5 top pieces of celebrity gossip — from a $3 million offer for a North West picture to Christian Bale's emphatic Batman retirement
1. Robert Pattinson might be dating Elvis Presley's granddaughterTwihards
may still be mourning the end of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's
sparkly love affair, but according to speculation at People, Pattinson may have himself a new hunka hunka burnin' love. Over the weekend, Pattinson was spotted driving around Los Angeles with Riley Keough, the granddaughter of Elvis Presley. Though neither Pattinson nor Keough
commented on the rumors, plenty have taken it as a matter of course
that the two are an item — because it's not like a man and a woman can
just be friends, right? [People]
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2. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West turned down $3 million for their baby picturesAcross the world, billions of people are champing at the bit to see what Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's new baby North West
looks like (or if she'd have been better off as a South). But in the
face of such pressure, the celebrity couple are holding firm, turning
down a reported $3 million offer from an unnamed Australian magazine for
the first picture of their offspring. "Motherhood has changed [Kim
Kardashian]," a source told Us Weekly — which, given that she turned down a chance to be photographed at all, already sort of went without saying. [Us Weekly]
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3. Seriously, Christian Bale won't be playing Batman againSince The Dark Knight Rises
hit theaters last year, the internet has been abuzz over the
possibility that Christian Bale might pick up Batman's cape and cowl
again for another sequel or spinoff, despite the fact that Christian
Bale has repeatedly and emphatically said for months that he won't. But
in the face of the internet's collective, willful case of mass amnesia,
the actor was forced to confirm, once again, that his days as the Caped
Crusader are over. "It’s a torch that should be handed from one actor to another," said Bale in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
"So I enjoy looking forward to what somebody else will come up with."
With that definitive statement, we can now officially consider the
matter settled — until next week, when everyone starts bugging him about
it again. [Entertainment Weekly]
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4. James Franco will star and direct in The Sound and the FuryHow can James Franco possibly top his upcoming film adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying? With a film adaptation of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. According to Slashfilm,
Franco has co-written a script for a film adaptation of the classic
novel, which he also plans to direct and star in alongside his brother
Dave Franco. So English teachers can presumably look forward to boo
kreports from slacking students that describe a lot of smirking and
squinting. [SlashFilm]
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5. You can watch the Wizard of Oz 3D trailer right now (in 2D)Can't wait any longer to see the beloved 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz in 3D? If you visit Yahoo now,
you can finally watch a trailer that will give you a taste of what the
film will look like in its newly remastered 3D edition — but in 2D, because you're sitting at your computer without 3D
glasses on. Yes, watching a trailer that consists entirely of footage
from a movie that's been around for more than 70 years might seem
counterintuitive, but it's not all bad: At least you don't have to pay
another $5 for the privilege. [Yahoo!]
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