As Billy Crystal teased on The Daily Show earlier this week, his latest project is actually a trip back to one of his most beloved past projects. Nope, not Monsters University ; When Harry Met Sally 2 ! Before you curl up into the fetal position and start to weep however, note that When Harry Met Sally 2 is nothing more than a four-minute Funny or Die spoof. And a great one at that. Click ahead to watch the NSFW fun.
Actor Terrence Howard , who is currently playing District Attorney Joe Dekker on Law & Order: SVU , took a break from taping to offer his thoughts on racism and the judicial system. “As long as there are humans on the planet there will be some sense of racism until everybody looks exactly the same” he begins. “Which we will never…” He goes on to speak on the the role plays in racism and the importance of addressing the topic in a public forum like a television show. In an up-coming episode Dekker’s cousin is accused of raping a woman and he must defend him. In taking the case he finds out that his aunt was raped by The Klan in the 1960s. “The rapes that occurred in the civil rights activist era against young African-American women, who through no fault of their own [were] gang raped by white men and then discredited by calling them prostitutes, people got away with that for years and it’s contributed to our lack of faith in our judicial system today. It will be hundreds of years before the ugly markers of those actions are done away with.” LAW & ORDER: LOS ANGELES returns next Monday, April 11th RELATED POSTS: Terrence Howard’s Wife Files For Divorce Top 10 Black Sports Movies Of All Time Get A Sneak Peek At Jennifer Hudson & Terrence Howard In “Winnie” [VIDEO]
Hesher has now played Sundance 2010 and SXSW 2011, and it’s still not entirely clear when we’ll get to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt play a pyromaniac nihilist who reunites a family for ourselves. The official site still just says “coming soon,” while Imdb lists the release date as April 2011. That’s pretty much right now, so I guess we’ll see. In meantime though, we’ve got an appropriately ragged and sleazy final poster. It appears that Metallica not only let the film use their music, but also their logo. Throw the devil-sign in the air and click through to check it out.
It’s no secret that your friends at Movieline HQ have a healthy obsession with Greta Gerwig , but who does the Indie Queen turned rom-com staple bow at the altar for? Her Arthur co-star Russell Brand. “When Russell paid attention to you, the sun was shining on you and it was so warm and good. And then he’d take it away and you’d just want it back again,” she told New York . “Which is why I’ve always said he could be a cult or religious leader. Everyone was in love with him — men and women.” If this acting thing doesn’t work out, at least he’s got something to fall back on. [ New York ]
It was an agonizing enough process just getting cast in Tarsem’s Immortals , stars Luke Evans and Henry Cavill told Movieline over the weekend at WonderCon, where audiences got their first look at the November fantasy pic. But the real struggle, they say, was in reaching and maintaining the physique required of their roles as Zeus and Theseus, respectively — characters for whom godlike perfection was a prerequisite. But hey, no pressure!
Despite the star pedigree of Jake Gyllenhaal and the geek cred of director Duncan Jones, sci-fi thriller Source Code was topped by an animated bunny learning the new true meaning of Christmas Easter. At third place was the haunted house scare-em-up Insidious , possibly launching another profitable franchise for the brains behind Saw . Plus, the hotly debated Sucker Punch fell an astronomical 68.1% from last week — if those number hold, it means it held up slightly better in its second weekend than Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li (-68.5%) but not as well as Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (-67.9%). Your weekend receipts are here.
A new trailer for JJ Abrams’ Super 8 has been making the rounds on television, and while it mostly underscores the creepy ET vibe of the earlier Super Bowl spot , it also deepens the mystery of exactly what was in that Air Force transport train and why people keep disappearing. Take a look below!
Come recess today, all the kids will be buzzing about how they went to the movies this weekend and became completely enamored with that underdog story of an unlikely royal heir overcoming the odds, even when war reared its ugly head. Yep, Hop totally killed it at the box-office this weekend. But it was also the opening weekend for ” the family event of the year !” So, how did the brand new, PG-13 version of The King’s Speech fare?
When it comes to conventions, Jon Favreau is nothing if not a man of the nerd people. Mindful of how much he owes to the Comic-Con faithful for jump-starting early word of mouth on the Iron Man franchise, he came to San Francisco this weekend with a treat: Nine minutes of footage from Cowboys & Aliens cut exclusively for the WonderCon audience, including a special reveal of the film’s big, bad aliens — aliens that Favreau otherwise intends to keep under wraps.
Aside from the cryptic messages he scrawled to Bruce Vilanch , James Franco has been curiously silent about his reviled performance as this year’s Academy co-host — that is, until he sat down this afternoon with the one person who could possibly relate to his Oscar ordeal: David Letterman. Click through to watch the pair lament their failed experiences on Hollywood’s biggest night.
