Garcy managed to find a couple Your Highness tidbits of interest. The first is that filming begins on July 12th and the second is that Natalie is being trained in sword fighting.
Personally, it does seem like they give away most of the main story beats and the musical choice is a little lame. Also, the "oooh, scary" beats towards the end are way overdone.
That said, the film itself looks good, and that's all that matters to me.
It was recently brought to my attention that the link to register for the comments section was not working. I'm not sure how long its been like that but Kris has sorted it out. So, if you don't have an account yet...
The folks over at Gyllenbabble have gotten their hands on a bootleg version of the new Brothers trailer. The quality is really poor and I would suggest waiting for the proper online version, which is surely days away at most. But if you really can't wait...enjoy.
As mentioned last week, June was pretty brutal. That is until Chris made one of the biggest donations we've ever gotten. He almost single handedly saved the month, and for that I am incredibly thankful. In fact, I'm considering tossing this whole Natalie Portman thing and turning the site into a shrine for Chris. But I'll sleep on it.
Chris emailed me to say that the donation was just that, and he didn't need to be included in the draw for the next fan comic. But we also got a donation from Stephen, whose name IS going into the draw (4 times!). Right now, I think his is the only name in there. We're still a few weeks away from the next draw, but it doesn't hurt to get in there early :-P
Once again, for every $5 donation your name will go into that draw and the winner will get as much (or as little) input into the next comic strip as they want.
Last night Natalie checked out comedian Aziz Ansari's stand up act. I only know him from the "why the hell do I watch this show" Parks and Recreation, although he's probably about the best thing about it.
How do we know she was there? Once again Twitter comes to the party.
Was there anyone there that didn't tweet about her? Poor Aziz.
- holy crap, natalie portman was at the aziz ansari taping?? wtf?
- tonight ive been served food by Pixi [LA Ink], said “hey” to Weird Al, and got a $100 bill from Aziz Ansari sighned by Natalie Portman.
- i just learned that natalie portman was at aziz ansari's show tonight. i missed my chance to take her as my wife.
- great show tonight man.even if it sucked we couldve just looked at natalie portman all night.u really do have it all figured out
- I love twitter: looks like everyone in my row tweeted as soon as Natalie Portman was seated in front of us.
Got a few more things relating to yesterday's update about Natalie and Google. I pretty much hate Twitter, but I have to admit that its pretty handy for hearing about events like the one at Google, or even just random Natalie sightings.
Here are some unedited tweets from the event.
-Natalie Portman @ Google! She is sooooooo cute
-natalie portman was at google today... when asked to rap, she first made sure there weren't any kids and then quote lil kim, her "fav"
-omg Natalie Portman was @ TGIF asked why Sergey was barefoot on stage LOL definitely 1 of my best moments in Goog on par w/ Obama's visit
-Natalie Portman showed up at Google today. Apparently she hates emoticons.
-Just saw Natalie Portman talk about her new site makingof.com. she was hilariously awkward (and high?)
After the jump, a couple new pics. ... (Read more)
X17 have gotten their grubby paws on some new photos of Natalie leaving a hair salon. She's wearing a hood but we can still see a bit of very blonde looking hair...or is that just the light?
Whatever she had done, its probably for Your Highness, and I'm sure we'll get a proper view of it soon enough.
It seems the trailer is definitely attached to Public Enemies, although you might actually want to give it a miss if you don't like trailers that spoil too much. By all accounts, this trailer does that in spades.
As for actual opinions? Here are 4 from the IMDB boards.
"One of the worst trailers I've ever seen, wow. I think the audience at Public Enemies agreed. I don't think the movie itself looks completely horrible, but the way the trailer was edited made it look like a parody of some sort."
"It felt a little too melodramatic with the pop songs playing over and then the intense music beats were so cheesy. I don't know, not a very good trailer"
"I actually thought the trailer looked great! yeah the intense BOOM BOOM BOOM effects were a little much but whatever...and the acting....jake and natalie seem like they did a fair job, nothing amazing, but tobey is in a different league of his own...there might be some nominations headed his way by the clips of his acting. he did GREAT"
Last Friday Natalie participated in a 'in conversation' presentation about MakingOf.com, with Salar Kamangar, Vice President Product Management for Google and Chad Hurley, Co-founder of YouTube. Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google, kicked off the discussion which took place during the company's TGIF event.
The event was broadcast for Google employees around the world and is a completely internal presentation, so if you'd like to have seen it and you don't work for Google...you're shit outta luck :-(
The first is from the Obama rally in Cincinnati last year, and features Whiz doing a freak out (was probably pro McCain) and a pair of jeans that deserve a medal for services to humanity.
Several people on the IMDB have reported that the trailer for Brothers will play in front of Public Enemies, which opens on Friday. So if you're able to, go check it out (not that one should need any more incentive to see a new Michael Mann movie) and mail me your impressions.
I wanted to wait for 1000 votes and it went from 993 to 999 in 10 minutes but then there was half an hour without a vote, so, screw that.
Honestly, I'm quite surprised. Not so much that it beat the Closer appearance, but that it made it this far. Although, surely that's better than an 8 month victory lap for an appearance that was always going to win?
We started out with 64 appearances, spanning her whole career in the limelight, which you can view here in a nice little collage that Rachel put together.... (Read more)
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