February 24, 2006
Mischa Barton as Supergirl
Assuming Superman Returns is as big of a hit as the studios are counting on it being, rumor is they'd like to make a Supergirl spin-off, and The O.C.'s Mischa Barton is the frontrunner for the title role. This casting idea makes sense, because Supergirl is a powerful girl with superhuman strength and abilities, and Mischa Barton is an awkward, gangly, rat-girl. She's the perfect counterpart to Superman, assuming we recast him with David Spade.
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Disney's The Wild Poster
The CG jungle animal escape movie that isn't Madagascar, The Wild, has released its new poster with the clever tagline: "Start spreading the newspaper." Because animals use newspaper as toilets. Even jungle animals. It's completely appropriate. Don't even question it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman to Play Roger Ebert
In an appearance on the Howard Stern Show today, film critic Roger Ebert mentioned that a Russ Meyer biopic is in the works, with Oscar-nominee Philip Seymour Hoffman set to play the critic. Then Ebert, at Stern's encouragement, showed his breasts and had lunch meat thrown at his ass. I mean, I didn't hear it, but I assume.
This sounds like pretty good casting, because Hoffman is male, white and kind of fat. I don't know what other requirements there would be.
Spider-Man's New Costume Unveiled
Sony has finally released an official picture from Spider-Man 3. At first it appears to be a black & white photo of the webslinger, but closer examination reveals this is, in fact, the first shot of Spider-Man's new black costume. Fans of the comic series will recognize the black suit implies the presence of an alien symbiote and Venom story.
I'm not a big fan of Venom, but at least the costume doesn't look as hokey as it could. When my brother started wearing black, he kept attaching chains and safety pins to himself. Though he also started writing bad poetry and listening to a lot of Morrissey, so I think he had a whole other thing going on.
Pan's Labyrinth Looks Gross
Ain't-It-Cool-News was sent some scans from a European magazine showing some images from Guillermo del Torro's new horror, Pan's Labyrinth, and man are they terrifying. The film tells the story of a young girl who travels with her family to rural Northern Spain, where her imaginary world begins to take over. Besides revealing how amazing the grotesqueness of this film looks to be, I'm pleased that there's finally proof that other kids had imaginary pale scrotum men that ate big novelty peanuts for them. I told you, mom.
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Thornton to Get Stuck in Cave
Billy Bob Thornton is on-board to write, direct, and star in a drama telling the true story of Floyd Collins, an explorer who became trapped in Kentucky's Sand Cave in 1925, creating a 13-day media circus that ultimately ended in his death. As soon as I heard this movie involved exploring a cave, I said, "Come on, haven't we all seen The Goonies?" Then I read on and realized it was nothing at all like The Goonies, except possibly that it involves a cavern, so I had to start going around asking people if they really had seen The Goonies, so it wouldn't seem like I thought this movie sounded like that.
