Posts with tag "jeremy piven"

'Angels Crest' Stars Talk Guerilla Filmmaking and the Freezing Cold

Posted Apr 25th 2011 at 05:43 PM by Elizabeth Yun

Tragedy rocks a small town in Gaby Dellal's 'Angels Crest,' which premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Thomas Dekker stars as a young father who makes a mistake with enormous consequences in this drama also starring Kate Walsh, Mira Sorvino and Jeremy Piven as the prosecutor who sets out to pin Dekker for criminal negligence. It was heavy material for the cast, who talked to PopEater ...

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Jeremy Piven Geeks Out for Hot Wheels in 'Funny or Die' Video

Posted Feb 9th 2011 at 01:10 PM by PopEater Staff

In an upcoming Funny or Die video, Jeremy Piven puts his best suspenders forward in order to impress Team Hot Wheels -- a crew of mystery drivers known for over-the-top stunts. In the skit, titled 'The Fifth Racer,' Piven plays a character doing everything he can to prove he's worthy of joining Team Hot Wheels. The hilarious video will offer a sneak peek of what guys (and gals!) of all ages can ...

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Casting the Olympic Movie: Stars of Vancouver 2010

Posted Feb 27th 2010 at 04:00 PM by Denise Warner

Excitement and drama reigned supreme this year at the Winter Olympics and Hollywood should take notice. Surely, we thought, with the events that have played out on the slopes and in the ice rinks, producers would want to capitalize and make a movie about these games. We'll help them out by casting the big parts. Check It Out Below The role of Canadian Ice Dancer Tessa Virtue will be ...

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January Jones, Jeremy Piven Planning a 'Mad Men' and 'Entourage' Crossover?

Posted Jan 19th 2010 at 01:42 PM by PopEater Staff

Are January Jones and Jeremy Piven an item? Or were they just walking hand-in-hand to after parties following the Golden Globes this weekend? The 'Mad Men' housewife and 'Entourage' agent were seen together post-ceremony. Photographers caught the pair looking annoyed, but definitely touchy-feely. ...

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The Day in Celebrity Tweets for Wed 10/7

Posted Oct 7th 2009 at 04:34 PM by Tricia Romano

We know you can't keep track of every celebrity Twitter account, so we're cutting through the social media jungle to give you the best, worst and sometimes just absurd celebrity tweets of the day. See what celebrities on Twitter like Elizabeth Taylor, Ashton Kutcher and Jeremy Piven are doing today -- in 140 characters or less... ...

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Excuses, Excuses: Do Stars Think We Are Buying Them?

Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 08:00 PM by Jo Piazza

Enough with the excuses! Why are celebrities such dirty liars these days? This week David Hasselhoff blamed an ear infection for a hospital stay that was the rumored result of a vodka bender. The Hoff's camp claims he wasn't drinking at all. In fact he was rushed to the hospital because he just couldn't stand up due to the side effects from an ear medication called Antivert. Seriously? This ...

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Jeremy Piven Wants to Close Sushi Play

Posted Sep 16th 2009 at 09:09 AM by PopEater Staff

Jeremy Piven has slapped the Public Theater in Manhattan with a "cease and desist" letter over 'The Piven Monologues,' a comic look at the star's case of mercury poisoning and subsequent pullout from Broadway's 'Speed-the-Plow.' Piven's attorney Marty Singer told NY Post,"We didn't say you cannot do the play, we said you can't make defamatory statements about our client." An additional ...

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Piven Prevails in Contract Dispute

Posted Aug 27th 2009 at 06:25 PM by PopEater / Wire Services

Jeremy Piven lost a role in a Broadway show to mercury poisoning, but he won the contract dispute over his abrupt departure. Months after Piven was forced to abandon his role in 'Speed-the-Plow,' a professional arbiter has ruled Piven did not his breach his contract with the Broadway producers for leaving the revival of the David Mamet play. In December, Piven's doctor said the actor was suffering ...

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Jeremy Piven Drops Mango-Bomb on Chris Kattan

Posted Aug 10th 2009 at 09:00 AM by PopEater Staff

Note to wisecracking actors booked on the same talk show as Jeremy Piven: don't mention that whole mercury poisoning thing. Someone failed to mention that to ex-'SNL' star Chris Kattan, who got a dose of that Ari Gold rage behind the scenes at MTV's daytime talker 'It's On With Alexa Chung' on Thursday. According to the NY Daily News, the pair got into a shouting match when Kattan, at MTV to ...