As someone in my Twitter feed asked this evening of Yahoo! Movies and Marvel Entertainment, "Why would you post the final scene of a movie?" Answer: It's only part of the post-credits sequence that ends Captain America, released in order to get audiences back into theaters to see the full Avengers-related final post-credits tease. But, still: Why ruin the ending of the movie you're actually selling right now? [Watch the spoilery clip after the jump.]
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Yowza: With three new wide releases and no fewer than five well-regarded indies making their ways to art houses this week, you can't say there's nothing for you at the movies. Let's give July the sendoff it deserves with a busy round of Weekend Forecast.
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In long forgotten lawsuits news today, a judge has ruled in favor of Crash director Paul Haggis and star Brendan Fraser who allege that the film's producer Bob Yari relied on "creative accounting" as part of an intentional ploy to withhold money from Haggis, Fraser and co-writer Bobby Moresco. More details about the four-year-old lawsuit surrounding the Academy Award-winning film below.
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And now for unsurprising news that you'll still be shocked to hear: Stephen Baldwin carries a knife to movie premieres. Sigh! If Alec is the august Baldwin, William is the functional, competent Baldwin, and Daniel is the downtrodden Baldwin, Stephen is certainly the wild card. (Those of us who watched both of his seasons on Celebrity Mole know this best.) Let an intrepid reporter tell you her story of interviewing Stephen and encountering his four-inch blade.
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Having revealed his inner thespian in 2008's JCVD, Belgian martial artist Jean-Claude Van Damme wants to be taken more seriously as an actor. Speaking with Box Office Magazine -- ironically, to promote his latest actioner, the hit man thriller Assassination Games (in limited release July 29) -- the Muscles from Brussels cited Clint Eastwood as a career role model: "I love action films, and my fans expect action films, but I can act! And I really want a chance to show what I can do." Note to Jean-Claude: The first step in being taken more seriously? Stop making movies with titles like Assassination Games. [Box Office Magazine]
If I'm not forgetting anyone, Olivia Wilde is now the third person who may play Linda Lovelace in an upcoming biopic of the late porn actress. According to Wilde, she's considering taking the title role in Lovelace, helmed by Oscar-winning codirectors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. "It would be a tremendous honor," she said to E!. "She was a fascinating woman--with where she came from to Deep Throat to then working with Gloria Steinem and Nora Ephron. It's really fascinating." No, this has nothing to do with the Malin Akerman/ex-Lindsay Lohan project Inferno, but it is the one that was recently offered to a pregnant Kate Hudson. Which of these ladies would be best?
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On Thursday, Dark Knight Rises director Christopher Nolan and Steel City first-timer Christian Bale held a Pittsburgh press conference to thank the city for hosting production on the final installment in the Batman trilogy. Nolan said that they chose Pittsburgh because "it is a very beautiful city on a very impressive scale and yet one which has a community that hasn't lost its human scale." So, not because of the Wiz Khalifa song "Black and Yellow"? Go figure. Filming begins tomorrow. Principal photography started in May. [Post-Gazette]
Earlier on Thursday, Variety reported that Eli Roth is designing a Hostel-themed maze for Universal Studios Hollywood's "Halloween Horror Nights" theme park franchise. Because what parents don't want to lead their kids into a labyrinthian torture factory where other humans are seemingly being slaughtered for sport against a backdrop of sexually suggestive imagery? In honor of this cuckoo bananas development, Movieline has brainstormed five other amusement park attractions based on horror films that seem just as appropriate.
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It's been a little more than a month since Millennium Entertainment picked up the thriller Trespass, which stars Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as a couple defending their home against a ruthless gang of home invaders. Last week, very quietly, the company appears to have distributed the first poster for Joel Schumacher's film. But when does intend to distribute the actual film?
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· If it wasn't apparent from the Comic-Con panel for Twixt last weekend, director Francis Ford Coppola is thinking outside the box for his new horror film. As such, fans (or "fans" since it hasn't been released yet) are encouraged to vote for one of four poster designs on the film's Facebook page. Interactive! Click through to see Movieline's favorite, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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The slow drip of images from The Hunger Games continues on this busy Thursday morning, and for the first time thus far there has been a mingling of the sexes. No longer will Gale be stuck with Peeta while Katniss looks wistfully off in the distance; thanks to EW, here's the first look at Gale and Katniss -- er, Liam Hemsworth and Jennifer Lawrence -- together! Click ahead to get your Hunger Gamesgasm on.
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Also in this Thursday edition of The Broadsheet: Rosario Dawson may find herself in a Trance... Alia Shawkat books two roles and the world rejoices... a Team Jacki update... and more ahead.
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According to reports, a riot broke out late Wednesday night outside the film premiere of rave documentary The Electric Daisy Carnival Experience when too many eager rave fans gathered for an impromptu block party promoted via Twitter. In other news, eager rave fans still exist! En masse! More details about the event after the jump.
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Big news for Paz de la Huerta fans: the frequently naked Boardwalk Empire siren and upcoming Nurse 3D lead is currently directing her first film. She told the Observer, "It's my version of The Red Shoes...[It's] about a woman who's unique, and lives in a small village, and is ostracized for being different, for being talented, and then she makes a horrible mistake and because the people in the village are so -- you know -- jealous of her, they don't forgive her...and we are all human, you know. And we all suffer." Preach, Paz, preach. Little else is known about the project, in which de la Huerta also stars. [Observer via Vulture]
We've all seen sad movies and retained traumatic memories from them. If you didn't bawl at the end of Philadelphia or weep throughout Up or shoot tears perpendicularly during the Jean-Claude Van Damme/Dennis Rodman film Double Team, you're less human than Movieline's staff. Now lachrymose responses are part of a fascinating, cinema-related study: In 1995, scientists gathered film clips that made patients sad, amused, or evoked other emotions (for the purposes of understanding whether sadness leads to overeating, whether fear leads to over-spending, etc.). What's the movie those scientists believe is most effective in producing melancholy? The answer will upset you -- though maybe you'll come up with a sadder movie yet.
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