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Drake Releases Girls Love Beyonce

Drake promised us two new songs that we can hear from him this week, and as promised he drops his new song Girls Love Beyonce. The song samples lyrics from Destiney’s Child’s Say My Name, produced by 40. “Say My name, Say My Name, cause those other men were practice.”

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After singles Faded and Hotel 323, the 20 year old out of Leimet Park Jamal Cristopher releases his 2nd free album, 2nd Period! The 12 track Album features Jet 2 with production from the likes of L.A.'s "MikeFree" and more. Stream and Download the album for Free Below! Jamal Cristopher - 2nd Period (The Album on Soundcloud) https://soundcloud.com/jamalcristopher/sets/2nd-period Jamal Cristopher - 2nd Period (The Album) Sharebeast- http://www.sharebeast.com/9fs8tzxmixuz Hulkshare- http://www.hulkshare.com/9x7zj7dstbsw

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Carey Mulligan by Mario Testino for Vogue US, May 2013

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Alessandra Ambrosio at Coachella 2013.

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Jamal Cristopher releases his 3rd leak off of his forthcoming free album titled "Hotel 323." Hotel 323 is produced by Los Angeles's "MikeFree." (@MikeFree_)The album, 2nd Period is due out later this month, April 16th, 2013. Jamal Cristopher - "Hotel 323" (Prod. by @MikeFree_) https://soundcloud.com/jamalcristopher/hotel-323-prod-by-mikefree

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Jamal Cristopher releases his 3rd leak off of his forthcoming free album titled "Hotel 323." Hotel 323 is produced by Los Angeles's "MikeFree." (@MikeFree_)The album, 2nd Period is due out later this month, April 16th, 2013. Jamal Cristopher - "Hotel 323" (Prod. by @MikeFree_) https://soundcloud.com/jamalcristopher/hotel-323-prod-by-mikefree

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Chris Messina is always busy

A star of network TV ("The Mindy Project") and Oscar-nominated films ("Argo"), the New York native reflects on the crises faced by even the biggest stars.

In this world of abundant entertainment, genre-tailored and delivered across fractured lines, Chris Messina's is the face you have undoubtedly seen in the past 12 months, no matter where you get your Hollywood fix.

Like the studio Oscar contenders? He was a co-star in Ben Affleck's Argo. More of an indie romance fan? Try Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg's Celeste and Jesse Forever, Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan's Ruby Sparks or Jenna Fischer's Giant Mechanical Man. Maybe you like network comedy; he's Mindy Kaling's cocky, divorcee co-doctor on The Mindy Project. Cable more your thing? He has a recurring role in HBO's The Newsroom and finished the run of DirecTV's Damages.

At 37,Messina has broken out to become one of the busiest working actors in the industry, and 2013 will see him finally add a new credit to his name: writer and executive producer.

Messina co-stars in the new indie dramedy Fairhaven as a guy who escaped his small-town childhood in Massachusetts but is drawn back -- reluctantly -- to attend his estranged father's funeral. There, he meets up with two old friends, played by Tom O'Brien (also the film's primary writer-director) and Mad Men's Rich Sommer. Secrets of their pasts (including one involving Sarah Paulson) and subsequent mixed-fortune adulthoods spill out, making for a mix of catharsis and nostalgia that redefine relationships.

Film Review: 'Fairhaven'

The Hollywood Reporter: The movie starts with a Tom Brady TV interview, in which he questions whether, even with all his success: "Is this it? There's got to be something more than this." Do you ever feel like that?

Chris Messina: Yes and no. I wonder if when I get to where I think in my head that I need to be, or where I dream to be, I wonder if I feel like I had arrived and I got there or that I would more be thinking about what Brady said, like, "Well, now I’m here; is this it?” But at this point in my life, I feel very grateful for where I am. I won’t lie to you; there’s a lot more to do, I have a lot more to say and a lot more places I want to go, but I’m very fortunate I ended up here at this moment in time.

THR: Do you think it’s a misconception that actors have it all and don’t have the existential crises that everyone else does?

Messina: Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have? I think as an actor, you’re constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing -- and failing in front of a bunch of people -- and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks. So it’s constantly a roller-coaster ride, and I think even the greatest, biggest movie stars, as human beings, are constantly going, "Maybe I’m not all that, maybe I need to fix this or that." So I think no matter who you are or how successful you are, you’re going to be questioning as long as you’re from the planet Earth.

THR: In Fairhaven, your character goes home but isn’t that excited about it. What’s that like for you?

Messina: I love to go home. I grew up in Long Island, and at first I went to Manhattan and Brooklyn and Queens and then I moved out west. So when I go home, it’s that feeling that I think most people have when you drive down a certain block and remember making out with a girl in a car on that block, and you drive past your best friend’s house, but they’ve torn it down. Those kinds of things. There’s a lot of ghosts there, and it’s sometimes really nice to visit them, and maybe sometimes painful, but ultimately it’s who you are and where you came from.

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THR: You’ve been doing a lot of indie movies this year. Was this one in particular difficult to get off the ground?

Messina: This one was, yeah. This one was like seven years. But we were working very slow. Which is ultimately the way that I like to work and am best suited. But yeah, I like the smaller movies because, ultimately, there’s less voices about what the movie is or should be or has to be. You have a team of people that you surround yourself with, and you make the movie. When you’re doing The Mindy Project, network television, there’s more voices, there’s more money, there’s more advertising, more stakes. Totally understandable, but you’re pleasing a shitload of people -- most times, people you never meet. Notes are coming from places from people you don’t know. I like them all, and you learn a lot from all of it, but the smaller films, you definitely can express a lot more without someone with scissors, ready to cut it.

THR: Was it difficult to find funding for Fairhaven?

Messina: It was, yeah. You know, we’re no stars, and we were lucky to get people like Rich Sommer and Sarah Paulson -- they’re great actors -- to come on board and help us. Ultimately, making movies, if you don’t have a big star, it’s hard to do. Or if it’s not a star director. But while the movie being written, as we were going through the process, we were always designing it to be small. We always knew we would struggle for financing, so instead of spending years and years and years of struggling of financing, we kept it as small as possible, so we needed the least amount [of money].

THR: It’s a character-driven movie, so I imagine you filmed many more scenes than what ended up in the final cut. How do you decide what gets into the movie?

Messina: Tom was in the editing room with his editor and they really cracked open the movie there in New York. I was in Los Angeles, and they’d send over cuts. We kind of worked on the editing, the same way we worked on the writing. Tom would go off and write, I’d come back and give notes, that’s how we did the editing. I think as you’re editing, you have to be able to kill things you loved. And sometimes things that don’t make it in, they’re really fun scenes or stuff that meant a lot to you or you thought were really funny or really moving, but ultimately if they don’t move the story along or serve the story, you have to say goodbye to it. Some of those things were hard to say, and some of them are jarring; you look at them and say, "That has to go." I know we loved it when we shot it, and we thought it was great, but it’s not.

THR: It’s like with writing, trying to find a spot for things you like.

Messina: You know exactly what it is. When you wrote it, it was great. Like, I have to put this paragraph somewhere. ...

THR: You were in six movies and three TV shows this year. Do you ever rest?

Messina: I have the flu right now, so I have to rest. I’m being forced to rest, but I haven’t done much resting, and I’m not complaining because it certainly hasn’t always been like this. There’s been a lot of times that I thought I’d never work again; I was really bummed out. So I haven’t been resting as much, but at the moment I’m grateful for it.

THR: The Mindy Project is one of the buzziest new shows. When you’re doing that, do you have the feeling that you’re doing something that will be talked about?

Messina: No, no. I’m always wondering if are people watching it, people seeing it, liking it. I’m not as aware of it. I know I enjoy it, and I learned a lot for it, and it’s been a great experience. We have an incredible writing team, led by Mindy, and I’ve learned a lot from them about comedy. Maybe I’m bullshitting, because as the season’s gone on, I think more people have come up to me on the street and whatnot and say they’re really enjoying the show. You get into a bubble in these things sometimes, certainly on a TV show, day in and day out.

THR: Funny that Mark Duplass is doing the show; you’re both so ubiquitous.

Messina: I love that he’s on there, and whenever we have a scene to do, it’s a ball. I love him. There have been a couple of articles that people have written about the two of us and comparing our year and whatnot, and I always feel really lucky to be in an article next to him, a list next to him. I think he’s super-talented and a great actor and filmmaker.

THR: You, Duplass and Jessica Chastain -- I think the three of you have comprised 75 percent of what I’ve watched this year.

Messina: We might need one to do one together, all of us. That would be awesome. I would love to be in one of Mark’s movies that he acts in and directs, and Chastain as the lead of the movie.

Fairhaven is limited theatrical release and also is available on iTunes.

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Jamal Cristopher releases "Faded"

Rap Star Jamal Cristopher releases his brand new single, titled "Faded." Pretty Artwork!

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Russell Crowe is still single

Russell Crowe is not in a new relationship. The Les Miserables actor, 48, denied rumors that he's dating Dita Von Teese, 40, on Twitter Monday, Jan. 14.

"Dita Von Teese is brave, smart, sweet and elegant," he tweeted. "She is a friend of mine. Who wouldn't want friends like that? Friends, not lovers."

Crowe has since deleted the message, but kept a Tweet of the burlesque dancer's video collaboration with Monarchy Sound on his feed. On Monday, The New York Post's Page Six reported that Crowe and Teese enjoyed a couples message together in December, and claimed the two have been flirting with each other on Twitter for quite some time.

The Oscar-winning actor reportedly separated from wife Danielle Spencer after 9 years in October. But Crowe, who shares sons Charles, 9, and Tennyson, 6, with Spencer, suggested on Twitter in December that he was trying to work on his marriage. 

"As soon as I finish this job and can get home, my priority is to try to bring my family back together," the actor, who was filming Winter's Tale at the time, wrote.

Musician Spencer, 43, also hinted at her troubled marriage in a Facebook post to her fans. She wrote, "I just wanted to thank you all for bearing with me and also for your messages of support, it means a lot to me."

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Charlie Sheen to be a Grandpa!

The Sheen genes live on! Charlie Sheen will become a first-time grandfather later this year when his oldest daughter, Cassandra Estevez, 28, gives birth to her first child.

The Anger Management star, 47, confirmed the happy news himself during an appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman Monday, Jan. 14. He told Letterman he was excited about the new addition to his family, but he also admitted to being a little nervous.

"Me as a grandfather, Dave...I don't know. It's like the world's going to crack in half," he joked. "It's fabulous. It's just not a title I'm ready to adopt."

Asked whether he thought he'd be a good grandpa, the actor quipped, "Well, yeah, because you can leave the kid!"

Shortly after the interview, Sheen's ex-wife Denise Richards posted the news on Twitter. "I guess some of you have heard...Charlie Sheen is going to be a Grampa...yes, GRAMPA!" she wrote. "His beautiful daughter Cassandra is gonna be a mama."

Cassandra is Sheen's daughter with his high school sweetheart Paula Speert. The actor also has two younger daughters, Sam, 8, and Lola, 7, with second wife Richards, and 3-year-old twin sons, Bob and Max, with third wife Brooke Mueller.

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Check out The GRAMMY's Latest spot for the 55th annual GRAMMY awards.

The World is Listening

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Rita Ora x OUT Magazine

Check out the beautiful Rita Ora in an outtake from Out Mag!

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Foreign Box Office latest

Foreign Box Office: 'Life of Pi' Repeats as No. 1; 'Hobbit' Cracks $600 Million Offshore

"Les Miserables" sets records in the U.K. while "Gangster Squad" kicks off its international run.

Topping the international charts for the second consecutive round is director Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, which collected $33.2 million from 9,347 situations in 67 markets, elevating its foreign gross total to a mighty $357.4 million.

Opening No. 1 in the Philippines, the Fox release boosted by 11 Oscar nominations drew its highest weekend tally in Russia ($4.4 million from 1,575 sites for a market cume of $25 million). 

Top market (outside of China) remains the U.K., where Life of Pi generated $3.8 million in its fourth frame from 673 sites for a territory total of $35.5 million. Weekend box office actually increased 5% in eighth round of playoff in Lee’s native Taiwan ($329,694 at 80 spots for a market cume of $16 million).

As it did last weekend, Warner’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey placed second, collecting $26.1 million from more than 10,000 screens in 63 markets.  The Peter Jackson opus with three Oscar nominations did, however, fly past the $600-million market in international box office ($608 million).

Logging record-breaking No. 1 openings in the U.K. and New Zealand, Universal’s Les Miserables bagged $25.5 million overall on the weekend at 2,432 playdates in 22 territories, hoisting its international gross total to $115.1 million. (Worldwide tally is now $234.3 million.)

The U.K. debut was especially notable because Les Miserables took a 37% weekend market share with a gross of $13.4 million at 592 locations, as per Universal, the distributor’s best grossing weekend ever in the territory.  It also was the best market opening for a musical.

A musical opening market record was also set in New Zealand where the weekend generated $625,000 at 81 sites. In its third Australia round, Les Miserables finished fifth with $2.3 million at 242 spots for a 19-day market cume of $18.2 million.

Japan via local distributor Toho-Towa generated $3 million in its fourth stanza at 328 sites for a 24-day total of $31.8 million.  Openings in seven markets are due this week including in India, the Philippines and Sweden.

Opening in 19 markets was Warner’s Gangster Squad, a crime drama costarring Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin about the takedown of L.A. gangster Mickey Cohen. Debut round generated $9.1 million at 1,484 locations with the U.K. leading the numbers pack ($3.4 million at 453 screens including previews, sufficient for a No. 3 market ranking).

In Spain, where Universal’s release of director Katherine Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty is dipping its toes in international waters, the weekend tally was $1.2 million at 231 screens, sufficient for a No. 4 market ranking.  The 10-day cume stands at $3.1 million. Universal is handling the drama about the pursuit of Osama Bin Laden in major European markets with France and U.K. debuts set for next week.

Fox International came up with a pair of No. 1 market openers, both comedies handled by distributor Fox. In Germany, actor-director Matthias Schweighofer’s Schlussmaker (Break Up Man) drew a robust $5 million from 450 screens while writer-director Vishal Bhardwaj’s Hindi-language Matru Ki Bijjlee Ka Mandola grossed $6.5 million from 2,100 screens in nine markets, notably including a first-place bow in India ($5.5 million at 1,850).

Thanks to opening in 10 markets, Paramount’s Tom Cruise action title, Jack Reacher, came up with $17.6 million from a total of 5,963 locations in 57 countries in its fourth weekend of overseas play. Foreign cume stands at $80.4 million.

Russia opened with $3 million at 600 spots. The No. 1 Spain premier produced $1.5 million at 344 sites while the Brazil bow generated $1 million at 208 situations. Reacher opens this week in South Korea.

Wreck-It Ralph, Disney’s 3D family animation title, boosted its total foreign take past the $150-million mark ($156.9 million) thanks to a $11.6 million weekend in 59 territories. It has been playing for 11 stanzas on the foreign circuit. Worldwide, the film has grossed $336.3 million.

Showing some overseas muscle outside the U.K., Universal’s release of the Working Title/Focus Features’ coproduction, Anna Karenina, costarring Keira Knightley and Jude Law, made a big splash in Russia where the opening tally was $4.9 million at 485 playdates, sufficient for a No. 5 market ranking.  Weekend overall generated $6.3 million at 1,260 screens in 21 territories for an international total of $31.4 million.

Drawing $4.6 million from 1,965 sites in 29 territories was Parental Guidance, Fox’s comedy costarring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler.  A Brazil opening at 250 spots generated $842,451. Foreign cume stands at $23.1 million.   

More data from 2012: The U.K. (including Ireland) recorded record yearly box office of  $1.887 billion (1.172 pounds), up 4% from 2011’s total market figure. A strong fourth quarter, featuring record takings of Skyfall, Sony/MGM’s James Bond sequel, which became the first film ever to breach the 100-million pound mark. The film’s U.K. cume now stands at $164.2 million. 

Skyfall drew $4 million on the weekend from 2,545 venues in 50 markets, raising its foreign gross total to $733.5 million of which $643.5 million came from territories handled by Sony and $90 million from those handled by MGM.

DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians grossed $3.9 million at 4,252 venues in 54 markets in its ninth weekend offshore, raising the foreign cume via Paramount to $187.7 million.  Universal's Pitch Perfect pocketed $2.4 million at 1,150 spots in 15 markets, lifting its foreign cume to $40.4 million. 

Still the top local language title in France was Mars Distribution’s De L’autre Cote De Periph (The Other Side of the Fence) starring Omar Sy. The police caper about two mismatched cops assigned to a murder case generated $1.4 million in its fourth round at 569 screens, sufficient for a No. 2 market ranking. Market cume stands at $14.7 million. (The Weinstein Co. has domestic distribution rights.)

Other international cumes: Fox/Europa Corp.’s Taken 2, $234.1 million (after a $1.7 million opening in Japan at 288 venues); Universal’s This Is 40, $415,000; EuropaCorp Distribution’s Prince (Pas Trop) Charmant, $700,000 in opener in France at 175 dates; and Universal’s ParaNorman, $47.6 million.

Opening this week: Sony said it is distributing Django Unchained adorned with its five Oscar nominations in all foreign markets. The first openings in 51 markets begin Wed. (Jan. 16) through Friday (Jan. 18), including all of Europe along with most of Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Middle East. 

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Jessica Chastain might win a possible oscar tonight

Jessica Chastain On a Possible Oscar Nom First

By ANTOINETTE BUENO

January 08, 2013

Jessica Chastain is an Oscar nom favorite heading into Thursday morning's Academy Award nominations announcement, thanks to her critically acclaimed performance in Zero Dark Thirty, and it turns out she'll probably also set an Oscar first -- receiving the amazing honor while 30,000 feet up in the air!

Jessica will be flying Thursday morning during the announcement, but says she will resist the urge to use the plane's Wi-Fi to check on her nomination.

Video: Jessica Chastain Talks Top-Secret 'Zero Dark Thirty' Shoot

"I'm not gonna go online -- it would be too embarrassing to be online, looking at people looking over my shoulder," she jokes. "But I am probably going to be looking at the stewardesses and everyone, to see if they are extra nice to me or [if they] are giving me the sympathy look, like 'Awwww....'"

In her new horror flick Mama, Jessica plays a woman who gets way more than she bargained for by taking in her two young nieces who were left alone in the forest for five years. She tells ET at the film's New York screening that what makes the film so scary is the "powerful force" that a mother has.

"Well, when you think about the scariest animal in the animal kingdom, it's usually like a mama protecting her young cubs. Nobody wants to mess with a mama grizzly bear -- they're very dangerous," she explains. "There have been mothers known to lift cars off of their children. It's this powerful force that a mother has -- and when that is harnessed for good it's a wonderful thing, but when it's harnessed for bad, it's not so great and it's very scary."

Her co-star, Game of Thrones' Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, had nothing but praise for his It-Girl co-star.

"She's brilliant," he gushes. "She's one of the best actresses around. It makes it so easy because you just react to what she does -- and you know, try not to drag her down to my level."

Check out the video to hear what scares Coster-Waldeau in real life, and how his young co-stars Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nelisse feel about playing such scary characters.

Mama, produced by Guillermo del Toro of Pan's Labyrinth fame, hits theaters January 18.

©ET!

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Lindsey Lohan showcases her real skill despite critics on The Canyon. Watch a scene from The Canyon Here.

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Courtney Cox talks split

The romance didn't work out for Courteney Cox and David Arquette, but the Cougar Town star still has plenty of love for her ex – as a friend. "He's my best friend in the world," the actress says on an episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show airing Monday. "I love him." Months since the former couple both filed divorce papers citing irreconcilable differences in June, Cox says, "I appreciate David more now than I ever did. I mean ... it's hard. I don't recommend divorce in general, but, you know, he is my best friend and we've both grown and changed." After all, the split seemed amicable for Cox, 48, and Arquette, 41, who initially separated in 2010, as they sought joint legal and physical custody of their 8-year-old daughter Coco in their filings. "I think we both appreciate each other more," she adds. "I hope he does. I do."