http://www.iwatchstuff.com/ en Copyright 2012 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:10:49 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss With heir to the Invisible Touch royalties, Lily Collins, last week dropping out of FilmDistrict's Evil Dead remake, the studio has moved quickly to find a lesser-eyebrowed replacement, and they think they've found on in Suburgatory star Jane Levy. The actress is in talks to join the project as the film's lead, a former drug addict attempting to clean herself up in a desolate cabin but unfortunately running into the forces of the dead, that are evil. As previously mentioned, that character replaces the original's Ash, who was way too male and non-drug-addicted for modern audiences. Red Riding Hood's Shiloh Fernandez has also joined the Fede Alvarez-directed reboot, and will unavoidably play a character that looks like a rich rapist bragging to his victim that no one will ever believe her. The exact identity of this character has yet to be revealed, but again, it isn't Ash.]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/now-these-two-will-be-in-evil-dead-remak.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/now-these-two-will-be-in-evil-dead-remak.php casting evil dead jane levy movie news remake shiloh fernandez Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:10:49 -0800 Whether you do it on the big screen or at a stranger's house party you've crashed, people come looking for you once you've shat in a sink. Ever since Bridesmaids, Melissa McCarthy has been in high demand as a comic co-star, first getting recruited to play a romantic interest of Jon Hamm, then taking a role alongside Jason Bateman, and now Chris Rock is looking to set up a dysfunctional, stereotyped relationship with her in a new film.]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/chris-rock-wants-melissa-mccarthy-for-te.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/chris-rock-wants-melissa-mccarthy-for-te.php casting chris rock melissa mccarthy movie news Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:32:48 -0800 Though 2006's Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction was already sort of pushing her luck in the genre, Sharon Stone is once again returning to betwixt the thighs of erotica and thrillers from whence she came. The 53-year-old actress has signed on to star in Attachment, the latest from writer Christopher Denham and American History X director Tony Kaye. Stone would play a married teacher whose one night of sexual indiscretion with a student has THRILLING consequences when the kid starts dating her daughter and stalking her family. It remains unclear if this production has any connection to Kaye's other recent teacher-focused film, the Adrien Brody-starring Detachment. Also no word on if Sharon Stone will show enough naked to make it worth continuing the tradition of sneaking out of bed to tape this thing off scrambled Showtime.]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/sharon-stone-hopes-you-still-see-her-as.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/sharon-stone-hopes-you-still-see-her-as.php attachment casting movie news sharon stone tony kaye Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:54:40 -0800 As Arnold Schwarzenegger would say, "[Captain America] continuously used him as a human shield, and then [he] threw him down." And that's only a a taste of the raw, plastic gruesomeness in this jaw-dropping stop-motion Captain America. It may be made of interlocked plastic bits and clay, but it's also pretty Real.]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/captain-america-much-better-movie-with-g.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/captain-america-much-better-movie-with-g.php animation captain america short Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:25:07 -0800 Dimension Films' Short Circuit remake now has a writer to instruct Alvin and the Chipmunks director Tim Hill how exactly to make the CGI robot dance. Deadline reports the thankless task of re-writing the tale of an escaped government robot-turned-Ally Sheedy lover has been handed to Matt Lieberman, an assured graduate of the "Disney writers program" who has thus far used his broad, family-oriented training only in writing the straight-to-video Doctor Dolittle spin-off Tail to the Chief. Disappointingly, despite the loud, insistent clamor for more on this exciting new project, "details of the new version are being kept secret." How long must we wait to find out Katy Perry will be in this, and will sing a dance-oriented duet of Mr. Roboto with Justin Timberlake's slightly-mechanized voice?]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/phew-short-circuit-remake-being-written.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/phew-short-circuit-remake-being-written.php dimension matt lieberman movie news short circuit Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:27:39 -0800 Amy Adams, Carey Mulligan, and Samantha Morton are all reportedly competing for the Siri/Majel Barrett-like role of a pleasant, female computer voice in a developing Spike Jonze project. Different than the upcoming Spike Jonze-directed, Charlie Kaufman-scripted satire about world leaders, this just-revealed film was written by Jonze himself, and already has Joaquin Phoenix set to star. He'll be playing a man--apparently the saddest, most forever alone man alive--who falls in love with the aforementioned disembodied female computer voice--a Lars and the Real Girl for the iPhone 4S age. Already this makes me feel better about things I've done to the time & temperature voice.]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/spike-jonze-casting-adorable-computer-vo.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/spike-jonze-casting-adorable-computer-vo.php amy adams carey mulligan joaquin phoenix movie news samantha morton spike jonze Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:26:04 -0800 If there's one thing David Lynch likes in his mouth more than still-warm panties, it's still-warm coffee. For about a year, the director has been selling his own line of coffee, and just last month he wrote a piece for Huffington Post detailing his long-standing obsession over the drink. Now, there's a Lynch-directed commercial for his David Lynch Signature Cup Organic coffee, and, predictably, it eschews the heartfelt reunions and catchy jingles that dominate the coffee advertising landscape. After all, who's to say you can't sell a cup of joe with morose, borderline self-parody brewed in disquieting psychosexual nightmares? Not Dave Lynch, that's for sure:]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/david-lynch-coffee-ad-plays-pretty-much.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/david-lynch-coffee-ad-plays-pretty-much.php commercial david lynch Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:25:26 -0800 Well, of course this is happening. With Insidious succeeding in its dark mission of making close to a hundred million dollars on a scant $1.5M budget, we're getting a sequel. Director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell are already in talks to return, and Paranormal Activity's Steven Schneider and Oren Peli will once again executive produce. But, tragically, one key figure is almost certainly not returning to the world of insidiousness: Steve. (Note: that red-faced demon asshole is, beyond all reason, named Steve. STEVE!!!) Continue on if you don't mind finding out/being reminded why that is.]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/insidious-unsurprisingly-getting-sequel.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/insidious-unsurprisingly-getting-sequel.php insidious james wan leigh whannell movie news oren peli steven schneider Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:19:41 -0800 If the Moonrise Kingdom trailer's combination of deliberate compositions, fantastically constructed aesthetics, and a shirtless and armed Bill Murray was still somehow not Wes Anderson-y enough for you, give this montage a shot. When I first noticed this video was called "Wes Anderson // FROM ABOVE," I thought, "Right, his classic overhead shots; I get it." But then I noticed the description identify this as "overhead shots of hands in the films of Wes Anderson," and it felt slightly weird. Like Tarantino with feet, have we all this time been letting this dude make thinly-veiled, critically-acclaimed fetish videos?]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/wes-anderson-overhead-shot-compilation-e.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/wes-anderson-overhead-shot-compilation-e.php movie wes anderson Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:55:52 -0800 NBC and Bryans Singer and Fuller are needlessly bringing The Munsters back to television, but no longer are they so abashed about fact they are attempting to reconstruct Butch Patrick's depressingly gimmicky childhood. According to TVLine, producers have now changed the title of their pilot to Mockingbird Lane, a reference to the street on which the Munsters reside. Ut oh, there goes all that built-in brand recognition! Apparently the name change has to do with the fact that NBC is putting together "a visually-spectacular one-hour drama" that is said to have little resemblance to its former namesake, leading producers to think they should start fresh with new name free of the connotations of the original. Free of the chains of the "Munsters" title, at last the concept of Frankenstein's monster marrying a vampire woman and living with her father, their werewolf son, and human daughter can be judged on its own merit, so that audiences can more easily recognize the intrinsic drama of such a spooky family unit. The theme song will probably have less frivolous surf guitar, too. Such is drama.]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/the-munsters-remake-no-longer-identified.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/the-munsters-remake-no-longer-identified.php mockingbird lane nbc news the munsters Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:26:59 -0800 Having already lowered her integrity level to "will almost remake a Gerard Butler bounty hunting romantic-comedy, explicitly for the money" with One for the Money, Katherine Heigl has now come to terms with the fact that re-doing a 2011 Milla Jovovich thriller isn't such a big step down. As such, she's just agreed to star in Face Blind, an indie film about a woman afflicted by the inability to recognize faces (i.e., she is "face blind"), thus leaving her unable to identify someone stalking and terrorizing her. And if that premise sounds familiar, it's because Milla Jovovich made a movie with an identical prosopagnosia-based plot device with last year's Faces in the Crowd. It is very exciting, face blindness! We can probably wring two, three more films out of this disorder before passing it off to a Law & Order: SVU episode, then finally retiring it as a government-mandated caution on the side of the Guess Who? box.]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/katherine-heigl-basically-remaking-that.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/katherine-heigl-basically-remaking-that.php casting face blind katherine heigl movie news thriller Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:06:14 -0800 If you thought the writing in The Phantom Menace couldn't possibly get any less subtle, wait until you hear the voice-over in this new featurette intended to lure excitable children in to see the Star Wars prequel in 3D. At last updating the prequel to the vision George Lucas always intended, the minute-and-a-half commercial piles atop the layers of CGI an omniscient voice--perhaps The Force itself, if The Force is meant to sound like a cartoon character with sunglasses and a skateboard--guiding the characters with such useful, shouted wisdom as "hurry up, Qui-Gon," "maybe [Darth Maul] should keep the hood on, just a suggestion," and, "chill out, R2!" For all who saw Darth Maul's double-bladed lightsaber and thought, "Hey, that's not fair!", you now have a cool-guy voice:]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/star-wars-episode-i-3d-commercial-finds.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/star-wars-episode-i-3d-commercial-finds.php commercial movie phantom menace star wars trailer Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:16:06 -0800 Shhh. Quiet for a minute, everyone. Lenny Kravitz is being an actor.]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/hunger-games-60-second-super-bowl-spot-m.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/hunger-games-60-second-super-bowl-spot-m.php donald sutherland elizabeth banks hunger games jennifer lawrence josh hutcherson movie stanley tucci trailer Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:55:13 -0800 Louis Gara and Ordell Robbie, the characters played respectively by Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson in Jackie Brown, are soon to be reissued as newer, sleeker models to be portrayed by John Hawkes and Yasiin Bey (the rapper-turned-actor formerly called Mos Def, until he told us to stop calling him that). Hawkes and Bey have reportedly committed to star in Dan Schechter's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1978 The Switch. Unlike the wacky cum mix-'em-up comedy of last year, this Switch focuses on a botched kidnapping-ransom job by a duo of career criminals--Gara and Robbie, the Wilder/Pryor of the Leonard-verse, and the same characters that 15 years later appear in Leonard's Rum Punch, the novel Jackie Brown was based on. Are you getting why this is a bit of a prequel but not exactly? Alright, good. Leonard, rarely entirely all that hesitant about adapting his novels, has already approved of Schechter's script, and now joins the film as a producer. Production is expected to start in May. Yasiin, start working on your terrible little braided goatee; Hawkes, start working on a way to communicate why you eventually acquire Quentin Tarantino's foot fetish:]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/jackie-brown-almost-prequel-casts-john-h.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/jackie-brown-almost-prequel-casts-john-h.php casting dan schechter elmore leonard john hawkes movie news switch yasiin bey Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:34:29 -0800 Russell Crowe and Liam Neeson--Hollywood's end-of-the-bar drunken hooligans, violently shouting at some televised footballers and later fighting us outside--are reportedly both nearing roles on Darren Aronofsky's biblical film, Noah. Deadline reports Crowe is moving towards a deal to play the title character. He'd be replacing the previously-attached Christian Bale, reaffirming rumors Aronofsky's take on the character will be an edgier, more intense take than the friendly bearded man seen in nursery murals--a Noah that will loudly threaten the animals to get in the fucking boat, and a Noah that will under no circumstances abide by his Jewish tradition of circumcision. Liam Neeson is also reportedly being courted for an unnamed role, but since he's already played a biblical lion in the past, let's just assume it's that again. Liam Neeson will be a CGI lion, okay?]]> http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/russell-crowe-probably-noah-liam-neeson.php http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/02/russell-crowe-probably-noah-liam-neeson.php casting darren aronofsky liam neeson movie news noah russell crowe Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:47:43 -0800