So the Farrelly Brothers decided to give the kids from Jersey Shore a cameo in their upcoming Three Stooges reboot (Oh, the jokes write themselves...) which turned out to be such an amazing experience that Sammi "Sweatheart" Giancola, Jenni "JWoww" Farley, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, and Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi may now turn their fist-pumping sights on second careers as actors. At least when this nightmare comes to pass, we know who to blame.
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Rapper and singer and living Bratz doll Nicki Minaj -- she of the latest televised nipple slip, who is currently opening for Britney Spears on tour (I'd argue it should be the other way 'round) -- will make her feature film debut next summer alongside fellow rapper (and onetime Degrassi star, let's not forget) Drake. Which envelope-pushing production will Minaj lend her chameleonic talents to in her first major screen credit?
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I keep eyeing the news of Jesse Eisenberg's dual role in Richard Ayoade's next movie The Double, based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella, with excitement about people who aren't even involved with the project. If The Double, about "a Russian government clerk whose life unravels after what he believes is a literal facsimile of himself -- same appearance, same name, same hometown -- begins working in his office," is a hit, will it popularize the idea of other actors playing dual roles? And who would we want to see act against his/her own mirror image?
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All this fuss over the first look at Anne Hathaway's maybe-official Catwoman garb in The Dark Knight Rises brings to mind Selina Kyle's sartorial choices over the years, since her 1940 debut in Bob Kane and Bill Finger's Batman #1 comic. Much has changed through the decades, from Catwoman's sultry swingin' '60s shimmer to, well, Halle Berry's unfortunate bra 'n' leather pants getup. Will Hathaway's be-goggled Selina Kyle fare any better than her predecessors?
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The memory of Roberto Benigni's 1999 Best Actor Oscar win for Life is Beautiful is still a pleasurable, if slightly unsettling jolt to my synapses. Chair jumping! Hollering! Grand gesturing! That unmistakable air of horniness! More than ten years later, Benigni is exhuming that fervor on the set of Woody Allen's Bop Decameron, where he costars alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Alec Baldwin, and Greta Gerwig. Here are his best five moments of paparazzi-captured craycray.
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"Watching LORDS OF SALEM SFX test footage. Holy fuck this is fucking sick shit. I hope everyone loves demented, perverted satanic movies." Meanwhile, somewhere in Denmark, Lars von Trier yawns. [@RWZombie]
The Amazing Spider-Man doesn't even come out until next July, but Sony is already so confident in its potential world-beating success that the studio has placed its sequel on the schedule. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will hit on May 2, 2014 -- assuming the world doesn't end, Sony doesn't go out of business, and/or interest in Spider-Man doesn't wane to the point of nonentity. Mark your calendars! [Deadline]
· When Dwayne Johnson isn't tweeting about how he knew Osama bin Laden was dead before anyone else, he's showing off pictures of himself, his ridiculously jacked torso and a giant machine gun on the set of G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation. Go, Joe! Or something. Click through for the muscle, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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Citizens of Pittsburgh, your local authorities have a message for you: If you hear gunshots, carnage, or superhero antics in your streets this weekend, do not assume that it's because The Dark Knight Rises is filming. According to a report, Pittsburgh police want the city's residents to dial 911 any time a mysterious noise disturbs them -- even if it's clearly just Christian Bale hollering about craft services and commanding Anne Hathaway to step away from his finger sandwich. The authorities have Pittsburgh's best interest in mind, but still -- I hope they aren't deluged with reports of a rowdy thug who keeps claiming to be through with batsuits professionally. [WTAE via Vulture]
The only way Tom Sherak and Dawn Hudson could have enraged the online community further with the selection of an Oscar co-producer for 2012 is if they hired Michael Bay. That's the kind of vitriol newly minted Oscar producer -- and apparent walking Old Hollywood Wikipedia page -- Brett Ratner brings to the table. When it was announced late Thursday that Ratner would produce the Oscars next winter with Don Mischer, a cacophony of "What the fuck?" rose up from Twitter with the speed of one of Chris Tucker's monologues in Rush Hour. It's a terrible, no-good, off-the-grid idea! Except for the fact that maybe it isn't.
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In this weekend's Rise of the Planet of the Apes, James Franco plays a San Francisco scientist attempting to develop the cure for Alzheimer's through apes. Just how did Franco transform himself from a television burnout to a believable genetic engineer, while maintaining one of the busiest and eclectic schedules in Hollywood? You can always trace a direct line through a few important roles to illustrate what led to an actor's current success. So let's look at nine pivotal performances that track the evolution of the Oscar nominated James Franco.
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Why isn't Glee creator Ryan Murphy writing or directing the Will Smith/Jay-Z production of Annie with Willow Smith in the title role? You can blame (or thank) Murphy's new FX series American Horror Story. "I met with Jay and talked to him about it. I wanted to write the script and direct it." Murphy told Deadline. "And then American Horror got picked up. Willow is a certain age and you need a script by November. I didn't think I could do it. So now she's got Emma Thompson who is 50 million times better than me. LOVE HER. I wish I could have had the time to do it." [Deadline]
Judging from the critical consensus, it appears the latest R-rated comedy in this summer of R-rated comedies is apparently the worst. Reviews for The Change-Up are even more scathing than reviews for The Hangover Part II -- and critics hated that one. Sorry, Ryan Reynolds; it seems this is just not your summer after all. Ahead, the nine most blistering reviews of The Change-Up.
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Also in this Friday (Friday!) edition of The Broadsheet: Brett Ratner comments on Brett Ratner producing the Academy Awards... Mark Ruffalo and Amanda Seyfried may See you... Kenneth Branagh doesn't need no stinkin' Thor... and more ahead.
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Perhaps due to some interoffice jealousy over the fact that Zack Snyder got to release a picture of Henry Cavill as Superman this week -- or perhaps owing to a well-scheduled Google Calendar of marketing teases -- the Dark Knight Rises team over at Warner Bros. has offered up a first look of Anne Hathaway in the Christopher Nolan mega-film. Exciting! How does Hathaway's Selina Kyle compare to Michelle Pfeiffer's iconic incarnation of the mischievous Catwoman in Batman Returns?
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