Let’s hear it for all of the readers and fans who participated in our John Carpenter 10-word review contest for The Ward . In just over 24 hours, we received nearly 50 submissions, all thoughtful, creative and hilarious, just like our Movieline readers. Alas, only six could be winners.
The idea that Machete , Robert Rodriguez’s grindhouse tribute, was inspired in part by his Spy Kids trilogy of the early aughts is an appealing one. Danny Trejo played a kid’s idea of a bad guy named Machete in the films, then helped carry a genre mutation of the character over into bloody B-movie territory. So it seems fitting that Rodriguez was inspired in turn, on the set of Machete , to reanimate his Spy Kids franchise. It might even bode well. But the germ of the idea — Machete star and new mom Jessica Alba wrestling with an exploding diaper in full costume — is little transformed in Spy Kids: All the Time in the World , despite two added dimensions and a brand new cast.
With his latest film, the well-received four and a half-hour opus The Mysteries of Lisbon , still in theaters stateside, Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz has passed away in Paris following a lung infection. The director, who had made over 100 films in his nearly five-decade career, was 70.
Robert Downey Jr. is not just a laudable actor who earned the coolest Oscar nomination of the past decade for his performance in Tropic Thunder ; he’s also a damn quotable person . But what happens when he’s asked to speak about Iron Man 3 , a film that Lethal Weapon writer/ Kiss Kiss Bang Bang director Shane Black hasn’t finished writing yet and comes out in May 2013? He’s not as revealing or candid (since, uh, there’s nothing to reveal). Instead, he says things like this.
You know the full cast list, you got your first look at Henry Cavill in the suit , but you still hunger for more details from Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel , eh? Well, for the Superman fans out there who just have to know, a synopsis purporting to reveal the official plot for WB’ s upcoming superhero reboot has surfaced online. But is it the real deal? (Click ahead only if you really, absolutely have to know…)
If Steven Soderbergh is attempting to make his male stripper movie Magic Mike into the dude version of Sucker Punch , mission accomplished! EW reports that comically handsome True Blood star (and once-possible Superman ) Joe Manganiello is final talks to play “Big Dick Richie” in the film, opposite comically handsome stars Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey and Matt Bomer . Who’s next? Jon Hamm? Ryan Gosling? [ EW ]
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s mysterious Breaking Dawn cast poster (as we reported, it’s not the official movie poster but licensee key art from NECA, so rest easy) comes a brand spanking new synopsis and set of nine hi-res images from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 , which will set Twi-hard hearts aflutter with its focus on romance, passion, and babymaking. Dive in!
Jeff Bridges is a busy dude. (Groan!) In addition to his planned appearance at the cast reunion of The Big Lebowski in New York on Tuesday night as part of Lebowski Fest (check back to Movieline for coverage of the event), the Oscar-winner released his self-titled country album on Tuesday . Bridges celebrated that event by performing selections from the record on SiriusXM’s ‘Outlaw Country’ channel on Monday afternoon, which meant only one thing: awesome Jeff Bridges guitar faces! Click through for a look.
It’s hard to believe that G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation has become a legitimate summer tentpole from the time of its announcement to its first day of shooting, but that’s sorta what happened. Lots of that has to do with J.J. Abrams’s inability to get the ball rolling on Star Trek 2 in time for Paramount’s planned June 29, 2012 release date — resulting in Joe landing there — but with a cast featuring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson , Channing Tatum, Adrianne Palicki and possibly Bruce Willis , it has become hard to ignore G.I. Joe 2 ‘s potential for box office breakout next summer. Step one on that road is filming, which direct Jon M. Chu has commenced, and Johnson has commemorated on Twitter. Click through for a look.