Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Christian Bale heads to China for his next film... Topher Grace explains the long delay behind Take Me Home Tonight... Injuries on the set of Uwe Boll's new film have nothing to do with its assumed awfulness... and more ahead.
· This is what the news looks like in the days before Christmas. Internet sensation Tron Guy (real name Jay Maynard) tells TMZ that his local Minnesota movie theater wouldn't allow him to dress as Tron Guy during a recent showing of Tron: Legacy. Maynard says he called the theater in advance to tell them of his plans, but was told management was "adamantly" against the idea. And you call this America?! [TMZ]
· Moving on from that crazy talk, let's see what normal stories are in the news. Six people were injured during an explosion on the set of Uwe Boll's new film Dungeon Siege II. Oh, come on. [Rope of Silicon]
· Christian Bale has agreed to co-star in Nanjing Heroes, the latest film from Zhang Yimou. Heroes tells the story of the Nanjing Massacre, Japan's 1937 attack on the Chinese capital that killed thousands of citizens. Bale will play an American priest who tries to save as many as he can. [THR]
· Get excited all you Beartrap Contessa lovers! (You too, Louis.) TLC and Sarah Palin are already discussing a second season of Sarah Palin's Alaska. "Sarah knows to strike when the iron is hot and started talking about season two right after the show debuted to huge numbers," a "friend of Palin" told PopEater's Rob Shuter. "She knows that celebrities get millions of dollar for each episode of their shows and thinks she's worth it too. Jennifer Aniston took home millions from Friends and in Sarah's eyes, she's no different." Let me just take this opportunity to once again thank John McCain for unleashing Sarah Palin onto our unsuspecting shores. Great decision! [PopEater]
· When the Topher Grace/Anna Faris film Take Me Home Tonight (formerly Kids in America) opens next spring, it will be almost four years since shooting ended. The reason for the delay? Cocaine. "It's an audience film. It's not drama," Grace told MTV. "But there was a real hesitation [from the studio] because there is so much cocaine in it, and our feeling at the time was, 'You can't do a movie about Prohibition without alcohol, and you really can't do a movie about partying in the '80s, at the age these kids are, without showing cocaine use." [MTV]
· Can't we all just get along? The Los Angeles Film School and the Hollywood Farmers Market are battling over a parking lot. [Huffington Post]