Looks like Spike Lee got his rumored dream star for the Oldboy film he's helming: Deadline reports that Josh Brolin will lead the English-language remake of Park Chan-wook's 2003 thriller about a man held prisoner for 15 years who sets out for revenge upon release. With Brolin onboard, will Christian Bale sign on next as his mysterious foil? (And how faithful will Lee's remake be to the brutality of the original?)
· If you watched the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, the chances are good you saw one of the ka-billion showings of the Kia commercial featuring a post-apocalyptic robot war, a pack of dancing hamsters and the summer smash "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO. Fun fact: that bananas bit of marketing was directed by Mark Romanek, music video veteran and the man behind Never Let Me Go. Click through to watch, get "Party Rock Anthem" stuck in your head for the day, and stick around for more Buzz Break.
Maria Maggenti, who wrote the Selena Gomez luxury binge fantasia Monte Carlo, is your Dirty Dancing remake scribe! Since Monte Carlo, Maggenti has written an adaptation of Before I Fall and is wrapping up work on the multi-century romance My Name Is Memory. Hopefully this means we're in for a decadent, Disney-pop trip to the Catskills and a scene about Penny's abortion to set Gomez's empowerment anthem "Who Says?" [Deadline]
The fall movie season is synonymous with prestige -- from Moneyball to War Horse, the next four months will be filled with the Oscar nominees of tomorrow -- but what if you want to continue the mindless fun of summer into the next season? Fear not! Hollywood has you covered with a bevy of big-budget popcorn films all seemingly designed to make summer truly endless. Which will be the biggest hits of the fall?
Today in Worst Movie EVER! news: The infamous $11 mockbuster has a new Web site where you can download the movie for the low, low price of $5. Yes, $5. We might double this thing's gross by lunchtime! But wait, there's more!
Cue up some New Order! Academy Award winner Sofia Coppola and Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars were married in Bernalda, Italy over the weekend. "Everything went well," Bernalda Mayor and ceremony officiator Leonardo Chiruzzi told the AP. "It was simple, calm, in the garden." Guests at the wedding -- which took place at the at the Coppola family-owned mansion Palazzo Margherita in Bernalda -- reportedly included George Lucas, Johnny Depp, Talia Shire, Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman. Local meats and cheeses were served, but whether gnocchi was on the menu remains to be seen. [LAT/Ministry of Gossip]
I know what you're thinking: Fall? Already? Didn't we just have a Summer Preview? Well, kind of! But time flies, and as such, Movieline's 2011 Fall Preview is here.
Also in this Monday edition of The Broadsheet: Gambler writer James Toback is not pleased with the planned remake... Zoe Saldana gets angel wings... Sin City 2 finds a tough screenwriter... and more ahead.
New Yorkers may have been left unimpressed by the magnitude of Hurricane Irene (not so much folks in the less fortunate cities in her path, let's remember), but the much-hyped weather event left an indubitable mark elsewhere: all the way across the country in sunny Hollywood, where studio execs were likely cursing the name "Irene" as the box office tallies rolled in. With hundreds of theaters shut down across the East Coast due to hurricane panic and ticket sale losses estimated at $25 million, how much did new releases Colombiana, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, and Our Idiot Brother feel the impact of Irene?
Bad news usually breaks late on a Friday, which makes it decidedly bizarre that this great news broke at 10:30 p.m. on the East Coast: Deadline reports that Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in the William Monahan-scripted remake of The Gambler, with Martin Scorsese attached to direct. (The three men previous teamed up for The Departed) The 1974 version of The Gambler -- based on a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- followed a New York City school teacher (James Caan) who is addicted to gambling. No word yet when this will actually film, however, since both Scorsese and DiCaprio have full dance cards for the foreseeable future. [Deadline]
Most expected depressed box office numbers this weekend, but even negative nellies probably didn't expect to see this. With Hurricane Irene battering the eastern seaboard, all three new releases stumbled badly on Friday, with opening days ranging from $2.3 million (Our Idiot Brother) to $4 million (Colombiana). Said one industry insider to Deadline: "Any way you slice it business is getting creamed this weekend." Thanks, Mother Nature! Your Friday box office is here.
Well, folks, it's time to pack up our canned goods and bottled water, inflate our rafts, and row row row our boats gently down the middle of the street to the safe haven of Movieline's Week in Review. Our West Coast bureau will be back with you in the days ahead with box-office news and other happenings from the cinema front; the East Coast bureau will be back with you from wherever Hurricane Irene chooses to drop us. Hopefully there are movies there! More to come then -- have a very safe and dry weekend!
Edgar Wright's geek fantasy epic Scott Pilgrim vs. the World may have biffed with mainstream audiences last year, but it's earned a dedicated fan following since, granting it bona fide cult status. That cult will have the opportunity to worship at the altar of Scott Pilgrim starting next month, when L.A.'s New Beverly Cinema begins screening it in a monthly midnight residency.
"I accidentally got on Twitter because there was a fake Elizabeth Banks, twittering, and David Wain, who's the director of Role Models and a good friend of mine, was staying at my house in L.A., twittering. I didn't know anything about Twitter at the time, but he was following me, thinking it was me. And this person tweeted, 'Hanging out by my pool! Just chilling on Saturday!' And David Wain was actually hanging out by my pool, on Saturday, and I wasn't there. I was in New York or something. And so he was like, 'Huh, I don't think you're Elizabeth Banks.' And this person broke down, and said, 'No I'm not Elizabeth Banks. I started this because I'm a fan and now I have all these followers and I don't know what to do.' David called me and said, 'Do you want me to broker the password away from this guy and get your identity back on Twitter?' And he did! So, yeah: I got Twitter identity theft." Now you know. [Esquire]
Ricky Gervais -- the troublemaking Golden Globes host who made callous, hilariously truthful jokes about such esteemed statesmen as Hugh Hefner, Tim Allen, and Robert Downey Jr. during his last hosting gig -- claims he's been asked back to the ceremony for a third straight year. And the Oscars, too. That's fantastic. But is Gervais willing to take up the offers? The giggling imp explains.
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