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Posted: 21 Mar 2013 01:30 AM PDT

When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about, proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world.

Catch The Host in cinemas this month. eCentral and Nusantara Edaran Filem is giving away movie merchandise and special screening tickets to this movie.

Plus, thanks to Universal Music, some of you will also receive a copy of Night Visions. The song, Radioactive by Imagine Dragons is featured in The Host. Night Visions is available in CD stores and iTunes.

To win, answer the questions below.

1. Name the actress who plays Melanie Stryder.

2. This movie is based on the book written by the same author as the Twilight series. Name this author.

Email your answers with your details (name, address, IC number and contact number) to ecentralcontest@gmail.com by 25 March 2013. Title the subject THE HOST.

Movie Prizes

4 X The Host t-shirt + Night Visions album + one pair special screening tickets each

4 X The Host laptop sleeve + one pair special screening tickets each

4 X The Host torchlight + one pair special screening tickets each

Special screening

Date: 3 April (Wednesday)

Time: 9.30pm

Venue: Hall 15; Cathay Cineplex eCurve 16

Rules & Regulations

1. The contest is open to all Malaysian residents residing in Malaysia only.

2. To qualify for a prize, contestants must include relevant personal details (full name, address, new IC number , contact number). Email your answers to ecentralcontest@gmail.com

3. Contestants may submit only one entry each. Multiple entries will be disqualified.

4. One prize is allowed per contestant only.

5. Prizes are not exchangeable for cash and the organizer reserves the right to exchange the prize with that of a similar value without prior notice.

6. Staff of The Star Publications (Malaysia) Berhad, sponsors and their immediate families are not allowed to participate.

7. Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entertained.

8. Judges will be from The Star Online.

9. For enquiries, please e-mail ecentralmy@gmail.com

10. I hereby expressly consent to the collection, collation, use and/or disclosure of all my personal data by Star Publications (M) Berhad for the purposes of The Host contest.

11. Winners will be notified by email.

Selena Gomez breaks free from squeaky clean image

Posted: 20 Mar 2013 09:18 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress and singer Selena Gomez breaks out of her squeaky clean Disney Channel image to star in the independent film Spring Breakers for filmmaker Harmony Korine.

In the film, which opens in wide release in the United States on Friday, Gomez stars as a young girl who is part of a quartet of college students whose spring break in Florida takes them from parties to jail and a criminal underworld.

Gomez is best known as pop star Justin Bieber's ex-girlfriend and the star of Disney's The Wizards Of Waverly Place, which ended its four season run last year. She recently returned to the channel for a reunion film, The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex.

Gomez, 20, spoke to Reuters about her career, growing up and transitioning into more adult roles.

Harmony Korine has a reputation for shocking his audience with movies like Kids, Gummo and Trash Humpers. Weren't you nervous about doing this film?

I was more excited and enticed. When I auditioned for Harmony, we talked about how he wanted to leave my lifestyle behind and have me go on this adventure with him. I knew it was going to be crazy, but I was comfortable with it.

What do you mean by lifestyle? The squeaky clean Disney lifestyle which was totally flipped upside down in this movie?

It was more that Harmony wanted an innocence because he thought it would be creepier. I agree with him.

You spend most of the film in a skimpy bikini. Did you feel self conscious?

When we did the spring break scenes, we were surrounded by hundreds of spring breakers in bikinis who wore even less, so that was okay. I was more uncomfortable in the scenes where I was (in a bikini) getting arrested, in jail and in the pool hall with strangers. It added vulnerability and helped me feel grossed out, which was what my character is supposed to feel.

For someone who started her career on the pre-school show Barney & Friends and spent her teen years on the Disney Channel, this must have been unlike any other acting job.

It was completely liberating. (Up until this film), everything I've been a part of definitely has been a bit more processed, like how many pieces of jewelry I have on, what my hair looks like. With Harmony, I never wore makeup and he never cared about my hair.

After an experience like that, you must come out the other side feeling like you've grown and changed somewhat.

I think that's a really good way of putting it because I feel like I did grow up shooting this. This was the first movie I shot by myself without my mum coming. It was the first time I got to improvise as much as I have.

And to work with someone like James Franco, it was the first time I was around someone of that acting caliber. Harmony believed in me and pushed me to be a better actor, so there's a special place in my heart for Harmony for sure.

You've got a couple of other films in the can - the action film The Getaway, a cameo in the horror film, Aftershock. Now that your film career is taking off, why did you go back to Disney for a reunion with your Wizards cast?

A: I missed them. I missed the channel, I missed everybody on the show. It was a big part of my life that I'm thankful for. That's where I started so I wanted to go back.

Your younger fans can't see Spring Breakers. Was this TV movie your way of giving them something new as well?

It always made me happy that we got to bring families together every night. I love having that connection with the younger audience and I missed that feeling.

How do you chart a film career from this point on?

I'm actually taking a complete turn now and going in to music. My album comes out this summer and I'll be touring. I always structure my music and tours in a way that is geared for my fans and supporters that have been there from the beginning. My music is definitely the kind I would want them to hear.

How do you balance between moving forward into more adult roles while bearing in mind that you are role model to many young girls?

It's a very awkward transition to make. I want to challenge myself and (my choices) may not be appropriate for a young audience. I'm choosing movies that I feel are artistically fun and creative. I hope people are appreciative of the work I do. I feel like I'm doing the best I can and hopefully it works out.

Last man standing

Posted: 20 Mar 2013 04:12 PM PDT

A battle rages on in the White House as extremists hold the most powerful nation to ransom.

THE action-packed Olympus Has Fallen very quickly introduces its main players before embarking directly into its core premise. A premise that is sure to get anyone's attention – the White House is attacked, putting both the US president and the nation in great peril.

Well, it definitely got producer and actor Gerard Butler interested in the project, as well as director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) and a slew of great actors (including Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Melissa Leo, Angela Bassett and Robert Forster).

In the film, Butler plays Mike Banning, a Secret Service agent and former Special Forces member assigned to protect President Benjamin Asher (Eckhart) and his family. But due to an unforeseen tragedy, Banning is removed from the White House and put in a desk job. All this is established in the first 15 minutes of the film. After that, things start rolling really fast when a group of terrorists – each with a specific role to play – takes over the White House with scary precision.

To make the hostile takeover as real as possible, Fuqua researched all the possible scenarios with a team of consultants comprising former Secret Service, FBI and CIA agents, as well as law enforcement officials. According to them, an attack on the White House is very possible as it takes at least 15 minutes for emergency military forces and support agents to get to the location. In the film, the takeover happens in real time – 13 minutes.

Fuqua said in the film's production notes: "The way Washington DC is laid out, there is no direct road to the White House. It would take a bit of time for any real force to arrive by land. In the air, it would be much shorter, but a well oiled-plan would still cause chaos. Even with all the security they have in place, the concept that someone could inflict serious damage is real. You get up to the fence with a backpack, how do they know what's in it? If you can get into our airspace, and you're willing to die, what kind of harm could you do first?"

Butler shared Fuqua's view of wanting to ground the happenings to reality and to make what's happening believable. A mock attack was minutely detailed with every little thing explained, during the scripting of the film. For example, in one part of the attack, a garbage truck is used to make an impactful damage to the exterior of the White House. The reason for this was that since the story is set on July 5 (a day after the country celebrates its Independence Day), garbage trucks cleaning the streets are a common scene.

Butler shared: "Nothing is simple conjecture. It's all about the genius of the plan, rather than just the level of action. Remember, 9/11 was as simple as some guys taking a box cutter onto a plane. That's what grabbed me about this, how relevant and how provocative it was."

When the dust settles down, Banning (who arrives at the White House after hearing the sirens and explosions) is the only one who can do anything to shift the balance away from the baddies. Using his intimate knowledge of the presidential residence, Banning has to find a way to infiltrate and systematically retake control, while trying to rescue the president who is held hostage in the underground bunker (the place the president and his close aides are evacuated to in case of an emergency).

Following the rule of keeping everything real, limited special effects were used and a replica of the White House was built in Shreveport, Louisiana. Production designer Derek Hill – who had previously built one for Oliver Stone's W. – once again created a detailed set including the water fountain, the front façade and the interior of the front lobby for Olympus Has Fallen.

As Butler is in almost every frame of the film, he was also responsible for keeping everything real with his character, Banning.

The actor, who has done his share of action films, was constantly put in physical danger but took the brunt of the abuse like a champion. Even Keith Woulard, a former Navy SEAL hired to oversee the action, was impressed with the actor's commitment. Several times, when the Scottish actor had the option of using a stunt double, he chose to do the stunt himself.

Fuqua said: "He is extremely dedicated. We could have done a wide shot and let a stuntman do it, but he wanted to do it all. He took a few bruises, because he and Rick Yune would just go at it, slamming each other against the walls. And because those walls aren't real, we had to keep stopping to fix them!"

He added: "Any time we have to confront danger, there is something exciting about that. Putting yourself on the edge creates adrenaline. Adrenaline makes you feel more alive. A movie like Olympus Has Fallen makes you think about life and the dangers it holds.

"Since 9/11, we have come to look at the world differently. The movie is extremely entertaining, but it's also a cautionary tale. When we let our guard down, anything can happen."

Olympus Has Fallen opens in cinemas nationwide tomorrow.

Kredit: www.thestar.com.my

Khamis, 21 Mac 2013

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