Friday, June 22, 2012
Lana Del Rey and A$AP Rocky to Play the Kennedys in 'National Anthem' Music Video
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Radiohead Advise Fans Not to Visit Collapsed Stage
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Celebrity Birthdays - June 17, 2012
Happy Birthday to: Actor Thomas Haden Church (1960) Singer Laura Wright (1990) Actress Connie Fisher (1983) Actor Arthur Darvill (1982) American tennis player Venus Williams (1980) Actor/com...
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Saturday, June 16, 2012
Charlie Sheen Says 'Anger Management' Will Be His 'Swan Song'
Actor Charlie Sheen is planning to retire from Hollywood and turn his upcoming TV sitcom Anger Management into his "swan song." The star signed up for the new comedy, based on Adam Sandler and J...
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Matthew McConaughey Named Hollywood's Sexiest Dad
Newlywed Matthew McConaughey has topped a new online Father's Day poll to find Hollywood's sexiest dad. The Texan father-of-two, who wed fiancee Camila Alves last weekend, has claimed 21 per cent...
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Heads Down 'Fury Road'
Let's face it: If you had to pick five Hollywood starlets to become your wives in a post-apocalyptic future, chances are you would at least consider giving one of those slots to Rosie Huntington-Wh...
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Check Out 'Jeff, Who Lives At Home' On DVD & Blu-ray June 19
In the comedy "Jeff, Who Lives at Home," directors Jay and Mark Duplass examine fate and family. Jason Segel stars as Jeff, a slacker who still lives with his mother. He spends the vast majority ...
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Kim Kardashian Has Had Enough of Dating Younger Guys
Friday, June 15, 2012
Tony Parker Injured in Bottle-Hurling Fight Between Chris Brown and Drake
Big Roles For Newcomers: Kathryn Bigelow Picks Her Osama Bin Laden; Atom Egoyan Finds Damien Echols
If I needed to I could come up with two films more different than Kathryn Bigelow's "kill Osama Bin Laden" movie Zero Dark Thirty and Atom Egoyan's West Memphis Three drama Devil's Knot. But for the sake of argument let's note that despite being fiction based in truth, they're still pretty seriously different projects.Both films do have one other thing in common, in that they will rely on relative unknowns for pivotal roles.
First, Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, which recounts the successful attempt to kill Osama Bin Laden, will actually feature an actor as the terrorist figurehead — something we weren't sure about at one point. Ricky Sekhon, a British actor with some TV experience, will play the part. He's already shot the role, according to Baz Bamigoye.
The film is still shooting, however, with a December 19th opening planned. The cast also features Chris Pratt, Kyle Chandler, Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Ehle, Joel Edgerton, Nash Edgerton, Frank Grillo, Harold Perrineau Jr., Mark Duplass, Jason Clarke, Mark Strong, Edgar Ramirez , and more.
After the break, Atom Egoyan has chosen a newcomer to play Damien Echols, one of the convicted West Memphis Three.
Variety reports that Atom Egoyan found a Nebraska Wesleyan University drama student, James Hamrick, to play Echols. The trade says that the actor made a tape as part of his audition for the role, and that he beat many other actors, including many name talents, for the part.
He'll be in good company as the film, based on Mara Leveritt's book Devil's Knot, follows private detective Ron Lax (Colin Firth), who agreed to work pro bono for the West Memphis Three — the three young men accused of murdering three 8-year old boys in 1993. The West Memphis Three were released from jail last year after being convicted of the murders in 1994.
The film also features Alessandro Nivola as Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of the victims, who has been thought by some to be the real killer. And Reese Witherspoon, Mireille Enos, Collette Wolfe, Kris Polaha, and Kristopher Higgins are in the cast as well. Amy Ryan and Dane DeHaan are in talks to join.
- Colin Firth To Join Reese Witherspoon In West Memphis Three Drama 'Devil's Knot'
- Reese Witherspoon to Star in Atom Egoyan's West Memphis Three Picture 'The Devil's Knot'
- 'Zero Dark Thirty' is the Working Title of Kathryn Bigelow's Osama Bin Laden Movie
- West Memphis Three: Atom Egoyan Plots Feature; Peter Jackson Responds to Freedom; Third Documentary News
- /Film Video Interview: Mark Duplass On 'Safety Not Guaranteed,' 'The League,' 'Zero Dark Thirty,' Netflix, Sundance And Much More
- The Best Movies About Grief You Probably Haven't Seen
Justin Bieber Gives NYC Fans A Surprise Meet-And-Greet
Fans are so important to Justin Bieber that he takes time out of his busy schedule to make sure they know it. On Thursday fans started camping out for his Friday concert at Manhattan's Rockefeller ...
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Sequel Bits: 'The Expendables 2,' 'Captain America 2,' 'Jay and Silent Bob,' 'Taken 2′
Lots of odds and ends today in Sequel Bits. Here we go:
- It seems a video game based on The Expendables 2 will be coming out.
- Dominic Cooper isn't sure if Howard Stark will return in Captain America 2.
- 20th Century Fox is sending out a great Taken 2 Father's Day card.
- Kevin Smith promises Jay and Silent Bob's animated film will be rolled out in 2013.
The Expendables 2 opens August 17 and with a cast including Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris and Jean Claude Van Damme, who isn't going to want to live in that world? It seems video games fans could get that chance. Though Ubisoft, the company likely developing the game, has no comment, a recent find at Player Attack (via Cinemablend) reveals the Australian Classification Board has given some kind of game based on the film a 15+ rating citing "strong violence."
Will it be a high graphics, first person shooter where you can play through multiple missions as your favorite action hero of all time? Not likely. Games like that cost a lot of money and are marketed well before release to raise interest. More than likely, it's some sort of simple online or mobile shooter. But we can dare to dream.
This quote ran in Thursday's Superhero Bits but it's worth running again for a new audience. Dominic Cooper, speaking to Collider about his role in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, revealed he had yet to be contacted about reappearing as Howard Stark in Captain America 2:
I just don't know. That one probably, because I'm the father, the next one I imagine will come later. But you never know, anything can happen to any of the characters at any time. They're like the comics. But I don't know. They're incredible projects.
Coming Soon posted this funny Taken 2 Father's Day card. It's pretty self-explanatory. The film will be released October 5.
Kevin Smith recently did a huge Q&A on Reddit (via MTV Geek) and one of the many questions he answered was when we might see Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie, a film that was announced a few months ago.
Next year, SModcast Pictures will do another RED STATE USA-type tour with our first animated feature, JAY & SILENT BOB'S SUPER GROOVY CARTOON MOVIE. We'll show the flick then Q&A after, all of which we'll eventually podcast. We learned a lot touring RED STATE, so we wanna put it to use on BINDLESTIFFS and the cartoon JAY & SILENT BOB flick.
- Sequel Bits: Bill Murray Sets 'Ghostbusters 3′ Rumor Mill Churning Again, Plus: 'Expendables 2′, 'Men in Black 3′, 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation', 'Taken 2′, 'Star Trek 2′
- Kevin Smith Talks 'Hit Somebody' and Reveals 'Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie'
- Early Comic Con Movie Attendance Announced: 'Iron Man 3,' 'Django Unchained,' 'Man of Steel' and 'The Hobbit' In; 'Star Trek 2′ Out
- Anthony and Joe Russo in Talks to Direct 'Captain America 2′
- /Film Exclusive: 'Bindlestiffs' Trailer, The First Film From Kevin Smith's Smodcast Pictures
- Watch The Premiere Episode of Kevin Smith's Movie Review Show 'Spoilers'
Q&A: 'Suits' Star Gabriel Macht Previews Season 2
Can't get enough after last night's Suits season premiere? Star Gabriel Macht recently talked with me and let me in on a few things we can look forward to during the show's sophomore run.
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'Pitch Perfect' Trailer: Anna Kendrick in the A Capella 'Bring it On'
Anna Kendrick stars in Pitch Perfect as an outsider girl who, after arriving at her new school, is pulled into a competitive group of girls who are determined to sing their way to all-vocal a capella success. But don't be too quick to call this one merely a revamp of other similar competitive high school/college movies. Because after watching the trailer below, you'll see that this is a lot like… oh. An a capella version of Bring It On.
But, that said, there's a lot in this trailer that suggests Pitch Perfect knows how silly the premise is. Thanks to assistance from minor Bridesmaids scene-stealer Rebel Wilson, a script written by 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon, and a healthy dose of Glee-esque performance, there might be something pretty funny here.
The comedy is actually based on a non-fiction book, but I expect scenes like the weird shower trio were invented for the film. And they look like they might even work.
Yahoo has the trailer. Pitch Perfect opens on October 5.
Beca is that girl who'd rather listen to what's coming out of her headphones than what's coming out of you. Arriving at her new college, she finds herself not right for any clique but somehow is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own: alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls whose only thing in common is how good they sound when they sing together.
When Beca takes this acoustic singing group out of their world of traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all-new mash-ups, they fight to climb their way to the top of the cutthroat world of college "a cappella." This could wind up either the coolest thing they'll ever do or the most insane, and it will probably be a little of both.
- Anna Kendrick in Talks for 'Pitch Perfect'
- TV Bits: $30,000 Iron Throne Replica is the Ultimate Piece of 'Game of Thrones' Memorabilia, Plus: 'Mad Men', 'Tron: Uprising', Jennifer Westfeldt, Rebel Wilson
- 'End of Watch' Trailer – Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña Patrol the Mean Streets of South Central
- 'ParaNorman' International Trailer: Laika's Latest Continues to Look Like a Creepy Crowd-Pleaser
- Casting Bits: Abigail Breslin in 'The Hive', Adam Pally in 'A.C.O.D.', Marcia Gay Harden in 'Get a Job'
- Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick, and Miles Teller to Star in Comedy 'Get a Job'
Video Premiere: Usher's 'Lemme See' Ft. Rick Ross
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Jean Dujardin In Talks to Star as Suave Banker in 'The Wolf of Wall Street'
This Week In Trailers: Shadow Dancer, Kotoko, After The World Ended, Nostalgia, Canicula, Step Up To The Plate (Entre Les Bras), The Will
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they're seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I'm operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers?
Kotoko Trailer
I absolutely dare you to figure this out without reading a synopsis.
What immediately jumped out at me was how much of a departure this is for director Shin'ya Tsukamoto, the man who last gave us Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. Long gone are the hideous physical transformations, his Kafka-esque metamorphosis still something to behold, and replaced with something more cerebral, intelligent.
We open easily enough with a woman suffering with double vision. The hook here, though, and it's brilliantly encapsulated within mere seconds, is that she seems to be suffering from a psychological double vision as well. The way the guy just lumbers and leaps is contrasted nicely with the hushed tones of our protagonist who realizes it is in her head and throws us the first in a series of thrilling moments which, in this case, is her devotion to augmenting her reality in order to stave off the terror that surely comes over her.
The festival recognition is well placed and timed in the way it doesn't take us out of trying to understand what's afoot here but the rub isn't that a kind, stately narrator will explain everything you need to know. In fact, things just spiral deeper out of control down a well of madness, but, for me, I am riveted by what I see. Almost like a wobbly can that is just moments away from coming loose of its moorings, the trailer just descends into dark places as the echoing sounds of gunshots fi
Sunday, June 10, 2012
A Shirtless Joey Lawrence Guest Stars With The Chippendales
ABC Family 'Melissa & Joey' star Joey Lawrence showed of his shirtless assets yesterday in Las Vegas. He started his three-week duty as guest-host for Chippendales Thursday. Sorry ladies, Lawrence ...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
Report That Marvel's Next Standalone Project Is 'Black Panther' Debunked
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Amanda Bynes Is Charged With DUI, Pleads With Obama to Fire Officer
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
'The Babymakers' Trailer - Broken Lizard is Back, Sort Of
It's been three years since Broken Lizard's last film, The Slammin' Salmon, and six years since their last semi-hit, Beerfest, but the comedy group is coming back this summer with a fresh new feature. Well, kinda. The Babymakers isn't technically a Broken Lizard film — while troupe leader Jay Chandrasekhar directs, not all the team members appear, and the ones that do play supporting roles to non-Lizard stars Paul Schneider and Olivia Munn. Still, I'm betting fans will be happy to see at least a partial reunion, and the premise of the film sounds right up their alley.
Written by Peter Gaulke and Gerry Swallow, The Babymakers centers around a married couple (Schneider and Munn) trying for their first child. When it becomes apparent that husband Tommy is shooting blanks, however, he enlists the aid of his friends in breaking into a sperm bank to retrieve a deposit he made several years ago. Kevin Heffernan, Nat Faxon, Wood Harris, M.C. Gainey, and Aisha Tyler also star. Watch the first trailer after the jump.
[via First Showing]
Head to Apple.com to see Schneider's semen-related shenanigans in crisp HD.
This trailer really doesn't do anything for me. To be fair, I haven't found any of Broken Lizard's works to be more than fitfully amusing, so maybe this just doesn't appeal to my personal sense of humor. But for all their flaws, Beerfest and Super Troopers offered some big laughs; the Babymakers trailer barely got me to crack a smile. The only highlight for me was the appearance of Chandrasekhar, whose deeply silly side role seems to liven up the proceedings.
The Babymakers premiered at SXSW to mixed reviews, with critics by and large approving of Schneider's performance and complaining about Munn's casting. THR found it to be Broken Lizard's "most mature, funniest entry," while Film School Rejects sniffed that "the whole enterprise is essentially demeaning to everyone involved with it." You can make up your own mind when The Babymakers gets a theatrical and VOD release on August 3.
- Watch the First Footage From Jay Chandrasekar's 'The Babymakers'
- Casting Bits: Elijah Wood in 'Celese and Jesse Forever;' Colin Hanks in 'My Mother's Curse;' Paul Schneider in 'Baby Makers'
- Casting Bits: Al Pacino in 'Imagine', Olivia Munn in 'The Babymakers', Three More for Woody Allen's 'Bop Decameron'
- Sequel Bits: Disney Considering 'Muppets' TV Series, Plus: 'Cloudy 2′, 'Bill & Ted 3′, 'Super Troopers 2′
- Ruben Fleischer's Short Films
- 'Magic Mike' UK Trailer – Less Furniture Building, More Beefcake
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