Feb 19 2009 Ashton Kutcher Casting Update #2
If Ashton Kutcher and family moved in next door to you--and you were a trained murderer--wouldn't you want to kill them? Good, then you'll buy the premise of this new film that will pair Kutcher with Katherine Heigl:
Katherine Heigl has signed on to star opposite Ashton Kutcher in the Lionsgate thriller "Five Killers."Film reteams Heigl with helmer Robert Luketic, who most recently directed the thesp in upcoming romantic comedy "The Ugly Truth."
Story kicks off when a woman meets the man of her dreams while on vacation. Married bliss is turned upside down when they discover that their neighbors may be assassins hired to kill them.
As of now, it's still not clear whether this film or the NFL quarterback/nerdy child body-switching movie is the prank on Hollywood. Both seem equally infeasible yet depressingly real.
(I just realized this was announced five months ago as an action-comedy rather than a thriller. It's always so hard to tell if what Kutcher is doing is meant to be funny or thriller. For example, is Kutcher strangling his fetal self with an umbilical cord meant to be funny?)
Heigl, Kutcher to star in 'Killers' [Variety]
Dec 1 2008 'The Ugly Truth' Trailer is so True: Men and Women ARE Like That!
No matter what I think about Hollywood's near-vacuum of originality and tendency to pander to the lowest common denominator, I have to occasionally give credit to them for committing to the kind of daring experimentation that advances the medium. I may never desire watching the Star Wars prequels again, but I can respect how the series' advancements in computer effects. And though I'll never, ever watch The Ugly Truth in its entirety, I can appreciate how this trailer answers the question, "What if you locked a 'men are like this, women are like this' stand-up comic in a room and told him to re-write Hitch using a SpikeTV-ized version of Tom Cruise's character from Mangolia."
It's so romantic when a horrible person and a crazy person are able to find love through misogyny:
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Oct 16 2007 AM Poster Post: '27 Dresses' Poster is a Dress. Get it?
Taking a cue from media analyst Marshall McLuhan, the medium is truly the message in this insightful poster for 27 Dresses. With the textual elements of the movie forming the very threads of this quite-theoretical gown (one cannot help but notice there is no border to this dress; it is purely a fabric of word and thought), the viewer is forced to connect a story--this light-hearted romantic-comedy--to an article of clothing, reminding us that all of our attire--from the tuxedo to the thread-bare, tattered t-shirt of a favorite band--is woven with the history of both its creator and wearer.
Or, you know, it's cute how the words are the shape of a dress.
27 Dresses Poster [IMPA]
Oct 4 2007 '27 Dresses' Trailer Teaches Important Values
As an actor, how do you follow-up a fun, raunchy take on the romantic-comedy genre like Knocked Up? If you're Katherine Heigl, the answer is simple: with an obnoxious, typical romantic-comedy that reminds women they'll only ever find validation through marriage.
In the trailer for 27 Dresses, the old adage "always the bridesmaid, never the bride" is stretched as far as humanly possible, with Heigl playing a woman who's been a bridesmaid in 27 weddings but still can't find a man to quit her job and cook dinner for. Instead of showing us the more interesting story of what mental or physical dysfunction is keeping this seemingly attractive woman from reaching her life's goal, we're tortured with clip after clip of people speaking in redundant plot-points or stilted, asinine dialog we're meant to take as flirting. It's awful.
Also, does anyone know what this "hot hate sex" referred to in the trailer is? Two of those words make sense together, but the whole "hate" part is new to me. Is that hating someone so much you f*** them, like Leia with Han Solo, or is it just more punching during the act?
27 Dresses Trailer [Yahoo!]
