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Sure, Scarlett Johansson Will Make a Great Janet Leigh

“Director Sacha Gervasi has tapped Scarlett Johansson and James D’Arcy to play Psycho stars Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins in Fox Searchlight’s Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho . Anthony Hopkins will play the iconic director, while Helen Mirren will play his wife, Alma. Sources tell Variety that Making of Psycho has drawn comparisons to My Week With Marilyn , and that the role of Janet Leigh could lead to the same awards consideration for Johansson that the Marilyn Monroe role did for Michelle Williams.” [ Variety ]

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Mortal Kombat Officially Rebooted, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Friday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Woody Harrelson may be next up for Now You See Me … The Half Nelson team gets Hate Mail … Idris Elba “would definitely consider” James Bond… The English Patient spawns a lawsuit… and more.

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Mortal Kombat Officially Rebooted, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Tyrese on Fast Five’s Oscar Chances and His Plans to Change the Universe

You may not have realized it, but Tyrese Gibson had a billion dollar box-office summer. The worldwide grosses of his two blockbusters Fast Five and Transformers: Dark of the Moon totaled $1.7 billion to be exact — a number that the former model/R&B artist/actor quoted twice during a recent chat with Movieline.

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Build Your Own Scary ‘Dream House’ Using the Creepiest Rooms in Movies

Dream House promises to chill you with intrigue and suspense, but will the actual ‘dream house’ provide any of the scares? Here’s hoping yes. Freaky houses are a touchstone in horror cinema, and today I’m building a blueprint for a spooky manse made only from rooms in creepy movies. Norman Bates, Jack Torrance and Leatherface all contribute to the interior decoration.

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Build Your Own Scary ‘Dream House’ Using the Creepiest Rooms in Movies

Eddie Vedder is Given to Fly in First Trailer for Cameron Crowe’s Pearl Jam Doc

Because the first person you think of when you think of Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder is David Lynch, the new trailer for Pearl Jam Twenty starts with the famed director ( and part-time musician ) asking EV when “music started being a thing” for him. Cue up a dissolve into 20-year-old Pearl Jam home movies, folks, because Eddie is having himself a pretty rocking flashback!

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‘Good Evening’: Anthony Hopkins To Star In Hitchcock Biopic?

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Sir Anthony Hopkins, best known as Hannibal Lecter and, of course as Tom Cruise’s boss in Mission: Impossible 2 , is in talks to play the similarly creepy Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. The movie will detail the struggles that Hitchcock went through to make Psycho , a film that many thought would capsize his career. Sacha Gervasi, helmer of the documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil , is in talks to direct. I think Anthony Hopkins could make a great Hitchcock, so long as he starts packing on the pounds. Sir Tony is a pretty slight fella, and Hitchcock was one of our more porcine directors. Just a thought! [ THR ]

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10 Favorite Stories of 2010: Louis’s Picks

I spent 2010 hailing 30 Rock , defending American Idol , mixing it up with Erin Andrews and Isaac Mizrahi, and figuring out all the things Snooki looks like. (My favorite: A hat rack where Cher hangs all her old parts.) Ahead, I revisit my ten favorite stories of the year, and yes, my video dalliance with Diablo Cody and Megan Fox makes the cut.

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10 Favorite Stories of 2010: Louis’s Picks

Our Commenters of the Week Get to Build Their Own Provocative Bret!

This week’s “Commenters of the Week” prize is designed specifically for our engineering friends. Have you found yourself reading about a provocative “Bret” on Movieline — whether he’s a porn-loving diabetic on the mend or an iconic author/screenwriter who doesn’t care for female directors — and thought, “You know, I could construct an even more incendiary Bret — if only I had the means .” Well, Movieline is giving you access to its garage of tools, blueprints, soundbite instruction guides and Casio voice boxes. Your Bret will be as bandanna-loving or American Psycho -imagining as the real thing. So, who wins?

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Our Commenters of the Week Get to Build Their Own Provocative Bret!