Lopez and her husband of an unexpectedly long three years, Marc Anthony, were at the premiere of their new film El Cantante at Times Square AMC Theater in New York last night. The film stars Lopez and Anthony as Puerto Rican salsa signer Hector Lavoe and his wife. Lavoe helped shape the future of Latin music in the 60s and 70s, and eventually succumbed to Aids brought on by drug addiction.

This movie is getting mixed reviews, and the prospects don’t look good at the box office. The music is said to be excellent and Lopez and Anthony have good on-screen chemistry, but it’s but not good enough to save the film, which some say has a thin plot and not enough character development. Variety cans the film, and says the visuals are average and seem more suited to television than the big screen.

Here is Variety’s summary:

For “El Cantante,” someone left the salsa out on the counter too long. A virtual template of every imaginable cliche of the musical biopic, pic suffers from a lack of narrative and character focus, partly stemming from the need for producer-star Jennifer Lopez (whose shingle Nuyorican Prods. has nurtured the project) to have a co-leading part with substantial playing time alongside Marc Anthony, who portrays famed, drug-addled salsa star Hector Lavoe. While pic’s assured a few good weeks based on J-Lo’s fan base, this gig is headed South in short order.

I’ve also heard that it’s being called Gigli 2, and Cinemablend says “if someone manages to make a worse film this year that’ll be quite an accomplishment,” but it’s doubtful that it’s really that bad. Everyone has been guessing that even if it does have some redeeming qualities it will tank at the box office, and there’s speculation that J.Lo’s career is in trouble. Her last film which she produced and starred in, Bordertown, was said to give a B movie treatment to the important story of the real-life unsolved murders of hundreds of young women in Mexican border towns. It was met with harsh reviews at the Berlin film festival this year and has not yet been released in theaters after problems securing a distributor.

While Anthony and Lopez look happy in the pictures taken before the premiere, shown below, they look decidedly dejected after the film was shown, as seen in the header image above. All the other pictures I’ve seen of Anthony and Lopez leaving the premiere have them in the same foul mood. It looks as if it didn’t go well as all the pictures from the departure show them looking disappointed and/or upset.

There La Lopez goes again with the bad makeup. Her fashion isn’t terrible, but that bleeding peach lipstick that’s perfectly matched to the color of her Grecian-style dress needs to go. She also went overboard on the spray tan, but at least it’s brown and not orange. Still, she was looking rather pretty until the smile was wiped off her face completely, perhaps by the audience’s reaction to the film.

Maybe she’ll be in a better mood once she goes back to what she does best, music. She’ll be touring with her husband starting in the fall.

El Cantante is out in theaters on August 1 3.

Update: We may have been incorrect in assuming that the premiere did not go well, as a commentor claims to have been in the audience and says:

I was at the premier on Thurs and the audience reaction was incredible. Standing O’s all around. And rightfully so. I’m not saying J Lo is the best actress out there but with El Cantante she has something to really be proud of.

Daniel Radcliffe turns 18, and gets the $40 million he earned and had put in trust released to him. He had this to say about his fortune.

“I don’t plan to be one of those people who, as soon as they turn 18, suddenly buy themselves a massive sports car collection or something similar,” he said earlier this month. “I don’t think I’ll be particularly extravagant.

“The things I like buying are things that cost about 10 pounds – books and CDs and DVDs.”

TVNZ

Why not spend it on race cars, yachts and holidays? I would. I wonder how long it will be until he changes his tune. Suddenly he says “I have a licence, I need a car. A car is an investment. I’ll spend up and get this Ferrari.” I hope he gets a red one. My first car was red. It wasn’t a Ferrari.

Harry potter sold 8.3 million copies in 24 hours, in the United States alone. In Britain the figure was 2.65 million copies. At my local bookshop it was crazy (I forgot, I was going to buy a magazine, couldn’t get in the door) while at K-Mart there was just a guy in a wizard suit standing next to a very full table of Harry Potter books. He was a really big guy, turned out he was actually a security officer. In a wizard costume. Which was pretty funny, but was I going to laugh at him? Not likely. He was really big.

Tab, The Calgary Sun, caglecartoons.com

It will take more than sobriety to resurrect Lohan’s film career. The movie that was rearranged around Lindsay’s rehab stint, Poor Things, has been cancelled and producers are blaming Lohan’s jaunt to Vegas. They say that despite the ankle bracelet her partying scared off the investors in the film.

Lohan supporters claim that filmmakers are using her behavior as an excuse and that the film had problems that can’t be blamed on her. Those rumors about Lohan doing whippets in jail and trying to score ecstasy while in Vegas surely didn’t help matters.

Lohan was supposed to start filming “Poor Things” with Shirley MacLaine when she was out of rehab. But last week, product vendors including GE and Dell computers, who had been promised placement in the movie in exchange for cash, got a disturbing e-mail from set designer Fontaine Beauchamp Hebb.

Hebb’s e-mail, with the subject line: ” ‘Poor Things’ has been cancelled,” said, “Sorry to be the harbinger of bad news, but I just received a call from Jacky Gilardi, the producer, pulling the plug on the ill-fated film.

“Apparently, Ms. Lohan’s antics in Las Vegas over the weekend have scared the bond companies and all of the funding has been pulled . . . I look forward to working together in the future and trust our next project will not be as fraught with difficulty.”

The insurers were said to worry that Lohan, despite wearing an alcohol-monitoring device around her ankle and claiming to take daily drug tests, had gone out clubbing with pals…

But a Lohan friend fumes: “She had nothing to do with that movie shutting down. It was a mess to begin with. They randomly fired Channing Tatum for Giovanni Ribisi, and then financing fell through because producers spent money like water. It was only supposed to cost $4 million – Lindsay was being paid nothing for that role.

[From Page Six]

Meanwhile Lohan turned herself into cops yesterday for her May 26 DUI. She was booked and released from the Beverly Hills precinct in about an hour and posted $30,000 bail.

She will be arraigned on August 24, which means that the charges will be officially stated at the time. E! Online reports that it’s unknown if she will be charged for the small amount of cocaine found in her car after the accident.

Lohan is also said to be working on a new album, which she says she wants “to be a dance record.” She says that she will start recording in August, and that she plans to tour. Lohan claims she wants to do “a Madonna-style show.” [Details form Contact Music]

Now that her movie career is on hold, maybe it’s a good plan to focus on her abandoned music career. Musicians get a lot more leeway for bad behavior.

Tara Reid is a prime example of why young women should not get unnecessary cosmetic surgery. I’m all for facelifts, my mom had one and the results are good and not obvious. In 20 years I’ll surely get one too. (Hopefully there were be some high tech laser-type option at that point.) Sometimes nose jobs are well executed and are not that noticeable. I’m sure there are examples of decent liposuction, I would say Beyonce and Mariah are probably sporting good lipo results, but when liposuction goes bad like this it’s all too apparent.

The sad thing is that Tara has a great body and actually had work done last fall to fix the botched lipo, but she’s still sporting some lumpiness in her stomach, and her breasts look super fake. She sold the story of her bad plastic surgery results to US Weekly, and then had some follow-up work done to fix it. At least she was upfront about it.

There’s something really sweet about Tara. Last year a video came out of her getting denied at Hyde while scumbag Joe Francis strutted by. Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian were also waved in that night. Tara waited patiently and said “I’m so last week.” Unlike Paris and Nicole Richie, Tara has never been busted for DUI, although there are plenty of stories and photos that suggest she was driving drunk. It’s also rather ironic that both Joe Francis and Paris Hilton spent time in jail. Sometimes it’s best to stay out of the Hollywood clubs.

I want Tara to succeed but am afraid she’ll never get past the blonde bimbo role that she’s grown out of. She is still getting work, though. Tara will soon promote an Australian dating service called Desperate and Dateless. They throw large parties throughout eastern Australia, and Tara will travel around attending the Desperate and Dateless balls for several weeks next Spring.

Tara Reid was seen frolicking on the beach with friends in Malibu yesterday, pausing to cuddle her little dog and nearly popping out of her swimsuit while playing catch with a football.

Thanks to WENN for these pictures.

So the astronaut thing didn’t work out so well for him, but that doesn’t hold Lance Bass back from his dreams! According to Broadway World the spiky-haired-one will be starring in Broadway’s “Hairspray” as Corny Collins, played by James Marsden in the upcoming movie. The former boy-bander will join the show beginning August 14th. Bass will be the second former Nsyncer to work on Broadway. Former “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Joey Fatone stared in “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Rent.”

This isn’t Bass’s first creative endeavor apart from Nsync.

“Bass, who is currently at work on his memoir Out of Sync, about his time with the boy band, has appeared on screen and on TV in such projects as ‘Lovewrecked,’ ‘Seek and Hide,’ ‘On the Line,’ ‘7th Heaven,’ ‘Touched by an Angel,’ and ‘Longshot.’

[From Broadway World]

Things seem to really be shaping up well for him. Several sources are reporting that he’s officially dating model Pedro Andrade. The two were seen together in the Hamptons over the Fourth of July.

“According to a source, the couple was very ‘happy’ together and the ‘hot’, ‘spunky’ Brazilian model made a perfect match with Bass.

‘You could tell they’re very happy with each other,’ a source says of Bass and Andrade, US Weekly quoted the source, as saying.

‘Pedro is beyond good-looking … so hot. Pedro is spunky, full of life. They’re a perfect match,’ the source added.”

[From Washington DC News]

This brings me to ask… does anyone really buy him in this role? There’s something about him that bugs me. I think it’s the hair. How long do you think it takes him to get it like that? It’s that piece-y look that was so popular about 3 years ago. You’ve gotta worry about the guy he’s dating. I’ve never heard of Pedro Andrade and couldn’t find much out about him besides the basic “Brazilian model” line. But Bass’s last boyfriend, Reichen Lehmkuhl, was generally thought to be using Bass to further his own celebrity. Let’s hope Lance has learned a lesson about relationships… and not trying to be an astronaut. Two important things we should all keep in mind.

Here’s a hot picture of Bass’ new man, thanks to The Big Bad Blog

J-Lo’s ongoing quest for cinematic success and praise has hit a serious bump. A public viewing of her latest film. The kind of bump that really can’t be avoided. Even the socks and sandals crew isnt sold on her latest offering:

Jennifer Lopez’s new movie was booed at the 57th Annual Berlin Film Festival at the weekend.
‘Bordertown’ premiered at the event but the reception it received was less than favourable.
According to reports, most of the audience voiced their disappointment by booing and jeering

via Female First

Jennifer hasn’t had overwhelming success of late in her movies and hasn’t really had good critical response since Out of Sight. The early promise of her movie career was so massively derailed by the infotainment industry that turned her life into the show and her major attraction. The launch of the celebrity name merger really dates from Bennifer: the primordial soup from which all other two headed monsters emerged. Maybe the movie she should have gone for was Bennifer Versus Brangelina: the two could stomp over downtown Tokyo.

A source claims J.Lo fled the cinema in tears after hearing the cacophony of boos and is now said to be worried the movie will be panned by critics.
In ‘Bordertown’, the 37-year-old actress plays an American journalist investigating a series of murders near American-owned factories in Juarez and El Paso, in Mexico.
J.Lo, known for her roles in romantic comedies, has starred in several box office flops, including ‘Gigli’ and ‘Jersey Girl’.
She was hoping her performance in ‘Bordertown’ would prove her worth as a serious actress.

Collapsing the private and the professional seems to have backfired in the longterm, but ironically the general buzz seems to indicate that while Bordertown may tank … her smaller more personal, straight from her personal life, co-starring her latest husband flick – El Cantate- may be the film that gets her all that love and success she so sorely lacks.

pics via stuff.co.nz

There are two stories today that suggest that Britney is hemorrhaging money as well as public goodwill with her latest antics. She’s selling the mansion in Beverly Hills she bought just two months ago, with the excuse that her son is more at home in her Malibu estate. She only lived there for a month before she left. While it’s possible she can’t afford it, I would bet she just wasn’t comfortable with the neighborhood:

Looks like Britney Spears is shedding more than her hair.

The newly bald “Toxic” singer is looking to sell the Beverly Hills house that she bought only two months ago, according to OK! magazine.

Spears bought the six-bedroom, six-and-a-half bathroom 7,553 square-foot Tuscan villa on Dec. 11 for $7.2 million, moved in a month later, moved out on January 25, and now is looking to sell it for $7.5 million, reports the mag.
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The quick sell is prompting some to question whether the singer needs to reel in her free-spending ways, but according to OK!, it was her sixteen-month-old son’s preference to stay put at Spears’ Malibu house.

“Britney says that Preston preferred living at the Malibu property,” a “source close to Britney” told OK! “It has more land and huge garden — it’s a better environment for Britney to raise the boys.”

Well no wonder Britney’s all f’ed up – she hates her new house!

There’s also a story that Britney tried to book a hotel room but was denied because she had only part of her credit card number written down on a piece of paper and no cash or other cards. She was in standard form and drank heavily, shaved her legs by the pool while wearing cowbooy boots, and tried to switch bikinis with another woman. When she was told she couldn’t stay there without a proper credit card she cried and said “Nobody wants me anymore.” Bald Britney was seen in two different cheap wigs, one blonde and one bright blue.

It’s possible that someone confiscated Britney’s wallet in an attempt to save her from herself, or that she just lost it in a drunken bought of forgetfulness. I doubt that her credit has been cut off. The girl has an AmEx black card with no limit.

Britney later hit bars on Sunset Strip while wearing the Halloween-quality wig and was said to have stormed out of the The Roxy when someone played her old song “Hit Me Baby One More Time.” Another report had people singing Karaoke to it, and not recognizing Britney or realizing she was actually there.

With a bald head, no career in sight and only occasional visits to the studio, how long is it going to be before Spears goes the way of MC Hammer? Britney also recently blew off several recording sessions with Pharrell. Then again, she doesn’t really have expensive taste otherwise and with K-Fed cut loose she’ll be spending less overall. Still, she could get creamed in the divorce settlement, and that seems more likely every day she leaves the house.

What do you guys think: is Britney broke or soon to be?

Mena Suvari is not getting enough attention in her one-third-life crisis. In the spring of 2005 she dumped her 17 year-older German husband after five years of marriage, and has been shacking up with a younger breakdancer. She took off her top at the beach a couple of weeks ago – in Florida, not France – and has been seen out in bootlicious outfits. Now she’s just dressing fug, and sporting Nelly Furtado bangs.

The top of her canary yellow tank-style dress has those kind of big scaly sequins that would be at home on a mermaid costume, and the too-short bottom is gathered accordian style. She pairs it with black diamond-patterned 3/4 length leggings. Her accessories include giant hoop earrings and a fat ‘ol chain with a giant M that looks like she snatched it off the hood of a car. Black acrylic nails with silver embellished tips top off her ensemble. The purse and shoes aren’t bad, though.

Mena has a part in that Factory Girl movie, and stars in three upcoming films this year, including another with Sienna Miller called The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which is the only one that might be decent.

She is shown at a Fashionweek kickoff party on 1/31. Pictures from Gossip Rocks.

or What Katie Didnt Do …

Lovely Liz Smith at Page Six reports that Katie Holmes suddenly remembers she’s an actress. Maybe they had to take her off the Stepford sedatives while she was recovering from her brash new rhinoplasty … don’t want to mix medications after all. Not when she has some good Thetan breeding years left in her yet.

Agency CAA is developing a new career plan since Katie has not worked during the two years since she fell for Tom. … [Moviefone] describe her connection to Tom Cruise as “a tabloid free-for-all” that didn’t do her any good, creating negative publicity. They say her “likability” rating has dived. And she’s been off the screen too long.

Lovely Liz exhibits some of the problems of an overly kind granny reading of gossip (usually a welcome change from the venom for venom’s sake). In trying to prove that launching the Tom Cruise Missile into a girl’s career is a force for good not for evil – Liz undermines her own kindly case.

Of course, Tom Cruise could produce his own movie to star his beloved. If you think such loving nepotism doesn’t work, think back to Norma Shearer and hubby Irving Thalberg. Being associated with Mr. Box Office didn’t hurt Penelope Cruz, his short-term girlfriend. She’s up for a Best Actress Oscar. And since her divorce from Tom, Nicole Kidman has come into her own.

Okay she gets points for going all ol’ skool with the Shearer/Thalberg reference, but the rest of the argument falls to bits … only proving that getting free of the TC works wonders. Sort of like time served in purgatory that might eventually get you the Keys to the Kingdom. As for producing a film for Katie … does the idea of Battlefield Earth Returns frighten anyone else down to their cotton socks.

Penelope Cruz’s Volver nomination is generally considered a Hail Mary (or I guess Ave Maria) pass from a Hollywood career with not a single good role. She had to basically rewind back to her pre- Cruise Hollywood days to get back on track. I think working with Almodovar again is clearly the key, not her year of T.ender L.oving C.ruise.

Kidman’s divorce let her wear heels again and start winning Oscars worthy roles et al. Isn’t the real lesson that Katie Holmes is either up Dawson’s Creek without a paddle or married and in flats? Success will follow when she’s paroled or granted a pardon.

I wonder if CAA stands for Cruised Actresses Anonymous – in certain knowing circles?

Pictures added by Celebitchy: Here’s Katie Holmes outside of CAA on 1/26, which Just Jared says stands for Creative Audio Associates, which handles music and sound for TV and film. There’s also a Creative Artists Agency, which is what I figure it stands for. Pictures are from KatieHolmes.com

In yet another edition from the Moss and Doherty Handbasket to Hell Review: new footage of Pete Doherty shooting up hit the newsstands and web today. Stills and video allegedly show this latest sobriety stumble two days after their much denied and confirmed “commitment ceremony” in Thailand. Grim, grainy and gruesome indeed – is this the world’s shortest or just messiest honeymoon period?

According to reports, Doherty, 27, had left the exclusive resort where they were staying to seek out drugs.

He was recognised by an Australian fan who invited him back to her room with her and two female friends.

Once there, Doherty was filmed injecting himself on a bed strewn with drugs paraphernalia and cash.

He can also be seen talking to someone – possibly Moss – on a mobile phone while he gets high.

With fans like that who needs enemies, pushers or pincushions? Not that poor Pete seems to need much help in lurching from ill considered lapse to ill considered lapse. He’s a pasty faced, sad baby with tragic-end writ large across his shaggy bangs. When it comes to addiction he seems to give as good as he gets: Kate certainly cannot get enough or tear herself away from his dying spaniel charms.

Last night a source close to the model said: “Kate is understandably livid about these pictures. That they were taken just two days after their special commitment ceremony simply adds insult to injury.

“Of course Kate still loves Pete and vice-versa but she’s a clever woman and knows that she has got to put her career first. Kate needs to start looking after herself – or at least be seen to be doing so – and has been strongly advised to take some time off from Pete.

“This means not getting herself photographed with him and certainly no raucous nights out – at least until the fuss has all died down a bit.”

[Via The Daily Telegraph]

With sources close to you like that who needs a poke in the eye?

Surely one of the key things about merely ‘pretending to tidy up your act’ temporarily so you don’t get a nasty smack from the world is that you gotta keep it to yourself. If everyone knows its a lie … you are very likely to be confronted on the ol’ blatant falsehood. Unless you are Dick Cheney.

The kind of rebel chic that was the subtext of Moss’ short fall and celebrated return to advertisers’ graces last year was all about “edge.” She was still edgy … she was newly edgy … she was so Edgy if anyone still cared about U2 she could whack on a little wool cap and play arena rock with them.

This very fashiony reading of scandal is unlikely to survive ongoing tales of Kate Moss a Mess – Pete Doherty Pincushion — no end in sight to continuing downward spiral. The edge and glamour seem to be fading from the coverage and both are showing up looking rather bruised, scabby and dehydrated. Sid and Nancy is a fine film … but as a lifestyle it’s not very Burberry or Vogue.