Oct 20 2009 'Everyone's Fine' Poster: This Christmas, Four People Will Find Adequacy
Because you've always wanted a Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Christmas Special mixed with Meet the Parents and a digital camera commercial, here's the poster for Everybody's Fine. Also, I'd just like to note that everybody is clearly not fine. Robert De Niro's face, his hypothetical left arm, and all of their careers are far from fine.
'Everybody's Fine' Poster [IMPA]
Aug 13 2009 'Gentlemen Broncos' Trailer: Prett-ee Good
The ambitious kid vs. past-his-prime man dynamic of Rushmore meets the oddball characters of Napoleon Dynamite in this new trailer for Jared Hess's latest Gentlemen Broncos. As someone who wasn't a huge fan of Hess's previous works (I will pull a PETA-style paint-hurling on any "Vote for Pedro" shirts that enter my field of vision), I'm surprised how much I'm excited for this film. It turns out I might sort of like this guy when his work isn't focused on a whiny borderline retard:
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Aug 10 2009 'Iron Man 2' Comic Con Preview: I Think I See a Shoulder Gun Thing!
REMOVED AT THE REQUEST OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Want your first look at Don Cheadle's War Machine suit and Mickey Rourke's Star Trek: The Next Generation-inspired laser whips to be shaky, dark, and both visually and aurally indiscernible? Then enjoy the Iron Man 2 footage that was shown at the Comic Con. Besides the aforementioned War Machine and Whiplash scenes, it contains: Tony Stark put on trial by Larry Sanders, Scarlett Johansson jumping around, Sam Rockwell holding guns, and evidence that "I am Iron Man" is basically Tony Stark's equivalent of Urkel's "Did I do that?" What a treat for a Monday afternoon.
Jun 2 2009 See How the Moon Factors Into 'Moon'
In this new clip from Moon, you'll briefly learn how, in Duncan Jones's futuristic sci-fi tale, technologies allow massive amounts of energy to be harvested and used to supply power to Earth's many plug-innable things. As the title implies, the moon is involved.
It's more interesting than it sounds:
Apr 30 2009 'Moon' Gets Harder to See
Ut oh, would-be Moon viewers. Io9 is saying Douglas Jones's sleek, promising sci-fi film will only be playing in New York and L.A., leaving the rest of America only a Star Trek to sate their summertime space travel cravings. So if you're not in New York or Los Angeles, and you want to see Sam Rockwell contract the space madness before the DVD comes out, time to start electro-petitioning Sony Pictures Classics. (I don't know how to go about that. Someone should set that up though.)
Apr 10 2009 Amazing 'Moon' Poster Ruined by Horrible 'Moon' Tagline
"950,000 miles from home, the hardest thing to face... is yourself"? That's terrible. From the trailer, I can piece together what they're going for, but still, unacceptable. A stylish, moody, sci-fi film shouldn't have a tagline that cues Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway to play in your head.
Apr 10 2009 'Moon' Trailer: Space Madness Done the Right Way
Has there ever been a time when a small or solo crew of workers sent into a close-quarters space vessel has not started experiencing terrifying, unexplainable phenomena that's either all in their head or real, crazy alien stuff? Even Ren and Stimpy could not escape the inevitable mind-horrors of deep space. You'd think it would be part of fictional NASA's training by now. Moon, starring Sam Rockwell, revisits the concept yet again, but luckily steers its lunar excursion vehicle closer to the elegant Solaris model than the Event Horizon/Whater-That-New-One-With-Dennis-Quaid-Is-Called bullshit model. Or at least it seems to from the trailer:
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Jan 8 2009 Rourke and Rockwell Will Fight That Iron Man Guy
Mickey Rourke has gotten so popular since he started his wrestling career. Yesterday he joined the cast of Stallone's The Expendables, and now he's reportedly in talks to join Iron Man 2 as the film's central villain, while Sam Rockwell may play a rival industrialist. From THR:
Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell are in talks to star as the villains in "Iron Man 2," being directed by Jon Favreau.Marvel has been keeping a very tight lid on the script for the sequel, being written by Justin Theroux, but it is known that Rourke would play a tattooed Russian heavy named Ivan who becomes Whiplash, a man with deadly, technologically enhanced coils.
Rockwell would play Justin Hammer, a multibillionaire businessman and a rival of industrialist Anthony Stark, AKA Iron Man, being played by a returning Robert Downey Jr.
So Mickey Rourke is playing Whiplash. Except Variety says the role is Crimson Dynamo:
Which role Rockwell will play has yet to be disclosed by Marvel, but Rourke is in discussions to play the Crimson Dynamo, a heavily tattooed Russian arms dealer. He's considered to be an evil version of Iron Man because he battles the superhero in a nuclear-powered suit of armor.
Confusing! I think the only way to suss this one out is with blind speculation, Photoshopping, and comments that we won't see the movie without Terrence Howard in it.
Dec 31 2008 'G-Force' Trailer: Talking Guinea Pigs This Time
So many great people in this--Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Tracy Morgan, Sam Rockwell, Bill Nighy, Steve Buscemi--yet it still comes off as a poor attempt at Alvin and the Chipmunks-izing Disney's Rescue Rangers. Every day for like two years, some guy went home to his wife every night and gave her news like, "I got the Nicolas Cage mole's mouth to move more in sync today," and, "I've almost tweaked the Penelope Cruz guinea pig to look oddly sexual when she sashays, even though she still has the body of a guinea pig," just so we could have this:
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Nov 20 2008 'Moon' Poster is a Huge Spoilers
Yes, that's right: the moon is actually a microchip--one that controls our brain. AND THE GOVERNMENT HAS KNOWN ABOUT IT FOR YEARS!
PS: In case you missed it, Moon looks really good.
Moon Poster [IMPA]
Nov 18 2008 This 'Moon' Movie Looks Pretty Good
Bloody Disgusting has posted 18 eye-pleasing images from the upcoming Sam Rockwell-starring sci-fi film, Moon. As they describe it, Rockwell plays an astronaut named Bel, who "has a quintessentially personal encounter while stranded on the moon for a three-year period." There may never be a complete return to the dark, thoughtful, elegantly shot sci-fi filmmaking of something like the original Solaris and 2001, but this sounds and looks like the next best thing. After this, of course:
Giant snow tiger cub perched on the moon is always the best thing. It basically invented science fiction. You wouldn't know what a light saber was if this guy hadn't slumped over those craters during an eclipse.
(Thanks, Matt.)
Aug 21 2008 'Frost/Nixon' Trailer Battles 'W' for Best President Impersonation
Here's the trailer to Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard's adaptation of Peter Morgan's play about the battle between the former president and a British talk show host. I recommend it solely because it includes the line, "I will ruin you if it takes the rest of my life," just as I recommend any movie that includes such a line. It's just pulls you right into the film because it's so real. I can't even count the number of times I've said I would ruin someone even if it took until my death, or that someone has promised the same to me. It's getting to the point I need an Excel spreadsheet just to keep track of who I have left to ruin, who is going to ruin me, and who's already died without managing to ruin me (I win). It's exhausting, but such is real life.
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May 21 2008 Chuck Palahniuk's 'Choke' Poster
Part of the series "My collection of vintage '80s screwball comedy posters that were ruined by Frank Miller."
Choke Poster [IMPA]
Jan 22 2008 'Choke' On This (Clip from 'Choke')!
Whether you think writer Chuck Palahniuk is a brilliant satirist or a hackie shock author, Clark Gregg's Sam Rockwell-starring adaptation of Choke is sure to draw some big attention now that Fox Searchlight bought the picture for $5 million. It probably won't reach the immense popularity of Fincher's Fight Club, but its dark subject matter and matter-of-fact handling of sexual deviancy is sure to elicit some of the same responses--"This shit's totally f***ed up, dude," for one.
See a short interview with Gregg and some clips here.
Nov 9 2007 Some Other Crap That Happened...
- Another movie based on a video game? That could only be good if they got Mark Wahlberg to star as Max Payne, a cop who has "little regard for the rules." Wait, they did?! [Variety]
- Josh Harnett and Sam Rockwell have joined George-Radliff's adaptation of End Zone, with Hartnett playing a talented running back and Rockwell taking the role of an excitable publicist. I hope Hartnett can pull off the role of a good-looking jock. [Variety]
- If you're in LA, make sure to catch Life of Reilly, opening this weekend--or at least watch an episode of Match Game 76--to get your regular dose of Charles Nelson Reilly. I'll be catching it in New York next weekend to ward against the phantom ascot pains common to CNR withdrawal.
- Writers Guild members: continue not writing. You're on strike, sillyheads! And it's the weekend!
Jul 12 2007 Choke on Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston on the set of 'Gremlins'
Anjelica Huston is set to play Sam Rockwell's mother in the upcoming movie adaptation of the Chuck "Holy Shit Do I Ever Need a Pen Name" Palahniuk's (Fight Club) novel Choke. Besides Rockwell, she joins Kelly MacDonald, Brad Henke, and newcomer director Clark Gregg, who also wrote the script.
Aside from the fact that I've been waiting for this movie for a long time, it reminds me of a little story - so if you'll allow me a little autobiographical license...
May 1 2007 'Choke' on Sam Rockwell, Bitch
I too have eaten cat poop for a dollar
For those of us that have waited far too long for something like Fight Club, some good news:
In an email message, [writer of Fight Club and Choke] Palahniuk reportedly said that production on Choke would start on May 18. Clark Gregg has been nabbed as the director.
It obviously goes on to say that Sam Rockwell will be playing the lead, otherwise me posting that picture of him would be totally weird.
For you ignorant sluts out there (and I'm looking at you, grandma) Choke is a book by Fight Club writer Chuck Palahniuk about a guy who pretends to choke at restaurants. It'd be nice if David Fincher came back to direct this one too, but if my penis has taught me anything, it's that you can't always get what you want.
