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And You Shall Know Them By Their Trail of Manolos
The return of Sex and the City, the not-return of Matthew Perry. Strange movies and people win strange festival awards, and Slovenia finally gets some sunshine. More »
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Comment by dantebenuto: Don't you mean Zooey Deschanel? Or am I missing some glib crack? 3 Responses | Other threads
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Vin Diesel Back For 'xXx 3: xxxXXXxxx'
· Vin Diesel AbandonedFranchiseWatch: XXX: The Return of Xander Cage will reunite Vin Diesel with director Rob Cohen for another helping of the Xtreme actioner no one remembers or wants! [Variety] More »
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By SethComment by Little Mintz Sunshine: Ahh...Does it get any better than Aaron Eckhart in a uniform rampaging through downtown LA beating up Mexicans...wait? what? 1 Responses | Other threads
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Killjoy Aaron Eckhart Settles at Least One Scurrilous 'Batman 3' Casting Rumor
After a handful of outlandish Batman 3 casting rumors recently trickled online in a impressionistic stream of semi-consciousness, we may have found one that not only can't be attributed to a fanboy crack binge, but may actually be... true? And for the six of you who haven't yet seen The Dark Knight, spoilers follow, so consider skipping ahead: Aaron Eckhart, whose Two-Face/Harvey Dent ended up as killed as any TDK character got without going through the necessary franchise terminus of burial/cremation/being chopped into pieces, confirmed this week that, yes, his villain is dead, and no, he will not be returning in any forthcoming Batman sequels. That is, Eckhart added, if there are any Batman sequels to be made at all — at least with Christopher Nolan overseeing things: More »
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By STVComment by hummingpenguin: I definitely got the impression that they intended the Joker to come back, maybe in a puppetmaster role for a... 1 Responses | Other threads
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the dark knight
Aaron Eckhart's 'Dark Knight' Oscar Campaign Jump-started By Loud-Mouthed Sports Columnist
While most of the punditocracy is demanding that Sid Ganis engrave Heath Ledger's name on the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor before the month of July comes to a close, the notoriously contrarian ESPN talking head Skip Bayless isn't quite convinced. During today's episode of their afternoon gabfest 1st And 10, Bayless got into a heated argument with the equally opinionated (read: full of shit) mouthpiece Stephen A. Smith about whether or not The Dark Knight was better than Tim Burton's Batman. As these conversations generally go, the topic of conversation quickly switched to Heath Ledger's universally lauded performance as The Joker. That is to say, universally lauded by everyone but Skip Bayless. More »
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By Mark GrahamComment by YourGoldKeith: @micke: why are they talking AT ALL? more » | Other threads
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the dark knight
Defamer Reviews 'The Dark Knight': Same Batman, Bleaker Bat Channel
After surviving months of Dark Knight hype, viral outreach and tastefully overblown praise for late co-star Heath Ledger, Defamer finally got its chance at a screening Tuesday to see what all the Bat-fuss was about. And as editor Seth Abramovitch and senior editor S.T. VanAirsdale discovered in their second installment of Defamer Instant Reviews, not everybody is ready to validate its Second Coming status quite yet. Is it good? Absolutely. Is it the best film of the summer? That's where things get complicated — on AIM, of course, because this watershed cultural moment deserves no less. More »
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By STVComment by StratfordX: @hildyburns: Less. Is. More. thank fucking CHRIST they didn't try to get into a joker backstory. more » | Other threads
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'Dark Knight' Spoiler Campaign Continues as Early Viewers Break Out the Cameraphones
We're seeing The Dark Knight next week like everybody else, but since David Letterman has already wrecked everything for us, the hell with it: SPOILER ALERT. Like, seriously. The screenshots that some douchebag smuggled out of a press screening and pollenated our inbox with this morning aren't going to shatter the Earth, but they'll warrant crossing at least two items off your list of "Twists I Can't Wait to Totally Ruin By Seeing Them Before the Movie." More »
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By STVComment by LucilleMcGillicuddy: OMG, I am totally breaking up with him. That is IT. It is so over. more » | Other threads
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'The Dark Knight' Closing In on Distinction of Bleakest Film We've Never Seen
In case you haven't heard yet that The Dark Knight is going to be the Darkest! Batman! Ever! (complete with a mourned actor doing all kinds of posthumously hype-worthy things that no one will shut up about), Aaron Eckhart showed up in the LA Times's summer film preview Sunday to reinforce the company line that "people will be surprised" at the bleak turns his own Harvey Dent character endures en route to becoming Two Face: More » -
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The Jennifer Aniston Dating Game: Fun Like 'Go Fish' Or Depressing And Endless Like 'Monopoly'?
When news that Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer got together for a "touchy, feely" lunch date and dinner in Miami over the weekend broke, the entire community of celebrity observers and glossy magazine readers let out a big ol' collective yawn. Aniston has been linked to (and we're roughly estimating here) seven hundred or so possible paramours since her split with Brad Pitt, and Mayer has pulled what Liz Phair would call the all-too-common "fuck and run" on so many starlets that he earned Us's "Cad of the Year" award. But just because the gossip is yawnworthy doesn't mean there isn't a larger issue here: mainly, is Aniston really dating or trying to date all these guys-of-the-month, or is this charade her publicist's idea of spinning her post-divorce life into an unglamorous version of Sex And The City? More » -
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Another Day, Another On-Set Romance For Jennifer Aniston
Have things really gotten so rough for Jennifer Aniston that she's gone from dating cokehead models to taking movie roles just so she can date the leading man? That's what this article on Jen's new relationship with Traveling co-star Aaron Eckhart seems to be implying. According to the Daily Mail, Eckhart "personally requested Aniston for the part...and Jen's entire reason for doing this movie was Aaron." Before we got carried away imagining the potential for very cute little blonde Ecklets with rhinoplastic trust funds, we tried to figure out if this "rumor" had any substance. More »
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Comment by Miss d: Um? Wasn't she pregnant last week? Those Tabs obviously don't read anything they've written once it clears their computer screens...... more » | Other threads
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Two-Face Ready For His 'Dark Knight' Close-Up; Prefers You Shoot Him From The Right
Many, including us, have been wondering out loud how Warner Bros. plans on addressing the unique (and thankfully so) marketing problem currently facing The Dark Knight: Namely, what to do about a campaign that took fiendish pleasure in showcasing Heath Ledger's singularly bleak and twisted take on iconic Batman villain the Joker. Slate now reports that the studio's plan, in place since the beginning but perhaps being ushered in more hastily since the actor's death, is to shift the focus over to the film's other featured villain: More »
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By SethComment by CapnCalamity: @LIttle Mintz Sunshine: I'm sure that should have read "Two-Face is in a love rectangle with Dawes and... more » | Other threads
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The Reeler reacts to yesterday's $1.25 million sale of The Aaron Eckhart Molests A 13-Year-Old Girl Project: "Think of it like Todd Solondz remaking Crash in a cul-de-sac, but with twice the tampons and a quarter of the self-respect. Ball makes Paul Haggis look like Robert Bresson. This prick couldn't direct traffic in a two-car garage. The hi-def cinematography is barely carpet-commercial grade, slumping into a blown-out honey hue recalling dive bar urinal spatter. The actors grimace through scene upon scene of button-pushing for button-pushing's sake, from bloody panties to competing American flags to adolescent strip/rape scenarios. So controversial, I know. Or maybe I'm the one being facile; do audiences still actually fall for this 'dark suburbia' boilerplate? Is Alan Ball that cynical, or are masturbating 13-year-olds browsing porn mags the newest, freshest angle in the Are You Shocked, America? How About Now? playbook?" [The Reeler] -
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Alan Ball Drama Gets Early Support For Feel-Awful Film Of 2007
Faster than you can say "Dakota Fanning Rape Project," the Toronto Film Festival screenings of Alan Ball's Nothing is Private should produce a level of buzz-building, pre-acquisition outrage unseen since the first reports that universally beloved/feared child star Fanning's cinematic virtue would be stolen at the 2006 edition of Sundance. Outraged Fox 411 gossip columnist Roger Friedman previews his early candidate for Feel-Awful Movie of 2007, in which Aaron Eckhart, perhaps overcompensating for the guilt of cashing his No Reservations paycheck, returns to the darker In the Company of Men/Your Friends & Neighbors material of his early career: More » -
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It may already be too late to save Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin from a regrettable Fanningization by the Hollywood machine: "'The greatest thing about Abigail is that she takes direction,' the hunky actor [Aaron Eckhart], who plays a lovable chef, told us. 'She's so smart. She understands the whole script thematically. Most child actors can't do that. They just recite lines their parents recite with them in the hotel room.'" [Rush & Molloy, 2nd item]
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By MarkComment by scroll_lock: Another child actor. Get the tiny coke pants ready. more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by raincoaster: So, if that's an ancient fertility god (doesn't it actually date to the 1600's?) wouldn't the donut's looming presence indicate... more » | Other threads
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hollywood privacywatch
Brett Ratner Takes Time Off From Busy Schedule To Enjoy Frozen Dairy Treat
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so them in often. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and tell everyone about the time you overhead Jessica Alba politely decline the styling assistance of a fellow Coffee Bean patron. More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Bruckheimer Getting Serious About Blowing Shit Up
ยท Generally satisfied to produce movies that explore the lighter side of blowing shit up, Jerry Bruckheimer (and Disney) have acquired the movie rights to Mark Bowden's Atlantic Monthly terrorism article "Jihadists in Paradise," plunging Bruck into much darker explosion-related territory. [Variety] More »
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By MarkComment by Jonny Bronson: And after the concert Al Gore will prevent equally convincing evidence that he did in fact reverse global warming by... more » | Other threads
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'The Black Dahlia' Aaron Heckhart Situation To Rock Online Advertising Community
Not since December's The 40-Year-Old Virgin Hyphen Affair have we stumbled across a movie promotion-related typographical error controversy as potentially explosive as the The Black Dahlia Aaron Heckhart Situation, in which the actor's name is clearly misspelled on banner advertisements our readers have spotted on both LATimes.com and, ahem, this very page [see above composite image]. Online advertising copy editors will be bludgeoned with laptops displaying Eckhart's IMDb page, phone calls fielded from CAA in which the phrase, "Aaron shits bigger than your stupid little period movie!" is angrily intoned, and burlap sacks brimming with defenseless kittens drowned in the L.A. river as apologetic offerings to offended parties. In the end, the typo will be fixed, but no one will ever be the same. More »
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