Bam Margera Is Angry With Roger Ebert for His Ryan Dunn Tweet, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: The Ides of March will debut in August... Guillermo del Toro is intrigued by Maleficent... Sylvester Stallone casts his daughter... and more ahead.
· The official cause of the car accident that killed Ryan Dunn and one other passenger has yet to be determined by Pennsylvania police -- though one report suggests Dunn's Porsche was travelling in excess of 100 MPH before the crash -- but with rumors and photographic evidence of alcohol possibly being involved, Roger Ebert made his feelings known on Twitter. "Friends don't let jackasses drive drunk," he wrote shortly after the news broke. That caused quite a stir among Jackass fans, as well as Dunn's friend, Bam Margera. "I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day and piece of shit roger ebert [sic] has the gall to put in his 2 cents [a]bout a jackass drunk driving and his is one, fuck you!" he wrote over the course of two tweets late Monday night. "Millions of people are crying right now, shut your fat fucking mouth!" Ebert has yet to return comment to Margera. [Huffington Post]
· In happier news: George Clooney's latest directorial outing, <a href=
"http://www.movieline.com/2011/04/first-look-at-george-clooneys-campaign-posters-in-the-ides-of-march.php" target="_blank">The Ides of March, will open the Venice Film Festival at the end of August. Based on the play Farragut North by Beau Willimon, March stars Clooney as a presidential candidate, Ryan Gosling as his idealistic head of media, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman as his campaign manager. Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood are along for the ride as well. Fingers crossed this is as awesome as everyone hopes. March arrives in theaters on Oct. 14. [Deadline]
· Guillermo del Toro might be too busy for Hellboy III, but he isn't too busy to speculate about Disney's Maleficent, the alternate take on Sleeping Beauty. "Let me put it this way, if they ask I'll take the meeting," del Toro told the Los Angeles Times. "It's one of my three favorite Disney films. I would love to. But I don't want to put too many hopes on it. They're probably on a fast track and I cannot take any more projects on a fast track." [LAT/Hero Complex]
· Sarah Shahi -- who you probably know best from those posters for the USA Network series Fairly Legal -- will play Sylvester Stallone's daughter in the film formerly known as Headshot. At least she isn't playing his girlfriend. [Variety]
· You can't keep Nicolas Cage out of theaters. Millennium Entertainment has acquired the U.S. distribution rights for the Joel Schumacher-directed Trespass with Cage and Nicole Kidman. Look for it this fall. [Variety]
· Jason Keller -- who co-wrote the Julia Roberts-led Snow White project -- has been hired to pen The Passage for director Matt Reeves. Based on the 2009 novel by Justin Cronin, The Passage is the start of a planned trilogy "set a hundred years in the future after a government experiment to lengthen the human life span ends up turning people into vampires." Vampires. Should have known. [THR/Heat Vision]
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Driving drunk, killing people is smart ?
'Gotta agree with Mike....live by the Jackass code; die by the Jackass code. Not smart.
"The Passage" was one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's hard to imagine they will be able to put the entire story in one film.
They said that "The Passage" would be a trilogy.
Big Deal. he was playing Russian roulette with his hundreds of dumb immature death stunts anyways. I'm surprised he didn't die a long time ago with the rest of the Jackass Dummies. I love how Bam is so angry at Ebert for slamming his death and saying that he has been crying for 2 days. Come on Bam you guys were all trying to get close to death for years...lol. and the fact that he was drinking does not give us any more reasons to be compassionate to this situation.
Drinking and Driving is for losers. Ryan Dunn
ps. Bam. Millions of people are not crying over this idiot...lol. if anything the 99 percent of teens that watch any of the shows are just laughing about the situation. people have never respected drunk drivers or people who do dumb stunts to nearly kill themselves for a few laughs.
Millions of people cried when JFK, Micheal Jackson, or John Lennon died...people who put all their energy into their craft and trying to make this world a better place...and who most of all didn't drink and drive killing their friend. It just shows how uneducated and and high you are on yourself.
Ebert is extremely educated. he only stated a fact. Many people feel this way against people who drink and drive.
Everyone's a critic.
Yes, everyone. That's the easy part.
Not everyone has the talent required to be an entertainer.