Christina Ricci has agreed to follow-up roles in Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star that stewardess show with a part in The Smurfs 2, as that doesn't seem like such a bad career move at this point. According to the THR report, Ricci will be lending her voice to Vexi, a newly-invented character described as "an evil version of Smurfette," hinting that the next Smurfs adventure could be going for a darkly psychological tone, in which Smurfette's gender isolation finally causes her to manifest--either figuratively or literally--a second self that angrily lashes out against the lustful patriarchy that surrounds her. Or the Smurfs go to Europe this time, and there's a girl Smurf there with black hair instead of blonde.
The just-released official announcement on the film's production start adds that Curb Your Enthusiasm's JB Smoove will similarly play a "new Smurf-like naughty character" named Hackus, who should definitely be retroactively added to the first, New York-set film just so that this can happen with a Smurf:
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The Twilight series has Robert Pattinson well trained in the arts of scowling and smirking. "Grrr, I'm a vampire," he scowls! "Now I'm happy I'm marrying my high school girlfriend," he smirks! Both skills come in handy for Bel Ami, the Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod-directed film that sees Bobby Patts lustfully smirking and scowling his way around 19th century Paris. Here's the trailer for that film. Smirk/scowl spoiler: When Pattinson is smirking, it's usually because he's going to have sex with an actress whose last film he can't remember (Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas). And when he's scowling, it's likely because Chief O'Brien just told him, "Hey, asshole vampire! Stop having sex with all our once-relevant wives!"
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A good sign your film has some problems is when you start thinking adding an arbitrary period in the name might be a good idea. Another good sign your film has problems is that your protagonist can't figure out if she's dead or not because Liam Neeson keeps telling her, "Nah, you're dead; I'm just a Ghost Whisperer, like I Know What You Did Last Summer on that show," and that's the entire movie.
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Here's the trailer to New York, I Love You (the thematic sequel to Paris, je t'aime), the upcoming film in which 13 directors pretend there aren't already a lot of movies proclaiming love for New York and make some of their own. Who are these directors? All your favorites. Rush Hour director Brett Ratner? Got him. Natalie Portman the Director? She's there. Natalie Portman's Other Boleyn Girl co-star, Scarlett Johansson the Director? Yup. Plus, it stars everyone, and is going to make Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon ridiculously easy from now on.
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A new domestic trailer to Speed Racer has arrived, forcing some retro kitsch into its computer-generated candy world with the addition of a "cool beans!" moment. Aside from conspicuously dated slang, the new trailer also gives us disturbing hints of incest, and the shocking revelation that the protagonist--whose birth name is Speed Racer--has had an unnatural fascination with speed racing for his entire life. Who would have thought? Despite all the eye-roll-inducing dialogue--true to the series but not really much worse than Matrix lines--I'm finding myself strangely drawn to the Wachowskis' psychedelic, phsyics-free racing fantasy.
See some speed racing and Matthew Fox playing Racer X like an android Batman, under the cut.
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Equal parts video game, hallucinogen, and exposition, two new international trailers for Speed Racer have found their way online in all their blinding, over-saturated glory. I don't know why the Wachowskis keep releasing trailers when it's obvious that the in-theater seizures are going to be the real publicity builders.
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Envision a jarring nightmare full of absurdly cliched dialogue, the Playstation game Wipeout, fan-fiction, epilepsy, ninjas, Michael Jackson's '80s wardrobe, all the worst parts of Star Wars: Episode I, and Maury Povich's ideal guest (a child who is both fat and prematurely aged), all filtered through the mind of a boy with ADHD. If you did it right, you're now pretty close to the trailer to Speed Racer, only more so.
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Since the Wachowskis announced they were making a live-action adaptation of Speed Racer, there's been a lot of speculation and doubt as to how well they could translate the anime. It turns out our worries were completely unfounded. Just like you'd want, it looks exactly like a spaceman having a psychotic episode while half in a spectroscope, half in a Hot Wheels commercial.
And more under the cut!
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