The makers of Shrek have some new ogreish, hard-to-look-at characters ready to charm you through a few sequels and maybe a straight-to-video Christmas special: The Croods, a close-knit family of neanderthals led by staunchly-reclusive patriarch Nicolas Cage. When the clan's progressive, larger-brained teenager cave-daughter (Emma Stone) forces the primitives to leave their cave and venture out for the first time, they're shocked and amazed to discover that the world at large is pretty much just Avatar--but with less Sam Worthington, as his indistinct features had not yet evolved. Here's the trailer:
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Starring Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, and Philip Seymour Hoffman in the weary, head-in-his-hands mode so often indicated by his patchy stubble, A Late Quartet concerns a group of New York string musicians and friends struggling through an opening performance marred by the rising tensions of competing egos, marital strife, and the discovery of one member's Parkinson's disease. As Walken explains over this just-released trailer, the group is performing Beethoven's Opus 131--a seven-moment piece with no breaks, meaning the four instruments are doomed to uniquely, unpredictably drift out of tune, each in their own way, with their own stubble, if you catch their extended metaphor (wink-wink!).
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In a battle of the network stars that pits the cast of The West Wing against former competitors from Fox and the CW, The Oranges stars Hugh Laurie, Alia Shawcat, Adam Brody, Catherine Keener, Leighton Meester, Oliver Platt and Allison Janney, as neighboring families thrown into turmoil when Laurie and Meester are discovered to be in a clandestine relationship, grossing everyone out. As loyal House, M.D. viewers might recall, Meester and Laurie already have a short history of romantic tension, and last time they shared the screen, Meester's shirt came off pretty fast. This time, Oliver Platt's shirt comes off. Gender equality has taken a dismal turn.
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- Will The Great Gatsby be shot in 3-D? Maybe, says director Baz Luhrmann! The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic, and in your fucking face in digital 3-D?
- Documentary filmmaker Yaron Zilberman has secured Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Jeremy Northam, and Christopher Walken for his fiction debut, A Late Quartet. So when you see that cast on a poster later, don't just assume it's a Charlie Kaufman film.
- Arrested Development lawyer and frequent Christopher Guest actor John Michael Higgins has signed on to join Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson in Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo. He'll reportedly play "a state zoo inspector cursed with an active and loud stomach." It was only a matter of time before Camerone Crowe got to fart jokes.
- Confirming the earlier rumor, producer Neal Moritz revealed Colin Farrell will be taking over Arnold Schwarzenegger's part in the remake of Total Recall, continuing Hollywood's recent tradition of skewing casting towards not huge Austrian dudes.
Good luck having a meet-up with that dude from Facebook tonight, teenage girls, because Ross-from-Friends has decided to validate all of your parents' worst cyber-fears with the new film Trust. From this trailer, it seems the Shwimmer-directed film is about a creepy old guy using "the net" to do some rapes on Catherine Keener and Clive Owen's daughter--and Clive Owen, being Clive Owen, getting some guns and going after this chump. Apparently this pedophile had never seen a Clive Owen film, and didn't realize that's pretty standard protocol for him. Never mess with Clive Owen's daughter. Nor Liam Neeson's daughter. Nor Mel Gibson's son.
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If Noah Baumbach made a Man of the House/Dutch-style son-fucking-with-mom's-new-boyfriend dark comedy starring John C. Reilly and Jonah Hill, this would be it. Not that Noah Baumbach made this--the guys who did The Puffy Chair did--but still, that's what this is. And it sort of looks just as good as that concept sounds:
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Another reminder to stay non-bedridden until at least after October 16th: a new behind-the-scenes featurette for one of this fall's most anticipated releases, Where the Wild Things Are. In it, author Maurice Sendak voices his enthusiastic approval for Spike Jonze's adaptation, and draws parallels between himself and the director--plus, there's new, awe-inspiring footage. My expectations are reaching a point that, to meet them, the actual film strip is probably going to have to give me a handjob in the theater.
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I couldn't tell you exactly what's going on in this trailer to Synecdoche, New York, but the film is written and directed by Charlie Kaufman and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, so I'm sure it's as great as it seems.
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Here's the trailer for The Soloist the semi-real inspirational story of reporter Robert Downey Jr. finding redemption by helping schizophrenic hobo Jamie Foxx play the cello. The only way this thing could be better Oscar bait is if they painted it gold, put it in a wig and makeup, and had it give some coquettish glances to the Oscar statues. "Hey, booooooys!"
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Yes, technically this is just Catherine Keener and Philip Seymour Hoffman standing in a dingy artist's studio. But it's also a scene in Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind writer Charlie Kaufman's first directorial effort, Synecdoche, New York--only the second shot since this one--so I'm somewhat justified in my genuine excitement. In what way will the above conversation use a mix of quirky surrealism, deadpan humor, and heart-wrenching drama to broaden my understanding of the tragedy of human existence? I don't know, but I'm certain it will.
Cannes Watch: Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York [Thompson on Hollywood]
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