.

Will Gluck is directing the film, which is just one of several projects floating around Hollywood (Ivan Reitman is making one of the others) with the title, which will find a female head-hunter (Kunis) sick of commitment-phobic blokes and a male mag editor (Justin Timberlake) tired of women who try to get him into a relationship having what they think is a casual fling.

But then they fall in love. And the trouble really starts. Keith Merryman and David Newman wrote the script, and the movie should start filming in July. Whether it keeps the title might depend on when it arrives in cinemas: we’re guessing the first to the post with the name will claim the right to use it. And make the others wash its car for a month. Metaphor: stretched to breaking point.

 

Mila Kunis Gets 'hobbit' Taunts

Written May 04, 2010 by Candyman

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Mila Kunis gets called a "hobbit" by her friends.

The actress - who measures in at a mere 5 ft 4ins - gets constantly teased for being short but insists she is taller than most people think.

She said: "My friends call me hobbit. I come across shorter than I am. People will say, 'You're not five foot four.' And I'll say, 'People, I know my height.' I'm constantly winning bets - hundreds of dollars."

Hobbits are the diminutive characters from the 'Lord of the Rings' books and films.

Natalie Portman's Lesbian Terror

Written February 03, 2010 by Candyman

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Natalie Portman was "terrified" when she had to kiss Mila Kunis in her new movie 'Black Swan'.

The actress has a steamy same-sex scene with the 'Max Payne' star in the supernatural thriller and admits she struggled to overcome her nerves before locking lips with another lady.

She said: "I was terrified. At the moment I lived in a state of inner terror."

Natalie - who previously shot a nude scene for short film 'Hotel Chevalier' - is also worried the lesbian sex sequence is overshadowing the plot of the film and worries it will make her be taken less seriously as an actress.

She added: "Nudity is something absolutely natural and I'm not prudish - but in a film it can be distracting. Doing 'Black Swan' I couldn't say no. The project is a huge opportunity for me to show a new me. I can't always play the nice mothers. My other problem is that single pictures are being taken out of context and put on the internet."

Mila Kunis Praises Sexy 'nerd' Natalie

Written December 03, 2009 by Candyman

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Mila Kunis says kissing Natalie Portman was like "nerd heaven".

The two actresses share a kiss in the forthcoming ballet dancer drama and Mila - who is dating actor Macaulay Culkin - is already tiring of the attention the scene is attracting, but admits she understands why people are so interested.

She said: "It's two girls making out and guys have a thing for that - it's silly but I can see why people care.

"Natalie is like every guy's dream. She's a nerd's idea of heaven."

Natalie has also spoken out about the scene, saying that it is an "extreme" moment.

She said: "It's a very extreme movie, it's like very extreme situations. It's not explicit in any way."

While Natalie had no problems locking lips with Mila, she says it was "hard" having to smooch both Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal in her latest movie 'Brothers'.

She said: "I'll be murdered if I say who was the better kisser. I'm probably the source of envy for getting to kiss both of those boys. It's hard to be me."

The 28-year-old actress also said she is now making a special effort to work on more demanding film roles in a bid to shed her "cute" title and embrace adulthood.

Natalie Portman and Emmy Rossum: Ballet Beauties

Written October 08, 2009 by Candyman

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Enjoying a glamorous evening out in the Big Apple, the stars were out for the American Ballet Theater's Opening Night Gala at the Lincoln Center on Wednesday night (October 7).

Joining in on the red carpet affair was the lovely Natalie Portman, who quickly joined up alongside fellow actress Mila Kunis before making her way inside for the night's festivities.

Also on hand to check out the stage show was Emmy Rossum, who looked to be in a cheerful mood despite her recent divorce from ex-hubby Justin Siegel.

As for the Opening Night Gala, the schedule included a performance debut from David Hallberg in a new work by Alexei Ratmansky, as well as a new piece from Aszure Barton, set to Maurice Ravel’s Violin Sonata in G.

Mila Kunis Steps Out for the Emmy Awards

Written September 21, 2009 by Candyman

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Looking ever-so-extravagant, Mila Kunis was all smiles at the 61st annual Primetime Emmys at the NOKIA Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday evening (September 20).

Sporting a sexy Monique Lhuillier dress, the former "That 70's Show" cutie strolled about the red carpet before heading inside for the night's ceremony.

During the night’s festivities, Neil Patrick Harris will be taking his first turn as host of the star-studded event.

Meanwhile, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Stephen Moyer, Hayden Panettiere, Patricia Arquette, Jimmy Fallon, Michael J. Fox, and Kate Walsh, among many others, have all been nabbed for presenter duties.

Mila Kunis' Hellish Humour

Written September 05, 2009 by Candyman

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Mila Kunis says she is going to hell.

The 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' actress fears her dark sense of humour will see her condemned to eternal damnation when she dies.

She said: "I'm going to hell so fast. Like, on an escalator. It's going to be a straight shot. There is not even going to be a stop in limbo."

Mila voices the character of Meg Griffin in hit US sitcom animation 'Family Guy' and says she can't get enough of the show's sardonic storylines.

The 26-year-old brunette beauty told Details magazine: "It takes a lot to offend me. I mean, I'm sensitive to certain things. I haven't figured them out yet. But I'm sure they are there.

"There was a 'Family Guy' skit three or four years back, for instance. It was a whole musical number about prom night Dumpster babies. The skit is all about young girls on prom night giving birth to babies and throwing them in the trash. I said, 'This is f***ed up!' You have to see it!"

Although Mila fails to find the animation's risque plots upsetting, she admits she does get tired of being asked about her former 'That '70s Show' co-star Ashton Kutcher.

Mila Kunis Talks Black Swan

Written August 25, 2009 by Candyman

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We already knew that Mila Kunis had joined Darren Aronofsky's The Black Swan, as the rival ballet dancer who haunts Natalie Portman. But Kunis provides a few more details and titbits in this interview with Collider.

She confirms that three months of production will begin in New York in November, and describes the intensive ballet training that's currently knackering her out, seven days a week for four hours a day.

But she talks around rumours of hot jiggy-ness between her and Portman: "Something got out, but the script is so under lock and key that I can't imagine anyone really getting hold of it. But I can't really deny or confirm because I'm not allowed to talk about it."

Helpful. But Kunis is allowed to say that Aronofsky has just completed a further rewrite on the script originally written by John McLaughlin and subsequently tinkered with by Mark Heyman, which he's being "very private about".

"It's a psychological thriller with a lot of twists and turns," she says. More news on those twists and turns as we get it.