Happy Friday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Isla Fisher is in talks for some magic… Harlan Ellison wants to stop the new Justin Timberlake film from opening (or at least get paid)… Lionsgate wants an Abduction franchise… Cannibal Holocaust ‘s director has a few regrets… and more.
Happy Thursday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Gatsby goes Bollywood … An avant-garde legend passes away … Steven Spielberg takes on a partner for Robopocalypse … Hollywood’s latest plastic-surgery nightmare fuel … and more.
The new international poster of Tower Heist positions Brett Ratner’s vindictive ensemble atop a skyscraper where they pose like cool TJ Maxx models. Confession: I can’t wait to see this movie (and, particularly, Alan Alda’s bastardly turn in it), and I think it’ll be the breakout hit of November. I apologize, Albert Nobbs !
Happy Tuesday! Also in this edition of The Broadsheet: Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme get Expendable … Will Noah Baumbach and HBO make Corrections ? … Colin Firth is sick of Hollywood treating you like and idiot … and more…
Also in this Monday edition of The Broadsheet: Gambler writer James Toback is not pleased with the planned remake… Zoe Saldana gets angel wings… Sin City 2 finds a tough screenwriter… and more ahead.
I know what you’re thinking: Fall? Already? Didn’t we just have a Summer Preview ? Well, kind of! But time flies, and as such, Movieline’s 2011 Fall Preview is here.
With his latest film, the well-received four and a half-hour opus The Mysteries of Lisbon , still in theaters stateside, Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz has passed away in Paris following a lung infection. The director, who had made over 100 films in his nearly five-decade career, was 70.
If you’re already sick of seeing the same cheery holiday movie previews (and that would be unfortunate since it’s only August), behold: a yuletide trailer that will get your cynical juices flowing. How am I so sure? Because Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas offers the only preview clip in the history of man (and movie trailers) to begin with the words, “I shot Santa Claus in the face. He’s real and I shot him in the face.” Jump ahead to watch the stoner-on-Santa violence and to see what happens when Neil Patrick Harris runs into Jesus Christ at a bar. (It’s hilarious, I assure you).
Also in this Thursday edition of The Broadsheet: Mark Wahlberg could pick up Two Guns … there’s actually a congressman who thinks Kathryn Bigelow got classified information for her Osama bin Laden film… Morgan Freeman, outcast magician… and more ahead.
It’s fitting that on the weekend of Comic-Con, a comic book character took the top spot at the box office. In what could be considered a bit of an upset — though not really a huge upset — Captain America: First Avenger easily defeated Harry Potter to win the weekend crown. It wasn’t all bad news for the Boy Who Lived: The Deathly Hallows Part 2 grabbed runner-up honors, and continued to plow forward on its way to becoming the biggest hit of 2011. And, hey: Friends with Benefits didn’t do too bad either! Your weekend receipts have arrived.