When you see Transformers: Dark of the Moon this week -- and you will, preferably on the biggest screen possible, if Michael Bay has any say -- you might notice something a bit strange. Nope, not how Dark of the Moon manages to work in multiple shots at the departed Megan Fox; rather, how Bay staffed his new film with a cavalcade of actors recognizable to fans of the Coen brothers. Frances McDormand, John Turturro and John Malkovich, all co-star in Dark of the Moon, and continue the strange bit of pop culture cross-pollination between Bay and the Coens that started with the casting of Fargo co-stars Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare in Armageddon. In honor of this randomness, here are five other Coen brothers players who should appear in a Michael Bay film.
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In a blog entry posted Tuesday to his website The Red Statements, Kevin Smith spoke out again against critics of the unconventional plan to self-distribute his latest film, Red State, and explained how his twofold VOD/live Q&A strategy will work. (Boiled down to the post's essential message: "Suck it, haters!") And to think, just five months ago the world thought Smith's Sundance stunting was all crazy-talk.
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If ever a trilogy warranted a grand Blu-ray rerelease, it's surely Jurassic Park, the franchise that deserves credit for any post-1993 mention of velociraptors, brachiosauruses, and Sam Neill. It's the pinnacle of summer cinema, and even if the last two films didn't measure up to the original, it remains a singular, special franchise whose majesty won't soon be duplicated (unless Terra Nova is much better than I expect). Click through to watch the new preview, read about the special Blu-ray features -- including a fresh interview with Steven Spielberg -- and gawk again at all the prehistoric tyranny.
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· Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch took a beating from critics and audiences upon its release in March, but the film hits DVD and Blu-ray today with the hopes of catching on as a cult favorite. The extended cut of the film restores 18-minutes of footage, and features some fairly neat behind-the-scenes stuff. Like this look at how Emily Browning fought a rubber dragon, which later turned into a CGI monster. Click through to watch, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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While we patiently wait out the remaining month and a half until Craig Gillespie's 3-D Fright Night hits theaters, DreamWorks has graciously delivered an apéritif of the horror comedy in the form of four blood-stained international character posters. The most entertaining of which is Colin Farrell's, who playfully nibbles on a necklace, while offering his sexiest vampire come-hither look to passersby.
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Just yesterday we discussed Shia LaBeouf's penchant for cocky, self-important interviews, and as I read through his new quote-spread in Details, it becomes apparent that we've reached the rebellious chapter in the bildungsroman of young Mr. LaBeouf's life. He's self-assured and brash, thunderously argumentative and insecure. But almost two years after his former Transformers costar Megan Fox weathered an extreme backlash thanks to her Q&A candor, the obvious question is: Should we have saved the outrage for him?
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In a new interview with Seventeen, Emma Watson reveals that she once had a crush on Harry Potter co-star Tom Felton. That's right: Hermione had the hots for Draco. "For the first two movies, I had a huge crush on Tom Felton," Watson said. "He was my first crush. He totally knows. We talked about it - we still laugh about it. We are really good friends now, and that's cool." Guess that dose of Amortentia had worn off by the time Watson hit Felton in Prisoner of Azaban. [Hollywood Life]
If you follow Parks and Recreation star Chris Pratt on Twitter, you know that he's been spending some time in New York this summer. That likely has to do with the fact that Pratt's wife, Anna Faris, is filming The Dictator around the five boroughs -- a role she apparently got a pretty major makeover for. The first picture of Faris on the set of the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy has arrived online, and it's shows a darker side of the House Bunny star. Click through for a look.
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On this day back in 1966, a baby boy named John Cusack was born in Evanston, Ill. Within two decades, Cusack had moved to Hollywood and was building the foundation for his long-lasting career on a series of '80s films like Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer and Say Anything. Three decades later, Cusack remains one of our most beloved actors, capable of charming audiences as a lovelorn audiophile, a depressed puppeteer, a neurotic hitman, and a variety of onscreen personas in between. In celebration of the actor's 45th birthday, why don't you dust off your copy of Hey Soul Classics and join us below to decide which of Cusack's cinematic moments is his best.
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Now this is a short list: Deadline reports that Noam Murro and Jaume Collet-Serra are competing to direct 300: Battle of Artemisia, the 300 spin-off formerly known as Xerxes. Murro only has one feature credit to his name (Smart People), but he's set to direct Die Hard 5, should that ever get moving; Collet-Serra directed Unknown, and has the Dracula hunter thriller Harker on deck. Not exactly Joss Whedon vs. Louis Leterrier, but it will have to do. [Deadline]
Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: Jeff Bridges is a Giver... Haley Joel Osment sees dead people... Carey Mulligan goes to the Outback... and more ahead.
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Startling news from the set of Joss Whedon's big-budget Avengers movie: Stuntman Jeremy Fitzgerald was injured last Friday while performing a death-defying stunt that featured a 30 foot fall from a building. Details on the grisly superhero set accident below.
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The summer of 2013 just got a little more exciting: Warner Bros. has announced that they'll release Guillermo del Toro's sci-fi action pic Pacific Rim on July 12, 2013. The alien invasion film is set to star Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, and Charlie Day, and begins filming this November. Del Toro has described the Travis Beacham-penned project as his biggest film to date, so expect a summer monsterpalooza, del Toro-style. Warner Bros. also moved up the release date of Steven Soderbergh's Contagion to Sept. 9. [Deadline]
Jon M. Chu's G.I. Joe 2 is adding a Wu-Tang veteran to its ranks! According to THR, rapper-actor-newbie director RZA is in negotiations to appear opposite Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, and Elodie Yung in the action sequel. More on RZA's character and the new actor cast as Flint after the jump.
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Hollywood multi-hyphenate Ben Affleck has cast himself as the lead in Argo, the upcoming political period drama that he is also directing. Variety reports that the Oscar winner will play Tony Mendez, a CIA agent who created a phony Hollywood production in order to rescue six Americans who were being held hostage in Iran in the '70s. He will likely join Alan Arkin and John Goodman, who are both in final negotiations to co-star. Affleck last directed himself in The Town. [Variety]
