Here’s your first look at Blake Lively and Benicio Del Toro in Oliver Stone’s Savages. This movie has a crazy good cast. In addition to Lively and Del Toro, it includes Demian Bichir (better known as the actor who got Michael Fassbender’s Oscar nomination), John Travolta, Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Salma Hayak, Uma Thurman and Emile Hirsch

Based on a novel by Don Wilson, which Stone purchased the rights to before it was even published, the plot line for Savages is deceptively simple: Pot growers Ben (Aaron Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch) face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend (Lively). This is Oliver Stone. I'm sure the image above only hints at the harrowing brutality involved.

The Official Universal synopsis:

Three-time Oscar®-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone returns to the screen with the ferocious thriller "Savages," featuring the all-star ensemble cast of Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Emile Hirsch and Demian Bichir. The film is based on Don Winslow's best-selling crime novel that was named one of The New York Times' Top 10 Books of 2010. 

Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben (Johnson), a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon (Kitsch), a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry—raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia (Lively). Life is idyllic in their Southern California town…until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them.

When the merciless head of the BC, Elena (Hayek), and her brutal enforcer, Lado (Del Toro), underestimate the unbreakable bond among these three friends, Ben and Chon—with the reluctant, slippery assistance of a dirty DEA agent (Travolta)—wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel. And so begins a series of increasingly vicious ploys and maneuvers in a high stakes, savage battle of wills. 

 

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy , Garrett Hedlund and James Franco were all considered for Ben before Johnson was cast and Blake Lively replaced Jennifer Lawrence who left when she was cast in The Hunger Games, only after Olivia Wilde, Abbie Cornish, Amber Heard and Teresa Palmer were also considered.

I'm not a Lively fan (especially after The Town and The Green Lantern) but I'll give her the benefit of the doubt since she beat out some really talented actresses. If she whiffs this, I'm out.

Savages is set to open in the US and the UK on September 28, but there is talk of it going to Cannes in May and I think this is another one that we’ll see in the TIFF lineup in the Fall, possibly even Venice.

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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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After a five-month relationship, Blake Lively 24 and Leonardo DiCaprio 36 have split their reps have confirmed to US Weekly. And of course the pair will remain friends (don't they all) according to their reps. I suppose in Hollywood years 5 months is a couple of years in real life, no?

For their friends, the split will come as a surprise because Leo seemed very 'smitten' by this relationship and in fact friends thought these two would eventually announce their engagement. Who knows maybe it's one of those things where this couple splits a lot and gets back together a lot.

However I am beginning to think that Leo is like George Clooney in that he's a confirmed bachelor. He's had some incredible women in his life (think Gisele Bundchen and Bar Refaeli) but they never seem to last. 

Are you surprised by this split, or no?

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MTV has an exclusive clip of another film that’s going to get its premiere in Toronto in the next week or so, Hick. Directed by Dereck Martini, whose only other feature was 2008′s Lymelife (for which he managed to snag a cast of well-known New Yorkers), which won the Int’l Critics Award at TIFF that year, Hick stars Blake Lively, Chloe Moretz, Eddie Redmayne, Juliette Lewis, Ray McKinnon and Lymelife co-stars Rory Culkin and Alec Baldwin.

The story follows a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl named Luli (Moretz), and her rough-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents to be taken under the wing of hard-living grifter Glenda (Lively in a role that originally had been cast with Kirstin Dunst).

Now, I’m not much of a Blake Lively fan…well, not at all actually, but I am a Chloe Moretz fan. This kid is preternaturally talented and if she manages to survive her teens in Hollywood unscathed, she’ll have an amazing career ahead of her if she wants it. Not sure what’s going on in this clip and I’m not sure if I can take two hours of Lively’s accent, but I’ll know more when we get a full length trailer. Hick could be fun. Could be painful. After TIFF, the only release date listed is a vague “2012″.

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Blake Lively New Ink

Blake Lively got herself some new ink.  I never thought of Blake as an inky kind of girl.  But she’s all about it.  And I am guessing that her on and off again boy toy, Leonardo DiCaprio is into the stuff as well.

Blake has added a couple of butterflies and some wrap around bands on her forearm.  Totally sexy hippie, right?

What do you think?  Dig Blake with or without the ink?

Photo: Flynet

The long-awaited film version of DC Comics Green Lantern had its red carpet premiere last night in Los Angeles at Grauman’s Theater.

Almost all of the cast showed up to support the film including Ryan Reynolds, who stars as Hal Jordan, Blake Lively who plays his love interest Carol Ferris and Mark Strong who plays the most powerful Lantern of them all, Sinestro.

The film brings the popular superhero to the screen for the first time:

“In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of their newest recruit, the first human ever selected: Hal Jordan.

Hal is a gifted and cocky test pilot, but the Green Lanterns have little respect for humans, who have never harnessed the infinite powers of the ring before. But Hal is clearly the missing piece to the puzzle, and along with his determination and willpower, he has one thing no member of the Corps has ever had: humanity. With the encouragement of fellow pilot and childhood sweetheart Carol Ferris (Blake Lively), if Hal can quickly master his new powers and find the courage to overcome his fears, he may prove to be not only the key to defeating Parallax…he will become the greatest Green Lantern of all.”

Under the direction of Martin Campbell (“Casino Royale”) from a screenplay by Greg Berlanti & Michael Green & Marc Guggenheim and Michael Goldenberg, story by Greg Berlanti & Michael Green & Marc Guggenheim, based upon characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.

Is it me or did Blake Lively look like she was the bride in a groovy Haight-Ashbury wedding circa 1968? Oh well, Reynolds and Strong along with Jon Tenney, Zachary Levy, Jason Bateman, Temeura Morrison and Peter Sarsgaard provided more than enough eye candy for the dish.

Check out Ryan Reynolds on The Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday night. He was hilarious! Pictures of the premiere after the break!

Still not ready to jump on the “Sexiest Man Alive” bandwagon but he’s still growing on me. Green Lantern opens in theaters everywhere tomorrow June 17!

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