I have a lot of catching up to do when it comes to the candids section of the gallery. I am missing 2010 and 2011 candids. So I’ll slowly be uploading those to the gallery. For right now, I’m just starting with 2011 then I will work my way back. I just uploaded some candids from the beginning of the year. The rest will be added in a little bit. Enjoy!

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“Paradise Lost”, John Milton’s epic poem about Lucifer’s fall from grace and the corruption of Adam & Eve, is gearing up for a movie adaptation, under the helm of Alex Proyas (“I, Robot”). Now, Warner Bros., the studio behind the movie, has confirmed that the movie is set to be released in the end of 2013.

The movie is planned as an action epic focused on the war between Lucifer’s forces and the angels led by Michael for control of Paradise, with many aerial battles, and will be filmed using the same motion-capture technology from “Avatar”, in addition to being rumored to be filmed in 3D. So far, the only actor confirmed to appear is Bradley Cooper (“The Hangover”), who’ll be playing Lucifer.

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Bradley Cooper is in San Diego drumming up support and buzz for the recently announced “Paradise Lost” adaptation he’s going to do with director Alex Proyas (“Dark City”). But while talking to press, he might have dropped a serious hint at the direction of the third “Hangover” (should that sequel actually happen).

Cooper was questioned by EW about Zach Galifianakis’ comments that the next “Hangover” might involve Cooper, Justin Bartha and Ed Helms breaking the deranged Alan out of a mental institute.

“You know what? That might be right,” Cooper said.

When pressed on the comment – because many thought Galifianakis tossed it out there just to throw nagging journalists down a different road – Cooper hedged by saying, “I mean, I have no idea. But that sounds good!”

And you know what? It does sound good. It would be a separation from the wake-up-hungover formula that powered Todd Phillips’ first two comedies to box office superstardom. And given the success of “The Hangover Part II,” you know a third one will happen. I’m thrilled Phillips wants to go down a new avenue, and if Cooper’s right, that idea could work very well.

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Between the surprise No. 1 opening of the thriller Limitless, in which he played as a burned out writer who becomes a super genius thanks to an experimental drug, the gargantuan success of The Hangover Part II, and that viral clip showing him doing an interview in fluent French, Bradley Cooper’s career has gone into overdrive this year. On Friday, Cooper will take the stage at Comic-Con to start stoking buzz among the nerderati for Paradise Lost, director Alex Proyas’ big-budget, effects-driven adaptation of John Milton’s 17th-century epic poem, in which he will play Satan. Limitless hit DVD shelves on Tuesday, complete with an alternate ending (“the original ending was that alternate ending,” Cooper reveals, “but I like the ending that was in the movie theaters—I think it changes the whole movie”) and an unrated extended cut (“the script was much more profane—there are a lot more f—s, some nudity, and some more blood,” he says). While talking to EW to tout the DVD release, Cooper also shared some thoughts about the prospect of playing Satan, shot down reports he’ll star in Doug Liman’s sci-fi film Luna, and — maybe — dropped a hint about the plot of The Hangover Part III.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So did Paradise Lost fall into your lap after all the success you’ve had this year?
BRADLEY COOPER: The absolute opposite of falling into my lap. I must have met with the director five times. I’d been vying for that role for three years. And then I actually put myself on tape unsolicited in my kitchen, just so he’d look at it. [Laughs] Not much has changed.

Alex Proyas has done big sci-fi films like I Robot and Dark City. So is this sort of a sci-fi take on Milton’s poem?
It’s not a sci-fi take on Paradise Lost — it is Paradise Lost. It’s a cinematic adaptation of Milton’s poem with motion capture. That technology is evolving exponentially by the minute, so where they were when they did Avatar as opposed to where they are now is almost different worlds. I just did the whole fitting for the motion-capture helmet that you wear, and we start shooting at the end of October in Sydney, Australia. I’m very excited.

So what appealed to you about playing Lucifer?
I loved studying that poem at Georgetown. I just fell in love with that character. Satan is kind of the guy you agree with — I don’t know if you agree with him, but you understand his argument and he’s very compelling. Hopefully we’ll be able to maintain the integrity of that.

What’s your Lucifer going to look like onscreen?
I think he’s going to look like me. I don’t know what that says about how satanic I look but, yes, it will be me. [Laughs]

It’s also been reported you’re attached to director Doug Liman’s sci-fi film Luna. Is that right?
No, that’s an IMDB creation. It’s like The Flash — I read I was going to be in The Flash and I called my agent and he was like, “No, bro, you’re not going to be in The Flash.” [Laughs]

Then there’s the rumored remake of The Crow you’re supposedly going to star in. What’s the status of that?
I don’t know the status of that. It’s something I really loved, but we’ll see about that.

And where do things stand with The Hangover Part III?
Whenever Todd [Phillips] says, I’m in.

Zach Galifianakis said in an interview recently that the plot may have to do with his character, Alan, being in a mental hospital and the rest of the Wolfpack breaking him out.
You know what? That might be right.

Really? A lot of people assumed that he was joking, and Warner Bros. has said there are no real plans for the movie yet.
I mean, I have no idea. But that sounds good. [Laughs]

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Director Alex Proyas’ take on John Milton’s classic 17th century poem, Paradise Lost will be made at Sydney’s Fox Studios, with Bradley Cooper confirmed in the role of Lucifer, Proyas said Wednesday with New South Wales acting premier Andrew Stoner.

The fantasy epic is being produced by Proyas, Legendary Pictures and Vincent Newman, Warner Bros. Pictures will distribute the film worldwide.

Paradise Lost concerns an epic war in heaven between archangels Michael and Lucifer.

The special effects-heavy feature involves more than 20 weeks of pre-production, eight weeks of principal photography and motion capture, and 72 weeks of post-production and visual effects work.

Stoner said Paradise Lost will bring an estimated AUS$88 million ($93 million) in production expenditure and an 1,300 jobs to NSW, including over $21.2 million expenditure and 200 jobs in the visual effects area.

While details of the incentives offered to Paradise Lost weren’t revealed, part of the deal includes for California-based digital effects house Digital Domain to establish a base in Sydney that will continue beyond the production of Paradise Lost.

The Australian government recently doubled its post, digital and visual effects incentive to a 30% rebate, while Proyas recently told local media that with the Australian dollar at record highs against the U.S. dollar “we would need to qualify for the [40%] producer offset to make it at all viable.”

Proyas said Wednesday “I’m delighted to have found such overwhelming support here in NSW for such a unique film offering unparalleled exposure for NSW cast and crew to the cutting edge technology that will be used in the making of Paradise Lost.”

“The production of Paradise Lost and Digital Domain’s local presence will expose NSW visual effects and film professionals to unique and cutting edge film technologies and methods as well as to work on US studio-financed film projects,” Stoner added.

Proyas made Knowing in Melbourne in 2008.

The announcement came on the same day that leading local digital and visual effects house Rising Sun Pictures said it was starting up a production arm at its Adelaide base.

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The DVD of “Limitless” will be released by 20th Century Fox tomorrow, and in the film, Bradley Cooper plays Eddie Morra, a down-on-his-luck writer who can’t write his novel, who spends his days watching martial-arts movies, and whose girlfriend has just dumped him. His hair is stringy, he looks like he hasn’t bathed in weeks, and his landlord’s wife hates him.

But when Morra happens upon his ex-brother-in-law on the street, he is given a pill that will change everything: NZT, a drug that enables him to access 100% of his brain. The rest of the movie seems shot in vivid Technicolor — an extra shine given to Cooper’s blue eyes — as his character continues to take NZT and finishes his novel, becomes a successful stockbroker, and finds himself brokering a huge deal for business tycoon Carl Van Loon, played by Robert De Niro. Only problem is, Morra needs the drug to keep skyrocketing—or does he?

Speakeasy caught up with Cooper to discuss the film’s alternate ending, working with Robert De Niro, and his future plans.

What was your favorite line in “Limitless”? The ones in which you speak smooth Italian, or when you tell—

It was probably when Eddie tells Carl Van Loon, “You’ll end up as my bitch.” That was my favorite line.

That was the second part of my question. You said that line to Robert De Niro! Did you have to rehearse that in your mind?

I just sort of waited and just enjoyed the moment. He and I would laugh about it afterward. It was just so ridiculous. [laughs]

*Spoiler alert* There’s an alternate ending on the DVD. For me, in the theatrical version, there’s a question of whether Eddie Morra was still on this drug. But in the alternate ending, there doesn’t seem to be a question. When you played both scenes, how was the character different to you?

Well, the character in the theatrical version, it was much more fulfilling for me to play that. The first one, we shot the first when we shooting principal photography for the movie and it just didn’t feel right. There wasn’t enough of a payoff with Carl Van Loon. All of a sudden he just leaves, and there’s no obstacles in that alternate ending. You have one guy saying, “I shut down your lab,” and another guy saying, “Yeah well, okay,” and he says, “Yeah, I’ll figure out a way,” and he goes, “No, you won’t,” and he goes, “Yeah, I will…” So there’s no obstacle, there’s no conflict. So it wasn’t as fulfilling as the second one—he could be lying to him, he could be saying, “I’m off the drug” but he’s really on the drug, or he actually is off the drug but he’s regained the powers that he wanted. He scares Carl, too. I like that change of power the second one had.

If you could, would you take NZT in real life?

Yeah, of course I would. [laughs] I would love to experience what that would even be like. To open up all of your brain. Who knows what you could—maybe you’d realize the existence of God or something.

A lot has been written about your admiration of Robert De Niro. When you played opposite him, how did you prepare for those scenes? What did you learn from him?

He just sort of re-bolstered everything that I had hoped was true about acting, which was, if you believe it, we’ll believe it. He really is just the most believable person to act with. He has this quality about him, first of all he has this quality that’s magnetic and charismatic, but he just has this ease with which he walks through a scene that puts the other actor at ease. At least that’s what it did for me. It just sucked me right into the moment I was acting in.

Now that you’ve fulfilled a dream of starring with Robert De Niro, what haven’t you done that you dream of?

Oh, so much. Oh my god, I feel like I haven’t really done anything at all. We could talk for hours, I mean, there are so many actors I’d love to work with, directors, types of movies, directing, writing, getting better as an actor.

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Speakeasy caught up with Bradley Cooper yesterday to discuss his role opposite Robert De Niro in “Limitless,” which comes out on DVD today.

Below is the second half of the interview, in which Cooper talks about his recent film projects, what movie he most wants to direct, and how he keeps up his energy levels.

“The Hangover Part II” was enormously successful at the box office but panned by a lot of critics. Does that bother you? Do you read those reviews?

You know, I didn’t read the reviews for “Hangover II” but – I wouldn’t say it bothered me, but it definitely perplexed me because to me, it’s not even a question that it’s a better movie than the first one. On every level I just think you’re watching a director evolve. It’s a much more complicated film. It’s a funnier movie. There’s better acting in it, the story’s more compelling. It’s just in every way a more sophisticated film. I think the only thing that it doesn’t have is the freshness of the first one because it was the first one. So, I was more just sort of like wow, it’s interesting, sometimes people just pan things because they’re supposed to, really.

There’s talk of a “Hangover III”?

Well, I would do anything that [director] Todd Phillips says.

As far as your recent schedule, you were in Montreal for a month to shoot “The Words,” then you went to L.A. to film “Outrun.”

That’s right. Those two movies were written and directed by my best friends in the world, so it was a real honor to work with both of them. My friend, Brian Klugman, who wrote “The Words,” wrote that 11 years ago and I’ve known him – we grew up together – since we were 10 years old. We’ve been best friends. So to have that movie finally be able to be made was incredible. And then my friend Dax Shepard wrote this road comedy called “Outrun,” and I did that for a week.

What was up with the dreadlocks and the lion cub [Cooper’s costume in “Outrun”]?

[Laughs.] Well, Dax – either to his credit or it’ll be to his demise – allowed me the freedom to create the character [laughs], and I play the heavy in the movie. There’s a guy that lives in my neighborhood in Venice that I always see, and we were talking about the character, and I said, you know, there’s this guy who’s always pristinely dressed but he’s like a surfer guy, I wonder if this guy’s the guy. He said, sure. So we created that character, and that’s what he is.

Are you in upstate New York now, in Schenectady?

I’m in Schenectady right now, prepping a movie called “Place Beyond the Pines” by the director of “Blue Valentine,” Derek Cianfrance. I’m just doing research and I’ve been going to the police station everyday and doing ride-alongs at night. It’s been very educational. They start filming in a week but I come in halfway through the movie and I start filming August 9.

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Women will be sinning double now that Bradley Cooper has confirmed that he will be playing the ‘Devil’ in the upcoming film “Paradise Lost.”

The film is the big screen adaptation of the epic 17th century poem by John Milton, by the same name. IMDb describes the film as an action-heavy version on the poem that is centered on the war in heaven between archangels Michael and Lucifer.

The Hollywood hunk has played a variety of roles in recent years that range from nonchalant funny man in the “Hangover” movies, to action hero in movies like “A-Team” and “Limitless.” His role as Lucifer in the future film will take a different, more serious, approach than what he is used to while still maintaining his bad-boy persona.

“Paradise Lost, that seems like the realest one. That’s happening,” he said.

The film will be under the helm of Alex Proyas, who also directed Will Smith’s “I, Robot.”

“Paradise Lost” entered pre-production in May, with “Star Wars” writer and Oscar nominee Lawrence Kasdan, penning the script.

Bradley Cooper is currently in New York filming “The Place Beyond the Pines” with co-star Ryan Gosling, but production dates for “Paradise Lost” have yet to be announced.

Cooper’s devil character is slated to make a 2012 debut on the big screen, while “The Place Beyond the Pines” is scheduled for a 2013 US premiere.

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Bradley unveiled his wax figure yesterday for Madame Tussauds Las Vegas and I just updated the gallery with some photos of the event. As you can see, Bradley got a haircut. I personally like his hair grown out just a little bit, but it still looks really nice! Check out the photos:

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I just updated the gallery with 4,000+ captures of Bradley from some of his talk show appearances he made in 2011. All these screen captures are from talk shows that either did not air in the US or that aren’t available to all people in the US. All the videos for all these talk shows will be in the video archive soon. I will be re-doing the entire archive. There aren’t very many videos, but I’ll be adding so many more videos as I re-launch the video section. So keep looking out for that in the next couple days. Enjoy!

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Screen Captures > Guest Appearances > 2011 > 03-11-11 – The Graham Norton Show
Screen Captures > Guest Appearances > 2011 > 03-30-11 – El Hormiguero
Screen Captures > Guest Appearances > 2011 > 05-11-11 – The Marilyn Denis Show
Screen Captures > Guest Appearances > 2011 > 05-21-11 – CNN Live
Screen Captures > Guest Appearances > 2011 > 05-26-11 – The Hour
Screen Captures > Guest Appearances > 2011 > 05-27-11 – The Graham Norton Show
Screen Captures > Guest Appearances > 2011 > 05-30-11 – TF1