The Adventures of Tintin won't premiere for five months, but that doesn't mean the publicity machine can't get an early start. In addition to a splashy panel at Comic-Con -- one that will allow Steven Spielberg to pop his 'Con cherry -- the film has gotten the photocall treatment from Getty Images. Spielberg, producer Peter Jackson (wearing shorts for the occasion) and a stuffed animal version of Snowy (Tintin's trusty sidekick) were photographed at the Hotel Royal Monceau Raffle in Paris on Tuesday, and that calls for a caption contest.
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The Harry Potter book and movie series may have concluded last week, but a new American survey reveals that for some respondents, at least one attitude toward the Potter legacy remains constant: That boy wizard is up to no good with all that conjurin'.
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"I'm sorry Universal passed, but not really surprised," author Stephen King told EW in an email about the crumbling Dark Tower project. "As a rule, they've been about smaller and less risky pix; maybe they feel it would be better to stick with those fast and furious racing boys. I bear them no ill will, and trust Ron Howard to get Roland and his friends before the camera somewhere else. He's very committed to the project." Not for nothing, but isn't Universal spending $200 million on Battleship? If that's not risky, what is? [EW]
As you saw in the underwhelming teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, it wasn't Christian Bale, Tom Hardy or Anne Hathaway who got a majority of the 90-second screen time -- it was Gary Oldman. (And the disembodied voice of Liam Neeson.) Oldman's wheezing and battered-looking Commissioner Gordon told an off-screen Batman about "evil" and all the other mumbo-jumbo that old wheezing men in hospital beds go on about, and basically stole the show. The renowned character actor is also front-and-center on the U.K. poster for Tinker Tailor Solider Spy, with a headshot usually reserved for A-listers like Will Smith or Russell Crowe. Which raises the question: Is Gary Oldman having a moment?
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Just as not every news story this morning can breathlessly follow the Murdoch/Brooks hearings presently overtaking Parliament, not every movie anniversary of note this year can carry the same weight as Aliens or Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Hence the slow-news-day milestone you've been waiting for (or... not): Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey turns 20 today. Feel old yet?
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Ryan Gosling puts on a charm offensive in the upcoming dramedy Crazy Stupid Love (look for Movieline's full review next week), and judging from the first look at Gosling's idealistic staffer in The Ides of March, he'll continue that push in the George Clooney-directed political drama. Look at that dastardly smirk! Josh Lyman and Sam Seaborn would be so proud. Click through for a look.
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But not for the reason you might think (or want): The actor, twice a victim of News Corporation phone hackers who has since embarked on a very public crusade against the company, regrets working for the Rupert Murdoch-owned 20th Century Fox. "It would certainly stick in my craw to work for Fox. I did make one film for them 16 years ago, but I was naive then. I didn't even know who owned it [the studio]." Right. [EW via The Guardian]
Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: Dennis Quaid is Expecting... Helen Mirren runs into the Wall of Sound... the strange story of Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky... and more ahead.
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Movieline will offer you complete Comic-Con coverage later this week of everything, including Francis Ford Coppola's gothic indie Twixt, which he will be previewing at the geek-riffic convention. Until then, take a first look at the Oscar-winning director on set with his latest muse and Twixt star Elle Fanning.
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Apparently, it just wasn't meant to be -- for now. Per Deadline, Universal has decided not to go forward with the crazy-ambitious adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower that director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer and screenwriter/producer Akiva Goldsman had planned over three films and two companion television series. Howard is now free to shop the project to other studios, though whether one bites remains to be seen. This is the second major geek property that Universal has passed on this year, following Guillermo del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness. [Deadline]
Stage and film vet Frank Langella has been in the business for nearly five decades, working with everyone from Arthur Miller to Laurence Olivier, and in his upcoming memoirs Dropped Names -- just acquired by Harper Collins -- the actor will regale readers with his experiences rubbing elbows with some of Hollywood's most iconic personalities. Fingers crossed he gets to talking about his Whoopi Goldberg years somewhere between his Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor chapters. [NYT]
Here at Movieline HQ we clearly worship at the altar of Ellen Ripley. Who doesn't? Partly because Sigourney Weaver's sci-fi heroine rocked our socks in (most of) the Alien films -- hey, Alien Resurrection wasn't her fault -- and also thanks to the fact that no woman has come close to achieving her level of badass in the movies since, another Ripley-centric Aliens sequel sounds like a plum idea. And Weaver herself agrees.
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All Willy Wonka news is good news (unless we're talking about another aerial death brought on by Fizzy Lifting drinks), but the news of a 40th anniversary Willy Wonka box set is astounding news. Look at these damn goodies! The technicolor treacle! That winsome Wonka visage! The candy-scented glory of pencils! Let's gawk at the Blu-ray special (due out in October) and pick the original movie's most underrated moment.
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It's official: Lionsgate TV is adapting the 2003 Jack Nicholson-Adam Sandler comedy Anger Management into a sitcom for Charlie Sheen. In celebration of this feat, Movieline is revisiting nine other television series adapted from films with varying degrees of success. Reminisce after the jump.
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It wouldn't be a Quentin Tarantino film without some kind of reclamation project (see: John Travolta, Robert Forster, Pam Grier, David Carradine, Michael Parks), and so Django Unchained finally feels complete. Deadline reports that Kevin Costner is in talks to play the villainous sidekick of Leonardo DiCaprio in QT's latest genre potboiler, a role that goes wildly against Costner's all-American wolf-dancing '90s-era type.
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