You have to love Cannes, especially if you’re a fan of old-school Hollywood glamour. Not even for a red carpet LA premiere do the stars, particularly the female stars, get as dolled up as they do for a gala premiere at Cannes. What I find especially amusing is the stars who cross the ocean and a couple of time zones just for the occasion. They have no movie to promote, they just want a chance to get dressed up. Lana del Ray in a simple black Alberta Ferretti is one such example this year, but there is never a greater example of this than Eva Longoria.

The diminutive perpetual starlet has shown up to Cannes for the last seven or eight years for the express purpose of having her picture taken in some over-the-top designer evening dress. And she did not disappoint.

The movie in question for tonight’s gala was the opening night presentation of Wes Anderson’s eagerly awaited Moonrise Kingdom and most of the stars of the film and certainly most in attendance are male. The lone distaff representative was Tilda Swinton but she was in Haider Ackerman, an edgy but appropriate choice for fashion forward Swinton, but no match for the organza, cotton candy lace puffery of Longoria’s Marchesa.

Jane Fonda looks AH-MAZ-BALLS.  That is all.

Chris Pine, looking stellar and Alec Baldwin,  are both in town to support Rise of the Guardians  As I mentioned earlier, Alec will also host Cannes biggest bash, the AmFar benefit.  He had his fiancé Hilaria in tow and she looked very old-Hollywood elegant and I don’t know anything about her other than she teaches yoga, but she’s obviously very good for Alec because he looks better than he has in years. Remember when he used to be HOT? 

Having a hot young wife is working for Bruce Willis too, one of the stars of Moonrise Kingdom. Love the tux Bruce.  Edward Norton showed up but, I wasn’t impressed with his suit. Make an effort. Even Bill Murray glammed up for the occasion. C'mon Ed, you don’t do this every day. You can continue saving the planet tomorrow.

God, aka Harvey Weinstein, made an appearance. I think I saw some people genuflecting in the background. Ewan McGregor cleaned up nicely. Not sure what’s up with that hair. Perhaps its an homage to David Lynch.

Hands down the best dressed for the second time today was his fellow juror Diane Kruger. Flawless.

So we’re off and running for eleven days of glitz, glamour, premieres and parties. And movie news. Lots and lots of movie news.  Apparently tonight’s, Moonrise Kingdom, was a hit with the audience at the Palais du Festival. More on that when it gets closer to home.

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Hick, directed by Derek Martini , stars Blake Lively, Chloe Grace Moretz and Eddie Redmayne. Redmayne was of course in Oscar nominated My Week with Marilyn and Moretz is just everywhere, in fact on the day that Hick comes out, May 11, she can also be seen in Dark Shadows .

“When 13-year-old Luli gets fed up with her mother’s love of high drama and men who drink too much, she leaves Nebraska and takes to the road, going west to follow her dreams of stardom. Along the way she meets Eddie, a drifter with an attitude, and a troubled woman named Glenda. With the help of these new friends and the strength of her dreams, Luli protects herself from the unpredictable people she meets in her new life.”

When last I mentioned Hick, Moretz had just been offered the lead in yet another remake of Stephen King’s Carrie and I pleaded with her not to do it. Much like everyone else I know, she didn’t listen to me and has signed on. Oh well. She’s scary-talented and I’m sure her career will survive. Watch these trailers. Moretz is damn near perfect as a corn-fed, white-trash Lolita.

I think what makes this trailer “Red Band” is that the main cigarette smoking, gun-toting, c*ck teasing character is only thirteen years old. Otherwise, far worse and more hard core has been deem suitable for “all ages” to see. 

Watch the two back to back and there’s very little difference other than scenes of Chloe Grace Moretz actually brandishing the gun. (Greenband via Movieweb)

Hick will get a limited US theatrical release on May 11 and hit VOD the same day.

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Some people are really out of touch with reality. Alec Baldwin's French-Canadian stalker Genevieve Sabourin is such a person. Since her arrest hit the press she says she's being stalked like an animal and her mom can't leave her home. She's been flapping her gums on Twitter and gave an interview with Le Journal de Montreal where she told them that she hid out at a Best Western after her arrest:

“I’m on the run, I’m scared . . . I pay for everything in cash so I don’t leave a trace. Imagine if the press finds me while I’m on the move. I don’t want to turn into Lady Diana on the road,” Sabourin said. She doesn’t appreciate reporters knocking on her mom’s door in Quebec. “I feel sorry for my 67 years-old mother, so stress with all this unwanted press, home phone constantly ringing +her photo taken by paparazzi!” she tweeted. Her mom will turn 67 Saturday, and “I can’t go out there, shopping 4her bday gift.”

Some people are saying she's brought it all on herself, but it seems to me this girl could potentially be mentally ill thinking that she and Alec should be married and now comparing herself to Lady Diana. 

What do you think? Has this girl jumped on the crazy train, or does she have valid concerns. Personally I haven't seen any pictures of her or her mother but then again I'm not looking for them. Have you seen any pictures?

If you don't want to be stalked, or bothered by the press, why speak to them? Why take to Twitter?

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After announcing his engagement to Hilaria Thomas, Alec Baldwin's 'stalker' French-Canadian actress Genevieve Sabourin 40, had a meltdown and went into overdrive trying to get the actor's attention. So much so that she was arrested for stalking and harassing him at his New York City apartment at about 7:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Now the New York Post is reporting that she claims she and Alec were once lovers. He confirmed to police that he knew her (they met on the set of The Adventures of Pluto Nash and had dined together but it was strictly professional:

But “cops questioned [Baldwin], and he denied [any affair],” the second source said.

While the hot-headed actor admitted that he had taken Sabourin to dinner, he insisted that the meetings were “strictly professional” and denied any “physical relationship” with the shapely blonde, the sources said.

She of course has another version of their 'relationship' and claims they had sex and that she now wanted his baby and to start a new life with him. Her lawyer claims they had a two-year 'relationship' although it is not clarified if it was sexual:

“They met. They had dinner. They had a mutual relationship, with texts, e-mails going in both directions,”

She was released last night with a temporary restraining order (like that matters to those on the crazy train) and her family is coming to her defense with her brother claiming she's no freak. Tell that to Alec who after dining with her was inundated with phone calls and emails of her professing her love and desire to spawn his seed. 

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What better way to celebrate the Monday after Easter than with some of your favorite icons from childhood, like the Easter Bunny and his pals Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Jack Frost and The Sandman?  Well, actually I can think of quite a few ways better than this, but this is what we’ve got.

In any case, we have two posters as well as the first teaser trailer for a new animated movie from Dreamworks called Rise of the Guardians, featuring the voices of Chris Pine (Jack Frost), Alec Baldwin (North aka Santa Claus complete with “Naughty” and “Nice” tatts), Isla Fisher (Tooth) and Hugh Jackman (Bunnymund) in which our childhood heroes are actually heroes.

When an evil spirit known as Pitch (aka The Boogieman – Jude Law) lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.

Based on a book by William Joyce, Rise of the Guardians is the feature debut for director Peter Ramsay with a script by David Lindsey-Abaire (Robots, Inkheart, Oz: The Great and Powerful). I keep getting the title confused with Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, but that’s probably just me. The trailer looks good. The film itself looks like sumptuous with color soaked computer generated animation giving it an old-school feel, helped quite a bit by a score by Oscar winner Alexandre Desplat (The King’s Speech).  More will surely follow. Rise of the Guardians opens November 21 in the US and 30^th November in the UK.

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The second trailer for Rock of Ages has appeared online and we finally get to hear a little bit of Tom Cruise as he belts out Bon Jovi’s "Livin' on a Prayer". He certainly looks the part (not bad for a 48 year old that’s for damn sure) and he appears to be having a blast.

Directed by Adam Shankman (Hairspray) and based on the Tony Award nominated Broadway musical, it’s set in 1987and follows a fresh off the bus sweet-young-thing who comes to LA with stars in her eyes and big '80s hair. There, she meets a nice guy with ambitions of his own (Diego Boneta). When they meet, it's love at first sight, though their romance will face a series of challenges as they are seduced by the sex-drugs and rocknroll way of life personified by superstar Stacee Jaxx (Cruise), who meanwhile is falling for music journalist Malin Akerman.

The cast features Alec Baldwin (who could easily steal Tom Cruise’s thunder), Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Mary J. Blige, Catherine Zeta Jones and Julianne Hough playing the doe-eyed ingénue. It also features Will Forte, Bryan Cranston and Constantine Maroulis.

Rock of Ages includes the music of iconic bands such as Journey, Def Leppard, Foreigner, Jefferson Starship, Twisted Sister and Poison.  The nostalgia, at least for me and probably my generation, is winning over the cheese factor so far. Perhaps because I lived through it, the big hair, spandex, padded shoulders and garish colors don’t cross the line into parody. The Bourbon Room is obviously The Whiskey, Catherine Zeta Jones and her band of manicured over-privileged housewives is obviously Tipper Gore’s Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), but Stacee Jaxx could be any number of hard-partying rock icons. Probably a little bit of Axl Rose, a little bit of Bret Michaels, a soupcon of Vince Neill, a dash of Tommy Lee, and a dollop of David Lee Roth would be my guess.

Gotta love the monkey, especially since it’s doing the spanking. *cough*

Rock of Ages opens June 1 in the US and 8^th June in the UK. More to follow I’m sure.

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We have a plethora of pressies from Woody Allen’s To Rome with Love!

No sooner had the first poster been released yesterday, than today we get the first trailer to go with it. The fact that all of this is coming out so quickly right on top of the name change announcement and the first stills, pretty much cements the idea that on April 19 we’ll hear that Woody’s latest is joining the lineup at Cannes. (It’s anyone’s guess at this point. We know he won’t get the opening night gig and it doesn’t open in France until July, even though it does open in Italy in April…and Woody’s kinda tempermental.)

The romantic-comedy is made up of four vignettes, two of which center on American characters and two on Italian characters.  Enjoy the trailer:

The cast includes Allen himself as well as quite a few who have appeared in his films before, like Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Ellen Page, Jesse Eisenberg, Roberto Benigni, Judy Davis, Greta Gerwig, and Alison Pill. To Rome with Love is scheduled for limited release in the US on June 20. If it does as well as Midnight in Paris, we can expect it to go wide shortly thereafter.

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Alec Baldwin just announced his engagement to girlfriend Hilaria Thomas and the vultures are all starting to circle. He tweeted yesterday that two reporters crashed her yoga class just to take some pictures of her. And of course being Alec, he published their names and in once case a photo. I love it. How sweet that he is so protective of her.

In his angry tweets he names Simone Weichselbaum and Enid Alvarez as the two crashers. He called out Enid and referred to her as the Snooki look-alike crazy bitch. Personally I don't see the resemblance to Snooki, but good on him for calling their actions out.

The two reporters allegedly work for the Daily News who he says is now run by the same trash that runs the New York Post.

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