Amanda Bynes Kicks Off 2013 By Sharing A Photo Of Her 2012 Boobs
After spending 2012 participating in completely normal and sane activities that did not result in her getting her license taken away, Amanda Bynes made it clear last night that she’s setting a new tone for 2013. A tone that makes me think that I may have named her “The Meryl Streep of her Generation” a little too early. After all, Meryl always goes with a more understated sepia tone when sharing photos of her boobs.
While many people will quickly jump to the conclusion that this New Year’s Eve photo proves Amanda Bynes will continue to make questionable choices in the coming year, I immediately came to the conclusion that all was right in the world.
After taking a week-long vacation from stalking celebrities 24/7, I feared I would return to a world that no longer appreciated celebrity nudity, unnecessary vulgarity and faux Twitter accounts for celebrity children who aren’t even born yet. I worried that my first 2013 essay would be something horrid, like “500 Celebrities Who Only Make Good Decisions,” or worse, “Studies Say Men No Longer Googling ‘Naked Celebrity Photos’ On the Internet.”
However thanks to Amanda Bynes’ boobs, I can now rest assured that everything’s going to be okay. The Internet will continue to be a place of wonder and delight and TLC levels of morality.
Happy New Year!
* Ms. Bynes is finally coming to her senses and hopefully get back on the game with all new sexy persona. Flaunt what God bestowed upon you and do it before it starts to sag. Amanda will be 27 this year. Nudity should be least of her concern and you know what - like so many child-stars - Amanda will get naked. It's not question of if but when.Amanda not only was suffering from some kind of late teen angst (delayed because of a frenzied celebrity career), she was also double dosing on the meds and bordering on alcohol addiction. But she reportedly received treatment (psychological?) in New York.
It's believed many of Amanda problems arose from acquiring wealth at such a young age and so swiftly. She was okay and even accepted the fame and glitz but wasn't ready to cope with the responsibility that comes with it.
It also led to friction between Amanda and her dad. Amanda understandably was enjoying her stardom until it came crashing down after What I Like About You comes to an end. At 20, Amanda was ready to move on to the big screen but at the same time she wasn't really prepared for it. It always hard for TV-stars to transition to movies. One minute you're the star of a show, the next you're auditioning for a role (unfamilliarity
with burdensome auditions plays a big part in why many TV-performers opt to return to comforts of small medium). Initially everyone wanted to work with Amanda - potentially PG-flicks goldmine but Amanda wanted to enjoy her status as a very rich young woman and with time to spare. Idle hands are the devil's workshop and in case of celebs it usually denotes drugs, booze and sex. Amanda thought she can act in a flick or two in a year and have rest of the time for herself. She created her own fashion line which never really took off. It was in late 2007 everything starts to unravel for the actress in a major way. Amanda is a sweet, nice and trusting person. So how could someone break her heart in such a callous manner? That's
what her boyfriend did when she caught him - allegedly - bonking an aspiring actress at his pad. It crushed her completely and left her emotionally empty. Her antidote for a broken heart? Ominously it was to party like it was end of the world. Amanda actually talked about reevaluating her social time in an interview back in 2008.
“I used to be known as the girl who was anti the club scene,” she says. “But I’m finding a balance. I can have a drink and dance if I want. You have to go out to meet people…and guys. I’m in that phase where I just want to have fun!”
Amanda's tendency to party the night away and keeping on partying in her head the next morning was soon interfering with her proper job as an actress. Flunking and missing out on auditions. Forgetting to read scripts sent to her for consideration. Rejecting those deemed to risque for her. Acting inappropriately on movie set. After the failure of 18-millions budgeted Sydney White, Amanda unwisely took a long sabbatical from any serious work. Instead she could be found at
favorite celebrity hangouts - drunk and drunker. It was rumored Amanda actually auditioned for the role of female lead Olive in Easy A only to be replaced by rising talent Emma Stone. Amanda was pissed but her agent fought for her and got her the religious nutbag Marianne. It didn't stop Amanda from feeling rejected for a nobody. Despite the stupendous success of the comedy, Amanda felt left-out and underappreciated which in turn intensified her dependency issues.
In many ways Amanda is from old school of female actors. Modern artists tends to be very much involved in pre-and-post productions stage. Amanda never really bothered with that stuff. So was it supreme frustration with the industry that led to retiring from acting back in 2010? Or something much more simpler to explain. The biz was slowly washing it hands off Amanda in typical ruthless approach it has cultivated over the years. To get rid of actors unwilling to compromise, all pigheadedness or refusing to play the game like a pro. Worse, acting all diva-like when you haven't earned the right to act like one.
Amanda's retirement shocked everyone especially her parents. Dad attempts to intervene was rebuffed with now Amanda's favorite phrase and a form of defence mechanism : 'I'm a retired multi-millionaire and I can do any shit I want to do'.
The thing is Amanda status as millionaire is long gone (and I bet her accountant/financial advisor must have warned her about it). She is discovering that money isn't forever, doesn't grow on trees and Daddy ain't so generous anymore.
To spend money like crazy, you must first work like a dog to earn it. Or go the route of Lindsay Lohan who works for a flat rate on any project that comes her way including racy roles.
So it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone Amanda chose the sexy route. Hollywood will take heed; offer a helping hand as long as Amanda keep it together or at least during the period of film-shooting. It's a good deal for anyone but we're talking about Amanda here. Unpredictable and kookiness enclosed in a Scotch bottle.
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Five actors set to make a splash at Sundance 2013 |
Daniel Radcliffe: From the family-rated “Harry Potter” series to the crime movie “Kill Your Darlings”. |
PARK CITY, Utah, Jan 2 — The 2013 edition of the Sundance film festival will be held in Utah from January 17 to 27. Here’s a selection of actors looking to impress and move the indie movie crowds.
Daniel RadcliffeAfter “The Woman in Black”, the English lad continues to stray away from the “Harry Potter” saga with “Kill Your Darlings”, which promises to shed new light on a murder case that tarnished the early years of the Beat Generation in the 1940s.Radcliffe will play poet Allen Ginsberg opposite Elizabeth Olsen. John Krokidas directs the crime movie, which also stars Dane DeHaan, Ben Foster and Michael C. Hall.
Kaya ScodelarioThe 20-year-old British actress will be chasing glory on the strength of her performance in “Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes”. After “Wuthering Heights”, she earned the title role in the indie drama directed by Francesca Gregorini and co-starring Jessica Biel and Alfred Molina. The drama centres on a girl who becomes fascinated with her new neighbour because of her striking resemblence to her deceased mother. The troubled youth agrees to babysit for her neighbour, entering her strange world in the process.
Juno TempleEnglish actors have become a hot commodity at Sundance. Joining the fray under the Union Jack, Juno Temple will try to cement her status as the indie darling of the day with the screening of Jill Soloway’s dark comedy “Afternoon Delight”. After her recent performances in “Kaboom”, “The Dark Knight Rises” and “Killer Joe”, Temple plays a stripper who accepts a live-in nanny position from a bored LA housewife looking for entertainment.
Rooney MaraThe star of “Millennium” is making a comeback in “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”. In this criminal drama directed by David Lowery, she plays the wife of a prisoner who breaks out of jail to see her and the daughter he never met. Casey Affleck and Ben Foster also play in the film, which will have a Bonnie and Clyde element to it.
Sarah PolleyThe Canadian actress and filmmaker Sara Polley (“Take This Waltz”) will present “Stories We Tell” in the non-competitive Spotlight section. The documentary, which was previously screened in Toronto and Venice, turns the cameras on the Polley family through the lens of its members, and brings the notion of witness accounts into question. —
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Loads to BB-See
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| The White Queen ... starring newcomer Rebecca Ferguson |
THESE exclusive pictures are taken from the new BBC shows hitting our screens this year.
They include historical epic The White Queen, which stars newcomer Rebecca Ferguson in the title role.
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| Thriller ... Mayday |
Mayday is a thriller about a girl who goes missing and stars Sophie Okonedo, Peter Firth and Aidan Gillen.
Torchwood star Eve Myles takes the lead in Frankie, a comedy drama set in Bristol about a district nurse.
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| Drama ... Torchwood star Eve Myles |
And John Simm and Maxine Peake star in The Village — an epic drama charting life in an English village across the entire 20th Century.
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| Epic ... The Village |
As well as the new shows, 2013 will also see the return of plenty of favourites, including Doctor Who, Call The Midwife, The Voice, Miranda, The Syndicate, Prisoners’ Wives and Death In Paradise.
And Idris Elba will return for the final time in the dark detective series Luther.
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| Detective ... Idris Elba |
An advert showing clips from the big comedies and dramas will air on BBC1 this week.
But you can watch it now, below...
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What can we expect on TV in 2013? Lots of darkness
JOHN DOYLE
Asking the TV critic to predict the new year is risky. We know the players, know their strengths and flaws, but so much is yet to be determined, so much is out of the hands of the players and the predictors.
In television, an auteur’s show on premium cable might sink in self-indulgence. A strong new network show might get an awful time slot and be defeated by a competing series, same time, different network.
Mind you, some patterns are clearly emerging, even as we look at mere lists of shows, the synopses, and their creators and stars. If we corral cable and network content together, what we see coming is a ton of toxic variations on the American nightmare of guns, killing and craziness.
Banshee, from the HBO-owned Cinemax (starts Jan. 11, HBO Canada) is set in a hallucinatory hell of corruption, crime, guns, death and sex. The fact that its producer is Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, True Blood) gave it advance notoriety, and it does deliver. It stars Antony Starr as Lucas Hood, an ex-con who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pa. Naturally, he becomes the king of the local criminals, while enemies from his distant past move in on him (and his ex, now a local married mom, played by former Bond girl Ivana Milicevic). “How can one town have so many scumbags?” is the line to remember from the first episode. Everything nasty happens in a heightened setting that is by turns cartoonish and menacingly real.
The new, as-yet-unnamed Phil Spector biopic (HBO, date TBA) is obviously a big deal. David Mamet wrote it and Al Pacino stars as Spector, the legendary music producer and songwriter who was convicted of murder in 2009. It is mainly about that murder and the trial, and Spector’s relationship with his lawyer, played by Helen Mirren.
Bates Motel (A-and-E, date TBA) is promoted as both a prequel to the events in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and a “reimagining” of the characters. Certainly it’s about the young Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and his relationship with his mom (Vera Farmiga, adding movie-star power to the series). At the same time, it appears to be set in a contemporary small town, not the era just before the story told in Psycho. What’s available to see in advance is nicely creepy. All one has to hear is Norman saying “I love you, Mom” for the shivers to start.
Behind the Candelabra (HBO, date TBA) promises to be a blunt, adults-only treatment of the tempestuous relationship between Liberace (Michael Douglas) and his much younger lover, Scott Thorson (Matt Damon). Directed by Steven Soderbergh, it has compelled Damon to warn Liberace fans that the production will surely shock then.
Parade’s End (HBO, date TBA) is an HBO/BBC production derived from the quartet of novels by Ford Madox Ford. A bittersweet, sometimes achingly painful story, it’s really about a love triangle. A conservative English aristocrat (Benedict Cumberbatch, best known as Holmes on PBS’s Sherlock) is torn between his brittle wife and a young suffragette.
* I can't guarantee anything at this time but HBO airing should have lengthier nudity from Rebecca Hall and Adelaide Clemens including the butchered sex scene with Benedict.
Da Vinci’s Demons (Starz, a Canadian channel TBA, spring 2013) is “the secret history of Leonardo da Vinci’s tantalizing life.” We’re told as well that da Vinci “throws himself into his genius and emerges as an unstoppable force that lifts an entire era out of darkness and propels it into light.” The show comes from David S. Goyer, co-writer of the Dark Knight Rises trilogy. Da Vinci the superhero is played by English actor Tom Riley and the series looks like The Borgias with less sex and more mysticism. Note that in its short life, Starz has already given us the great Boss and the very good Magic City series.
Among returning series, Girls starts its second season Jan. 13 (HBO Canada). Season 2 of HBO’s Enlightened – starring Laura Dern in her Golden Globe-winning role as a corporate exec who breaks down, only to become a guru of goodness – returns the same night.
NEW AND NOTABLE ON NETWORKS
The Following (Jan. 21, 9 p.m. Fox and CTV) is the hottest of the hot midseason series. Created by Kevin Williamson (The Scream movies, Dawson’s Creek) it also has the potential to be the most controversial. A grim, gory psychological thriller, it stars Kevin Bacon as a deeply damaged ex-FBI agent in a battle of wills with a charismatic serial killer (James Purefoy) who, it turns out, has legions of disciples who follow his orders. For network TV, it’s unusually disturbing, graphic and bleak. Thematically, it’s linked to Banshee and Bates Motel as part of an operatic obsession with violence and a barbarous undertow in U.S. culture.
Do No Harm (Jan. 31, NBC) is a twist on the Jekyll-and-Hyde story. The main character, a neurosurgeon named Jason Cole (Steven Pasquale) suffers from dissociative identity disorder, and the drug that suppresses his dark side is wearing off. His alter ego, Ian, is a nasty, unrepentant jerk. The theme of underlying, violent craziness continues here.
Hannibal (NBC, date TBA) goes back to Thomas Harris’s novels about serial killer Hannibal Lecter (played here by Mads Mikkelsen) to finesse the drama of the killer’s mind and methods. An FBI criminal profiler (Hugh Dancy) feels he can learn from Lecter, who is also screwing with the mind of a therapist (Gillian Anderson from X-Files). Thematically: ditto.
Cracked (Jan. 8, CBC) stars David Sutcliffe (Gilmore Girls, Private Practice) as Detective Aidan Black, a tough Toronto cop dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, often poorly, while assigned to a unit dealing mainly with mental illnesses. He’s got a psychiatrist/cop (Stefanie von Pfetten) as a partner. On the early evidence, Cracked is so deeply conventional and well-meaning, its only perversity is its blandness.
Motive (Feb. 3, CTV) is the other Canadian crime drama, but this one has buzz. Set in Vancouver, it promises a twist on the conventional procedural, with the viewer knowing way more than the characters. The lead cop – described by CTV as “a feisty female Vancouver homicide detective” – is played by Kristin Lehman.
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Sarah Lian wants to Kung Fu Fight her way to stardom
Sarah Lian first shot to fame as the local Internet Ah Moi in the 2010 MyEG commercial.
The 29-year-old then went international, playing a sexy shopaholic (in the Hong Kong produced comedy Mister French Taste) and an edgy-looking hacker (in US online crime drama Cybergeddon), this year.
Now, Sarah Lian has set her sights on becoming an action star.
In an interview with the Daily Chilli, the doe-eyed Malaysian actress, now based in Vancouver, Canada, revealed an interest in equipping herself with martial arts skills to pursue action roles.
"Kung Fu is a must. Naturally, for many of the roles that I auditioned for in Canada, one question that always comes up is 'Do you do martial arts?' As an Asian, you have to sort of expect that because of people like Bruce Lee and Michelle Yeoh," she said.
But it's not just the moves that matter, said the Taiping-born, Vancouver-bred beauty.
"It's more of the ability to move a certain way, to understand what the choreographer and set coordinator want you to do. It's much more important than how high you can kick or how strong you are," she explained.
It helps that she had done taekwondo before.
"There are some parts of me that are coordinated [laughs]. And I enjoy working out. Still, it comes as a bit of a challenge. "I did some basic martial arts training in Toronto for a couple of months. Then I started filming and my schedule got kind of crazy. So I had to stop. I'm definitely looking forward to trying it again in Malaysia. I heard the wushu team here is amazing," said Sarah, who named Indonesian crime thriller The Raid: Redemption as her favourite actioner.
To refresh your memory, the Malaysian darling left Malaysia in March 2011 to pursue bigger acting opportunities in Canada. After a year of working and trying to land a big break, she's now temporarily back in Malaysia.
"After spending three years in Malaysia building up my career, I didn't know what to expect when I was in Canada."
"It's was a huge leap of faith, but with hard work-which involves eating humble pie, auditioning and competing with over 100 actors in Toronto-I slowly started gaining some ground and getting some jobs in TV shows and films."
"While I am recognised in Malaysia for my work, in Canada, I was competing with a few hundred actors for a role. The casting directors would look at your picture, see what you can do, and say, 'Thank you. Call you later.'" "And you never get the call. You feel like you're one of those people who go, 'Am I ever going to be noticed?'" "So I put even more work into auditions now than before when I didn't feel I needed to. It's not just the talent. You have to keep working at it. And because I've done that, casting directors remember me." "They encourage my agent to send me to certain jobs. To have that kind of support from them is humbling. It's amazing and sometimes unfathomable," she said. Her experiences as a popular host and actress in Malaysia certainly helped.
"It helped that I was not really a newbie. I knew how to work in front a camera, collaborating with others and playing my role well in a team," she said.
Well, how challenging is it for an Asian to work in a Western market?
"It can be. However, I'm happy to say that two of my four roles were cast not because I was Asian. The script never reads something like 'Asian girl walk into the room.' They just think I fit the bill," she said. Though she's based in Canada, Sarah is open to "working internationally."
"I speak predominantly English, Cantonese and a bit of Mandarin.
I'm currently shooting a film in Hong Kong now and they've got a Beijing arm. We are in talks of doing future projects like Chinese films together. I'm really excited," she said. She remained tight-lipped on her ongoing shooting in Hong Kong though, merely revealing that it's a Hollywood film produced by the folks behind American series The Walking Dead. "I can't really talk about it, except that it's a horror film, one that might generate a bit of controversy when it comes out. I'm one of the main characters and the film will be released around October next year." Right now, Sarah just wants to kick back and relax.
"I've spent a full year in Toronto. So while I'm back here, I mostly just enjoy the good food and meet up with my family and friends," she said.
Chances are, she's also going to knock on the doors of Hollywood soon.
"I've had producers pulling me aside and said they want to make some introductions in Los Angeles. So I might spend a few weeks in Los Angeles next year," she revealed.
Still, the thought of trying to make it in Tinseltown sounds "very daunting" to her.
"It's a huge market and everyone is an actor there. I would have to start there from scratch. So I would want to build my name first in Toronto, get a few more things under my belt, so that I would feel more comfortable going there," she concluded.
Sarah Random 25 Things1. I get a hard on when I read design blog sites, esp product packaging.
2. I wanted to be a teacher when I was young but realized how shitty they got paid when Vancouver School Board Teachers Union were on strike in 1994 [and i was never taught how to swim...]
3. I take pride that I’m Malaysian and will say that before I say I’m Chinese.
4. Kate Moss is my favourite model despite her coke habit. She’s still rockin – tho I must admit the Asian Invasion has also included Mo Wandan and Du Juan on my list.
5. I always have visions of myself in my head having accidents and losing a leg or an arm, so I’m even more careful that things like that don’t happen.
6. I’m a super-photoshopper! I started at Adobe ver 4.0 and 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6, 7, 8,CS, CS1, CS2 and I still don’t know how to smooth the skin like the Mariah Carey posters. [but i know how to make my boobs bigger 
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7. I always meet my best friends within the first week of moving to a new city. MEL- Toronto, HAG/GUMP – KL.
8. I don’t have visions of my wedding when I daydream. I’m practical- like city hall practical.
9. I’m a sucker for Missoni and Diesel Ad Campaigns. It’s odd, but I have so many of their tearsheets in my Fashion file.
10. I hate doing my nails and toes, but its supposed to be important, so I have them done at a salon.
11. When I’m on dates, I hold out from kissing as long as I can cuz once that happens, it’s over.
12. I only hate 2 exes in my life. Thank God I live in a different country!
13. I’m a bit rough around the edges but with my boyfriend i’m the neediest, corniest person ever.
14. When I travel with my girlfriends, we shower together to save time.
15. I like my internet life better than I like my own life – for a while, lilmui had more glory than Sarah Lian.
16. Doing photoshoots in my own room with my own custom setting on my camera is helluva lot better than some of the photographers I’ve worked with.
17. I will pull the trigger on the next magazine that asks me why I decided to move to Malaysia – I think people are tired of hearing about the same story.
18. I like sleeping naked.
19. I slept on the same bed with a girl for 8 months. Ask Jomomma.
20. Johnny Knoxville called me up to hang out when he was in Vancouver.
21. I’m preventing myself from dating this year because the kind of dating I did last year was unnecessary.
22. My favourite t-shirt is a Navy Blue NIKE Shirt that I found from that thrift store on Main (or Fraser) and Kingsway when I was in Grade 4. I still have it with me.
23. I hate stuffed animals. I don’t think they’re cute… and u doing a stupid voice with a stuffed animal isn’t that much cuter either.
24. I like Noam Chomsky’s critical view on politics and America.
25. I think Bush was as close to the anti-Christ as I know and think that Americans were even more stupid to vote him (or stupid to NOT vote) for the second time, which is why I think Americans are kind of stupid. I despise American heroic movies where some random dude saves the world after a lame speech about how “we can do it” and he’s American.* 29-years old Canadian Sarah Lian is another Asian actress-model caught between two worlds and minds about the direction and choices she needs to make in propelling her career on to the right path.
Basically a C-lister and at her age will remain one unless she willing to take risks and it seemed she did (nudity?) if I read the above interview in proper context.
Looking at her film resume shows Sarah is a strong-willed and flexible type of person. Struggling to make a name in a turgid but overcrowded Canadian showbiz, the pretty lass returned to her place of birth Malaysia to exploit the fascination Asians have for Westerners in any shape or sizes. But it appears after couple of years of middling through some telly ads and posing for mags, Sarah comes to realization the region is very much obsessed with Eurasian or Caucasian-looking celebs and she was better off in her homeland Canada. Give it a second shot.
This is where it gets mighty interesting. Sarah apparently dropped her nudity clause and actually auditioned for a role in much delayed and still delayed STARZ-produced Noir with new writers hired to nudge the project into production (but I don't see that happening anytime soon).
Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert are the executive producers and they conducted auditions in Auckland back in late 2011 which Sarah attended to test-read for the role of Kirika.Sarah in her own words:
The casting requirement for Kirika:"The actress playing the Asian character must be completely comfortable with nudity and sexual situations being portrayed onscreen. Full nudity will not be required, but she must agree to exposed breasts, buttocks and simulated sex/love scenes. The written material is of the highest quality, and neither the violence, sexual situations or nudity will be gratuitous nor pornographic. (Bear in mind the nudity/sexual situations of shows like Spartacus, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire)"
Noir follows two female assassins who team up to fight against a secret society. After discovering they’re mysteriously linked, the two, under the Noir moniker, have to work together until they get answers about why and how they are connected — or until one of them kills the other.
In the first episode according to the original script, Kirika runs around fully nude in assassin mode in a pretty lengthy scene.
More of Sarah here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here Sarah also had a Model Mayhem account (under the name of lilmui) for years before deactivating it. It's more than likely she posed nude for either private collection or uncredited pictorials. Her Friends Tag includes far too many photographers who specialize in erotic/nude shoots. Maybe you guys have better luck in finding her nude pics than me.Night Luster
Sarah Lian Interview Sarah Lian for ROX/STA - Rock-and-Rule 2009"Foolproof"
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* There is a miniscule chance that Dakota Fanning will be nude in upcoming Emma Thompson scripted Effie (2013). Dakota is playing the lead Effie Gray. The screenplay is heavily influenced by The Model Wife - The Passionate Lives Of Effie Gray, Ruskin And Millalis (Suzanne Fagence Cooper)."Dakota Fanning and Tom Sturridge will play lovers in the Emma Thompson-penned film Effie. The movie tells the tale of Euphemia Gray‘s (Fanning) torrid marriage to famous critic John Ruskin, to be played by Greg Wise. Ruskin refused to consummate their relationship, claiming he was grossed out by Effie’s naked body (er, weirdo) and she eventually falls in love and marries Ruskin’s protege, painter John Everett Millais (Sturridge)."
There are couple of possible nude scenarios we can look forward to. Non-sexual nudity by Dakota (Effie) in bed as her husband Ruskin (Wise) refused to touch or look at her. A love scene between her and lover Sturridge as John Everett Millais.
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via press release:
STARZ, ATLAS ENTERTAIMENT AND SONAR ENTERTAINMENT TO DEVELOP NEW SCRIPTED DRAMA FROM WILLIAM MONAHAN
FOR U.S. AND GLOBAL AUDIENCES
ATLAS ENTERTAINMENT MAKES FIRST VENTURE INTO TELEVISION WITH “CRIME”
Academy Award® Winning Screenwriter William Monahan Creates Series
LOS ANGELES, CA, JANUARY 3, 2012 – Atlas Entertainment is producing its first television series,
"Crime," in partnership with Henceforth Pictures for Starz and Sonar Entertainment. Written by Academy Award
® winning screenwriter, William Monahan (
The Departed) “Crime” is a study of criminal enterprise and
Scandal across 1960s Britain. The project was developed from a feature film treatment by Vanessa Sadler. Regarded for its proven ability to produce both tentpole films and independent features, Atlas Entertainment will step into the television landscape with
“Crime.”
The project in development is being executive produced by Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and William Green alongside Monahan, with Atlas’ Andy Horwitz and Henceforth Pictures’ Justine Suzanne Jones co-executive producing. Starz and Sonar Entertainment are financing development and Sonar Entertainment has the option to distribute the show to markets around the world outside of Starz's pay television and home entertainment rights in the U.S.
. Independent Talent’s Josh Varney was instrumental in arranging the deal with Monahan and setting the project into motion. Starz will assume all domestic pay television and home entertainment rights, including Canada, to the series.
“We’re thrilled that our first foray in television has us working with the incredibly talented William Monahan on this unique show, and we’re excited to be sharing it with audiences not only in the U.S. but around the world,” said Charles Roven.
“There’s very little more interesting to me than the Sixties in Britain,” said Monahan, “taken from Profumo to psychedelia, from the London criminal world to the worlds of art and fashion—all of which continually intersected. I know one thing: it’s very, very, funny.”
"Set in a time and place that continues to fascinate, ‘Crime’ is a story that easily cuts across borders and cultures,” commented Stewart Till, CEO, Sonar Entertainment. “William Monahan’s script comes alive with an immediacy and intimacy that audiences will embrace with unqualified enthusiasm.”
"We are excited to be working with William Monahan on one of his passion projects,” said Carmi Zlotnik, Managing Director of Starz Entertainment. “’Crime’ is the kind of unique storytelling that elevates scripted television for audiences.”
A dramatist, director and novelist, William Monahan recently completed the screenplay for The Gambler for Martin Scorsese and producer Irwin Winkler at Paramount, and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. He won an Academy Award
® for Best Adapted Screenplay for
The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese, which earned four Oscars
®, including Best Picture. Additionally, Monahan collected a Writers Guild of America Award and earned Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his work. His production company, Henceforth Pictures, has a number of feature and television projects in development, including a screen adaptation of his first novel,
Light House, and “The Throwaways”, a New Yorker piece by journalist Sarah Stillman. Production on his original thriller,
Mojave, begins in the first quarter of next year with Atlas Independent’s William Green producing along with Monahan and Atlas’s Andy Horwitz executive producing along with Henceforth’s Justine Suzanne Jones.
ABOUT ATLAS ENTERTAINMENTAtlas Entertainment, led by founder Charles Roven, is built on a stellar reputation of creative collaboration, innovation and fiscal responsibility. With an expertise in producing blockbuster films as well as critically acclaimed independent features, Atlas Entertainment's films have generated billions of dollars in revenues. Roven most recently reteamed with Christopher Nolan, serving as a producer on
The Dark Knight Rises, the third and final installment of
The Dark Knight Trilogy, and is also a producer on
Man of Steel, the Superman reboot film directed by Zack Snyder set for release on June 14
th, 2013. Atlas Entertainment has produced such tentpole films as
The Dark Knight and
Get Smart, in addition to such indie successes as the 2008 British crime thriller
The Bank Job. Additional past film credits include
Batman Begins,
The International,
Idlewild,
The Brother’s Grimm,
Season of the Witch,
Three Kings, the worldwide box office hit
Scooby-Doo, and its sequel
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed,
Fallen, Oscar
®-nominated
Twelve Monkeys, and fantasy romance
City of Angels.
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New Spartacus Video Looks Back At The Starz Drama And Previews War Of The Damned
Spartacus fans likely don't need to be reminded that this month brings the return of the beloved Starz drama for its final season. In anticipation for the premiere of Spartacus: War of the Damned, Starz released this video, which looks back at the series from its beginning all the way through Spartacus: Vengance, and then offers a brief preview of the upcoming War of the Damned.
Clocking in at nearly ten minutes, the video below features the cast and writers, including creator Steven S. DeKnight, the late Andy Whitfield and Liam McIntyre as they discuss the drama, which began as a gladiator show and has since escalated to battle series.It's interesting to hear DeKnight admit to going a bit overboard with the sex and violence in the series' first few episodes. I'll admit, while I don't typically shy away from that sort of thing as a viewer, it was overkill enough at the start of Spartacus: Blood and Sand that I didn't even make it through the pilot before deciding I wouldn't watch the show. It took word of mouth to get me to give the drama a second chance, and I'm very glad I did as the series really hit its stride after those first few episodes, and has since gone on to become one of my favorite shows on television. How about that?
It's disappointing that Spartacus is coming to an end, but I know I'm not alone in being very excited to see how it all wraps up.
Spartacus: War of the Damned premieres January 25 on Starz.
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Sunny success: How adult websites make money
New Delhi: Adult film star Sunny Leone was the most searched personality in India this year, according to Google’s annual Zeitgeist list.
Leone rose to fame after appearing in the reality show Bigg Boss in 2011, and made her Bollywood debut with Jism 2, drawing a lot of attention because of the steamy stills released online.
Leone, who runs her own entertainment company and adult websites, had said earlier this year in an interview that 80 per cent of the traffic on her website and 60 per cent of her revenue came from India.
So how does a porn site, which offers tonnes of free content, make money?
While free pornography is widely available across the Web, it forms only a tiny part of the smut universe. Beyond free porn is “premium content”, which includes high-definition videos, full-length DVDs, the promise of no ads, no pop-ups, unlimited downloads, etc. A paid subscriber may even get porn delivered in his email every day.
Subscriptions also open up doors to other services the website’s parent company may be offering, such as brand new DVDs that won’t be available free for weeks to come, and maybe sex toys and dating services. All this comes at a cost.
Websites offer different “packages” that come with different payment options. The most common type of payment is a daily, weekly or monthly subscription, which could be anything between $1 to $15 a day, depending on the website, the type of content you are subscribing to and the number of hours you will be spending online.
While a popular website earns a significant amount of money from its subscribers, it also makes money from the other websites and services to which it redirects traffic. Websites of companies offering dating services, sex toys, leather or latex clothing, accessories, online adult stores, performance enhancement drugs, adult gaming websites, cartoon porn, etc, depend heavily on mainstream porn websites for traffic.
These websites pay a percentage of their earnings to the porn site that gives them the traffic.
Both sides are at an advantage here. While the porn site may be getting its cut from 20 other affiliates, these affiliates may in turn be getting traffic from 20 other websites, considerably boosting the number of visitors they have.
One of the latest attractions sites are offering is 3D porn. With most companies coming out with 3D TVs and other forms of smart TVs that allow Internet access, adult entertainment companies are offering 3D porn to add that extra dimension to pornography. This, too, comes at a price. Most full-length 3D videos cost upwards of $10. Often, 2D videos are shown as a free trailer to the 3D versions, and help boost sales.
Just like the mainstream movie industry, the porn industry has several grades of actors and actresses.
There are the lead stars, who do the main roles in the film and get paid the most, and then there are the side artists, who complement the lead stars. Most free porn available on the Internet comprises videos of the side artists, and only toned-down clips of lead artists are available. Full clips of lead artists are paid.
Such clips of lead artists are available in the pay-per-view format, where the user pays for only that particular video clip. In most cases, a pay-per-view video ends with another teaser.
Lead actors often run their own websites, which offer their videos in different genres and with different artistes. The major attractions here are the unseen clips and the behind-the-scenes videos that are not available in public domain. New movies are often released on the website first before they hit the DVD store. The websites even include adult games with the star, sex chat, etc. with the actor. Again, such services are not free.
While some viewers may be content with free porn, it is this diversity of paid porn that keeps the dough coming in. Some interesting stats:- There are close to 24 billion porn sites
- The online porn industry makes over $3,000 per second, and each second nearly 28,000 people are watching porn on the Internet
- One in three porn viewers is a woman
- Eight per cent of all email is pornographic
- Thirty-five per cent of all Internet download is porn
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