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.
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.
I'd love to give you the on-the-ground Cannes report, but Wesley and I are stuck here reading blogs like everyone else. Maybe next year. Still, the only festival in the world that could get away with letting Jerry Seinfeld float overhead dressed as a giant bee (promoting his upcoming kid's movie "Bee Movie") is worth keeping tabs on. Personally, I triangulate between Variety's Anne Thompson, Premiere's Glenn Kenny (to whom thanks for the Seinfeld photo above), and Hollywood Elsewhere's Jeffrey Wells, currently engaging in impassioned knockabout on the merits of "My Blueberry Nights," Wong Kar-wei's first English-language film. Wells hates it, Thompson loves it, and Glenn, bless his cross-referencing little heart, is "the Derek Smalls of this debate -- the lukewarm water to Thompson's fire and Wells' ice." Without seeing the movie -- as if that's stopped me before -- I will note the legions of great filmmakers who have crashed on the Scylla and Charybdis of English dialogue and name stars. (Bergman? "The Serpent's Egg." Truffaut? "Fahrenheit 451." There are plenty more, but the only one who turned it to his advantage while biting the hand that wrote the checks was Godard with "Contempt.")
Perhaps we're just a tad late to the game on this one, but I simply had to add in my two cents about the brand new hot-to-trot statue of Spider-Man's main gal Mary Jane. For those who aren't yet aware of this priceless collectible, you can check it out to the right of your screen. Yup, that's Mary Jane holding her man's Spidey costume and casually bending over a wash-bucket with a pink thong riding high up on her waist. Created by comic-book illustrator Adam Hughes, the limited-edition Comiquette comes from Sideshow Collectibles and is licensed by Marvel. And if you're interested in placing Ms. Mary Jane in your living room (right next to your Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 2.1 DVDs, I imagine), then she'll set you back a crisp $125.
Not surprisingly, bloggers everywhere are all up in arms over this trashy, yet smokin' hot version of Mary Jane. Hughes hilariously describes his creation as "Mary Jane discover[ing] that her superhero husband has slipped some of his laundry into the mix, but she's not looking too displeased about Peter's naughty little transgression." Funnily enough, all the outrage has done nothing by spark a feeding frenzy; the statue (which is available through the Collectibles web site) has already sold out, with a waiting list recently added. Now here's where I get to tell you what I think. First off, who cares? The majority of folks who actually buy these statues are geeked-out males (or fanboys) who like to steal a peak at their purchase while surfing for the latest Star Trek fan art. (And based on some of the fan art I've seen, this statue is quite tame). I see nothing wrong with it; she's not naked, she's not revealing too much (unlike a certain "rain scene" from one of the films) and, quite simply, she looks good. Thoughts?
Brooklyn Rules - Trailer Written by three-time Emmy winner Terence Winter (the Sopranos) Brooklyn Rules s a powerful story of loyalty, friendship, and sacrifice. Set in Brooklyn circa 1985 against the backdrop of John Gotti’s rise to power, the film revolves around three lifelong friends whose different ambitions threaten to shake their enduring bond. Directed by: Michael Corrente Starring: Freddie Prinze Jr., Scott Caan, Jerry Ferrara, Mena Suvari, Alec Baldwin
Captivity - Trailer 2 Top cover girl and fashion model, Jennifer Tree has it all - beauty, fame, money and power. Her face appears on covers of hundreds of magazines. At the top of her game, Jennifer is America’s sweetheart. She is loved and adored and sought after. Everyone wants her. But someone out there has been watching and waiting. Someone wants her in the worst way. Out alone at a charity event in Soho, Jennifer is drugged and taken. Held captive in a cell, Jennifer is subjected to a series of terrifying, life-threatening tortures that could only be conceived by a twisted, sadistic mind.
Directed by: Roland Joffe Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gillies, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael Harney, Laz Alonso
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