Movie stars might be an endangered species, but don't tell that to the Warner Bros. marketing team behind the new poster for Crazy Stupid Love. All six of the film's big stars -- that would be Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon -- get prominent treatment on the one-sheet, which also manages to recall one of the most iconic big screen moments ever.
On this day in 1967, Nicole Kidman was born to Australian parents in Honolulu, Hawaii. After making her acting debut as a sheep in her school's nativity play, and her film debut as a frizzy-haired teenager in BMX Bandits, the actress went on to become one of Hollywood's most talented Aussie imports. Ahead, let's look back on the Birthday Girl's (ding!) career and decide once and for all -- or at last until her next Oscar-winning role -- what's Nicole Kidman's finest onscreen moment?
Also in this Monday edition of The Broadsheet: Paul Thomas Anderson's new film has an old title... Magic Kingdom gets a famous writer... Meryl Streep's 2011 Oscar campaign starts in December... and more ahead.
If you spent your Father's Day watching baseball coverage on TBS -- in New York, it was the Boston Red Sox annihilation of the Milwaukee Brewers -- the chances are good that you saw the DirecTV claymation commercial for the controversial new service Home Premiere featuring an arguing chicken and egg. And if that commercial made you want to watch The Big Lebowski, it's with good reason: the chicken and egg are voiced by John Goodman and Steve Buscemi, respectively.
It looks like what Kate did is head to Middle-earth. Peter Jackson announced via Facebook on Sunday that former Lost star Evangeline Lilly has been added to the cast of The Hobbit. She'll play a new character, "the Woodland Elf, Tauriel," and while Jackson refused to elaborate further, he did write that Tauriel would not be a love interest for Legolas (Orlando Bloom). Barry Humphries (a/k/a Dame Edna) was also added to the cast, as the Goblin King. Congrats, you two! [Facebook/Peter Jackson]
Father's Day always seems to get the short shrift. Here's just one example: while Major League Baseball offers players the chance to use pink bats on Mother's Day (to support breast cancer research), there isn't a blue bat to be found around baseball parks today. Come on, MLB! (Sorry, but wearing blue wristbands to support prostate cancer research isn't the same thing as swinging a blue bat; it's the symbolism.) Here at Movieline, though, we're equal opportunity parental lovers, and that means one thing: a chance for you to celebrate your favorite onscreen dads. Click through to get your favorite film father the digital version of that ugly tie you saw at Macy's.
And you thought X-Men: First Class was disappointing! Despite being in 3-D -- and despite an avalanche of marketing over the last two months -- Green Lantern could only ("only") muster $52.6 million over the weekend. That's just under $4 million less than the two dimensional First Class earned during its opening frame. Elsewhere, Super 8 had a sorta super hold, and Mr. Popper's Penguins did the opposite of popping in third place. Your weekend receipts are here.
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (The Pusher Trilogy, Bronson, Valhalla Rising) muscles his way into Hollywood this September with the charging crime thriller Drive, but he's also in the midst of remaking the 1976 sci-fi pic Logan's Run with his Drive star, Ryan Gosling, set in the lead. Movieline caught up with Refn at the L.A. Film Fest premiere of Drive for a quick update on the project.
A barrel of bile and backlog of blockbusters didn't keep America from having a go at Green Lantern on Friday, resulting in a healthy (if not astounding) opening day tally. Jim Carrey delivered reasonably as well, while Super 8 tapered off by half in its quest for week-two lucre. Let's check out the numbers; your Friday Box Office is here.
It's Friday, and thus time once again for the lightning round known as Movieline's Week in Review. No, seriously: We have actual lightning in New York right now, and our West Coast bureau is making quick, brilliant strikes this weekend at hotspots around the Los Angeles Film Festival. Be sure to keep an eye on this site in the days ahead for news from the ground, from the box office, and anywhere else we find news happening. In the meantime, let's remember all the fun we had here in recent days. Enjoy your weekend!
Ready or not, Warner Bros. is planning to adapt another Nicholas Sparks novel for the screen. According to Deadline, the studio has just acquired The Best of Me which follows "former small-town high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks" and is due to hit bookshelves this fall. But didn't movie audiences decide that they were over Sparks adaptations back when Nights in Rodanthe bombed at the box office?
Following his well-publicized homophobic rant at a Tennessee standup date two weeks ago, Tracy Morgan met with LGBT advocacy group GLAAD and two teens who were kicked out of their homes simply for being gay as part of his apology tour. He'll be heading to Tennessee next week to apologize to audience members. Is this necessary? Or rather, helpful? Feels like overkill (or a death at a funeral) if you will. Did we decide if we're seeing The Son of No One anyway? [TMZ]
Mixed martial artist, sometimes actor, and YouTube brawler Kimbo Slice may get the biopic treatment from none other than Entourage's Kevin Connolly. Slice's life is, admittedly, the stuff of crazy movie dreams: Born in the Bahamas, he matriculated in Florida, lived in his car after Hurricane Andrew, almost made it into the NFL, and worked as a bouncer for a porn company before finding stardom on the internet as a real-life street fighter; Connolly hopes Slice will play himself in the film, which is looking for financing. Brutal, dramatic, based on a true story... who else smells Oscar here? [The Wrap]
One of the most glorious annual rites of Hollywood passage commenced today as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences extended invitations to 177 esteemed film professionals. Oh, and Beyoncé Knowles.
In this weekend's Mr. Popper's Penguins, Jim Carrey plays a ruthless Manhattan businessman who is unexpectedly bequeathed a brood of penguins. How did Carrey transform himself from the Hollywood goofball talking out of his butt cheeks in Ace Ventura to the buttoned-up father figure in this family comedy from 20th Century Fox?
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