Mark your calendars, boys and girls! Summit Entertainment will fill Hall H with the magical sound of thousands of screaming Twi-hards on Thursday, July 21, when The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 director Bill Condon brings exclusive footage to Comic-Con, along with his cast. But who cares about the cast, amirite? It's all about the cinematic art. Also, vampire sex.
Riley Griffiths is gonna love this casting news. Deadline reports that former Lost star Matthew Fox is in talks to join the cast of World War Z opposite Brad Pitt, James Badge Dale and Mirielle Enos. The half-cry goes big screen! Ed Harris is also in discussions to co-star. [Deadline]
Playboy's new interview with Justin Timberlake is the typical non-exposé where the Bad Teacher star cops to smoking pot, feeling awkward during Friends with Benefits's sex scenes, and other unbelievable feats. But near the Q&A's end, Timberlake spoke of his burgeoning status as a screen star and the six movies he'd like to "make movies like." Can you guess them?
· To say this is NSFW is an understatement; it might not be suitable for humanity. After all, once you've heard 429 swears in four minutes, does your brain just disintegrate into a pile of filth? Perhaps! See if you can make it through all the curses from Pulp Fiction strewn together in this latest Internet supercut, then stick around for more Buzz Break. Headphones!
In a profile of Ryan Reynolds last week, the New York Times estimated that Warner Bros. spent a staggering $300 million making and marketing Green Lantern. In honor of the expensive DC Comics adaptation, Movieline runs down nine of the most mindblowing reported budgets in cinema history below.
Here at Movieline HQ, we've gone from quietly mocking the idea of a fourth theatrical film in the American Pie franchise to actually looking forward to its release. Lots of that has to do with Twitter master Jason Biggs, but also because it seems the fourquel is going back to its roots. To wit: no official stills have been released just yet, but this latest Twitpic from original cast member Thomas Ian Nicholas amps the nostalgia factor to 11. No longer will their penises remain flaccid and unused -- again! Click through for an on-set peek.
OK: GQ's new profile of Captain America star and July cover boy Chris Evans isn't that bad, but there's this: "I don't know what Chris's exercise regimen is, because it's one of the many things I forgot to ask him." Annnd this: "He is the greatest person I've ever met in my life, which is what I told him I'd say in this article if he gave me back the leather jacket I accidentally left at his house, and he did." Lillian Ross would be proud. [GQ]
Between now and the release of The Avengers on May 4, 2012, there will be plenty of posters, trailers, clips, spoilers, and featurette to sate the rabid Marvel fanbase. This camera phone picture of some promotional art for the Joss Whedon-directed film taken at the Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas doesn't really qualify, but it does feature a cartoonish look at your favorite Avengers, assembled. Hey, cartoon Mark Ruffalo-as-Hulk! Click through for a first look.
Sad news from Sweden this week as Gunnar Fischer, the cinematographer who shot Ingmar Bergman's masterpieces The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries and a fistful of other early-career efforts from the iconic auteur, has passed away in Stockholm. He was 100 and had recently been suffering from "an infection and a fever." Let's remember one of his finest screen moments.
Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: Joel Kinnaman is slowly becoming the next big thing... Jason Clarke gets key role in The Great Gatsby... The Dark Knight is somehow still casting... and more ahead.
Famous people sometimes say horrible things, but does that ever mean you stop ankling to the cineplex and spending $13 to see their new movie? In the case of the now-apologetic Tracy Morgan -- who made "jokes" (for lack of a better word) during a standup act about how he'd stab his own son if he said he was gay -- the commitment to protesting his movies isn't a harrowing one; he's obviously known more for his TV roles on 30 Rock and SNL than, say, his filmic contributions like Death at a Funeral. But based on principle alone, do you refuse to see his next movie, which is likely to be released this year?
Tom Cruise is reportedly in negotiations with Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions to star in One Shot, an adaptation of Lee Child's thriller series. Cruise would play Jack Reacher, who is described in the books as a six-foot-five, 250-pound military policeman-turned-drifter. If all goes as planned, the film will shoot in Pittsburgh before Cruise begins production on the big budget sci-fi film Oblivion. The Usual Suspects scribe Christopher McQuarrie is set to direct. [Deadline]
It feels like it was just yesterday when little Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were quipping, "You got it, duuuude!" as the adorable living Troll doll Michelle Tanner on ABC's TGIF staple Full House. And yet, this week, the Olsen twins turned 25. Why, the time crept up on all of us here at Movieline HQ like a New York Minute*! In honor of how fast those little Olsen twins grew up into full-grown full-blown grown-ups with billion-dollar fashion and merchandising interests and tabloid-baiting personal lives, relive the last quarter century in Olsen twins fashion in Movieline's slideshow, after the jump.
A few key things unite my generation of nostalgic pop culture devotees: a fondness for early '90s Nickelodeon series that played in reruns until the latter part of the decade; firm opinions about which season of The Real World is best; and an absolutely feigned remembrance of Fraggle Rock, the '80s HBO series that replayed for a short time on the Disney Channel, and now makes you look cool if you reference it right.
Did you leave Super 8 this weekend telling all your friends about what a great job Dakota Fanning did as Alice in the film? You're not alone. "Dakota Fanning's in it," Kyle Chandler told Men's Journal. Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning -- close enough! FYI, if you love Chandler, you're going to want to want read the rest of this interview. Spoiler: he's basically Coach Taylor. [Men's Journal]
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