X-men marks the spot of Evan Peters’s fight
Thanks to several readers who wrote in to tell me what I should have known already: Evan Peters was in Montreal, when Emma Roberts reportedly beat him up, because he’s playing Quicksilver in Bryan Singer’s movie X-Men: Days of Future Past, which has been shooting here for release next year. Our man Brendan Kelly told you all about that film on Friday.
This picture’s story may not make much sense — superheroes do time travel, apparently — but what a cast: Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ellen Page, Anna Paquin, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Fassbender, James Marsden, Peter Dinklage …
Speaking of X-Men, it seems that JLaw is back with her old boyfriend Hoult, says Us Weekly.
These two had been a couple for two years when they split in January. But now, working together on the aforementioned movie, they have rekindled the flame, it appears, and have been inseparable around Montreal, the mag says.
“They started the shoot in April as friends, and then one day they just started kissing,” Don’t Usemyname told the mag. “One thing led to another. … Her old feelings came rushing back. Now they’re fully back on.”
She’s 22. He’s 23.
All X-Men, all the time: There’s also Hugh Jackman news today. He tells Good Housekeeping mag that he’s just bored with the incessant rumour that his 17-year marriage to Deborra-Lee Furness is a sham and that he’s secretly playing for the other team.
There’s no evidence of this, yet the claims won’t die. So “I don’t really pay attention,” he said.
“Whatever you want to believe, it’s up to you. We really only get mad when there’s an element of truth, right?”
But Deborra-Lee, he said, finds the talk “offensive” — her word — because “she’s a justice freak. … When she hears the gossip, she finds it hard to shut up about it. It’s frustrating (for her)”.
He’s 44. She’s 57.
About time for a non-X-Men item:
Boston Magazine has riposted to Rolling Stone’s glamorous cover photo of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Boston’s new cover photo shows Dzhokhar, bloodyfaced and dishevelled, emerging from the boat where he hid during the manhunt. There are more such pix inside.
The mag said the photos, obtained from a state police sergeant, were intended to show “the real face of terror.”
The people in charge of movie ratings have spoken: Alexander Payne is stuck with an R rating for his new picture, Nebraska, despite the studio’s efforts at an appeal.
The rating means people under 17 can’t get in without an older companion. Of course, this is scarcely enforced, and everybody under 17 knows how to download a pirate copy anyway.
The picture isn’t exactly aimed at Bieber fans: in black and white, it’s about this older drunk going with his son to collect a $1 million lottery prize. The R rating is for bad language, not for any sex or violence.
Sounds like a million laughs, doesn’t it? I mean, who on Earth would want to see a movie like that when they could be watching XMen?
Bruce Dern and Will Forte star.