Inception hunk Tom Hardy admits: 'I've had sexual relations with men'

Hollywood heart-throb Tom Hardy has revealed he had a string of gay flings as a teenager.

The 32-year-old Inception star, who is engaged to British actress Charlotte Riley, 28, and also has a two-year-old son with a former girlfriend

But asked if he'd ever had any sexual relations with other men, the broody actor said: 'As a boy? Of course I have. I'm an actor for ****'s sake.

'I've played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality, but now that I'm in my thirties, it doesn't do it for me.

'I'm done experimenting but there's plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life.

'A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes. I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine.'

London-born Tom found big-screen fame with Star Trek Nemesis, and in the 2009 hit Bronson, where he played the notoriously violent criminal Charles Bronson to critical acclaim.

In Guy Ritchie's hit Rock'n'Rolla he starred as gay gangster Handsome Bob, and had a crush on Scottish hearthrob Gerard Butler.

He then starred as Heathcliffe in a BBC remake of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, where he met stunning fiancée Charlotte.

In an interview with Now magazine, the former party-boy who has battled drink, drugs and crime to turn his life around, added: 'A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it.

'I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside.

'Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys.'

Trailer for The Debt, Starring Sam Worthington and Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren and Sam Worthington star in "The Debt," the powerful story of Rachel Singer, a former Mossad agent who endeavored to capture and bring to trial a notorious Nazi war criminal—the Surgeon of Birkenau—in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must go back to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.

Facebook Founder Says The Social Network 'Emphasizes Things That Didn't Matter'

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz is played by actor Joseph Mazzello in the upcoming David Fincher film The Social Network, and he's the first of the website's founders to react to the trailer. On the website Quora, Moskovitz told interested parties:

"It is interesting to see my past rewritten in a way that emphasizes things that didn’t matter and leaves out things that really did. Other than that, it’s just cool to see a dramatization of history. A lot of exciting things happened in 2004, but mostly we just worked a lot and stressed out about things; the version in the trailer seems a lot more exciting, so I’m just going to choose to remember that we drank ourselves silly and had a lot of sex with coeds. I’m very curious to see how Mark turns out in the end - the plot of the book/script unabashedly attack him, but I actually felt like a lot of his positive qualities come out truthfully in the trailer (soundtrack aside)."

He has a point: as dramatizations go, depictions of one's years as drunker and more sex-fueled than they really were is not so bad. And even though Zuckerberg was probably too busy drinking and having sex to remember that whole bender accurately, many on Quora have asked the face of Facebook for his thoughts on the film, too, but he has yet to comment.

James Franco's "Howl" Poster and Trailer

A bearded, bespectacled James Franco stars as Allen Ginsberg in Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl, the story of the poet's classic work and the uproar it caused. Also featured in the film — which hits New York and San Francisco on September 24, and Los Angeles on October 1, with a national rollout to follow — are Jon Hamm, David Strathairn, Bob Balaban, Alessandro Nivola, Treat Williams, Mary-Louise Parker, and Jeff Daniels.

9 Ways 'Inception' Will Wake Up The Summer Movie Season

1. According to Nolan, Inception isn't merely the culmination of his filmmaking career thus far, but the realization of lifelong obsessions. "I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life," he explained. "I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me, and I liked the idea of trying to portray dreams on film. And I'd been working on the script for some time, really about ten years in the form that you've seen it in, [with] this kind of heist structure. I think really for me, the primary interest in dreams and in making this film is this notion that while you're asleep you can create an entire world that you're also experiencing without realizing that you're doing that."

Admitting he first pitched the film after finishing his 2002 film Insomnia, he said the gestation period between then and now allowed him to more fully flesh out his ideas. "Really, the pitch was very much the movie you see, although I hadn't figured out the emotional core of the story," he revealed. "I think I sort of grew into the film in a sense. I had the heist theme, I had the relationship between architecture and dreams, the idea that you would use an architect to design a dream for somebody else and all of that. All of those things were in place for several years, but it took me a long time to sort of find this idea of emotionally connecting with the story."

2. Appropriately, Nolan relied less on research and existing information about dreams for his storytelling than his own ideas what the dream world would be like. "I took the approach in writing Inception that I did when I was writing Memento which is I tend to just examine my own process of, in this case dreaming, and try and analyze how that works and how that might be changed and manipulated," he explained. "How a rule set might emerge from my own process. I think a lot of what I find you want to do with research is just confirming things you want to do, but if the research contradicts what you want to do, you tend to go ahead and do it anyway. So at a certain point I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go."

Nolan indicated he designed the film to synthesize the world of the imagination and the imaginary worlds within movies. "When you look a the idea of being able to create a limitless world and use it almost as a playground for action and adventure and so forth, I naturally gravitate towards cinematic worlds, whether it's the Bond films and things like that," he said. "So without being too self-conscious about it or without too much intention as I was writing it, I certainly allowed my mind to wander where it would naturally and I think a lot of the tropes from different genres of movies, heist films, spy films, that kind of thing, and they therefore sort of naturally sit in that world.

3. Despite the film's focus on dreams, star Leonardo DiCaprio prefers empirical information over imagination. "It was interesting being part of this film, because I'm not a big dreamer," DiCaprio admitted. I remember fragments of my dreams, and I tried to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it. But I realized that this is Chris Nolan's dream world, and doing that, it was basically [about] being able to sit down with Chris for two months every other day and talk about the structure of this dream world, and the rules that apply in it."

Nevertheless, given that Inception is following in the footsteps of Shutter Island, a film similarly obsessed with the world of the mind, DiCaprio copped to an appetite for characters more complex than their description and dialogue suggest. "These were characters and filmmakers and plot structures that I was compelled to do and I'm lucky to be able to do," he said. "So I jump on those opportunities. I traditionally have always tried to work with the best directors I can. These types of films that are psychologically sort of dark at times, I find extremely exciting to do because there's always something to think about. There's nothing more boring than to show up on set and say a line and know that your character means exactly what they say."

4. DiCaprio and Nolan were ironically like-minded about their execution of the film's fantastical content, even if their respective approaches to it were different. "The earliest conversations I had with Chris is how both of us have a hard time with science fiction," DiCaprio indicated. "We have a little bit of an aversion to it because it's hard for us to emotionally invest in worlds that are too far detached from what we know. That's what's interesting about Chris Nolan's science fiction worlds – they're visually deeply rooted in things that we've seen before. There are cultural references and it feels like a world that is tactile that we understand that we could jump into and it's not too much of a leap of faith to make. But emotionally as well as far as the character's journey, I took everything as if it was [real] You have to. Otherwise you're not invested in the character, you're not invested in the character's journey, and you're not going to make it believable to an audience."

5. Marion Cotillard endured a similarly challenging process trying to come up with a coherent definition of Mal, her character, to work with from one scene to the next. "I had to base my character on different kind of inspirations that I had," she said. "Usually when I start to work and to prepare for a movie, [I look for] some inspiration - different kinds of human beings. It can be someone I know, someone I don't, a girl, a boy. Usually when I start, quite right away some inspirations come. This time I was waiting and nobody came, and I thought maybe I should be inspired by the blank page."

Ultimately Cotillard said she settled on a combination of her director's own dreamy creativity, and cues from DiCaprio's character – although for the sake of spoilers, declined to reveal which ones. "I started thinking about Chris Nolan's imagination and that was my inspiration, and that didn't take the form of a human being. Then I was also very inspired by Cobb because, because, because, because..."

6. Co-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt's challenges turned out to be more physical than intellectual, but the young actor embraced them all the same – albeit to the boredom of the stunt team. Nolan revealed, "We had a stunt guy who looks exactly like Joe made up perfectly, and he stood there three weeks on-set and didn't do a thing because Joe insisted on doing absolutely everything himself, apart from one shot." Gordon-Levitt, meanwhile, described the process as an exhilarating combination of pleasure and pain. "It was just about the most fun I've ever had on a movie set," he said. "It was also probably the most pain I've ever been in on a movie set, physically - but you know, pain in a good way."

7. Inception reunited Nolan with composer Hans Zimmer, and the duo shared on of their most intimate and effective collaborations to date. "I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable," Nolan observes. "And one of the interesting things that happened early on is the Edith Piaf song ["Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien"] was always in the script - long before Marion came on the film - and right at the beginning of our post-production process, I had to make the decision of 'do I get the sound department or do I get the music department?' What I decided to do was give it to Hans and let him run with it and see if in some way it might inform elements of the score, because we talked in early conversations about how towards the action climax of the film, there was going to be a need for the score to interweave seamlessly with this source cue, which is and extremely difficult technical thing to do."

Zimmer corroborated the unconventional nature of their work together on the film. "Chris and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process," Zimmer observed. "After all these conversations and reading the script and more conversations, Chris went out and shot the films, [but] he wouldn't show it to me until I had written the music. Not out of meanness, or anything, it just sort of seemed an interesting idea to see if there was some synchronicity and letting me use my imagination to the fullest instead of being constricted by cuts and images. In a funny way, what I think we did was a sort of shared dreaming thing, and we did prove it's possible. Because when I finally saw the film, and when Chris had laid in all my music, I was actually surprised how well these two worlds existed together."

8. Inception has been buzzing on moviegoers' minds for more than a year, but the reason most don't know more about it is due to Nolan's dexterous and delightfully secretive marketing campaign. "It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience," Nolan observed. "My most enjoyable moviegoing experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don't know everything about, and you don't know every plot turn and every character movement that's going to happen."

Nolan admitted that to a certain extent, that level of mystery manufactured its own amount of hype. "I suppose that at a point, keeping something secret does lend itself to its own degree of hype," he said. "But I don't really think of it as secrecy. I just think of it as we invite the audience to come and see it based on some of the imagery and some of the plot ideas and the premise, but we don't want to give everything away. I think too much is given away too often in movie marketing today."

9. Whether it's appropriate or ironic, Ellen Page, who plays one of the film's dream architects, is decidedly mum on making a case for seeing the film, even when asked. Prodded to provide an explanation of the film for her friends, Page demurred, "I say just please, don't ask questions and don't look at anything and just please go see it. I'm the last person to tell my friends to go see something I'm in, but this is definitely a film that I'm just so thrilled about. And I'm more thrilled about the fact that everybody seems so excited and I just feel so grateful to be in a Christopher Nolan film, let alone this film."

Page admitted that her own moviegoing motivation seems to run contrary to many of the other audience members that are her age. "Typically, I'm of the mind that I love how Chris does the quote-unquote secrecy, but I'm so young that I've been in a time when everything is on the internet. Sometimes I see a trailer and I'm thrilled to say that I've just seen the whole movie without paying for it," she said with a laugh.

"So I actually go the route of just don't ask – and don't sniff around. Just have an absolute blast and an exciting, cerebral time when you see it."

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Lindsay Lohan axed from new 'Machete' trailer

Are Lindsay Lohan's DUI-related legal tussles and profane manicures affecting what's left of her once (long, long ago) promising film career?

Is that why she's not in the new teaser trailer for Robert Rodriguez's "Machete," even though she was in an earlier version? Or is the reason for the slice because she reportedly only has a brief (topless) cameo in the movie?

She is, however, on what wants to be a controversial poster for the film, which also stars Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal and Don Johnson.

In a tedious LiLo pose we've (yawn) grown used to, she is seen licking a very large gun, wearing a nun's habit, with blood splattered over the image. It reads: "Lindsay Lohan as The Sister."

Huffington Post reports that in the film, Lindsay (who is not dead) goes topless -- swimming in a waterfall -- with Alicia Rachel Marek, 34, who plays her mom.

Meanwhile, the New York Daily News reports that Rodriguez is not commenting on whether or not Lohan's included in the movie's upcoming junket. But after her recent 90-day jail sentence for violating probation on 2007 DUI busts, she may not be available anyway.

Darn. We would have just loved to report about what rude comment was written on her middle fingernail.

Here's the new trailer -- without Lindsay.

Leo DiCaprio and Ellen Page Answer Fan Questions on Moviefone's Unscripted for 'Inception'

Mega-stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page stop by our studio to discuss their psychological thriller 'Inception' and turn our interview into a therapy session of sorts where we find out how well Ellen plays with others and what Leo's crazy dreams are all about.

For a movie that takes place in "four different stages of the human subconscious" and was like "a giant therapy session" to film, you might expect an interview to be a little "heavy." It is (in a good way)! The two co-stars give insightful and thoughtful answers to questions you may need a college degree, or to see the movie first, to understand. We suggest watching this now and then again after you've checked out the film (or completing a two-year associates program at the online university of your choice).

Ellen answers the question on everyone's mind, about what it's like to work with so many talented and intimidating actors; but what we really can't wait to see the crazy white jumpsuits that made her feel like she was in a Back Street Boys video. Just when you thought you couldn't like Leonardo DiCaprio any more, he shows his down-to-earth side, answering a question about drawing parallels between the film and life as a celebrity. With further modesty, Leo explains that even superstars get nervous, as he retells one of his vivid dreams brought on by the anxiety of the impending press junket for the film -- you'll have to let him describe in his own words.

Sit back and enjoy our 'Inception' Unscripted with Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page.

Jackie Chan Wishes His 'Karate Kid' Co-Star Jaden Smith A Happy Birthday

There's no denying the powerful dynamic between original "Karate Kid" protagonists Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi, but actors Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith proved that their chemistry knows no bounds either in the recent "Karate Kid" remake.

It seems that the pair struck up something of a formidable friendship, too, as our Daily TwitPic clearly evidences. Jaden celebrated his 12th birthday yesterday, you see, and while Mr. Chan may not have been there in person to celebrate alongside his on-screen student, he was right there on Twitter to proudly mark the occasion with a behind-the-scenes photo from the set of "The Karate Kid."




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'Knight and Day' reaches goal of trying to be enjoyable

Looking for some summer fun? Then "Knight and Day" is the perfect movie. While it isn't all that special or memorable, it's enjoyable, and that's all it tries to be.

"Knight and Day" follows June Havens (Cameron Diaz) and her adventures with Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) after an accidental meeting at the airport. June is your typical girl-next-door who's on her way to her sister's wedding when she literally bumps into ex-CIA agent Roy, though she has no clue at the time.

After boarding the plane, which is coincidentally full of bad guys trying to kill Roy, he shoots all the passengers except for June and they crash land on an empty field. June now is suddenly thrust into Roy's spy world of car chases, gun fights, exotic locations, witty banter, and lots, I mean lots, of action. Sounds like a bit much, doesn't it? That's because at times it is.

Though the film might not be amazing, its lead actors certainly were. Cruise was a delight to watch. He was charming, and with a string of action movies behind him, looked perfectly at home with a gun and pulling off stunts left and right in some intense action scenes. He did a great job in this role as a surprisingly polite, yet extremely deadly spy who looks great in sunglasses.

Diaz also brought a certain something to her role as June, keeping up with Cruise very well. She additionally really helped to bring the romance into the movie.

Unfortunately, the rest of the cast wasn't nearly as enjoyable to watch. In fact, they were bland, none sticking out with a particularly stunning performance.

The bottom line is: "Knight and Day" is far from perfect and definitely isn't Oscar material, but who really cares? It is what it is, which is a fun, humorous summer flick with action, mystery, comedy and even a little romance.

It is probably worth a rental once the film comes out on DVD.

Ramona and Beezus official trailer

Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem partying in Spain!

Casting Call: Professor Moriarty

Christine Champ, Jan 26, 2010; Film.com

Now that Robert Downey Jr. and Guy Ritchie have given Sherlock Holmes a 21st-century rebirth, and a sequel (and the dawn of a blockbuster franchise) is nearly certain, one nagging question remains. Who will play Moriarty?

His creator, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has described him within his Sherlock Holmes series as the "Napoleon of crime," a "spider in a web" of Godfather-esque evil, a genius of good breeding and excellent education, a former professor with phenomenal mathematical capabilities and mental powers turned to dark purpose by the diabolical strain in his blood. And as far as looks go: tall, thin, gray hair, domed forehead, clean-shaven, sunken eyes, and a reptilian shiftiness. Of course, Ritchie, as he did in 2009's Sherlock Holmes will certainly exercise his right to artistic license in interpreting the character -- which I imagine will include an extra dollop of wit.



Who then, among the current academy of actors, could embody Holmes' arch-nemesis, the dark side to the late-19th-century hero's somewhat murky light of goodness, a super-villain with intellect and imagination to match his? He must be played, of course, by a thespian with the chops to foil (in all senses of the word) an actor of Downey's caliber on the big screen.

Past Professor Moriartys have included Orson Welles (in a 1950s radio broadcast) and Law & Order's Vincent D'Onofrio (in a 2002 made-for-cable movie). Though there's been buzz Ritchie plans to cast Brad Pitt in the role, so far its proven unfounded.

So who is fit to slink around in Professor Moriarty's shoes? Is Dick Cheney too infirm?

Well, we have a few suggestions.

Johnny Depp - An acting chameleon if there ever was one. Having played roles as diverse as a bloodthirsty barber to machine gun Romeo and deranged pirate, Depp would certainly make a charismatic and compelling Moriarty.

Stanley Tucci - It's not just the studious glasses he sometimes wears. Tucci's proven he has whatever it takes to play any role, whether it calls for suaveness and intelligence or serial killer sinister-ness. So why not Moriarty?

Gary Oldman - Dracula, Beethoven, Sid Vicious, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jesus ... Moriarty should be a snap for Oldman.

William Hurt - Hurt does innate evil unnervingly well, especially as A History of Violence's Richie Cusack.

Anthony Hopkins - Think "psychotic genius" and you know Hopkins, aka Hannibal Lecter, is one of the first and most blood-curdling actors to come to mind.

Christoph Waltz - Truly my top choice. If you've watched his Golden Globe-winning performer as the twinkly-eyed Nazi sleuth with the charm of a cobra in Inglourious Basterds, then enough said. If not, see the film and you'll understand.

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New Iron Man 2 Still

Paramount Pictures has provided us with this new photo of Tony Stark racing in Marvel Studios' Iron Man 2, opening in conventional theaters and IMAX on May 7. Directed by Jon Favreau, the anticipated sequel stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Favreau, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Garry Shandling, John Slattery, Kate Mara, Clark Gregg and Olivia Munn.

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Avatar to surpass Titanic as Hollywood's most successful movie of all time

By Tuesday morning, "Avatar" will likely be the top grossing movie of all time.

As theaters reported their weekend figures today, James Cameron's 3-D movie came within $2 million of claiming the record. "Avatar" has raked in more than $2 million on most weekdays, so expect Hollywood to crown a new king tomorrow.

The current tally stands at $1.841 billion worldwide. Cameron's last major film, "Titanic," hit ice at $1.843 billion.

This sudden rise comes with a few curiosities:

First, the power of Hollywood as an American export

Many US conservative groups have written off "Avatar" as a 160-minute liberal, tree-hugging, pagan, anti-American diatribe. Whether or not such messages lie in the forests of Pandora, foreign audiences have flocked to the science-fiction movie. Seventy percent of its earnings came from overseas.

Few of 2009's other top films share such a pronounced split. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" came close with 67 percent of ticket sales coming from abroad – but most releases dipped below 50 percent.

But don't think Avatar has tottered domestically. In the US, it's come in first place for six weeks in a row. If you only count American ticket sales, "Avatar" is again the No. 2 top-grossing movie of all time. But the margin between it and "Titanic" is much greater: $600 million to $552 million.

Second, the speed if its ascent

"Titanic" steamed ahead for 10 months before leaving theaters. "Avatar" has only been out for 6 weeks.

The new film still has plenty of fight in it, but maybe not 10-months worth. Theaters will keep screening the movie for as long as it makes money. But often they will show blockbusters in a smaller room each week – one that best fits a film's diminishing returns. It will be interesting to see what happens when competing 3-D movies come out – such as "Shrek the Fourth" in May and "Toy Story 3" in June. One of the biggest selling points of "Avatar" is its third dimension. Since the spectacle requires a special projector and lots of polarized glasses, few theaters will be able to support more than one 3-D movie at a time. They could show the 2-D version of "Avatar," but that will mean convincing viewers that the "flat" version is worth seeing again – not to mention the price of acquiring a new copy of the film from 20th Century Fox. Will theaters and audiences bother?

Third, will the DVD fall far from the tree?

"Avatar" has been great news for theaters, but there are very few ways to bring the extra dimension home with you. As we wrote earlier this month:

Despite the best efforts of pitchmen at this week's Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, very few families can play 3D movies at home. Will a flat version of "Avatar" attract the same following? The good news for studios is that "Up," "Monsters Vs. Aliens," and "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" – the 3D movies that cracked 2009's top-grossing list for theaters – also broke into the top ten for DVD sales.

There's little chance that 3D TVs will become mainstream by the time "Avatar" hits store shelves as a disc. But the movie will join the growing list of reasons to scoop up a new television. With ESPN and Discovery announcing 3D cable networks and Blu-ray recently settling on a high-definition 3D format, perhaps this really will be the year that 3D TVs take off.

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