Everyone who’s ever loved a car — a beat-up Plymouth junker, a pristine ’67 Mustang, a Hot Wheels Corvette Stingray, it doesn’t matter — knows that cars have personalities of their own. But one of the nice things about cars is that they generally express their feelings in mechanical, comprehensible terms: The need for an oil change has nothing to do with deep-rooted insecurities. Cars don’t need a lot from us, emotionally speaking.
You know how David Wain was toying with the idea of directing a Wet Hot American Summer prequel in which all of the middle-aged cast members appear as 16-year-olds? Well, that project may not just be another sequel pipe dream because five of the original film’s actors have already agreed to return to Camp Firewood.
A lesser person would make a joke about Hailee Steinfeld finding her Romeo . Fear not, though; you’re in good hands. Variety reports that Douglas Booth has been cast in the upcoming adaptation of Romeo & Juliet from Gosford Park writer Julian Fellowes. The 19-year-old reportedly beat out 300 other actors for the chance to call Juliet the sun. Congrats, handsome! Steinfeld, Holly Hunter, Ed Westwick and Kodi Smit-McPhee round out the motley crew of a cast. [ Variety ]
Beloved former Wire star Idris Elba has been circling many major Hollywood project in recent months, and it looks like he finally bagged one. Deadline reports that Elba — last seen onscreen as Heimdall in Thor — has landed the lead role opposite Charlie Hunnam in Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi blockbuster Pacific Rim . Fabulous! But what does this mean for Django Unchained ?
Filmography Movies Release Date Title 10 July 2009 Candy Rain Television series Year Name Network 1999 The Car Is In Pursuit (車正在追) PTS 2003 Westside Story (西街少年) SETTV 2004 La Robe de Mariee des Cieux (天國的嫁衣) CTS/SETTV 2006 Smiling Pasta (微笑 Pasta) TTV/SETTV 2009 Momo Love (桃花小妹) CTV/GTV 2011 Love Keeps Going (美樂。加油) GTV Music videos * “DaDaDa” MV – features Danson Tang * “Degenerate” MV by Jones Shi * “Love’s Option” MV by Zhang Yun Jing Endorsements * 2003 Purism, Kiss
Every now and then a movie hits the big screen that makes you laugh, cry and ponder. It steals about two hours of your life and holds onto it for a lifetime. While I didn’t cry over the Wayans Brothers’ Don’t Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood I did laugh until my kidneys felt like they would burst. It was one of the moments in black cinema when poking fun at our own culture and blockbuster history was done perfectly and perfectly acceptable. The Wayans brothers released this hood classic in 1996 spoofing popular movies: Juice , Jungle Fever , South Central , Higher Learning , Do The Right Thing , Poetic Justice , New Jack City , Dead Presidents , Friday , Boyz N the Hood and Menace II Society. It was written by Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans and Phil Beauman and produced by Keenen Ivory Wayans. Don’t Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood grossed close to $40,000,000. Ash Tray and Loc Dog embarked on a typical day of being black in the hood and all the mayhem that could incur there after. Being Black On A Friday Night: “I hate black pepper!” Toothpick Straight Out Of Jail: “Take me to jail, and lock me up, throw away the key, I ain’t afraid to f*ck somebody in his a**” Ghetto Pastor & Church: “Dont ask how come or why come the pastor have to have him a nice house, or why the pastor got him a nice car” Staying Strapped In the Hood: “Do we have a problem?” Getting “Jumped” Into A Gang: “If you fall, you better pick yo’ a** up!” Getting Jumped In The Hood: “But I do!” The Love Scene: “That’s the baby’s lunch!” Loc Gets A Job: “I heard ya’ll n*ggas is hiring…Wassup?” No Positive Black Women In Movies: “I can’t teach you how to be a man” Doing hair in the kitchen: “Take yo a** down to them and let them f*ck yo’ head up!” Grandma Gets Knocked Out “Damn them fake teeth” Black Man Loving White Meat: “Tap that white girl, for me” I Got These Cheeseburgers: “You got any spare change?” The Man Is Out To Get Black People[Literally] “THE MANNN…” Leave your favorite scenes in the comments section…
Before Twilight , Summit Entertainment was a small studio you never heard of; Open Road is hoping to follow the same path. The distribution company founded by AMC and Regal Theaters has acquired Stephenie Meyer’s The Host , which has Saoirse Ronan already lined up as star in a dual-role. Andrew Niccol is set to direct. Twi-hards, get excited! [ Deadline ]
Hellboy comic creator Mike Mignola is shedding doubt on the possibility for a Hellboy III , suggesting that director Guillermo del Toro is quite unlikely to get around it. “Last I heard he said he would not make it,” Mignola said at the Calgary Comics Expo. “Guillermo — who I love — in every interview there’s a new story on what his next movie is and he honestly believes he’s going to do all these things….I’m not surprised because he won’t live long enough to do a tenth of the movies he’s told me he’s going to make.” In the immediate future, del Toro will film Pacific Rim . [ Cinema Blend ]
Hollywood legend Warren Beatty caused quite a stir two weeks ago at the Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Film Festival when he teased the possibility of a sequel to Dick Tracy . “I’m gonna make another one,” he said. Though maybe “another one” was simply code for another movie . For the first time since the disastrous Town & Country was released in 2001, Beatty has another film project in the works.
Both of the competing Snow White studio flicks are racing to the box office as we speak, but Universal’s revisionist take has scored the latest blow, casting Ian McShane as the leader of the dwarfs. (If you can’t keep your Snow Whites straight, this is the one with Kristen Stewart as the titular princess and Chris Hemsworth as the killer huntsman who aids her, with Charlize Theron as the evil queen.) Get to dream casting McShane’s remaining dirty half-dozen dwarfs! [ THR ]
