Jul 15 2009 Bridget Jones Still Keeping Up with Her Journal of Sorts

Hasn't Bridget Jones figured out which British romantic comedy star she wants to marry by now? When I caught the last ten minutes of the second Bridget Jones on TBS last week, it really seemed like she was ending up with Colin Firth, but I guess there are still some things to work out because Variety says Renee Zellweger is plumping up to make the series a trilogy:

The untitled third "Bridget Jones" pic, which is still in its early stages and probably won't go into production until the end of next year, will see Zellweger reprise her role as a British publishing exec struggling to find love.

It will likely be based on the weekly columns author Helen Fielding wrote in 2005 for British newspaper the Independent in which Bridget, now in her 40s, attempts to have a baby before it's too late.

Ooooh, so she's with Colin Firth but now she needs to get him to fill her with baby before she's incapable? OK. So the movie is just about a couple middle-aged people having unprotected sex. Doesn't sound like that solid of an idea up front, but I suppose if it devolves into a Look Who's Talking with Hugh Grant as the voice of the baby, we could have a hit on our hands.

Dec 2 2008 'New in Town' Poster Cannot Actually be New

It just can't be. This movie and the poster have to already exist. And according to IMDb, Harry Connick Jr. is in this? Harry Connick Jr. would be in this--when it was made in 1997. There's just no way it would have taken this long to cast Renee Zellweger as a high-powered Miami consultant forced to move to a small Minnesota town that eventually wins her over. Someone just found this poster in the back room of a Tampa video store and it's now being presented as something new. I refuse to believe anything else.

New in Town Poster [IMPA]

Aug 8 2008 Viggo's Hat Can Barely Keep the Photoshop Filter from His Eyes in 'Appaloosa' Poster

Here's the poster for Appaloosa, the upcoming Western starring Ed Harris as Old West Guy, Viggo Mortensen as Old West Guy Also, and Renee Zellweger as Female Beetlejuice.

Feb 12 2008 Some Other Crap That Happened...

- Those greedy bastards at the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien are under the impression that having created the lush world, characters, and entire story of The Lord of the Rings entitles them to some percentage of the profits, and are suing New Line. The suit may delay or halt production of The Hobbit, but shouldn't effect Asylum Studio's direct-to-DVD The Hole Midget. (Thanks, Eccoli) [Yahoo!]

- In further lawsuit news, now that production on Watchmen has begun, Fox is suing Warner over rights issues on the graphic novel adaptation. Fox claims they hold exclusive copyright and contract right; Warner says they own, like, all the original issues, and Fox only started liking it after liking comics became cool. [Hollywood Reporter]

- After doing what most critics admit was a serviceable job with Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men, the Coen Brothers are set to adapt Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union for screens. Needless to say, it will be almost definitely be really, really good. [Variety]

- My One and Only, a comedy based on the childhood of George Hamilton, has nabbed Renne Zellwegger to play a glamorous mother searching for a wealthy father to raise her sons. Casting is still looking for young males between 8 and 14 who are also strangely orange. [Variety]

Jan 31 2008 'Leatherheads' Poster Attempt #2: Big Heads & Romance

Whereas the last Leatherheads poster confusingly left out all of the love-triangle elements to make it sports-centric, this one seems to be focusing exclusively on the romance between George Clooney and Renee Zellwegger, not even mentioning that co-star John Krasinski is a third romantic lead. Believe me, I wouldn't have decried the previous one had I know that my other option was seeing overly-airbrushed smugness beside a fourth-wall-breaking attempt at adorability.

New Leatherheads Poster [Empire]

Jan 30 2008 'Leatherheads' Poster Possesses No Rules

I'm confused as to why the marketing department for what appears to be a screwball romantic comedy set around early football decided to push the film's actual football playing as the sole selling point. Superbowl Fever? And now I'm torn which supplement would best finish the tagline: "...in love", "...until she came around", or "...actually, I guess there were still some rules."

The Leatherheads One-Sheet! [ComingSoon]

Dec 14 2007 Let 'Leatherheads' Trailer Take You to Platonic Male Crush Heaven

You think George Clooney's taking any cues from his work with the Coens? The goofy hairstyles, the period setting, the fisticuffs fighting stance and subsequent cross-eyed reaction all seem familiar. Considering the uproarious love triangle story line, Clooney probably just saw Sabrina and thought it would be better with the sensibilities of O Brother, Where Art Thou? And football. Added props for having his gentlemanly referee replicate Stephen Tobolowky's punch reaction from Groundhog Day flawlessly.

I'd say he robbed the fast-talking female reporter character from Hudsucker Proxy, but I doubt Georgie would even bother to watch the Coen movies he doesn't appear in. Besides, we all know that role for Renee Zellweger and the entire movie itself were conceived merely so Clooney here could get himself some steady ex-sex. He's probably immune to that post-coital shame, too. He IS George motherf***ing Clooney, after all.

Leatherheads Trailer [Yahoo!]

Oct 26 2007 'Bee Movie' 6-Minute Scene Actually Pretty Good

Despite how much of Seinfeld's dialogue consists of him simply shouting nouns, and the way little science lessons are ham-handedly shoved in as exposition, I found this six-minute scene from Bee Movie surprisingly charming and fun to watch.

Either I'm getting soft or my judgement is clouded by the joy of this not being another Shrek.

See the clip under the cut.

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Oct 9 2007 'Bee Movie' Poster

OK, what does "Honey Just Got Funny" mean? How is the honey funny? The bees just make it. It's like making a movie about construction workers and saying, "Buildings and Other Large Structures Just Got Funny!"

Furthermore, why is he on a tennis ball? As if that's some universally understood problem for bees. "Ha! Hit by a tennis ball! That would happen if you were bee-sized!"

The New Bee Movie Poster [ComingSoon]