If you thought that Will Smith’s trailer on the set of Men in Black 3 was ridiculous, wait until you see the actual trailer trailer for the film itself. The nonsensical first preview for the series’ third installment is officially released, prompting the tired sighs of millions still reeling from the garbage-strike pile-up known as New Year’s Eve . A perfectly fine way for Hollywood to further bruise your memory of a perfectly fine blockbuster and remind you beyond the shadow of a doubt that it’s Monday. Submit .
The stakes are higher and the villains far more treacherous (Moriarty!), but everything in Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows is of a piece with the 2009 predecessor that introduced Robert Downey Jr. ‘s turn as the titular OCD turn of the century sleuth. For director Guy Ritchie it’s felt like one long evolution from the days of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels ; now, at the helm of his biggest film to date — which features some of the most innovative action sequences of the season — Ritchie is firmly in his wheelhouse. As he told Movieline recently in Los Angeles, “I enjoy playing in a bigger sandbox… and I enjoy having powerful friends to help me manifest a vision.”
What the saying again? You can fool some moviegoers all the time and all moviegoers some of the time, but you can’t fool all of them all the time? Something like that — maybe we should ask Warner Bros., Garry Marshall and all the stars stuffed so ruthlessly into New Year’s Eve , who recycled the model that earned the aromatic Valentine’s Day a $56 million opening weekend and found less than a third of that crowd ready to fall for it again. Still, it will be enough for first place on a pillow-soft weekend. Your Friday Box Office is here.
Are you really sure that you want to spend $10 this weekend on a ticket to see Garry Marshall’s bloated holiday rom-com New Year’s Eve ? (That’s $10 plus the cost of whatever fast food therapy you seek immediately afterward to numb the pain and emptiness you feel after seeing Robert De Niro play a dying man whose only wish is to see the ball drop one more time.) If you think you are, then click through these 10 distressing stills from the set of the ensemble film as a last-minute test. If you get through them without breaking into dry heaves or mild sweats, you’re ready to see New Year’s Eve at the multiplex. Good luck!
Happy Friday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: The Dark Knight Rises prologue peeks out… Ice Cube recycles some new Friday sequel hype… Guy Ritchie may cry U.N.C.L.E. … Arguably the most inspired Harrison Ford casting rumor ever… and more.
Docmaker Frederick Wiseman is legendary for his epic verite studies of institutions and the people who create, inhabit and/or operate them. He and his Zipporah Films banner are not quite as well-known for scandalously marketing said studies. But that was all before he made Crazy Horse , his all-access, skin-baring glimpse behind the scenes of the world’s most famous nude cabaret.
Some movies come directly to you, begging for your attention if not demanding it outright. And other movies sit still and quiet even as they hold out a hand, beckoning you closer until you’ve been drawn in almost in spite of yourself. Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Spy , an adaptation of John Le Carré’s 1974 novel, is the latter type.
It may not be Halloween but some of Hollywood’s best and brightest stars dressed up as film’s most notorious villains as part of a wonderful new New York Times gallery entitled “Vamps, Crooks and Killers.” Click through to see Pitt, Clooney and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star Rooney Mara channel some of the most deranged movie madmen.
‘Twilight’ stars, plus Daniel Radcliffe, Anne Hathaway and others, make ‘Hollywood’s Best Actors for the Buck’ list. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images It wasn’t too long ago that Forbes declared Eddie Murphy and Drew Barrymore box-office poison, but there’s better news this week for actors like Kristen Stewart , Robert Pattinson and Daniel Radcliffe , just to name a few. The young Hollywood heavyweights top the money magazine’s Hollywood’s Best Actors for the Buck list of stars, which weighs the actors’ salaries against their movies’ box-office return on investment. With three weeks at the top of the box office for “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1,” it’s no surprise that the “Twilight” stars have landed on the list. Stewart, whose films earn $55.83 for every $1 she’s paid according to Forbes, sits at the top of the list. Pattinson sits at #3 because, the magazine argues, “he has branched out more, so only one of his ‘Twilight’ films is eligible for this list.” “Eclipse” was the only “Twilight” film the magazine counted for Pattinson, alongside films like “Water for Elephants” and “Remember Me.” His films earn $39.43 for every $1 he’s paid. Anne Hathaway sits in between the two “Twilight” stars at #2. For every $1 she’s paid, her films, including “Alice in Wonderland,” earn back $45.67. “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe ranks at #4 on the list. For every $1 he’s paid, his films earn back $34.24. Rounding out the top five is “Transformers” star Shia LaBeouf. His films earn back $29.40 for every $1 he makes. Rounding out the top 10 are “Iron Man” and “Sherlock Holmes” star Robert Downey Jr. ($18.74 for every $1), Matt Damon ($15.83 for every $1), Cate Blanchett ($15.17 for every $10), Meryl Streep ($13.54 for every $10) and “Pirates of the Caribbean” star Johnny Depp ($12.48 for every $1). For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: Robert Pattinson MTV Rough Cut: Kristen Stewart
You only have to wait four and a half more months until you rally your book club for an opening night screening of the latest Nicholas Sparks adaptation , The Lucky One . In a new featurette for the movie — which shares enough striking similarities to The Notebook to list after the jump — star Zac Efron wonders aloud about love, destiny and other people’s favorite books in between shots of him wooing Taylor Schilling onscreen.
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