Hope you're caught up on yesterday's Between Two Ferns: Oscar Buzz Edition, because here's part two, featuring hard-hitting interviews with Academy Award nominees Bradley Cooper, Jessica Chastain, Sally Field, and "another special guest from Lincoln." The Barbara Walters Oscars Special of the future is here today, and it is important. Watch below.
A true method actor, devoted to his craft right down to the way he dicks around on his iPhone, Daniel Day-Lewis apparently immersed himself so deeply in the role of Lincoln that he would send his co-stars in-character texts, and they were meant to act like that wasn't really annoying.
Our stateliest awards bait is almost here: Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the President, Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, and Tommy Lee Jones as Tommy Lee Jones in Grandma's wig. In this full trailer for the film, first everyone yells at Lincoln, then Lincoln gets sick of it and starts yelling and finger-pointing back, then Tommy Lee Jones shows up and is like, "Hey, it's me. Tommy Lee Jones. Does this hair play?" But paired with a sweeping score, it all feels expectedly epic, harrowing, and triumphant. This thing is going to win so many small man statuettes.
Now that the nerd fervor has calmed somewhat over the latest Dark Knight Rises trailer, Sony wants to remind you they, too, have a costumed fellow who is quite sad about mommy and daddy going away. In this latest trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man, our new Peter Parker does not waste much time getting to that point, either, opening with a monologue explaining that, man, being a Spidermin is rough, you guys--but not as rough as not knowing what the deal is with your parents! The rest of the film seems to follow what kind of web-swinging heroics and rad skateboarding tricks it will take for Parker to find the truth, and how that ties into a man becoming New York's first reptile bio-terrorist. NEVER FORGET when a man turned himself into a lizard and spread cartoon fart around Midtown. And judging by Sally Field's strained advice, it sounds like the new "with great power comes great responsibility" is the lesson that "secrets have a cost." It probably turns out Spider-Man's parents just left to be weirdo swingers, and now he's going to have to think about their gross orgies that occasionally involved one-armed men in lab coats. Some parental sock drawers are better left unopened, Pete. That's probably one of Martin Sheen's lines.
Here's the new Japanese The Amazing Spider-Man trailer, a slightly extended preview that adds in some new footage and strongly hints at Peter Parker himself being partially responsible for Dr. Curt Connors' transformation into the evil Lizard. You would have to accentuate the superhero's most shameful, self-loathing moments, wouldn't you, Japan?
The official website for The Amazing Spider-Man is online, and it promises Marc Webb's reboot will be "the first in a series of movies that tells a different side of the Peter Parker story"--the side upon which Spider-Man's shoes are a lot flashier. The site also has a whole batch of new official photos from the film, so let's take a look.
It runs a full two-and-a-half minutes, but don't expect a lot of plot or Spidermanning in this first trailer for Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man. Instead, the preview divides the time between rehashing the same origin story we saw a decade ago--though now with modifications like the inclusion Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker being bitten in the laboratory's black light-testing stoners facility, Stacy and the Lizard being involved with the lab, Uncle Ben being prominent actor Martin Sheen, and so on--and a lengthy first-person sequence that puts us behind the mask of Spider-Man as he does his Spider-parkour, making the whole movie seem like a theme park ride. Prepare for moodiness!
According to SuperheroHype, a full trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man will be attached to prints of next Friday's Captain America release, guys. That's but a week to go until we see if Spider-Man's sneaker-soled pajamas look as ridiculous on-screen as they did running around on the street! And hey, maybe we'll also get a look at Guy Who Turns Into a Lizard. Do you want to see how Guy Who Turns Into a Lizard looks as a lizard? I bet you do. BUT, all of that must wait. For now, we just have some new photos--as stolen from the slideshow archives of Entertainment Weekly--featuring Spidermin, Emma Stone, Boniva spokeswoman Sally Field, Martin Sheen (Martin Sheen is in this?), and a pre-reptilian Guy Who Turns Into a Lizard.
UPDATE: Now there are six more photos, including sportz shotz! (via)
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With Steven Spielberg's long-awaited Abe Lincoln biopic readied for a fall shoot in Virginia, DreamWorks today released a statement revealing who all will be putting on old fashioney suits for this thing, and boy does this thing have a cast on it.
In the part of Pennsylvania Republican and abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, we've got Tommy Lee Jones providing his stern, Tommy Lee Jones-esque presence. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, meanwhile, joins as Robert Todd Lincoln, Lincoln's eldest and the only son to live beyond his teenage years, which seems incredibly apt for a child star who's somehow made the transition into respected adult thespian seemingly not addicted to anything.
Also joining the cast in unspecified roles: Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, and Joseph Cross. They'll be joining Sally Field's Mary Todd Lincoln and Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role, altogether making for a hugely impressive cast that's really only missing the undead bloodsuckers that modernity demands of its presidential biopics. What, you think you're above arbitrarily peppering vampires over history, Spielberg?
- Do you like lens flares? Then check out these Hangover, Part II character banners. They're rife with them!
- That ridiculous looking, Hugh Jackman-starring boxing robot movie, Real Steel, doesn't come out until October, but already DreamWorks has commissioned a sequel script. But where do you go once you've had a robot box a robot? Ah, yes: a robot boxing God.
- Sally Field has signed to play Mary Todd Lincoln opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. How will this affect her Boniva ad output?
- Men in Black 3 is shooting the second half of its story--having taken a little break to try to sort out it's stupid script--so you figure they're at least done with casting by now, right? SO YOU'D THINK. A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg has just been cast, though, so, nope.
While Marc Webb has thus far been building up his Spider-Man cast with mostly up-and-comers and indie stars, the director is suddenly really going for your parents' ticket money with the casting of Peter Parker's elderly, adoptive parents. According to Heat Vision, Martin Sheen is in final negotiations to play Uncle Ben in the superhero film. Those familiar with Marvel comics mythology--and also everyone who's seen the Spider-Man movie from eight years ago--know the part probably won't be all that big, being that the criminal shooting of Uncle Ben is what's meant to convince Parker to always Use His Great Power with Great Responsibility, but still, Sheen's casting should at least lend more gravity to the murder. Or make it feel like a political assassination.
Continuing to cast from the vocally-anti-war celebrity pool, Webb is also reportedly working on getting Boniva spokeswoman Sally Field as Spider-Man's Aunt May. The award-winning actress seems a bit vibrant and healthy for the gaunt, haggard old lady seen in the pages of comics, but I'm sure her impressive pedigree will bring more than we'd expect to the minor role. The costumed-hero experience of Mrs. Doubtfire will finally pay off.
Despite no formal release to the Hollywood trade papers, Newsweek is reporting Sally Field will play Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's biopic of the late president, who is being played by Liam Neeson. If you've ever seen a picture of the first lady, you know this casting is being more than generous in the looks department, though apparently the Ghost of Lincoln is saying, "I always pictured myself with more of a Penelope Cruz type. Man, those lips alone could have melted the chains of oppression I found so vehemently to break. Speaking of which: how about Halle Berry? My god, have you seen Swordfish? So-so flick, but that stripping scene had the steam spewin' out of this man's stovepipe hat, lemme tell ya."
The former-president's specter went on to describe Queen Latifah as "a whole lotta woman, but I'd give every inch the time it deserved."
'Hellcat or Helpmate': The Mary Todd Lincoln Saga [Newsweek]
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