The good news: Jessica Biel got her chance to work with Oscar-nominated director Darren Aronofsky! The bad news: It was for a Revlon commercial about lash-plumping mascara. And, well, it's no Black Swan; now there's a movie that knew its way around a make-up brush. Watch Biel pout and bat her lashes in soft focus in Aronofsky's least-daring work to date after the jump.
Since The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is now slated for a December 14 release, other studios' movies are politely rescheduling to avoid that box office bonanza. Life of Pi, the Ang Lee adaptation of Yann Martel's 2001 novel, starring newcomer Suraj Sharma, Tobey Maguire, and Gerard Depardieu, is now scheduled for a Dec. 21, 2011 premiere. It should be the greatest movie about being stuck in a boat with a Bengal Tiger since Hitchcock's Lifeboat, where Tallulah Bankhead almost mauls all the other passengers. [/Film]
Last month we wondered whether rebooting Edgar Rice Burroughs' vine-swinging hero Tarzan was a good idea. After all, the nearly 100-year-old character could be construed as racist, and Brendan Fraser killed any desire to see another feral manchild in a loincloth with 1997's George of the Jungle. Regardless, Warner Bros. has gone ahead and hired Hustle & Flow's Craig Brewer to revive Tarzan for a 21st century trilogy.
· Being wowed by the fact that Eric Stoltz was in -- and subsequently out of -- Back to the Future is so 2010, but that doesn't make this new/old photo of Stoltz on-set with Lea Thompson any less of a curiosity. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs. Backwards. Click through for the pic, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
On Wednesday, Movieline showed you a theatergoer's photo of the U.K. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo poster, but that had foreign writing on it, meaning it is not safe for American audiences. In the now-official poster, we get a better view of Rooney Mara's worried glare and Daniel Craig's scariness. Here are six images it conjured up.
As the makers of multiple Tony winners like Spamalot, Billy Elliott, and Hairspray (among many, many others) know, adapting hit Broadway musicals from movies can be quite rewarding -- commercially and creatively. But since these days it seems like Broadway folk are dipping into the Hollywood playbook for just about any kind of material -- nun-themed disco comedies, '80s-set Adam Sandler pics, even the Patrick Swayze-Demi Moore romance Ghost, complete with potter's wheel cheesiness -- Movieline's got your guide to the five most promising future movie-to-Broadway adaptations to watch for.
What was rumored back in January is now apparently fact: the next James Bond film will hit theaters on Nov. 9, 2012, with Daniel Craig back as the dapper 007 for a third time. Of course, since the 23rd James Bond still doesn't have a title -- it's going by the much-too-common Bond 23 at the moment -- the 15 Movieline-approved possibilities are still in play. The Girl with the SPECTRE Tattoo, anyone? [Coming Soon]
Also in this Thursday edition of The Broadsheet: Jennifer Hudson is a Stooge... Robert Redford may take A Walk in the Woods... the latest Nicholas Sparks adaptation finds a director... and more ahead.
It's a project that almost sounds too glamorously epic to actually happen: A film telling the larger-than-life love story of famous Hollywood lovers Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, helmed by none other than Martin Scorsese. But as Deadline reports, the pieces are falling into place for Scorsese to direct the tale, based on Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger's authorized biography Furious Love, which begs the question: what's Angelina Jolie up to after she shoots that Cleopatra flick?
Another day, another fatalistic Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II character poster. Here, it all ends for Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter), which is a shame because for the first time in this series ol' Trix is looking fairly H-O-T. Washed hair and everything, just in time for the big hurrah! Hit the jump for the full image.
Good news for fans of The Firm, NBC midseason dramas and Josh Lucas: The Sweet Home Alabama star is finalizing negotiations to play the lead in the 2011 series based on Paramount's adaptation of the John Grisham thriller. Lucas will play Tom Cruise's character Mitchell McDeere as he emerges from the Witness Protection program a decade following the events of the novel and the film. [Deadline]
Debbie Reynolds, the Singin' in the Rain legend who truly peaked in the Disney Channel original movie Halloweentown, has unsuccessfully spent millions trying to organize a museum for her extensive collection of Hollywood memorabilia. Welp, that dream is over. Now she's selling it all at auction and hoping you'll drop six, seven, or eight figures on her classic curios. You want Marilyn's subway dress? Click through to find out how to fill out the check.
Just a day after Friday Night Lights alum Jesse Plemons joined the cast of Paul Thomas Anderson's untitled religious drama, Deadline is announcing that Amy Adams has also joined the project. Set to begin shooting later this month, the three-time Oscar-nominated actress will play the wife of Philip Seymour Hoffman's pseudo-Scientological religious leader. Joaquin Phoenix, Laura Dern and veteran character actor David Warshofsky will co-star. [Deadline]
The star-studded Adam Sandler comedy I Hate You Dad just picked up its first Oscar-winning cast member in Susan Sarandon, who is set to play Andy Samberg's mother, a "sexy teacher" type. Yes, that sounds like a cinematic sequel to the SNL digital short "Motherlover," where Samberg and Sarandon play sexual switcheroo with the mother-son duo of Justin Timberlake and Patricia Clarkson, but is this an Oedipal arrangement we want reenacted on the silver screen?
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