Which True Blood Hunk Is Now a Superhero?

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This True Blood hunk looks much better shirtless and sweating in Bon Temps, but no matter.

We even like him when he's all covered up in a makeshift black-and-yellow vinyl superhero suit.

In a far departure from his television alter ego...

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Ryan Kwanten stars in Griff the Invisible (in theaters today), a quirky Australian film about a nerdy office worker who transforms himself into a crimefighting vigilante.

The superhero suit is as uncomfortable as it looks.

"It took a good three hours and a good three wardrobe ladies to get into," the Aussie actor recently told me. "And believe it or not, it took longer getting off because they kind of had to sew me in and then they had to sew me back out. There was no time for potty breaks."

So what happened when nature did come calling?

"You hold on and you hope that your constipated face doesn't come off too bad on camera," he Kwanten cracked. "It was fun to be standing on the streets of a city in a superhero outfit. People sort of leaving bars and giving me looks up and down thinking, 'What the hell is this guy doing?'"

Funny enough, Kwanten's True Blood star status didn't help him land the role with director Leon Ford.

"Leon said, 'Well, all I've really seen of you is True Blood, and the characters are unbelievably different,'" Kwanten remembered. "So I ended up putting myself on tape like four or five times. Eventually I convinced him, through perseverance more than anything else, that I was the guy."

Now, if we could just get him cast in Steven Soderbergh's male stripper flick.

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Steven Soderbergh "Isn't Afraid" to Pack Magic Mike With Full Frontal!

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Well this is shaping up to be our favorite movie...ever.

We were already excited to see Alex Pettyfer and Channing Tatum shake what their mamas gave 'em in Steven Soderbergh's stripper flick, Magic Mike. And that was before we heard that über-hot Matthews—White Collar's Bomer and McConaughey—and True Blooder Joe Manganiello were set to strip as well.

So with all this man meat, will we get to see some of the goods?

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We hear yes!

"Stephen isn't afraid of going there," a source thisclose to the picture tells us when we asked about the possibility of full frontal. "I'm sure he will do it."

Did ya hear that? That was the sound of every gal and gay guy's jaw dropping.

None of the dudes have ever showed their ding-a-lings on the big screen before, but none have been particularly shy about displayin' their bangin' bods in the past, either.

We're counting McConaughey out, as he's set to play an ex-exotic dancer who only owns the club (plus, we haven't heard any mention of bongo drums in the script). Which leaves (for now) Pettyfer, Tatum, Bomer and Manganiello.

So which stud will go Full Monty first?

Our money's on Pettyfer. He's got the most to prove, after all.

Of course, Joe M. is awfully proud of that magnificently sculpted bod, right? Could it be him?

Heck, we'll be happy with some cute toosh shots of the rest, though.

And we know it's been said before, but if there ever was a time for 3-D, it's now!

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Movie Review: Anne Hathaway Learns It Takes Years to Fall in Love in One Day

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Review in a Hurry: Two college grads (Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess) begin a friendship that spans 20 years before it blossoms into something more. Despite the familiar When Harry Met Sally, friends-first, opposites-attract contrivances, this romance is intermittently loveable, thanks to a glam cast and witty script.

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The Bigger Picture: Emma and Dexter couldn't be more different. So it's evident from their almost-intimate first encounter and their vow to just be buds that they're destined to fall in love. It's the oldest rom-com trick in the book—or in this case, David Nicholls' bestselling novel. But this bittersweet adaptation makes their two decades of foreplay (mostly) worth the wait.

Emma is a working-class girl with writerly aspirations, but a cynical lack of confidence. Dexter is a wealthy, cocksure cad with a taste for women and booze. Somehow Em and Dex click, at least as BFFs.

Starting on the night of their college graduation, July 15, 1988, Day checks in with Em and Dex every subsequent July 15th. Their lives are usually out of synch: While she works a crap job and suffers a passionless relationship, he's a TV star and married man. Then when Em finds love and success as an author in Paris, London-living Dex sinks his family and career. Eventually, kismet kicks in as these crazy, stupid lovers realize what we've known since scene one.

Perhaps the same-time-next-year device worked better in the book, but here it's unnecessarily gimmicky and forces the film to account for each year, instead of conflating events. Plus, the onscreen treatment of dates, though playful at first, gets precious and distracting.

Hathaway, with her doe eyes and shaky British accent, develops a warm rapport with charmer Sturgess. Their easy chemistry makes it credible that these characters would keep circling back to each other, despite the ups and downs and near-misses. And their snappy banter prevents key moments from getting soaked in sap and sentimentality.

Though far from perfection, this is still one fine Day.

The 180—a Second Opinion: Can we please have a moratorium on scenes featuring a new dad trying to quiet/entertain a crying baby? It's not endearing—it's as grating as the toddler's tantrum.

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Breaking Dawn Photo Bonanza: Peep More Pics of the Honeymoon!

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Didn't get your Breaking Dawn fix ogling the just-released poster this morning?

Well, look no further, ‘cause we've got a handful (and then some) of new pics from the impending vampy flick. And of course, the most delish shots feature Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson celebrating their onscreen honeymoon in sexy Brazilian style:

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We heart the photos of Bella and Edward boating, bathing and whatnot way south of the border, but keep your eyes peeled for the first glimpse of the newlywed's demonic baby bump. Can't you already just imagine the li'l babe eating her way through mama B's stomach?

So sexy. Or not?

Oh ya, and there's a cutesy picture of them playing chess, too.

Hopefully, the board games will take up, like, one second of the big-screen biz so that there's plenty of time left over for them to get busy.

Now go drool over the pics of R.Pattz and K.Stew (and Taylor Lautner too, of course!), ‘cause that's what we'll spend the rest of the afternoon doing!

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Katie Holmes and Colin Farrell Do Horror Movies, So Why Not Other Big Stars?

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Colin Farrell is doing Fright Night, and Katie Holmes stars in Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, but why aren't there more A-list actors in horror movies?
—Ashleigh G., via the inbox

This answer involves one part math (but it's math with fun symbols), one part psychology, and a bit of unnamed celebrity gossip.

Shall we begin?

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First, the math.

Let's look at some of the biggest horror franchises of the past few decades: Nightmare on Elm Street, zombie this, vampire that, The Ring, and so forth.

In most of those films, the star is the monster, not the person who kills it. In other words, in Halloween, Jason > The Person Who Escapes in the End. In Dawn of the Dead, Zombie Horde > The Folks Who Keep Their Brains Intact.

For a preening A-list star, there isn't necessarily a ton of value in that sort of gig. Why compete with a marauding monster when you can star in a rom-com or spy thriller all by yourself?

Another factor: The horror audience.

Unlike, say, Reese Witherspoon fans, who go to movies to see Reese Witherspoon, horror fans attend theaters to see scary stuff, not a particular person.

"The person who usually survives at the end of a horror movie is The Girl," notes Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, CEO of Platinum Studios. (Rosenberg wrote the graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens and produced the recent film Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, now out on DVD and VOD.)

"And according to lot of studios who have done the number, who that female lead is doesn't seem to matter. It's a horrible truth, but people either want to go see a horror movie or not."

Again, not exactly the kind of research that attracts A-list talent, is it?

That's why, in film parlance, horror films are often seen as "step up" vehicles for hot, rising young actors, Rosenberg explains. (By way of example: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who played Scott Pilgrim's girlfriend, is set to star in a third remake of The Thing. You haven't heard of her, but you will.

Ditto with Jessica Chastain, who starred opposite Brad Pitt in Tree of Life. She's just signed on to do the next ghost flick by Guillermo del Toro's production team.)

Finally, there's the typical horror story.

I recently spoke with one rising actress who said she'd loved to do more horror if "the material is there." Message between the lines: Horror scripts tend to suck, and not just vampire ones.

Rosenberg corroborates that theory.

When a horror movie does attract A-level actors, the talent "usually consider the movies to be more intelligent as opposed to popcorn"—perhaps a period horror piece, or an indie, for example.

Zombies in Shakespearean London, anyone?

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Movie Review: Conan the Barbarian Is Super Cheesy Fun, but Doesn't Know It

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Review in a Hurry: A gleeful throwback to the not-even-hugely-popular-in-its-day subgenre of '80s R-rated fantasy, the kind of movie a 13 year-old boy may lap up now and be embarrassed about years later. Not that there's anything wrong with that—it may be ridiculous as all get-out, but the fact that the exaggeration is so irony free is charming in its own way.

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The Bigger Picture: Does anybody remember how, in the lead up to Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Michael Bay made a big deal about how 3-D requires longer shots so that the eye can perceive it properly, and therefore his editing would be less hyper? Yeah, Conan the Barbarian director Marcus Nispel never got that memo. So while it's possible that there are kids out there with short enough attention spans to follow the action sequences herein, it's highly unlikely that the 3-D effects in them will be observed—let alone appreciated—by the naked eye.

Determined to offend anyone who would dare take things too seriously, Nispel's new take on Robert E. Howard's hulking hero begins with fetal Conan in the womb. Prematurely born as the result of a sword slash, the kid is cut out of his mom by Ron Perlman and the ZZ Top pelt that adorns his face. The mother names her son with her last breath, as dad raises his animatronic baby boy to the heavens and screams. Perhaps somebody found this emotionally stirring at one point or another, but don't worry if it elicits laughter—you may still have fun with what's to come.

Years later, the bad guy from Avatar and his daughter, all done up like Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, come a-calling, seeking a piece of bone that will finish the assemblage of a magic crown. In the process, Conan's dad is killed and the youngster is emotionally and physically scarred. Years go by, and our barbarian grows up to be Jason Momoa, Londo Mollari-like girl becomes Rose McGowan, and Stephen Lang's Khalar Zym stays the same age somehow. Maybe it's the bone crown.

From here on out, it's a fairly simple tale of revenge, complicated only by the fact that the villains need a particular female sacrifice to complete their task, in this case Rachel Nichols' Tamara. Since the world these characters inhabit is largely computer-generated and mostly uninhabited, the stakes seem pretty low–does anyone really care if some warlord resurrects his dead wife? Based on what we actually see, these cities all have a population of like 20 people anyway. It's not like any villain could do much with that.

But of course it doesn't matter.

What matters is that Conan fights guys made of sand, Conan fights a tentacle-monster, Conan cuts a guy's nose off. It should be noted that Conan is also stunningly sexist, consistently treating Tamara like a slave and an object, for which she instantly falls in love with him.

Momoa, who in early stills looked like a male model playing dress-up, is surprisingly good. He may not get any lines as memorable to Arnold Schwarzenegger's answer to what is good in life, but he makes a solid action hero in more ways than one.

So did director Nispel intend an inherent camp factor? Given his filmography, it seems unlikely. But then it wouldn't be half as charming if the film were actually winking at itself; let's not forget Arnold did that in an ill-advised sequel (and spin-off, if you count Red Sonja) the first time around.

The original Barbarian is still classic, but Nispel has at least made the second-most-fun Conan movie to date.

The 180—a Second Opinion: Khalar Zym travels over desert terrain in a giant boat carried on the backs of elephants. There's a Werner Herzog movie in there somewhere, and imagining it is sometimes more fun than watching what's actually onscreen.

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First Look: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Poster Revealed!

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The time has come, Twihards.

It's been months since that betrays-nothing teaser poster was revealed, but today your patience has finally paid off, as the poster for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn–Part 1 was finally unveiled.

Let's take a closer look…

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Granted, it's not totally dissimilar to the Breaking Dawn banner that was revealed at Comic-Con last month, but instead of the group getting Photoshopped and smushed together, we get them in all their glory.

Here's what we see: newlywed lovebirds Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart—er, we mean Edward and Bella (incidentally, appearing to wear those honeymoon outfits we spotted earlier this year), along with Jacob are standing proud in the foreground (this franchise knows its moneymakers, after all), with the entire family Cullen all present and accounted for behind them.

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Another detail that's hard to miss? Everyone but Taylor Lautner's character is happily paired off. That's OK, Taylor. Off course, he doesn't exactly seem to be hurting for companionship when he's not posing on movie posters, so we'll look past that one.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn–Part 1 (as if we even have to tell you this) is due out Nov. 18.

But tell us, has the moody and tone-setting poster unveiling gotten you even more excited for the film's release?

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