With just over two weeks until the premiere of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Paramount is has upped the anticipation factor by releasing more stills from the third (and Megan Fox-less) installment of the big budget franchise. Ahead, Movieline has compiled the sexiest, most explosive, and most Michael Bay-y images from the Shia LaBeouf summer tentpole. How's it going, John Malkovich and Patrick Dempsey?
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John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman are set to lend their voices to Wreck-It Ralph, Disney's animated film about an old arcade game villain (a two-bit 8-bit?) trying to make good. The film will also feature Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch in supporting roles, which means we may have to modify our list of the 10 Best Celebrity Voiceovers fairly soon. In fact, I want to modify it now: George Sanders was incredible as Shere Khan in The Jungle Book and deserves a spot. There! [Coming Soon]
Last week, in a strange last-minute effort to promote Super 8, Paramount released a spoiler-iffic video that explained the mystery creature the studio had been cleverly concealing in all promos until that point. And now, after Super 8 dominated the box office during its opening weekend, Star Trek actor Bruce Greenwood is coming forward to take credit for his own hush hush contribution to the J.J. Abrams homage to Steven Spielberg -- specifically in shaping that previously mysterious creature. Major spoilers after the jump.
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Appearing over the weekend at the Los Angeles Times' Hero Complex Film Festival, Jon Favreau and surprise guest Robert Downey Jr. talked up a storm regarding their two Iron Man flicks, the Avengers movie, Favreau's work on the upcoming Magic Kingdom, and Iron Man 3, --which is being directed by Downey's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang helmer Shane Black. Favreau revealed how, despite having vacated the director's chair on the threequel, he's still helping out in front of and behind the camera.
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If you're a young actor struggling to balance college courses with a film career, there's only one person to talk with: multi-tasking master James Franco. "It was such a relief to speak to someone who is trying to do the same thing I'm doing," Harry Potter star Emma Watson said about the chat she had with Franco shortly before leaving Brown University in April. "He's not afraid or limited by what he fears people will say about it." He's a regular Hermione, that one. [Us]
· "I finished 2 paintings this weekend," David Arquette wrote on Twitter. "This one is of The Dali [sic] Lama." Well, then! Click through to see Arquette's artistic side -- hopefully there's room to hang this one in his crazy-cool office -- and then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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Harvey Weinstein just can't enough of those '30s-era British royals: The man who steered The King's Speech to box-office and awards-season glory just announced his acquisition of W.E., Madonna's sophomore feature as a director and yet the latest drama to draw in part from the life of King Edward VIII. Read on for details.
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Many thanks to all the participants in our Midnight in Paris 10-word review contest, in which we fielded more than 100 submissions (both here at Movieline and on Twitter) over the last three days. The competition was just as tough as you'd expect it to be when playing for a Midnight one-sheet signed by Woody Allen, and the judging was equally difficult. But we have a winner!
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If Captain America: First Avenger is going to separate itself from the pile-up of 2011 summer superheroes, playing up the nostalgia factor that helped Super 8 do so well at the box office isn't a bad place to start. As such, this brand new retro poster for First Avenger is simply perfect -- if only it was going to actually reach movie theaters around the country.
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If the 65th annual Tony Awards succeeded in doing just one thing on Sunday night, it was in reminding viewers just how bad the 83rd annual Academy Awards were this past February. To paraphrase the great Mike Lowery: that's how you produce an awards show! From host Neil Patrick Harris' opening song and dance number about Broadway to his closing wrap-up rap, the Tonys were funny, touching, energetic and just about perfect. Or, the opposite of everything the Oscars have become. Ahead, 5 lessons the producers of the 84th annual Academy Awards can take away from the telecast.
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Meet screenwriter Rick Rapier: "There is definite interest in my Ferris sequel. Big name production companies that have first-look production deals with Paramount are reading the script. Your readers would know either their names or have seen movies they've produced, some of them classics. [...] We have high hopes that one or more will take an interest, and that Paramount brass will go for it on their advice." Mm-hmm. Here's a palate cleanser, when you're ready. [TampaBay.com via Movies.com]
We've already got a bit of a discussion going in yesterday's installment of Weekend Receipts, but in keeping with grand Movieline tradition, let's start the conversation in earnest today with a new round of Monday Morning Talkback: What did you think of J.J. Abrams' Super 8? [Needless to say, spoilers ahead...]
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Also in this Monday edition of The Broadsheet: Navy SEALs continue to be hot right now... James Badge Dale enlists in World War Z... Ben Affleck casts an Oscar winner in his next directorial outing... and more ahead.
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Film producer and studio executive Laura Ziskin passed away Sunday after a public battle with cancer, having established a distinguished career as one of Hollywood's most prominent female producers. Her notable credits include Pretty Woman (1990), Hero (1992), To Die For (1995), As Good as It Gets (1997), as well as all three of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films and the upcoming reboot The Amazing Spider-Man. Ziskin was 61.
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You've read the glowing reviews, you've heard about the crowds. But starting this weekend, it's easier than ever to see Midnight in Paris, the late-era masterpiece from Woody Allen. The film's continued theatrical expansion brings it to more than 900 screens nationwide, and considering its success to date, the folks at Sony Pictures Classics are feeling generous, offering up a Midnight in Paris poster signed by the Woodman himself. There's just one little, 10-word catch. [UPDATE: Only a few hours remain before the deadline! Submit your review after the jump.]
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