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19 Oct
| What a difference a week makes. |
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17 Oct
| While we were previously privy to a clip from Paul King’s Bunny and the Bull, the full trailer for the film has now been launched, and you can see it embedded below the break. This is the first film from the director of The Mighty Boosh and features several alumni of that show in the cast, including hipster heartthrobs Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding. It also looks rather like an episode of The Boosh, which isn’t a bad thing. Here’s the trailer: I’m expecting a great deal of you will be invoking the name of Michel Gondry now. Of course, while Gondry has a far wider aesthetic style on display across his oeuvre than the whole cardboard kaleidoscope thing, he has pretty much laid claim to that look entirely. This could be either a blessing or a curse for King. The official synopsis might help contextualise some of the more extraordinary effects in … |
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16 Oct
| Christopher Lloyd is a grump at Christmas – a year after playing miser Scrooge in a Los Angeles stage production of A Christmas Carol, he’s signed up to play The Grinch throughout the holiday period. |
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16 Oct
| We were confused about Jeremy Piven’s presence at the Monty Python 40th birthday bash in New York last night. |
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16 Oct
| Will Ferrell is set to star in a $10 million independent dramedy, Everything Must Go, based on a work by renown, late short story author Raymond Carver entitled “Why Don’t You Dance.” The project marks the feature debut of newcomer Dan Rush, a former commercials director whose screenplay for Everything was included on last year’s insidery Black List. Ferrell will play “a relapsed alcoholic” who loses his job, and naturally, his wife gives the heave-hoe too, leaving the character to launch a four-day yard sale on their lawn. The character’s main objective: generating quick beer money. Script Shadow via Playlist has called it his “favorite script” (ever?) and is totally perplexed at the casting. His worries revolve around a hypothetical that sees a studio re-cutting the film to heighten the comedic aspects. Shadow concludes with, “but there’s some real weight to this character and I think we’ve seen from Will Ferrell in the … |
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15 Oct
| So Liza Minnelli AND Barbra Streisand have been lined up for roles in the new Sex and the City movie — making the set a convention of the world’s biggest gay icons. |
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14 Oct
| Russell Brand and Katy Perry’s romance has been given the kiss of death, by the lothario funnyman’s burlesque-dancing ex. |
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13 Oct
| Whenever I go to screenings at the Boston Commons AMC theater, typically my post-screening ritual is to walk a couple of blocks to Boston’s version of Chinatown and dine at one of their fine hole-in-the-wall establishments. On one of these occasions, I happened to strike up a conversation with an older gentleman sitting across from me and I quickly discovered that not only was he a cinematographer, but he had worked on some of the most financially and critically successful films of the past few decades. He was currently in Boston to do some shooting on James Mangold’s new action comedy, then known as Wichita, starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Of course, when I tried to tell people that I had met the cinematographer from Wichita, most of them responded by giving me a bizarre look and asking, “What movie?” I don’t think the working title Wichita has ever been … |
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12 Oct
| [Update:The real trailer is now online at MySpace. You can check out the embed below, or head there for an HD version.] I’m sure this isn’t meant to be on YouTube quite yet, but the full Toy Story 3 trailer is up now…we’ll see how long this version lasts. But while it does, the trailer looks and sounds great, even to an old Randy Newman-dismissing curmudgeon like me. Check it out after the jump. If you’ve not been following news on the film, it has been fairly well-known that the story would follow what happens to Woody, Buzz and the other toys when Andy goes to college and his old box of toys is donated to a day-care center. That’s the basic thrust of this trailer: we get a nice little time-capsule montage of the toys’ life with young Andy, and then a cut to a really beautifully animated version of young … |
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12 Oct
| Little Samuel Black looks awfully serious, for someone who’s dad is one of the funniest men in Hollywood. |
