· Sony's released new photos from Salt, including this one of first-act, blond Angelina before she goes on the run and dyes her hair dark. Is this going to be like The Fugitive, where you're tapping your foot and thinking, "Just shave, Harrison. Hurry up"?
· Curtis Hanson will direct Jay Moriarity, a biopic about the surfing legend (with Sean Penn in talks for a supporting role).
· The Anna Faris romcom What's Your Number is circling Andy Samberg and Zachary Quinto to play her ex-boyfriends.
· Might Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov helm Casebook of Victor Frankenstein?
· The eternally enrolled James Franco has his sights set on Yale next. Look, you can get a lot of discounts with a student ID. Ride that til the wheels come off, James.
You'll remember that last week's debut of the final international poster for Iron Man 2 was a little heavy on combustible Scarlett Johansson flatulence, so it's no surprise that the film's new domestic poster cleaned that element up a bit. (One can only the imagine the aggrieved calls from ScarJo's people to Marvel Studios: "But she is_ farting an explosion_, people. Her ass. It's on fire.") But amid the revisions that played up the actual hero's presence and gave Gwyneth Paltrow all the luster of a high-school-yearbook candid, the designers left out something that seems... well, important, particularly considering the ways the film has been marketed to date. Click through for the large version (and the omission).
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Rip Torn is gonna fight the man! Despite the the steep legal odds that were stacked against him after a drunk, armed Torn broke into a bank and thought it was actually his Connecticut home, the 79-year-old actor pleaded not guilty today to charges that include criminal trespass, carrying a gun without a permit, carrying a gun while intoxicated, burglary and criminal mischief. From here, it looks like he kind of did all those things, but from Torn's point-of-view, he was merely shouting "Not guilty!" into an exciting cotton candy cloud world, not a courtroom. Perspective! [HuffPo]
Are you a Ferris Bueller's Day Off fan? Who isn't, right? Nevertheless, only one megafan will win the privilege of owning a piece of Ferris history: The replica Ferrari 250GT Spyder California that the titular hero takes for a spin around Chicago with girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, to whose father the classic car belonged. And just for the record, the auctioneer offloading the car wants you to know it's not the ravaged husk of the one John Hughes destroyed.
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When you're making a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine, you need actors who are in on the joke. Fortunately, that's what Lizzy Caplan excels at -- not only can she nail a punchline, but her sardonic smarts were well-used both in Mean Girls and in the hit Starz series Party Down, which is about to return for its second season. (She's also more than capable of dramatic range, as anyone who caught her bad-girl True Blood arc can attest.)
A few weeks ago, Caplan rang up Movieline to reveal just how odd the Hot Tub shoot was (and how many writers it employed), what's new on Party Down this season, and why she never gets recognized for Mean Girls.
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Dancing with the Stars's triumphs and trips last night weren't startling or even unexpected -- but the glitter-caked proceedings focused our attention disorder nonetheless. After the jump, we rack up the night's biggest number, lowest marks, and the haughtiest standoff since Tom Bergeron refused to let Bruce Vilanch sit in Whoopi's square for even a second.
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If it's Tuesday, it's DVD/Blu-ray release day! Which new releases should you spend your hard earned disposable income on? Find out after the jump in DVDerby, Movieline's new, compact guide to the hyper-competitive home-video field.
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Roland Emmerich has teased us with the possibility of back-to-back Independence Day sequels before, but according to IESB, they're about to become a reality. The site says that Fox has ponied up for Will Smith's fee and locked him in for both films; Emmerich will return to direct just after he completes his Shakespeare thriller Anonymous. No word yet on whether any original cast members will come back, but did the dog survive? Did it? [IESB]
Screenwriter apologies may or may not develop into a hot new Hollywood trend, but the recent mea culpas from Monster House's Dan Harmon and Battlefield Earth's J.D. Shapiro suggest a simmering remorse among many of the town's schlock-scribes. Nevertheless, Harmon and Shapiro's contrition seems a little... off. Like, those big checks you get upon starting and completing a studio project? They're not for the work -- one's a down payment on your pride, and the other buys your silence. What would really be impressive if the screenwriters of misconceived labors of "love" or otherwise auteurist fare came out and said, "Well, I effed that one up. Sorry about that!" Read on for a few recommended trailblazers of this movement, and by all means suggest your own in the comments.
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In case you weren't sure which color states make up the majority of the Tonight Show's audience, Jay Leno welcomed Karl Rove to the program to talk about his memoir, Courage and Consequence: My Life As a Conservative in the Fight last night. Only instead of sticking to the lighter talking points that Leno has relied on during his two terms, he dug a little deeper, asking Rove about rejection, being bullied as a child and for the big finale -- his mother's suicide -- all while Parenthood star Lauren Graham looked on uncomfortably. That intimate segment, as well as the other moments that you missed while hawking your reality show from the back of your RV, after the jump.
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The hot new dance in Idolmania forums is the Season Nine Hate-Rag -- we shuffle, pout, call the talent pool a worthless bunch of nervous tickers, boo, turn it all about, and blame Ellen DeGeneres too. That seems valid in the broad strokes, but my latent conspiratorial sense wonders if Simon Cowell hasn't concocted this ennui himself. After season nine's coronation ceremony, the 50-year-old judge will leave Idol for next fall's American debut of X Factor, which he produces and has a financial stake in. Wouldn't a muddled ninth season of Idol give X Factor a better chance to shine? Have we already forgotten that the original UK version of X Factor effectively wiped out Pop Idol after Cowell jumped ship? Ahead of tonight's episode, we postulate three ways The Underwhelmed One may be cutting down Kelly Clarkson's alma mater after the jump.
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As if the current plots on Gossip Girl weren't ridiculous enough, each week the show is peppered with a bunch of pun-heavy voice overs from the unnamed Gossip Girl of the title (voiced with a paycheck quality by Kristen Bell). Think: Carrie Bradshaw, but more banal. On last night's episode, "The Empire Strikes Jack" (they love their puns on this show), 16-year-old Jenny worked at Eleanor Waldorf's fashion show and ran into some old friends, while Chuck fought with his uncle over their family hotel. How did all of the related puns rank? To the list!
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There's good news and bad news about the first film by songwriting great Lou Reed. First the good: His documentary Red Shirley, about his centenarian cousin who fled the Nazis before settling in New York and helping guide the labor movement there, will have its world premiere at a festival next month. The bad news: The festival, Visions du Reel, is in Switzerland. All of which naturally raises the question: Was Reed's film too good or not good enough for Tribeca? What happened here? [Variety]
It has only been four days since TLC acquired Sarah Palin's Alaska and already another Alaskan pseudo-celebrity is screeching into Hollywood to pitch his own reality show set in the Last Frontier. The new wannabe star is Levi Johnston -- Playgirl centerfold, pistachio spokesman, and Palin's grandbaby daddy -- who is hawking his own project from the back of an RV (really, an RV). But unlike Palin's pitch, which benefited from the input of seasoned reality expert Mark Burnett, Levi's pitch lacks focus. And since I'd rather watch Levi offer politically incorrect commentary on, well, anything, than see Palin tour a gold mine, hopefully Johnston will consider a few suggestions, free of charge.
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This year, MTV has opened up its Movie Awards to a series of pre-nominations voted on by the public, which means that instead of simply voting from amongst five nominees, you can select from twenty or so suggestions supplied by MTV in every category in order to eventually count toward the five nominees themselves. Whichever interns were tasked with filling out the suggestions list at the last minute picked some doozies (this may be the only place where She's Out of My League will ever get more nominations than Avatar), and in order to pay tribute to them, we at Movieline have put together this helpful guide of the dumbest MTV-supplied suggestions that you simply must vote through, en masse, until they become actual nominations.
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