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Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:02PM by TMZ Staff
If you ever wanted the shirt off Jake Gyllenhaal's back, you're in luck.
Jake's outfit from "Brokeback Mountain" will be up for grabs at a live auction on Saturday at the Human Rights Campaign's 10th Annual Dinner in Washington, D.C.
From October 13 -20, the entire wardrobe from the Oscar-winning movie will be up for bid in an online auction on the e-commerce site www.seenon.com.
Items like cowboy boots, jeans and hats worn by Jake, Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams will be available, with proceeds benefiting the Human Rights Campaign, which is the nation's largest gay rights organization.
Until we find a way to get our hands on those bike shorts Jake's been sporting lately, this will just have to do.
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Posted Mar 4th 2006 10:37AM by TMZ Staff
Williams and Gyllenhaal get very different reactions
By TMZ.COM STAFF
(Mar. 4 10:30AM ET) -- A number of blogs, including Dlisted, Jossip, and Towleroad, have picked up on a story first published in the San Diego Union-Tribune about Michelle Williams being shunned by her Christian high school over her role in 'Brokeback Mountain.' Jim Hopson, Headmaster of Sante Fe Christian High School, said, "We don't want to have anything to do with her in relation to that movie." Hopson, whose school is located just outside San Diego, Calif., went on to say, "Michelle doesn't represent the values of this institution."
But TMZ did some digging 100 miles up the coast and found Jake Gyllenhaal got quite a different reception from his private, Los Angeles high school. Sharon Cuseo, a dean at the exclusive Harvard-Westlake School, says the school "embraces" Jake's 'Brokeback' success. Cuseo, who was Jake's counselor, says that the school has openly gay faculty who freely discuss gay issues with their students.
Cuseo is a bit surprised that not a single parent has called to complain about Jake's role in the film. Quite the opposite; she says a number of parents have taken their children to see the movie.
Ted Walch, Jake's acting coach at Harvard-Westlake, says he wasn't shocked at all that Jake took on the role. Walch says that Gyllenhaal's godparents are a gay couple and that Jake's family has always been open-minded.
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Posted Feb 22nd 2006 2:28PM by TMZ Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tom Gregory just spent more than $100,000 on two used plaid shirts.
And he couldn't be happier.
The shirts are the ones worn by the ill-fated lovers, played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, in Oscar front-runner "Brokeback Mountain." The shirts that represent their relationship. The shirts that, to Gregory, represent the ongoing plight of gays for acceptance in society.
"They really are the ruby slippers of our time," said Gregory, 45.
A longtime gay activist, Gregory plans to keep the shirts "as they were, on the hanger, entwined."
"I would never wear them, put them on, or separate them," he said.
Gregory collects signed celebrity photos from Hollywood's golden age, but this is his first foray into movie props. Focus Features, distributor of "Brokeback Mountain," donated the two shirts, which were sold on the auction Web site ebay.com to benefit Variety -- The Children's Charity of Southern California.
Gregory logged his winning bid -- $101,100.51 -- just 28 seconds before the 10-day auction came to a close on Monday.
"There is no buyer's remorse," he said, characterizing the purchase as "the most fun thing I ever bought."
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Posted Feb 20th 2006 5:49PM by TMZ Staff
By JILL LAWLESS, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
"Brokeback Mountain" took four awards including best picture Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, boosting its hopes for the Oscars in two weeks' time.
The film beat out a literary biopic "Capote," L.A. story "Crash," 1950s drama "Good Night, and Good Luck" and the British favorite "The Constant Gardener."
"The Constant Gardener," a spy thriller and love story, went into the ceremony with 10 nominations, but took only one award, for editing. "Memoirs of a Geisha" won three awards, for cinematography, music and costume design.
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Posted Feb 16th 2006 1:48PM by TMZ Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Heath Ledger says "Brokeback Mountain," which is nominated for eight Oscars, has already exceeded his expectations for the film.
The Ang Lee-directed movie about a longtime affair between two cowboys is nominated for best director, best picture and best actor for Ledger.
Other nominations include best supporting actress for Ledger's fiancee, Michelle Williams, and best supporting actor for co-star Jake Gyllenhaal.
"The movie's already exceeded any expectations I had," Ledger told reporters Wednesday at the Berlin International Film Festival. "I think pleasing Annie Proulx, the writer, and getting her nod of approval was the biggest success for me, for us."
Ledger was in Berlin to promote "Candy," a film that saw him return to his native Australia and star as a man who joins his girlfriend on a downward spiral into heroin addiction.
"It was incredibly liberating in the sense that it was the first film I've done using my own accent in about eight years," he said.
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Posted Feb 14th 2006 2:59PM by TMZ Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Country music outlaw Willie Nelson sang "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" more than 25 years ago. He released a very different sort of cowboy anthem this Valentine's Day.
"Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)" may be the first gay cowboy song by a major recording artist. But it was written long before this year's Oscar-nominated "Brokeback Mountain" made gay cowboys a hot topic.
Available exclusively through iTunes, the song features choppy Tex-Mex style guitar runs and Nelson's deadpan delivery of lines like, "What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?" and "Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out."
The song, which debuted Tuesday on Howard Stern's satellite radio show, was written by Texas-born singer-songwriter Ned Sublette in 1981. Sublette said he wrote it during the "Urban Cowboy" craze and always imagined Nelson singing it.
Someone passed a copy of the song to Nelson back in the late 1980s and, according to Nelson's record label, Lost Highway, he recorded it last year at his Pedernales studio in Texas.
Nelson has appeared in several Western movies and sings "He Was a Friend of Mine" on the "Brokeback Mountain" soundtrack.
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Posted Jan 31st 2006 11:41AM by TMZ Staff
'Brokeback Mountain' is surely the frontrunner in the Oscar race for Best Picture. But is this phenonemom based solely on the merits of the film, or in part because it pushes a message that is Academy-friendly?
One Academy member, a prominent film producer who asked to remain anonymous, bluntly said that the buzz is for movies with the "right agendas" to have the edge. "'Philadelphia' was a great movie," the producer said, "but the concept (AIDS discrimination) was designed to woo the Academy."
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Posted Jan 30th 2006 2:01PM by TMZ Staff
By JENNIFER BYRD, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Fans of "Brokeback Mountain" don't seem to care the movie was actually filmed in Canada.
They want the Wyoming experience.
The Wyoming Business Council's travel and tourism department has received hundreds of calls asking about scenery in the movie, which is based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Proulx's short story about two gay Wyoming cowboys.
"When we tell them it was shot in Canada, they're still interested in Wyoming," said Michell Howard, manager of the council's film, arts and entertainment office. "They don't hang up and call Alberta. They're intrigued in the story."
Wyoming Business Council spokesman Chuck Coon said he hasn't seen a movie generate this much interest in the state during his 15 years with the travel and tourism department.
"In terms of phone calls and Internet requests, it's usually slow this time of the year," he said. "This movie has changed that."
Tourism officials have long known that a good movie can attract tourists. Store owners in Livingston, Mont., say customers still come to see the area where "A River Runs Through It" was filmed, said Sten Iverson of the Montana Film Office; New Zealand is banking on "Lord of the Rings" tours; "Sideways" didn't just create a demand for wine tours around Santa Barbara, Calif., it boosted sales of certain wines.
Wyoming has had a hard time tapping into that market, though, because so few big-budget movies are filmed here.
Occasionally people who see reruns of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" -- a 1977 movie shot near Devil's Tower -- call with questions about the state, Coon said.
"But there's surprisingly much more interest in Brokeback," he said. "The subject matter has something to do with it, but most of the calls we get are asking about scenery."
Coon said Ang Lee, the director of "Brokeback Mountain," toured much of the eastern Big Horn Mountains and several nearby towns when scouting locations for the film. But because of budget concerns, Lee shot the film in Canada.
Financial incentives have drawn many film companies to Canada, which has built a $5 billion film industry in the process. Because of the high amount of production there already, companies can hire local crews instead of bringing them from elsewhere, cheapening the overall price of the project.
Wyoming, on the other hand, doesn't have enough skilled workers for most large film crews, Howard said; if a major project was shot here, crews would have to be brought in from outside.
Three movies in the last three years -- "An Unfinished Life" starring Redford and Jennifer Lopez in 2003, "Brokeback Mountain" in 2004 and "Flicka" in 2005 -- had stories set in Wyoming but were not primarily filmed in the state.
"Flicka," a remake of the 1950's television series "My Friend Flicka," scheduled to come out next year, was primarily shot in California. There were, however, a couple of weeks of location shooting near Sheridan, Howard said.
Wyoming business and travel leaders are trying to find ways to lure movie production companies to film in the state, including a proposal to rebate up to 15 percent of purchases made in the state by film companies that spend at least $500,000 on production there.
The bill has good support in the legislature, Howard said, "but we'll just have to see what they want to do."
If it passes, Howard also wants to create a jobs program to train more Wyoming residents to work on film crews.
"It's kind of like the chicken and the egg, though," she said. "You don't want to train people until you know there will be work for them."
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Posted Jan 29th 2006 5:05PM by TMZ Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moviegoers embraced a supersize momma in a wig and a governess who tames an unruly brood as family-friendly films dominated the weekend box office.
Twentieth Century Fox's "Big Momma's House 2," with $28 million in estimated ticket sales, turned in the second-best January opening ever, trailing only the $35.9 million scored by the 1997 release of a special edition of "Star Wars," according to Exhibitor Relations, which tracks box-office results.
As in the original "Big Momma's House," Martin Lawrence layers on the bulges and dons billowy, floral-print dresses, along with a wig. It was followed by another new release, Universal Pictures' "Nanny McPhee" starring Emma Thompson, with $14.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates.
"Audiences are obviously in the mood for some lighthearted films," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations. A week after the vampire thriller "Underworld: Evolution" led the pack, the marketplace is proving "adaptable to all these films."
Bruce Snyder, president of domestic distribution for Twentieth Century Fox, said the popularity of its "Big Momma" films rests with Lawrence's comic appeal.
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Posted Jan 25th 2006 12:42PM by TMZ Staff
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One student wants to marry him, another is calling him "a total tool."
Jeremy Parker is getting a mixed reaction to his asking President Bush if he'd seen "Brokeback Mountain."
The Kansas State University Campus Forum is full of reaction. One student wrote to Parker "you're my hero." Another "thanks" Parker for "embarrassing" their school. And another student wrote "I tried to imagine a bigger waste of space than Jeremy Parker. I got nothing."
Parker told "Inside Edition" that he asked the question because the ones that came before his were "boring" and he wanted to keep the president "on his toes."
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Posted Jan 23rd 2006 3:07PM by TMZ Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Adding to its list of honors, "Brokeback Mountain" scored again by taking the top prize Sunday at the 15th annual Producers Guild of America Awards.
Diana Ossana and James Schamus, who produced the Ang Lee-directed story of two ranch hands who conceal an ongoing homosexual affair from their families, took home the guild's top prize, the Darryl F. Zanuck producer of the year award.
Ossana also co-wrote the screenplay with famed Western author Larry McMurtry.
"Brokeback" won four Golden Globes last week - including best picture honors in the drama category - and has been lauded by critics' groups around the country.
The man-and-dog buddy adventure "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" earned Claire Jennings and Nick Park the producer of the year award for animated film.
Other winners at the awards ceremony held at the Universal Hilton included:
• Long-Form Television: "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers," HBO.
• Episodic Drama: "Lost," ABC.
• Episodic Comedy: "Entourage," HBO.
• Variety Television: "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Syndicated.
• Non-Fiction Television: "60 Minutes," CBS.
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Posted Jan 17th 2006 4:38PM by TMZ Staff
By JAKE COYLE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES -- Are this year's Golden Globes a watershed?
Some people, like Joe Solmonese, president of the gay-rights group Human Rights Campaign, thinks so since six awards went to movies with gay or transsexual central characters.
"It was a historic night," he told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I think it says a lot about where we're going as a country."
"The more people live out and openly and honestly, the more we are simply part of the everyday fabric of Americans' lives," he added. "I think that's what not just the release of these movies demonstrates, but the fact that they won the awards that they did."
But Janice Shaw Crouse of Concerned Women for America, a women's group that applies Biblical principles to public policy, maintained: "Once again, the media elites are proving that their pet projects are more important than profit."
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Posted Jan 6th 2006 2:23PM by TMZ Staff
From vampires and killer hostels to freaky grandmas and Steven Spielberg, there is something for everyone opening in theaters this weekend. But most notably -- it's the return of Hollywood's classic horror genre.
Arguably the most-anticipated release is director Eli Roth's slasher flick 'Hostel.' Advance buzz has been off the hook for this gut-cringing and eye-scrunching film about two American college buddies who get more than they bargained for while backpacking in Eastern Europe. They check into a cheap hostel looking for sex and drugs and soon discover a horrific scene of violence and gore reminiscent of the grisly horror films of the early '70s.
'Hostel' is reportedly so scary that some people ran out of an advance screening in horror. That reaction could be expected considering Oscar-winner Quentin Tarantino is one of the film's executive producers. If movie-goers flock to 'Hostel' like they did Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction,' success is guaranteed.
Jay Hernandez ('Friday Night Lights') and Derek Richardson ('Reeker') co-star in the R-rated film which opens in wide release today.
Horror fanatics looking for more blood and guts might also want to check out the gory vampire flick 'BloodRayne.' However, be forewarned: The reviews have not been great. Kristanna Loken ('Mortal Kombat: Conquest') stars as a half-human vampire bent on avenging the rape of her mother. Oscar-winner Sir Ben Kingsley ('Gandhi'), Meatloaf ('Fight Club') and Michelle Rodriguez (TV's 'Lost') co-star in this R-rated film. But, apparently, even their acting chops couldn't save this bloody mess.
One online reviewer summed up 'BloodRayne' as "bloody horrible." Another wrote, "if you want to shell out $10 to see a $25 million dollar student film, this is the time to do it."
We'll have to wait and see which horror film slashes its way to the top of the box office chart.
The weekend competition also includes director Steven Spielberg's latest historical drama 'Munich.' Set in the tragic aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics, a secret agent (Eric Bana) is sent to track down the Palestinian terrorists who assassinated 11 Israeli athletes.
Critics are hailing the R-rated thriller as one of the year's best. 'Munich' has already nabbed two Golden Globe award nominations. Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush ('Shine') and Daniel Craig ('The Jacket') co-star.
For comedy fans who are just looking to sit back and laugh out loud, 'Grandma's Boy' is just what the laugh doctor ordered. Hollywood's new golden girls Doris Roberts ('Everybody Loves Raymond'), Shirley Jones ('The Partridge Family') and Shirley Knight ('Dutchman') co-star as three grannies who have an accidental run-in with some special green 'tea.' Hilarity ensues as the golden trio gets jiggy with a group of young freaks. With Adam Sandler ('The Water Boy') on board as executive producer, you know it has to be funny. This raunchy comedy is rated R.
Oscar buzz continues to swirl around the gay cowboy drama 'Brokeback Mountain.' Director Ang Lee's ode to male bonding has lassoed a truckload of awards and nominations so far, but many moviegoers have not been able to see it. It has played in fewer than 500 theaters. That is, until now. The R-rated film expands to more cities worldwide today.
Also opening to wider audiences is the buddy action comedy 'The Matador.' The R-rated film stars Pierce Brosnan ('Die Another Day') as a lonely hitman who strikes up an unexpected friendship with a traveling salesman (Greg Kinnear) at a Mexico City bar. Brosnan is getting good reviews for this comedic turn away from his James Bond character.
With the Golden Globes just around the corner, now's the time to catch one of the other critical favorites still in theaters. Worth a second (or third) look this weekend: 'King Kong,' 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,' 'Memoirs of a Geisha,' 'The Producers,' 'Capote,' 'The Squid and The Whale,' 'Transamerica,' and 'Good Night, and Good Luck.'
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