It’s officially Spike Lee Day here at Movieline! On the heels of the rumor that Lee is directing some sort of spiritual cousin to Do the Right Thing! comes an official confirmation of the last Lee rumor : Mandate Pictures has announced that the director will take over duties on an American remake of Oldboy , the 2003 Chan-wook Park film that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith were once discussing. Kinda awesome! Click through for the press release, and start fantasy casting in the comments section.
Back in April it was revealed that Arnold Schwarzenegger was in talks to take the lead role in the The Last Stand , a Western about a broken down sheriff who must stand-up to a drug cartel and save his town. That project got pushed aside by Cry Macho , the fifth Terminator film , and some screaming infidelities , but now Deadline reports it’s back on — with a start-date scheduled for September. It looks like Arnold is back. Again. [ Deadline ]
It’s the unofficial 84th birthday of our favorite chain convenience store, 7-Eleven , meaning two things: First, you’re entitled to a free Slurpee (at all participating locations) and second, it’s as good a time as any to look back at some of the best scenes set in 7-Eleven-like establishments in movie history. Who knew that one-stop-shop marts were appropriate settings for pregnancy scares, super-human cyborgs, Michael Bay-directed hold-ups and most frightening of all, a skinny, ’90s era Alec Baldwin in a track suit?
As Jason Sudeikis ‘s coke-snorting, kung fu-practicing, pot-bellied new supervisor in Horrible Bosses , which notched an impressive number 2 box office slot last weekend, second to Michael Bay ‘s 3-D robotstravaganza Transformers: Dark of the Moon , Colin Farrell is a revelation of douchebag assholery, the last person you’d want above you in the workplace food chain. (Well, one of them.) But which former gaming world champion deserves credit for loosely inspiring portions of Farrell’s characterization — and could Farrell portray this muse one day on the big screen?
For the fourth time this summer an R-rated comedy opened big at the box office. Despite what some might say , the message is clear: you love laughing! Especially when the laughing involves Jennifer Aniston discussing her proclivity to masturbate while watching Gossip Girl . With $28 million in ticket sales , Horrible Bosses is comedy hit — and that means there’s plenty to discuss.
The story of Steven Spielberg’s career beginnings — including how he fled a tour group at Universal and earned his first internship by asking staffers about their jobs — is oft-told, but when you’re the most influential filmmaker of a generation, your origin tale is always relevant. In a new video with his Cowboys & Aliens collaborators Jon Favreau, Brian Grazer, and Ron Howard, Spielberg sheds light on a time when Searchers director (and general legend) John Ford cursed him out. It is mesmerizing.
Best known as Jason Stackhouse on HBO’ s True Blood , Aussie actor Ryan Kwanten takes a quirky turn — and dons a superhero costume for the first time onscreen — in the Aug. 19 romantic-comedy Griff the Invisible . Kwanten stars as Griff, a mild-mannered and majorly awkward office schlub by day who moonlights as a masked crusader at night to escape his bullies and naysayers — until he meets an equally oddball dream girl and starts coming to terms with living in the real world. Get your first look at Kwanten the superhero AND Kwanten the geek in Movieline’s exclusive gallery .
By the midpoint of any moviegoing year, the previous January seems like ancient history. Was it really just six months ago that I trudged off to witness the stupendously dumb spectacle that was Season of the Witch ? Seems like eons.
Wow. Just wowwwwwww . When it was announced last year that Adam Sandler would play his own twin sister in the comedy Jack and Jill , it seemed like a joke — specifically, the type that Sandler and Judd Apatow made about the star’s career in Funny People . Only, it’s not a joke; Jack and Jill is real, and it’s got the craziest trailer you’ll see all summer.