Last we heard from the team behind The Worst Movie EVER ! , filmmaker Glenn Berggoetz was receiving death threats as the movie’s historically bad box-office returns crept ever-so-incrementally higher. More than a month later, firmly ensconced in three-digit territory and finding new audiences seemingly every week, has WME ! ‘s profile emerged at last from the freezing shadow of box-office futility? Hint: No.
Santa Claus loves visiting 34th Street and Whoville, yes, but he spends most of his time taking trips to the enchanted land of cable television. This holiday season, plenty of your childhood heroes are starring in original yuletide cinema from the Hallmark Channel, TNT, and even Animal Planet. We’ve listed our nine favorites after the jump. Can you handle a homeless Kristy Swanson? Or getting “lucky” with Elizabeth Berkley? Hallmark can!
If the recipe for a good holiday blockbuster is three parts violence, one part witty banter and one part cross-dressing, then the new Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows trailer guarantees that this December’s Robert Downey, Jr. sequel will be the best blockbuster all season. Paint on your heaviest blue eyeshadow, drag your quippy sidekick away from his newspaper and click through for the trailer.
Logan Lerman, arguably our most rosy-cheeked D’A rtagnan, made an appearance on a Korean talk show while promoting the new Three Musketeers at the Busan International Film Festival. Maybe the movie’s not so hot , but you’ll see in this clip that Lerman’s cute awkwardness is the best we’ve seen since Jesse Eisenberg (and not as flip). Also, the host steals Lerman’s shoes, and for some reason it’s like watching a trainwreck.
The very existence of Paranormal Activity 3 may induce a few eye-rolls, but at this point it’s hard to deny the sheer effectiveness of “found footage” horror films. After Time featured a cover story on The Blair Witch Project in ’99, it appeared we’d be in for years and years of copycats, but there have been more than a handful of inventive twists on the young genre. What’s your favorite?
Talking with i09, George Romero revealed that he’s optioned Harvard psychologist-turned-writer Steven C. Schlozman’s book The Zombie Autopsies , which is a zombie apocalypse tale with themes of economic collapse. Also: It’s (100 percent?) medically accurate. “I think about it like the first Hammer Frankenstein film, which was all about very graphic scenes of brains floating in blood and things like that. I want it to be perfectly accurate, almost shockingly so.” So, Night of the Living Dead meets Margin Call ? Why not. [ i09 ]
The pop culture parodists at The Hillywood Show bring it with the Halloween movie-music mash-up of the season. Put your paws up and watch as they envision The Nightmare Before Christmas , only with Lady Gaga in place of Jack Skellington. The Monster Queen of Halloweentown! Somehow it’s not much of a stretch. Bonus: It’ll give you a plethora of Gaga Halloween costume ideas (sans the meat dress, which might be a bit tricky to pull off). More in your Thursday Buzz Break!
If you’ve always wanted to see Santa Claus take a bong rip, two topless nuns kiss, a toddler get high off of second-hand marijuana inhalation and Neil Patrick Harris get an under-the-pants hand job in a night club called Heaven, you’re in luck. The red-band trailer for A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas is here and offers all of those NSFW things — and more!
I wouldn’t take anything Catfish and Paranormal Activity 3 co-director Ariel Schulman says at face value , but for the record: “When we first interviewed with the president of Paramount, he actually said, ‘If you tell me right now that Catfish is fake, you’ve got the job.’ And we just went real silent. And then I said, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t tell you that.’ Because it was real. I think he figured that if we could create that authenticity dramatically, then we could do it again for this. Ultimately, we convinced them of exactly that. Catfish is completely real, but I think we have a knack for identifying the authentic moments in home video, and it plays like a narrative.” [ Huffington Post ]
It’s been a hell of an autumn so far for Zachary Quinto, who has followed his appearance in last month’s Anna Faris comedy What’s Your Number? with a forthcoming role in the FX hit American Horror Story and the lead in writer-director J.C. Chandor’s superb economic-meltdown drama Margin Call . And he dominated headlines last weekend after officially coming out as gay.