Ron Howard May Count to 364, and 7 Other Stories You'll be Talking About Today
Happy Friday! Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Michel Gondry returns to France... Inside India's disappearing softcore porn industry... The 50 Cent/Mickey…
Weekend Forecast: Contagion to Brush Off Help For Box-Office Top Spot
Welcome to another edition of Weekend Forecast, your weekly guide to the latest film offerings and/or whatever you want to call that new thing Nick Swardson is in. It's…
The 5 Films Likeliest to Ignite a Toronto 2011 Bidding War
It's that time again -- time for actors and filmmakers to cross their fingers, for studios and distributors to get out their checkbooks, for bleary-eyed audiences to get…
You're Gonna Make It: Mary Tyler Moore to Receive SAG Life Achievement Award
Congratulations to Mary Tyler Moore, the TV icon, Oscar nominee, humanitarian firebrand and all-around screen legend who was announced this morning as the recipient of…
Just Another Video of Dominatrix Barbra Streisand Whipping Indiana Jones
We've already established this week's Bad Movie We Love, The Main Event, as a benchmark of Barbra Streisand costuming. But what of this rare video -- long-rumored and…
Reese Witherspoon Hit by Car, and Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Happy Thursday! Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Gatsby goes Bollywood ... An avant-garde legend passes away ... Steven Spielberg takes on a partner for…
The Case For Eddie Murphy
"Even with all the Norbit-level garbage he's been in, all the shit that he's done to hurt his career (like when he stormed out of the Academy Awards after not winning…
Ezra Miller on Beware the Gonzo and Dodging Teen-Actor Traps
Maybe it's coincidence that Ezra Miller had two films premiere at last year's Tribeca Film Festival, including Beware the Gonzo -- which finally arrives theaters this…
Watch Oliver Stone Cameo in Son's Horror Trailer
I'll never forget Sean Stone as the young, freckle-faced Jim Morrison through whom the soul of the bloody dead roadside Indian passed in his father Oliver Stone's epic…
Dragon Tattoo Tumblr Goes Behind the Scenes With Fincher and Co.
It's the quotidian, almost invisible bits that matter most behind the camera on a movie set. Take the sliver of video newly available on a Tumblr called Mouth Taped…
Latest Sarah Palin Doc to Theaters on Sept. 30
Nick Broomfield's documentary Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, which premieres this week at the Toronto Film Festival, has made a domestic theatrical deal with Freestyle…
Lars Von Trier Still Going on About Nazis, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Happy Wednesday! Also in this edition of The Broadsheet: Abigail Breslin takes the Virgin route ... Auction mania for Liz Taylor and John Wayne devotees ... The jewel of…
J. Edgar to Debut as AFI Fest Opener [UPDATE]
If last year's opening night was a favorite festival memory for AFI Fest director Jacqueline Lyanga, one can only imagine the blast she's going to have on Nov. 3: The…
Australian Human Centipede 2 Teaser Alleges Cuts in U.S. Version; Distrib Isn't Talking (Yet) -- UPDATED with First Image
Last anyone heard from team Human Centipede, led by the redoubtable, utterly demented filmmaker Tom Six, the third film in the series was eyeing a U.S. setting. Those…
It's Official: Eddie Murphy Hosting 2012 Oscars
Well, there you have it: Co-producer Brett Ratner asked, his Tower Heist star Eddie Murphy accepted, and the Academy today gave its official blessing for the comic/actor…
