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Twilight wins big at People’s Choice Awards

Last night (January 5), the Twilight vampire saga maintained its dominant position in pop culture when it won big at the People’s Choice Awards, reports People.

Eclipse, the third film adaptation based on the popular series of vampire romance books by Stephenie Meyer, received four awards, including favourite movie, beating out popular films like Toy Story 3, The Social Network and Inception.

During the event, held at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, Eclipse won the People’s Choice award for favourite drama movie and favourite on-screen team, while lead actress, Kristen Stewart, who played the role of Bella Swan, edged out Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston in the category of favourite movie actress.

Her co-stars, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, were not able to dislodge Johnny Depp from the favourite movie actor category. Depp took home the award for his role as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Pattinson was also nominated for favourite movie star under 25, but the award went to actor Zac Efron.

In the comedy categories, Adam Sandler received the award for favourite comedic star, while his film Grown Ups was named favourite comedy movie. For television shows, House M.D. trumped the Glee musical series, winning three awards for the series and lead actors Hugh Laurie and Lisa Edelstein.

Musically, rapper Eminem was the big winner, receiving the award for favourite male artist, favourite hip-hop artist, as well as favourite song and music video for Love the Way You Lie featuring Rihanna.

Fans vote for the People’s Choice awards from a list of potential nominees determined by national ratings averages, box-office grosses, music sales and E-Score Celebrity. 

 

 

 

 

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Twilight wins big at People’s Choice Awards

Last night (January 5), the Twilight vampire saga maintained its dominant position in pop culture when it won big at the People’s Choice Awards, reports People.

Eclipse, the third film adaptation based on the popular series of vampire romance books by Stephenie Meyer, received four awards, including favourite movie, beating out popular films like Toy Story 3, The Social Network and Inception.

During the event, held at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, Eclipse won the People’s Choice award for favourite drama movie and favourite on-screen team, while lead actress, Kristen Stewart, who played the role of Bella Swan, edged out Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston in the category of favourite movie actress.

Her co-stars, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, were not able to dislodge Johnny Depp from the favourite movie actor category. Depp took home the award for his role as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Pattinson was also nominated for favourite movie star under 25, but the award went to actor Zac Efron.

In the comedy categories, Adam Sandler received the award for favourite comedic star, while his film Grown Ups was named favourite comedy movie. For television shows, House M.D. trumped the Glee musical series, winning three awards for the series and lead actors Hugh Laurie and Lisa Edelstein.

Musically, rapper Eminem was the big winner, receiving the award for favourite male artist, favourite hip-hop artist, as well as favourite song and music video for Love the Way You Lie featuring Rihanna.

Fans vote for the People’s Choice awards from a list of potential nominees determined by national ratings averages, box-office grosses, music sales and E-Score Celebrity. 

 

 

 

 

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Adam Sandler remakes French film

American actor Adam Sandler, 44, is planning to remake the 2004 French comedy, Narco: The Secret Adventures of Gustave Klopp, reports Dark Horizons.

Sandler’s production company, Happy Madison, will produce the film, starring Sandler as the narcoleptic Gus, a man who leads an action-packed life – but only in his dreams. In reality, Gus lives a mundane existence, but envisions himself as dashing superhero whenever he falls asleep. So he decides to make this fantasy life come true.

Sandler’s next movie, Just Go With It, will be released in February 2011 and co-stars Jennifer Anniston as an office manager pretending to be his wife. in July, he’ll be lending his voice to a monkey for Zookeeper, a Happy Madison production starring Kevin James. Also due out next year, Jack & Jill has Sandler starring alongside Katie Holmes.

Taking its name from two of Sandler’s early hits, Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, Happy Madison has produced nearly all of Sandler’s movies since its founding in 1999. In 2007, Madison 23 was created as a subsidiary to produce dramatic films.

Happy Madison is known to use a stable of actors who are friends of Sandler’s – so we might expect to see the likes of Rob Schneider, David Spade, Kevin James or Anna Faris also starring in the upcoming Narco.
 

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Jennifer Aniston Plans New Film

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Aniston is in talks to star in the new romantic comedy from Columbia Pictures.

Dennis Dugan, who has worked with Sandler for many years, will be directing the film.  He previously directed Sandler in the films Big Daddy and Happy Gilmore.

The new project’s plot, which is being kept secret, was written by Allan Loeb (Things We Lost in the Fire) and Tim Dowling (Role Models).  Sandler will be producing the film via his company, Happy Madison.

Filming is set to begin in early 2010, after Sandler finishes filming Jack & Jill and Aniston wraps up The Goree Girls.

In the meantime, we can see Jennifer Aniston starring opposite Gerard Butler in The Bounty, opening March 19.  Sandler will be starring with Salma Hayek, Kevin James, Rob Schneider and Mario Bello in Grown Ups, in theatres on June 25, 2010.  The film will also be directed by Dennis Dugan.  Additionally, Sandler’s voice will be featured in The Zookeeper, opening on October 8, 2010.

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A Double Role for Adam Sandler

In the new romantic comedy, Sandler is set to play two parts, Jack and his twin sister, Jill, reports Variety.

Sandler will also act as a producer through his company Happy Madison.

The script will be written by a long-time friend of the actor, Steve Koren. The two men met on Saturday Night Live.

Jack and Jill is set to begin shooting in the beginning of 2010, and will be released one year later.

In the meantime, Adam Sandler will be starring in Grown Ups, in theatres on June 25, 2010. He will be sharing the screen with Salma Hayek, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock and Kevin James.

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A Double Role for Adam Sandler

In the new romantic comedy, Sandler is set to play two parts, Jack and his twin sister, Jill, reports Variety.

Sandler will also act as a producer through his company Happy Madison.

The script will be written by a long-time friend of the actor, Steve Koren. The two men met on Saturday Night Live.

Jack and Jill is set to begin shooting in the beginning of 2010, and will be released one year later.

In the meantime, Adam Sandler will be starring in Grown Ups, in theatres on June 25, 2010. He will be sharing the screen with Salma Hayek, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock and Kevin James.

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More Celebrity Voices For The Zookeeper

Variety has learned that several stars will provide voices for animals in the zoo in the film The Zookeeper, which also stars Kevin James and Rosario Dawson.

Sandler, who is producing the film with his company Happy Madison, will voice a monkey. Cher will voice a giraffe, Favreau a bear, Stallone will breathe life into a lion and Apatow will voice an elephant. Jim Breuer, Faizon Love and Bas Rutten are also part of the voice cast. 

In The Zookeeper, the zoo animals give dating advice to their zookeeper to help him find the woman of his dreams.

Filming will begin later this summer and the flick will hit theatres on October 8, 2010.

 

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Harrison Ford Is the Highest Paid Actor

According to FemaleFirst, Ford was the highest paid actor, earning more than 17.5 million dollars in the last 12 months.

The actor earned his cash after he played in the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which grossed more than 800 million dollars at the box office. Ford, who has starred in only four other films since 2000, returned to his role as Indiana Jones in the fourth instalment of the series. 

The list of last year’s top earning actors compiled by Forbes magazine also includes Adam Sandler, who made more than 59 million dollars, followed by Will Smith, who took in about 49 million dollars, and finally in fourth place, Eddie Murphy, who grossed more than 43 million dollars.

Actor Nicolas Cage completes the top 5 after making about the same amount of money as Eddie Murphy during the past year.

Here are the top ten highest paid Hollywood actors:

1) Harrison Ford
2) Adam Sandler
3) Will Smith
4) Eddie Murphy
5) Nicolas Cage
6) Tom Hanks
7) Tom Cruise
8) Jim Carrey
9) Brad Pitt
10) Johnny Depp

 

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Adam Sandler Returns To His Roots

Sandler promised to never again perform in a stand-up comedy show since he was forced to return to his roots in the film, Funny People.

He began his career in comedy clubs while studying at the University of New York. The funny man was then recruited by a talent scout to write for the show Saturday Night Live, IMDb.com reported.

Next, he abandoned stand-up comedy for an acting career, but had to return for his role as a comedian in the new film by Judd Apatow. This experience made him swear never to do it again.

Apatow said, "Adam hadn’t done stand-up comedy for 12 years. We arrived unannounced at a lot of clubs around town and I remember we were driving to one place and he just said, ‘This is exactly why I don’t do this – I so do not want to do this!’"

Funny People will hit theatres later this year.

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Maria Bello in an Upcoming Comedy

Maria Bello is in final negotiations to play the wife of Kevin James in a comedy written and produced by Adam Sandler.

The project does not yet have a title, but Sandler penned the script with Fred Wolf, and will produce the film with Jack Giarraputo.

In addition to Bello and James, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, Salma Hayek, David Spade, Maya Rudolph and Colin Quinn will join the cast.

Filming is set to begin in May.

We can see Maria Bello in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee this year. The release date has not yet been confirmed.