And it’s looking very cool. Typical Michael Bay fashion, there’s a lot of nice explosions and tasty effects, but best of all, there’s that vintage Transforming noise from the cartoon. Which made me wish I had Autobots bedsheets again. However, why aren’t any of the Transformers talking? Has the recent lip-gate scandal encouraged Bay to write in some robot vow of silence?
Earlier, we received an excited press packet from Paramount, telling us that Jerry Seinfeld had unexpectedly leaped off a hotel in Cannes dressed as a bumblebee. This was no flamboyant suicide attempt, but a promotional stunt for Dreamworks’ new animated flick, Bee Movie, written and starring the comic turned costumed lunatic. There’s been a lot of buzz around this movie (that was unintentional, really) and now the full trailer has gone online. Let’s hope this is a Shrek not a Shark Tale. And if you haven’t already seen the hilarious teaser trailers, check them out here.
The trailer for this year’s Cannes opener has gone online. Kar Wai Wong’s first English speaking film stars singer Norah Jones as a woman who takes a soul-searching trip across America and meets lots of interesting characters including Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Tim Roth and David Strathairn. There’s huge interest in this film over at the Cannes festival, and unfortunately, the trailer is nice but unyielding, so don’t expect to get too excited.
Variety are reporting that the two titans will reteam for cop thriller, Righteous Kill. The film will see the two starring as a pair of detectives hot on the trail of a presumably nasty serial killer. And no, despite the title, it was never a Steven Seagal project.
Exciting! Just imagine the hilarious buddy banter the two will have. It’ll be like a verbal tennis match of supreme cynic hilarity, acted with all the gusto of a gaggle of stampeding steamrollers (and the simile award goes to…)
The film will begin shooting on August 6 and is being directed by Jon Avnet, with Inside Man scribe Russell Gerwitz penning the script.
We love Jason Bateman here at the ATTIC. The untimely demise of Arrested Development brought many a tearful moment. But thankfully, after a recent stream of small roles, he’s finally cracking the big screen. Again (let’s not forget Teen Wolf Too). And now he’s reteaming with Smokin’ Aces man Joe Carnahan for The Remarkable Fellows.
Bateman came up with the idea for the film, in which two brothers take over the family ‘revenge’ business, while on the set for Smokin’ Aces.
“The revenge scenario is dependent on the intricacy of the plot,†Bateman told Variety. “If the president of a major bank was sleeping with the French ambassador’s wife, the banker would call these guys.” Sounds good to us.
Our future husband, Grey’s Anatomy hottie T.R. Knight, uses some dye from the new Perez Hilton Hair Color Collection and shows off his fiery new ‘do in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
It's official: Variety reports that Elijah Wood will play Iggy Pop in an upcoming biopic called "The Passenger," to be directed by Nick Gomez. As they say in the funny papers, "Aiieeee!"
This may, in fact, turn out to be a good movie. More likely it's the first sign of the apocalypse. I like Wood, and I understand his desire to break out of the box that childhood adorability and "The Lord of the Rings" put him in. He's been trying to get this movie off the ground for two years, so obviously he's committed. And yet, and yet, and yet -- you're gonna have to prove it to me, Frodo.
And it's not going to be easy: Wood has the most soulful eyes in the business, and the former James Newell Osterberg -- leader of The Stooges, primogenitor of punk, and perhaps the most gleefully unhinged of rock's bad boys -- arguably has no soul. Unlike Jim Morrison or Ray Charles or any other rock great whose life has been poured into a Hollywood container, there's no psychological backstory (that we know of, anyway), no demons, no artistic mission, nothing to "explain" why the Ig felt it necessary to cut his chest with broken bottles in concert back in the late 60s and pour every bit of unholy midwestern voodoo he could muster into songs like "TV Eye". He simply is. The average rock movie is often about the perils of ego, but how do you make one about a guy who's all id? And how do you convince us Elijah Wood is that guy?
On another front, this marks the point where the wave of rock biopics finally starts to wash over the punk generation. Thirty years ago it was "The Buddy Holly Story," fifteen years ago "The Doors," now this. When Katie Holmes gets cast as Patti Smith, please kill me.
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