Ah boy… Rihanna Allegedly Taking Chris Brown To Barbados For New Years Eve Via The Sun The 24-year-old singer has booked a plush five-star villa on the exclusive Gold Coast area of the tropical island for a “bonding holiday”. She hopes Brown — who left her battered and bruised in a vicious assault in 2009 — will be able to convince her close circle that he’s a changed man. And Rihanna wants to persuade them that — despite fierce criticism — she was right to take him back. The star has also planned for Brown’s mother to fly out so the two sets of families can spend time together. So basically Robyn wants to convince her friends and fam that Chris isn’t the woman-beating azzhole that we all know he is. Good luck with that… A source said: “The more the public criticise Rihanna for getting back with Chris, the more determined she is to do whatever she wants. “While no one else can understand it, she’s convinced that Chris is the love of her life and her soulmate and that they’re simply meant to be together. “She’s booked him and his mum into a five-star villa in Barbados over New Year so they can all get some downtime with her family. “But they’re unrepentant and they want to show the whole world that they’ve moved on from what happened in 2009.” Chris Brown + Rihanna + NYE on a tropical island + sticky-icky + champagne = BABY! Image via Twitter
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Nude in theaters this week Marion Cotillard breaks a 6-year non-nude streak with a bounty of boobs and bush for Rust and Bone (2012). Unfortunately the other offerings aren’t nearly as skinful with sexpot Scarlett Johansson showing only her O-face as a scream queen in Hitchcock (2012), and slinky blonde Isabel Lucas staying in her cheerleader outfit for the remake of Red Dawn (2012). More after the jump!
The Evil Dead Red Band trailer has arrived, and it turns out to be the same one that had audiences at NY Comic-Con screaming in their seats (and, apparently, leaking it on the web) . If you can stomach it, make sure to hang tight for the tongue-slicing scene at the end. It will make you talk funny for hours. I’ve also posted the trailer to Sam Raimi’s original 1981 film, The Evil Dead , so that you can compare elements of the first film with Uruguayan director Fede Alvarez’s remake . As with most contemporary reboots, Alvarez’s moves a lot faster. (He’s even lost the ‘The’ in the title for a more streamlined effect.) That said, the new trailer suggests that his Evil Dead will borrow some of Raimi’s filmmaking flourishes, particularly the way in which the camera would take the perspective of the evil spirit that infects the unfortunate cabin dwellers. Like the original, Alvarez’s version also has scenes involving evil vines and dismemberment by power tools, including what looks like a chain saw. Despite these similarities, when I interviewed Bruce Campbell at NY Comic-Con , he told me that the new Evil Dead, which opens early next year, will actually be quite different. For one thing, Campbell — who starred in the original trilogy and is a producer of the remake — said Alvarez’s version will be “dead serious” and won’t feature an Ash, the character he played. “There are no similar characters whatsoever. And we wanted that. That was intentional,” Campbell explained. “We didn’t want anything compared to anything. We didn’t want to put any burden on any actor to act like Ash or to imitate him.” Related Story: Read Movieline’s interview with Bruce Campbell. Read More at: http://movieline.com/2012/10/14/bruce-campbell-interview-evil-dead-remake-fede-alvarez-jane-levy-sam-raimi/#utm_source=copypaste&utm_campaign=referral Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
In a sea of lumpy Spandex, half-assed Harry Potter costumes and face paint, Bruce Campbell set quite a sartorial standard at New York Comic-Con on Saturday. The square-jawed actor — who’s currently seen in the USA Network cable TV series Burn Notice but built a hardcore following by playing the character of Ash in Sam Raimi’s groundbreaking 1980s The Evil Dead comic-horror trilogy — wore a beacon-like red tuxedo jacket and complementary black-and-red patent leather shoes. The colorfully candid Campbell was on hand at the Javits Center to draw attention to the remake of Evil Dead that he, Raimi and Rob Tapert are producing. (The three were producers of the original films as well.) Set for an April 12, 2013 release by Columbia Pictures’ Screen Gems division, Evil Dead will mark the feature debut of Uruguayan commercial producer Fede Alvarez and feature young cast that includes Jane Levy ( Suburgatory ) and Jessica Lucas ( Cloverfield). The screenwriters include Raimi and hyper-stylist Diablo Cody ( Juno ). Like the original, the remake is about a group of young friends in a remote cabin who discover The Book of the Dead and, one by one, succumb to its evil. But, as Campbell tells Movieline, the comparisons end there. Read on to find out how the movies will differ, what Campbell really thinks of basketball shorts, actress Jane Levy’s performance, CAA agents and George Lucas’ decision to tweak his Star Wars movies. And if you haven’t seen Panic Attack!, the short film that got Alvaraez the Evil Dead job, it’s posted below. Movieline: Those shoes are something else. Do you own them or did you rent them? Campbell : These are mine, baby. They’re beautiful. It’s Comic-Con. C’mon, let’s step it up! I’m trying to encourage other people who go to Comic-Con: Put on a nice shirt –and pants, too. While you’re at it, could you press your fucking t-shirt? And what you think about the basketball shorts? Should we just get rid of those? I’m trying to class this joint up a little bit. How will Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead compare to the original? Higher quality production, better actors, better special effects and a different telling of a similar story. You’ve still got your five kids and a nasty book in an isolated cabin. Is there an Ash? Nope. There are no similar characters whatsoever. And we wanted that. That was intentional. We didn’t want anything compared to anything. We didn’t want to put any burden on any actor to act like Ash or to imitate him. I hear you turned down a cameo in the movie. Nobody said “yes” or “no” to anything, so that’s false. We discussed it as filmmakers: Would it be worth it? Should we do it? But the tone of the movie is dead serious. It’s not jokey enough. This not a funny movie. If there’s laughter, it’s nervous laughter. There will not be ha-ha laughter. None. It’s a full-on old-school horror movie with make-up effects. Alvarez got this gig because of his short film Panic Attack! That’s what got us started. Fede is a Uruguayan filmmaker. He made commercials, Pepsi commercials. He does Panic Attack! in his spare time. He puts it out there on a lark. It went viral. Three weeks later, he was literally in Spielberg’s office. He met everybody. His agents are CAA now. I can’t get those assholes on the phone. How did he get on Sam Raimi’s radar? Sam was one of his meetings. They liked each other. Sam wanted to develop Panic Attack! into a feature, but that got bogged down. Fede was a big fan of Evil Dead , and so he pitched a story that we all liked. The three of us — myself, Sam Raimi and Rod Tapert — decided to get back involved in this and support this guy. He’s a very smart, talented guy. I mean, he really is too smart for his own good. [A man in basketball shorts walking through the conference room distracts Campbell.] See? Basketball shorts. Would it kill him to put on a pair of pants? I hate how right I am. I’m glad I wore long pants. You were talking about how the Evil Dead remake came to be. So that’s how it was born. It could have gone either way, you know. The guy had never made a feature film before. He’s telling a story longer than a 60-second Pepsi commercial. That’s a big challenge, and he succeeded on many levels. His actors are good and solid and give great balls-to-the-wall performances when they have to. Fede was also very mature about the whole thing. He’s very respectful of the genre. He’s not making fun of it. He’s not punking it — he’s just telling his version of it. And he didn’t over-shoot it. He didn’t over-edit it. It’s such a well-edited movie, and that’s pretty rare. Most movies — the editing sucks. Like, they’ll never hang on a full sentence. They’ll come in halfway through. They’ll cut away after ten seconds. There’s a lot of shitty work out there. Where did you shoot the movie? We shot it in Auckland, New Zealand because we did all the Hercules and Xena shows down there. The Kiwis are top-notch workers; great crew members. So, we just gave Fede all the support that we could possibly give him — a better budget, qualified crew members, good actors. We liked his script and we left him alone. You don’t need to sit over a guy’s shoulder. You turning up on the set would probably be pretty intimidating. I sat in on the auditions, and some of the actors that came in were like, Nyaaaaaa! I felt bad because the idea was not to freak them out. It was to let them know that we’re into it and we’re taking it seriously. And I just think we pulled the right actors. Jane Levy — I’m going to crown her the new Ash myself. She’s got it. She’s got it. You never know, either. We thought she was good in the room, but you get on a film set and what are they like? Are they tough? Are they pussies? Are they assholes? Are they crazy? What were you? Tough. And Jane was a tough little shit, too. Really tough. I asked her in the room: “How are you with extensive special effects for an extensive period of time. Have you ever done that?” No. “Well, do you know what that’s going to be like?” What’s it like? It’s the fucking worst experience you can think of. It’s terrible for your skin. You’re an hour and a half, two hours putting it on. You shoot a 14-hour day, and it’s a hour to take it off. Then you start the whole damn thing over the next day. This goes on for 10 weeks. I wanted to hang myself after those movies. And we pushed every actor to the limit. Jane, we pushed her over the edge. So, she’s the new Ash. You said it, not me. You said you were going to crown her the new Ash. If they want me to crown her, I’ll crown her — because I support her. I’m really impressed with what she did. Could this be a trilogy in the way that the original Evil Dead movies were? Easy, but you have to talk to Fede about that because I don’t know if he would do it. He’s got lots of crazy ideas. I want to go to double bills. The original Evil Dead paired with the remake. It would be a great midnight double bill. Alamo Draft House, Austin, Texas. Lines around the block — I’m telling you. I’ll go introduce it myself. If you could fix anything about the original Evil Dead movies, what would you do? I wouldn’t because that’s pussy filmmaking, man. It is. You see the garden hoses shooting shit? Yep, that’s right! We did the best we could, pal. In 1979, we got the movie in the can for $85,000. You’re going to get what you get. We’re not George Lucas going back to fix our effects. Sorry man, you blew it. You got to get over it. You can’t obsess like that. That’s cheating. What’s next for you? I’m finishing Burn Notice . I’ve been six years on that spy show for USA. It’s been a fun show. That’s my day job, and it eats up seven months out of my life. So the other five months I don’t feel like doing anything. The last break I just worked on developing a bunch of new scripts because you can’t do stuff without scripts. I’ve got three new ideas that I got written up last year. I like all kinds of genres. I want to do a few more little low-budget movies. I love low-budget movies. Are there any recent horror movies that you like right now? I don’t watch movies — it’s the weirdest thing — because I feel like I’m going to work. I see actors looking at their marks. I see them cheating to the camera. I see out -of-focus shit. I see a lousy shot. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Most Hollywood re-makes are subject to ire from passionate fans of the original(s), so get ready for that weird guy in your video editing class to be really super angry as Universal announces that they are re-making Videodrome (1983), David Cronenberg’ s grotesque exploration of televisual voyeurism. And while there’s plenty of opportunity to mess this up (Guys, just PLEASE don’t make it about a website instead of a TV channel. That movie already exists– it’s called Suicide Club ), we have some reason to be optimistic. The film will be the feature debut of director Adam Berg , who has been entrusted with the film after a series of high-profile commercial gigs like this one that are, we have to say, pretty damn cool. Ugh, wait, never mind. Deadline.com says that Universal plans to ” Modernize the concept, infusing it with the possibilities of nano-technology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller .” So like Total Recall (2012) but with more S&M. Speaking of, who will play the seductive superfreak so memorably portrayed by Deborah Harry in the original? We think that Noomi Rapace would look pretty good putting out cigarettes on her chest…or maybe that was just a dream we had when we fell asleep watching The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo ( 2009). Long live the nude flesh! See Deborah Harry in all her kinky glory in Videodrome (1983) right here at MrSkin.com!
Though critics have less-than-sparkling opinions about the remake, they praise Whitney Houston’s final performance. By Kara Warner Whitney Houston in “Sparkle” Photo: Alicia Gbur/ Sony Pictures
Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel keep covered in the Total Recall remake , but Mr. Skin totally recalls seeing Kate naked in 1994’s Uncovered and Jessica peel in 2009’s Powder Blue . Plus, see Lycia Naff’s triplicate ta-tas in HD as the original Total Recall (1990) hits Blu-ray.
Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel keep covered in the Total Recall remake , but Mr. Skin totally recalls seeing Kate naked in 1994’s Uncovered and Jessica peel in 2009’s Powder Blue . Plus, see Lycia Naff’s triplicate ta-tas in HD as the original Total Recall (1990) hits Blu-ray.
The Colin Farrell-starring sci-fi remake Total Recall is readying for release this weekend ( read Movieline’s review here ) and while Len Wiseman’s adaptation of the 1990 Paul Verhoeven film that mixes up bullets, muscles and abstract notions of Cartesian dualism and the specious present isn’t the worst thing in the world, it is hardly memorable. (A bit of an unfortunate situation, as the whole thing is about memory.) Still, it’s important that we don’t present ourselves as the type of dweebs who get all hung up over sci-fi remakes. Sometimes, they’re damn good, as this list of ten shall prove. 10) War of the Worlds , Steven Spielberg, 2005 No masterpiece, but a thrilling piece of work with some genuinely shocking imagery. Despite the four year gap, this was the first major mainstream film that was able to take 9/11 imagery and have it make sense in an entertainment context. It lacks the cheeseball zip of the 1953 version, but it certainly works on a visceral level. (It is not my top adaption of the H.G. Wells story, however. That will forever go to Jeff Wayne and his 1978 prog rock opera. The dorks in the back know what I’m talkin’ about.) 9) The Omega Man , Boris Sagal, 1971 Charlton Heston is so secure in his house he’s not going to pay those cloaked mutant zombies no never mind! A quick shot of a vaccine prior to the deployment of biological weapons in a Russian-Chinese war keeps Heston alive, but his wits keep him safe. When he discovers he’s not the last person alive, he takes the fight direct to the horrible clan of beasts. The Omega Man is a remake of The Last Man on Earth , but also based on the novel I Am Legend . This was, of course, remade again into a film starring Will Smith which will not be seen anywhere on this list. The Omega Man is also notable for featuring an interracial love story back in 1971. Who said Heston’s politics were wholly predictable? 8) The Wiz , Sidney Lumet, 1978 No one said you’d be able to ease on down this list without some challenges. Look, The Wiz is a cool flick. Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Richard Pryor and music by Ashford and Simpson. Maybe Diana Ross doesn’t have the same je ne sais quoi as Judy Garland, but I’ve found that most friends of Dorothy are friends of the Supremes, too. And, yes, it’s sci-fi. The wizard’s practically steampunk. 7) Solaris , Steven Soderbergh, 2002 While Andrei Tarkovski’s version from 1972 is certainly the heavier of the two, Soderbergh’s streamlined and very slick production is a fascinating tone poem on loss, regret and memory. Those looking for action will find the film almost lifeless, but if you get on its wavelength you may find it quite rewarding. It ranks as one of the best gifts one filmmaker ever gave to another, as James Cameron used his considerable clout as producer to secure a budget that everyone had to know would never be recouped. 6) 1984 , Michael Radford, 1984 The 1954 version with Edmond O’Brien is a good enough adaptation, but this gem of new wave cinema really captured the essence of Orwell’s dystopian universe. This movie tends to get forgotten, overshadowed by Terry Gilliam’s Brazil , with which it shares many story and formal similarities. Nevertheless, John Hurt’s sympathetic portrayal of Winston Smith is one of his great performances, and the heavily washed out cinematography from Roger Deakins is quite extraordinary. The Eurythmics’ soundtrack album did a number on me as a kid, as well. 5) Invasion of the Body Snatchers , Phillip Kaufman, 1978 Leonard Nimoy as a sexed-up pop psychologist in ’70s San Francisco. I think it’s a given this should be on ALL the top ten lists. Loaded with lots of gratuitous nudity and plenty of icky gore, you’ll be shocked when you discover this one was actually rated PG. 1978! It’s got Jeff Goldblum and Veronica Cartwright owning a groovy mudbath parlor and that iconic last shot of the very hirsute Donald Sutherland pointing at the camera, making THAT SOUND. Dammit, I’m gonna go on a limb and say this is a remake that’s better than the original. 4) 12 Monkeys , Terry Gilliam, 1995 A riff on Chris Marker’s miraculous short film of still images, La Jetee , this fatalistic time-travel tale is bursting with visual creativity but stays on course as a gripping, propulsive doomsday race. Bruce Willis lets his tough guy guard down a bit and no matter how many times I see this it, the ending always gets to me. By Gilliam standards, it’s his least weird movie; by Hollywood standards, a real standout. 3) Battlestar Galactica , Michael Rymer, 2003 Wait, who said anything about including TV? Well, when the material is this good you make special considerations. Besides, the 1978 BSG did have a theatrical release, and the miniseries that aired on 2003 ranked with the best entertainment that came out that year. (The fact that the original played in theaters then went to TV, as opposed to a TV show that went to the movies, is the reason that Star Trek isn’t on this list. In my mind, it makes sense.) This whacked-out Mormon parable (some say) was the perfect science fiction treatment for the onset of Bush’s War on Terror. There has probably never been a more paranoid show on television and its interplanetary setting oftentimes led to a more constructive forum in which to discuss the issues of the day. Our heroes’ attitudes swung left and right, but loyalty never wavered. I swear to you I’d still take a bullet for Edward James Olmos if the old man needed me. If you’ve been putting it off (or were scared away by some naysayers who didn’t like the conclusion), check out the 2003 miniseries. Then take the week off as you blaze through the rest of the seasons. 2. The Thing , John Carpenter, 1982 I’ve seen The Thing at least ten times. And every time, during the blood testing sequence, I jump. If John Carpenter bills himself as The Horror Master, I think we can safely call this his masterpiece. Some forget it is a remake of Howard Hawks’ The Thing From Another World , a fine film, but Carpenter’s version is a bubbling cauldron of great tough guy characters and outstanding set pieces that’ll have you cheering and puking at the same time. 1. The Fly , David Cronenberg, 1986 It was close, but this one squeezes ahead just a little bit. It’s Goldblum that makes it, really – the way he calmly remarks “That’s disgusting” as he discovers his new way of eating sugar. (If you haven’t seen it, words won’t do justice.) And the fact that he can sell lines like “Drink deep, or taste not, the plasma spring!” Apart from its nifty high concept and groundbreaking special effects, The Fly is a true transcendent work in the way it treats its characters. Who’d have ever expected you’d be crying at the end of what looked like just another gross-out? Certainly no one who’d only seen the ’58 version with Vincent Price. — So there are our ten. If we’ve done our job, we’ve pissed you off. Feel free to let us have it in the space below. Just go easy on The Wiz , is all I ask. Follow Jordan Hoffman on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
