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  • Fans Want Cher and Amanda Seyfried for Live-Action ‘Tangled’ After Photo Goes Viral

    Fans Want Cher and Amanda Seyfried for Live-Action ‘Tangled’ After Photo Goes Viral

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    Gimme gimme gimme a liiiive-action “Tangled.”

    Cher and Amanda Seyfried are now busy singing ABBA songs on the big screen in “Mamma Mia! 2,” but they are also currently frontrunners for the live-action “Tangled” movie that Disney has not actually announced and may never actually make.

    Still! The “Here We Go Again” costars look nearly identical to the animated Mother Gothel and Rapunzel from Disney’s animated “Tangled.” Fans noticed the resemblance, after a “Mamma Mia! 2” event photo went viral.

    Now fans are pushing Disney for a movie and dream-casting other live-action roles:

    https://twitter.com/KristenAlexiss/status/1029817978043412480

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    Yes, please. Keep dream casting. Disney doesn’t *have* to keep making live-action adaptations … but since they’re going to anyway, they may as well add “Tangled” to the list.

    By the way, that list now includes “Aladdin,” “Dumbo,” “The Lion King,” “Mulan,” “Lady and the Tramp,” “Maleficent 2,” “Prince Charming,” and many, many more.

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  • Watch Cher Sing ‘Fernando’ in New ‘Mamma Mia!’ Sequel Clip

    There was something in the air last night, and it was a new trailer for “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.”

    Fans are not over the apparent death of Meryl Streep’s Donna in the upcoming sequel (whyyyyyy?!), but at least the rest of the original movie cast is still alive and well, plus they added Cher.

    Cher plays Ruby Sheridan, mother of Donna, and grandmother of Amanda Seyfried’s Sophie. The new clip that dropped during the 2018 Grammys shows Cher’s Ruby singing the ABBA song “Fernando”:

    Nana Ruby is going to be an awkward party guest, but it’s good to see Cher on screen again. The Oscar winner hasn’t been in a movie since “Burlesque” in 2010.

    Here’s the official movie synopsis:

    “Get ready to sing and dance, laugh and love all over again.

    Ten years after Mamma Mia! The Movie grossed more than $600 million around the world, you are invited to return to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new original musical based on the songs of ABBA. With the film’s original cast returning and new additions including Lily James (Cinderella, Baby Driver), the musical comedy will open on July 20, 2018. […]

    Reprising their roles from Mamma Mia! The Movie are Academy Award winner Meryl Streep as Donna, Julie Walters as Rosie and Christine Baranski as Tanya. Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper reunite as Sophie and Sky, while Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård and Oscar winner Colin Firth return to play Sophie’s three possible dads: Sam, Bill and Harry.

    As the film goes back and forth in time to show how relationships forged in the past resonate in the present, James will play the role of Young Donna. Filling the roles of Young Rosie and Young Tanya are Alexa Davies (A Brilliant Young Mind) and Jessica Keenan Wynn (Broadway’s Beautiful). Young Sam will be played by Jeremy Irvine (War Horse), while Young Bill is Josh Dylan (Allied) and Young Harry is Hugh Skinner (Kill Your Friends).”

    “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” opens July 20th, 2018.

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  • ‘Mamma Mia’ Sequel Trailer Shocks Fans With Apparent Main Character Death

    Meryl Streep may be out … but Cher is in?

    “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” opens in July, 10 years after “Mamma Mia!” celebrated Sophie’s (Amanda Seyfried) wedding. In that movie, Sophie gathered her mother Donna’s (Meryl Streep) three former beaus to try and decipher which one was her father. This time, Sophie is the one who is pregnant, and it looks from the first trailer like Donna is dead.

    The Universal Pictures trailer shows Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) with her mom’s best friends Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters). “Your mother was the bravest person we ever knew,” Rosie says. “Let me tell you how she did it, all on her own…” The trailer then shows Lily James as young Donna in a series of flashbacks to her youth.

    Meryl Streep is in the movie, but she was reportedly only available for a short period of time, which must be why they decided to go in this direction. At least Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård,and Colin Firth are back as The Dads. Plus, now we have Cher as Sophie’s “Grandma.” (!!!)

    Watch the trailer:Fans seemed to like the trailer, but not that Donna twist:

    Here’s the official synopsis:

    “Get ready to sing and dance, laugh and love all over again.

    Ten years after Mamma Mia! The Movie grossed more than $600 million around the world, you are invited to return to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new original musical based on the songs of ABBA. With the film’s original cast returning and new additions including Lily James (Cinderella, Baby Driver), the musical comedy will open on July 20, 2018.

    Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is produced by Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman, producers of the original film. Craymer is also the creator and producer of the worldwide smash-hit stage musical.

    Ol Parker, writer of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, writes and directs the sequel from a story by Catherine Johnson, Richard Curtis and Parker. Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus return to provide music and lyrics and serve as executive producers. Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Phyllida Lloyd, Richard Curtis and Nicky Kentish Barnes also serve as executive producers.

    Reprising their roles from Mamma Mia! The Movie are Academy Award winner Meryl Streep as Donna, Julie Walters as Rosie and Christine Baranski as Tanya. Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper reunite as Sophie and Sky, while Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård and Oscar winner Colin Firth return to play Sophie’s three possible dads: Sam, Bill and Harry.

    As the film goes back and forth in time to show how relationships forged in the past resonate in the present, James will play the role of Young Donna. Filling the roles of Young Rosie and Young Tanya are Alexa Davies (A Brilliant Young Mind) and Jessica Keenan Wynn (Broadway’s Beautiful). Young Sam will be played by Jeremy Irvine (War Horse), while Young Bill is Josh Dylan (Allied) and Young Harry is Hugh Skinner (Kill Your Friends).”

    “Here We Go” again opens July 20th, 2018.

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  • Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski Secretly Got Married

    Premiere Of Bleecker Street Media's 'The Last Word' - ArrivalsAmanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski are married — after secretly eloping!

    The “Life in Pieces” actor revealed the surprising news on “The Late Late Show with James Corden.”

    “We eloped. We just took off into the country with an officiant and, just the two of us, and we did our thing,” Sadoski said.

    Sadoski and Seyfried are expecting their first child together. They first met in 2015 while performing in the theatrical production “The Way We Get By,” but didn’t begin dating until a year later. They reunited professionally for the movie “The Last Word,” which hits theaters later this month.

    “It was beautiful. It was everything that it should be,” Sadoski said of their elopement, noting they wrote their own vows. “It was just the two of us talking to each other.”

    And of course, that’s not the only big event taking place in the couple’s lives — they’ve got a baby on the way! “I’m more excited about this than I’ve ever been about anything in my life. And I’m also more terrified about it than anything I’ve ever been in my entire [life.]”

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  • Emma Watson & Amanda Seyfried Take Legal Action After Private Photos Leak

    Actresses Emma Watson and Amanda Seyfried are both taking legal action, separately, over the release of “stolen” private images.

    A publicist for Watson told the BBC, “Photos from a clothes fitting Emma had with a stylist a couple of years ago have been stolen. They are not nude photographs. Lawyers have been instructed and we are not commenting further.”

    Seyfried’s lawyers sent a letter to a website that had posted, without her consent, “several very private photographs of Ms. Seyfried either in various states of nudity or in intimate moments with her former boyfriend.” TMZ has a copy of the letter, which demands that the site “immediately and permanently: (i) cease and desist any use of the Seyfried Photographs, and (ii) remove the Seyfried Photographs
    from your website.”

    'Loving' - Red Carpet Arrivals - The 69th Annual Cannes Film FestivalThese leaks follow Mischa Barton‘s statement about an unauthorized sex tape being shopped around. “Someone I thought I loved and trusted was filming my most intimate and private moments, without my consent, with hidden cameras,” she said (via People). “Then I learned something even worse: that someone is trying to sell these videos and make them public. I came forward to fight this not only for myself but for all the women out there.”

    Emma Watson said she was threatened with a leak of nude images in 2014 after a speech she gave on gender equality as a UN Ambassador. She said she knew it was a hoax, since the pictures didn’t exist, but it didn’t escape her attention that “The minute I stepped up and talked about women’s rights I was immediately threatened – within less than 12 hours I was receiving threats.” Watson is currently promoting “Beauty and the Beast,” which opens Friday, March 17.

    In January, the hacker who broke into the private accounts of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities was sentenced to nine months in prison.

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  • Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried on ‘The Last Word,’ Legacy, and That ‘Terms of Endearment’ Remake

    Premiere Of Bleecker Street Media's 'The Last Word' - Red Carpet“The Last Word” brings together two different generations of Hollywood “it” girls turned “it” women: Amanda Seyfried, who’s continuing to come into her own as an actress, and Shirley MacLaine, who seemed to arrive fully and formed and, sixty-plus years after her film debut, still has plenty of “it” to spare.

    The two women recently sat down at a press conference to promote their co-venture, in which MacLaine plays a glass-ceiling-breaking businesswoman whose hard-driving ambitions and penchant for speaking her mind has left her with more than her share of detractors, prompting her to seek out local obituary writer and risk-averse aspiring poet Seyfried to craft an obit the uncompromising subject can approve of.

    Together, the two actresses sound off on topics ranging from motherhood (Seyfried’s about to have a baby with co-star Thomas Sadoski), legacy, risk-taking ageism, and MacLaine’s priceless response to the prospect of a remake of one of her most beloved films.

    Shirley, have you thought about your own legacy and what you want people to remember you for? What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishment?

    Shirley MacLaine: I don’t know, but I just figured out what I want my obituary to say is, “You think I’m dead, but I’m not.” What do you do about legacy? You leave it alone, you try to be the best. Right now you’re hoping to get financing [for films] and you get slipped great scripts, in terms of working.

    In terms of my life, I just want to share whatever I’ve learned, which is to know yourself, look for yourself, know what to look for, share it, be honest, be authentic — and even if it hurts your feelings. [Laughs]

    In this film, Shirley’s character, Harriet, is proud of the risks she took in her life. What are the biggest risks you have taken in your lives?

    Amanda Seyfried: OK, I know this one: for me, I used to not consider myself a risk-taker at all. I’m a very fearful person. I wasted some time being fearful, then one day I had an artistic opportunity that scared the living daylights out of me. Instead of saying no, I said yes and the course of my entire life has gone on a different path and I will never be the same person I was before that.

    I’ve gotten more than I can even say out of that; that one risk that I took. I don’t look at things as risks anymore. I look at them as opportunities that fail spectacularly. We’re too afraid to fail and that we’re not going to get anywhere and that’s another thing I love about this movie.

    MacLaine: I want to know what that risk was.

    Seyfried: It was a play off Broadway. It was a two-person play with [Thomas Sadoski]. It was terrifying. It was terrifying because I’m terrified of audiences. I’m terrified of being alone and I hide on film sets. I’ve never truly had the challenge of acting naked like that. I just learned everything. I learned a lot. It definitely made a giant impact.

    MacLaine: Fabulous! The biggest risk I always take is going in front of a live audience. I agree with her. There’s nothing more risky to do. You really have to leave yourself open to your own authenticity and you find that out pretty quick.

    In terms of a life or death risk, don’t have an answer, and I can’t think of it. I went to Broadway when I was 16 and I didn’t consider it a risk. I thought it was probably what I should do. I think that I think like a dancer: nothing is a risk — it’s more that it’s what I think I should do. Therefore, I don’t define it as a risk. I still don’t consider anything that I do a risk. Jumping out of an airplane, I wouldn’t do so, therefore I’m not going to risk it.

    Another point of view about risk-taking is that I’m naïve. I’m very aware, but I’m very naïve. So when you are very naïve and expecting safety and the best, you don’t feel you’re taking risks. You can get smacked a little, but usually it works pretty well. As much as you can instill your open-minded naivety, basically open-minded to damn near anything, nothing will be a risk. You’ll be safer. [Chuckles] Not bad.

    This film has big themes about motherhood. Amanda what did you take away from the film now that you’re about to be a mother?

    Seyfried: I want to make it very clear to my child that they are safe and loved. I don’t want to ever lie to them. There’s a huge responsibility to being a mother and I feel like this experience, especially with Shirley, it’s all about honesty in your life, in your acting, and in your relationships. There’s nothing more powerful and direct. There’s nothing to be confused about.

    Whether you like it or not, the answer is just how you feel. Feelings aren’t facts, but certainly the way you feel about things is worthwhile. It was instilled in me even further that I just need to continue being honest and trusting myself and the journey of getting to know myself. I want to instill that so desperately into my child because you are all you have and you have this chance to really experience things to the fullest with all the self-knowledge you can ever have … This message and this movie is really powerful and I’m taking it straight to this fetus.

    There’s a mentoring theme as well. Shirley, was there anyone who gave you advice, or someone that you still remember taking you under their wing in the beginning of your career?

    MacLaine: My God, the first person that comes to mind is Joan Crawford, and I didn’t listen to a thing she said, thank God. Really! She really … Oh my God, what can I say? [She zips her lips discreetly] Wrong, nope!

    OK, wait a minute, another person. I was in love with Alan Ladd and I went to a party at Romanoff’s. I’m 5’7″ and in heels I’m 5’9″ or 10″. My friends said, “Hey Shirley, it’s your favorite actor, come and meet him.” I turned around, and he was there, and I went, [looks down] “Oh, hi, Mr. Ladd.” [Laughs] He’s about 4’9″ and all my adoration disappeared in the dust.

    Shirley, what are your thoughts on ageism in Hollywood? And did you think that the initial reaction to your brother Warren Beatty‘s Oscar night incident, suggesting he’d erred because of his age, was ageist?

    MacLaine: I don’t know what happened at the Oscars that warrants it to be ageist — I don’t want to talk about [Oscar night], it was awful. But I do think that aging people are underserved in this culture big time. I want to stay healthy and serve that community and be a voice. Yes, I want to be queen of AARP and say what they feel and it’s awful that they seem to be made invisible. Maybe that’s one reason why I did this great movie. I didn’t want an older person to be invisible in any longer. That’s what I want to do with it.

    If you could write your own life story, what would you title it?

    MacLaine: I would write “So Far I Like This Lifetime the Best.”

    Seyfried: “I Promise I’m Not Stupid.” Because I’m not stupid, but I’ve been going around in my life thinking I was not as intelligent. And you know what? Intelligence is all different. You can be intelligent in all different ways, and I’m intelligent in a lot of different ways and I’m just still trying to empower myself with that. So that’s what my book would be called — today.

    The music in the movie, as played by Shirley’s character — whose deep-dive knowledge of The Kinks and more gets her that DJ job — is eclectic and very effective. What’s on your playlist?

    MacLaine: Me, I’ve never heard of The Kinks, just so you know. You know, what really moves me is the Pas de Deux in “The Nutcracker Suite.” I love classical music, and I love the times and Dean [Martin] and Frank [Sinatra], with the lyrics and wonderful rhythms and how they blend the music into the heart. I’m old fashioned.

    Seyfried: There is a time and place for every genre, for me. I’d like to be listening to Bruce Springsteen when I’m giving birth. “Tougher Than the Rest.” He’s got a great collection, but yeah, I also like Patty Griffin.

    What is your favorite quote from the movie, and why?

    Seyfried: “Fail spectacularly” and “I am who I am” — those are the two I keep thinking about. “Fail spectacularly” because if you’re afraid to fail what can you do in your life? And, also, something always comes of that. You’ll always learn something. And “I am who I am” — I just love it. It’s just so … It’s true!

    Have you heard about this potential “Terms of Endearment” remake that’s been talked about, with Oprah Winfrey and Lee Daniels?

    MacLaine: [Makes a skeptical noise]. I don’t know anything about it. Is she going to play my part? [Mimes getting on the phone] “Hello, Oprah?”

    “The Last Word” is in theaters now.

  • 12 Times Karen Smith Was the Best Part of ‘Mean Girls’

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    Karen Smith doesn’t come off as the sharpest tool in the “Mean Girls” shed, but that doesn’t make her any less hilarious. Amanda Seyfried‘s now-iconic ditzy blonde won us over with her unique talents (she can stick her whole fist in her mouth!), her sweet naiveté, and her psychic abilities. It’s like she has ESPN or something. There’s a reason we’re quoting her endlessly to this very day. Here are 12 times Karen Smith was the best part of “Mean Girls.”mean girls karen smith quotes

  • It’s the Most Wonderful Time of Year in ‘Love the Coopers’ Trailer

    Love the CoopersThere are only 120 days until Christmas, so hope you’re ready to celebrate with the Coopers!

    Yahoo has the trailer for the star-studded holiday comedy “Love the Coopers,” and it bears quite the resemblance to “The Family Stone.” It shares the producing team, as well as star Diane Keaton, who joins John Goodman as the parents of adult siblings engaging in wacky antics.
    That includes Olivia Wilde as a perpetually single Eleanor, who recruits a soldier to pretend to be her boyfriend. There’s Marisa Tomei’s Emma, who accidentally shop-lifts. And Ed Helms is a single dad whose daughter likes to proclaim everyone is a jerk. So, yeah, lots of zany family happenings and mixed-up relationships, with heavy doses of feel-good holiday cheer. No doubt they’ll all learn the true meaning of Christmas.

    “Love the Coopers” opens in limited release November 13.

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  • Amanda Seyfried Facts: 13 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About the ‘Ted 2’ Star

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    Amanda Seyfried might’ve started off playing the dumb, well-meaning blonde in “Mean Girls,” but since then she’s proved that she can master just about any role. Now she’s taking on raunchy comedy “Ted 2,” alongside co-stars Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane.

    From how she calms her nerves to the role she almost landed, here are 13 things you probably don’t know about Amanda Seyfried.
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  • Best of Late Night TV: Slow Jam the News with Jeb Bush, Donald Trump Game Show, OITNB Star Sings ‘Fame’

    If you’re like us and value your sleep, you probably nodded off into your Ambien dreamland before the party started on post-prime time TV. Don’t worry; we’ve got you covered. Here’s the best of what happened last night on late night.

    And so it begins — the serious presidential push, with more and more candidates getting air time on late-night, either in person to mock themselves or to be mocked by the hosts from afar. Republican candidates Jeb Bush and The Tonight Show” welcomed Jeb in person, and “The Late Late Show” had a sketch poking fun at Trump’s announcement speech. The Donald was not there in the flesh, but it’s only a matter of time before the new White House hopeful stumps on late-night himself.

    Jimmy Fallon revived his “Slow Jam the News” segment, this time with Jeb Bush on backup. Jeb is not exactly a natural comedian with his stiff posture and cue-card-reading stare, but he was game to listen to Jimmy called him a “master debater” (wink wink) and drop a “Fifty Shades of Grey” whip line, then reply with “Jimmy, I think for all Americans when I say, ‘Ew.’” Yeah. James Corden also got political on “The Late Late Show” when hosting a show called “Trump Stumpers: The Donald Trump Game Show,” quizzing contestants on real Trump quotes from The Donald’s classic stump speech. This is great. James Corden wants to be the Grand Marshal of next year’s L.A. Pride parade, so he went to the event to ask what he had to do. While there, he was deemed “a bear cub.” So he rounded up a bunch of “bears” for a game of “bear guitar” and they went walking around together collecting more bears for their “musical bears” game. “When we lose a bear, she takes a chair!” The winner even got a Build-a-Bear. Bless James. He seemed to have so much genuine fun. James for Grand Marshal! Kathy Griffin, Derek Luke, and the Lone Bellow were guests on “The Late Late Show” and Derek talked about “Empire” love scenes with Taraji P. Henson. Tongue or no tongue? Lea DeLaria of “Orange Is the New Black” is also a jazz singer. She she and Conan O’Brien sang David Bowie’s “Fame,” and it’s pretty darn awesome. Lea loves “Labyrinth” more than anything, since it’s a family movie that’s really about David Bowie’s crotch. So true. That’s it’s charm. Amanda Seyfried was on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and discussed how she jokingly asked to be part of “Ted 2.” She said, for tentpole movies, this is as far as she’ll go. Actors are all supposed to do things for business reasons and international value, she said, so this is her version of a big summer movie. She did a cameo for the movie “Pan” and had to do some wire work and she hated it, so she wouldn’t do stuff like that. Judd Apatow talked to Seth about why he was so critical of Bill Cosby. He got some pushback from that. Jimmy Kimmel has been doing Game Night, but Tuesday night he returned to talking to some non-sports people on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” They showed a clip of Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez in “Lila & Eve,” and Viola talked more about that. She also discussed her love for the show “Snapped” about women who have snapped: Adam Scott was on JKL and admitted he invited Mark Hamill to his 9th birthday party. He wrote the “Star Wars” actor a letter and gave it to his mom. He told all his friends to come to his party, because Luke Skywalker might be there. Luke was not there. A while later, Mark was answering fan questions on Twitter and Adam asked the actor why he didn’t show up at his birthday party. Adam didn’t expect a response, but Mark asked if it was too late to RSVP. Adam was moved by it, and lost his mind. He also lost his mind when he once got a nod from Harrison Ford, aka Han Solo.
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