Talkin ’bout Kelli Garner

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LOS ANGELES, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — 12/24/07 — Music industry veteran and on-air
personality, Jen Meola, recently sat down with socialite, writer and media
maven, Christina Martin:

Q: I want to ask you about some of the celebrities you’ve worked with. What
was it like working with D.B. Sweeney? Thomas Ian Nicholas? Emilio Estevez?
Shaun Toub? Crispin Glover?

A: Every artist is different. One thing I find in common is that I learn a
lot from each of them. D.B. was especially wonderful to work with and he
has a fantastic film on the festival circuit, “Two Tickets To Paradise,”
which he produced, directed and stars with John C. McGinley.

Q: What made you get involved in Clinton’s Presidential campaign?

A: For many reasons, I consider Senator Clinton to be the best person for
the job. At the same time, I also think that being a leader for democracy
around the world, the United States is long overdue to elect our first
female president to office.

Q: What 5 media sources could you not live without?

A: The Daily Show, Bill Maher, The Economist, Forbes and Variety.

Q: Tell me about “The Passenger.”

A: “The Passenger” is a television series in development. Based on my work
with rock bands, the concept arose when Lance Bass’s production company
caught wind of what I was doing with rock radio. The idea for the show is
Spinal Tap meets Almost Famous meets Road Rules in a fast-paced modern
docudrama of today’s hottest touring rock bands.

Q: What rock bands are you good friends with or have you worked with
recently?

A: Wolfmother, Three Days Grace, The Killers, Papa Roach, Breaking
Benjamin, Evan’s Blue, Seether, Mink, Marty Casey Lovehammers, The Exies,
Bullet for My Vallentine, Avenged Sevenfold, Fall Out Boy, Rooney, Red
Jumpsuit Apparatus, Point One, Puddle of Mudd, Hatebreed, Static X,
Behemoth, a lot of others I’m probably forgetting.

Q: Tell me about your writing.

A: …

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Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan, Nicolas Cage (Getty Images photos)

Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi and Tracy Morgan will be three of the
lead voices in “G-Force,” for Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry
Bruckheimer Films.

Bill Nighy and Will Arnett also have joined the ranks of the human
actors in the live-action/CG film, which marks the directorial
debut of Oscar-winning visual effects innovator Hoyt Yeatman.

The story follows a group of ultra-intelligent animal commandoes
who work for a government agency trying to prevent an evil
billionaire from taking over the world. Cage will play Speckles, a
mole; Buscemi will portray Bucky, a hamster; and Morgan will voice
Blaster, a guinea pig. Nighy will portray an industrialist, and
Arnett will play an FBI agent.

Live-action leads also include Zach Galifianakis, Kelli Garner,
Gabriel Casseus and Jack Conley.

Production is currently under way in Los Angeles. Jerry Bruckheimer
is producing. Executive producing are Bruckheimer Films’ Mike
Stenson and Chad Oman, along with Duncan Henderson.

“It’s a good story; it’s unique characters, it’s half animation,
half live action,” Bruckheimer told The Hollywood Reporter. “It
falls right into the Disney family of films — the kind of films we
make, like ‘National Treasure,’ which entertain everybody from the
smallest kid to the oldest grandparent.”

Yeatman — who won an Academy Award for visual effects on “The
Abyss,” as well as a Technical Achievment Award — is “a visual
effects genius, and he has worked on a number of our movies in the
past,” Bruckheimer said. “(Yeatman) came up with this idea with his
son, believe it or not. We developed the screenplay. … Now we are
filming. It’s pretty exciting for him — it’s his first time
(directing) — and it’s exciting for us to get into a whole new
medium.”

is repped by CAA. Buscemi and Morgan are repped by Endeavor.

Steve Buscemi, …

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Tinseltown: “Charlie Wilson’s War” · “National Treasure: The Book of Secrets” · “P.S. I Love You” · “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” · “Walk Hard: The Dexey Cox Story.”

Plaza Cinemas: “P.S. I Love You”

Millcreek 6: “Bee Movie” · “Across the Universe” · “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married” · “We Own the Night.”

Movies at Meadville: “National Treasure Book of Secrets” · “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” · “Charlie Wilson’s War” · “P.S. I Love You.”

Plaza Cinemas: “Aliens vs. Predator — Requiem”

Movies at Meadville: “Aliens vs. Predator — Requiem” · “Waterhorse: Legend of the Deep” · “The Great Debaters”

Tinseltown: Not available

Tinseltown: “Awake” · “Bee Movie” · “Beowulf.”

Plaza Cinemas: “Fred Claus” · “Hitman.”

Millcreek 6: “Feel the Noise” · “The Bourne Ultimatum” · “The Comebacks”

Movies at Meadville: “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium” · “August Rush” · “Bee Movie” · “The Mist” · “Awake” · “This Christmas.”

NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS. In this sequel to the surprise 2004 smash, treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Bates (Nicolas Cage) hunts down missing pages from John Wilkes Booth’s diary — the first step in unveiling a worldwide conspiracy. Also with Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Helen Mirren. (2:11. PG for some violence and action.)

WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY. Judd Apatow of “Knocked Up” and “40-Year-Old Virgin” fame serves up this mockumentary about an up-and-down musician who sleeps with hundreds of women and befriends such stars as the Beatles and Elvis Presley. With John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, and cameos by Paul Rudd and Jack Black. (1:36. R for sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use, language).

CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR. Enigmatic, womanazing Texas congressman Charlie Wilson(Tom Hanks) and his CIA allies orchestrate the agency’s most covert operation by arming an Afghanistan faction during its war against the Soviet Union. Based on …

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RATINGS: 4 stars: Excellent; 3 stars: Good; 2 stars: Fair; 1 star: Poor

AMERICAN GANGSTER 3 stars. Denzel Washington electrifies as the ’70s Harlem godfather, Russell Crowe is mumbling eloquence as the dogged cop on his heels. Ridley Scott’s absorbing character study lacks the propulsion to rocket it into the movie mythosphere. 2 hrs. 37 R (violence, drugs, profanity) — Carrie Rickey

ATONEMENT 3 1/2 stars. Joe Wright’s ravishing adaptation of Ian McEwan’s exquisitely devastating 2001 novel is the truth-and-consequences saga of one night in 1935 that reverberates down the century. With Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Vanessa Redgrave and the astonishing Saoirse Ronan. 2 hrs. 2 R (sex, sexual candor, profanity, war sequences) — Carrie Rickey

AUGUST RUSH 2 stars. Oliver Twisty urban fairytale about a musical prodigy (Freddie Highmore) who believes his parents are still alive and that he can find them through his music. Preposterous, but if you let the music carry you, you might get sucked in. With Robin Williams, Terrence Howard and Keri Russell. 1 hr. 40 PG (Dickensian thematic elements, appropriate for children 8 and up) — Carrie Rickey

BEE MOVIE 3 stars. Jerry Seinfeld provides the voice for the hero of this computer-animated yarn about a bee who wants to explore the world — and explore a friendshp with a lovely New York flower shop owner. With the voices of Renee Zellweger, Matthew broderick, Oprah Winfrey, John Goodman and Chris Rock. 1 hr. 30 PG (mild innuendo, adult themes) — Steven Rea

BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD 4 stars. An audacious tale of greed, infidelity and murder from top-of-his-game director Sidney Lumet, this jewelry store heist melodrama involves two brothers (Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman), their agitated dad (Albert Finney) and Marisa Tomei as a philandering spouse. It’s a horror show of hatred festering psychic wounds. So why is it so much fun? 1 hr. 48 R (violence, profanity, …

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Tinseltown: “The Perfect Holiday.”

Tinseltown: “Alvin and the Chipmunks” · “I Am Legend.”

Plaza Cinemas: “Alvin and the Chipmunks” · “I Am Legend.”

Millcreek 6: “Mr. Woodcock” · “Resident Evil: Extinction.”

Movies at Meadville: “Alvin and the Chipmunks” · “I Am Legend.”

Tinseltown: “American Gangster” · “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” · “Hitman.”

Plaza Cinemas: “Love in the Time of Cholera” · “Mr. Magorium’s Emporium.”

Millcreek 6: “Dragon Wars” · “Hairspray” · “Good Luck Chuck.”

Movies at Meadville: “American Gangster” · “Beowulf” · “Hitman.”

Tinseltown on Saturday at 1 p.m.: “Romeo et Juliette.”

Mercyhurst College’s Mary D’Angelo Center on Saturday at 1 p.m.: “Romeo et Juliette.”

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS. A spin-off of the cartoon series about a trio of chipmunks brothers, their musical inclinations, and their life with their adoptive human guardian. With Jason Lee, David Cross. (1:31. PG for mild, rude humor.)

I AM LEGEND. Robert Neville (Will Smith) finds himself the only healthy survivor of a biological attack — his fellow New Yorkers have become zombies. By day, Neville hunts the undead who walk the streets; by night, he barricades himself in his home against the mob gathered outside. (1:41. PG-13 for sci-fi action, violence.)

THE PERFECT HOLIDAY. A young girl turns to a department store Santa (Morris Chestnut) in the hopes that he will help find a new husband for her divorced mother (Gabrielle Union). With Queen Latifah. (1:37. PG for brief profanity, suggestive humor.)

AUGUST RUSH. HH. Oliver Twisty urban fairy tale about a musical prodigy (Freddie Highmore) who believes his parents are still alive and that he can find them through his music. Preposterous, but if you let the music carry you, you might get sucked in. With Robin Williams, Howard, Keri Russell. (1:40. PG, appropriate for children 8 and up.)

BEE MOVIE. HHH. Jerry Seinfeld provides …

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Confessions of a future baseball wife
She’s been through a lot, but she and Kevin Youkilis have a strong foundation

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December 12, 2007

Less than four years after she became grist for the gossip mill by dating Ben Affleck, Enza Sambataro says she can’t remember much about the experience.”It feels like a long time ago, and a lot of the firsthand emotions are gone,” she says. “It ended because I really didn’t want to get caught up in that whole scene.”If she was intent on avoiding the spotlight, she hasn’t succeeded. Sambataro is now engaged to Kevin Youkilis, the Red Sox first baseman whose public profile, at least in New England, is on par with any Hollywood actor’s. She is also CEO of his foundation, Hits for Kids, which last month raised more than $360,000 at an event at Mohegan Sun.The wedding will be Sambataro’s second since her five-month fling with Affleck ended in 2004. She was briefly married to a South Shore car dealer with whom she had a child.”He wasn’t what I’d call marriage material,” says Sambataro, 29, cuddling with her son, Mikey, while he watches “Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks” in their Auburndale apartment. “Kevin is a really good person, and he’s great with Mikey. . . . He’s like insta-dad.”As excited as she is about their engagement - the couple has yet to set a date - Sambataro has misgivings about becoming the wife of a Major League Baseball player. Not long ago, a friend gave her a copy of Jessica Canseco’s book “Juicy: Confessions of a Former Baseball Wife,” and she was struck by how familiar it all sounded.”No, Kev and I don’t shoot steroids, and I’m not getting a nose job and Botox injections every two weeks,” Sambataro says. “But it’s true that baseball is 24/7 for most of these guys, and that can be very tiring on a family. There are perks being a player’s wife, but you also make a lot of family sacrifices.”Sambataro has not always …

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By Carolyn Giardina

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Nicolas Cage, Steve
Buscemi and Tracy Morgan will provide three of the lead voices
in “G-Force” for Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer
Films.

Bill Nighy and Will Arnett have joined the ranks of the
on-screen actors in the live-action/CG film, which marks the
directorial debut of Oscar-winning visual effects innovator
Hoyt Yeatman.

The story follows a group of ultra-intelligent animal
commandoes who work for a government agency trying to prevent
an evil billionaire from taking over the world. Cage will play
Speckles, a mole; Buscemi will portray Bucky, a hamster; and
Morgan will voice Blaster, a guinea pig. Nighy will portray an
industrialist, and Arnett will play an FBI agent.

Live-action leads also include Zach Galifianakis, Kelli
Garner, Gabriel Casseus and Jack Conley.

Yeatman — who won an Academy Award for visual effects on
“The Abyss,” as well as a Technical Achievment Award — is “a
visual effects genius, and he has worked on a number of our
movies in the past,” Bruckheimer told the Hollywood Reporter.
“(Yeatman) came up with this idea with his son, believe it or
not. We developed the screenplay. … Now we are filming. It’s
pretty exciting for him it’s his first time (directing) —
and it’s exciting for us to get into a whole new medium.”

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

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If you’ve been wondering why there aren’t more movies about commando house pets, Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney have heard your plea. Bruckheimer will produce the absolutely terrible sounding but possibly fantastic movie G-Force about, get this, ultra-intelligent animal commandos who try to keep a madman from taking over the world. Like James Bond, only with guinea pigs and hamsters.

The movie will be a mix of live-action and CG animation with the animals hopefully being the CG part. Some big timers have joined on board to voice the animals, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Nicolas Cage will voice a mole, Steve Buscemi lends his pipes to a hamster, and Tracy Morgan will be a guinea pig. There will also be several human type people involved including Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Kelli Garner, Zach Galifianakis, Gabriel Casseus, and Jack Conley. If you’re wondering who the hell Zach Galifianakis is, you’re not alone.

This all sounds like a pile of crap on a shingle, but Bruckheimer knows family action entertainment. The script was written by The Wibberleys, who also banged out National Treasure. The first time director is Hoyt Yeatman, who has an Oscar as a visual effects supervisor for The Abyss and most recently worked on Underdog. Bruckheimer says Yeatman came up the story with his son. Hopefully this whole project, which has already started filming, will out better than the other father and son make up a story movie, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

Source: Again - Cinema Blend ()

If you’ve been wondering why there aren’t more movies about commando house pets, Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney have heard your plea. Bruckheimer will produce the absolutely terrible sounding but possibly fantastic movie G-Force about, get this, ultra-intelligent animal commandos who try to keep a madman from taking over the world. Like James Bond, only with guinea pigs and hamsters.

The movie will be a mix of live-action and CG animation with the animals hopefully being the CG part. Some big timers have joined on board to voice the animals, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Nicolas Cage will voice a mole, Steve Buscemi lends his pipes to a hamster, and Tracy Morgan will be a guinea pig. There will also be several human type people involved including Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Kelli Garner, Zach Galifianakis, Gabriel Casseus, and Jack Conley. If you’re wondering who the hell Zach Galifianakis is, you’re not alone.

This all sounds like a pile of crap on a shingle, but Bruckheimer knows family action entertainment. The script was written by The Wibberleys, who also banged out National Treasure. The first time director is Hoyt Yeatman, who has an Oscar as a visual effects supervisor for The Abyss and most recently worked on Underdog. Bruckheimer says Yeatman came up the story with his son. Hopefully this whole project, which has already started filming, will out better than the other father and son make up a story movie, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

Source: Belleville News Democrat ()

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RATINGS: 4 stars: Excellent; 3 stars: Good; 2 stars: Fair; 1 star: Poor

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE 2 1/2 stars. Bobbing along on the melodies of 33 re-imagined songs by The Beatles, this long and winding extravaganza from dance maven-turned-moviemaker Julie Taymor is a bizarre counter-culture jukebox musical. Sometimes it works brilliantly, other times you just want to run. With Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess and guests Bono, Joe Cocker, Eddie Izzard and Salma Hayek. 2 hrs. 11 PG-13 (drugs, sex, profanity, interpretive dance, adult themes) — Stephen Rea

AMERICAN GANGSTER 3 stars. Denzel Washington electrifies as the ’70s Harlem godfather, Russell Crowe is mumbling eloquence as the dogged cop on his heels. Ridley Scott’s absorbing character study lacks the propulsion to rocket it into the movie mythosphere. 2 hrs. 37 R (violence, drugs, profanity) — Carrie Ricey

AUGUST RUSH 2 stars. Oliver Twisty urban fairytale about a musical prodigy (Freddie Highmore) who believes his parents are still alive and that he can find them through his music. Preposterous, but if you let the music carry you, you might get sucked in. With Robin Williams, Terrence Howard and Keri Russell. 1 hr. 40 PG (Dickensian thematic elements, appropriate for children 8 and up) — Carrie Rickey

BEE MOVIE 3 stars. Jerry Seinfeld provides the voice for the hero of this computer-animated yarn about a bee who wants to explore the world — and explore a friendshp with a lovely New York flower shop owner. With the voices of Renee Zellweger, Matthew broderick, Oprah Winfrey, John Goodman and Chris Rock. 1 hr. 30 PG (mild innuendo, adult themes) — Steven Rea

BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD 4 stars. An audacious tale of greed, infidelity and murder from top-of-his-game director Sidney Lumet, this jewelry store heist melodrama involves two brothers (Ethan and Philip Seymour Hoffman), their agitated dad (Albert Finney) and Marisa Tomei as a philandering spouse. …