Oct 20 2009 'Everyone's Fine' Poster: This Christmas, Four People Will Find Adequacy
Because you've always wanted a Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Christmas Special mixed with Meet the Parents and a digital camera commercial, here's the poster for Everybody's Fine. Also, I'd just like to note that everybody is clearly not fine. Robert De Niro's face, his hypothetical left arm, and all of their careers are far from fine.
'Everybody's Fine' Poster [IMPA]
Jul 16 2009 'Whip It' Trailer: Coming-of-Age by Way of Roller Derby
Former extra-terrestrial savior, fire starter, Scream victim and Charlie Angel Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, Whip It, has got a trailer. Watch it loud so your mom knows that, like Ellen Page, you'd rather be knocking girls over in roller skates than competing in beauty pageants. Or, if you're satisfied with the beauty pageant life, don't even bother with this movie; just keep on looking great.
Here's your trailer, grrls:
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Jul 9 2009 First Look at 'Whip It': Ladies in Skates
USA Today has posted the first look at Whip It, Drew Barrymore's Devo-titled directorial debut that stars Ellen Page as a rebellion teenage who enters the roller derby circuit.
I would say this film stands a good chance of bringing attention back to the sport, but I think roller derbies already started regaining popularity a few years ago, so maybe this will arbitrarily re-popularize a different fad sport. Yo-yo competitions? Groups of people shoving themselves into phone booths? Skip-It? Probably Skip-It.
Mar 31 2009 BarryLong Reunites for Long Distance Romance
Remember those halcyon days of yore (last year or the year before or whenever), when Drew Barrymore and Justin Long were a happy couple? Those beautiful times when L.A. was our Camelot, and at its throne was a Charlie Angel and the human manifestation of an Apple computer? Those were the days, yeah? Well, they're back! The BarryLong (I assume this was their couple name) team is reuniting on the silver screen:
Drew Barrymore will star opposite Justin Long in "Going the Distance," a romantic comedy for New Line. Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot are producing via their Offspring Entertainment banner, and Nanette Burstein is directing.The story by first-time scribe Geoff LaTulippe follows a couple trying to maintain a long-distance relationship.
LaTulippe was a New Line script reader who segued into screenwriting, and "Distance" contains some imprint from his life: The male lead also is a script reader.
The female lead is a character who moves to Chicago to be a middle school teacher.
A long-distance relationship movie? So like a lot of talking on the phone, using Instant Messenger, and fretting that their partner is being unfaithful? I'm skeptical. Let's save the boring, long-distance, technology-based romancing to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
Feb 27 2009 Drew Barrymore's Vampire Teen Romance?
Someone has thought of a way to make the Twilight series even less appealing to the general population: add Drew Barrymore as director! Did you forget that Drew Barrymore is a director? She is. Drew Barrymore is a director, and she may be directing a Twilight, says Entertainment Weekly:
As Summit Entertainment looks to lock in a director for the third installment of the Twilight series, Eclipse, the company is talking to a select group of directors -- including actress-turned-helmer Drew Barrymore, EW has learned. While this news may come as a surprise to some, Barrymore did just finish work on her directorial debut, Whip It! starring Ellen Page. Neither Summit nor Barrymore's reps would comment for this story
I'm not sure that the intense drama of a Twilight resonates with the Drew Barrymore-starring frivolity of a Flower Films production, but luckily a night vision tape of some teenagers making out in a haunted house would still make over $100 million under the Twilight banner, so who cares?
Nov 25 2008 'He's Just Not That Into You' or This Lazy Poster
Movie poster designers, there's been a misunderstanding. When myself and other internet people complain about the overuse of Photoshop, we generally mean that the stars are being airbrushed into a featureless oblivion, or that it's very apparent that no one is actually in the same room for the photo, or that Ben Stiller's head has quite obviously been thrown on a different body, and we're suggesting that maybe Photoshop shouldn't be used quite so heavily and lazily. We never meant to not use Photoshop at all, instead choosing to just do a Google image search for each star, grabbing the first image you find of them smiling, and dragging the variously-sized images into a rectangle. That makes it looks like a romantic comedy Atari game where each pixel is a random actor.
Anyone else who watched NBC's Ed notice this reunion of Warren Cheswick and Diane Snyder? Anyone else watch Ed at all?
Not Into You Poster [Jo Blo]
Aug 19 2008 'Whip It!' Recreating the Magical Coupling of Fallon and Barrymore
Remember the night you first saw what what would become the defining baseball-themed romantic-comedy of your lifetime, Fever Pitch, and how as the house lights rose, illuminating a packed audience of satisfied smiles, you couldn't help thinking how you would do anything to see Drew Barrymore and that guy who cracks himself up together again? Well, your dream is coming true, only this time America's Official Sweetheart will be behind the scenes. Because she's a director. From /Film:
Jimmy Fallon has been cast in Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut Whip It! Fallon has been spotted by /Film sources on set of the roller derby dramedy playing “Hot Tub Johnny”, a cheesy hungover announcer who makes nasty comments to all the skaters. My sources have also spotted Andrew Wilson, brother of of Owen and Luke (fans of Wes Anderson know as “Future Man” in Bottle Rocket), who is playing a roller derby coach. The film stars Ellen Page as “an indie-rock loving misfit” who finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin Texas.
As much as I dislike the idea of Jimmy Fallon in movies (let alone in his own talk show), I have to trust Barrymore's instincts on this. Because she's a director. Drew Barrymore is a director.
May 28 2008 'He's Just Not That Into You' Trailer Informs Unlovable Women of Their Status
Women: they can never tell if we like them, hate them, or just want to see them be naked in a pool. So Greg Behrendt (consultant on Sex and the City, there to "keep it real," and one of the few comedians known who looks like more of an asshole than Dane Cook) and Liz Tuccillo (one of the sad ladies writing Sex and the City dialogue) co-authored He's Just Not That Into You, a self-help book meant to help women confused as to why men are avoiding them after initial contact. (Spoiler: it turns out it's a lack of interest.) Now the book has been turned into a movie--or, more specifically, turned into like five star-studded romantic comedies fused into one, creating the powerful beast known as the Voltrom-com. Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, and Mac Commercial Guy form the appendages of this particular Voltrom-com, and there's a trailer for the film below the cut. It looks something like Love Actually if you sucked out all of the Christmas elements and saccharine charm that made it tolerable.
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Jan 14 2008 Some Other Crap That Happened...
- The final Harry Potter movie may be broken into two parts after the release of the last book left fans demanding more lines to wait in. [Mail on Sunday]
- Ice Cube spoke out about his plans for a Welcome Back, Kotter remake, which he says will only vaguely resemble the original, adding, "You know me, I’m gonna flip it. It ain’t gonna be no Gabe Kaplan shit." It's true; if you knew Cube, you would have already known he'd flip it. [MTV]
- Tyler Perry might be on steroids. Or it might just be a hilarious muscle suit for Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Venice Beach. [CNN]
- Ellen Page may be up for the lead in the Drew Barrymore-directed Derby Girl, the role of "a precocious teen, full of sarcasm and wit." She'll repotedly follow that up with a role in Typecast. [Film School Rejects]
Oct 24 2007 Drew Barrymore as Crazy Recluse in 'Grey Gardens'
Disappointingly, this is not, as you may have hoped, Drew Barrymore's final moment of realization before being taken to a field and shot, single-handedly ending plans for at least 32 romantic comedies.
It is, however, the first look at Drew as 'Little' Edith Bouvier in Grey Gardens.
If you've never seen the documentary, the Little and Big Edie were the high-society relatives of Jackie Kennedy who withdrew to their Long Island summer home, where they became crazy recluses. Or, in the case of this fictionalized account, crazy America's Sweetheart recluses.
Drew Barrymore’s Grey Gardens [JustJared]
Aug 7 2007 Jennifer Connelly (et al.) Not That Into You
Jennifer Connelly has joined Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Justin Long and Ginnifer Goodwin in negotiations to star with Drew Barrymore in what sounds like an absolutely terrible movie. The terrible writers of Never Been Kissed have adapted the book He's Just Not That Into You, written by the terrible writers of Sex and the City, into what they're calling--honest to god--a "Traffic of comedy." Yes, someone finally had the vision to get rid of all the drug trafficking nonsense in the Best Picture nominee and infuse it with that patented Sex and the City wittiness that makes the show unwatchable unless you're actually living their life.
I apologize if you're really into Sex and the City and you take offense to this, but I thought it would be more offensive to actually assume someone likes Sex and the City.
