"After serving the world for over 30 years, the space shuttle has earned its place in history, and it's come to a final stop." Those were the words of Capt. Christopher J. Ferguson, commander of the shuttle Atlantis, upon landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Thursday morning. After 135 launches, NASA has officially retired the manned shuttle program, which means it's time to look back on its storied history the only way that seems appropriate: by remembering favorite space movies? Sure, let's go with it!
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"You will be shocked," Rock of Ages co-star Malin Akerman says about Tom Cruise's vocal performance in the upcoming Broadway adaptation. "I kind of wasn't that surprised, because when Tom does something he does it 150 percent. So he really just brought his fucking game and he sounds like a rock star." Are you kidding, Malin? "I'm not kidding. He could be an opera singer if he wanted to. His voice is really powerful." [E!]
With a sprawling cast featuring some of Hollywood's best, a spoiler-crazy and terrifying trailer, and the fact that Steven Soderbergh is the director, it won't take much to get you to see Contagion in theaters in September. Good thing, too, since the teaser poster unveils the corniest tagline of the year -- even worse than "Smurf happens." Click through to see the offending artwork. Warning: You will groan.
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Also in this Thursday edition of The Broadsheet: Michael Bay is pissed at Variety... the Escape from New York remake isn't happening... Hilary Swank starts an uprising on Venus... and more ahead.
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Marvel Studios and The Avengers won't have as big of a presence at Comic-Con this weekend as they did last summer (parent company Disney has reportedly saved the Marvel Studios properties for its own D23 Expo in August), but that doesn't mean there can't be some superhero supergroup news. A new website for the Joss Whedon-directed film has debuted online, along with a teaser poster that puts the "A" in Avengers. Quite literally. Click through to assemble.
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Apparently when you form a family from spare cast members of Glee, the Twilight franchise, and Law and Order: SVU, you might end up with an attractive ensemble. We watch such results occur in this on-set picture from White Frog, next year's movie about "a 15-year-old with Asperger's (The Twilight Saga's Boo Boo Stewart) dealing with a tragedy in the family." Harry Shum of Glee and B.D. Wong of Law and Order: SVU (and the fabulous, Tony-award winning play M. Butterfly) flank him. Don't forget Joan Chen as the also-very-great-looking mom!
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TV legend and burgeoning comic book star Adam West has plenty of nice things to say about Christopher Nolan's "gothic, nihilistic" Batman series, his old co-stars Julie Newmar and Burgess Meredith, and even nerds. But in a post written by West himself, it appears the Pow!ing, Zap!ping actor understands the continuing importance of Comic-Con, which is very much upon us. Read his sincere words ahead.
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It only took about a year and a half, but the slow build has commenced for The Darkest Hour, the Timur Bekmambetov-produced, Chris Gorak-directed tale of five young people stranded in Moscow during an alien invasion. Among them: Emile Hirsch, who apparently got stuck in the middle of Red Square when the attack went down. Click through for a look at him in the film's first look.
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The last Arnold Schwarzenegger film to debut in the studio dumping ground that is January? Pumping Iron, which opened in New York on Jan. 18, 1977, before January was even considered a studio dumping ground. Now, 28 films later, Lionsgate will release The Last Stand on Jan. 18, 2013 -- 36 years to the date of Iron. Spooky! [Deadline]
In the lead-up to Comic-Con, a handful of new images from the should-be-splatter-rific (but is actually rated PG-13) Shark Night 3-D have debuted online courtesy of Hollywood.com, and they feature one unifying trait. Not sharks, silly! Young adults screaming at off-screen terror. Which of these seven pictures are actually from the David R. Ellis-directed film? See if you can guess ahead.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 this week became only the third film to surpass the $200 million mark domestically within five days of release. Not bad! Alas, it left the five-day record to a celebrated studiomate -- but not by much.
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If you lived in New York or Los Angeles on July 20, 2001, and were the type of person who loved to make underhanded remarks about friends, strangers and even family members behind their back -- and even to their face -- then the chances are good you were first in line to see Terry Zwigoff's caustic comedy of misanthropy, Ghost World. Based on the comic by Daniel Clowes, the film took too-cool-for-school ethos to another level, offered Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson their best-ever screen roles (true), and even turned Steve Buscemi into a romantic lead. Well, sorta. Let's celebrate this little oddity by remembering some great one-liners -- and a related-but-not music video by Aimee Mann -- ahead.
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· Justin Timberlake shows off his charming comedy chops in Friends With Benefits, but in the upcoming Andrew Niccol sci-fi film In Time (heinous title, FWIW), things are slightly more laugh-free. After all, it focuses on a future society where aging stops at 25 and the rich are immortal because they can "buy time." OK, then! Click through to see Timberlake and co-star Amanda Seyfriend (doing her best Lindsay Lohan impression) running from some danger, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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I don't love Black Swan. I barely even enjoy it! I barely even get what there is to enjoy. It boasts the hammiest dialogue of the past Oscar season? It's the most transparent psychodrama in film history? It can't establish a tone, a fully believable character, or consistency because it resorts to camp at every turn? I just don't know. But if Friends With Benefits star Mila Kunis ever starred in a Bad Movie We Love, it's this. (Sorry, Krippendorf's Tribe -- you're just bad.) There's an argument for its inclusion in our weekly feature, and reservations aside, I'm picking out five utterly bizarre instances in Black Swan that justify that inclusion. I will now recite them diplomatically!
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"Lionsgate has announced director John Lussenhop (Takers) has selected newcomer Dan Yeager to play Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, a new installment in the franchise that picks up where the original 1974 film left off." [Worst Previews]
