June 3, 2007 - June 9, 2007 Archives
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Canadian author Rebecca Eckler is suing Judd Apatow, claiming Knocked Up is a ripoff of her novel of the same title. Astute iwatchstuff.com reader Kat actually pointed the similarities between the two stories last weekend. She claims that while pitching her book to Hollywoo... / Continue →
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IonCinema has a good batch of early film posters from Cannes, including the Coens' No Country For Old Men, DiCaprio's The 11th Hour, and Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche New York. The poster Synecdoche isn't that amazing, but it does do well towards its primary f... / Continue →
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What's that, Variety? You say Mischa Barton will star in the Russian coming-of-age drama Finding t.A.T.u., the story of an American girl in Russia bonding with a local girl over their obsession with a certain fake lesbian pop duo? I should have known it would take the Russians ... / Continue →
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"I rove American firm!" Representative Diane Watson (D-California) has introduced a bill that would provide funding to screen Hollywood classics in U.S. Embassies and Consulates worldwide, in the hopes that the flicks will convince people that the American way of life is not ev... / Continue →
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Isla Fisher loves Jews Look, I love SNL digital shorts - in fact, I'm wearing them! HAHAHA! Sorry for that. Anyway, Andy Samberg is probably one of the funniest guys on SNL right now, which means I'll probably going to see this movie. But the fact that they not only stole th... / Continue →
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As a follow-up to yesterday's crappy poster, here's the trailer to I Am Legend. In Will Smith's latest vehicle--the first vehicle to which he hasn't said, "Damn, I gotta get me one a'these!"--we're meant to believe the Fresh Prince is a "brilliant scientist" left alone after a ... / Continue →
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After 13 grueling seasons as executive assistant district attorney, Sam Waterston, better known as Jack McCoy, will be promoted to D.A. Though most fans have forgotten the show is still on the air outside of TNT's "Primetime in the Daytime," which seems to run the show non-stop... / Continue →
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Rough, jusht the way your mother likes it, Trebek. "I'll take the rapishtsh for twenty." According to an official press release, John Hurt has joined Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, and Shia LeBeouf in Indiana Jones 4, but Sean Connery will not be returning. I don't have much... / Continue →
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In I Am Legend, Will Smith plays the last man in New York City after a virus turns everyone into vampires, and here's its poster. I have two issues with it: 1. It reminds me too much of The Condemned poster, which was already a pretty bad poster. 2. It reminds me too much of W... / Continue →
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Above: not the new Transformers theme. If you thought Transformers was corny already, wait until you hear what ol' Mike Bay has done with the theme song. The good news is that it follows the motif of transformation associated with the title. The bad news is that it does so by t... / Continue →
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Uwe Boll, one German who's not nearly as cute as Knüt the Polar Bear (who's probably a better director too), has picked up an American distributor for his next three flicks, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Postal, and Seed . The coolest thing about Uwe Boll, of ... / Continue →
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Marry me, Andy, you loveable faux-adolescent, you. Andy Milonakis revealed the news that a sequel to Waiting is shooting this summer, and that everyone but Ryan Reynolds would be back, if only for cameos. He also said some hilariously off the wall stuff! Such a little joker... / Continue →
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This much I do know; Gabrielle Union is hot. Tyler Perry, a guy whose previous three movies (as director) have grossed $200 million worldwide and sold 15 million DVDs who has somehow managed to stay off my radar, will soon be directing the film adaptation of his stage play, Mee... / Continue →
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With generally recognized badasses Jet Li and Jason Statham involved, War has a good chance of joining Miami Vice and Rush Hour as my favorite movies about interracial homosexuality in a crime setting. Do these two look in love or what? Source... / Continue →
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If shooting things up isn't your cup of tea, how about "a timeless, universal, and deeply emotional story about the secrets we share and the defining moments of connection between mothers and daughters, family and friends, and the loves of our lives"? If you don't have a vagina... / Continue →
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"Shoot 'Em Up" takes its title literally. Real men (and butch women) should watch this new trailer to Shoot 'Em Up. It's like someone finally listened to me when I said, "There should be a movie where there's this awesome dude who's, like, an expert with guns and shit, and he g... / Continue →
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In 30 Days of Night, based on the graphic novel series, some vampires move to Alaska to take advantage of the month of darkness geography provides the area, allowing the bastards to drink blood all day without the burden of daylight. It's probably the most clever move in vampir... / Continue →
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This looks so f***ing good, I'd insert any part of my body into any of this movie's holes for as long as it wanted me to, making sure The Ten was screaming in ecstasy several times before I'd allow myself to reach fulfillment, even if that meant rubbing things until tired/raw o... / Continue →
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Aight, look y'all: Jerry Bruckheimer hates us and that ain't never gonna change The trailer for Ridley Scott's Russell Crowe/Denzel Washington gangster flick American Gangster is now online. Personally, I loved Gladiator, but sometimes the Chris Nolan-school-of-editing style... / Continue →
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Is that Joey Lauren Adams? Damn that bitch is annoying. In an interview with The LA Times, Kevin Smith talks about his latest project, Zack and Miri Make a Porno: "A bawdy sex comedy with heart," as Smith describes the just-completed script, "Zack and Miri" is about two frien... / Continue →
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"Okay, Pete, we're gonna need you to look stupider than usual for this one. Good. *click*" Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz claims to be writing a script. We are writing a story that we kind of want to end up animated. Not too sure on whether it will ever go or how much of a ‘Holly... / Continue →
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The Association of Independent Commercial Producers' 2007 AICP Show reel premiered last night at the MOMA in New York - which really isn't that interesting, but it did give me an excuse to post this American Express commercial directed by Wes Anderson that I thought was kind of... / Continue →
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Where Zoolander got the idea for 'Le Tigre' Warner Bros. has optioned a Thundercats script and are planning a live action version, a la Transformers feature-length, CGI-animated version. I'm sure a few of you out there are going to be excited, and I can understand, because I... / Continue →
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Ben Kingsley doing a dead-on impression of yours truly You Kill Me stars Ben Kingsley as a hitman whose alcoholism starts interfering with his work. (He should try movie blogging, I don't even wear pants!) It's got a great cast - though I'm not a huge Luke Wilson fan, I do en... / Continue →
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Mike Tyson has decided he might like to expand his career beyond the realm of insane boxer by acting in Bollywood films. The madman recently acted in a music video to promote the Bollywood film Fool N Final, after which the producer approached him with a script. Said Iron Mike:... / Continue →
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Jim Carrey is set to star in I Love You Phillip Morris, a comedy written by the duo that brought us Bad Santa. Described as Catch Me if You Can meets Brokeback Mountain in the hopes of making it sound half as interesting as either, Morris sees Carrey as a conman who falls madly... / Continue →
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Plagued with the burden of conceiving actual ideas, Hollywood has once again turned towards its rich past for inspiration. This time, they've set their sights towards remaking the 1979 classic Meatballs, which is only called a classic because it starred a young Bill Murray and ... / Continue →
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This raised eyebrow is as far as it's gonna go before marriage, honey. Holy fudge! Fantastic Four 2 has gotten a PG rating! Well yippie kai-yay Mr. Falcon! Let's go celebrate by doing something non sexually suggestive (that will come off as unintentionally homoerotic!)! A... / Continue →
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Yes. Yes I would rather look at this stupid ass picture of Megatron than at Michael Bay's face. Following in the footsteps of episode one judge Brett Ratner, Michael Bay and Shia LaBeouf will be guest judges on On the Lot to promote Transformers. That's right folks, the guy ... / Continue →
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Some people don't need a mustache and top hat to look gay. Criss Angel, the bastard child of Kiss drummer Peter Criss and a voodoo groupie from New Orleans*, said in a recent interview that he will be acting in and designing visual effects for the movie adaptation of Mandrake t... / Continue →
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Prior to becoming famous, Spurlock did some modelling work for the gay niche fetish magazine 'Burger Boyz' Morgan Spurlock, that guy who ate McDonald's food for a month, whose last name is so metal that his parents had to name him "Morgan" to keep him from rocking too hard, is ... / Continue →
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"I wanna eat a corndog this big." Okay, I'll admit: I'm a Michael Moore apologist. Without getting too political, I think the rush to discredit his points tends to hide the fact that he makes some pretty consistently entertaining movies. That said, Oprah is all set to provide... / Continue →
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I have little doubt Transformers will be as obnoxious as the rest of Michael Bay's slow-motion, rotating-camera action things, but I can't deny that it's kind of awesome to see two giant robots fighting on the interstate, even if one does appear to be rollerblading. See the ot... / Continue →
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"Take that, racist!" Due, I'm sure, to the bump from iwatchstuff.com readers, Knocked Up made $29.3 million at the box office (hee hee, box office, I'd work there) this weekend, nearly earning back the $30 million it cost to make. I saw the movie on Sunday, and can safely say ... / Continue →
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Not even Sarah Silverman could keep MTV from sucking. Thoughts that went through my mind as I watched the MTV Movie Awards: Jeez, is Sarah Silverman ever not funny? She has really broad shoulders. Jack Nicholson: Old, sick, wasted off his tits, or all three? At this point... / Continue →
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Todd Hayne's Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There has been garnering some modest attention because of its gimmicky concept, which involves several actors you wouldn't expect to play the folk artist throughout his life. Pictures had previously turned up of Cate Blanchett in the role, ... / Continue →
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F*ck this and f*ck that, f*ck it all and f*ck her f*cking brat. I just saw Knocked Up, and as astute (hee hee, "ass toot") commenter Willravel pointed out, it is indeed a powerful aphrodisiac. In fact I'm glad I didn't see it with my grandma, 'cause I'd probably be doin' the o... / Continue →
