Today, after four months of investigation, Summit Entertainment released a press release identifying the young woman who allegedly stole photos and video of Bill Condon's unfinished Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn back in March and leaked the images and screen grabs on the Internet. The investigation spanned four continents and the studio has filed civil action in two countries and criminal action in one. But enough with the boring legal details! After the jump, Movieline conducts its own high tech Facebook research on the woman who allegedly released those Bella/Edward sex pics.
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The city of Pittsburgh has Chris Nolan's Dark Knight Rises production to thank for making it snow in summer and giving newlyweds an unforgettable Kodak moment. Now, in the grand spirit of the Dark Knight Catwoman robber, comes news that a Pittsburgh man was arrested for carjacking in the name of Batman. Isn't this viral marketing going a little too far, fellas?
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A vexed, infuriated populace stood by helplessly this weekend as one of the ugliest economic stand-offs in American history threatened to destabilize our nation and the global market at large. Finally, however, an accord has been reached, and we can rebuild our shattered system with the knowledge that Cowboys & Aliens indeed knocked off The Smurfs for the top box-office spot.
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Director Len Wiseman may not be taking Colin Farrell's Doug Quaid to Mars in his "realistic," more Philip K. Dicksian Total Recall remake, and his version may be "a hard PG-13" instead of the original film's R-rating. But rest assured, he's staying true to the best part of Paul Verhoeven's Arnie-starring 1990 classic: The three-breasted woman. "You can't make a Total Recall without certain things," Wiseman told Collider at Comic-Con. Indeed. [Collider]
As a wise man (Okay, Elvis) once said, only fools rush in. But then we've all been foolish once or twice, haven't we? So prepare your heartstrings for the familiar aching that will ensue as you watch the dreamy first trailer for Like Crazy, Drake Doremus's Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner about two college kids (Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones) who fall for each other right before graduation and then discover that love, and life, gets a lot more complex when your soul mate is half a world away.
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It's unofficially Lars von Trier day here at Movieline. First, the controversial director revealed that he somewhat regretted making Dogville, since it was hailed as a favorite film by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. Now, the director is again making news by explaining how his sexually-charged upcoming project Nymphomaniac will carefully avoid entering porn terrain. Sorta.
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Madonna's directorial feature W.E. seems like a statelier version of Julie and Julia: A woman name Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) living in 1998 New York is enamored by the decades-old romance of Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough) and Prince Edward (James D'Arcy). New stills from the film -- which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival before heading to Toronto -- owe less to, say, The King's Speech and more to movies in Madonna's own oeuvre.
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· Courtesy of indieWIRE's Eric Kohn comes this photo of a graffitied poster for The Change-Up in a New York City subway station that may very well cull the film's marketing down to its most basic of levels. After all, what is the sight of Ryan Reynolds cupping the backsides of a pair of models telling audiences besides this? Click through to see for yourself, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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"I feel badly about thinking that Dogville, which in my eyes is one of my most successful films, should have been a kind of script for him. It's horrific," director Lars von Trier said about the fact that Dogville was revealed to be one of Norwegian camp killer Anders Behring Breivik's favorite films. "[I]f it was an inspiration, I'm sorry that I made it. But of course I have educational purposes with my films, even if I hesitate to admit it, and my views are the complete opposite of Breivik and his deeds." Dogville ends with Nicole Kidman's character ordering the massacre of the village that abused her. [Hollywood-Elsewhere]
Actual weekend box office numbers won't be released until later today, but regardless of the final results, many of you saw either The Smurfs or Cowboys & Aliens during the last days of July. Or maybe both! As such, there's plenty to talk about -- both onscreen and, more important, off.
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When Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale met the press last week to preemptively thank Pittsburgh for letting The Dark Knight Rises have its run of the Steel City, they could really only anticipate the standard logistical headaches that accompany location filmmaking. You know: Traffic jams, parking shortages, detours, new brides wanting to check out the Batmobile... The usual.
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Also in this Monday edition of The Broadsheet: Only one Cameron Crowe film could get a sequel... Die Hard 5 is still happening and it might have a location... the "women can be funny!" debate hasn't ended just yet... and more ahead.
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Every month at Movieline, we collect the best interviews, smartest features, and most compelling reviews we've produced, and curate them in one easy-to-use table of contents called the Virtual Newsstand, which pays tribute to our print magazine history. Here's the Virtual Newsstand for July 2011.
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One of the most congested weekends of the summer delivered no shortage of shock and awe to Hollywood, with expensive flops-in-the-making facing off against surprisingly formidable blue forest creatures recycled from the '80s. Their fierce battle is too close to call as weekend numbers emerge, but that doesn't mean the real winner isn't clear. Your Weekend Receipts are here.
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Time for some positive box office news! By the end of this weekend, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 will pass the $1 billion mark in worldwide gross. Domestically, the film is already over $300 million, and will race ahead of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in both North American and worldwide returns by Sunday or Monday to become the franchise's biggest hit -- 3-D bump, higher ticket prices and IMAX surcharges excepting. Still, well done, Harry! [THR]
