Once you put aside the silly Elvis Costello song title pun, the TIFF entry Peace, Love, and Understanding seems like an ideal project for all parties involved: Catherine Keener plays a conservative lawyer who, following a divorce from her husband (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), takes her kids (Nat Wolff and Elizabeth Olsen) to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock. That grandmother is Jane Fonda, whose new photos from the film should bring you back to a very specific, Oscar-garnering favorite from 1981. If you can't guess the movie yet, hit yourself.
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Over the weekend at Comic-Con, Tom Hardy described his villainous role as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises thusly: "You deal with something Dark Knight -- or Mad Max, or Superman or Spider-Man, whatever -- it's like going to work in an airport and going, 'Hi I'm over here!' and then everybody goes 'Oh here's that, that's the villain of the piece.' Then it's a thousand people going to Duty-Free. Like, [shouting] 'I AM THE VILLAIN!' and make a lot of noise." But wait, there's more!
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Sixty-eight years ago today, a Hirschfeld caricature named Mick Jagger was born. In addition to inventing our current perception of rock stars, the Rolling Stones frontman has produced some of the darkest material ever to permeate the mainstream. While you could revisit the harrowing Altamont doc Gimme Shelter or Martin Scorsese's 2008 concert film Shine a Light to celebrate Mick's special occasion, Movieline is instead turning back to Mick's performance in the once-abhorred, now-revered 1970 movie Performance. Check out the slickest Mick ever ahead!
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· What can you even say about this? The animating warlords over at Taiwanese news animation organization NMA have come up with a "trailer" for The Dark Knight Rises that seems to combine all aspects of Christopher Nolan's past work. Also, Bane and Walmart. It's confusing and crazy -- just the type of thing you want to watch on a lazy Tuesday. Click ahead for a viewing, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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Though the full schedule for the Venice Film Festival comes out Thursday, we already know what will close the gondolier-friendly celebration: Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, which concerns "young women at an East Coast university, the transfer student that joins their group and the young men they become entangled with." The comedy -- which stars Movieline heroine Greta Gerwig and Adam Brody -- premieres Sept. 10, after the awards ceremony. George Clooney's The Ides of March opens the fest on Aug. 31. [Deadline]
First time writer-director Evan Glodell spent years obsessing over his feature debut Bellflower, a raw tale of love, betrayal, and apocalyptic-level emotional tumult set among a group of near-nihilistic twenty-somethings in Southern California. (Part of that obsession? Custom-building the badass, fire-breathing Mother Medusa muscle car, which figures into the film.) After the jump, see a new exclusive image from Bellflower and find out how you can see it in Los Angeles before it opens on Aug. 5.
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On July 26, 1945, Helen Lydia Mironoff was born in a London hospital to parents Vasiliy and Kathleen Mironoff (or Mironov depending on the spelling). During the 1950s, Vasily changed the family last name to "Mirren," and for his young daughter, the rest is history. From her breakout role in Michael Powell's Age of Consent to her Oscar-winning turn as Queen Elizabeth in The Queen, Mirren has been one of Hollywood's greatest -- and seemingly ageless -- actresses for five decades. As Liz Lemon once said in reaction to one of Mirren's famous bikini pics, "Is she a wizard?"
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During a 2008 interview, Kristen Stewart revealed that she'd be starring in K-11, a movie her mother Jules wrote and would direct. About that. Casting has been announced and the Twilight star won't actually appear in her mom's directorial debut, though another Stewart will. Kristen's older brother Cameron will co-star in the "dark character ensemble" alongside Goran Visnjic, D.B. Sweeney, Portia Doubleday and Jason Mewes. Nothing scandalous here -- unless busy schedules are scandalous -- though you just know Jules Stewart is going to start every phone call to her daughter with, "Well, your brother..." [Variety]
Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: Get ready for a new Bonnie and Clyde... Young Adult finds a release date... Todd Phillips preps Arms and the Dudes... and more ahead.
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Is it a monster movie? A ghost tale? A demonic thriller? Clive Owen's battling something in the new international trailer for Intruders, but what they are, exactly, remains to be seen. Suffice to say, he's not going to let these shrouded, hooded figures mess with his daughter (Ella Purnell, who played the young Keira Knightley in Never Let Me Go) for long. Hit the jump to see what director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) has up his sleeve.
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Word just over the transom at ML HQ has announced U.S. release dates for 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, the stereoscopic erotic blockbuster apparently banned in mainland China but ready for a Stateside debut Aug. 12. Indeed, after the jump, find the first press release in film-industry history to combine the phrases, "Adapted from the ancient Chinese text," "glossy cinematography," and, "No one under 18 will be admitted." Read on for the opening day nearest you.
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More sad news to pass along from Old Hollywood: veteran character actor G.D. Spradlin died in his San Luis Obispo cattle ranch on Sunday from natural causes. He was 90. Spradlin -- who was such a successful independent oil producer in Oklahoma during the 1950s that he retired in 1960 -- began acting in the late '60s with roles on television series like Gomer Pyle, I Spy and Dragnet, and broke out following his appearance as slimy senator Pat Geary in The Godfather Part II. Ahead, remember Spradlin by watching his best Godfather moment.
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In May, Big Lebowski fans had the opportunity to win the Dude's cardigan sweater, and now the ultimate piece of Lebowski-memorabilia is up for sale: his Venice bungalow (rug not included). Just how much will the Dude's estate run you?
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With the exception of news about a release date (Sept. 21, 2012), the Lionsgate reboot of Judge Dredd -- fittingly titled Dredd -- received precious little hype at Comic-Con over the weekend. Perhaps that was a good thing, though, judging from the first look at Karl Urban as the titular law-keeper. Is this first look at Dredd on the cover of Empire magazine an ad for Ricky's NYC, an ad for your local laser tag facility or the actual first clean image from the film? You be the judge (ding!) ahead.
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Not unexpected, but slightly disappointing nonetheless: according to final box office numbers released on Monday, Captain America: First Avenger did not have the biggest opening weekend of any superhero film released in 2011. That title still belongs to Thor -- the Norse god earned almost $700,000 more than Captain America did during his initial frame. On the bright side, here's guessing plucky underdog Steve Rogers wouldn't have it any other way. [LAT/Company Town]
