Though 2009's (500) Days of Summer earned largely positive reviews for its quirky, offbeat take on romantic-comedy, some felt they'd rather see Joseph Gordon-Levitt play it a little less twee--you know, maybe fall in love as a Jersey Shore cliché addicted to workouts and pornography. Among those critics: Joseph Gordon-Levitt himself, apparently. So, for his feature writing and directing debut, he's corrected that problem with Don Jon. In the film, he stars as a dude who, as he describes himself, cares only about such numerous essentials as his body, his pad, his ride, his family, his church, his boys, his girls, and his porn. Proving that one can indeed have too many passions, his last two professed loved come into contention when he falls for fellow Jersey cliché Scarlett Johansson, an old-fashioned girl with a shrill argument against the X-rated arts.
Julianne Moore also appears to provide sage wisdom on non-pornographic love, while Tony Danza unexpectedly shows up as Jon's father and an earthly reminder of Angels in the Outfield. Here's the trailer:
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After 2010's Ceremony cast Michael Angarano as a highly-affected, precocious, would-be creative infatuated with an older woman, you may have thought that would be the end of the actor's transition into becoming Max Fischer, Part II. As it turns out, you would be wrong, because here he is kissing a teacher while putting on a self-written high school play in The English Teacher. Also not entirely going against type, Greg Kinnear co-stars as indie dramedy dad, Lily Collins plays pretty girl, Nathan Lane plays histrionic theatre guy, and Julianne Moore, starring in the title role, cries. Here's the trailer.
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Released in the UK three years ago as "Shelter" and already on DVD in Canada, where Julianne Moore's screen presence exchange rate is higher, 6 Souls has meanwhile long been shelved in the US for reasons of not being very good. Or at least it wasn't very good before. Now it's apparently good enough. Though Moore forgot to mention it in her Golden Globe acceptance speech, the film is getting domestic release on-demand this March, and will finally hit theaters in April--over five years since the production first began casting inbred freak children. How time flies.
Moore stars as a psychiatrist tasked with treating Jonathan Rhys Meyers, a mental patient troubled by multiple personality disorder. She vows to cure him, but ut oh, it's not that easy, Julianne Moore! The other personalities ARE DEAD PEOPLE. Probably about six dead people, I'd reason.
Watch the trailer below. Or just trust that the director of Underworld: Awakening have delivered again.
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Hey, remember how the original Carrie covered Carrie in a bucket of blood? Well, it looks like the new one still do that, with this first still from the remake seemingly revealing that Chloe Moretz, like Sissy Spacek before her, will be doused in blood for the film. Update as they might, there's just no modernizing blood. Until invincible nano-blood, that is. What is taking so long with the invincible nano-blood, Science?
Have a look at Julianne Moore in the role of Carrie's dowdy, ultra-Christian mother below.
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Here's a video providing back-to-back comparisons of Julianne Moore's scenes from HBO's Game Change and the same, real-life, televised scenes from Sarah Palin's actual life. Because if there's one thing the rhetoric of Sarah Palin calls for, it to be immediately repeated, verbatim, in pretty much the exact same voice.
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The liberal, Muppet agenda continues, this time in a new trailer for HBO's Game Change. In the Jay Roach-directed film, Ed Harris plays then-presidential candidate John McCain and a down-homey Julianne Moore plays Sarah Palin, the titular game changer who successfully changed the game such that shooting wolves and a cheerful confusion over geography and periodical titles somehow became acceptable moves.
Loyal conservatives and champions of the former Alaskan Queen will likely be irked by this trailer's unsympathetic depiction of Palin pouting, curling up in the fetal position, and delivering actual Sarah Palin quotes, but if nothing else, take some pride in the fact that the Republican half of the 2008 election was dramatic and revolutionary enough to attract such huge talent to a premium cable movie. I somehow doubt the 2012 campaign will spawn much more than the eventual Lifetime movie Cheater of the House: The Newt Gingrich Story.
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"Find me a woman," commands Ed Harris, his face apparently grafted onto John McCain's rigid form. Sadly, the rest of the trailer for HBO's Game Change does not delve into the many clandestine, sacrificial sex brides of the 2008 presidential campaign. Instead, we get campaign adviser Woody Harrelson repeatedly demanding variations of a "game change" if John McCain hopes to win the election, with the preview's finale finally reviewing the all-too-well-known result: Sarah Palin and her folksy, maverick cadence that will forever be ringing in our ears, like a rifle's wolf-downing blast eternally echoing in the snowy hills of Sarah Palin's Alaska. But in this case, Sarah Palin is Julianne Moore being Tina Fey:
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Adapted from Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Being Flynn stars Paul Dano as a social worker and would-be writer working in a homeless shelter. Robert De Niro co-stars as his father, a drunk who left Nick and mother Julianne Moore--and now he's coincidentally turned up at the aforementioned homeless shelter. Ut ohhhhh! How will De Niro handle this belligerent father-son relationship when it no longer make sense to shout "Focker!" as hilarious catharsis? How long will it take Julianne Moore to break down weeping? Will Paul Dano's lanky frame finally collapse from being so, so fragilely Paul Dano-esque? Investigate these pressing questions with this first trailer for Being Flynn:
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- Apparently it "appears doubtful" NBC will pick up Wonder Woman, so we may never get to see and cruelly mock whatever the third costume with the shorts is. Shame, that.
- Alexander Skarsgard will join Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan in Scott McGehee and David Siegel's contemporary adaptation of the Henry James novel What Maisie Knew. Moore and Coogan are playing Maisie's divorced parents, while Skarsgard still isn't Thor, and that's probably all he's really thinking about right now.
- Tim Robbins will co-star with Mark Ruffalo in The Kids Are Alright writer Stuart Blumbert's directorial debut, Thanks for Sharing, concerning characters in a New York City sex addict recovery program. First lesbians, and now sex addicts? Is there any taboo subject Blumbert won't touch, that hasn't already been a Showtime series?
- Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Jeremy Irons, and Zoe Saldana will star in The Words, a film that "follows a successful writer who discovers he has to pay a price for stealing another man's work." Sounds like Brad Cooper is totally failing Journalism for copying and pasting from Wikipedia.
Looks like someone must have been mad that Hitch was still able to be modestly enjoyed by non-caucasians, so they decided to whiten this thing up both literally and thematically with Crazy, Stupid, Love. Now we've got a Bowflex ad-style Ryan Gosling as the suave eternal bachelor helping a recently-separated schlub (Steve Carell) shape up and get back in the game (male makeover scenes are apparently becoming a stock montage in Steve Carell comedies). But does Steve Carell really want back in the dating pool, or does he just need the confidence to win true love Julianne Moore back from Kevin Bacon? And while Ryan Gosling knows how to talk a woman into accepting his Goslinghood, will he know how to handle his own true love in Emma Stone? And is this whole thing just a piece of redhead propaganda to convince us gingers are lovable or what? These answers and other obvious plot points revealed ahead.
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- Just when we were warming up to Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing Alberto Falcone, already Entertainment Weekly has a report countering that claim, saying Variety's story is outright incorrect. Egghead, then?
- Kung Fu Panda isn't the only animated family film with legal problems. A UK screenwriter is now seeking an injunction to stop Cars 2's release because, he claims, he already pitched the idea of a talking car movie involving "broken down truck characters, doctors as authority figures, glitzy showgirl movie star females, Italians, rich business cars past their prime, and so on." So think twice before making a movie about talking, Italian cars or talking, authoritative doctor cars.
- Dennis Quaid has joined Playing the Field, that romantic-comedy in which Gerard Butler tries to win back his ex-wife and son through soccer coaching. Good news for anyone who hoped the actor would make more films of the same caliber as that movie that was basically The Brady Bunch with Dennis Quaid and more kids. (via)
- Following in the paths of fellow soon-to-be-witches Famke Janssen, Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron, Julianne Moore will play a witch named Mother Malkin opposite Jeff Bridges in The Seventh Son. I guess aging actresses finally found a part they don't need plastic surgery for! OHHHHHHHHHH!!!
- Judd Apatow is producing Do Gooders, a still-to-be-written script from King of the Hill writers Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck. No plot details have been revealed, but if it's another film about losers trying to be superheroes in the real world, I'm gonna spit.
- Doug Liman is working on a film about "Morris Abraham 'Two Gun' Cohen (1887–1970), a London-born WWI veteran who moved to China in 1922 and took a job training Sun Yat-sen’s army in boxing and shooting, despite his inability to speak Chinese." Phew, less subtitles!
- HBO will be previewing Game of Thrones two weeks early, Sunday, April 3 at 9 PM. It will only be the first fifteen minutes, though, so probably not really worth getting your viewing armor out for.
- Julianne Moore is joining Paul Dano, Robert De Niro, and Olivia Thirlby in Another Night, Paul Weitz's title-sanitized adaptation of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. Odds are good the role includes weeping.
- The Break-Up writer Jeremy Garelick will be re-teaming with Vince Vaughn for The Insane Laws, a comedy about BFF dads who become at odds when their respective children fall in love and get pregnant. Vaughn will play one of the fathers, but Universal is not yet ready to announce Kevin James will obviously be the other one.
- Hot on the heels of Bad Teacher, here comes Dirty Grandpa, "an R-rated comedy centered on a recently widowed, sexually aggressive grandfather on a road trip with his strait-laced grandson." Old peoples acting horny is crazy! I'll watch it if they get Ernest Borgnine or anyone involved in Lemonparty.
- And here's the new Water for Elephants trailer, in which, as IWS reader Maggie put it, "Robert Pattinson parlays his ability to stare longingly at Kristen Stewart into an ability to stare longingly at Reese Witherspoon." If only that were more of a joke.
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Brother, is Julianne Moore ever a weeper. As evidence, here's nearly three-and-a-half minutes of her contorting her face into an awful, translucent mask of anguish in everything from Far from Heaven to Jurassic Park 2. If you ever thought about making the Oscar winner your girlfriend, this will have you reconsidering:
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Sure, you've seen Mean Girls, but have you seen the Mean Girl who wasn't Rachel McAdams or Party of Five naked, giving Liam Neeson greenhouse head, being a lesbian with Julianne Moore, and imitating scenes from The 400 Blows? Of course you haven't, because that particular sexy cocktail only decided to start existing with this trailer for Chloe:
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If you've got an HBO subscription, keep an eye out for Dennis Quaid to be playing that president from all the McDonald's and semen monologue jokes. The gruff-speaking actor has signed on to play Bill Clinton in the Frost/Nixon playwright's directorial debut, The Special Relationship, a TV movie that, surprisingly, has nothing to do with infidelity. Rather, it's "about the unique and sometimes turbulent political relationship between the newly installed [Tony Blair] and the U.S. president," and Frost/Nixon's Michael Sheen, already Blair twice before, will again play the prime minister. Julianne Moore will co-star as Hillary, so, you know, either a joke about gaining ankle weight or something about a pantsuit fitting.
Quaid to play Bill Clinton in 'Special' [Variety]
Hmm, how can we portray blindness in a poster for the movie Blindness...? Wait, I think I got it! If my understanding is correct, being blind is a lot like always seeing the form of a beautiful, long-haired woman behind a haze of foggy glass, so how about that? Oh... you say it's more like eternal darkness in an unaccommodating world than a graceful female form exiting a shower? That's weird. Well, let's split the difference and go with the lady behind glass, but make the title lettering sort of like it's an eye chart--you know, the kind blind people use to make sure they're still living in shadow.
Blindness Poster [IMPA]
Sure, the dismal events of 28 Days Later painted a grim vision of a future overrun by a spreading zombie plague, but man, wouldn't it also suck to be blind? Fernando Meirelles offers just such an experience, placing Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo in a world where a sudden blindness-inducing virus threatens the population's retinas. It asks a chilling question: how will Moore sell Revlon cosmetics if no one can see her ageless, near-translucent skin? I have no idea.
As you'd expect from the director of City of God and The Constant Gardner, it looks both beautiful and frightening while managing to steer clear of becoming a cautionary tale of over-masturbation. I suggest watching.
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Reminiscent of the Star Trek casting call, or the end of The New Colossus, the upcoming horror film Shelter is looking for some mutants to join star Julianne Moore. Specifically, the release asks for men and women of all races, so long as they have the following freakish attributes:
Extraordinarily tall or short. Unusual body shapes, even physical abnormalities as long as there is normal mobility. Unusual facial features, especially eyes.
A 9-12-year-old Caucasian girl with an other-worldly look to her. Could be an albino or something along those lines -- she's someone who is visually different and therefore has a closer contact to the gods and to magic. 'Regular-looking' children should not attend this open call.
I hadn't realized that albinos lacked pigment because of their closer contact with gods and magic--I thought it was just genetics! Guess you learn something new about the accuracy of Powder every day.
And I won't even get into the obvious irony of a Julianne Moore film looking for the ghastly pale. I think we all get it.
Thanks for the tip, Matt.
Film's casting call wants that 'inbred' look [Pittsburgh Live]
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