Sep 25 2009 Blaring Entertainment/Gossip Program Visits 'Iron Man 2' Set
The entertainment/gossip foghorn known as Entertainment Tonight visited the set of Iron Man 2 and shouted back this five-minute segment about the superhero sequel. As usual, ET's loud, crack team of reporters asked the questions that matter. Like whether or not Scarlett Johansson is considered attractive by the male crew, and if Gwenyth Paltrow brought the child she and Coldplay decided to name Apple to the set.
Answers, including Paltrow struggling to say "archetypical," await!
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Aug 10 2009 'Iron Man 2' Comic Con Preview: I Think I See a Shoulder Gun Thing!
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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.
Jul 22 2009 More Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow (or Possibly Brenda Starr)
From Yahoo, another shot of Scarlett Johansson as Russian spy Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, in Iron Man 2. Looks like even stealthy, nimble, superhero-caliber spies sometimes resort to the ol' "now that you've momentarily left the room, I'll sneak a peak at this secret document" trick. Classic.
Jul 16 2009 Hey, It's Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow
Clad in leather and Amy Adams wig and standing on a crate, Scarlett Johansson appears alongside RDJ and Mickey Rourke on the cover of this week's Entertainment Weekly, and the magazine has posted this low-res first look at Johansson in costume as the impractically conspicuous Russian spy, Black Widow.
Inside the issue, Rourke explains how he made sure his character wouldn't be a flat, boring villain. By requesting he have a bird, obviously:
I told Favreau, 'I don't want to just play him as a one-dimensional p----,'" he says. "He let me have a cockatoo, who I talk to and get drunk with while I’m making my suit."
Nothing adds depth to an antagonist like an avian sidekick. There's a reason Jafar from Aladdin is probably our most complex and nuanced villain.
Mar 12 2009 Rourke, Johansson Are Russian Half of 'Iron Man'
Mickey Rourke, enjoying new-found popularity after his acclaimed role in The Wrestler, and Scarlett Johansson, still enjoying constant popularity for being really hot, have officially joined the cast of Iron Man 2.
Rourke, who had reportedly been in negotiations for months following Marvel low-balling him with a $250,000 offer, will take on the part of the Russian villain Whiplash, while Johannson will be replacing a previously-engaged Emily Blunt as Soviet spy Black Widow. Plot details are still minimal, but I can only assume these two characters are teaming up to prank Iron Man into believing he's time traveled to the Cold War.
Nov 25 2008 'He's Just Not That Into You' or This Lazy Poster
Movie poster designers, there's been a misunderstanding. When myself and other internet people complain about the overuse of Photoshop, we generally mean that the stars are being airbrushed into a featureless oblivion, or that it's very apparent that no one is actually in the same room for the photo, or that Ben Stiller's head has quite obviously been thrown on a different body, and we're suggesting that maybe Photoshop shouldn't be used quite so heavily and lazily. We never meant to not use Photoshop at all, instead choosing to just do a Google image search for each star, grabbing the first image you find of them smiling, and dragging the variously-sized images into a rectangle. That makes it looks like a romantic comedy Atari game where each pixel is a random actor.
Anyone else who watched NBC's Ed notice this reunion of Warren Cheswick and Diane Snyder? Anyone else watch Ed at all?
Not Into You Poster [Jo Blo]
Nov 19 2008 'The Spirit' Posters Poster
"Guys, I've got this great idea for a poster. OK, so it's a poster, right? But also, it has all these other posters within that poster. Posters within a poster. The sheer audacity will shock everyone into seeing the movie. It's just so many posters, how could you not?"
It's true. Meta posters of the stars' faces are the new standard posters of the stars' faces.
Final Poster for 'The Spirit' [Cinematical]
Nov 17 2008 'The Spirit' Still Attempting to Create Interest with Clips Set to Music
No one seems too convinced by the last few trailers for The Spirit, so Lionsgate has pushed out one more quickie to remind everyone that the film comes out CHRISTMAS DAY. If your gifts aren't enough of a let down for the family, pack the kids in the Aerostar and take them to The Spirit, show them the true meaning of Christmas (disappointment). I particularly like the rockin' version of "Carol of the Bells" in this. It makes me feel like I'm watching a ridiculous, noir-based Home Alone sequel.
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Sep 29 2008 'The Spirit' Trailer Continues Frank Miller's Love Affair with Beautiful Women, Ridiculous Dialog, and Monochromatic Ties
In case you haven't given up entirely on Frank Miller's The Spirit adaptation, here's the latest trailer. I swear, every time I start to get any hope this could not be horrible, I get punched in the face with another flagrantly, obnoxiously Frank Miller-esque line ("Get me a tie--and make sure it's RED"? Oh, brother), or catch a glimpse of Samuel L. Jackson, his face streaked with mascara and sideburns, in front of an explosion of fire and redness, and realize, no, this will probably be bad. Never forget the comic booklet convention footage.
Sep 23 2008 Michael Caine Probably in a Movie
According to Michael Caine, he's probably doing some kind of moving picture with Scarlett Johansson and Matthew McConaughey, but he can't remember the name of it. From MTV:
“I have ‘Harry Brown,’” the actor said of his elderly vigilante film. “Then I’ll probably do a film with Scarlett Johansson. I forget what it’s called. It’s an adventure film. I was told yesterday that they have Matthew McConaughey as the guy. I’ve got go home and read it again.”
Someone really needs to start writing down Michael Caine's roles and pinning them to his jacket.
UPDATE: Coming Soon has pointed out it's probably Brilliant.
Aug 25 2008 'New York, I Love You' Trailer Tries to Sell Idea of Affection Towards Popular City
Here's the trailer to New York, I Love You (the thematic sequel to Paris, je t'aime), the upcoming film in which 13 directors pretend there aren't already a lot of movies proclaiming love for New York and make some of their own. Who are these directors? All your favorites. Rush Hour director Brett Ratner? Got him. Natalie Portman the Director? She's there. Natalie Portman's Other Boleyn Girl co-star, Scarlett Johansson the Director? Yup. Plus, it stars everyone, and is going to make Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon ridiculously easy from now on.
Jul 15 2008 'The Spirit' Trailer Has Girls, Ridiculous Costumes, '80s Sex Romp Movie Poster Imagery, Girls
It looks like it's of questionable origins, so hurry up and watch this trailer to The Spirit before it's replaced by a take-down notice. My first thought was, "This is like if Frank Miller directed the intro to The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis." My next thought was, "Why was your first thought of a show that went off the air almost two decades before your were born?" I have no idea. Subliminal Nick at Nite?
Jun 23 2008 New 'Spirit' Posters Add Voices to Motionless Heads
There are two new The Spirit posters! One features the Spirit swiping my famous sexual maneuver (that maneuver being pretending a girl's lip is a button, then going into extreme detail about how my pressing the button sets her mouth to blowjob mode); the other shows Lorelei, the Spirit character most like a cast member of Cats.
But the real story isn't in the images, it's that Yahoo has taken a giant leap in movie poster technology: they've added speech! Moving the mouse over the posters cues an audio file of each actress reading her respective sexually-charged face tattoo. Think of it as the antithesis of Guess Who?, because these faces actually do talk (fuck you again, Milton Bradley).
The degradation of forcing Scarlett Johansson to repeatedly insist I get on my knees was entertaining for about 30 seconds, at which point my focus shifted to finding the dirtiest thing I could make them say by quickly moving the mouse from face to face ("Keep the come on your knees"). Maybe someone else can figure out something better to do with this function.
Oh, and I guess this isn't really safe for work, just because it's going to take too much explaining to clarify why a woman's sultry voice is giving you dominatrix commands.
Talking 'The Spirit' Poster Things [Yahoo!]
Jun 18 2008 New 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' Trailer Has Studio Audiences Shouting "Wheeeeeeeeew!"
Woody Allen's celebrity Cinemax movie, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, has a new trailer--a series of clips that make it more and more clear that the auteur has filled the holes in his recently-spotty catalogue with much-needed girl kissin'. The trailer may also have some of Allen's famous repartee, but who can tell?
Jun 17 2008 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' Poster Makes No Mention of Notable Director, Girl-on-Girl Kissing
Yeah, don't make it obvious that this is a Woody Allen film. Who's that guy anyway? No need to mention him in any prominent way. But do mention that "life is the ultimate work of art," because that's the kind of meaningless, motivational poster statement that really sells a movie. That's why Iron Man was marketed primarily under the taglines, "You are what you dream" and "Teamwork."
'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' Poster Premiere [Cinematical]
Jun 16 2008 Scarlett Johansson's (Scar-Jo, as is said) 'The Spirit' Poster
The practice of waiting until someone passes out at a party and scrawling vulgar comments on their face undoubtedly makes for a good poster, but I wish they'd gone with the writing on her other cheek: a crude drawing of an ejaculating penis and the claim that she "hearts" boners. That's the Spirit I want to see.
May 28 2008 'He's Just Not That Into You' Trailer Informs Unlovable Women of Their Status
Women: they can never tell if we like them, hate them, or just want to see them be naked in a pool. So Greg Behrendt (consultant on Sex and the City, there to "keep it real," and one of the few comedians known who looks like more of an asshole than Dane Cook) and Liz Tuccillo (one of the sad ladies writing Sex and the City dialogue) co-authored He's Just Not That Into You, a self-help book meant to help women confused as to why men are avoiding them after initial contact. (Spoiler: it turns out it's a lack of interest.) Now the book has been turned into a movie--or, more specifically, turned into like five star-studded romantic comedies fused into one, creating the powerful beast known as the Voltrom-com. Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, and Mac Commercial Guy form the appendages of this particular Voltrom-com, and there's a trailer for the film below the cut. It looks something like Love Actually if you sucked out all of the Christmas elements and saccharine charm that made it tolerable.
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May 13 2008 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' Trailer: Woody Allen Does Sexy
Like a primetime soap opera nearing sweeps, Woody Allen's latest, Vicky Cristy Barcelona, is full of torrid affairs and girl-on-girl kissing, and he's not above exclusively promoting those aspects in the new trailer. Thankfully, unlike a primetime soap, you won't feel that pathetic watching since the people are actually notable good-lookers; namely, Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, and Javier Bardem. Now the only hurdle standing between you and enjoyment is the thought of the leering, 72-year-old man behind the camera.
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Apr 11 2008 First 'The Spirit' Photos Stop Making Sense
Lionsgate has provided some new stills from Frank Miller's adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit, and I have to say I'm pretty excited. All the green-screening going on gave me the sense they would have a similar look to Sin City, but I had no idea the film would take place on the stage of a Talking Heads concert!
One more of a pretty girl I'm dubbing "Scar-Jo" below the cut.
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Apr 8 2008 Scar-Jo Posing Rigidly Yet Sexily for 'The Spirit'
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Egotastic has some early test shots of Silk N. Floss, Scarlett Johansson's character in Frank Miller's adaptation of The Spirit. If rigid, nerdy, authoritative clinicians are a fetish of yours, you will love these pictures. Probably also if you suffer from the far more common affliction of liking Scarlett Johansson in tight, bra-revealing clothing.
Scarlett Johansson is a Sexy Nurse in The Spirit [Egotastic]
