Did Movieline interview Tommy Wiseau at Comic-Con? How could we not! The enigmatic auteur behind the cult sensation The Room was there promoting his new project, an Atom.com short called The House That Drips Blood on Alex, and though Wiseau has a tendency to speak in riddles and koans (in endearing broken English), he dished a little on being an actor for hire, converting The Room into 3D, and whether he wants to do a film about Heath Ledger.
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After all the time he's spent on the Iron Man franchise, Jon Favreau is a Comic-Con mainstay, but his new sci-fi western Cowboys and Aliens presented a problem: He's only a few weeks into shooting it, so how could he possibly pull together yesterday's panel (and some effects-laden first footage) in time? He told Movieline how he managed it, and why.
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He may be 65 years old, but Danny DeVito is plugged into youth culture: He has a twitter, a cult TV show, and a website called The Blood Factory full of low-budget, do-it-yourself horror shorts that he's directed. He was promoting the latter at Comic-Con, where I found him holding court with wife Rhea Perlman in front of a bloody, disemboweled corpse.
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Creative differences happen all the time in Hollywood, but it's rare to see a statement acknowledging them as candid as the one recently released by Marvel head Kevin Feige. While confirming rumors that Edward Norton would not reprise his Hulk role in the Marvel superhero mashup The Avengers, Feige implied that Norton was something less than a team player. Tonight, I asked him whether he regretted his candor.
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Wentworth Miller spent all four years of his stint on Prison Break convincing himself he wasn't a writer, but after the show wrapped, he spent four weeks writing the script Stoker -- a drama about a young girl and her mysterious, potentially murderous uncle -- and managed to attach A-list talent like Jodie Foster and Carey Mulligan. At Comic-Con, he told Movieline how it happened (and which Alfred Hitchcock movie Stoker is an homage to).
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Michel Gondry is an eccentric choice to direct a superhero movie like the Seth Rogen starrer The Green Hornet, but perhaps the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind helmer can use his left-field sensibility to mine something new in a very crowded genre. In a chat this afternoon with Movieline at Comic-Con, Gondry sounded off on working with Rogen (and his frequent collaborator, Charlie Kaufman), Nicolas Cage's brief flirtation with the film, and why Hornet's post-production conversion to 3D is no gimmick.
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Karl Urban isn't just a featured actor in fanboy classics like Lord of the Rings and Star Trek, but a fanboy himself -- in fact, when I chatted with him just now about his Con movies Priest and Red, he got enthusiastically sidetracked for a minute to rave about The Expendables ("I feel like I'm promoting someone else's movie!"). Still, there was nothing he was more psyched to talk about than Judge Dredd, the comic book reboot he's negotiating to topline, and he spilled the beans on some of the film's brand-new details to Movieline.
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Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline's spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from Valerie Plame Wilson about the new documentary Countdown to Zero, which features the famed ex-CIA operative as a key subject and opens Friday in limited release.
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A few months shy of his 40th birthday, Nicolas Winding Refn has already directed a trilogy (the Pusher series), a biopic of England's most violent criminal (Bronson), and has flirted with Hollywood projects featuring A-listers including Harrison Ford and Keanu Reeves. He is preparing to shoot the mainstream thriller Drive with Ryan Gosling, and he famously wants to make a megabudget adaptation of Wonder Woman. So with all this going for him, what is it about his gritty, nasty, surreal new Viking film Valhalla Rising that makes it the prolific Refn's personal favorite?
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Liz Phair has spent 17 years in the recording industry as a saint and a "sellout," a cavalier grandmaster of articulation whose monotone delivery and Stones-y dispassion on Exile in Guyville, her breakout 1993 album, inspired countless confessional female singer-songwriters. Now, after being declared a pop misfit with her self-titled album in 2003, Phair returns to her fringe roots with Funstyle, a record she released online herself July 3. In it, she discusses her new gig, one that's already garnered her an ASCAP award: television composer.
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Zac Efron is a huge comic book geek, but he knows that other comic book geeks won't believe that. As he told Movieline this weekend, that's exactly why he hasn't accepted any of the superhero roles he's had first pick of.
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Now that RuPaul's Drag Race has injected charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent into the lagging art of reality competition shows, Logo will debut Drag Race's first spinoff series tonight, RuPaul's Drag U, where queens from the original series return to assist everyday women upgrade to more confident, arguably fabulous versions of themselves. And who better to talk to about "fabulous" than season two's second runner-up JuJubee and season one's runner-up Nina Flowers?
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Some people decide to pursue acting on a whim -- maybe they saw a performance that resonated with them, or they're looking for a way to express themselves. For Hutch Dano, it was in his blood.
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He's only appeared in two episodes so far, but as the werewolf Alcide, Joe Manganiello has made quite an impression on True Blood this season -- and it isn't just because at 6'5", he towers over costar Anna Paquin. As he told Movieline last week, sometimes even that positively dashing height can be a drawback.
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Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline's weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from Ben Steinbauer, whose Winnebago Man is now playing in New York and opens Friday in Los Angeles.
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