September 30, 2007 - October 6, 2007 Archives
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- The chances of Peter Jackson directing The Hobbit have risen marginally with reports that the director and New Line are talking again. Just talking? Or flirting? Wheeeeeeww! [EW] - JJ Abrams is creating a 2-hour, $10 million pilot for Fox he describes as mixing elements of The... / Continue →
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I saw this set of promotional shots for Mad Money on Cinematical today, then slipped into a faint coma from utter lack of interest. Honestly, who is in the promotions department that would possibly consider these images the best to whet the interest of the masses? After the vie... / Continue →
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Can you believe Mary Hart is still on Entertainment Tonight? Or it's possible that she was enough of a historical figure on ET that an animatronic robot of her was erected, or that this is her ghost, still haunting the set. Either of those options seems more likely, actually, b... / Continue →
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Of all the things learned through this interview with The Darjeeling Limited writers, the best was the reminder that Wes Anderson is just as much of an awkward geek as I want him to be. There was barely any arrogance to be seen amidst the stammering and involuntary sneering. In... / Continue →
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Nothing makes my day like seeing half of the frozen, stoic face of Iron Man staring at me from a dark, vague nothingness. You? Iron Man Poster [Yahoo!]... / Continue →
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- Jay Leno is threatening to remain on television beyond his 2009 Tonight Show resignation by signing a deal with another network, thus preserving our ever-growing national catalog of mildly amusing newspaper misprints. [NY Post] - ABC has contracted Veronica Mars writer (not Ma... / Continue →
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I'm not necessarily saying this negatively, but from the looks of this trailer, Sweeney Todd might be the most Tim Burtoniest Tim Burton movie ever made by Tim Burton. Johnny Depp? Check. Helena Bonham Carter? Check. Creepy 19th century production design? Check. A color palett... / Continue →
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Hollywood Reporter divulged that Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley will play gene-splicing scientists in Splice, a sci-fi thriller by the director of Cube. More importantly, AICN got shots of the freakish results of their splicing. Man oh man, they are gross. Who would have thought... / Continue →
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OK, so you work at Pixar, and you're about to go to a trade show to exhibit your Short Circuit rip-off, Wall-E. You want to show them some cool footage so they can start making Wall-E lunchboxes and Happy Meal toys or whatever, but you don't want them to be so insanely excited ... / Continue →
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As an actor, how do you follow-up a fun, raunchy take on the romantic-comedy genre like Knocked Up? If you're Katherine Heigl, the answer is simple: with an obnoxious, typical romantic-comedy that reminds women they'll only ever find validation through marriage. In the traile... / Continue →
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How many more movies are going to be marketed solely on the presence of Will Ferrell's doughy, sparsely-haired, near-nippleless torso? At least one more, says this teaser to Semi-Pro.... / Continue →
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While I'll stand by the ideal that anything with elaborate, violent battles between mammoth and man is probably worth seeing, I am a bit perplexed that they advertise it "From the director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow." Isn't that like Germany making their nat... / Continue →
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- More pictures from the Sex and the City set reveal Carrie appears to be marrying Mr. Big in the same garish, over-the-top manner as the rest of the show. [The Superficial] - Rumor is spreading that McG, director of the Charlie's Angels franchise, is attached to direct Terminat... / Continue →
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There's absolutely nothing funny about this awesome teaser poster for the big-screen adaptation of the Astroboy anime. Unless you pretend that's poo shooting of him! Ewwww, gross! Astroboy Poster [Latino Review]... / Continue →
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With my feeble notebook's speakers, I wasn't able to really understand most of the sedated dialog in this trailer. Thankfully, near the end I picked up the line, "Goodbye doesn't always mean the end. Sometimes it means a new beginning," telling me it didn't really matter. The o... / Continue →
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Kino has some new shots from the new unstoppable virus plague movie I Am Legend, but I assure you none of them are as hilarious as Will Smith trying his hardest to look both bad-ass and scientific. "Damn, I gotta get me one a'these [virus analysis scientific computers]! And I'... / Continue →
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On his blog, RobCohenTheMummy.com (which sounds like a sad The Mummy fan's AOL screen name), director Rob Cohen has posted some images from The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. As the name implies, the film hopes to capitalize on the vague American interest in Asian culture c... / Continue →
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Hollywood Reporter claims Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, stars of the original Fast and the Furious, will be reprising their roles in the fourth chapter of the epic adjective saga. Here are the reasons this is believable or unbelievable: BELIEVABLE: - The Hollywood Reporter is a... / Continue →
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Try to imagine Jay-Z's hit single Big Pimpin' translated into some kind of old Victorian dialect and played by an old-fashioney minstrel. That's what I want to be playing over this poster, but I have no idea how to go about that. The Other Boleyn Girl Poster [Empire]... / Continue →
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Back in July, I posted a similar poster of Alvin and the Chipmunks in hip-hop clothes that also included the looming head of Jason Lee. Rightfully, it was met with a huge negative outcry. Why were the chipmunks dressed like a vague recollection of Run-DMC as furries? No one cou... / Continue →
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- The nation breaths a collective sigh of relief as Comedy Central renews Mind of Mencia. Carlos Mencia then steals that sigh to use for a joke about "beaners." [Hollywood Reporter] - Rome's Marc Antony, James Purefoy, has been cast as puritan swordsman Solomon Kane in a movie ... / Continue →
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I already knew Hilary Duff as a humanitarian when she graced us with the character of Lizzie McGuire, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, its various made-for-TV movies, and the accompanying songs to those movies--not to mention her pop albums and public appearances, where that equine gr... / Continue →
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I probably had my first real taste of Dragon Ball Z about ten years ago. Flipping through channels, I stopped on the image of a squat male of indeterminable age with a four-foot bush of yellow hair. Though it looked ridiculous, it seemed like I recalled the animated character f... / Continue →
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Somehow the makers of Transformers have gotten the impression that it's the deep, dark story and rich, well-developed characters--not an adolescent desire to see robot cars fight each other, or 20 and 30-something males clinging on to their fading youth through misplaced nostal... / Continue →
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Personally, I'm not a fan of Sex and the City, but I do respect that it gives menopausal woman an outlet for their latent fantasies. I pray such a thing will exist when I'm 40, depicting middle-aged men engaged in lightsaber battles, miracle football plays, and sex with strippe... / Continue →
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Someone at IESB nabbed a copy of the new Edward Norton Hulk script, which they're calling an "incredible ride" (literally, hopes Six Flags) and have posted a long synopsis here. Luckily, for those of us who want bullet points, /Film was kind enough to provide that as follows: ... / Continue →
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Because it's in Spanish, I can't say with any certainty what the narration to this The Oxford Murders teaser trailer says, but I'd guess it's something along the lines of, "Yes, this series of written equations is, visually, the closest thing we could equate to how interesting ... / Continue →
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Fact: College kids love idiotic posters of Scarface, busty girls wearing shirts that ask "Got Milk?", Radiohead (for the pseudo-intellectuals), Jim Morrison (for the pseudo-intellectual stoners), and raunchy comedies. So what's going to happen when the last two on that list me... / Continue →
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- Rumors are flying that Tim Burton or Henry Selick may have a new stop-motion animated film on the way. Either way, Hot Topic is going to make a fortune selling its merchandise. [AICN] - Remember the talk of HBO making a couple Deadwood made-for-TV movies? That was just to sub... / Continue →
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The US version will be showing up tomorrow, but until then you can enjoy the French version of Pixar's Walle-E trailer, which will probably be very similar save for the French titles. In it, our darling robot Wall-E reveals that he is careful, somewhat effeminate, and has the a... / Continue →
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I know David Lynch has done some commercial work in the past, and that it's not uncommon for modern directors to pawn products, but seeing this commercial by the Eraserhead director for Gucci by Gucci was still a real disappointment. This minute of models doing what must be the... / Continue →
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Hey, lesbians and werewolves?! Did these guys get a window into my Native American dreamcatcher or what? So this synopsis for Jack and Diane would imply! Jack (Thirlby) and Diane (Page), two teenage lesbians, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane... / Continue →
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Of all the exciting secrets bound to be revealed with the release of National Treasure: Book of Secrets, surely the most astounding is shown here in the poster: that Nicolas Cage is 20 years younger than memory or birth certificates will tell you. While most of us recall Cage a... / Continue →
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Showing hints of self-awareness never before seen in the action star, Jackie Chan has recently come out and said the Rush Hour series might not be as mind-blowingly awesome as we've been led to believe. Chan said of the film on his blog: When we finished filming, I felt very d... / Continue →
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With apologies for drifting slightly into the PM comes the poster for Frank Darabont's The Mist. This also serves as the introductory promotion for Universal Studio's newest attraction, "Parking Lot: The Ride," if you change the slogan to, "When the car stops, the ride begins..... / Continue →
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For his hit, intentionally-cryptic series, Lost, JJ Abrams created the fictional Hanso corporation and spread clues about its origins on TV and the internet. Well, apparently fake companies are something he now thinks play a part in every good marketing strategy, and there are ... / Continue →
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When it was announced that Drew Carey would be taking hold of the reigns of The Price is Right, I worried they might try updating the set of the show to mimic the stark, poorly-lit future world of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Deal or No Deal, and basically every other idiotic... / Continue →
