While the multiplexes are dominated by Impossible Missions and Teen Titans, you can take refuge at the art house with a trio of films in limited release this weekend all featuring some great nudity!… read more
Angry Fan Tweets Mark Sanchez Death Threats & Racial Slurs What was this guy thinking??? Via Chicago-Sun Times: New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez has received multiple death threats and a racist comment from one individual via Twitter, which led to the NFL contacting the team. Someone with the Twitter handle @BraveGrancru has tweeted racist and threatening comments. The tweets began during the Jets’ 14-10 loss to the Titans on Sunday. Sanchez threw four interceptions and fumbled to all but close out the game for the Jets. According to @BraveGrancru’s Twitter timeline, which is still active, he has received multiple calls from media outlets regarding this matter. Peep bol’s tweets below: SMH at “Don’t come to practice wednesday, I promise bullets everywhere!”
The star of Terminator Salvation, Clash of the Titans and Avatar was arrested for fighting on Saturday in Atlanta. He was charged with disorderly conduct, but the charge was dismissed in court Monday morning, according to news reports. The actor, 36, tangled with a doorman at the Vortex bar and grill when he was turned away for being verbally abusive and apparently intoxicated, according to a police report obtained by Celebuzz.com. The doorman, Jerry Link, told police the actor, identified as
It’s never too late to get help with your problems Tennessee Titans Wide Receiver O.J. Murdock Commits Suicide O.J. Murdock, a reserve receiver for the Tennessee Titans, was found in his car on Monday morning with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to a local hospital and died at 10:43 a.m. He was 25. Murdock had signed with the Titans as an undrafted free agent in 2011, but didn’t see any game action due to injury. The Titans opened training camp on July 27 and had Murdock on the Did Not Report list. According to CBSSports.com. he’d been excused from the first two days of camp for “personal reasons.” They also noted that head coach Mike Munchak thought it was possible that Murdock would arrive at camp on Monday. Murdock was found outside of Middleton High School in Tampa Bay, the high school he attended. As a high schooler, he was a highly-rated prospect and had scholarship offers from Florida, Florida State and Miami. He chose to play at South Carolina for Steve Spurrier. After a redshirt year, and then seeing limited playing time, Murdock was arrested in Tampa for grand theft shoplifting and suspended from the team indefinitely. He left the program and took a year off from football before resurfacing at Fort Hays State, where he played receiver and ran track. In 2010 as a Fort Hays State Tiger, Murdock racked up 1,290 receiving yards on 60 receptions, along with 12 touchdowns and a 21.5 yards per catch average. No word as to whether or not Murdock left a suicide note, hopefully we won’t see this become a trend after so much light was shed on players psychological health after the Junior Seau tragedy. Image via AP Source
Wrath of the Titans actor Toby Kebbell ( Control , RocknRolla ) was once up for the part of Tetsuo in Warner Bros.’ live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s cyberpunk manga and anime Akira — but with the project stalled, he unleashed some real talk on the direction the studio intended on taking the big-budget franchise. Among WB’s plans: They wanted to adapt the anime and not the richer source material of the mangas, and planned on taking certain liberties with key character relationships to boot. “I was like, ‘The point is that Tetsuo can’t comprehend how someone who isn’t his brother could love him so much — and that’s where his wrath and his rage come from. Do you not see that? Why have you made them brothers? What the fuck are you doing?’” [ IFC via Collider ]
“‘I’m very proud of John Carter . Box office doesn’t validate me as a person, or as an actor. I’d love to go do John Carter 2 . I really would. It’s just shitty I don’t get to work with the [ John Carter ] family. It really was a special thing.” [ EW ]
After begging and pleading with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan community to please, please not engage in preemptive flame warfare over the rumors and vagaries surrounding the reboot of their beloved franchise, I now recognize the futility of my attempts at diplomacy. This comes after the film’s attached director Jonathan Liebesman — also of this week’s Wrath of the Titans and last year’s eminently regarded ( ahem ) Battle: Los Angeles — only complicated matters with his comments about the kerfuffle. And then there’s the movie’s reported name change. Liebesman toed the company line at last weekend’s Titans junket, urging TMNT devotees to calm down about producer Michael Bay’s proposed alien-turtle-ooze influence — which apparently “comes straight from the series.” I can’t believe I just wrote that, or this: “Look, it’s so funny — if everyone was such a die-hard fan, they would know that the TCRI canisters where the ooze comes from. That is alien ooze. Now I’m not saying what Michael said is exactly what the movie is, because we’re sitting in a room now figuring everything out. So we don’t know, but we are like Michael said: we’re expanding it, and the expansion will be true to the mythology. I promise you: fans will love it.” Even if those fans are to take Liebesman at his word, there’s also this reported nugget that no doubt have them soiling their Donatello jammies: Bleeding Cool has verified that the working title of the upcoming Paramount-Nickelodeon Turtle movie from producer Michael Bay and director Jonathan Libesman is going by the working title of Ninja Turtles . We know all too well where the “Mutant” bit went, but now it seems we’re also losing “Teenage.” We haven’t been able to get a definite statement as to why this title change is occurring, and our sources are not 100% clear on whether or not the Turtles will indeed be adolescents. One of our sources has said: “It seems to be driven by marketing. Think of John Carter and how Disney wouldn’t allow for a title with either ‘Princess’ or ‘Mars.'” Whatever. See you at the refugee camp! I hope they have wi-fi. [ Collider , Bleeding Cool via AICN ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .