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May 13, 2007 - May 19, 2007 Archives

  • May 18, 2007
    Nestor Carbonell, who once played Batman parody Batmanuel on The Tick and a parody of someone foreign in Suddenly Susan, has joined the cast of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight in the role of the mayor of Gotham. In honor of this news, here's some top secret spy footage from... / Continue →
  • May 18, 2007
    The journalists at a little publication known as People nabbed the first look at the poster and stills from I Know Who Killed Me, in which Lindsay Lohan plays a stripper tortured by a serial killer. They're disappointing considering they show no stripping or torture, and she of... / Continue →
  • May 18, 2007
    Waiting room at the Sunglass Hut There's an exclusive Ocean's 13 featurette over on Apple.com. It's smart enough to open with George Clooney basically admitting that the last movie sucked. Which is good, because otherwise I was going to have to break it to him at the next Hol... / Continue →
  • May 18, 2007
    "Durpy Durp Durp, Da Durpy Durp Durp Durp Durp" That's right, folks, besides playing hilarious ethnic stereotypes in Adam Sandler movies, Rob Schneider also directs. "Big Stan," which shot last year, stars Schneider as a geeky conman who gets sentenced to a prison stretch. Ter... / Continue →
  • May 18, 2007
    Liv Tyler stars in The Strangers, the story of a suburban couple under the assault of three masked strangers, and a new batch of images from the thriller have turned up online. Most of the shots find the actress crawling on the ground with a masked pursuant behind her. Is this ... / Continue →
  • May 18, 2007
    Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to star as the villainous Octopus in Frank Miller's The Spirit, adding a dose of badass motherf***erdom to the Will Eisner comic. The supervillain, originally a meek lab assistant, kills anyone who sees his face. I don't know the comic well, but th... / Continue →
  • May 17, 2007
    Grandma's basement will never be the same. Yesterday Fox News ran a story on this whorish (and Marvel-licensed), pink-thonged little collectible of Mary Jane from Spiderman, and how it had the blogosphere "up in arms." "The statue represents a big step backwards for those co... / Continue →
  • May 17, 2007
    "You're not getting a Porsche, son. Just an enviable acting career and a lifetime of willing poontang. That's right, I said poontang. I'm old school." Check out the new Transformers trailer from Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg. I guess Jerry Bruckheimer was too busy hati... / Continue →
  • May 17, 2007
    The cleft in my chin says Justice. As bloggers, we're legally required to report on it when anything Batman-related so much as queefs in our general direction. On that note, here's the newest pic of Aaron Eckhart as DA Harvey Dent. And how's this for a conspiracy theory - E... / Continue →
  • May 17, 2007
    I was reasonably excited about Jerry Seinfeld's computer-animated comeback Bee Movie, but this new movie has really turned me off, raising too many questions about both this movie and the very nature of anthropomorphic animal movies in general. Like A Bug's Life or Antz before... / Continue →
  • May 17, 2007
    To do list: 1. Throw baby elephant through window 2. Flex. Ahh, you know what really hits the spot on a hungover Thursday morning? (Yes, I am that awesome - the doctors say it's booze induced) I'll tell you what, another excuse to post the elephant-throwing clip from The Protec... / Continue →
  • May 17, 2007
    Elijah Wood is now confirmed to be taking on the role of punk rocker Iggy Pop in an upcoming biopic, reports Variety. Pop fans will surely be nearly as excited to hear about this little twerp playing their idol as they were when they heard "Lust for Life" in that commercial for... / Continue →
  • May 16, 2007
    Ropes of Silicon has the first images from the new Coen Brothers film No Country For Old Men. The shots show that while there may be no country for old men, there is Josh Brolin holding a gun, Tommy Lee Jones looking skeptical, and Javier Bardem dressed as Johnny Cash meets He-... / Continue →
  • May 16, 2007
    My only reaction to these new shots from John Rambo was, "Yup. That's Rambo all right." Same guy, same mullet thing, a little older, but nothing really new. I don't know what I was hoping for, I'm just saying a glowing cybernetic eye goes a long way. See more non-cyborg Rambo ... / Continue →
  • May 16, 2007
    The road to obscurity is sometimes long and filled with cowboy outfits. Here's a clip of ABC's upcoming pilot, Cavemen. "I really like the Cavemen, I thought it was a great idea for a show," said a moron while high on drugs. Yup, it's based on that Geico commercial. And no, ... / Continue →
  • May 16, 2007
    I just love my new triceps. Thanks, meth! Thomas Jane is pulling out of Punisher 2. In a barely coherent strongly worded letter to AICN, he writes, "I’m writing to tell you that I regretfully and painfully had to pull out of P2. I can’t tell you how completely broken up I am ... / Continue →
  • May 15, 2007
    "I think I speak for both of us when I say, 'Go f*** yourself, Hank Azaria.'" Hank Azaria (of Simpson's fame) is reporting that Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have dropped out of Outsourced, a project developed specifically for them that Azaria is directing. "The Simpsons" voice... / Continue →
  • May 15, 2007
    Straight guys are named Bruce too, you know. The news that Live Free or Die Hard will be rated PG-13 isn't exactly new, but now Monsters and Critics is reporting that "Yippee Kai-Yay, Motherf***er" has been cut entirely. From the post, it's a little unclear whether this inform... / Continue →
  • May 15, 2007
    The poster for The Rock's new movie, Daddy Day Care Are We There Yet The GamePlan is out. From what I can gather from the poster, Rock's character makes love to a striking bulldog who then gives birth to a briefcase-toting ballerina, and a black guy on his team is totally not ... / Continue →
  • May 15, 2007
    "Yeah, she's a professor.. OF BEING A DOG! FACE!" Based on the success of the fake trailers in Grindhouse, Eli Roth is planning a movie that consists entirely of trailers. And the trailer for that movie is going to BLOW YOUR MIND.... / Continue →
  • May 15, 2007
    My agent promised me this movie will be better than the Chuck Liddell episode of Entourage David Mamet's upcoming mixed martial arts drama has just unleashed the coke snitch curse, dooming itself to failure by casting Tim Allen. That's right, folks. The former coke dealer and... / Continue →
  • May 15, 2007
    Look out, currently residing evil, 'cause Milla Jovovich has got these two awesome guns, and she's all like "bla-blat! bla-blat! bla-blat!" and zombies are all gonna be like "whaaaaaaa?" Seriously. Source... / Continue →
  • May 15, 2007
    "Hey Bodhi, check it out: I'm doing an impression of your career." That's right, I said Point Break 2. No doubt inspired by Hot Fuzz's Point Break tribute, Peter Iliff (Patriot Games) will write and direct the sequel, which will be set in Southeast Asia and financed by...Asian... / Continue →
  • May 15, 2007
    Rogue Pictures has made a deal for a film starring Marlon Wayans in the title role of Super Bad James Dynomite, an adaptation of a comedic comic book made by the Wayans brood about a blaxploitation anti-hero in the vein of Shaft or Dolemite. The only explanation for this move i... / Continue →
  • May 15, 2007
    Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have announced they will develop a trilogy of computer animated 3D Tintin films. Based on Georges Remi's (under the pen name of Herge) popular Belgian comic strip, each director will helm at least one of the pictures, though it's still unclear... / Continue →
  • May 14, 2007
    Office-eeeerrr, you act like an animal you're out of control... In a recent interview, Broken Lizard's Paul Soter admitted that the troupe* was planning a sequel to Super Troopers. ”The more we thought about it we said we should do it,” says Soter. “They are great characters a... / Continue →
  • May 14, 2007
    They call me "Cherry Danish" A Danish newspaper is reporting that Lars von Trier, one of the founding members of the Dogme movement, suffers from a deep depression that is threatening his career. This isn't exactly a shocker; if you watch any of his movies it's pretty obvio... / Continue →