Aug 25 2009 Elizabeth Banks To Probably Be in This Movie
Elizabeth Banks is in final negotiations to be in a movie! If these aforementioned negotiations work out, she will star in Paul Haggis's The Next Three Days, playing an imprisoned woman who maintains she is innocent of murder. Russell Crowe will be playing her husband, and will be delivering dramatic lines like: "Let my wife out of lady-prison!" and "My wife is innocent of the murder!" The film is based on the 2008 thriller Pour Elle, in which similarly dramatic lines were delivered in French.
If such a project interests you, you can eventually see the finished film in movie theaters and later on some sort of video disc.
Jul 8 2009 Spider-Man Recreating Interstitial Scenes from 'The Great Outdoors'
Tobey Maguire battling marital issues and also raccoons? That sounds sort of like a movie, explains Variety:
Tobey Maguire is set to star in "The Details," an indie black comedy written and directed by Jacob Estes. Shooting begins August in Seattle.Maguire joins Elizabeth Banks in the pic about a struggling married couple who, already struggling with issues like infidelity and whether they should stay married, see their lives further complicated by ravenous raccoons burrowing under the sod in their back yard. A disagreement over how to dispatch the pests creates a chain reaction of mishaps that include a murder by bow and arrow
With any luck, the raccoons will be CGI and possess knowledge of singing and the English language, so we can finally get the Alvin and the Chipmunks we really wanted. The one that in involves murder by bow and arrow.
Oct 15 2008 Zack and Miri Make a College-Level Art Film
Since when do directors make short tribute films to other films that haven't even come out yet? We're doing that now? OK, fine. Here's something Tony Kaye made to promote Mean Magazine and Zack & Miri Make a Porno (I think?) starring Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen as wacky, abstract interpretations of whatever quotes came up when Kaye googled "sex quotes":
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Oct 3 2008 'The Uninvited' Trailer Should Be Invited Into Your Eyeballs
Hey, ghosts, c'mon. Not cool. You guys, you weren't invited. C'mon, guys, get out of here. Stop being crashers. I was told to go home and forget about my dead mother, and you ghosts being around is distracting me from gratuitously prancing around in a bikini with my hot sister, which is how I cope. Wait, what's that you say, ghosts? My new mom Elizabeth Banks murdered a family by lethal injection? Hmm, let me just Google "murders" and see if she did any of them. Ut oh, she did! And now she wants to murder me with jewelry! I'm sorry I didn't invite you, ghosts. Now I know better, that it was my new mom I should have not invited:
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Sep 25 2008 'W' Trailer Makes Commentary on Bush's Funny Face and Post-Punk Policies
Alright, Oliver Stone, if you want to make your W trailer into an abbreviated Talking Heads video, that's fine, but at least make Josh Brolin do the appropriate dance moves for it. As it stands, he's just doing a lot of funny faces and spitting pretzel out of his mouth, which doesn't make for that entertaining of a movie. Still though: take that, Bush!
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Sep 12 2008 'Zack and Miri' Made a Poster so Filthy They Later Made This One to Replace the Initial, Filthy Poster
The MPAA rejected Kevin Smith's first Zack and Miri poster because of the implication that the back of someone's head placed at crotch level necessarily constitutes oral sex (why couldn't it be someone pleasurably tying someone else's shoe?). In response, Smith has made this new poster that's all like, "Fine then, if we can't suggest blowjobs, just take this crude drawing. How about that?" I get that, but is the typeface and lack of Kevin Smith-mention meant to insinuate this is a Woody Allen porno? Because that is one of the least desirable things I can imagine.
'Zack and Miri' Make a Proper American Poster [Cinematical]
Sep 3 2008 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno' Trailer is Sort of Funny?
Speaking as someone who can barely tolerate the Kevin Smith catalog, I hate to admit it, but judging by this trailer, Zack and Miri Make a Porno looks pretty palatable, and possibly even funny. In fact, with the heavily Apatowian cast and joke-stylings, I'd barely be able to identify this as a Smith film if it weren't for the expected cameos by Jason Mewes and Clerk. If nothing else, I recommend watching to at least hear The Office's Craig Robinson say "a Star War." It might be lifted from Arrested Development, but it's still got legs.
Oh, and it's not appropriate for your stodgy old workplace.
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Sep 3 2008 This 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno' Poster is TOO HOT (boring) 4 AMERICA
Don't look for this one in the theaters, American Colonists. It was deemed too HOT for U.S. audiences, and was banned by the MPAA. I think it's because it implies Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks are giving each other oral sex while standing and fully clothed. What are your theories? Share them in the comments section.
Kevin Smith's Banned-in-the-US 'Porno' Poster: Exclusive first look! [EW]
Jul 29 2008 'W' Trailer Will Surely Lose Bush His 'Easily Swayed by Caricatures' Supporters
Well, the W trailer is out, and anyone who was worried Oliver Stone wouldn't present a fair representation can put their fears to bed. It totally seems like a fair fight when W is about to literally fist fight his president father.
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Jul 28 2008 Forget 'Meet Dave'--'Atrapado en un Pirado' Looks Great!
I gave Eddie Murphy a lot of shit about how awful Meet Dave looked/surely was, but I have to say, it looks like he's redeemed himself with a starring role in this artistic foreign film, Atrapado en un Pirado. If I'm understanding the concept, Murphy's body is serving as a hollow vessel for smaller versions of himself--a metaphor for the ways in which man's physical form is nothing more than a shell driven by the conflicting emotions of the inner psyche, and how the fulfillment of our base desires our ultimately left in the delicate but powerful hands of womankind. Why can't America make movies like this?
Atrapado en un Pirado Poster [IMPA]
May 8 2008 First Impressions: Josh Brolin as 'W'
The only thing stranger than watching Josh Brolin do a two-hour impression of Will Ferrell doing an impression of George W. Bush (or possibly of an old, nondescript man toiling through a lemon) will be watching Jason Sudeikis doing an impression of Josh Brolin's impression for the SNL parody. Why not just get the guy from Harold and Kumar, and stop pretending the line between impression and acting-tribute is so distinct?
The EW cover that also includes Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush-impression is below the cut.
Mar 26 2008 'Plain Jane' Banks Playing Laura Bush in 'W'
The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Meet Dave and Meet Bill star Elizabeth Banks is in final talks to portray Laura Bush in W, wacko Oliver Stone's biopic of bumper sticker subject George W. Bush. Aside from my initial shock that "Meet" isn't in the title, I'm surprised and pleased Stone is going with normal, everyday people instead of trying to glam it up, Hollywood style. He could have easily gone with some typical, inappropriate "pretty girl" casting for the First Lady, but instead he's chosen just an average girl with flowing blonde hair, sharp, angular features, and a svelte young figure that, for whatever reason, looks amazing in a tight white tank-top. The actress will join the perfectly ordinary, not at all chiseled-featured, Josh Brolin (playing W.), who was somehow able to marry the beautiful Diane Lane despite his everyday, average-Joe looks.
Elizabeth Banks cast as Laura Bush [Hollywood Reporter]
Mar 25 2008 Eddie Murphy IN Eddie Murphy in 'Meet Dave' Trailer
How do you adapt the classic alien-fish-out-of-water concept (Suburban Commando, Alien Crocodile Dundee) to suit the established Eddie Murphy-in-multiple-roles format (Norbit, Nutty Professor, most everything since the mid-'90s) we all love so dearly? Simple: have a small, alien Eddie Murphy pilot a larger Eddie Murphy suit (see: that alien from Men in Black, select Calvin and Hobbes strips)--plus, throw in some gay and testicle-impact jokes. Also highlighted in the trailer: a timely and underused Saturday Night Fever parody, animal abuse, and some "look how sassy black people are--even when aliens" scenes that seem to completely contradict the entire premise that the extraterrestrials can't fit in with human society.
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Mar 12 2008 'Meet Bill' Poster Looks Pensively Familiar
Like Garden State? Then you'll love Meet Bill! Or at least the part where he recreates awkwardly staring at the camera while matching the wallpaper. I can't wait for the scene where Jessica Alba plays him life-changing indie music.
Meet Bill Poster [IMPA]
Mar 5 2008 First Shot from Kevin Smith's 'Zack & Miri Make a Porno'
Above: Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks stare directly into Kevin Smith's gaping vagina of ego, so massive with overuse that it's unable to provide pleasure to anyone but himself. Sorry if that went too far, but the accompanying article tells me they "don't think anything is too risqué for Kevin Smith fans." But is anything too offensively juvenile?
If the title says 'Porno,' will moviegoers say 'no thanks'? [USA Today]
Mar 3 2008 'Meet Bill' Trailer: Like 'American Beauty', but Feel-Goodier
Imagine if American Beauty had been written and directed with the sensibilities of a romantic comedy. It probably would have turned out something like Meet Bill, a film that strips the darkly comic elements from the loser-doormat-of-a-husband redemption story and replaces them with slapstick and poignant feel-good moments (the precocious protégé adjusts a banner of Bill's head, proclaiming, "I'm fixing your head. Get it?). But despite its saccharine flavor, Bill actually looks pretty enjoyable, helped by its charming lead (Aaron Eckhart) and a supporting cast that includes Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, Elizabeth Banks, and, unfortunately, Jessica Alba, who continues to convince me she's just a sexy mannequin. Next time the script calls for "hot girl", could they try to find someone whose face isn't a permanent plastic grin?
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