There is no denying Beyonce’s talent, stardom, or status as an enduring stronghold in show business, but would you call her “a new talent [that] represents a generation”? Because in a new interview about her role in Clint Eastwood’s A Star is Born remake , she kinda claims to be just that.
The proprietors at the Alamo Drafthouse — a theater where texting/talking during a screening is considered grounds for decapitation — asked Jesse Eisenberg how he feels about loud patrons at the cineplex. You’d think Eisenberg would roll with the idea and complain about such whippersnappers, but instead he rebelled and claimed that talking during movies helps build community. Oh, Jesse. Your weird social skills are the ultimate cinematic treat.
Peter Jackson couldn’t make Comic-Con this year , but he’s taking time to titillate dorks, dorks, and also dorks with this new still of The Hobbit ‘s dwarf patrol — together at last after multiple separate photos. They are a dandy bunch. These butch woodsmen are bearded, armored, and dressed for winter! Looks a little like a catalog shoot for a post-apocalyptic Eddie Bauer.
Comic heroes and A-list romcoms aside, you might call this weekend a lull between the sheer Pottermania of last weekend and the sheer multitude of new titles facing moviegoers next weekend. One left you no choice, the other leaves with almost too much. And in between, there are these:
Comic-Con is up and running, and that can mean only one thing: Photos of your favorite stars and filmmakers interacting with fans at the San Diego Convention Center. Ahead, a gallery of images from day one of ‘Con, featuring many of your favorite Breaking Dawn co-stars, with cameos from Carey Mulligan, Guillermo Del Toro, and… the Free Hugger of San Diego?
Consider this the calm before the storm. Starting later tonight in limited preview and rolling out in full on Thursday, movie geeks of all shapes, sizes, creeds and fan-bases will hit San Diego for Comic-Con 2011. Only some geeks — and here at Movieline, we use that term as lovingly as possible — are already waiting for the fun to start. Hey, they don’t call ’em Twi-hards for nothing!
When it was announced that Sony was going forward with a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise so soon after director Sam Raimi placed his mark on Peter Parker, many eyebrows were raised at the timing. After all, Spider-Man 3 came out in 2007, a mere four summers ago — it’s not like people are clamoring for reboots of other 2007 blockbusters like Ocean’s 13 or Live Free or Die Hard . (Or maybe they are?) Regardless, we’re here now, and The Amazing Spider-Man is scheduled to hit theaters next summer. Does the new teaser offer anything that Raimi’s Spider-Man films did not?
I don’t love Black Swan . I barely even enjoy it! I barely even get what there is to enjoy. It boasts the hammiest dialogue of the past Oscar season? It’s the most transparent psychodrama in film history? It can’t establish a tone, a fully believable character, or consistency because it resorts to camp at every turn? I just don’t know. But if Friends With Benefits star Mila Kunis ever starred in a Bad Movie We Love, it’s this. (Sorry, Krippendorf’s Tribe — you’re just bad.) There’s an argument for its inclusion in our weekly feature, and reservations aside, I’m picking out five utterly bizarre instances in Black Swan that justify that inclusion. I will now recite them diplomatically!
In the lead-up to Comic-Con, a handful of new images from the should-be-splatter-rific (but is actually rated PG-13) Shark Night 3-D have debuted online courtesy of Hollywood.com , and they feature one unifying trait. Not sharks, silly! Young adults screaming at off-screen terror. Which of these seven pictures are actually from the David R. Ellis-directed film? See if you can guess ahead.
The last Arnold Schwarzenegger film to debut in the studio dumping ground that is January? Pumping Iron , which opened in New York on Jan. 18, 1977, before January was even considered a studio dumping ground. Now, 28 films later, Lionsgate will release The Last Stand on Jan. 18, 2013 — 36 years to the date of Iron . Spooky! [ Deadline ]