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NEW YORK (AP) — The musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” will go on as scheduled Thursday night, a day after the cast and crew were shaken by a death backstage that scrubbed a performance.

A stagehand was found dead Wednesday night just before the curtain was to rise for the 8 p.m. show at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Stars Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette announced the cancellation from the stage.

The producers said in a statement that the “incident was not caused by an accident related to the production.” They said the cast, crew and theater staff mourn the loss of a member of their theatrical family.

Police say they responded to a report of a 29-year-old male in cardiac arrest. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. His name was not released.

Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office, said an autopsy was pending. Bruce Cohen, a spokesman for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, declined to comment.

The show that was canceled was to be the show’s 100th performance.

Though speculations and photographic evidence were all pointing in Blake Lively’s direction, it would appear that Leonardo diCaprio did not yet chose his girlfriend post – Bar Refaeli.

He was recently spotted out and about with a “mystery blonde” in New York. Knowing Leonardo and his tastes in girls, the mystery blonde, is, biensur, a model: Anna Jagodzinska (you may remember her from a Vogue cover? I guess this makes Vogue’s May 2009′s Models’ Boyfriends pictorial outdated?). I wonder where Leo gets his relationship advices from? Anna Wintour? (via)

In a recent interview with Fox News, James Cameron opened up about the next two Avatar film, set for release in 2014 and 2015.

Although they are still a long way away, we have some news about the shooting schedule and how exactly the two sequels are going to work.

"We're shooting the two films back-to-back, so I'm writing two scripts, not one, which will complete a [three]-film story arc – not really a trilogy, but just an overall character arc so I'm pretty excited about that."
He also talked about the new 3D technology they are working on for the film saying, "We're doing a lot of preliminary work right now on new software and new animation techniques and so on. We're creating a new facility in Manhattan Beach so everybody that's not already dead is coming back."

So the film is really just going to be like a 10 hour story broken into three movies? Interesting. Cameron must have a lot of ideas and adventures for Pandora!

Are you excited to see more stories from Pandora?

Look, I think it’s safe to assume that when someone creates a multi-billion dollar film franchise, that person is then allowed to live the rest of their life on a plane of existence that’s well above the rest of us. It’s at this higher level that those privileged few can experience life’s sweetest nectars, like socking a horse in the face, purchasing a mail order concubine or, in the case of James Cameron, writing three films about the same subject and then claiming that they’re not a trilogy. The dude made Aliens, for crying out loud, just let him ramble on about whatever the hell he wants to and just be sure to nod your head excitedly if he looks over this way.

In a recent interview with Fox News, Cameron was sure to carefully complicate the explanation of his current preproduction process.

We’re shooting two films back-to-back, so I’m writing two scripts, not one, which will complete a [three]-film story arc – not really a trilogy, but just an overall character arc so I’m pretty excited about that. We’re doing a lot of preliminary work right now on new software and new animation techniques and so on.


I can’t help but picture Cameron up late at night with a flashlight under his blankets, simultaneously typing away on his laptop, while his feet hold a pencil that’s jotting away on a notepad. Again, when you’ve generated enough revenue, mortal rules are no longer applicable. When James Cameron gets asked if there’s pressure in writing two more Avatar juggernauts, modesty need not apply:

There’s always an expectation. I had to deal with that after ‘The Terminator’ back in 1984. All of a sudden I had a big hit movie and it was ‘what are you doing next?’ But my job is take the audience on a journey and entertain them. The second I am sitting down writing, I just go to Pandora. I don’t think about that stuff, about standing on a red carpet. It has its own life, really. The characters have their own lives.

I think the important lesson learned here today is that James Cameron has been pimpin, since been pimpin, since been pimpin. Dude already knows how to juggle massively successful films, can write three-script character arcs that are not trilogies and he can even keep his sh*t together around freaks in blue makeup. American hero? Psssh, obviously.

Recently Fox News had a chat with director James Cameron about his upcoming sequels to his biggest-blockbuster-ever, blue-aliens-in-the-rainforest movie Avatar. Strangely enough, they framed the interview around the idea of economic growth for America (which is especially weird given the anti-industry, anti-imperialist message of the first film), but they also managed to get some quotes about his filming plans and how he’s approaching the writing process for the next two films.

Cameron said, “We’re shooting two films back-to-back, so I’m writing two scripts, not one, which will complete a free-film (sic) story arc – not really a trilogy, but just an overall character arc so I’m pretty excited about that.” He also seems to think that there are some big expectations for a follow-up to Avatar, but he’s trying not to sweat it, “There’s always an expectation. I had to deal with that after The Terminator back in 1984. All of a sudden I had a big hit movie and it was ‘what are you doing next?’ But my job is take the audience on a journey and entertain them. The second I am sitting down writing, I just go to Pandora. I don’t think about that stuff, about standing on a red carpet. It has its own life, really. The characters have their own lives.” Even though Avatar looked amazing and brought in a lot of money, I can’t recall too many people being much enamored with the script, so I don’t think he’s quite got the huge expectations for an Avatar sequel that he did for a sequel to the awesome The Terminator; but if he’s able to deliver on an Avatar 2 at the level he did for T2, one of the top three action movies of all time, then we may all be in for a treat when we go back to Pandora ourselves.

On the business, jobs creating end of things, Cameron said, “We’re doing a lot of preliminary work right now on new software and new animation techniques and so on. We’re creating a new facility in Manhattan Beach …” But that didn’t seem to be enough of a quote to base an entire article on job growth, so Peter Gend, who is a visual effects instructor at the Art Institute of California, added, “It’s absolutely going to generate jobs. There is a plethora of visual effects artists and a lot of them are out of work right now, so it’s a really great place to get a lot of talented people. What goes into his motion capture process is really different than what anyone else does.” So take that, foreign audiences that made the original Avatar such a huge economic success! These movies are going to make our economy unstoppable! USA! USA! USA!

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In Movie Theaters release date: December 23, 2011 Nationwide
Directed by: Steven Spielberg



Daniel Craig : Red Rackham
Simon Pegg : Inspector Thompson
Jamie Bell : Tintin
Nick Frost : Thomson
Cary Elwes ; Pilot
Andy Serkis ; Captain Haddock
Toby Jones : Silk
Mackenzie Crook : Ernie
Tony Curran : Lt. Delcourt
Sebastian Roché : Pedro
Daniel Mays : Allan
Gad Elmaleh : Ben Salaad
Phillip Rhys : Co-pilot
Mark Ivanir : Afgar Outpost Soldier
Jacquie Barnbrook : Lady in the Phonebox / Old Lady

After getting drunk, getting drugged, and stealing a tiger, a police car, and a small Asian man — and misplacing their best friend in the process — you would think Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) would have learned their lesson about having “one last night out with the guys.” Apparently not, because when it’s Stu’s turn at the altar, the members of the “Wolfpack” find themselves living Santayana’s famous aphorism as literally as possible.

The result is one of the laziest sequels made in quite a while.

A lot of what made the original Hangover work is still visible in The Hangover: Part II, mainly because returning director Todd Phillips and his screenwriters have taken the expedient route of repeating the first film in so many details and with so few variations it’s hard to find a reason to bother watching the new one. You’d be just as well off watching the first one over again.

The constant demand for a sequel is “the same but different.” It could be the details of the world created, or dangling plot threads, or just really interesting characters, and then those elements could be taken and developed further. But Phillips isn’t having any truck with that, instead putting the same characters through the exact same wringer as before.

There are some differences, but they’re all so superficial they make no real difference. The action has been moved from Vegas to Bangkok. The wedding is Stu’s, not best friend Doug (who is excluded from the entire adventure despite being conscious and available this time around), and the person missing is Teddy (Mason Lee), the little brother of Stu’s fiancée. And the tiger and baby have been combined in the form of a drug-selling monkey.

But the actual actions all of these “changes” provoke are entirely the same as before, and there is nothing less funny than a joke to which you already know the punchline.

To be fair, a lot of that is true only in relation to the first film, and I’m judging it for what it’s not instead of for what it is. So what is The Hangover: Part II, actually? Sporadically funny, but also missing the extra “something” needed to go from mediocre to good.

If you’ve seen the first, what’s missing is surprise, and no matter how fair you try to be, that will be hard to get past. A lot of the original’s biggest laughs were tied in with the plot as much as their individual set ups, and losing that extra leg knocks a lot of the foundation off-balance. Phillips and company have thought long and hard about how far over the top to take some of their gags, and they’ve gone a pretty fair way.

Surprise combined with horror is the hallmark of Phillips’ comic style’ and he’s trying as hard as he can to top himself with The Hangover: Part II, but that focus only goes as far as the actual gags themselves. It feels less like The Hangover: Part II than it does like The Hangover 2.0, as if Phillips were trying to go back and make the first film funnier instead of making a new one.

On the other hand, if you’ve never seen the original, The Hangover: Part II does work much better as the kind of madcap romp the filmmakers seem to have in mind, as the “Wolfpack” hook up with the scene-stealing Chow (Ken Jeong) again to try and find what part of Bangkok’s underbelly they left Teddy in. But the connections between and development of the characters are completely absent; outside of Stu, Phil and Alan are along basically just because they were part of the group the first time around and are expected to be back. It’s a problem especially visible with Cooper, who doesn’t have Galifianakis’s mugging ability and whose character did all the developing he was going to do already.

The Hangover: Part II is decently funny, but it’s also a colossal waste of time. The filmmakers have put so little effort into creating something new that even the jokes suffer, because we already know how it’s all going to come out.