First 50/50 released a theatrical trailer some 30 seconds shorter than its teaser trailer, and now Footloose has done the same thing. Is this the beginnings of a trend? Have the definitions of “trailer” and “teaser” been reversed at some point in the last 48 hours? Will there be a memo sent out explaining the cause? Silly questions, sure, but also more interesting than what’s presented in the somewhat boring new trailer for Footloose . Bring back the “teaser”!
Oh, lovely: After staging his body-stitching horror pic The Human Centipede (First Sequence) in Germany and getting banned in the U.K. for upping the twisted thrills (and the number of victims) in the Britain-set Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) , director Tom Six plans to finish his trilogy in the good old U.S.A. “We’re going to shoot the third film entirely in America and it’s going to be my favorite,” he said during the Empire Presents… Big Screen event in London, where he promised that the threequel would “make the last one look like a Disney film.” Hold onto your asses, America. [ Empire via Twitch ]
Kellan Lutz revealed that his buddy Robert Pattinson has casually discussed the prospect of becoming a fashion designer . Now that’s exciting: Who wouldn’t want to buy a scarf or puka shell necklace from the label Vampy Pattz or Cullen’s Collective or whatever? I’m in. And better yet, I’m helping R-Pattz on the way to his goal of becoming the next Christian Dior/Jon Gosselin. Here are ten fashionable items he should hawk.
Oh, great. Just when we thought Armie Hammer’s kiss with Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming J. Edgar Hoover biopic was going to be explosive, Eastwood himself is confirming that he’s leaving the first FBI director’s sexual orientation “open to interpretation.” I know a certain TV personality who might have damning evidence to the contrary.
Looks like not everyone gave The Help a pleased-as-punch A+ CinemaScore rating ; in an open letter released this week, The Association of Black Women Historians decried the film and Kathryn Stockett’s source novel of the same name, citing what they describe as “widespread stereotyping” in the film’s depiction of the black experience in the Jim Crow South.
Renny Harlin ( Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, 12 Rounds ) is not the first director — or the second or third or heck, the 20th — you’d expect to direct a serious movie about a recent political conflict that resulted in numerous human rights violations, civilian deaths, and tenuous relations between Russia and neighboring Georgia. But that’s just what the genre veteran did in the Aug. 19 pic 5 Days of War , telling The New York Times he “wanted to shift to films that he said would ‘allow me to look at myself in the mirror’ in the morning.” Congrats, Renny! You’re that much closer to making up for Cutthroat Island . [ NYT ]
It’s been ten years since Mike Myers last donned international man of mystery Austin Powers’s teeth swingin’ ‘tude, perhaps for good reason — by the time Myers rolled around the 1970s with Beyonce’s Foxxy Cleopatra in 2002’s Austin Powers in Goldmember , the series had lost some of its driving mojo. But after a taking a decade to recharge, the franchise is said to be headed back to the spotlight with a new sequel, according to a report by HitFix’s Drew McWeeny.
Say hello to August and its snazzy genre-specific programming! The four wide releases this weekend cater to quarantined-off needs, meaning there’s something in theaters for your whole family — from mom ( The Help ) to stoner brother ( 30 Minutes or Less ) to thrill-seeking sister ( Final Destination 5 ) to kid cousin ( Glee: The 3-D Concert Movie ). Which film will wind up atop the box office come Sunday night? To the forecast!
“The first woman I ran into, one of the PAs, I think, said, ‘You can’t take pictures here.’ It was on the sidewalk and I said, ‘I know my rights; I’m on a public sidewalk,'” paparazzo Jared Wickerham told Moviefone about the process behind the now-famous photos he snapped on the set of The Dark Knight Rises . “So she went up to one of the security guards and came back and just decided to stand in front of me. Since I shoot sports, I had a nice, long lens, so I just took a few steps back and shot around her.” [ Moviefone ]
One of the running gags in Fox’s effervescent hit high school series Glee is that no matter how things occasionally come up roses for the show choir freaks and geeks of McKinley High, there’s always someone, slushie in hand, waiting to take the Gleeks down a peg or two back to cold, brutal reality. Ironically, it’s that same multicolored frozen treat, globbed at the screen in slow-motion over the end credits of Glee: The 3D Concert Movie , that underscores a similar, sad burst of recognition that’s perhaps been long coming: For all the uplifting, inclusive good that Glee inspires in its young target demographic, it’s a property that’s become high on its own self-projected, self-congratulatory fantasy of “fuck the haters” do-goodingness. And there’s nothing more that Glee needs or deserves right now than a slushie to the face.
