The Big Bang Theory actress is on to something when she calls out the ubiquity of Slave Leia costumes at Star Wars conventions. Cosplayers and Comic-Con attendees, listen up: There are plenty more ladies with perfectly hewn braids to imitate.
After auditioning “five or six times” for the role of Steve Rogers, a/k/a Captain America, 27 year-old Sebastian Stan didn’t get the gig. But he did get a call to discuss a different iconic character in the WWII -set Marvel comics blockbuster: James “Bucky” Barnes, Cap’s best friend, sidekick, and, in Joe Johnston ‘s big screen adaptation (in theaters Friday), a soldier who could potentially undergo big changes in future Captain America sequels.
It turns out Peter Jackson hasn’t run out of dwarves . Over the weekend, TheOneRing.net revealed a picture of the thirteenth Hobbit dwarf, Thorin Oakenshield. Thorin is important for multiple reasons: he’s the dwarf leader, he’s carrying something called “Orcrist, the Goblin Cleaver,” and he’s played by moderately famous actor Richard Armitage. Bona fides! Click through for your first look.
Ah, memories: “I was a fish in Noah’s ark in the school play, and now I’m in Harry Potter. It’s a big step. I first found out about the auditions in Newsround. They said to send in some information about yourself and a photograph. So I sent one in and waited weeks and weeks and weeks, and nothing happened. I really wanted this part because I was the biggest Harry Potter fan at the time. I went on the website of Newsround, and some of the kids had been sending in videotapes of themselves reading from the book. So I made a videotape. First, I dressed up as my drama teacher, who’s a girl, so that was kind of scary. Then I made this rap song of how much I wanted to be in the film.” [ Moviefone ]
In this weekend’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 , Ralph Fiennes reprises his role as Lord Voldemort , the noseless, screamy “Dark Lord” archenemy of our bespectacled box office hero Harry Potter. How did the English Oscar-nominee transform himself from chilling Nazi war criminal to a J. Lo love interest and back again to another kind of purity-seeking evildoer?
Customarily on Fridays, when a new movie reaches theaters over the howling, nose-pinching, and often very funny protests of the critical establishment, the saltiest of those responses are gathered here for your browsing pleasure. That’s given that there is enough of a sample, or that the stinker in question is intended for a broad enough audience for us to advise viewers of the open manhole in their path. And then… there’s the Sarah Palin documentary.
Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Chris Pine and Josh Brolin lead a couple of short lists… Arnold Schwarzenegger officially back… Lone Ranger might have found its leading lady… and more ahead.
If you don’t already have tickets for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 , get cracking! Fandango reports that 5,000 screenings of the Potter finale have already sold out, making it the second-biggest pre-seller in company history, behind The Twilight Saga: New Moon . Not that you should worry too much about missing the conclusion because of pre-sold tickets: Warner Bros. is opening The Deathly Hallows Part 2 in a Potter -record 4,375 theaters. That’s 11,000 screens if you’re keeping score at home. [ Deadline ]
The wranglers of Movieline’s Bad Movies We Love (me and me alone) always dredge up dismissible teen comedies from the early 2000s, in case you haven’t noticed. What’s with them (me)? Wait, I know: Those movies are bad and we (I) love them. Yes! Right! On that note, say hello to Orange County , the breakout vehicle for Movieline pal and Lucky star Colin Hanks, who holds together this funny but aimless romp with the help of Jack Black, a thrilling supporting cast, and a botched Beatles haircut.
As you can see from the headline, This Must Be the Place has a pretty strange premise. Oscar winner Sean Penn stars as a Robert Smith-like Goth rocker who comes to America to see his dying father for the first time in 30 years, and then searches for the S.S. officer that made his life hell in Auschwitz. There are also Arcade Fire jokes. Click through to watch — though be mindful of the volume varying music cues.