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Photo Booth: Portraits from the 2011 Toronto Film Fest

Child actors all grown up, Oscar-winning directors popping their collars, stars going silly for the camera — anything goes when you stick actors and filmmakers in the studio for some good, old-fashioned family-style portraits. See who came to town for the 2011 Toronto Film Festival and gave good face for the camera, uberdramatic, super goofy, and otherwise, in Movieline’s TIFF 2011 Photo Booth .

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Photo Booth: Portraits from the 2011 Toronto Film Fest

Twit Wit: The 9 Best Contagion Tweets of the Weekend

Contagion handily won this weekend’s unremarkable box office race , but it was an even bigger smash on Twitter, where 140-character raconteurs offered up every version of your standard germ/Purell/Paltrow jokes. In our new feature “Twit Wit,” we’ll highlight nine tweeters who make us laugh, make us think or just say likable things about a new movie. With Contagion , the tweets ranged from supportive to silly, and our No. 1 is a rigorously scrubbed gem.

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Twit Wit: The 9 Best Contagion Tweets of the Weekend

Bucky Larson Achieves Monumental 0% Rotten Tomatoes Rating

At the risk of piling on, today we need to recognize the rare cultural milestone achieved by Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star . No, not its approval from a leader in the porn community , and not its status as one of the biggest mainstream flops in years. Nope. The Adam Sandler-produced, Nick Swardson-starring comedy has managed that ever-rare zero-percent approval rating among the critics of Rotten Tomatoes.

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Bucky Larson Achieves Monumental 0% Rotten Tomatoes Rating

Child Mariachi Concert Sounds Strangely Like Horror-Movie Theme

Not to get down on a bunch of kids, but check out the string parts in this video of a child mariachi ensemble currently making the Web rounds, and tell me this isn’t custom-made for some kind of Shining -esque psychological thriller. Or maybe a Radiohead album. And then there’s a trumpet! All it’s missing is Shia LaBeouf behind the camera . Rock out, freak out and read on for more Buzz Break.

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Child Mariachi Concert Sounds Strangely Like Horror-Movie Theme

5 Suggested Premises For Hannibal Lecter’s TV Foray

Earlier today, we learned that Bryan Fuller is writing a television project about Hannibal Lecter for French TV studio Gaumont. The one-hour drama called Hannibal will center on the early days of the cannibalistic serial killer — the Thomas Harris character made famous by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs , Hannibal and Red Dragon — when he faced off against FBI agent Will Graham. While that sounds more interesting than that Sex and the City prequel series that the CW is developing, Movieline HQ has thought of five more entertaining television projects for Lecter that could not only land him a few Emmys, but might help the deranged doctor shed his bad rap and worm his way into the couch potato hearts of Americans.

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5 Suggested Premises For Hannibal Lecter’s TV Foray

Natalie Portman Had Better Not Be Getting Rich Off Star Wars

Carrie Fisher would not approve: “Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity. I don’t like to linger in this zone. Obviously, drug use is a huge mistake. So I’ve made some bad choices. That’s reflected in the Princess Leia thing. I do not take it on. Me having a tantrum in the corner for my cut of Star Wars toothpaste? I don’t want to get into it. Every so often, I wonder if Natalie Portman is getting more money than the none I’m getting. If she’s holding a check for Princess Amidala’s likeness in one hand and her Oscar in the other, that would piss me off.” [ The Daily Beast ]

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Movieline’s Week in Review: Hydrangeas Have Feelings, Too!

This week we learned a lot of important lessons: First, that no matter how ridiculous something sounds — like Eddie Murphy hosting the Oscars, what a joke! Oh, right — things can always get ridonkulouser. Also: Madonna LOATHES hydrangeas, you serf! I mean, really. Pour a scotch and try to relax as we take you back through this increasingly silly week in Movieline news.

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Happy 45th Birthday, Adam Sandler! What’s His Finest Onscreen Moment?

Forty-five years ago today, a baby boy named Adam Richard Sandler was born to an electrical engineer and a nursery school teacher in Brooklyn. After breaking big on Saturday Night Live at the age of 24, Sandler would go on to become one of the most successful actor-comedians of our generation and an even more successful movie producer. In spite of the scathing reviews that his films generate, we still love him as an entertainer, laugh maker and occasionally dramatic actor. So gather around the cake, sing-squawk a few off-key bars of “Happy Birthday” and let’s name Sandler’s finest onscreen moment.

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Happy 45th Birthday, Adam Sandler! What’s His Finest Onscreen Moment?

Jewish Leaders Not So Thrilled About Mel Gibson’s Judah Maccabee Movie

That was fast : “Mel Gibson has shown nothing but antagonism and disrespect to Jews. Casting him as a director or perhaps as the star of Judah Maccabee is like casting Madoff to be the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a white supremacist as trying to portray Martin Luther King Jr. It’s simply an insult to Jews.” [ THR ]

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Jason Biggs Unleashes the One Reese Witherspoon Tweet You’ll Need

Jason Biggs, who was already our favorite Twitter celebrity (er, celebrity on Twitter?), put the news of Reese Witherspoon getting hit by a car and sustaining minor injuries in perspective last night. Since the Oscar-winner is out of the hospital and hopefully in tiptop Tracy Flick form, we like to think Mr. Biggs’s quip registers as playful sarcasm. Ahem: “I just heard the news about Reese Witherspoon doing a voice in ‘Cars 3’. Wow!” [ @BiggsJason ]

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