As if images of your favorite Twilight cast members running, embracing and eating breakfast weren't enough to goose your interest in the months-away release of Breaking Dawn, there's this bit of guerrilla marketing: the most popular baby names in America belong to Jacob and Bella!
Not that he's even seen them, according to a new interview, but still: "They had to invent a trilogy out of nowhere. It was plot-driven and complicated. I remember talking to [Gore Verbinski, director of the first three films] at certain points during production of 2 or 3 and saying, 'I don't really know what this means.' He said, 'Neither do I, but let's just shoot it.' This guy is this guy's dad, and this guy was in love with this broad. It was like, 'What?'" [EW]
The days of Ryan Gosling, Indie Darling appear close to an end. Not only will the mumble-y actor co-star alongside his ripped six-pack abs and Steve Carell in Crazy, Stupid, Love this summer, but he'll also take the lead in Nicholas Winding Refn's September action film Drive. This before killing gangsters and running with Logan. Drive debuts at the Cannes Film Festival, and a new clip that has surfaced online will possibly make you want to book a flight to France.
What happened to three of the most eccentric Hollywood personalities in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11? They went on a road trip, of course! In the June issue of Vanity Fair, writer Sam Kashner recounts the story of how Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson and Marlon Brando rented a car after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and drove from New York to Ohio in a misplaced attempt to get back to California.
Also in this Thursday edition of The Broadsheet: The Catfish team gets Paranormal... Tomb Raider hires some blockbuster-y writers... Steven Spielberg's Lincoln film will shoot this fall... and more ahead.
Fans may have been a bit outraged that Bradley Cooper was targeted to lead the legally-tangled remake of The Crow, but original director Alex Proyas apparently wasn't. Cooper is interested in playing Lucifer in Proyas' action-heavy and possibly 3D adaptation of John Milton's Paradise Lost.
It's official: Arnold Schwarzenegger will come back to theaters in Cry Macho. Deadline reports that CAA and QED International worked out a deal that will allow the latter company to shop the rights for the drama at the Cannes Film Festival next week. Schwarzenegger will get paid $12.5 million plus 25 percent of first dollar gross to play a washed up horse breeder who kidnaps his boss' son. [Deadline]
Hot on the heels of Fast Five's post-racial success at the box office comes the first trailer for Lionsgate's Conan the Barbarian, a suitably metal-scored, sword-swinging affair featuring hunky Jason Momoa as the titular warrior. Coincidence of timing or part of a brave new movement in big, beefy action filmmaking? Consider this: the baddies are played by Rose McGowan and Avatar's Stephen Lang. Ah, fantasy: The great equalizer!
Just because Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides doesn't hit theaters until May 20 does not mean that Disney isn't forecasting the future of its profitable franchise. Over the weekend, screenwriter Terry Rossio (who co-wrote The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest, At World's End, and On Stranger Tides) delivered a fifth script for Jack Sparrow and Co. to the studio. Johnny Depp has said that he would reprise his role as the charming pirate depending on the "story, script and filmmaker" but would like a break after this month's On Stranger Tides. [THR]
Happy Star Wars Day to all the pun-loving Han Solo fans in the universe. May 4th is a celebratory time for Lucas-philes thanks to the unbelievable wordplay of the line, "May the 4th be with you," and Twitter is recognizing the occasion in a few ways. One is with the hashtag, "#replaceawordinastarwarslinewithpants," which is as inane and dubious as it sounds. Let's join in! Without further ado, let's watch some Twitter users replace words in Star Wars quotes with the word "pants." Should be fun or something!
Real talk: I was, perhaps foolishly, only mildly curious about the in-the-works sequel to Alexandre Aja's boobs 'n' blood killer fish pic Piranha 3D, which we recently learned will take place in a water park, because of course. But then came the shocking revelation that three characters will return for the sequel, Piranha 3DD -- at least two of whom I'd thought were goners for sure. See who lives to fight fish another day after the jump!
English actor Sam Claflin is joining the fairytale reimagining Snow White and the Huntsman, playing the prince opposite Kristen Stewart as Snow White, Charlize Theron as the evil queen, and, if he accepts the offer, Chris Hemsworth as the huntsman. Yes, this could be the prettiest cast of all time. Don't know the name Sam Claflin yet? Don't worry, you will once Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides opens and you see mermaids falling all over their fins to be with him. [Deadline]
When celebrities name children, the world weeps. Moxie Crimefighter, Pilot Inspektor, and Jermajesty are all real people thanks to "creative" celebrities and their restless revolt against the system. Sometimes, however, celebrities use their children to toast other celebrities, like Mariah Carey just did -- and luckily for Movieline, that's resulted in at least five babies with movie star names. Let's rank these scamps!
Jackie Cooper, who played Daily Planet editor Perry White in Christopher Reeve's Superman movies, died Tuesday at a Beverly Hills hospital of a sudden illness. He was 88.
At last, the case brought against Warner Bros. by Mike Tyson's face-tattoo artist gets the thorough, engrossing legal analysis you never knew you wanted: "The smart money is on settlement -- which is what happened in two other major cases where tattoo artists sued because their work on a celebrity was used in publicity." It's well worth a read. [Needles & Sins]
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