MarcAnthony Tagged Articles at Cinematical

Almost one year ago, I fell head over heels for Annie Leibovitz's photographic recreations of famous, animated Disney scenes. She shot Scarlett Johansson as the running Cinderella, Beyonce Knowles as Alice in Wonderland, spinning around in teacups that came from Disney World, and David Beckham as the Prince who fights off Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty. Now the next set of images have hit the net. They are housed over at The Disney Blog, and I'm still swooning.

I think that what I like most about these images is that they're awesome even if I don't particularly care for the people in them. Leibovitz knows how to capture the essence of each scene, and it makes me wonder just how stunning a carefully-plotted, full-length feature would look. (D*mn good, but long to do, and expensive to boot!) This time around, we've got the above, which features Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan with Gisele Bundchen as Wendy Darling and a teeny Tina Fey as Tinker Bell. But there's also images with Jessica Biel as Pocahontas, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony taking a magic carpet ride in Aladdin, and one more from that film, which looks split from the first, that has Whoopi Goldberg as the Genie.

As an added bonus, TDB also has a bunch of behind-the-scenes pics, which help you see how these great images came to be.

The slide of Jennifer Lopez into complete irrelevance seems to be continuing unabated, based on the trailer for her next film, El Cantante. Even after watching it, I can barely make out any semblance of a story, except that it seems to center on Marc Anthony as a singer who is trying to conquer the Latin music scene and Lopez is his woman. According to CinemaBlend, where we first saw the poster for the film, it's a "dramatic biography of Puerto Rican salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe. The film follows Lavoe's (Anthony) passionate relationship with Puchi (Lopez) and his skyrocket to international fame. In the mix are a lot of drugs and angst."

I know Out of Sight was a long time ago, but has Hollywood so completely forgotten Lopez's good performance in that movie that they are offering her nothing but dreck like this? A quick glance at her IMDB page reveals one project on the sked for 2008 called The Governess, but she is the only name beside it so far and I've never heard of it, so it looks like the kind of project that stars say they know nothing about at press junkets. And this Marc Anthony character? I know one thing about him: he gave such a bad performance in Tony Scott's Man on Fire that it's stuck in my mind ever since. Seriously, Tony's red ballcap must have gone spinning every time this guy uttered a line. Marc Anthony, you need to stick to your day job, whatever that may be. For those who still plan to see El Cantante after seeing the trailer, it's scheduled to arrive in theaters on August 1.

If there is such a thing as a "Hollywood martyr" then Marilyn Monroe is probably the patron saint. She was the ultimate in cautionary tales about the destructive side of fame, but it doesn't always have to end so tragically. Ben Affleck's engagement to Jennifer Lopez and the gossip whirlwind that was "Bennifer" was an example of what happens when the gossip machine looks for fresh meat, and the results weren't pretty -- although, they might have been asking for it after that video. Now, that was brutal.

Affleck has begun to pull himself from the wreckage and is building credibility as an actor again for his work in Hollywoodland and Smokin' Aces. He'll also be making his directing debut with Gone, Baby, Gone. Affleck is steering clear of the high profile celebrity life and seems happier because of it. A profile from The New York Times Syndicate has Affleck musing on his brush with A-list fame: "Nothing is inside doing those things. It doesn't matter. I had to learn that by having my family that's what really matters. I'm lucky I was able to see the hollowness of fame, but I got pretty dinged up over the years." It looks like Affleck might have learned his lesson about keeping his private life out of his professional life, but Lopez certainly hasn't; since she stars opposite husband Marc Anthony in the upcoming biopic of singer Hector Lavoe (El Cantante) -- some people never learn.

Marc Anthony has finally reached "mega-icky" status in my books. To commemorate J-Lo's recent Women in Film award, the creepy crooner took out a page in Variety to advertise his love for Jennifer Lopez (doesn't he remember Afflek's boot-licking ad of 2002?  Not to mention Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford's ill-fated spread in the New York Times?).  Anthony phrased his praise like a script (complete with stage direction) and ended his profession of love with, "here's to never waking up, baby. You deserve it, I love you."  This sounded a little bit too much like A Nightmare on Elm Street's tag-line, "If Nancy Doesn't Wake Up Screaming, She Won't Wake Up At All ...".

According to Page Six,  we can now add Lindsay Lohan to Anna Wintour's "naughty list." The Herbie Fully Loaded star was sitting at Wintour's table for the CFDA Awards and allegedly visited the bathroom no less than six times in the span of two hours.  Wintour was furious with Lindsay's behavior and was overheard telling a Vogue Staffer, "tell her, if she gets up one more time, she will never be invited to one of my events again." It seems Lindsay has left her super cute Disney days in the dust and is headed towards an entirely different vehicle I like to call, The Bathroom: Fully Reloaded.

Dolphins are the latest mammals to hop on the "Jessica Alba is hot" bandwagon. The Sin City star recently confessed to the fact that the male dolphins on the set of Flipper got a little too close for comfort and would often give her "pokes" (her words, I swear).  Due to the all the friskiness on the set, Alba was forced to work solely with female dolphins.  Needless to say, Alba made sure give a shout-out to her underwater friends when she thanked "all the perverts who voted for me," for her MTV Movie Award for "Sexiest Performance".

Jennifer Lopez has reportedly changed her mind about co-starring in Who Killed Hector Lavoe. Lavoe a Puerto Rican singer who died in poverty in New York in 1993, is credited with introducing salsa to the US. After reading about the insanity of his life, I'd have to say that JLo made a great call when she bought the rights to his story a few years ago. Damn.

What might not have been such a great call, however, is her recent decision to play Lavoe's wife in the film. Why, you ask? Well, a gentleman by the name of Marc Anthony is starring in the film, and we all know what happens with JLo appears in movies with her men:  they bomb, and she ends up bitter and alone. Careful here, JLo. Look, I've been bitter ever since you made the transition from interesting, talented actress to skanky ho. But if you screw this movie up? Girl, we are so over.