leaks

Inside Russell Brand’s Saucy, Late-Night Sexy Texts!

2:31AM Kyle Buchanan | Perhaps you’ve heard, but comedian/Jonas Brothers despoiler Russell Brand is a fan of sex-having. The habit has landed him in hot water in his home land, and now in America, he’s suffered a “sexy text” leak. More »

AC/DC Fans “Leak” New Song, Unwittingly Create YouTube Genius

1:18PM Clem Bastow | As mentioned yesterday, the first AC/DC studio album in eight years is due for release in the next few months, so naturally a bunch of songs from the record have leaked (it’s just not a hotly-anticipated release if you can’t listen to crappy 64kbps snippets of the hit single online!) – but what makes this leak different from all the others is that the eager Acca fans have inadvertently created one of the most brilliant pieces of YouTubery since the last brilliant piece of YouTubery we claimed was the best ever. Because the songs themselves haven’t actually been leaked, per se. In short: the fans attended the music video shoot, heard the song, remembered how it went, and then rushed home to their guitars, webcams and, in the case of this champion, their best Brian Johnston dress-ups, and “leaked” the song, second-hand. Are you ready to rock?! More »

Just In Case The Recently Leaked Pink Single Has Slipped By You…

10:14AM Jess McGuire | We’re going to have to insist you have a listen to it now, please. I suspect Alicia Moore’s infuriatingly catchy post-divorce anthem is going to end up being flogged to death on commercial radio in the near future. The eternally wonderful Popjustice describes the song by saying “One of the things we like about it is that while it’s superficially a howl of defiance you can’t escape the fact that at the heart of this is an injured and self destructive spirit coping very badly but in the only way she knows how.” What do you think? Part of me really likes it, but there’s another part of me wishing it sounded as utterly brilliant as the Popjustice description I read before listening to it made it out to be. PS: Pink’s glad her fans dig it, and don’t worry – her ex is cool with the tune too. More »

‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Test Screenings Are Making Children Cry

3:00AM Molly Friedman | When that alleged clip from Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are hit the internets earlier this week, the reactions to the footage varied widely. Even though we loved it, a barrage of negative feedback almost immediately began taking root in the comment sections of many blogs who covered the leak (”a piece of crap,” said a Movieweb reader; “looks like a car crash,” said a Gawker commenter). The furor caused Jonze to make a statement defending his highly-anticipated project: That was a very early test with the sole purpose of just getting some footage to Ben our vfx (visual effects) supervisor to see if our vfx plan for the faces would work. The clip doesn’t look or feel anything like the movie, the Wild Thing suit is a very early cringy prototype, and the boy is a friend of ours Griffin who we had used in a Yeah Yeah Yeahs video we shot a few weeks before. We love him, but he is not in the actually film…Oh and that is not a wolf suit, its a lamb suit we bought on the internet. Talk to you later…”

‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Screen Test Captures Smell Of Childhood In A Bottle

4:03AM Seth | We think most of us are in agreement that Where the Wild Things Are–as far as sacred texts go, basically the Koran of childhood–was in safe hands with Spike Jonze, a filmmaker we fear may have at some point been beaten with a genius stick as hard as Kanye gets it with a shovel in his latest Jonze-helmed music video. (It bears noting that he co-wrote the screenplay with McSweeney’s founder/ co-genius Dave Eggers, offering further promise that Things won’t follow the same road as any number of Seussian big screen disasters.) More »