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How's this for double your pleasure: not only have we just gotten Alexander Skarsgard back on the small screen with the new season of True Blood, but now we're also going to get to see him in a big-screen blockbuster: the sexy Swede is going to star in Battleship. Skarsgard will play the straight-laced naval officer brother of Taylor Kitsch, who also recently signed on to the action movie, based Read more
Exciting news for Friday Night Lights lovers: Taylor Kitsch, the smoldering bad boy of Dillon, is trading in his football uniform for a Naval one. Kitsch has signed on to star in the Peter Berg film adaptation of the board game Battleship, as a "wildly spirited" commander who battles an armada of aliens. That's right, aliens. Bet you didn't have those when you played it as a kid, did you? Read more
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I don't remember aliens making an appearance in my own childhood sessions with Battleship, but I suppose when you try to make a toy into a feature-length film, you're afforded a few liberties. Unfortunately, the producers of Battleship may have spent too much time finding creative ways to explode things and not enough time on a plot, ending up with underutilized actors, in a wishy-washy Read more
Moviegoers will have quite a few choices this weekend at the theater. The blockbuster aliens-meets-navy destruction flick Battleship is opening, along with the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy The Dictator and ensemble comedy What to Expect When You're Expecting. Either way, it looks like a whole lot of Brooklyn Decker action. Check out all the pics from the flicks before heading out to theaters on Read more
Jennifer Lopez and her boyfriend, Casper Smart, held hands while shopping at The Grove in LA yesterday. They stopped by Zara and left with two large bags stuffed with goodies. The sunny afternoon came during a break from J Lo's busy schedule juggling her American Idol judging duties and dance rehearsals for her upcoming tour. She recently took time out to meet our I'm a Huge Fan winner, though, Read more
Brooklyn Decker, Rihanna, and Alexander Skarsgard hit the blue carpet in LA last night for the West Coast premiere of Battleship. The ladies headed west after a big start to the week in NYC, where they both attended Monday's Met Gala. Brooklyn wore Tory Burch to the Big Apple fashion fest, while Rihanna donned a crocodile-print Tom Ford. Battleship isn't out until next Friday, but the gang have Read more
Lieutenant colonel Greg Gadson is not only an actor in one of this Summer's biggest action movies, he is a real American hero. In 2007, while the decorated Army commander was stationed in Iraq and returning from a memorial service for two fellow soldiers, his car was hit by a roadside bomb. He lost both his legs in the accident and his right arm and hand were severely damaged. Since then, Greg's Read more
Director Peter Berg's upcoming movie Battleship was fueled by his lifelong love of the Navy, and he managed to talk the military into granting him a few pretty major favors during filming. The biggest? Taking the USS Missouri—which has for years served a museum stationed at Pearl Harbor—out on the water for one especially memorable sequence. Getting special favors from the government was just Read more
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