Sep 22 2009 'Valentine's Day' Trailer: Another VoltRom-Com Fuses Several Romantic Comedies Into One Powerful Monster
Can you believe that, come Valentine's Day, it will have been almost exactly one year since we last saw roughly a dozen celebrities of various caliber crammed into a single romantic comedy in which every other piece of dialogue has to reiterate the title? (See He's Just Not That Into You, web-slingers.) Thankfully, that will be the exact day that a new VoltRom-Com takes the throne, appropriately titled Valentines Day. This one manages to cram in two Roberts (Julia, Emma), two Grey's Anatomi, Bradley Cooper, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Queen Latifah, and the two celebrities most noted for being "so fucking hot" before the arrival of Megan Fox (Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel).
The trailer feels like watching an Oscars montage reel for The Year in Romantic Comedy. Or, maybe more accurately, like simultaneously hearing the scream of every single ugly friend that ever had to listen to their extremely attractive friend complain about relationships that ever existed:
Mar 27 2009 Queen Latifah in 'Just Wright', Presumably as Wright or Character in Love with Wright
A basketball player and a physical therapist falling in love? Never, you think; basketball players are too good at basketball to ever fall for such a pleb. Normally I'd agree with you, but in this case the physical therapist is Queen Latifah, who, if you've been watching Last Holiday on TBS, you know was able to win the heart of LL Cool J, whom ladies love. So believe it:
Queen Latifah will star in the romantic comedy "Just Wright" for Fox Searchlight.Dubbed a modern-day Cinderella tale, story centers on a female physical therapist who falls in love with a basketball player while helping him recover from a career-threatening injury.
A modern-day Cinderella tale. So, in modern society, basketball players are our princes and physical therapists are our indentured sisters. That works. Impart the message to girls that, if they work hard enough in college, they might just be able to get a job that grants them close proximity to professional athletes, who they can then try to marry. In this wintry economy, even trophy wives need degrees, ladies.
Poll: In Just Wright, how many times will Queen approximate the sentiment, "Why would he be into me?" I'm saying over one hundred times.
Mar 25 2009 'Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs' Dark Horse in "Most Disgusting, Inappropriate Joke in a Kids' Movie" Contest
Just when the makers of Alvin and the Chipmunks thought they had it locked with the inclusion of a poop-eating joke, along comes Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs with a scene that, while debatably more inappropriate, is definitely more Kingpin-inspired:
Aug 19 2008 'Secret Life of Bees' Trailer Finally Gets to the Bottom of Bees
With all that buzzing and stinging and honey-making and seemingly-impossible flying and caste-based societying, you just knew something fishy was going on in those hives. Let's see what you've been hiding, bees...
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Nov 20 2007 AM Poster Post: 'Mad Money' Poster = $$$
I think their hope is that women will think this is an all-female production of The Matrix, but more like a game show, and with shopping.
Mad Money Poster [IMPA]
Oct 19 2007 AM Poster Post: 'Perfect Holiday' Involves Black Arts
Queen Latifah, who is apparently an old fashioned train conductor, has been trapped in a Christmas bulb with Hustle & Flow. She dreams of one day capturing Black Santa and his family in a snow globe, likely as revenge. If these events eventually transpire, she would consider it the perfect holiday. It's unclear if this has anything to do with her last holiday, Last Holiday.
Oct 5 2007 'Mad Money' Looks Un-Mad, Underwhelming
I saw this set of promotional shots for Mad Money on Cinematical today, then slipped into a faint coma from utter lack of interest. Honestly, who is in the promotions department that would possibly consider these images the best to whet the interest of the masses? After the viewer overcomes the initial disappointment that this is not a film version of screaming lunatic Jim Cramer's Mad Money, what are we left with? Three actresses no one cares about outside of tabloids or the commentary track on Annie Hall, all competing to give the most awkwardly forced grin imaginable. Plus... who's that? No, not the douchebag, the other side. Is that the Stonehenge-like Easter Island-like profile of Ted Danson? Why would they tease us with Danson like this? For f***'s sake, if he's there, just give him to us.
The movie is about these three stealing money from the Federal Reserve, so why no goofy image of them hastily shoving bills in their bras, or unrolling an escape blueprint, or giving a three-way high five, or doing absolutely anything that would imply events occur outside of grinning? Maybe they're counting on the tagline, "They're having the crime of their lives...", to pull in audiences.
This is what you get on slow news days.
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Jul 11 2007 Cheadle and Pearce Star in Political Thriller from...Steve Martin?
"Naw, fool. Hold the gun sideways, like I done taughtchoo. And cut that nasty ass hair."
Yep, you read that headline correct - I mean, I think you did, having no prior knowledge of your dyslexia... Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce are set to star in Traitor, a thriller about an undercover CIA agent (Cheadle) who infiltrates a terrorist cell but in the process may have become a terrorist himself. Pearce plays an FBI agent investigating him.
The film will be written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, and is based on an original story by Steve Martin. Yes, that Steve Martin.
[Producers]Hoberman and Lieberman had been developing the project since early 2002, when Martin approached the duo on the set of "Bringing Down the House," which they were producing. Martin told them to meet him in his trailer because the actor had a thriller he wanted to pitch. Hoberman and Lieberman thought Martin was joking and didn't show up. Martin approached them the next day and asked why they didn't meet him.
Bringing Down the House co-star Queen Latifah reportedly campaigned hard for a role in which her character would teach Pearce how to "act street" to help him infiltrate the terrorist cell, and in the process, learn a little about love. Her idea was vetoed and she spent the rest of the afternoon eating cake batter.
Jun 26 2007 Queen Latifah Wants Steve Martin to Play Steve Martin
Malkovich Malkovich?
The planned remake of All of Me has Queen Latifah and Adam Shankman (Hairspray remake) already attached to the project, but so far there haven't been many rumors about who will play Steve Martin's role. Queen Latifah, who won an Academy Award for creativity, reportedly thinks the part should go to Steve Martin.
"He is really a physical comedian, a physical actor," Latifah said of Martin, citing him as the kind of star whose exceptional career longevity could allow him to remake his own performance nearly a quarter century later. "I’m sure he could pull it off."
In other news, the British government has announced that it has downgraded Queen Latifah's title from "Queen Latifah" to "Princess Dipshit".
