Kate Winslet and James Cameron are back together again after twenty years: Winslet has officially joined Cameron’s Avatar sequels, which began production last week in California.
At a hectic airport, two strangers get bumped from their flights to extremely time-sensitive engagements: he’s an expert surgeon who’s got to get to a Baltimore hospital in time for a delicate procedure, she’s an accomplished photojournalist on her way to her own destination wedding. They catch an off-the-books flight with a small, independent operator, but ultimately get what they pay for when that craft malfunctions and crash-lands on a snowy mountain, leaving the pair injured and helpless. If they intend on returning to civilization with their lives, it’ll take all of their resourcefulness and convenient medical know-how to survive.
You know when you’re a kid and you write letters to Santa Claus? Pretend you’re actually a middle aged man suffering from depression, you write a letter to the universe and, BOOM Helen Mirren shows up in response! But she’s not Santa Claus, she’s Death.
All right, so Steve Jobs has nothing to do with Jobs, the Ashton Kutcher biopic about late Apple cofounder and CEO Steve Jobs — except for the fake that they’re about the same person. The twist, supposedly, for this new Jobs biopic, which is directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, is that the whole film is set at and around three different Apple product launches. (Kutcher’s version featured a more traditional biopic structure).
Here’s a look at some notable birthdays being celebrated today:
Bob Geldof
Age: 61
Occupation: Singer, Songwriter, and Activist
Known For: Being the lead singer of the 1970s band The Boomtown Rats, co-founding the supergroup Band Aid to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia, co-writing the best-selling single ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?,’ and organizing the charity super-concert Live Aid
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