Despite the overwhelming box-office success of Adam Shankman’s Hairspray, Collider has reported that the film’s sequel has been axed.
The news is unexpected as Shankman told Collider that a script for the tentatively-titled Hairspray 2 was being drafted as recently as last year. “The group – the producers and myself and the composers – decided on a direction that we want to go in,” he said. “We are just hiring a writer now, and then we will get into it.”
Why the 2007 Broadway musical adaptation and its all-star cast (John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Brittany Snow and Zac Efron) will not be returning to the silver screen is still a mystery, but, reasoning aside, there is a very important lesson to be learned: The beat can, in fact, be stopped.
Michelle Pfeiffer is 52 years old, but she denies having ever gone under the knife to stay relevant in the youth-obsessed culture of showbiz. But that doesn’t mean she’s never thought about it, and she hasn’t ruled it out.
She said (via The Orange County Register): “Well, you know the older you get, the harder it is to say never. It’s easy to say that when you’re 25.
“I don’t really object, I don’t really care about plastic surgery one way or another… I do think it’s upsetting when you see people have a distorted look – that I object to. I suppose I object to bad plastic surgery, and too much of it is not a good thing.”
Pfeiffer credits eating “really well” with helping her look great into her 50s, adding that there’s no magic solution to staying in shape.
Saturday is the biggest night of the year for official Washington, the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, and it’s tough to count which there are more of in town this weekend: Hollywood celebrities or parties for them to go to.
The annual dinner will be held at the Washington Hilton, and this year’s red carpet will live up to the dinner’s reputation for drawing Hollywood star power: Steven Spielberg, Michael Douglas, Scarlett Johansson, Jon Bon Jovi, Ashley Judd, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Simpson, the Jonas Brothers, Justin Bieber and Juliana Marguiles are all scheduled to attend. Read more… »
Antoine Fuqua has said that Jerry Bruckheimer helped him to cast Michelle Pfeiffer in the 1995 music video ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’.
The Brooklyn’s Finest director also revealed that he had used the video for the Coolio rap song to launch a film career.
Speaking to SOHH, Fuqua said: “That was cool, a good experience man. That set off a lot of things for me because at the time, I was doing a lot of commercials. I had stopped doing videos for a while.
“Jerry Bruckheimer called me up to do that video. And when I spoke to Bruckheimer, I wanted to move into movies, so I said if I could put Michelle Pfeiffer in the video, would she do it. He said, ‘Well, I’ll give you her number, call her’.
“I called her, man, and it was wild, and she was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it, how much time do you need?’ We talked about it, I told her what I wanted to do, sent her over a synopsis, and I shot the video, put a lot of different cats in it and then I directed it for a day.”
The ‘Cheri’ actress struggles to maintain her slender figure when she is not working and hides herself away between roles so she can eat whatever she wants.
When asked the secret to her beauty, she said: “Hard work. It requires incredible discipline. You have to accept it. If you want to be fit, one cannot eat like a pig, and must exercise. That’s the way it is, and I hate it. There is no miracle cure, and no secret diet.
“Between the films I let myself go, actually. I look different – but I hide it. And I’m good at hiding.”
Michelle turned 50 earlier this year and although she was initially worried about reaching the milestone age, it passed comfortably and she is content after accepting she is in the “second half” of her life.
She added to Germany’s Kurier newspaper: “I wasn’t happy about turning 50, it is kind of a stigma for women. But it came, it passed, that’s it.
“It has been a new awareness that I’m now in the second half of life, that life is, plain and simple, limited. Every moment counts.
“But the pressure will drop. It is no longer plagued by premonitions that are worse than anything that could happen. Things happen, you deal with that, it goes on.”
Taking care of a few errands, Michelle Pfeiffer was spotted out and about in Beverly Hills afternoon (January 7).
The “Stardust” actress looked lovely with her newly-cropped straight blonde hairdo, sporting a black leather jacket with a white top, jeans, and boots.
Though she’s been laying pretty low as of late, Michelle made an appearance at the Palm Springs International Film Festival earlier this week.
Her latest film “Personal Effects” also stars Ashton Kutcher and Kathy Bates and centers on a national wrestling hopeful whose life is rocked when his sister is brutally murdered.
