It’s quite a day for outlandish costume design. First Lionsgate releases a bunch of posters featuring cast members from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire dressed in some memorable outfits, and now, well, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez has trumped them with a single image. The El Mariachi director gave EW.com an exclusive character poster from his upcoming Machete Kills movie that depicts Modern Family star Sofia Vergara wearing one helluva lethal bra.
Vergara plays Lady Desdemona in this sequel to Rodriguez’s blood-soaked 2010 picture Machete. According to EW, the follow-up, which hits theaters in September ”revisits the title character, Machete Cortez, (Danny Trejo) a dangerous, hard-luck anti-hero. This time the U.S. government (led by Charlie Sheen in the Oval Office) recruits Machete to battle his way through his native Mexico to topple an arms dealer who wants to rain destruction on the U.S. with a orbital weapon.”
It’s worth noting that the cast includes Lady Gaga, who appeared on a recent cover of Rolling Stone in a similar Fem-bot-style bra. Wonder who got the idea from whom?
[EW.com]
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Latina buttocks activist Sofia Vergara’s boyfriend Nick Loeb was ixnayed from a Miami club early New Year’s Day after they got into some sort of physical altercation. There’s always one insane ass couple at the party bringing their bullshit to the club instead of to the therapist’s couch.
Page Six reports that Al Bundy’s wife from Modern Family was with her cokey sex addict at Miami club Story when he raged out because she was taking a photo with someone he didn’t know. “Pushing and shoving” ensued.
One witness told us, “Nick appeared to get really angry after Sofia took a picture with a stranger, and started screaming at her. Nick had to be pulled off Sofia by security. Her dress got torn in the melee. This happened right in front of everyone in the VIP section.
Apparently Ike didn’t like Tina up on someone else’s Instagram feed. Four security guards gave his bitch ass the bum’s rush out the back, and Sofia followed. Don’t eat the cake, Sofia. By the by, this dude once considered running for a Senate seat in Florida. He’s supposedly crazy rich, but no one’s sure what he does except he started a food-topping company called Onion Crunch. Suspect. Don’t end up being found dead in a vat of whatever
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Also in Friday morning’s wrap of news briefs: Variety appoints its new publisher. Shirley MacLaine eyes her next gig. And, take a look at the new Specialty newcomers for the weekend.
Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills Heads to Open Road
The new movie sees Danny Trejo reprising his role as ex-Federale agent Machete and adds Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Charlie Sheen, Lady Gaga, Antonio Banderas, Jessica Alba, Demian Bichir, Alexa Vega, Vanessa Hudgens, Cuba Gooding Jr., William Sadler, Marko Zaror and Mel Gibson. Here’s what is known about the pic: “Machete “recruited by the president of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man: He must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet,” THR reports.
Ewan McGregor and Kate Hudson Eye Born to Be King
McGregor will play dual roles as an extra who resembles a major movie star. Hudson, who is still in talks to join the project, would play a Hollywood starlet who has issues with the star but likes the extra, THR reports.
Variety Names Michelle Sobrino-Stearns Publisher
Its associate publisher Sobrino-Stearns was named publisher, the first big move at the Hollywood trade publication since Penske Media Corp. acquired it earlier this month. She is Variety’s first female lead in its century-plus history, Deadline reports. [PMC is the parent company of Movieline]
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Since early 2011, Movieline has been wondering when Lady Gaga would have her Desperately Seeking Susan moment, and finally it has happened.
The Huffington Post reported that the Fame Monster will make her movie debut in splatter-film specialist Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills. Gaga will play a character called La Chameleon in an oddball cast that includes Charlie Sheen, Sofia Vergara, Mel Gibson and Michelle Rodriguez.
A poster depicting Gaga’s character, which will soon be adorning the bedrooms of alienated teenagers everywhere, depicts the bare-shouldered pop star holding a smoking gun and wearing what appears to be the pelt of a white wolf around her.
Alas, the image, and Gaga’s blond gun-moll hairdo, is more than a tad reminiscent of a couple of 1990s movie roles played by another pop star who Gaga is often accused of slavishly copying: Madonna.
The poster image calls to mind Madge’s performance as Breathless Mahoney in the 1990 film adaptation of Dick Tracy, with maybe a little bit of Rebecca Carlson from Madonna’s 1993 sex bomb, Body of Evidence. (If you haven’t seen it, don’t.)
Rodriguez apparently liked Gaga’s performance before the camera. On Thursday, he tweeted “I just finished working with @LadyGaga on @MacheteKills , she kicked SO MUCH ASS! Holy Smokes. Blown away!”
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