Based on the theory that Liberace and his longtime companion may have had more than friendship going on beneath all those layers of rhinestone cape, Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra premieres later next month on HBO. Here's a new trailer, giving us our first only line of dialogue and a brief glimpse of stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon sharing champagne in a bathtub, thus setting the film's tone of dude's just chillin' out drinkin', no funny business. Just bros bein' bros.
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Remember when Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, and Kevin Kline won Academy Awards? Remember when De Niro used to be able to almost form an actual smile, and looked slightly less like he was waiting to be spoon-fed his mush? Well, forget all that, because now those once-esteemed actors are going to a Vegas bachelor party, in a film that will assumedly play like The Hangover but with more reminders of erectile dysfunction and imminent death. Here's a first look at the comedy's cast together, arm-in-arm and beaming at the knowledge that even the fucking Bucket List made $175 million. Now give Bob his mushies.
Here's a first look at Michael Douglas and Matt Damon on the set of Behind the Candelabra, Steven Soderbergh's long-in-development HBO film that focuses on Liberace and the live-in chum who helped ensure the pianist died a bachelor. Compared to most Liberace photos, including the one on the cover of the film's namesake book, the image seems a bit lacking in terms of the expected pomp and rhinestones, but then that's what Blingee for.
Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas are pooling their comedic talents, and--despite public hunger for the "what if?" scenario--it is not for a Fockers/The In-Laws crossover event.
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Fans of Steven Soderbergh, Michael Fassbender, MMA fighter Gina Carano, and/or vicarious sadomasochism will want to take a look at EntertainmentWeekly's new trailer for Haywire. Like in the last trailer, the mixed martial artist is again shown beating the shit out of a bunch of guys--such as Fassbender--shooting some guns, and basically recreating the loose, general plot of every Bourne/Salt-esque "framed rogue agent on the loose!" movie you can think of. But in this new trailer: she beats up slightly different people and/or shoots different guns, maybe! In truth, it may not be all that different from the last trailer, but it's still the cheapest way to hear an attractive woman threaten you.
Now that cancer treatments have made Michael Douglas healthy enough to at least make some public appearances to say that he's healthy enough, Steven Soderbergh's long-discussed plans to put Michael Douglas in a sumptuous fur cape are at last seeing some forward movement. Since at least 2008, Soderbergh has been planning a biopic on Liberace, and had tentatively attached Douglas to the lead role and Matt Damon to the part of Scott Thorson, the pianist's live-in chum who ensured Liberace died a bachelor. Today, a press release has confirmed that film is finally happening, and is expected to go into production for HBO Films next summer. Taking the name and doubtlessly the rhinestones from the cover of the above memoir, the cable movie will be titled Behind the Candelabra, and will provide a "funny, heartbreaking and always fascinating" look at Liberace and Thorson's relationship--a romance that eventually led to a palimony lawsuit and denials from Liberace that there was ever any sort of homosexuality going on. Just a couple dudes covering themselves in jewels, hanging out and looking like leaders of a flamboyant military group out to enforce fabulousness, alright?
Steven Soderbergh's long talked-about retirement plans may or may not be happening, but if he does decide to stop making films, at least he can go out knowing he's worked with pretty much every working actor Hollywood has. The Ocean's series and the recent, surprisingly-large cast of Contagion covered a lot of ground on that front, and now the director's newest, Haywire, adds to that credits with Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Channing Tatum, Michael Angarano, and Bill Paxton. None of them are the stars of this film, though. The star of this film is Gina Carano, a mixed martial arts fighter referred to as "The Face of Women's MMA," due to her being the MMA fighter you'd feel most comfortable masturbating to. She plays the classic action archetype of a highly-trained special op out for revenge against those who double-crossed her, and she seriously makes Angelina Jolie look like a jerk for even trying to do this kind of thing. Have a trailer:
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This is just the kind of photograph I want hanging in my office, if I ever have an office, and if I ever have a mentor or protégé willing to stand/sit beside me for a professional photo that conveys what an air of dignity we have in this office since I've been working there.
Guitar jammin' and Shia LeBeouf cruising around on a motorcycle? It must be Wall Street 2: Wall Street Is So Fucking Badass!
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Wall Street 2, the once-rumored sequel that only deserves to exist inside maybe a Ben Stiller Show sketch, is now official. Oliver Stone has signed on to once again direct and Shia LaBeouf is negotiating to play the new Wall Streeter. From EW:
The much-discussed Wall Street sequel is getting closer to launch, EW has learned. Michael Douglas will return as corporate raider Gordon Gekko, the role for which he won the 1987 Best Actor Oscar, and Oliver Stone will be back as the director of the followup to the movie that put the phrase "Greed is good" into the popular lexicon.
Shia LaBeouf is in talks to play a young trader in Wall Street 2, which is set 20 years after the first installment. The film's plot will revolve around Gekko's life after he gets out of jail during the current economic climate.
"I think it's time to take another hard look at trading and the economy and what went wrong in the last few years," said Douglas Monday night during the premiere of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. "Everybody's talking about the economy and people are scrutinizing it. Whenever I mention Wall Street 2, everybody goes, 'Yeah. Interesting. I'd see that.'"
Can't argue with Michael Douglas. It's apparent he's done the market research to know this will work. He's both aware of the current economic situation and he's casually asked some people about it!
"So, party-goer, say I, Michael Douglas, was going to make another Wall Street--calling it Wall Street 2, we'll say..."
"OK..."
"Pretty good, right?"
"Oh... yeah, yeah, definitely. Almost painfully relevant. I mean, it sounds... interesting."
"Right, exactly. So you'd see it then?"
"Yeah, sure."
"Fantastic. I'm going to get in touch with that new Indiana Jones kid. He's great at making lackluster sequels to 20-year-old franchises."
(Thanks, Nick.)
I just got a late submission to the Invent a Horrible Christmas Movie Contest from a couple months ago. Sadly, it's too late for it to win, but it's also too good not to share:
"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - A modern re-imagining of A Christmas Carol in which Matthew McConaughey is visited by several ghosts that force him to review the numerous relationships of his past, present and future, teaching the consummate bachelor to change his philandering ways and settle down with his true love (Jennifer Garner)."
That entry comes from New Line Cinema, and they even made a trailer:
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Steven Soderbergh has announced plans to direct a Liberace biopiic with Michael Douglas in the starring, glittering-caped role. From Variety:
Steven Soderbergh is in the early stages of developing a biopic about Liberace for Warner Bros., which he will direct.
The filmmaker said he has drafted his "Traffic" star Michael Douglas to play the flamboyant pianist.
Soderbergh is in discussions with Matt Damon to play Scott Thorson, who sued Liberace in 1982 for $113 million in palimony, claiming he was the entertainer’s companion for five years. Even though Liberace never wavered from career-long denials that he was gay, Thorson reportedly settled for $95,000 in 1986.
Oh man, how is this going to affect the Nicolas Cage-starring, Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg-written Liberace picture we heard about in '96 '06? At the time I didn't really care about it, but now that I know Seltzer and Friedberg did Meet the Spartans/Disaster Movie/Other Terrible Pseudo-Parody Movies, I really want to see how amazingly offensive that could be. And how will it affect when Bugs Bunny plays him?
"Grab the bull by the balls, kid."
Get those gun fingaz ready, I-bankers! Just as that Boiler Room DVD started collecting dust comes the news that Fox has signed deals with the original producer and writer of Wall Street for a sequel.
Stephen Schiff's script, Money Never Sleeps, will follow Gordon Gekko's release from jail and entry into the exciting world of hedge funds. The project is being set-up as a potential starring vehicle for Michael Douglas. Oliver Stone is not expected to return as director.
Phew, for a minute there, I was worried the next generation of white-collar criminals would grow up without a morally bankrupt anti-hero to worship. Gordon Gekko is like
Scarface for yuppies.
On a serious note, what the hell kind of WASP name is "Gekko"?
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