"Fire those things that go BANG!”

This is the second trailer for The Pirates! Band of Misfits, and I’m already hooked. This looks like so much fun. I think Hugh Grant has his best role since Four Weddings and a Funeral. Even if he’s only animated, his natural Hugh-Grantness comes through loud and clear. This film is being distributed in the US by Sony Animation, but it's been produced by the makers of Wallace & Grommit and Chicken Run (just so you know what to expect in terms of stop-motion 'claymation'), Aardman Studios, who are also responsible for Arthur Christmas.

Pirate Captain (Grant) sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Pivan) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayak) for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London, where they meet Charles Darwin (David Tennant) among others. In the UK, this movie was called The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. Apparently that was too much for us eedjits here on these shores. Whatever it's called, it looks like bloody great fun. I love that they’re using a cover of “Cum On Feel the Noize” under the trailer.

Other great character actors providing voices include Brendan Gleeson as Pirate with Gout, Martin Freeman as Pirate with Scarf, Imelda Staunton as Queen Victoria and Ashley Jensen as Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate. The Pirates! Band of Misfits opens in the UK on 28 March and in the US on March 30.

Okay, he's only an animated pirate, but as you can see from this US trailer for The Pirates! Band of Misfits, his natural Hugh-Grantness comes through loud and clear. This film is being distributed in the US by Sony Animation, but it's been produced by the makers of Wallace & Grommit and Chicken Run (just so you know what to expect in terms of stop-motion 'claymation'). 

Pirate Captain (Grant) sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayak) for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London, where they meet Charles Darwin (David Tennant) among others. In the UK, this movie was called The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. Apparently that was too much for us eedjits here on these shores. Whatever it's called, it looks like bloody great fun.

Other great character actors providing voices include Brendan Gleeson as Pirate with Gout, Martin Freeman as Pirate with Scarf, Imelda Staunton as Queen Victoria and Ashley Jensen as Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate. The Pirates! Band of Misfits opens in the UK on 28 March and in the US on March 30.

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Bridget Jones’ creator Helen Fielding has begun writing the third installment of the best-selling books and I couldn’t be more thrilled.  Did you read the books?  Did you watch the first two movies?  I adore the movies.  Colin Firth, Renee Zellweger, and Hugh Grant are one of the best movie trios ever and the thought of a third one makes me do the happy dance.

Fielding confirmed,

“I will be working on both the book and the film but I don’t know if they are the same thing yet. It’s not been decided.”

So what’s in store for this third movie/book?  Bridget will be having a mid-thirties baby crisis. That sounds about right.  I can’t wait!  I can only imagine the fun this one will be.

Renee Zellweger Gives Up on New York City

In case you are wondering if the original cast will return, I think it’s a given.  Firth said,

“I think the idea of Mark and Daniel and Bridget in advanced stages of deterioration could be quite fun. We’re making a comedy, after all.”

I couldn’t agree more and I know this one will be another smash hit.

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It’s reunion time for Sex and the City’s Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall at the New York premiere of ‘Did You Hear About The Morgans?’ at the Ziegfeld Theatre. Fellow girlfriend Cynthia Nixon also made the premiere!

Have you seen the trailers for the movie?  The part where Sarah Jessica Parker sprays Hugh Grant with the bear repellent spray is hysterical.  I’m not sure how good this movie will be although I tend to like the movies either of them  appear in.

Also at the premiere:

• Hugh Grant
• Ted Danson
• Mary Steenburgen
• Elizabeth Moss
• Kim Shaw
• Maksim Chmerkovskiy
• Oksana Lada
• Donnell Rawlings
• Cheyenne Jackson

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Nicole Kidman visits the Today Show to promote ‘Nine’. Not Scientology.  Got it?

Kate Beckinsale and her family (and by family I mean her daughter and uber gorgeous hubby Len Wiseman) shop

Keira Knightley is seen leaving the theatre in London after her performance in ‘The Misanthrope‘

Kate Hudson is seen outside her hotel in Manhattan without A-Rod which may or may not be a trend for her

Alicia Keyes, Hugh Grant, Tobey Maguire and Zoe Saldana are all outside the David Letterman Studios

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Justin Timberlake arrives at LAX from his trip to Berlin

Jude Law is met outside of the Wyndhams Theatre in London where he performed Hamlet and is swarmed by fans

Hugh Grant leaves J. Sheekey restaurant

Lindsay Lohan is in Malibu with a pizza

Helena Christensen is in Manhattan with her kids

Sandra Bullock arrives at her hotel in London.  This woman is looking gorgeous these days.

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