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Jerry Lewis Takes the Temperature of Hollywood, Humanity

Posted on July 29, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Hollywood veteran Jerry Lewis dropped this bit of real talk on assembled television journalists during the Encore portion of the TCA press tour on Friday: “The industry has destroyed themselves. It’s no longer relevant because it puts out all of its product on a stupid phone. You’re going to put Lawrence of Arabia on that goddamned stupid son of a bitch? [Twitter and Facebook are] wonderful technical advances, but once people see how much it’s cluttering their life, they’ll figure it out for themselves. We’re not going to have human beings in 20 years. People won’t be talking to other human beings.” Happy Friday? [ Deadline ]

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First Trespass Poster: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman Battle Invaders, Release Strategy

Posted on July 28, 2011 by | Leave a comment

It’s been a little more than a month since Millennium Entertainment picked up the thriller Trespass , which stars Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as a couple defending their home against a ruthless gang of home invaders. Last week, very quietly, the company appears to have distributed the first poster for Joel Schumacher’s film. But when does intend to distribute the actual film ?

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REVIEW: Miranda July Looks Into The Future and Sees a Talking Cat (Among Other Things)

Posted on July 28, 2011 by | Leave a comment

A not-uncommon prologue: Miranda July drives me crazy, in the best and worst ways. Whether I’m watching her films, reading her stories, or taking a crack at her various, Web-documented performances pieces, I can’t seem to get off the fence. I want to get off the fence. I want it so badly that attached to every primary response — every swing across the fence and back again — I experienced while watching The Future , the plangent follow-up to her 2005 feature debut, Me and You and Everyone We Know , was the secondary desire to shoulder-pin myself there, if only for clarity’s sake. What seems most difficult to accept and so tremendously inconvenient to her appeal is that the talking cat — or whatever other of her grindingly earnest narrative totems — is not negotiable; it’s not even regrettable. If you want Miranda July, you want the talking cat.

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Yes, Olivia Wilde, You May Also Play Linda Lovelace

Posted on July 28, 2011 by | Leave a comment

If I’m not forgetting anyone, Olivia Wilde is now the third person who may play Linda Lovelace in an upcoming biopic of the late porn actress. According to Wilde, she’s considering taking the title role in Lovelace , helmed by Oscar-winning codirectors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. “It would be a tremendous honor,” she said to E! . “She was a fascinating woman–with where she came from to Deep Throat to then working with Gloria Steinem and Nora Ephron. It’s really fascinating.” No, this has nothing to do with the Malin Akerman/ex-Lindsay Lohan project Inferno , but it is the one that was recently offered to a pregnant Kate Hudson. Which of these ladies would be best?

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Tom Hardy Compares His Dark Knight Rises Role to a Store at the Airport

Posted on July 27, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Over the weekend at Comic-Con , Tom Hardy described his villainous role as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises thusly: “You deal with something Dark Knight — or Mad Max , or Superman or Spider-Man , whatever — it’s like going to work in an airport and going, ‘Hi I’m over here!’ and then everybody goes ‘Oh here’s that, that’s the villain of the piece.’ Then it’s a thousand people going to Duty-Free. Like, [shouting] ‘I AM THE VILLAIN !’ and make a lot of noise.” But wait, there’s more!

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In Honor of Kevin Smith’s Pilot, 5 Filmmakers We’d Rather See Host a Talk Show

Posted on July 27, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Today, Vulture reported that outspoken filmmaker , discriminated plane passenger and interview over-sharer Kevin Smith is developing a half-hour syndicated talk show. Which is fine, and honestly, a naturally-fitting format for Smith. No disrespect to Smith — even if we did once resolve to silence him by wiring shut his mouth — but he already has podcast and Twitter platforms to preach from, and we’d rather see a few other filmmakers host a talk show first. Take a look at our suggestions and share your own in the comment section below.

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Exclusive Image and L.A. Screening for Oscilloscope’s Apocalyptic Love Story, Bellflower

Posted on July 26, 2011 by | Leave a comment

First time writer-director Evan Glodell spent years obsessing over his feature debut Bellflower , a raw tale of love, betrayal, and apocalyptic-level emotional tumult set among a group of near-nihilistic twenty-somethings in Southern California. (Part of that obsession? Custom-building the badass, fire-breathing Mother Medusa muscle car , which figures into the film.) After the jump, see a new exclusive image from Bellflower and find out how you can see it in Los Angeles before it opens on Aug. 5.

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VIDEO: Steve Carell Wants His Head to Look Huge on Crazy Stupid Love Posters

Posted on July 26, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Ever wonder why some actors appear comically oversized next to their castmates on movie posters? It could have something to do with each actors’ popularity, billing or — as evidenced by a new Funny or Die video featuring Steve Carell — strict contractual demands. Watch the former Office star fight for prime positioning on the Crazy Stupid Love poster (“Would you rather see Ryan Gosling’s face or mine?”) based on an argument that involves pancakes, Seth Rogen and hilarious never-before-seen artwork for Carell’s first feature, Curly Sue .

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Captain America’s Opening Weekend Wasn’t Bigger Than Thor

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Not unexpected , but slightly disappointing nonetheless: according to final box office numbers released on Monday, Captain America: First Avenger did not have the biggest opening weekend of any superhero film released in 2011. That title still belongs to Thor — the Norse god earned almost $700,000 more than Captain America did during his initial frame. On the bright side, here’s guessing plucky underdog Steve Rogers wouldn’t have it any other way. [ LAT /Company Town ]

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Watch VFX Expert Freddie Play Cowboys & Aliens with Jon Favreau

Posted on July 25, 2011 by | Leave a comment

In today’s installment of Cowboys and Aliens and Strange Web Featurettes , Chinese-American filmmaker and visual effects guru Freddie Wong draws his pistols in the robotized Old West with Jon Favreau. Make sense to you? No? Watch, gawp, and smear yourself with chocolate sauce blood.

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