The Twilight Saga of the stolen sex scene footage rolls on! Today, after alleged footage pirate Daiana Santia of Argentina held a press conference to defend her name against accusations that she stole intellectual property from the unreleased Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn production, Summit Entertainment hit back in press release detailing the copyright infringement they say Santia committed and their months-long efforts to get her to cooperate with investigators.
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Apes! Will! Rise! Ups! Will! Change! Enh, whatever. That's about as exciting as this weekend's wide release line-up gets on paper, at least until the dollars trickle in and the spreadsheets start filling up around Hollywood. But who will be on top? To the Forecast!
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Well, isn't this quite the youthful shake-up! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced the producers who will create next year's Oscars telecast: previous telecast director Don Mischer and Rush Hour/X-Men 3 director Brett Ratner. Does this mean less snooze and more explosions for the annual awards season centerpiece?
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Rumor has it that this week the apes will rise. So in honor of our primate cousins and their varied achievements on film, Movieline will honor one great movie ape/monkey/chimp each day who embodies an admirable quality found in monkeykind. Today we honor Amy, the talking, tickling, martini-drinking gorilla in 1995's Michael Crichton adaptation Congo. She is a domesticated ape who can call herself pretty...and lead you across continents to a lost city and diamond mine.
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Bruce Campbell is full of big announcements this summer. First, he confirmed that a remake of Evil Dead is officially in the works. (With Diablo Cody on board to help write the script no less.) And now, the actor has just tweeted that he will work with his long-time collaborator Sam Raimi once again in Oz: The Great and Powerful.
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Further evidence that Steven Soderbergh can't possibly retire early as previously reported: Even with Haywire and Contagion to promote and Channing Tatum's stripper movie to shoot this year, the Oscar-winner has found time to shoot second unit on Lionsgate's now-filming adaptation of The Hunger Games.
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Before you make rash judgments about Dimension's new remake of Short Circuit, the 1986 movie about a weaponized robot named Johnny 5 that gains intelligence after lightning strikes it, or its director Tim Hill, who helmed Hop and Alvin and the Chipmunks, let me say this: We can't be precious about middling robot drama from the '80s, nor can we underestimate Hill, a former Rocko's Modern Life writer and story editor. I'm kind of excited! Ideally, it'll be like Real Steel except without the hilarious robot feelings. [Deadline]
I knew something seemed unusual when I looked at Entertainment Weekly's new cover featuring Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, and Viola Davis, three of the stars of the new film The Help. Is it the lighting? Emma Stone's curiously nondescript expression? Nope, it's that we haven't seen a black actor or actress featured on the cover in quite some time. Can you guess the last black thespian to land the cover of EW?
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Before she became Buffy and became a household name, Sarah Michelle Gellar got her big break playing the scheming Kendall Hart on ABC's long-running soap All My Children. And now that the daytime fave is going off the air, Gellar plans to make one last trip to Pine Valley, joining fellow AMC vet Josh Duhamel in returning to the show that started her career. Gellar's one-day cameo role is still TBA, since there's only room in town for one Kendall (played subsequently by Alicia Minshew)... or is there? [Deadline]
· The second international trailer for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has arrived online and it's just as tense as before, but with one added twist: the music from X-Men: First Class! (Hat tip to Cinema Blend for that pull.) If only Michael Fassbender was cutting his way through Cold War Europe in this one too! Alas, you'll have to settle for Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Colin Firth and a host of other British thespians. While you await the U.S. trailer for the Tomas Alfredson-directed John LeCarre adaptation, watch this bit of exciting marketing ahead. Your Thursday Buzz Break is here.
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At least some people may not like this weekend's Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but PETA surprisingly does. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes reminds viewers that animals are feeling beings who deserve compassion, and its stunning use of CGI shows that there's no need to subject apes to the stress of filmmaking. Rupert Wyatt's methods back up PETA's message that apes should be protected and respected," PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange said. We're still waiting for their thoughts on James Franco's performance. [NextMovie]
The Natasha Lyonne Comeback Tour rolls onward! Per Variety, Lyonne has been added to the cast of Imogen, the Kristen Wiig passion project that Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are directing later this summer. Lyonne will play a "Jersey Shore girl who works on the Boardwalk," which sounds delightful. Imogen follows a playwright (Wiig) who fakes a suicide attempt to win back her boyfriend, and is then forced to move by to New Jersey to live with her flamboyant mother (Annette Bening). [Variety]
Attention, all New York aficionados of The Big Lebowski! Tickets for this year's local Lebowski Fest are officially on sale, with one of the event's biggest coups set for Aug. 16: A screening of the Coen Brothers' classic, followed by a cast reunion featuring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi and Julianne Moore. Dude.
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Look, all over your Internet browser. It's not a bird! It's not a plane! It's the first still from Man of Steel! Warner Bros. has released a first official image of Henry Cavill as Superman in the 2013 summer tentpole, and he looks like... well, like the Man of Steel. Click through for your first look.
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Tom Hardy has a message for all Batman fans -- his Bane is different from the Bane that appeared in Batman & Robin. Hopefully that isn't a problem. "I think Bane's fucking cool so I'm really excited to play him," he told TotalFilm. "It's not the guy in Joel Schumacher's film, but it shouldn't disappoint fanboys." He's not the guy in the Joel Schumacher film that everyone hates with the fire of 1000 suns? Oh, Tom; that's a good thing! You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. [TotalFilm]
