Bravo still hasn't formally announced the cast of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but last week, E! got the jump on the network, dishing the dirt on five of its cosmetically maintained cast members (including two Hilton relatives, Mrs. Kelsey Grammer, and a woman with the immortal last name "Vanderpump-Todd"). However, is there a sixth Housewife who's flown under the radar?
Maybe it's because it stars Lee Pace and Judy Greer as the Winslows, two of the most likable actors I can think of. Maybe it's because Owen Wilson sounds just so doggily happy. Or maybe it's because I just got a dog. I don't know -- it's definitely something, because this Marmaduke trailer kind of did it for me.
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Jim Field Smith's Butter is one of the most buzzed-about projects currently in pre-production, and it's been that way since the Jason Micallef script won the Nicholl Fellowship in 2008 and landed on the Black List. Jennifer Garner attached herself early on to this analogue for the 2008 Democratic primary, where a philandering, term-limited butter-sculpting champion watches as his Hillary Clinton-esque wife (Garner) competes against a young, black butter-sculpting upstart who happens to be a 12-year-old girl. If you're thinking that the child sounds like Butter's Obama metaphor, you're right -- and now that part has been cast.
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It's been a monumental week for John Corbett. On Monday, the (far superior) second season of his Showtime drama United States of Tara premiered to numbers so impressive that the premium cabler has already ordered a third season. Meanwhile, the actor best known as Carrie Bradshaw's lost-love Aidan lied to Movieline about his involvement in the Sex and the City 2 movie. When an official trailer for the franchise's second film revealed a (gasp!) coincidental desert rendez-vous between Carrie and her former furniture designer beau, Corbett took to the Ellen DeGeneres Show to apologize to the journalists he had thwarted over the past few months. Apology reluctantly accepted.
Corbett talked about subjects other than the Sex and the City 2 movie when he spoke to Movieline recently though -- like being intimidated by Diablo Cody on the set of United States of Tara, his behind-the-scenes pet peeve and that Sex and the City whiskey buddy of his.
Paramount has finally landed on a director for Paranormal Activity 2: The Blanket Hogging, reports Deadline, and it isn't Brian De Palma, and it isn't Akiva Goldsman. It's...Tod Williams. But he goes by Kip. You know, Tod "Kip" Williams! Director of The Door in the Floor? Gretchen Mol's hunky husband? Best of luck, Kip! [Deadline]
Everyone is entitled to change his or her mind -- especially film critics, some of whose best work occurs in a kind of corrective retrospect. That said, I'm not so sure that's what's happening with L.A. Times critic Betsy Sharkey's (pictured above, left) approach to Chloe, which Sharkey lauded following its premiere at last year's Toronto Film Festival, yet lashed out at in a review prior to this week's opening. And the fun only starts there.
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You've read the review, you've seen the eerie, slightly cryptic teaser. And now, for those anticipating Animal Kingdom's theatrical landfall in America later this year, there is an actual trailer to hold you over. It preserves all the ominousness and foreboding of David Michôd's extraordinary Australian crime drama, with a little more story background, a broader glimpse at the most evil mother since Mary tormented Precious, and, of course, hinting at the greatest filmic use of Air Supply since that video for "Making Love Out of Nothing at All." Yes, folks, it's that good.
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Michael Lewis, the journalist whose books Moneyball and The Blind Side have made for some the most high-profile adaptations (or prospective adaptations, anyway) of the last year, had a bit of news about each to pass along to Bloomberg in a recent interview about his new book The Big Short. First of all, Moneyball appears to be shooting in June with Brad Pitt still on as Billy Beane, presumably with Bennett Miller directing a script reworked by Aaron Sorkin. So there's that. But what preceded that was even more revealing -- and probably not all that surprising to even the most casual football follower.
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The NCAA basketball tourney may have preempted CBS's late-night programming, but there were plenty of other uncomfortable after hours moments to go around. George Lopez rented a long-haired bovine named Junior for Johnny Weir, the Marriage Ref gave Miley Cyrus some relationship advice and Hot Tub Time Machine's Craig Robinson revealed that he once taught Beethoven to kids who ripped the heads off birds. That clip, and the other highlights you missed last night while trying to figure out why South Park killed you off after calling you a transvestite donkey witch on Wednesday, after the jump.
When you're an in-demand star, the rumor mill can churn dramatically about what upcoming movies you're planning to star in. Leave it to Movieline, then, to go in and help actors clean up their IMDb profiles, separating fact from fiction.
Today's happy-to-oblige star is Carey Mulligan, who's riding high off of her Academy Award nomination for An Education and her new drama The Greatest, out April 2. Mulligan has press duties for Wall Street 2 and Never Let Me Go in the fall, but in the meantime, she'd like to sneak in another film. Will it be John Madden's remake of My Fair Lady? How about Effie, an Emma Thompson-scripted biopic about artist John Ruskin (to be played by Thompson's husband, Greg Wise) and his short-lived marriage to Effie Gray? And hey, aren't there rumors that Mulligan might play the lead in David Fincher's adaptation of the white-hot novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Movieline put all these potential projects to Mulligan for her clarification.
· The Syfy network is finally making that jump into live-action comedy with a single-camera project Saved by Zeroes from Smallville star Michael Rosenbaum, Sony and Happy Madison. Rosenbaum created the show based on his own experiences and will co-star with Jonathan Silverman as two former actors on a science fiction show who have hit rock bottom and must work together to get their lives back on track. Zeroes is being described as Galaxy Quest meets Eastbound & Down. In case that isn't enough motivation to watch, Rosenbaum has stated that the characters dwindled their paychecks on "drugs and drinking" and are business outsiders -- "it's the Non-tourage!" [THR]
Don Johnson ponders Southern Discomfort, AMC finds a Ghost Writer for its Walking Dead project, and more TV Bites after the jump.
· Goodness knows we can't have a whole week without another development around the romantic dramedy Something Borrowed, so let's hear it for Kate Hudson, who is closing in on a role as a woman whose best friend (played by Ginnifer Goodwin) becomes involved with her fiancé. John Krasinski also stars as Goodwin's male BFF, whose own romantic entanglements will be followed in the sequel, Something Blue. (Seriously, I'm not even making that part up.) [Variety]
A dream pairing is realized, a Dirty ensemble comes together, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or three-dimensionally explosive at the movies. This week, there is literally something for everyone as an uncouth dragon takes on an adults-only hot tub, which takes on a really adults-only psychosexual romp. Click through for a closer look.
Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe's big-budget retelling of Robin Hood was announced this morning as the opening-night selection of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. It's a total 180-degree turn from last year's opener Up, bringing bloody, epic, Hollywood-style action to the Croisette on May 12. Not a bad coup for Universal Pictures, either, which could stand to rob a little from the rich right about now. [THR]
Holy crap -- we were just talking about seeing Citizen Kane in 3-D and now Orson Welles is the drawcard in a new 3-D movie entitled Christmas Tails. It's to be based on a rare recording of the actor narrating a book of the same name and will be a hybrid CG/live-action fantasy.
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