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Tom Cruise Hasn't Met a Script He Hasn't Asked to Be Rewritten
There is little good news anymore. Today Angelina Jolie signs a pact with the devil, as does Walgreens. Tom Cruise can't pick good scripts, and Dimension keeps puttering along. More »
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Comment by mslewis: Well, I really don't like Patricia Cornwell's "Scarpetti" novels because they're too graphic; but I do love Angelina Jolie so... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Mickey Rourke's paycheck: less than 1/3 of Charlie Sheen's. [/film]
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Samuel L. Jackson Wants His Motherfucking Self Off This Motherfucking 'Iron Man' Sequel
It's a bad time to be a Marvel movie actor, unless you're Robert Downey Jr. (or Gwyneth Paltrow, who'd be the first to say that it is always a good time to be Gwyneth Paltrow). More »
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Comment by Old No.7: I am sick and tired of these muthafuckin' egos on these muthafuckin' actors!!! 2 Responses | Other threads
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'Captain America' One Director Closer To Reality
· Just in time for the Re-Branding of the U.S.A.™: Effects legend and The Wolf Man director Joe Johnston has been hired to direct First Avenger: Captain America. [THR] More » -
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Spiteful 'Iron Man' Producers: We Never Liked Terrence Howard Anyway
When it was announced that Don Cheadle would be taking on Terrence Howard's role in Iron Man 2, a simple explanation of "financial differences" (as well as an inability to get the War Machine costume sufficiently baby-wiped) was all that was forthcoming from the filmmakers' side. Then, Howard spoke to NPR and compared the Marvel braintrust to a non-singing network of pimps, forcing the filmmaking team to take the gloves off. Now, in a discussion with EW, sources close to Marvel and director Jon Favreau leaked the real details behind Howard's firing, and they involve bad acting and one very surprising salary: More »
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Comment by rono3849: It appears that Mr Favreau is quite the racist. Terrence Howard was nominated for an Oscar. I think he's a... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Terrence Howard At Peace With 'Pimps' Who Cut Him Out of 'Iron Man 2'
In an appearance Saturday on NPR's Weekend Edition, Terrence Howard interrupted his discussion of his new album with a Zen meditation on his recent departure from the Iron Man franchise. And if it seemed unusual last week that Howard might bow out of the blockbuster's sequel, leaving his role as Tony Stark confidante Jim Rhodes (and his own heroic alter-ego War Machine) to the capable, cheaper hands of Don Cheadle, the scenario didn't get any clearer as the actor wavered between the high road and calling Marvel Studios a scandalous gang of thieves and pimps: More »
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By STVComment by Mark 2000: Don Cheadle is cheaper? And he's a better actor too. Good for Marvel. 2 Responses | Other threads
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Own 'Iron Man' For the Low, Low Price of $499 (Plus Shipping)
· In what's being labeled as an effort to snag iTunes marketshare, Dell will give PC buyers the option to preload Iron Man on its new computers. Before you laugh: That incursion is being led by a man with whom Apple settled a wrongful-termination lawsuit in 2005. Never underestimate a software-wonk scorned. [THR] More »
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31.7 Million 'Idol' Fans Could Possibly Be Wrong
· After a season of slumping ratings, Idol's finale matched last year's, pulling in an estimated 31.7 million viewers—roughly the same number of people who revisited their own gag reflexes upon hearing Mike Myers's pedophilic suggestion the David Archuleta would soon sprout "hair in weird and wonderful places." [Variety] More »
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By SethComment by misterdirk: Myers comment is sick and inappropriate. Archie's Dad is probably slumber-spooning him right now, you know, to comfort him. more » | Other threads
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The Schlub Factor (And Four Other Reasons 'Iron Man' Struck Box Office Gold)
We assumed in last week's Defamer Attractions column that $75 million opening-weekend estimates seemed awfully conservative for Iron Man, but even our $90 million forecast undershot the film's $100.7 million three-day take. (It was $104.2 million if you count Thursday night previews, and more than $200 million globally.) Aside from the obligatory splash for any early-summer tentpole, we're surprised observers didn't see the finely calibrated alchemy that Marvel and Paramount used to spin its Iron into box office gold: More »
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By STVComment by TheQuestion: @SugitaTrigeminus: Let me interject something here from an unabashed fanboy: both of the last 2 posters have good points. Gwyneth's... more » | Other threads
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Whither Our Superheroines? An Outraged Culture Demands To Know
In all the drama surrounding Edward Norton's Hulk trouble and Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr.'s gloriously checkered past, we've overlooked one of the more conspicuous problems afflicting this summer's superhero glut. To wit: Where are all the women? Are there any comics featuring female heroes whom some studio will take a chance shepherding to the screen? At least one commentator shares our concern at Vulture, and the prognosis isn't looking good: More »
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By STVComment by juniperjenny: Cough...self-promotion...ahem. I'm working on a superheroine series based on this: www.myspace.com/silversparrow www.youtube.com/silversparrowtv Wonder Woman is boring...something about her being a goddess give... more » | Other threads
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Edward Norton Enters The 'Denial' Phase Of Grieving For 'The Incredible Hulk'
Defamer HQ opens for business this morning with an apology to newly non-difficult Edward Norton, whose squabbles with Marvel and Universal over The Incredible Hulk appear to have been blown out of proportion by a naturally overzealous press. Via Entertainment Weekly, Norton himself went public for the first time this week to shout "Piffle!" at the accounts of acrimony dug up by Nikki Finke and The New York Times (and dutifully passed on by us); lest we risk decontextualization of any of his precious 257 words, we now pass along his full statement and more of our own profuse contrition after the jump: More »
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By STVComment by Dusty in the Wind: Prepare, then, for The Incredible Sulk. more » | Other threads
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Carolyn Strauss Calved At HBO
· HBO shakes things up in their original series development department, moving longtime president Carolyn Strauss into a new, not-quite-fired-but-let's- see-what-some-new-blood- can-do-about- never-letting- John From Cincinnati -happen-again position. [Variety] More » -
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'The Incredible Hulk' Trailer Offers Promise Of Giant, Green, Angry Thing
The just-released trailer for The Incredible Hulk shows few signs of the shocking truth—splashed across the pages of The Finkeian Tattler—about the power-play going on behind the scenes. (For the uninitiated: Ed Norton has been offering up his creative point of view, which differs slightly from that of the 1200 other cooks required to make a superhero blockbuster. We know! Entirely shocking!) Based on these two-minutes of footage, it seems the touchy-feely beast of Ang Lee's version, weighed down with boring daddy-issues and roaming the streets of San Francisco like an HGH-abusing Gumby, has been replaced with something a little more in line with what Hulk fanatics expect from their gamma-ray-enhanced avocado-beasts. GRAGGGHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!! More » -
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Putting A Sleepy Sundance To Bed
· As a disappointing™ Sundance limps towards the finish line, buyers are proving immune to the charms of Big Name Stars like Robert DeNiro and Tom Hanks, whose films (What Just Happened and The Great Buck Howard) have "held all of the appeal of three-day-old fish." [Variety] More » -
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Marvel Children's Underwear Line Instantly Conjures Icky Connotations In Our Current Era Of Lost Innocence
For a generation of Americans too young to remember the heyday of Underoos, and for whom the once seemingly infinite universe of character-licensed underthings is now limited to the occasional SpongeBob Square Boxers or Bratz 'My First Falsies' Pre-Training Bra, today brings exciting news: Marvel and Fruit of the Loom have reached a deal to plaster the image familiar Marvel Studios characters on children's underwear: More » -
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Fox And Marvel Announce 'Magneto: The Early, Nazi-Hunting Years'
Fox and Marvel have announced they will be spinning off an X-Men character into his own movie. Not Wolverine, however, which is still listed as in development, but telepathic metal manipulator Magneto:
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Edward Norton To Spend Three Months Of 'Research' Covered In Green Body Paint And Grunting In Front Of A Mirror
In what is easily the most unexpected superhero casting news since it was announced in September that Robert Downey, Jr. would be donning Iron Man's exoskeleton, Variety reports that fellow card-carrying Serious Actor Edward Norton has signed on for an Incredible Hulk sequel planned for release next summer: More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Will Smith Options Monotonously Uplifiting Story Of Crack-Slinging Gourmet Chef
· Superhero icon Captain America, who somehow survived a near-fatal movie adaptation back in 1990, was not so lucky after being struck by a sniper's bullet in the latest issue of his comic book. [Variety] More »
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By MarkComment by SugartitsMcFirecrotch: Then, I suppose he could be Paul "McBadassy" Adelstein - although I liked him better in his "McWrigley" role from... more » | Other threads
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Trade Round-Up: The Hulk Vs. Iron Man Vs. Batman
Marvel plans to clog the summer of 2008—which may already feature the next Batman movie— with its superhero fare by setting a June 27th date for its Hulk sequel, which will arrive just two months after May 2's Iron Man release. [Variety] More » -
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'Mutant' New Synonym For 'Brokeback'
The ongoing X-Men saga has basically been one long, overreaching superhero allegory for growing up gay in an unwelcoming world: Imagine Brokeback Mountain, but replace Jack and Ennis' forbidden love with the mutant ability to singe sheep with their eye-lasers. With Hollywood's hottest new web presence Brett Ratner's third installment, X-Men: The Last Stand (you can view the trailer here), the metaphor reaches its natural conclusion: the "curing" of these mutant teens of what makes them different. In a roundtable discussion on SciFi.com featuring the film's leads, things got rather heated between Ian McKellen and co-star Hugh Jackman when Jackman argued that perhaps curing one's self of mutation isn't necessarily such a bad thing: More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Heath Ledger Hottest Gay Cowboy At Telluride
· Variety proclaims that actors, not directors, are creating all the buzz at the Telluride film festival, with Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener in Capote, Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line, and Heath Ledger and a pair of sexy chaps in gay cowboy flick Brokeback Mountain among the standouts. [Variety] More »
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