Talk about a natural action star. Already, we've seen Taylor Lautner run, jump, slide across broken glass and miraculously grow stubble in the promo materials for John Singleton's Abduction. Now, check out the Twilight alum and his co-star Lily Collins as they race full speed on a motorcycle in the latest still from Lionsgate, and most importantly, help us caption.
By now, you most likely know that James Franco is an unabashed fan of Twilight, so much so that he extolled the series' virtues to Esquire and confessed to petitioning for a role in Breaking Dawn while visiting Jimmy Kimmel Live! What you probably don't know is that the Oscar-nominated actor/serial multi-tasker could have actually snagged a part in the franchise if he was willing to make a few movie star concessions.
It's nice to see to four Oscar nominees getting along this well. In new pictures from the set of Woody Allen's latest film, Bop Decameron, the director mixes it up with his pitch-perfect cast including Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg (brother to Hallie), and Ellen Page. Don't worry, Greta Gerwig, your golden moment is forthcoming, I'm sure.
You might not know the name Polly Platt on first glance, but you know the movies she was involved with both as a production designer (The Last Picture Show, A Star is Born) and producer (Broadcast News, Say Anything, Bottle Rocket). Platt passed away on Wednesday morning from complications due to ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). The former wife of director Peter Bogdanovich, she was Oscar nominated for her production design on Terms of Endearment. Let's remember Platt with a clip from that James L. Brooks film ahead.
Last January, when director Lucky McKee debuted his latest horror pic, The Woman (about a family man who traps and imprisons a feral lady he finds in the woods) at the Sundance Film Festival, he got quite the audience reaction; one moviegoer fainted during the film's brutal denouement, and another stood up at the post-film Q&A to berate McKee over the film's value. Today, we've got the first trailer for the controversial pic; watch it and decide -- does The Woman appear to be a work of "art" or "bullshit"?
For whatever reason -- boredom on the Bop Decameron set, boredom with Italy in general -- Alec Baldwin has chosen to answer dozens of rapid-fire questions posed by his fans on Twitter in the past 24 hours, ranging from "Who was your favorite onscreen kisser?" to "What is your favorite sexual position?" Oh, and in between, he lists his favorite movies of all time. Check out the information below and see just how well you know the Emmy-decorated actor. This information could come in handy if Trivial Pursuit ever releases a Celebrity Twitter Feed edition.
When EW debuted the first look at Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen in Lionsgate's The Hunger Games, it looked pretty damn good. But will Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson fare as well when it comes to embodying the well-loved characters of Gale and Peeta in Gary Ross's 2012 adaptation? Get your first full look at the men of The Hunger Games after the jump!
· Nine days after the tragic death of war photographer and Restrepo co-director Tim Hetherington, Newsweek's James Wellford received an email from his deceased friend that had apparently been caught in cyberspace. "Hey man, just checking in," Hetherington's email read. "Crazy day today. Full on city fight. It's an incredible story... and hardly anyone here." Wellford has posted the images Hetherington sent, and you can see one of them ahead. Your Wednesday Buzz Break is here.
If or when you ever think things are irretrievably toxic in Hollywood, at least keep in mind that its barons get things accomplished. (Even if those things occasionally mean Jack and Jill.) Not so much out in Washington, D.C., where the ongoing stalemate over the debt-ceiling increase has escalated to unprecedented levels of partisan brinksmanship. Now we're hearing about Hollywood actually influencing the rhetoric among House Republicans -- and not in a good way.
The marketing for the Disney reboot of The Muppets that Jason Segel will bring to the big screen this November has been spot-on for months now. Between the hilarious parody trailers -- better than the movies they parodied -- and the actual trailer, Muppets ad campaign has struck just the right tone between nostalgia and modernity. The final poster for the film does much of the same -- it just looks so damn fun! -- but does raise one interesting curio. Can you guess which Oscar-winning actor gets third billing after Segel and Amy Adams -- and before the Muppets?
When the concept art (the buzziest of promotional buzzwords this summer; see also new concept art for Snow White & The Huntsman and Lucifer) of Mark Ruffalo as Hulk in The Avengers was released at the end of Comic-Con last weekend, it was easy to joke that it looked like every other incarnation of Hulk. In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, Marvel boss Kevin Feige confirms that similarity is by design... except when it's not. Hulk confused?
Child actors of the early '90s understood chutzpah, you know? The newsies gyrated, the Cucamonga campers jived, and even the Tonka-tough Little Leaguers burst with starpower. Case in point, Thomas Ian Nicolas, the future American Pie and Please Give costar, bounds into Camelot with Louisville Slugger confidence in A Kid in King Arthur's Court, the kiddie flick from '94 that also features two of Cowboys & Aliens's best attributes: a hokey mashup of disparate eras and -- oh yes -- Daniel Craig.
Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Ron Howard won't direct the next Dan Brown adaptation... Nicolas Cage and John Cusack may get Frozen... a pair of familiar faces rejoin the Bourne franchise (not Matt Damon)... and more ahead.
Today, Vulture reported that outspoken filmmaker, discriminated plane passenger and interview over-sharer Kevin Smith is developing a half-hour syndicated talk show. Which is fine, and honestly, a naturally-fitting format for Smith. No disrespect to Smith -- even if we did once resolve to silence him by wiring shut his mouth -- but he already has podcast and Twitter platforms to preach from, and we'd rather see a few other filmmakers host a talk show first. Take a look at our suggestions and share your own in the comment section below.
And so Movieline concludes today's birthday-celebration marathon -- previously spotlighting the finest film work of both Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Mick Jagger -- as any self-respecting movie site would: By commemorating the day 83 years ago when the world welcomed one Stanley Kubrick into existence. This would change everything.
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