This morning Lady Gaga premiered her new video live in Times Square and on GMA. The song, "Applause," stems from something Gaga does at her live concerts — after a huge song and dance number, she'll lie on the stage, breathing heavily, exhausted, and say that she's like Tinkerbell:
A New York Federal Judge both ruled for the two Black Swan interns suing Fox Searchlight Pictures and gave class certification to a number of interns who had worked at the company in another win for unpaid interns across America on Tuesday.
In the case of Tom vs. Kat, who will gain custody of Suri Cruise and her closet full of teeny designer flats remains to be seen. However, might be important to note that the kid is 6 years old, the same age as son Connor was when Cruise split with Nicole Kidman, and both Kidman and Holmes are Catholic, suggesting that…
Last night's brand-new episode of Dance Moms reiterated the fact that the stars here are, in fact, the moms. (If they weren't, the show would be called, I don't know, Dance Kids?) So is it any surprise that when the girls won the National Talent Competition, the mothers made it all about themselves?
Black Swan and AMC's Mad Men were among those honored at the 15th annual PRISM Awards last week.
If you spent twenty-two years worth of blood, sweat, and tears enduring intense training to become a first-class ballerina, you might be a little irked to see a Hollywood starlet get all the credit. This morning, the woman who danced for Natalie Portman in Black Swan gave her first interview post-Oscar season to set…
First, Natalie Portman's dance double Sarah Lane complained about not getting enough credit for her work on Black Swan. Then Benjamin Millepied stepped up to defend Portman's dancing prowess. Then Fox Searchlight did. Now Darren Aronofsky has. All these defenses raise a question: why do we care how much Portman…
Whatever happens on Oscar night, 6 of the Rodarte tutus worn by Natalie Portman as she descended into madness (or did she?) in Black Swan will be part of a new exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, "Rodarte: States of Matter."
Over the weekend a 42-year-old man was shot dead in a Latvian movie theater after watching Black Swan. Police arrested a 27-year-old man who, according to witnesses, picked a fight with the deceased over how loudly he ate his popcorn.
Supposedly hilarious. Actually horrifying.
How did digital artists create the ballet-centric body horror of Black Swan? This neat visual effects featurette showcases the film's many strange changes. It contains massive plot spoilers, so caveat viewer.
"The party game is simple; all things can be paired up and divided into white swans and black swans. White swans have technique but black swans have essential style. The white swan is the brain…the black swan is the crotch. "
"Come spring, a ballet-inspired trend may well extend to every level of the [fashion] market," says a NYT blog. It was inevitable, right?
With its lurid hallucinatory sequences, Black Swan is one of the least realistic movies of the year. But was Natalie Portman's real suffering an integral part of the production?
Also: "There were some nights that I thought I literally was going to die… It was the first time I understood how you could get so wrapped up in a role that it could sort of take you down."
Natalie Portman's rep has confirmed to People that the actress is pregnant and engaged to Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied. All other tabloid editors are kicking themselves right about now for failing to detect the baby bump.
If merely witnessing Natalie Portman radiate out of the movie screen as she dodges evil looks from Mila Kunis wasn't enough to get you to buy tickets to see Black Swan, perhaps one or more of these intriguing scenarios depicted in the trailer will convince you.
The spectacular flop of Love And Other Drugs has led several commentators to wonder whether sex still sells. But maybe it's just bad marketing that doesn't sell. Just look at Black Swan.
