Mike Vick is going to be getting that Jets gwap. Mike Vick Signs With The Jets Looks like America has finally forgiven Mike. According to NY Daily News: Mark Sanchez knew this day was coming even as he wished in a strange sort of way that it wouldn’t. There was no shock when the Jets officially released him on Friday, no disbelief when the organization ended a strange five-year relationship with their erstwhile Golden Boy. The Jets also officially signed Michael Vick, the team announced via Twitter. The Jets moved on many months ago, filed Sanchez neatly away into the past as they crossed their fingers that the new kid taking his place will be the real deal. Sanchez had his shot. They had no use for him anymore. The NFL is giving Mike another chance to be great. Let’s hope he can do just that.
The breasteros of Westeros are back! The highly anticipated third season of Game of Thrones premiered on the boob tub last night, and did not disappoint on the skin front with an amazing topless scene from British model Elisa Lasowski . Elisa continued the long and celebrated tradition of topless prostitute sexposition for the scintillating series. Meanwhile on Shameless , Emma Greenwell was also baring boobage to grab the attention of her erstwhile man. He was suspiciously uninterested in her advances, but hey, we’re always up to take a look! See pics after the jump!
Continuing along the theme of projects that make you feel unsafe within the confines of your own house/cabin/local bed and breakfast, Innkeepers director Ti West has been tapped to script Bedbugs , adapted from Ben H. Winters’ 2011 novel of the same name. The tale follows a woman who moves into the perfect Brooklyn brownstone with her family, only to be plagued by an infestation of bugs … that only seem to be biting her. Is your skin crawling yet? West, who also has Liv Tyler signed for his next directing project The Side Effect , previously wrote and directed 2005’s The Roost , 2007’s Trigger Man , his 2009 breakout horror House of the Devil , the disavowed Cabin Fever 2 , and his haunted hotel tale The Innkeepers , and contributed shorts to the forthcoming horror anthologies V/H/S and The ABCs of Death . The psychological horror of Bedbugs , meanwhile, drew comparisons to Rosemary’s Baby upon publishing last year. Take a look at the book trailer for Bedbugs for a general taste of the “urban paranoia” at hand. Though no director has yet been set for the film, you can at least count on West to pen better atmospherics than the infomercial-grade scares seen here. The book’s synopsis, via Amazon: FOR RENT: Top two floors of beautifully renovated brownstone, 1300 sq. ft., 2BR 2BA, eat-in kitchen, one block to parks and playgrounds. No broker’s fee. Susan and Alex Wendt have found their dream apartment. Sure, the landlady is a little eccentric. And the elderly handyman drops some cryptic remarks about the basement. But the rent is so low, it’s too good to pass up. Big mistake. Susan soon discovers that her new home is crawling with bedbugs . . . or is it? She awakens every morning with fresh bites, but neither Alex nor their daughter Emma has a single welt. An exterminator searches the property and turns up nothing. The landlady insists her building is clean. Susan fears she’s going mad—until a more sinister explanation presents itself: she may literally be confronting the bedbug problem from Hell. [via Deadline ]
Promoting his indie genre-bender Detention today in Los Angeles (in theaters Friday), Hunger Games star Josh Hutcherson found himself in the line of questioning about the much-discussed ambiguity surrounding director Gary Ross ‘s potential return to the franchise. “I think Gary’s the man,” he diplomatically told The Hollywood Reporter . “Gary is in my mind is the only one that could ever direct the second one. That’s what I’m sticking to.” ( UPDATE : Looks like Hutcherson’ll have to readjust his thinking – Ross is officially out of the running for Catching Fire .) Also speaking with ComingSoon , the erstwhile Peeta Mellark stood his ground on Team Ross. “He killed the first one, absolutely knocked it out of the park. Everyone loved him. Myself, Jennifer and the others loved him. I couldn’t imagine making another movie without him, so that’s what I have to say about that.” Ross is still reportedly hashing out the Catching Fire gig with Lionsgate despite suggestions that the two had reached an impasse in negotiations. For the time being, the studio isn’t quite ready to pull a Catherine Hardwicke and announce the search for a new franchise director. But the clock is still ticking, especially if the next book in Suzanne Collins’ bestselling Hunger Games series is set to begin filming later this summer… [ THR , ComingSoon ]
Twit wit welcomes you to its grimmest weekend yet: This week’s new movie slate includes The Sitter (blech) and New Year’s Eve (THUNDER BLECH ). Luckily, Twitter’s finest came out to snark at the offerings, and five of them were bold enough to make our chart. Click through for the shakedown.
A windfall of accolades, honors, plaudits and other year-end superlatives swept film culture over the weekend, with voting bodies including AFI and three major regional critics groups announcing their awards for 2011. And while it may not be enough to dramatically shake up the Oscar Index , voices have been heard and impacts have been made. Read on for six quick first impressions, a full rundown of winners and (hopefully) your take on where things stand.
With the nasty back and forth between William Shatner and Carrie Fisher arguing the eternal question — Star Wars or Star Trek? — it seemed peace was all but a fantasy in the world of science fiction. Enter George Takei, the erstwhile Mr. Sulu and the voice of reason in this galaxy-splitting debate, to unite both fandoms in the hatred of their “ominous, mutual enemy” — Twilight . “And it is really, really bad.”
Quite likely cinema’s first Shakespearean conspiracy thriller-meets-royal romance fable, Anonymous features Rhys Ifans as Edward De Vere — the Duke of Oxford long considered a front-runner for having authored many (if not all) of the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. It’s a role that even the charismatic Welsh actor wasn’t sure he would lock down before encountering director Roland Emmerich, the erstwhile apocalypse visionary whose boldness made a fine complement to Ifans’s own.
It’s not just Twilight star Taylor Lautner who has a lot riding on this week’s PG-13 action thriller Abduction , in which the erstwhile Jacob Black plays a suave teenager who turns spy-on-the-run after discovering his life has been a lie. Director John Singleton has something to prove with his first directorial effort since Four Brothers , even if he exudes nothing but confidence while discussing the high-octane action pic.
At the TCA panels in Beverly Hills a few weeks ago, Movieline talked with Dana Delany (the erstwhile Desperate Housewives star who toplines the new ABC medical examiner drama Body of Proof ) about three of our favorite things: dealing with dead bodies, losing on Celebrity Jeopardy! , and her choicest film scene of all time.
