September 11, 2011 - September 17, 2011 Archives
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- Two years after his arrest by Swiss police while trying to receive a lifetime achievement award, Roman Polanski will at last accept that award at the Zurich Film Festival. He would appreciate it if no one sends him to jail this time, please. - Snoop Dogg is attached to star ... / Continue →
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Channing Tatum, Channing Tatum's would-be mustache, Ray Liotta, Tracy Morgan, Juliette Binoche, the non-Sandler cast of Jack and Jill (Al Pacino, Katie Holmes): together at long last, all these people you definitely wanted to at some point see together. Why have these forces co... / Continue →
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See? Bigger at IMPA.... / Continue →
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Rescue Me has ended its seven-season run, leaving series creator Peter Tolan with nothing to oversee, but Tolan sure hasn't been wasting his time off since the taping of the final show. Rather than allow his brain to shrivel in its retirement from writing fire-themed dialogue f... / Continue →
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"After the massive loss of life in World War I, many drew comfort from a belief in the supernatural," claims the opening card on this trailer for The Awakening. After all, when a lot of people are dying, what's more reassuring than the thought of legions of spectres roaming the... / Continue →
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Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained recently pulled the mustache of Gerald McRaney into its cast, but it seems another fatherly presence has been lost. Kevin Costner was attached to play a character named Ace Woody, the man who trains slaves to fight each other, but now, tweet... / Continue →
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Hey, Trivia Wizards, what film starts with Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi demanding a package be delivered under his strict, promised terms of expediency? If you're thinking Spider-Man 2, well done, Trivia Wizard, you're right. But if you're thinking this new movie where... / Continue →
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Want to see a movie this weekend? Sure you do. Here are your new options: Drive Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks Good if you want to see: Ryan Gosling being the best driver, and judging by the trailer, maybe h... / Continue →
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Thus far, the majority of the fuel keeping the Ghostbusters 3 fire alive has been the Crystal Head vodka Dan Aykroyd spits every time he insists the dubious project will get made. All this talk of a new team of Ghostbusters aiding their sickly, near-bedridden counterparts might... / Continue →
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So, remember how there was that black & white Girl with the Dragon Tattoo poster where James Bond was so grumpy that we were looking at his ladyfriend's tit? Well, with the Muppets earlier today doing a trailer parodying the Dragon Tattoo teaser, they've also gone ahead and don... / Continue →
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Sick of having to flip between Fox affiliates and A/V inputs just to keep a constant, 24-hour stream of Simpsons episodes pouring into your brain's quote center? Well, Fox may have finally figured out a way to take care of that issue: a channel devoted entirely to The Simpsons,... / Continue →
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Back in 2002, when E.T. arrived on DVD and allowed us to weep in an all-new digital format, director Steven Spielberg saw the new release as an opportunity to fix a few things that had always bothered him--things like fixing close-ups of E.T.'s face, and, most controversially, ... / Continue →
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Following up on the internet popularity of trailers spoofing Green Lantern, The Hangover, Part II, and the entire romantic-comedy genre, the hands inside the Muppets have put together yet another parody trailer for us to excitedly Twitter about: The Pig with the Froggy Tattoo. ... / Continue →
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When Géla Babluani's 13 Tzameti started earning a solid reputation for appearances at Sundance and other film festivals, American producers took notice--but they had some improvements for the young director to make on his taut, Russian roulette thriller: "Hey, how about some co... / Continue →
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Ever since J.J. Abrams' rebooted Star Trek left us with the reaction, "Yeah, that was a pretty OK Star Trek," there's been some lingering doubt over whether Abrams would return to the director's chair. We all kind of assumed he would, but his refusal to give a definitive commit... / Continue →
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Well, it looks like Chris Tucker's momentous return to shouting will not occur under the supervision of Neighborhood Watch. Despite a previous report Tucker was "circling" the part of recent-divorcé Jamarcus in that film, now that part is going to British comedian/actor/directo... / Continue →
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If Dan Aykroyd gets his way, in a few years we'll all come to see the Ghostbusters for the fat, arthritic old men they are, and we'll replace those once-fond memories of Ghostbusters past with images of spry, lanky procedural stars. But before that disgrace happens, looks like ... / Continue →
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Based on the true story of someone buying a zoo, Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo stars Matt Damon as a guy who buys a zoo. You follow? See, what happens is Matt Damon gets fed up with being a suburban single dad; he would rather be a single dad in the country, where no one will... / Continue →
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With Gerald McRaney's appearance in Red Tails proving his fatherly mustache a valuable supporting character for African-American heroism, the Deadwood actor and TV's Major Dad has been added to the cast of Quentin Tarantino's Jaime Foxx-starring slave vengeance film Django Unch... / Continue →
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Seeing how Twilight's forthright message of vampire-on-human teen abstinence was set up as a pretty obvious analog for promoting standard teen abstinence, you'd think that once the young couple was married--sparkly-skinned groom notwithstanding--they'd finally be clear to know ... / Continue →
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Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are out--apparently in a quarry--shooting their film adaptation of the 1960s, dracula-filled soap opera Dark Shadows, and Celebuzz has the first look at Depp in costume as Barnabas Collins, the vampire family patriarch. What's interesting about this i... / Continue →
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- io9 has the first look inside The Man of Steel's Daily Planet. Go ahead and say whatever you're thinking about Death Stars. That statue's heard it all before. - Hugh Grant is the latest actor to join Tom Tykwer's epic, Wachowski-produced adaptation of Cloud Atlas--which is a... / Continue →
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It's safest to remain skeptical that a Party Down movie is ever going to happen, but hey, if you're looking for some deadpanned, everyman-style false hope on the subject, Adam Scott has delivered just that. While speaking about the comedy Friends with Kids at the Toronto Intern... / Continue →
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Ever want to experience the feeling of slowly approaching Robert De Niro as he sits on a bed, then to have him turn to you with only the faintest of recognition in his milky eyes--like he's your ailing grandpa trying to decipher what you mean by "time to go back to the hospital... / Continue →
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Apparently forgetting that The Fast and the Furious is already a remake of Point Break, Warner Bros. and Blade Runner tamperers Alcon Entertainment have decided it's about time someone remake Point Break with some newly "extreme" sports. So, having given up on plans for a Jan D... / Continue →
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Forbes has released its arbitrary list of highest-paid people in the broad field of "entertainment" who are also males, and as you may have assessed from the above photo, it turns out the highest-paid man in entertainment only intermittently matches that full description. With ... / Continue →
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Over the next couple years, Kevin Smith has promised a violent hockey comedy with Hit Somebody and Universal has promised a Stifler/Eugene Levy reunion with American Reunion, but wouldn't it be easier to just take care of both these things at once, so we may return Seann Willia... / Continue →
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Taking her first role since being a huge crack head with Bobby Brown for a while, Whitney Houston is in talks to join Sparkle, Sony's remake of the 1976 film that was loosely based on the story of The Supremes. Houston's last acting part was that of Moesha's fairy godmother in ... / Continue →
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- It was another relatively mundane weekend at late summer/early fall box office--unless you're looking for public shaming, that is. In that case, you should note that Bucky Larson: Born To Be a Star has the rare distinction of a 0% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and Creature's 1,500-... / Continue →
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TV news time, guys. Firstly: questions about just how Sex and the City's protagonist was so good at identifying shopping deals and pun opportunities will soon be answered with the CW's The Carrie Diaries, a new series that will tell the unnecessary origin story of notorious Man... / Continue →
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The Danger Zone can never truly be reached with a throughway of only two dimensions, and as such, it's now reportedly time to convert Tony Scott's Top Gun for a 3D theatrical release. Legend3D is heading up the conversion thanks to a revenue-share deal with Paramount, and today... / Continue →
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More rotten news from the weekend: actor Andy Whitfield, former star of Starz Channel's Spartacus: Blood and Sand, died Sunday in Sydney of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He was 39. Whitfield was diagnosed with the disease in March of last year and, after treatment in New Zealand, had ... / Continue →
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Cliff Robertson, a talented actor whose death we've already been forced to confront in Spider-Man and subsequent painful flashbacks, died Saturday at Stony Brook University Medical Center on Long Island. He was 88, having just celebrated a birthday on Friday. Robertson's 50-pl... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Contagion - $23.1 million. Only one thing could end The Help's run of box office dominance, and it turns out that thing was an infirm Gwyneth Paltrow. 2. The Help - $8.7 million, slipping a spot now that there's something out with that Bourne guy i... / Continue →
