In their latest bid to appeal to summer moviegoers, Marvel Studios has released 40 (!) new stills from Matthew Vaughn's swingin' '60s X-Men prequel X-Men: First Class. For your convenience, Movieline has culled the dozen raciest images -- including Emma Frost in a push-up bra, Kevin Bacon in fur and Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique coming onto Beast -- for your guilty pleasure.
More Brazilian barbecue for everyone! Bridesmaids -- which scored a very solid second place debut over the weekend -- was actually an even bigger hit than previously reported. The film grossed $26.2 million during its opening salvo, up from the $24.4 million estimate on Sunday. That's the largest debut for a Judd Apatow production since Step Brothers in 2008. [Deadline]
The Today show treated Movieline's scrumdiddlyumptious readership to a thrill this morning, reuniting key cast members from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (minus Gene Wilder and the late Jack Albertson) 40 years later. Does Charlie Bucket still look fresh as a daisy? Did Violet Beauregarde age into an adorable blueberry? Does Mrs. Bucket still sing "Cheer Up, Charlie" into the night? Prepare yourself a fizzy-lifting drink and click through for video.
With Upfront Week in full swing (see Deadline's extensive coverage here), what better time to peel back the layers on the creative minds behind some of your favorite series of the past few years? The 2012 documentary Showrunners does just that, featuring interviews with the likes of Damon Lindelof (LOST), Jeff Pinkner & J.H. Wyman (Fringe), David Eick (Battlestar Galactica), Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy) and more, who spill on everything from daily life as a showrunner on a hit show to what happens when you sign away creative control. TV lovers, you're going to want to watch this trailer.
Here at Movieline we've been tracking the stank levels of Bridesmaids' six premier pimpstresses since the first poster arrived in January sporting clinical sass, high levels of thug jaw, and traditional drag realness. So ferosh. So fire-faced. And while the finished film contained a surprising amount of base humor and slapstick cheapness, the sexy sextet still dished major attitude daggers and saucy voodoo, all while gyrating in the face of sassless Kate Hudson-types everywhere.
· HBO has yet to cast an actor to play Barack Obama in Game Change, but judging from the first look at Ed Harris as John McCain, it won't be very hard for the make-up department to make anyone who gets the job look good. Seriously: this is uncanny! Click ahead to have your mind blown, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
The first poster for the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson superproject The Adventures of Tinitin is making the rounds today, which can mean only one thing for movie buffs: It's time to play spot the influence! And... what? We have a winner already?
Two summers ago, back when Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was first hitting theaters, Movieline pointed out that two of the film's robots, Mudflap and Skids, were shameless African-American stereotypes. Bay took some serious heat for his racist robot depictions and now, to prove that the filmmaker has reformed his ways, he's betting $25,000 that you won't find the ebonics-spouting characters in Dark of the Moon.
Just because it's summer movie season doesn't mean you can't get hyped up about December movie releases -- especially when the movie in question is a co-production from Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. The first poster for the Spielberg-directed The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn has arrived online, and it's appropriately globe-spanning in its scope. Click ahead for a peek.
Terrence Malick isn't the only auteur making news on this Monday (though you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise): Jim Jarmusch -- whose last film was the poorly received The Limits of Control in 2009 -- has cast Tilda Swinton, Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska in his next feature. Which is about vampires.
British genealogist Nick Barratt -- a researcher for the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? -- claims that Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp could be a distant relative of Queen Elizabeth. In other words: he's possible royalty. Depp and the queen share the same great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather (seriously) which would make them 20th cousins. [Mirror via THR]
The 64th Festival de Cannes has officially been taken over by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. In addition the world premiere of The Tree of Life, the Hollywood power couple is also celebrating the purchase of Jolie's directorial debut. Click ahead to find out the title of her controversial Bosnian war drama, and what other major future releases found possible distribution in the French Riviera over the weekend.
Before he made his screen debut in the 2009 biopic Notorious portraying his own father, the late rapper Christopher "Biggie" Wallace, newcomer Christopher Jordan "CJ" Wallace had no aspirations for a Hollywood career. But the acting bug hit and a call from writer-director Dan Rush followed, and within a few years Wallace, now 14, found himself playing opposite Will Ferrell in the achingly bittersweet indie drama Everything Must Go, about an alcoholic salesman struggling to cope with losing it all.
In the comedy world, girls are the new boys! At least that's what many will hope following the box office success of Bridesmaids. The Kristen Wiig-led film landed in a solid second place over the weekend, and seems like the only film anyone wants to talk about (besides The Tree of Life). So, let's talk!
Also in this Monday edition of The Broadsheet: A trio of leading ladies joins Michael Cera in Magic... Gemma Arterton times two... the Highlander reboot is still happening... and more ahead.
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