"I've already started to read posts about how hot Rooney [Mara] is with her nipple ring on full display. That's enough to start my blood boiling. Lisbeth [Salander] is not supposed to be hot. That's one of the reasons why we love her so much. She doesn't play by the rules and now we have a poster that puts her right back into the girl box. Disappointment is a wild understatement for what I am feeling." [Women and Hollywood]
To the surprise of no one, The Hangover Part III continues to be a thing. "They want to do a Hangover III," Zach Galifianakis told Rolling Stone. "I'm getting fricking phone calls already." Per the hirsute star, the third film would potentially revolve around Phil and Stu (Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms) breaking Galifianakis' Alan out of a mental institution. Which, sure. What's really interesting about the interview, however, is Galifianakis' awkward encounter with Jane Lynch and Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
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What's another blockbuster between friends? Disney has scheduled The Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer for release on Dec. 21, 2012. The Gore Verbinski-directed film joins The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Life of Pi and Judd Apatow's untitled Knocked Up continuation on the already crowded December calendar. Enterprising readers can start scheduling their holiday shopping times around these tentpoles accordingly. [Deadline]
You won't get away from The Human Centipede sequel that easily. After The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) was banned by the British Board of Film Classification for, in part, presenting "graphic images of sexual violence, forced defecation, and mutilation," director Tom Six has come out to defend his grotesque sounding horror film. He's also pissed about those spoilers.
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Not to pile on, I swear, but here's a quick follow-up about Love Wedding Marriage, the unilaterally panned romantic comedy featuring Mandy Moore and Kellan Lutz and directed by veteran actor/first-time helmer Dermot Mulroney: After a delay in reporting, last weekend's box-office data now reveals a whopping $1,378 gross on two screens -- a $689 per-theater average, for those keeping score at home. Bummer. Anyway, team, take heart! You could have been in The Life Zone. [Box Office Mojo]
Paramount apparently can't help but be rattled by the scurrilous Super 8 box-office skeptics in their midst, thus announcing a slate of Thursday "sneak previews" co-presented by Twitter. About 300 theaters nationwide will be taking part in the screenings, some of which begin as early as the 10 A.M. hour in both IMAX and standard-screen venues. Read on for ticket information and official word from Paramount. There's free popcorn!
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It sounds that way! Deadline reports that Darren Aronofsky is shopping Noah, an "edgy retelling" of the story of Noah's Ark that the Black Swan director initially wrote and would like to direct. John Logan (Gladiator) is working on a rewrite of the script, which is described as "a big fantasy epic" that could cost upward of $130 million. All those animals don't come cheap. [Deadline]
Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Judd Apatow adds some familiar faces to his next film... the Tron: Legacy sequel hires a writer... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will get a reboot... and more ahead.
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Quentin Tarantino really thinks Leonardo DiCaprio can play the bad guy. The Sidney Poitier-loving director initially wanted to cast DiCaprio as Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds back in 2008, but no deal could be reached; Tarantino went with Christoph Waltz for the eventual Oscar-winning role. Now, the director and star are talking again about another villainous scourge: the slave owning Calvin Candie in Tarantino's Django Unchained.
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Last summer, Shia LaBeouf admitted that he and Steven Spielberg really dropped the ball with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull before revealing that -- surprise! -- they are still going to make another one. Now, the outspoken actor has offered another update. In short, Harrison Ford hitting the weights is to Indiana Jones installments what the groundhog not seeing his shadow is to spring weather
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Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming comedy The Dictator, about a ruler who "risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed," will apparently chronicle the delirious jingoism we expect from Borat's creator. In this new candid still, we see Cohen don Old Glory in a new and proud and funny and horrifying way.
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It's the political scandal of the moment -- until the next political scandal of the moment. New York congressman Anthony Weiner was busted for engaging in "inappropriate online exchanges with at least six women, and repeatedly lying about sending a sexually suggestive photograph to a young woman over Twitter last month." (Somewhere, John Edwards is saying, "Oh, is that all?") In a summer of superheros and precocious kids, Weiner stands out as -- well, a wiener. And knowing Hollywood, that means a film about the formerly rising (ding!) political star cannot be far behind. Ahead, Movieline offers five casting suggestions for the inevitable Weinergate.
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Following the $100 million success of Bridesmaids, Universal has acquired an as-yet-unspecified comedy pitch from director Paul Feig and producer Judd Apatow. What could be better news? Hopefully it turns out to be another female ensemble -- specifically, one of these. [Deadline]
You know the sad tale: Hollywood gets its hands on a popular video game title, adapts it into a movie starring some sort of Van Dammian creature, and it becomes an awful bust. In honor of the decadent E3 video game conference in Los Angeles, let's buck the trend and turn a beloved film into a console caper. What are your (preferably unconventional) choices for the video game treatment?
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The last 24 hours has yielded a cluster of stories about the worrisome build-up to Super 8, this weekend's '80s-tinged sci-fi vehicle from writer-director J.J. Abrams (and co-produced by Abrams's chief influence Steven Spielberg). Deadline notes Paramount's "bold gamble" in not spoiling Super 8's storyline, visual effects or its central creature alluded to in earlier marketing efforts, thus leaving pre-release buzz -- and thus box-office expectations ($25 million to $30 million, according to the studio) -- on the low side. The Hollywood Reporter cited "industry chatter that the film would not open on par with recent summer releases like X-Men: First Class or Thor"; Vulture quotes a witness to "'purgatory' tracking. It's horrific." Except it's not horrific. Abrams and Paramount have us right where they want us.
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