MOVIE TICKETS & YOUNG HOLLYWOOD’S RISE AT BOX OFFICE – NATALIE PORTMAN & KRISTEN STEWART NAMED HOLLYWOOD’S MOST BANKABLE STARS
Oscar winning actress Natalie Portman has been named Forbes‘ most bankable box office movie star. Herschlag (Portman’s born name) returns $42.70 for every dollar a studio spends on her.
Joshua Stecker writes: Kristen Stewart came in a close second on the strength of the Twilight franchise and Snow White and the Huntsman, returning an average of $40.60 for every dollar she earned. She is followed by Shia LaBeouf ($35.80) and Stewart’s Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson ($31.70). Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe ($30.50), rounds out the top five.
A big surprise on the list is Kevin James, who comes in at No. 10 with a $22.40 average return. (more…)
NATALIE PORTMAN, 35th MOST VOTED STAR 2012
Natalie Portman is full on into work on the dirty set of Thor 2. A capable movie producer, is there anything Natalie can’t do? So talented.
The Oscar winner is the 35th Most Voted Star of 2012. ViaELLE Canada she shares: “When you’re famous, you put walls up because people want too much from you-strangers get too close.”
A shame as Nat speaks so many different languages…
Shalom. سلام
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aoteroa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 23.11.12~
NATALIE PORTMAN ON SET OF NEW MOVIE – OCTOBER 22nd 2012
Natalie Portman is photographed on set of her new movie.–ReadOn.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 23.10.12~
NATALIE PORTMAN & WHIZ – LAX
Pampered pooch: Natalie Portman strolled through LAX with her beloved pet dog Whiz in her shoulder bag on Thursday. The producer, Oscar winning actor turned heads with her newly blonded locks for an upcoming film role.–Daily Mail.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 28.9.12~
SPORTS TRENDS, ALY RAISMAN & THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – 8th AUGUST 2012
Top Ten Most Popular Topics:
1. Sports
2. Sports Horiwood
3. New Zealand
4. Sports Psychology
5. Sports Talent Management
6. World News
7. Olympics
8. Entertanment Celebrity News
9. Olympic Games
10. Athletes
(Ridiculous, cos I’m really not that sporty!).
[Most downloaded image: Miley Cyrus & Bret Michaels: Cowboy Hats recording sessions flow. Studio City, California].
Anyway,
The Horiwood Top Ten today are:
2. Valerie Adams & News as A Tree of Life that grows a nation
4. Kate Middleton – Table Tennis
6. High Above The Sails - haiku poetry
7. Andy Murray
8. Reality TV Stars - Jef Holm & Cody Baker
9. GlaxoSmithKline, human genome sciences, beef up buys
Sports pick: Best gymnist in the world. Aly Raisman of Needham Massacheusetts, USA. Piers Morgan feature.
Ten Trending Themes:
1. Prince Harry
2. Dwayne The Rock Johnson
3. Taylor Lautner
4. Serena Williams
5. Taylor Kitsch
6. “All Black” Chandelier
7. “Kiwi models”
8. Lisa Marie Presley
9. “Mt Tongariro”
10. Celine Dion
New Zealand rower Mahe Drysdale.
New Trends Online:
1. Aly Raisman & Usaine Bolt-WashPo
2. US women’s basketball team-Chicago Tribune
3. Misty May-Treanor-USA Today
4. Marvin Hamlisch–New York Times
5. Alex Morgan–USA Today
6. Kirani James–Reuters
7. NASA–WashPo
8. Andy Murray–WashPo
9. McKayla Maroney–USA TODAY
10. Lolo Jones-ABC7Chicago
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 8.8.12~
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED & NATALIE PORTMAN MARRY
American-Jewess and Oscar winner, Natalie Portman, tied the knot yesterday, in her typically understated style. The Oscar winner married French dancer Benjamin Millepied at a private residence in Big Sur, Calif. AFP – Getty Images.
Congrats to the happy newlyweds. On the couples day of love, Natalie looked every bit like a radiant Israeli bride.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 8.8.12~
NATALIE PORTMAN LOOKS LIKE A STRAWBERRY, OSCARS 2012
Does Natalie Portman need a new fashion stylist? She looks like she fell out of a strawberry patch onto Oscars red carpet 2012. The exquisite jewels help redeem her. Photo–Ethan Miller.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.2.12~
“SCRUPLES” PRODUCER NATALIE PORTMAN TEAMS UP WITH TONY KRANTZ, BOB BRUSH, MEL HARRIS AND ANNETTE SAVITCH FOR ABC PILOT SEASON
Hollywood’s Golden Girl, Natalie Portman and her new project colleague Tony Krantz (director/ prod) have been given the thumbs up by ABC to make the pilot drama Scruples.
Judith Krantz wrote the 1978 best-sller book, penning a sequel in ’92. The story centers on a rich and powerful clothing designer in a world of sex, revenge and scandal.
Blimey! When does she get time to whip up the clothing collection?
Bob Brush and Mel Harris wrote the adaptation and executive produce with Portman and her producing partner Annette Savitch - with Krantz directing.
Scruples marks the first foray into television for Portman, who won an Oscar last year for Black Swan.
In the world of TV pilots, perhaps the smartest thing a producer can do, is create a sublime title song and an excellent sound track. Audio is something that is increasingly more important in an age where music drives so much of the internet’s growth, and broadband networks profits as well as any major marketing success stories too.
Maybe the Scissor Sisters could think outside the box and create one brilliant track to open this drama?
There’s a thought, for fun.
[Photo: Top: IMDB and SAG Awards Greenroom Photos, courtesy of PopSuga].
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 31.1.12~
OSCARS REIGNING QUEEN, NATALIE PORTMAN ATTENDS SAG AWARDS 2012
Opting not to walk the red carpet at the Screen Actors Guild Awards this year, Natalie Portman, Oscars reigning queen of Hollywood looked like perfection, watching her peers and colleagues with a smile on arrival.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.1.12~
BENJAMIN MILLIEPIED AND NATALIE PORTMAN, GOLDEN GLOBES 2012
Taking a breather from parenting joys, Benjamin Milliepied and Natalie Portman stepped out onto Golden Globes red carpet, Beverly Hills. Natalie wears Lanvin.
Portman has committed to the films Jupiter Ascending 2014 and Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry, 2015.
Perhaps it’s just as well, Portman took a year off. :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 16.1.12~
NATALIE WOOD CASE REOPENS IN LOS ANGELES
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s detective will speak to reporters Friday about the decision to take another look at Oscar-nominated actress Natalie Wood‘s nighttime demise in the chilly waters off Southern California on Nov. 29, 1981.” reports The Associated Press via The LA Times today.
Reuters is reporting that Robert Wagner, Woods husband at the time of her drowning death off a yacht, is not a suspect. The Huffingtonpost looks at Wagner’s words: “”Nobody knows,” Wagner wrote in his best-selling memoir “Pieces of My Heart,” published in 2008.”
The mystery death of Natalie Woods remains one of Hollywood’s unsolved stories.
I am reminded of the classic New Zealand saying, “It’s not [yachts] that kill people… It’s the [champagne privileges of people while yachting] that kills people.”
Of course, I always felt this rather pious saying, was naive on this issue of maritime recreation of the stars.
Meanwhile Natalie Hershlag aka Natalie Portman better be getting ready for Oscars hosting duties, 2012.
Needless to say, it’s a sad day for a Hollywood actor, when a CNNnews story, has higher billing on Google, than one’s IMDb profile. Some actors best get back to work, asap!
[Billboard Art via Weideman Gallery, Hollywood, LA]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 19.11.11~
BLOG PICKS – LA TIMES SHARES THEIRS – 6.9.11
LA Times top blog picks to share today are:
Hero Complex: A letter to ‘Raiders of the Lost Art,’ a ‘perfect movie’
Ministry of Gossip: Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt hit by Car
Culture Monster: Larry Fink’s up close and personal celebrity photographs
L.A. at Home: Helping apartment dwellers recycle
Opinion L.A.: Obama’s tie to (bankrupt) Solyndra
Money & Company: Sodium use up 144% in restaurants — mostly through gourmet salt
Company Town: James Murdoch declines $6 million News Corp. bonus
Photograph, Larry Fink – Meryle Streep and Natalie Portmanshare tips: “As one of Vanity Fair’s official Oscar party photographers, it’s hard to believe Larry Fink is not familiar with most of the celebrities he is shooting.
“It’s absolutely true,” said Fink by phone on his drive home from Bard College in upstate New York, where he has been a professor of photography for 19 years. “I don’t watch TV or go to movies,” he confessed, which may help him go undetected as he meanders along in the back rooms away from the red carpet paparazzi.
More than 90 of his candid photographs have been published in a coffee table-size collection, “The Vanities: Hollywood Parties, 2000-2009,” (Schirmer/Mosel, $68).
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 6.9.11~
NATALIE PORTMAN PROMOTES FINCA – MICROFUNDING INCENTIVE FOR WOMEN IN BIZ
In her latest round of press, Hollywood’s reigning Oscars queen for 2011, leverages her young Hollywood spotlight onto FINCA, an organization I’d never heard about, that makes a difference in providing for women who have a biz dream.
Here’s what Portman said recently.
What causes are closest to your heart? Girls’ education. Seeing how many girls in the world do not have that opportunity, I feel so lucky that I was able to go to school. It affects the rest of their lives, the age at which they have children, their susceptibility to disease, their job, earning power and their status in society. Education really is a powerful way to change the lives of girls and women in the world.
FINCA is an organisation promoting village banking to break poverty cycles. It is so abstract to imagine someone else’s life going on at the same time, so different from yours. There are literally billions of parallel lives. So, to actually travel the world, meet all kinds of people, talk with them and hear what their day is like, what makes them happy or sad, what their problems, joys and successes are, makes it less abstract and more real: it takes you out of your own petty circumstances.
What is the most powerful life experience you shared?
I have been lucky to have many, such as meeting the women who were clients of FINCA, all of whom have been very inspiring. Seeing the depths of poverty in places like Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya really stays with you. I have also seen the hopeful side: it is possible to make changes, it just takes a lot of work. Those things definitely change you, because you do not encounter them in a middle-class upbringing in the United States.”
It’s encouraging to see a star always thinking outside the comfort zone of privilege to consider others. Perhaps this is what makes Portman a star worthy of press in a world where we often don’t consider others enough… outside of our own needs and wants. For more go here to N-Portman.Org.
Portman can be seen in the movie Hesher with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rainn Wilson in a film by Spencer Susser. The synopsis of the film, that hit theaters yesterday in the USA:
To find out about the 800,000 + people FINCA has helped to date, go here for an interesting read.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.5.11~
DARREN ARONOFSKY DEFENDS NATALIE PORTMANS DANCING
Black Swan director defends Natalie Portman – PopEater
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.28.11~
THE OSCARS BALLET FILM COVER UP, A DANCER SAYS SHE DID MORE WORK THAN NATALIE PORTMAN
Humor this weekend comes via Sarah Lane, one of two dancer body doubles working on the set of Natalie Portman‘s Oscars winning performance of Black Swan.
Sarah says that only 5% of the dancing in the film was Natalie. The rest was her. This has lead the film’s choreographer Ben Millepied to be involved in a tennis match of opinion with Sarah in the news of late. Benjamin claims 85% of the film features Natalie dancing as her character, not as Sarah claims.
In any event, it’s a shame Sarah does not quite have Natalie’s beautiful face. Needless to say Ben Millepied looks like a good knight of Natalie protecting her rep. Every Hollywood princess needs one. And, it sets Portman up to be in line with all of the Lois Lane movie publicity with a Sarah Lane name drop, today, when that movie hits, further down the track. Smart press… believe it or not.
I like Portman’s sense of humor. ‘Scandal!!! I cheated,’ is her big Hollywood tabloid story this week. No sex involved. How funny!
If this story interests you, go here.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA.
BABY BUMP DOG WALKING by OSCARS NATALIE PORTMAN -3.24.11
That’s all – Photograph courtesy of Celebuzz.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.24.11~
FRANCESCO VEZZOLI ART – MICHELLE WILLIAMS AND NATALIE PORTMAN – SATIRICAL COMMERCIAL, GREED
Greed is like a disease. It’s the worst addiction ever. People go to great and extensive lengths to cover up their greed addictions. Revolutions of people, currently occurring are all about rebelling against a few’s greedy habits, over a majority’s better interests. Thankfully, here in Hollywood we have actors and directors and artists, who aren’t afraid to talk about greed. Let’s say the word… GREED. It’s good for us to say it. On that note…
Satire is something Natalie Portman excels at. Fracesco Vezzoli takes the Oscar winner and casts her with Michelle Williams in a satirical TVC, for a fragrance titled Greed, as a talking point for the Museum of Modern Art.
A smart commentary from the art world today. Love it.
Let’s say the word some more – GREED, GREED, GREED, GREED, GREED! It’s so healthy just to write it. When we discuss GREED, we break it’s power over us. I think this is exactly what this video is designed to achieve.
Already Portman is putting her stamp on the America’s Sweetheart role, tackling anti-semitic sentiments and greed three days after her Oscars win. I am totally feeling it. Love this art piece. Hot! Go Vezzoli.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.2.11~
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED WALKS THE DOG
That’s all.
[Photo courtesy of Splash News Online]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.1.11~
MOTHERHOOD AND WIFE ARE THE GREATEST ROLES, NATALIE PORTMAN’S OSCARS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH 2011
She is plum tassel Jerusalem beauty with deep-purple American elegance –Natalie Portman, Oscars 2011.
OK! Magazine like most tabloids goes to great pains today to showcase, Oscar winner and Jerusalem born artist, Natalie Portman‘s Awards Show acceptance speech. Exquisite, graceful, gracious with no ego. What a Hollywood rarity Ms. Portman is. Here’s Portman in action.
“I want to thank my parents for giving me the opportunity to work from such an early age. My beautiful love, Benjamin, who has now given me my most important role of my life,” she said. “Most importantly, my family, my friends, and my love, thank you so much.”
Family is what Portman does. The rest is well… show biz and art really. A good speech depicting all the elements that make up a Hollywood star in a filmic role. Wow! What a lady.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.28.11~
USA TODAY – AARON SORKIN AND NATALIE PORTMAN SHINE, ANNE HATHAWAY AND JAMES FRANCO’s AUSSIE ROAST, OSCARS 2011
This cool group photo snapped of Oscars winners during the closing ceremony, is pretty groovy.
Natalie Portman looks glowing and elated at her win. Aaron Sorkin shines too. And James Franco continues to look, well… perpetually stoned… an American artform here in California. Thank goodness Anne Hathaway is so ‘on it’ at all times, saving James all throughout the Oscars Awards presenting roles last night.
Love the photo via USA Today. Too funny! Here’s Hathaway in a tuxedo, putting Australians on grill, with James Franco in drag parodying a certain blonde Hollywood icon, while dropping Charlie Sheen‘s name for telephone companies. Crazy American kids!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.28.11~
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – 2.27.11
It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it–Lena Horne.
On Oscars night, day 45, here in Hollywood as Celine Dion sings Smile, these are the top ten Hollywood entertainment posts voted today on a day where Natalie Portman swanned onto the red carpet wearing plum Rodarte on her epic journey into the pages of Hollywood History. Smile!:)
1. Christchurch Earthquake – Rebuilding Effort
2. Matt Damon
3. Google will reward original content in new web rankings
4. Ryan Seacrest‘s live streaming from Oscars red carpet
5. Alecia Moore – Pink’s pregnancy
6. Nicole Kidman‘s popularity in Hollywood
7. Will & Kate
8. Poetry – No Ordinary Sun by Hone Tuwhare
9. All of the Lights – Kanye West, Rihanna & Friends
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.27.11~
PRE-OSCARS NIGHT HOLLYWOOD NEWS -THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – 2.16.11
[Natalie Portman is ecstatic at the Spirit Awards this eve, with her win. Photograph by Chris Pizzello].
Usually held just a day before the Oscars Awards, the Spirit Awards honor films made for less than $20 million dolleros. Santa Monica at the beach was where the Awards were held this year.
In news voted from 50 nations today, here in Hollywood, here’s the celebrity topics you most picked today. Nice one!
1. About Horiwood–> Roger Donaldson & Taika Cohen meet in Hollywood
2. Teen mom, Amber Portwood shines with a reality TV co-star
3. William Shakespeare makes Hollywood stars celebrity templates brighter
4. Halle Berry‘s Oscars speech quote with some Lena Horne music via France
5. Christchurch Rebuilding Effort Links
6. Silver portraits for the age of reality TV Artistry by Kim Kardashian
7. Martin Estevez/ Sheen talks addiction in the USA. Where does it stem from?
8. Ten tweets via Arizona action man Alex Meraz
9. Donald Trump does publicity for Jennifer Hudson
10. UK in the USA – Simon Cowell may equal Oprah‘s earnings?
Other Hollywood news websites also covering the Spirit Awards results today are: E!: Hollywood News; Hollywood Reporter; Access Hollywood; Hollywood.Com; ET Online; Deadline.Com; Celebrity Gossip; Young Hollywood.; HuffPo.
USA TODAY REPORTS - “Ultimately, it was Black Swan that took center stage in the beachside Spirit tent. A very pregnant Portman carefully climbed stairs to claim her prize, calling the floor “slippery.”
“This is my first time here,” said Portman, in a short yellow dress. After thanking her fellow nominees she called Black Swan a true independent filmmaking experience. “We had a bond company on-set for the last, like 2 months, and it was only a 2 and a half month shoot. My ballet teachers every day were like, ‘Sooo, when do we get paid?’”
“No one believed in (the film) and it took some equity,” Aronofsky said from the stage, claiming his best director prize. He thanked his financial partners who did believe. “Now they’re (expletive) rich.”
He ended, of course, with his Black Swan star. “I’ll always be indebted to Miss Natalie Portman,” he said.
Accepting the best picture award, producer Scott Franklin admitted the film was a challenge. “This was a really hard film to make,” he said. But, he assured, “everybody did get paid, which was a nice thing.”
A good effort from all filmmakers this Hollywood eve on the beach.
Oscars Buzz – The Films that made the cut 2011
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.11~
SNOWING IN BURBANK -2.26.11
On the weekend that Natalie Portman won her Oscar
it was snowing in Hollywood studio land.
Unheard of… as the California Mountains
meet the city in softly falling
applause.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.11~
OSCARS QUOTE by HALLE BERRY WITH SOME LENA HORNE
When Halle Berry became the first black woman of color to scoop up her leading actress Oscar, she wowed the world with comments like, “This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It’s for the women that stand beside me, Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, Vivica Fox. And it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened. Thank you. I’m so honored.”–Halle Berry‘s words via American Rhetoric.Com.
This didn’t stop some b*tch in the US from blogging, “LOL what would she do if her dog died !!!”.
As you can see, good history means jack sh*t to some!
Anyway, here’s some Lena Horne music, heading in to a stormy-skied, Natalie Portman‘s Oscar winning weekend. Has a Jerusalem born actress ever won an Oscar before? I don’t think so. It could be a first!
[Pic via Vanity Fair's Oscars coverage Archives]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.11~
