Celine On "The Love Guru"

[Your_Su_Phu]

sounds like justin's helping to mock celine rather than anything :S according to imdb his character name is jacques grande Edited May 22, 2008 at 07:37 PM by Your_Su_Phu

[ahmed]

thank you for info and links

[OnlyCeline]

Yeeehhh!!! "I DROVE ALL NIGHT" Is The Soundtrack Of "The Love Guru"

 

 

CLICK HERE#

[stevethefan]

OMG I'll probably rent it in a few months when it comes out on DVD.

[beautyroses]

it is funny,so the movie is aout Celine we can say hehe

[Nmj]

funny

[Bellamy]

Celine impersonator Laura Landauer appears in new Mike Myers film

 

It might as well have been Celine Dion walking into the Coffee Tree at Bloor and Jane Streets Tuesday afternoon.

 

The resemblance is striking.

 

Both the French Canadian pop phenomenon and actor, singer Laura Landauer are willowy in stature; they've both got light brown hair highlighted blonde and a bright-eyed smile. Even their mannerisms are similar.

 

Perhaps people are quick to make the connection, mused Landauer, because she's been impersonating Dion for the past four years.

 

"It's been a crazy month," enthused Landauer as she settled into a couch with a cup of tea.

 

The Annette and Jane Street area resident appeared on Ellen, Entertainment Tonight and its counterpart Entertainment Tonight Canada and performed at the Centre Piece Gala for the Inside and Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival.

 

She's been busy promoting her appearance in The Love Guru, Mike Myers's latest film in theatres June 20. It's the story of Pitka, an American who was left at the gates of ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves to Canada to seek fame and fortune in the self-help business. His first challenge is to settle a rift between a Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player, Darren Roanoke, and his estranged wife, Prudence, who's left him for a rival skater named Jacques Grande, played by Justin Timberlake.

 

Landauer plays Dion in a concert scene during which Timberlake's character, a huge fan, rushes the stage and dances to her singing 'I Drove All Night.'

 

"Celine," he exclaims, "It is my day of lucky, hahaha."

 

"I'm not a star struck person," Landauer revealed. "Mike Myers was so nice, very personable. I only encountered good things."

 

Landauer assumes Myers discovered her as Dion on one of her many YouTube videos. The concert scene was filmed at the Guvernment last October over two days. Although she brought her own costumes, Myers had everything picked out for her to wear.

 

"This was his baby, you could tell. He's got his hands on everything," Landauer said.

 

Landauer impressed the filmmakers so much that they invited her to New York City in January to shoot some further scenes. She has yet to see the final product.

 

"I don't know what'll be shown. I did a lot so we'll see. I had a ball. That Justin Timberlake, he can move. He plays this Quebecois hockey player. You'd never recognize him as Justin Timberlake."

 

She wasn't nervous, her confidence bolstered by the designer dress and thousand dollar shoes she was wearing.

 

"They had a great stage set up with all these people. I couldn't wait to get up there," she said.

 

Landauer grew up in Montreal in the '80s. She had dark curly hair about the same time Dion did.

 

"People would stop me on the street and tell me I looked like her," she said.

 

Years later, after she had moved to Toronto and finished theatre school, an Elvis impersonator friend of hers dared her to enter the world of impersonating. First, she embodied the female Elvis, then Cher and now Celine. "I have a really good ear. I can pick up dialects, characteristics really well," she said.

 

Landauer has never met Dion nor has she seen her perform, although, she's got tickets to her show in August. She's a little apprehensive though.

 

"If I see her will something be lost?"

http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/News/Vil...r/article/48855

 

So it's Gypsy Miller plays Celine in this movie. Cool.

[Ronny83]

http://www.amazon.com/Love-Guru-Original-S...9284&sr=8-1

 

It's in the OST.

 

Track #10!!!

[Davey84]

COOL!!! I guess Céline does know and aproves of this 'cameo' LOL otherwise it wouldn't have made it to the Soundtrack! COOL!

[A New Day Has Come]

I think its always funny when they make fun of Celine, Plus Celine and Rene Loves it when they are made fun of and it makes for good publicity for them. I think the movie will be absolulty hillirious.

[Nando Férri]

Yahooo! Another song in a movie! And the best uptempo song of her... hehehe

[Iamdiva]

Cool if that true!!!

I wanna see it 'coz I'm waiting for Celine on film for long time even it so short part and seem like her don't relate them

[Davey84]

Celine's "I Drove All Night" Featured On 'The Love Guru' Movie Soundtrack!

June 9 , 2008

 

Celine's hit single, "I Drove All Night", originally recorded for her 'One Heart' album, is featured on the upcoming original movie soundtrack for 'The Love Guru'! This new soundtrack is currently available on iTunes and will be available in stores on June 17, 2008! Click here to visit the official "The Love Guru" soundtrack MySpace page!

[Bellamy]

Thanks for the fast news from celinedion.com as always.

[VinnyT.]

MoviesOnline:

 

Do you know anything about hockey and are you a Celine Dion fan?

 

TIMBERLAKE: I’m a Celine Dion fan. Maybe not as obsessive as my character. .

[Nmj]

Justin is a fan and friend of Celine's I'm sure he called her about the role

-Nmj

[changepas39]

omg haha thats so funny!

[Prince Whiskers]

It'd be crazy if IDAN reenters the charts bec. of this film.

[Nmj]

ya right

[Jacqui]

Sorry if we already knew this...

 

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/445025

 

 

Ok, it won't let me copy and paste, but it says Celine was going to be in the movie, but got sick so they used an impersonator...

[Bellamy]

Here it is:

Myers also got enthusiastic support from fellow Canadian superstar Céline Dion, who is part of a gag involving her song "I Drove All Night." But it's a Dion impersonator who appears in the film, not the diva herself – although she had agreed to do a cameo.

 

"She was awesome, but she got sick. She was booked (to be in the film) and as it often happens when people have shows in Vegas, the air is so dry. It's a nearly unsustainable work style," he said.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/445025

[Davey84]

oooww meeeeeeeeeeeen that sucks!!! that would have been sooo funny!!!

[Nmj]

Ahh man the real CELINE

-Nmj

[Your_Su_Phu]

http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=21594

 

the reviewer mentions an attempt to get justin to make a jab at celine. LAME. don't these ppl have anything to do other than tear others down who have done nothing to them. justin handles it graciously, much better than neyo did anyway

 

When he stopped by to talk Love Guru with us at The Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, I found myself actually liking the guy. And yes, it is me who tried to get him to admit that Celine Dion might just be terribly annoying. But no, he smiled and only said it was ‘cool’ to listen to her. He does a great chest pound in the film, much like she does on stage. Is it true that all French Canadian’s have Celine Dion love? Possibly. But I do appreciate Justin’s humor and the way he offers respect to folks like Mike Myers and others that he has worked with. You can see Mr. Timberlake in speedo glory (if that is your type of thing) when THE LOVE GURU opens this Friday at a theatre near you.

 

Now during this film did you try to get the idea from him, for your character or how did you prepare?

 

The only real preparation that I did was on the accent. I worked on getting that down proper and showing up to set. I just stretched it as far as I could to make it funny. I didn’t study Vincent Cassel though. I had to actually learn the words to the Celine Dion song, but forgive me, I didn’t know all of them.

 

How often did you have to listen to that song?

 

I am slightly musical so I did get it down pretty quick.

 

But seriously… you had to listen to Celine Dion over and over? It had to be rough. [Laughing]

 

No, it was cool. It was cool… that’s a matter of opinion [Laughing].

Edited June 19, 2008 at 03:27 AM by Your_Su_Phu

[celine_rox]

so today i watched "dont mess with the zohan" (i suggest you dont watch it)

but anyway i was thinking if mariah could appear in that movie

celine should have appeared on love guru

 

oh how i wished....

[celine_rox]

omg she was booked for the movie?!?!?!?!

[Pureceline]

Can't wait to see this movie, I saw the trailer and it's hilarius!!

[Nmj]

Jimmy Kimbel should a clip of the Celine moment

[mirage]

Here it is:

Myers also got enthusiastic support from fellow Canadian superstar Céline Dion, who is part of a gag involving her song "I Drove All Night." But it's a Dion impersonator who appears in the film, not the diva herself – although she had agreed to do a cameo.

 

"She was awesome, but she got sick. She was booked (to be in the film) and as it often happens when people have shows in Vegas, the air is so dry. It's a nearly unsustainable work style," he said.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/445025

 

 

that would be so cool... ah well the her impersonator is doing a good job so

[CSCfan]

About singing a Celine Dion tune in the movie, Justin explained, “We didn’t know what particular song it was going to be, but we did know that it was in the script. Jacques is a huge Celine Dion fan, so I knew at some point, I’d have to sing a Celine Dion song. I give much credit to Meagan Good for having been able to keep a straight face, because we had fun with it—especially to have Mike in the background with the rooster and everything. I had a blast! ”

 

“There are many,” Justin answered when asked if there are singers he would flip for in real life, just like in the scene in the movie with a Celine Dion impersonator. “I wish that I had a chance to see the late Donnie Hathaway sing live. He’s the first person I can think of. ”

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