Sep 9 2008 Here's Who Will Be 'Howl'-ing
I don't know how anyone would ever top David Cross's portrayal of Allen Ginsberg in I'm Not There--at least in terms of looking exactly like him--but James Franco will soon try his hand at playing a bad-boy heartthrob Ginsberg in Howl, and now five more have joined the cast:
David Strathairn, Alan Alda, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker and Paul Rudd are attached to join James Franco as Allen Ginsberg in the beatnik biopic "Howl."Telling Pictures documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will make their narrative writing, producing and directing debut with the 1950s-era tale, focusing on the obscenity trial launched to censor Ginsberg's groundbreaking book-length poem. The pair were approached by the Allen Ginsberg Trust to make a film commemorating the 50th anniversary of "Howl."
Among the real-life characters featured in the film are prosecuting attorney Ralph McIntosh (Strathairn), Judge Clayton Horn (Alda), prosecution witness Professor David Kirk (Daniels), radio personality and prosecution witness Gail Potter (Parker) and literary critic and defense witness Luther Nichols (Rudd).
I don't know whether this movie will be any good or not, but can we acknowledge that Jeff Daniels and Dave Coulier are now officially the same person? They are.
Jun 12 2008 'Traitor' Poster Betrayed Me
In Traitor, Guy Pearce plays a federal investigator on an international conspiracy case, and all the clues lead to the shocking conclusion that U.S. Special Operations Officer Don Cheadle is a... traitor! Though, reportedly, Pearce's method of investigation is based entirely on making subtle markings on the milk carton to measure if Cheadle was still using the U.S.'s milk in his cereal.
'Traitor' Poster Premiere [Cinematical]
Oct 16 2007 'Mama's Boy' Trailer Ends Several Careers
I understand it must be a difficult realization that your best role will always be that of a semi-retarded catchphrase machine, but that sad excuse does not give Jon Heder the right to continue making movies. Case in point, this trailer for Mama's Boy, in which he drags Diane Keaton and Jeff Daniels into the idiot mire with him.
In the film, Heder plays a stereotypical non-character that the writer clearly researched by asking his friends, "What's something funny a big nerd would do?" The result is an asexual, one-dimensional freak that wears Ren-fair armor, reads comics, plays Dance Dance Revolution, and lives with his mom at 29. Keaton and Daniels, like the rest of society, attempt to tolerate Heder's droning voice and antics.
Who would have thought, Annie Hall, that 30 years later you'd be involved in not one, but several visual gags where you're dry humped by either Dumb or Dumber?
