Former Doritos Girl Ali Landry Has a Daughter
Ali Landry and her husband, film director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, have welcomed their first child, daughter Estela, their rep tells PEOPLE.
The baby arrived just past 9:30 a.m. Wednesday and weighed 8 lbs., 2 oz.
“Mom and baby are doing great,” Landry’s rep says.
Landry, 33, a former Doritos pitchwoman, most recently appeared in Bella, written, directed and produced by her husband. The film won honors at the Toronto Film Festival.
Landry and Monteverde are “ecstatically happy,” the rep says, “and Estela couldn’t ask for more wonderful, loving parents.”
The couple, who reportedly met at Bible study, were married in April 2006 in Mexico.
Top 20 Nude Movie Scenes of 2007
Mr. Skin has announced his annual list of the Top 20 Movie Nude Scenes. Marissa Tomei tops the 2007 list in the film Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. I saw the movie at the Toronto Film Festival, and can attest that Tomei hasn’t aged a day. She might be in her 40’s but she doesn’t look a day over 30.
I’m surprised however that Natalie Portman didn’t take the top spot. Sure, Portman didn’t show her private parts in Wes Anderson’s Hotel Chevalier, but she did show her behind. It was enough to get the internet talking for month. still gets over1,000 hits a day from people on search engines looking for Portman nude. Her appearance is certainly the most talked about.
I also think that Heather Matarazzo should have placed higher on the list for her nude appearance in Hostel: Part II. Besides, who would have ever thought that we would get the chance to see Weinerdog nude. Check out the full list below:
1. Marissa Tomei - Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
2. Keeley Hazell - Cashback
3. Natalie Portman - Hotel Chevalier
4. Christina Ricci - Black Snake Moan
5. Sienna Miller - Factory Girl
6. Roselyn Sanchez - Yellow
7. Malin Ackerman - The Heartbreak Kid
8. Eva Mendes - We Own the Night
9. Lena Headey - 300
10. Stormy Daniels and Nautica Thorne - Knocked Up
11. Alexa Davalos - Feast of Love
12. Chelan Simmons - Good Luck Chuck
13. Wei Tang - Lust, Caution
14. Ashley Judd - Bug
15. Olivia Wilder - Alpha Dog
16. Ana Claudia Talancon - Alone With Her
17. Danielle Harris - Halloween
18. Heather Matarazzo - Hostel: Part II
19. Amber Valetta - The Last Time
20. Lucy Liu - Blood Hunter
Juno’s Opening Credit Sequence
When I first saw Juno at the Toronto Film Festival in September, one of the things I made mention of was the super-cool rotoscoped color-pencil animated opening sequence done by Shadowplay Studios.
Shadowplay has put the sequence online, which can now be watched below. I love this style so much, I wish that the marketing guys at Fox Searchlight had used it more in the marketing materials (ie the theatrical poster). But what do I know?
I just saw the film on the big screen tonight for the third time, and boy does this film play incredibly well in front of an audience. The almost packed theater in a suburb outside-Boston, laughed at every joke, and even clapped for the film when the credits hit.
Director Jason Reitman talks about the opening credit sequence in a blog post from August:
They were created by Shadowplay Studios, the same team who did the bad-ass opening titles for Thank You For Smoking. I met them back in 2000 when we both had short films playing the festival circuit. Their short, “This Guy Is Falling”, was a really impressive have live action/half animation piece they did in college.
When they did Smoking, the titles were rendered on a series of computers in one of their mother’s living rooms. Now they got a fancy place in an art deco building on Wilshire.
The Juno opening titles are out of control. I don’t want to give away too much, but the whole process was really labor intensive. The Shadowplayers would have parties in which friends and family would help construct the whole thing. Can’t wait for you all to see it and then I can explain how it was done…
Juno is now playing on 1,000 screens, and is expected to expand wider across the U.S. in the coming weeks.
Charlie Wilson’s War Movie Trailer
Universal has released a new trailer for Charlie Wilson’s War, which is directed by Mike Nichols (Closer, The Graduate, The Birdcage) and stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Om Puri, Jud Tylor and Nazanin Boniadi. Based on George Crile’s book about the CIA’s largest and most successful covert CIA operation, War follows a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson’s (Hanks) who teamed with a rogue CIA operative (Hoffman), to manipulate Congress, the CIA and a other foreign governments in order to assist the Afghan rebels in their fight against the Soviets in the 1980s.
I’ve heard that Phillip Seymour Hoffman will get a Best Supporting Actor nomination for this one. And it looks great, and has some big names, but the real question is: Will people buy tickets to another war film? Sure, this isn’t about the Iraq war, it’s set almost 30 years ago, but the box office (and buzz coming out of the Toronto Film Festival) suggests that people aren’t interesting in another war film.
Check out the new trailer.
You can also watch the new trailer in High Definition at Yahoo! Movies. Charlie Wilson’s War hits theaters on December 25th 2007.