Meanwhile, in another part of the city… Steven Spielberg’s War Horse had a grand world premiere at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for The Performing Arts, also on Sunday December 4 (and again, my invite got lost *shakes fist at USPS*). The setting was around the corner from where the Tony-winning play upon which the film is based had played. There was the crowd was well-heeled and included a cross-section of brainy entertainment industry-types, like director Doug Liman, the screenwriter Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine) and Elizabeth Olsen, (Martha Marcy May Marlene), Ed Westwick (“Gossip Girl”, J. Edgar) Michael Michele, Mariska Hargitay and her gorgeous hubby Peter Hermann, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad, Kathy Lee Gifford (whose daughter, Cassidy, was in a Herve Leger bandage dress) and Adrien Brody who made the after-party since he’d been at Madonna’s soiree as well. Of course the stars of the film were there including Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irvine, David Kross, Emily Watson, Toby Kebbell, David Thewlis and Celine Buckens, along with director Spielberg who was accompanied by his daughters, Destry and Sasha, as well as step-daughter Jessica Capshaw (“Grey’s Anatomy”).

War Horse is the story of a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey. Their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.

The film opens Christmas Day here in the US, just in time for awards contention, where it will compete with films such as The Artist, (Coriolanus and W.E. all) from The Weinstein Company, which would set up a rematch of 1999, when Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan lost out to Weinstein’s Shakespeare in Love.  We’ll see. The spoiler could be Fox Searchlight's The Descendants anyway. Enjoy the pics!

Sunday night, December 4, the Cinema Society of New York and Piaget hosted a screening of Madonna‘s film W.E. at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa). Based on the epic love story between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, the film also follows a contemporary romance between a young woman and a married security guard. It stars Andrea Riseborough and James D’Arcy as Wallis and Edward and Abbie Cornish and Oscar Isaac as the modern couple. Of course Madge showed up, looking fierce, (including an 18K white gold Piaget) to introduce the film.

The event drew out a lot of New York scene-sters ranging from art patrons to hipsters and all variations in between (my invite must have gotten lost in the mail) like Cinema Society Founder Andrew Saffir,  Harvey Weinstein, Anderson Cooper, Chloe Sevigny, Jeremy Piven, Adrien Brody, Kim Cattrall, Kelli Garner, Annabelle Wallis, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jeff Gordon and Ingrid Vandebosch, Catalina Sandino Mareno, Parker Posey, Anson Mount, Donna Karan, Julian Schnabel, Patti Smith, Andy Cohen, Francisco Costa, Andre Leon Talley, Stefano Tonchi, Rachel Roy, Olivier Theyskens, Prabal Gurung, Olivia Palermo and Johannes Huebl and Valentino. After the film, guests headed over to Crown for the after party. We’ve got a few pics below.

W.E. opens for an awards run this Friday December 9 in NY and LA before opening wide February 3.

Warner Brothers has just unleashed a huge cache of clips for  Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows .  The three below give us new looks at Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty, Rachel  McAdams as Irene Adler and Noomi Rapace as Sim, but I’m most excited about the fact that we FINALLY get a glimpse of Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s older “smarter” brother!  (They call each other  “Mycy” and “Sherly”)

"A Public Place":

"Slow Witted":

"Slow and Steady":

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, of course, stars Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson reprising their roles from Ritchie’s 2009 hit Sherlock Holmes. Also back for more fun, including the above named McAdams, are Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan, Eddie Marsan as Inspector LeStrade and Geraldine James as Mrs. Hudson. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, focusing on Holmes and Watson's attempts to bring down their chief adversary, the cunning Professor Moriarty, opens December 16.  More clips can be found here.  Check out the pics of the press conference held last Friday in Beverly Hills.

Rosie O'Donnell 49, just announced her engagement to girlfriend Michelle Rounds 40, (during a commercial break on her show Monday) and the two twatted (hehe) a picture of the gorgeous diamond engagement ring last night with 'so, so, so happy'.

Things are going great with Rosie what with her new talk show The Rosie Show on the Oprah Network. The two met at a Starbucks in October and Rosie didn't even know Michelle was gay when she chatted her up (I could have sworn I saw an article somewhere a while back that Michelle's parents didn't even know she was gay and of course I can't find it. However in my mind that means PRENUP). Had she known, she said she would have been way too nervous to speak to her. As Rosie says her 'gaydar' was way off.

While I'm really happy for these two this seems VERY fast. But hey it's their life, right? Congrats to the happy couple.

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Last week we showed you the new poster for Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s horror movie called The Cabin in the Woods, said to be a "twisted and unusual take on the familiar cabin in the woods formula."  Goddard (Cloverfield) directed and Whedon produced the film with an eclectic cast of PYTs  including Jesse Williams and Chris Hemsworth. Now, since this movie has been languishing on a shelf since 2009, that was pre-“Grey's Anatomy” Williams and pre-Thor Hemsworth, but we’ve talked about all of this before. Now we finally have a trailer. Take  a look.

The synopsis: Five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods. Bad things happen. If you think you know this story, think again. From fan favorites Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard comes The Cabin in the Woods, a mind blowing horror film that turns the genre inside out.

Well, it definitely doesn’t LOOK like your standard slasher flick and would seem to at least attempt to make good on the “twisted and unusual take” boast. What do you think? Aliens? Government conspiracy? Both?

Cabin in the Woods stars Kristen Connolly, Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Williams, Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford. The film (probably) will finally be released April 13, 2012.

There is no denying it now. Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are totally hooking up. There have been pictures circulating the internets of her doing the walk of shame from his apartment at times and now there is proof of them making out. I have to say they make a gorgeous couple. 

TMZ has MORE photos of these two together. He seems VERY smitten, doesn't he? Do you like  these two together?

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