The marketing campaign for The Dark Knight Rises has certainly been a fascinating one, as it’s seemingly broken all the traditional rules—first, the trailers were ambiguous and revealed very little (imagine that—a modern trailer that doesn’t spoil the film); second, the theatrical poster was, well, crap; third, the TV spots, normally 30 second bits of Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : ScreenCrave.com Discovery Date : 29/05/2012 05:09 Number of articles : 2
We’ve seen two teaser trailers for Simon West’s sequel to The Expendables — well, one teaser, and one trailer for this trailer. But now we’ve got an actual trailer, with actual footage showing some of what happens when you put Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 03/05/2012 19:00 Number of articles : 2
For an independently produced comedy that mostly revolves around adults talking to each other — sometimes with child accessories — in varying degrees of inebriation, Friends with Kids is finding a modest amount of success. It’s not perfect , but somehow it manages to be funny without any accidental drug trips, grandmas shooting guns at the dinner table, or Tom Cruise rescuing Cameron Diaz from a crashing plane. Writer-director-co-star Jennifer Westfeldt has returned us a bit to the days of comedies of manners, instead of the awful dichotomy between shrill “romantic” comedy and Apatovian gross-out comedy where Hollywood seems stuck these days. In that spirit, here are four lessons future adult comedies should take from Friends with Kids . [Spoilers ahead.] 1. Skip (most of) the bathroom jokes. Bridesmaids it isn’t. While there is one major on-screen poop joke in Friends with Kids, it actually made me breathe a sigh of relief, because at least we didn’t have to see the bodily function in action. As soon as Megan Fox walked across from a baby with “explosive diarrhea” — diaper ominously absent — I started dreading seeing an explosion in her direction. Hence my gratitude, and surprise, when it never came. (This is an admittedly low bar — eventually I’d love to see Adam Scott or Kristen Wiig in a romantic comedy that ignores the bathroom altogether — but hey, small steps.) 2. Write romantic comedies about the occasional decent human being. Sure, Scott’s Jason spends most of the movie as a Barney Stinson-like asshole, but the story ultimately hinges on his growing up. I wish Westfeldt had given her Julie a little more to do, but she’s at least a relatively sensible woman who, when rejected by the person she loves, moves away and tries to move on. Even the protagonists’ respective Ms. and Mr. Wrong, played by Fox and Edward Burns, are written with a bit of sympathy. Compare that to most of the romantic comedy heroes in recent memory — Natalie Portman’s poorly characterized commitment-phobe in No Strings Attached and the all-around loathsome denizens of Something Borrowed and How Do You Know come to mind, not to mention anyone played by Katherine Heigl – and it was a pleasant change to actually understand and sympathize with the characters of Friends with Kids. 3. Sex can be funnier off-screen. For a story that revolves around adults trying to procreate while maintaining their recreational sex lives, most of Friends with Kids ’ sex was more heard about than seen. Which was great. Sure, there are ways to make sex funny on-screen, and I laughed at the awkward bedroom machinations when Jason and Julie tried to conceive their child. But my apparently universal Adam Scott crush aside, I didn’t feel cheated by the lack of nudity. That scene and other references to sex in Friends with Kids were funnier, sharper and more adult than most of the shenanigans in last year’s dueling sex-friends rom-coms, No Strings Attached and Friends with Benefits . 4. All you need is a good dinner party or two. As you may have read , Friends with Kids is not the much-marketed Bridesmaids reunion, but the returning cast plays a great collective supporting role. The actors have good chemistry as a group of friends, with all the tensions and alliances therein, and some of the best parts of Friends with Kids depict their various gatherings, including a climactic, verbally-explosive dinner party during a group vacation. Westfeldt’s characters argue like real people, and the drama of those arguments powers her story – no need for rogue hot-air balloons , incompetent bounty hunters, or even spy partners fighting gun battles over Reese Witherspoon. PREVIOUSLY : What Wanderlust — and Hollywood — Just Can’t Get Right About Women Maria Aspan is a writer living in New York whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Reuters and American Banker. She Tweets and Tumbls .
Biggest . Bust . Ever : “In light of the theatrical performance of John Carter ($184 million global box office), we expect the film to generate an operating loss of approximately $200 million during our second fiscal quarter ending March 31. As a result, our current expectation is that the Studio segment will have an operating loss of between $80 and $120 million for the second quarter. As we look forward to the second half of the year, we are excited about the upcoming releases of The Avengers and Brave , which we believe have tremendous potential to drive value for the Studio and the rest of the company.” [Disney via Deadline ]
The full-length trailer for Prometheus has just gone online, and caps off a day of great promo materials for Ridley Scott‘s new film. Check it out below. Yes. That’s the way to do it. This trailer expands on the previous teasers, showing just enough to suggest, finally, the ways that Prometheus isn’t just fan-service for Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 17/03/2012 19:31 Number of articles : 3
Jeremy Rosado is a really nice guy. That’s what the American Idol judges were telling us over and over last night, with Randy Jackson pointing to the way Rosado comforted many hopefuls during opening auditions. That’s great and all – but it’s never a good sign, show wise, when the panel is talking more about your heart than your voice. Indeed, Jeremy didn’t really impress with his vocals on a cover of “Gravity.” It’s certainly hard to see him advancing over such solid performers as Phillip Phillips and even the theatrical Colton Dixon . But at least Rosado can return to his medical supply job in Florida with his head held high. Jeremy Rosado – “Gravity”
In Intruders, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Intacto, 28 Weeks Later) puts Clive Owen through the wringer when his daughter, played by Ella Purnell, is menaced by a character that seems to be right out of her imagination. We’ve got a new trailer for the horror thriller, and you can check it out below. The film Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 16/02/2012 00:39 Number of articles : 2
The first matinees of the Kate Hudson / Ginnifer Goodwin vehicle Something Borrowed haven’t ended yet, but Mr. Skin’s already got the rubdown on all the sexy scenes! There’s no nudes to be seen in this fluffy romantic comedy, but there are some sexy moments to fill your Kate Hudson spank bank during her pregnancy. In one scene, she bares her upper thigh in a sexy table dance, then a nude photograph of her appears framed on a wall (unfortunately she’s covering her candy with her arm), and finally she wears a white shirt/shorts combo that doesn’t conceal the teeny bikini underneath. Ginnfer Goodwin fans can look forward to a tasty, but all too brief, shot of side boob as she leaves her man’s house the morning after. Can Mr. Skin borrow a kleenex? In nudetastic limited release is Italian drama The Double Hour, which features double bush from jugulous Russian Kseniya Rappoport , who got nude and kinky in The Unknown Woman (2006). In one scene Kseniya, playing a Slovenian immigrant in a doomed lover affair with an ex-cop, is wearing her bra as she and her officer lover get it on in bed. When he gets up to leave, she uncrosses her legs for a super-rare bra-and-bush scene . Later in the film we see Kseniya’s bush again when her panties get pulled down having sex against a wall. Double bush? Mr. Skin needs a couple hours alone. Stay tuned right here on the Mr. Skin blog for all the theatrical nudes as they break!
Thursday night during American Idol, Universal Pictures and director Jon Favreau premiered the theatrical trailer for the upcoming Summer blockbuster Cowboys & Aliens. Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde, the big budget, western sci-fi hybrid is scheduled for release on July 29. Up until now we’ve seen a teaser trailer [1], a Super Bowl commercial [2] and attendees of Comic Con, Butt-Numb-A-Thon… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 15/04/2011 02:28 Number of articles : 3
“I am quite down-to-earth for such an eccentric person.” – Lady Gaga With the release of “Born This Way” less than 24 hours away, Vogue officially released its March cover featuring the fabulous Lady Gaga this morning. Despite her theatrical shows, outrageous getups, wild antics, obsession with blood and semen and so on, she says she’s a family-oriented good girl. The Italian-American New York native says she prefers to be called by her real name, Stefani, in the bedroom for example. She also cares deeply for her parents. “I obsess about his health,” she said about her father. “I’m very Italian. I call him every day. I ask my mother if he’s been smoking. They are in their 50s now.” “They still live in the same apartment on the Upper West Side,” Gaga tells Vogue . “Nothing has changed at all since I have become a star. I am a real family girl.” “When it comes to love and loyalty, I am very old-fashioned.” Just one of many reasons why we love her … opulent robes, pink wigs and all. Click to enlarge Vogue’s Lady Gaga pictures below and tell us what you think:
