movie news

Amazon Launches Movie Download Service

Exciting news!!! Amazon.com has announced the launch of Amazon Unbox™, a new digital video download service offering customers thousands of television shows, movies and other video content from more than 30 studio and network partners from Hollywood and around the world. Unbox is the only video download service to offer DVD-quality picture. In addition, Unbox RemoteLoad™ technology allows customers to buy from one PC (such as an office computer) and download to another (such as a home computer).

Amazon currently has a promotion allowing you your first download for free. Sounds really cool. I get annoyed with Apple’s current downloads as the quality is low, whereas Amazon is stating that they are DVD-quality, therefore I have high hopes for them.  Hey it’s free so it’s worth a try, right? Get yourself something to watch today at Amazon Unbox™.

Orlando Bloom Looking Sexy on the Today Show

A newly single Orlando Bloom was looking hot on a the Today Show this morning. He was promotion his new film, “Haven” which stars Orlando, Zoe Saldana and Bill Paxton.

Haven is an edgy, suspenseful, viscerally gripping ensemble film in which unconnected lives intersect and ignite a violent chain of events that turns tranquility into chaos. In an instant, greed collides with innocence and passion goes up against those who forbid it, and all at once an idyllic tropical refuge becomes anything but safe.

Haven opens September 15th in select cities, hopefully mine will be one of them!

Lindsay Lohan at Venice Film Festival

I know where Harry and Lindsay went… VENICE, ITALY. Ahhh, the city of love… makes my heart go pitter patter.

Okay, enough of that romantic crap.

She’s there on business people, no more lovey-dovey kissy kissy stuff. She’s a serious actress you know!

Miss Lindsay Lohan is in Venice for the world premiere of her new flick, Bobby. Bobby tells the story of the assassination of US Senator Bobby Kennedy in 1968 (in case you didn’t already know.)

Written and directed by Emilio Estevez and stars Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Laurence Fishburne, Brian Geraghty, Heather Graham, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Joshua Jackson, Ashton Kutcher, Shia LaBeouf, Lindsay Lohan, William H. Macy, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Harry Belafonte.

VIEW MORE PHOTOS of Lindsay in Venice.

Jennifer Lopez Quits Dallas over John Travolta & Script

Jennifer Lopez allegedly quit the ‘Dallas’ movie because she didn’t want to work with John Travolta. J.Lo was set to play J.R. Ewing’s troubled wife, Sue Ellen, in the adaptation of popular TV drama but turned her back on the project last week.

Jennifer Lopez’s representative, Leslie Sloane Zelnick, confirmed her departure, but refused to give a reason for her surprise decision.

Supposedly, thr reason she dropped Dallas is because Lopez hated the script and wasn’t happy that Travolta had been handed the role of her on-screen husband. A source told New York Post: “The script sucks. And John Travolta? If it had been a man’s man like Ed Harris or Tommy Lee Jones, but you don’t just go from doing ‘Hairspray’ to ‘Dallas’. “

Since the movie was announced it has been beset with problems. Original director Robert Luketic quit the project earlier this year due to “creative differences” and was replaced by ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ director Gurinda Chadha.

Jennifer Lopez is Out of Dallas Movie

Jennifer Lopez has dropped out of the 2007 film version of Dallas.  “She is out of Dallas,” says Lopez’s rep Leslie Sloane Zelnik.

Jennifer was set to play the role of alcoholic Sue Ellen, opposite John Travolta, who will play J.R. Ewing.

Hmmm, and to think she wouldn’t let them cast Jessica Simpson because of her “Diva” attitude. Wonder who else they wouldn’t hire for her that got her angry enough to drop out of Dallas? Who will they get to replace her?