As it turns out, the best place to get Dan Aykroyd to discuss the possibility of Ghostbusters 3 is on the radio. Like the he did previously on Chicago's WGN radio last November, Aykroyd decided to fan the Ghostbusters flames over the air, this time with Dennis Miller. So! Is the mythical third film happening? Is Bill Murray going to appear? Who will star as the young Ghostbusters? What happened to the original Ghostbusters?
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On this day, 53 years ago, Timothy Walter Burton was born in Burbank, California to parents Bill and Jean. Over the course of the next five decades, the boy from Burbank would go on to direct fifteen feature films in his signature dark, quirky style, seven of which featured his long-time collaborator Johnny Depp. To celebrate Burton's birthday, let's look back at the director's most wonderfully eccentric characters before choosing a favorite.
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Ten years ago today, when the R&B singer Aaliyah -- whose music videos were often just as cinematic as her acting ventures -- died in a plane crash, she was a burgeoning film star with a couple of major flicks under her belt and plans to co-star in the Matrix sequels. Let's take a quick look back at her filmography, reflect on her screen merits, and try to drown out the goth-rock soundtrack to Queen of the Damned.
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· It's come to this: on Sunday, MTV will air a special first look preview of The Hunger Games, and today the network has released a preview of that preview. Want to see Jennifer Lawrence in the highly anticipated release? Don't blink and click through to watch. Your Thursday Buzz Break is here.
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Get your tastebuds ready for the ultimate Wahlberg fan culinary experience; famous brothers Mark and Donnie, along with their chef sibling Paul, have secured trademark rights to sell "Wahlburgers" at a new Boston-area burger joint called, what else? Wahlburgers. I'll take mine with a side of NKOTBBQ sauce and Funky Bunch fries! But wait, there's more -- next year the brothers will open a pizza place as well. Drop your Wahlberg-related pizzeria name suggestions below. [Boston Globe via E! Online]
First came the house that inspired the Fredricksen residence in Up, and now it appears there's the house inspired by the balloon-lifted domicile. A builder in Herriman, Utah, has constructed a home designed inside and out with the colors, features and dimensions of the one from the 2009 Pixar film. It can be yours for $400,000.
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Grains of salt at the ready! The Daily Mail reports that it caught up with viewers following an early screening of the Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady, and fans of the former British prime minister were most displeased, I say.
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Also in this Thursday edition of The Broadsheet: Shawn Levy wants Frankenstein... Rob Corddry could be a Warm body... R.I.P.D. gets a supermodel to play Jeff Bridges... and more ahead.
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Twitter is at it again with a special movie-related meme. This time it's #foodmovies, or film titles made snackable through food puns and wordplay. Can you topple the list of five best #foodmovies we found on Twitter? We added our own to make the challenge even more difficult.
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We still may not know for sure whether Pixar is planning a Toy Story 4, but we do know that sixteen years ago -- long before Buzz and Woody grossed nearly $2 billion at the global box office -- Pixar was having a difficult time titling John Lasseter's toy project. So much so that the studio enlisted all of their employees to brainstorm ideas, some of which have surfaced on the Internet today.
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According to Variety, Christian Bale's got a big decision coming up once he completes filming on Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises: What to do next? With no fewer than five juicy options to pick from -- each with a notable director and vastly different material -- Bale might need a little help choosing. So let's help him out!
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I don't know how you are closing out your summer but Jonah Hill is ending his by directing his first music video. A day after officially joining Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn for Akiva Schaffer's Neighborhood Watch, the actor has tweeted a picture of himself on the set of the Sara Bareilles music video "Gonna Get Over You." Check out the photo and the song ahead, before sending Hill your best wishes.
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· Thanks to its terrifying trailer and timely plot of human extinction, Contagion looks poised to be one of the more serious entries at the multiplex this September -- which is why it feels safe to laugh at Jude Law's bubble boy safety helmet. You know the one; it looks like an ice cube or shot glass, depending on your mood. Click through for a look, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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In honor of Scarface's upcoming Blu-ray release, Universal Studios hosted a lavish soiree on Tuesday night to celebrate the Brian De Palma gangster flick which has become a machismo cult classic since its poor critical reception in 1983. At the Belasco Theater in downtown Los Angeles, the event featured Cuban cuisine, desserts shaped like lines of cocaine, a Ludacris concert and a Q&A panel with stars Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia and F. Murray Abraham, as well as Scarface producer Martin Bregman. From their Scarface-style thrones on stage -- bathed in red light and surrounded by Roman sculptures, natch -- the cast reflected on their movie's present-day popularity, machine-gun injuries and Eddie Murphy. The nine most interesting revelations follow.
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Magazine editors are increasingly looking to place their stories at studios -- for what it's worth: "'Hollywood is essentially in the business of not making movies,' said Henry Finder, editorial director of The New Yorker. 'They only make a movie when they run out of reasons not to make it. [... B]ut if I'm trying to get talent attached it might be easier for me to say, "Hey look, Brad Pitt, there's this really cool story that was in Vanity Fair or Rolling Stone" -- it's going to be based on that.'" Great! It beats Ouija. [WWD via The Awl]
