December 15, 2005
Lady in the Water poster
The new Lady in the Water poster has been released, and it looks absolutely splendid. Considering M. Night Shyamalan seems incapable of making a bad movie, it's a pretty safe bet to say I'm looking forward to this. I personally don't like to ruin movies for myself by reading all about them, so I don't really know what the movie is about. But judging from the trailer and the poster and the fact that M. Night Shyamalan makes good movies, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to wander in on this one. Though if you're desperate for a synopsis I copy/pasted the one provided by IMDB. I didn't actually read it so I might have accidentally gotten the one off Braveheart, but it's all good.
Synopsis: In "Lady in the Water," a story originally conceived by Shyamalan for his children, a modest building manager named Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) rescues a mysterious young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) from danger and discovers she is actually a narf, a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Cleveland and his fellow tenants start to realize that they are also characters in this bedtime story. As Cleveland falls deeper and deeper in love with the woman, he works together with the tenants to protect his new fragile friend from the deadly creatures that reside in this fable and are determined to prevent her from returning home.
Previous Entries
Blade TV Show Pictures
Comics Continuum has gotten the first few pics of the upcoming "Blade" TV series. The series started shooting on November 14th in Vancouver and they have about one more week left of shooting there. The series will air in June on Spike TV, though it looks pretty lame without Wesley Snipes. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised and it'll be totally badass. More pics after the jump.
The Showbiz Show gets renewed
For reasons I'll never understand, Comedy Central has renewed The Showbiz Show with David Spade. Maybe they forgot that being funny was a requirement for being a comedy show. Or maybe they just enjoy renewing pieces of shit. Either way, this is a terrible decision on Comedy Central's part. Either they really dropped the ball, or there are enough people watching that crap that they felt it warranted a second season. And I'm really hoping that's not the case, because I have more faith in humanity than that.
Harold and Kumar sequel?
Kal Penn, the Kumar of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle told MTV that they're currently in discussions of doing a Harold and Kumar sequel. Most people out there probably think this is a stupid idea, but I actually liked Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. It dealt with racism in a fresh way, and it was pretty damn funny. The car scene where Harold and Kumar are talking about their driver's huge boil? Comic gold, my friends.
Scarlett Johansson to be in The Prestige
Scarlett Johansson is in talks to star in Chistopher Nolan's "The Prestige." I'm not familiar with the novel the movie is baed on, but since Christopher Nolan is about as close to Movie God as humanly possible, I'm sure the movie will be spectacular.
In the movie, Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman play rival magicians in early 1900s London who battle each other for trade secrets. Johansson will play a magician's assistant named Olivia who is sent to spy on the competition.
And you know spies always wear a lot of sexy outfits and what not. So that's pretty awesome too.
Halo movie script leaked
Latino Review claims to have a leaked copy of the Halo script and they say it's bloody fantastic. I'm not sure how one goes about stealing a $1 million script, but I bet it involved a lot of sneaking around and maybe some night-vision goggles. I didn't read it myself, because I hate ruining movies for myself, but you can check it out if you're into that thing.
