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Martin Scorsese Has Never Seen Harry Potter

Did you have visions of a mohawked Ron Weasley killing pimps and johns while protecting an underage Selena Gomez in Taxi Driver 2: Get Organizized ? Then here’s some bad news to report: Despite an actual quote from Martin Scorsese in the British tabloid The Sun , the director has no plans to make Harry Potter star Rupert Grint into his next muse. How very Draco Malfoy of him!

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Martin Scorsese Has Never Seen Harry Potter

Ed Limato Died This Weekend?

Sheesh, you go away for a few days and you come back and legendary ICM and WME agent Ed Limato is dead. He was 73 and had been battling lung disease. His longtime clients included Richard Gere, Denzel Washington, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Martin and Mel Gibson, the latter of whom dug deep to issue a wholesome, non-controversial statement: “It’s said of agents, ‘They have no hearts.’ Ed was all heart! He was there for me 30 years. I will miss him.” Hear hear. [ Deadline ]

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BREAKING: Andrew Garfield Cast as Peter Parker in Marc Webb’s Spider-Man Reboot

Whoa! So that happened. The statement just came in from Sony, and while we collect ourselves, we’ll let you read it. It’s a great choice, though an older one than I was expecting them to make. More tomorrow:

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BREAKING: Andrew Garfield Cast as Peter Parker in Marc Webb’s Spider-Man Reboot

What’s On: Slouching Toward Bethenny

Everyone’s favorite NYC housewife (seriously, I polled this Starbucks) reunites with an old co-star for a bridal shower tonight on Bethenny Getting Married . If you’ve been paying attention all season, you know who it is. If you haven’t been paying attention to anything and are acting offended at nothing, you might be Kelly Bensimon. Cheers!

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Jay Leno Logs His Worst Tonight Show Ratings Since ’93

This is either a sign that late night television is cannibalizing itself , less people are watching live TV or America just doesn’t think Jay Leno is as funny as he used to be — or all three! The Tonight Show clocked its lowest ratings this past quarter since 1993, when David Letterman premiered his Late Show on CBS. Coincidentally, this is also Leno’s first full quarter at the Tonight Show since Conangate. [ Deadline ]

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Jay Leno Logs His Worst Tonight Show Ratings Since ’93

Moment of Truth: Agony and Ecstasy Director on the ‘Intimate Psychodrama’ of Phil Spector

Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline’s weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. This week we hear from Vikram Jayanti, director of The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector , which is now playing in New York with dates to come in other cities and on TV as well. Kind of like grieving, there are five stages to viewing Vikram Jayanti’s enthralling new documentary The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector .

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Moment of Truth: Agony and Ecstasy Director on the ‘Intimate Psychodrama’ of Phil Spector

Brett Ratner Researching Big Butts for The Hobbit?

You have to hand it to Brett Ratner. Though his unlikely bid to direct The Hobbit may be thwarted by either the will-I-or-won’t-I indecision of Peter Jackson or the are-we-solvent-or-aren’t-we troubles of MGM, Ratner still spent last night doing the appropriate, NSFW literary research (at least, we think so):

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Playgirl Wants Bachelor Jake

While Bachelor winner Vienna Girardi may not be posing for Playboy , there’s a chance her former suitor Jake Pavelka will pose for Playgirl . Daniel Nardicio, the mag’s vice president of marketing released a statement saying, “We’re determining the value of a shoot with Jake, who exemplifies our classic American guy at Playgirl . It’s obvious he likes the limelight, and I intuit that he looks good naked.” This reminds me of one of my grandmother’s old sayings: “OH HAYELL YAYESS. ” [ PopEater ]

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Playgirl Wants Bachelor Jake

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The Spider-Man Viral Marketing is Starting So Early

A day after Batman 3 and Salt received their own real-life viral-marketing boosts, have a look at this 13-year-old in England trying to pass himself off as anything but some wall-climbing, vacuum-pad-rocking allusion to Sony’s forthcoming Spider-Man reboot. Don’t confuse this with James Franco’s own viral adventures , which have nothing on this clip that races from WTF to hilarious back to WTF in 60 seconds flat. This kid is walking on a wall, people. Marc Webb, we have found your leading man .

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The Spider-Man Viral Marketing is Starting So Early