Hugh Laurie To Antagonize George Clooney in 'Tomorrowland'
Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof's Tomorrowland: not involving aliens, but definitely involving television's most charismatic former hospital employees.
Hugh Laurie Will Not Be in 'RoboCop' After All
With shooting scheduled to begin next month, MGM's RoboCop remake is in sudden need of someone to play "the evil and ultra-rich CEO of Omnicorp," as two-month-long talks for Hugh Laurie to play the villain have apparently broken down.
'The Oranges' Trailer: House MD's May-December Romance
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.
Hugh Laurie in Talks To Be 'RoboCop' Bad Guy
Continuing to assemble a cast that's way more likable and interesting than a serious remake of a cyborg officer action-satire would seem to deserve, MGM has reportedly entered talks with Hugh Laurie to play the villain in RoboCop (2013).
Mandy Moore's Gettin' Married, Guys! Plus: Gold! And More!
- There's also a trailer to go along with this poster, but it sort of seemed superfluous after this image summed it all up so well.
- Adding to a cast that already has Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, and Penelope Cruz, Woody Allen's next, Rome-based film will reportedly also include Ellen Page. Considering Eisenberg will clearly play young, hyperneurotic Woody, and Baldwin will likely embody the latter half of Woody's insatiable hunger for May-December lust, Page is probably... Ladywoody?
- Adam Shankman has revealed that Russell Brand will play Lonny in the upcoming feature version of Rock of Ages. The director goes on to tease a mullet in Brand's future, even though America has made clear that all we want to see Brand in is an impenetrable layer of computer-generated fur.
- Michael Mann has his eye on directing Gold, a film described as "a contemporary Treasure of the Sierra Madre-type treasure hunt about prospectors and speculators involved in the chase for gold." Sounds like a Will Ferrell vehicle to me. And to Ol' Gus Chiggins.
- Hugh Laurie will play eccentric teacher Mr. Watts in Andrew Adamson's adaptation of Mr. Pip, which involves a 14-year-old girl "who imagines [the Great Expectations] character Pip into real-life to help her endure the hardships of her own life." What a fun, literary exploration of dissociative hallucinations that will be!
'Monsters vs. Aliens' Trailer
Dreamworks has released another trailer to its next unremarkable, celebrity-voiced CGI effort, Monsters vs. Aliens. It's no Steven Seagal v. Vampires, but what is?
'Monsters vs. Aliens' Trailer: Classic Match-Up
Monsters versus aliens: classic match-up. Brute size and strength versus advanced technology. Unless we're talking about Aliens aliens, then it's brute size and strength versus acid blood and a smaller mouth inside the normal mouth. And sometimes are greatest "monsters" are in fact man (HITLER!). Still though, classic match-up, and it's just the battle you'll find inside DreamWorks' aptly-titled CGI comedy, Monsters vs. Aliens. Here is the trailer:
First 'Monsters vs. Aliens' Shot in ULTIMATE 3-D
DreamWorks has passed along some new information about upcoming kiddie-style B-movie, Monster Aliens, including the above shot of a giant gaunt woman and some monsters, a cast list, and the bitter threat of even higher ticket prices.
Reese Witherspoon as Susan Murphy, a modern-day California girl who has the bad luck to be hit by a meteor on her wedding day and grows to be 49 feet, 11½ inches tall (a wink at 1958's The Attack of the 50-Foot Woman). Captured by the military, she's renamed Ginormica.Joining her giantess to fend off Rainn Wilson's evil alien Gallaxhar are Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. (Hugh Laurie), the jellylike B.O.B. (Seth Rogen) and the half-ape, half-fish Missing Link (Will Arnett). Kiefer Sutherland speaks for Gen. W.R. Monger (get it?), and Stephen Colbert is the president.
Good to hear Rogen could find time from being in every other comedy to join this, and that they were able to nail several quirky television actors popular with hip, young demographics--hearing the voices of House and Dwight Schrute should distract me from the mediocre attempt at one-upping Pixar--but what's the deal with the higher ticket prices?
'Street Kings' Poster is Really Street-Arty
Way to go, Street Kings, capitalizing on the same vomiting splash of pseudo-graffiti that Comedy Central tried to exploit a few years back. Street Kings will definitely be the edgiest drag king prostitute movie in years.
Street Kings Poster [IMPA]
