An American soldier has sued Oscar-nominated The Hurt Locker, claiming the movie’s hero, played by Jeremy Renner, is him.
Master Sergeant Jeffrey S. Sarver alleges the film has based virtually all of its “situations” on events that involved him. Sarver, to boot, claims he coined the phrase “hurt locker”.
The movie’s distributor, Summit Entertainment, vigorously denies the claim, which comes just before the 82nd Academy Awards.
Summit underlined the flick is fictional, an action-drama-thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow and penned by Mark Boal. ABC Australia reports Summit said: “We have no doubt that Master Sergeant Sarver served his country with honour and commitment, risking his life for a greater good. But we distributed the film based on a fictional screenplay written by Mark Boal.”
Boal was a journalist in Iraq who was embedded with a squad that dismantled bombs. He reported on the story for Playboy magazine before working it into a screenplay.
The film and its rival Avatar have garnered an astonishing nine nominations each.
Emily Blunt’s trust in a costume designer enabled her to wear corsets that sucked the life out of her in The Young Victoria.
Blunt, the 27-year-old British star of The Devil Wears Prada, said she put her faith in Sandy Powell, her costumier, saying: “When you’re playing a character like Queen Victoria it helps to have a visionary like Sandy Powell.”
Digital Spy reports the young actress said: “She corseted me within an inch of my life.”
Blunt, who described getting into the corsets as “hell”, said: “[Powell] said, ‘The shape needs to be right’. I said, ‘Well I can’t breathe, Sandy’. And she said, ‘I don’t care’. But it worked. It transported me to a whole other place so I have to be grateful, I think.”
The Young Victoria chronicles the dramatic early years of Queen Victoria’s rule.
The march of a toddler was the inspiration for the Red Queen, a part played by Helena Bonham Carter in Alice Wonderland.
Bonham Carter, 43, said she modelled the character on her two-year-old, Nell. “I thought, well, she’s a toddler, because she’s got the big head, she’s a tyrant – a toddler tyrant, toddlers are tyrants. The no sympathy for any other living creature – that’s our toddler, in fact. No empathy, just commands. She just bosses us around – dictatorship. No please, no thank you. ‘Mummy come here’, ‘Mummy go’, ‘Mummy! Watch telly.”
Bonham Carter, who is married to the film’s director Tim Burton, added:”And another toddler quality – it’s all about me, it’s all about her, never considers us, ask, ask, ask. So the toddler thing was a big inspiration.”
In Burton’s interpretation of the Lewis Carroll tale, a 19-year-old Alice returns to Wonderland to find it is under the rule of the Red Queen. The flick was set to premiere in London’s Leicester Square on Thursday night.
James Cameron’s ex-wife Linda Hamilton said the famous director left her for Titanic.
The 53-year-old was married to Cameron for two years before they split in 1999 and she was given a settlement worth £30million.
Talking about the reason for their split, she said: “Titanic was the mistress he left me for.
“He was the kind of man who really would rather be at work with the mistress than at home with the wife. That was hard to come to terms with.”
Cameron, 55, had one of the most successful movies in history with Titanic and he recently beat the highest-grossing film of all-time record that he set with the movie with his new Avatar.
Twilight star Xavier Samuel claims he doesn’t “tailor his appearance” to look like the British hunk Robert Pattinson.
Xavier, 26, was pictured at the Flickerfest short film festival at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.
He was there to promote his new drama Drowning – and he won over one fan, model Lara Bingle, who was in the packed audience.
Speaking before the event, the Aussie actor, who appears in the third Twilight film, Eclipse, said it was a compliment to be compared to Robert Pattinson, described as a “good-looking guy”.
But he added: “I don’t really, like, tailor my appearance to look like him.
“I actually think we’re really quite different.”
Lara, fiancée of Aussie international cricketer Michael Clarke, is one of Bondi’s most glamorous residents.
The third Twilight film, Eclipse, is released later this year.
Xavier, originally from Adelaide, South Australia, plays a young vampire called Riley in the film.
He is staying with his brother Benedict while he hangs out in Sydney.
Hollywood director James Cameron has revealed that he is already considering a sequel to his latest smash-hit movie Avatar.
The film, about blue aliens on a faraway planet, cost a reported $300m, making it the most expensive film ever made.
However, it has already raked in $600m worldwide just two weeks after its release.
Cameron said he now he wants to expand on his tale about the inhabitants of Pandora, but insisted that the second movie would have a different locale.
He said: “The planet in Pandora’s sky is called Polyphemus and it’s the primary for a system of moons… Jupiter has 50 some moons and they’re discovering smaller ones all of the time.
“We have some story ideas for how to branch out into other moons of Polyphemus and the Alpha Centauri A solar system, but we’ve got to make some money with this movie first before we think about the sequel.”
Jude Law has revealed he was honoured to finish Heath Ledger’s last film role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
Sherlock Holmes actor Law stepped in alongside Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell to complete Ledger’s final film, after the actor died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs in January 2008.
The 36-year-old revealed: “I liked Heath very much as a man and admired him as an actor. To help finish his final piece of work was a tribute I felt compelled to make.”
Speaking in an interview with an American magazine, he added: “Though we were all there in remembrance, Heath’s heart pushed us with great lightness to the finish.”
Jude Law ‘honoured’ to finish Heath Ledger’s last film role
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