Russell Brand Deported From Japan Over Criminal Past

We all know it can be hard to keep your nose clean in Hollywood.

But “Arthur” star Russell Brand found out the hard way.

Brand, who is married to pop star Katy Perry, was visiting Japan to be with his wife while on tour but was detained at the airport.

After a background check the Japanese authorities decided they did not want the likes of Mr. Brand in their country so they deported him.

Brand, who openly admits his years of drug and alcohol abuse, and past arrests, says that his prior bad history prompted Japan to ask him to leave.

His recent wife Katy Perry tweeted,

"So...my husband just got deported from Japan. I am so sad. I brought him all this way to show him my favorite place #tokyodreamscrushed"

Brand, ever the comedian, tweeted back,

"Planning escape from Japanese custody. It's bloody hard to dig a tunnel with a chopstick. "Stockholm syndrome kicking in. Just asked my guard out for (vegetarian) sushi. He giggled."

Perry later said she still loves Japan and her Japanese fans, and will continue her tour and does not hold any grudges since she knew what she was getting into with Russell.

For his part, Brand can still be seen legally in the smash summer hit movie “Arthur”, about a drunken playboy who stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman his family doesn't like.

He is currently filming “Rock of Ages” with A-list actors Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Mary J. Blige, Paul Giamatti, and Bryan Cranston.

“Rock of Ages” is and adaption of the hit Broadway show and will tell the story of a small-town girl who arrives in Hollywood at the height of the 1980’s rock-music scene.

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Update - Box Office

As previously reported here --> http://moviewritings.blogspot.com/2011/04/box-office_11.html...

Russell Brand ruled the top two spot of the weekend box office... Unfortunately for him, Hanna, the movie starring Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett and Saoirse Ronan overtook Arthur in the final tally....

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/04/11/box-office-hanna/

Box Office

Hop defeated Arthur for the title of King of the Box Office... btw, both movies starred Russell Brand... http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/brands-hop-arthur-lead-weekend-box-office-ap

Review - Hop

Another one of those live action + CGI movies... but if you look at its poster only, you'd think Hop is just an animation...

Anyway, Hop is about destiny. About how some people just could not deal with a predestined life. EB, a cute bunny on Easter Island, found out he was destined to become the Easter Bunny when he gets older. When he was young, he was kinda excited about it but once he was grown up, he was hesitant about it. Instead, he wanted to follow his dreams of becoming a drummer.

So he ran away to Hollywood, where he met Fred (James Marsden), who is a bum but is trying to turn his life around. Unfortunately for Fred, EB is about to turn his life upside down.

Hmm, guess this is actually the first movie to be themed around Easter... yes? I am trying to recall but for the life of me, I just can't remember any other movies about Easter... mostly Christmas or Thanksgiving... for an animation anyway...

The voice acting is nice. Russell Brand's kinda annoyance was toned down a bit with the voice acting.

The live actors do take a back seat in the movie, with the exception of James Marsden. But you do get a sense of dejavu here... the straight guy with the hilarious/crazy animal pairing... Yogi, Garfield, The Chipmunks? Yup, everything's seemed a bit done...

But the movie's fine. It's cute and charming and funny in parts. But it's just a bit weird when people just accept the fact that EB is a talking bunny and that the Easter Bunny is real, but then again, it is a movie aimed at kids... :)