02:54 PM EDT 05/22/2013
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Christian Bale Is Bigger, Bald – and Barely Recognizable: PHOTO
Originally posted 05/22/2013 10:20AM
Batman, he ain't.
Christian Bale continues to be quite the physical chameleon. Seen walking through the airport in Los Angeles, Bale, 39 and nearly unrecognizable yet again, now sports a shaved head and retains some of the girth he has displayed in recent months – all for a new role, as a '70s con man turned FBI worker, in his latest film, American Hustle, about the ABSCAM sting.
His pale and paunchy look, with a groomed goatee and mustache, stands in stark contrast to his emaciated form in The Machinist, for which he subsisted on a diet of apples, cigarettes and coffee to shave 63 pounds, a third of his usual weight.
Bale, a native of Wales who took his turn as Batman in the Dark Knight films, also challenged his body and fitness as a boxer in The Fighter, his dedication to character earning him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
– Andrea Billups
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Cannes Film Festival Photo Catch-Up: What You've Missed from the Festival
Originally posted 05/20/2013 11:15AM
It's not every day you spot a $1.9 million car on the street. Well, unless you're in Cannes. Then you see a few of them.
But if you don't have a movie premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, you can still check out all the random Cannes-dom shots – the celebs! The shopping! The carousel in the middle of the street! – by following PEOPLE on Instagram.
Get insider shots of the big parties, gorgeous scenery pics and more – as it happens in Cannes! And check out who we've spotted so far...
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See This, Skip That: From Star Trek to The English Teacher – Your Weekend Movie Plan
Originally posted 05/17/2013 11:00AM
The final frontier, or the final exam? Star Trek Into Darkness and The English Teacher hit theaters at warp speed this weekend, but PEOPLE's critic gives only one of them a good grade.
Here's what to see, what to skip and what to seek out this weekend at the movies.
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Ty Simpkins: 5 Things to Know About the Iron Man 3 Scene Stealer
Originally posted 05/16/2013 03:00PM
Ty Simpkins currently stars as the young boy who gives a helping hand – and a hard time – to Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark in Iron Man 3, but there is much more to the New York City native, who has been acting since he was 3 months old.
Simpkins, 11, has already starred on two different daytime soaps (One Life to Live and Guiding Light), worked with Oscar winner Kate Winslet on three movies (All the Kings Men, Little Children and Revolutionary Road) and become the face of a new horror franchise (Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2, expected later this year).
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Cannes Film Festival Kicks Off with Great Gatsby, Emma Watson & More Stars Expected This Week
Originally posted 05/15/2013 11:00AM
Under unseasonably cloudy skies and dodging a few raindrops, Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire kicked off the 66th Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday just hours before walking the red carpet for their blockbuster film The Great Gatsby, which opened the star-studded 12-day extravaganza of movies and parties on the French Riviera.
"Every time I go to Cannes it feels like I'm entering the helicopter scene in La Dolce Vita; it's an insane experience," said DiCaprio, who posed for photos on the fabled Croisette next to his Gatsby costars.
Emma Watson, who stars in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring, premiering Thursday, was spotted among the early celebrity arrivals at Nice International Airport on Tuesday – along with Paris Hilton, Cannes jury member Nicole Kidman and British singer Florence Welch.
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Katie Holmes & Costar Luke Kirby Get Close On Set
Originally posted 05/15/2013 10:25AM
Business or pleasure?
Katie Holmes was photographed getting up close and personal with her costar on the set of her latest film, Mania Days, in New York on Tuesday.
Wearing long jean shorts cut just above the knee and a white T-shirt, Holmes, 34, laughed with Luke Kirby as the duo walked alongside each other in front of cast and crew.
In another shot, Holmes is snapped pressing her forehead to Kirby's in what seems to be an an intimate moment.
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See This, Skip That: From Gatsby to Maisie – Your Weekend Movie Plan
Originally posted 05/10/2013 03:10PM
The Great Gatsby has the glitz and The Big Wedding a banquet hall full of stars, but only one film has PEOPLE's critic jazzed.
Here's what to see, what to skip and what to seek out this weekend at the movies.
George Clooney and Sandra Bullock Star in Gravity
Originally posted 05/10/2013 02:45PM
Forget all the horror films – director Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity looks like the scariest thing hitting multiplexes this fall.
This first trailer for the sci-fi film due Oct. 4 shows George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts working on a maneuver outside a space station when an explosion hurls Bullock into space where she could just ... keep ... floating.
Oprah Winfrey Returns to the Silver Screen in The Butler
Originally posted 05/09/2013 02:35PM
Oprah's back – on the big screen, that is – in The Butler.
Based on the life of Eugene Allen, the White House head butler who served eight presidents during a 34-year career, the film stars Forest Whitaker playing a character called Cecil Gaines. Oprah plays his wife, Gloria Gaines.
As shown in the intriguing two-minute, thirty-second trailer, the OWN network mogul, 59, shows off the acting chops that once earned her an Oscar nomination, for 1985's The Color Purple.
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Mr. Rogers Headed for the Big Screen: Who Could Play Him?
Originally posted 05/05/2013 09:05PM
It won't be an easy sweater to fill.
"There's only one person in this whole world like you," Fred Rogers liked to say on his long-running children's TV show. But now the difficult task begins of finding someone just like Mr. Rogers – or who can at least capture his essence – for an upcoming biopic.
A film about Rogers, who died in 2003 at age 74, is in the works at Treehouse Pictures based on a script by Alexis Jolly, a staff writer on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Deadline.com reports.
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