Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr: Poolside Perfection
Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr: Poolside Perfection
Getting an all-over tan, Orlando Bloom and his Victoria’s Secret model girlfriend Miranda Kerr weren’t shy about stripping down during a business/pleasure trip to the Canary Islands.
Besides steaming up the catwalk at the Gran Canaria Moda Calida show in Las Palmas, Kerr was sure to make time for her “Pirates of the Caribbean” hunk of a boyfriend - as the two frolicked about by the pool with Orlando dropping his drawers and Miranda tossing off her top.
In related news, Miranda, a 25-year-old Australian, recently announced that she’ll be in Melbourne in August for the David Jones Summer Collections launch, as she’s ambassador for the store and recently finished shooting her first catalogue.
Meanwhile, Orlando finds himself getting ready to take on a new role in the movie “The Red Circle”, which co-stars Liam Neeson and Yun-Fat Chow.
Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller Party on the Edge
Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller Party on the Edge
Their new film “Edge of Love” debuted earlier this week at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. And Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller were all about celebrating at their private VIP party last night.
The girls got down at the Berkley Hotel in London, England, with Knightley sporting a strapless purple frilly dress with black super-high heels and Sienna rocking a more conservative short-sleeved white dress with black shoes.
When it came time to ditch her clothes for a scene in the new movie, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” hottie said ‘no problem.’ She told press, “I always bare my breasts. It’s not like it’s only in this film! It was very simple. It was a sex scene and I never like them when they’ve got bras on.”
But when it came to singing in the film, Keira wasn’t nearly as nonchalant. “I thought I was going to die. My knees actually started buckling. I wasn’t particularly pleased that Shar (her mother, Sharman Macdonald put singing into the script – in the first couple of takes I sounded like a pubescent boy.”
Johnny Depp: LA Father’s Day
Johnny Depp: LA Father’s Day
Most of the year, he calls France home, but Johnny Depp was spotted in Los Angeles, California yesterday, returning to his family for a Father’s Day celebration.
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” stud took a private plane to LA, where he was seen shortly after landing as he made his way to a chauffeured SUV, en route to see his kids.
Depp has been spending the lion’s share of his time lately in Chicago where he’s been filming “Public Enemies,” a film set during the Great Depression involving an organized crime ring.
Johnny plays ganster John Dillinger, who, together with Pretty Boy Floyd (Channing Tatum), is trying to outrun the FBI. “Public Enemies” is slated for a July 1, 2009 release.
Len Wiseman to Direct Gears of War
Last year it was reported that Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman was in talks with New Line to develop and direct a big screen adaptation of the popular X-Box 360 video game Gears of War. A year later, and the project has now been officially announced. Speculation first began when Wiseman featured the game in the fourth Die Hard film. Wiseman will develop the story with Chris Morgan, whose credits include Wanted and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. I know, not a hugely promising resume. Pirates of the Caribbean screenwriter Stuart Beattie wrote a draft of the film last year. IESB gave that script a 3 out of 10 star review, calling it ”a DUKES OF HAZZARD out of a possible STARSHIP TROOPERS”.
Wiseman has been working with Morgan on Shell Game, a sci-fi thriller set up at Lakeshore/Columbia Pictures (”Set a hundred and fifty years in the future - a detective is faced with a moral dilemma as he investigates the dangerous black market business of immortality.”). Wiseman, made a name for himself in the business as an art director (Stargate, Godzilla, Independence Day, Men in Black), and went on to direct Underworld and its sequel Underworld Evolution. Wiseman is certainly a step-up from Paul W.S. Anderson or Uwe Boll, and his participation guarantees that it will at least be good to look at.
Released in November 2006, Gears has sold over three million units worldwide, becoming the fourth best selling game of last year (not too shabby for only a two month lead). The game became very popular in the online arena of Xbox Live. Gears of War follows the soldiers of Delta Squad as they fight to save the human inhabitants of the fictional planet Sera from a relentless subterranean enemy known as The Locust Horde. A video game sequel was announced earlier this year at the 2008 Game Developers Conference. When the film was first announced, New Line has planned on releasing the film in the Summer of 2009, but that timetable is probably unrealistic.
Watch the trailer for the video game below. It makes use of Gary Jules and Michael Andrews somber 2001 cover of Tears for Fears’s Mad World, originally featured in the soundtrack to Donnie Darko.