Better late than never for the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Chaplin Award Gala to recognize Sidney Poitier, a double Oscar-winner, renowned Hollywood polymath and one of the most socially relevant entertainers of the last half-century. The 38th annual event -- named in 1972 for its first honoree, Charlie Chaplin -- brought out a gaggle of Poitier's friends, peers and all-around devotees to toast him, including long-time fan Quentin Tarantino, who put the night in both personal and historical perspective for the sold-out crowd.
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Ahead of this weekend's Thor release, Marvel Films co-chief Kevin Feige revealed that his studio is considering spinning off Jeremy Renner and Scarlett Johannson's comic characters Hawkeye and Black Widow for their very own motion pictures. Understanding that Marvel fans are completely in control over whether these projects will succeed at the box office (if they get that far), Movieline turns to you for this morning's Talkback.
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Rarely do actors reveal as much, as candidly, as Wes Bentley did in a recent conversation with Movieline. Speaking about his latest film, the Roland Joffé-directed Spanish Civil War drama There Be Dragons, Bentley offered a frank window into his life following the crippling, years-long addiction that waylaid what was once one of Hollywood's most promising young careers.
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One last little bit of housecleaning from the weekend box office: There's good news and there's bad news about Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, the live-action, Brandon Routh-starring adaptation of the cult comic book. First, the good news: The supernatural gumshoe flick did modestly well in Italy, where its source material originated. According to the most recent available figures, it earned $3.4 million in the month after opening March 16. (By comparison, Scream 4 was down 52 percent in its second week in Italy and hasn't yet cracked $1.5 million.) Then there's the bad news.
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Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: Greta Gerwig finds the indie romcom she's been waiting for... Wes Anderson's newest starts filming... what kind of Osama bin Laden movie do you want to see... and more ahead.
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A week after reportedly battling fellow funny ladies Kristen Wiig and Gillian Jacobs for the role, Anna Faris is in talks to star in the Larry Charles-directed The Dictator opposite Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley. Cohen will play the titular "heroic" dictator, who is replaced by a lookalike and gets lost in America; Faris will play an organic food store owner who comes into his life. Paramount is already set to release the improvised comedy on May 11, 2012. [Deadline]
Barry Levinson continues to surprise us here at Movieline HQ! After making the isopod creature feature-horror pic The Bay (shudder), the Oscar-winning writer/director behind such films as Diner, Bugsy, Good Morning, Vietnam, and Rain Man and the recent Emmy-winning You Don't Know Jack -- the hits go on, as do the Spheres and Toyses and Envys -- has signed on to direct Fiore Films' Gotti biopic. Yes, that Gotti biopic. After the jump, discuss what this means for all involved.
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With Vin Diesel and The Rock currently muscling their way to global domination and Thor set to kick off the summer's action-packed slate with his comic book brawn, there's already a surplus of testosterone at the box office. But looking forward to the next few months, the field's only going to get more crowded with bromantic buddies, pirates, alien robots, superheroes, and cowboys mixing it up at the multiplex. Where have all the ladies gone?
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Cutesy news from the casting department: The Farrelly brothers have picked well-known Jewish male Larry David to play the Catholic nun Mother Mengele, who runs the orphanage where the Stooges are raised, in the upcoming Three Stooges movie. Jane Lynch has been cast as Mother Superior while Sean Hayes, Will Sasso, and Chris Diamantopoulos will assume Larry, Moe, and Curly's roles. I hope this silly bit of casting doesn't distract anyone from the fact at hand: There is no need to remake anything Stooge-related other than Iggy Pop's knees from time to time. [Deadline]
First Corey Feldman, and now Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal. In a coincidence of Hollywood proportions, the script that Boal was working on about the search for Osama bin Laden actually focused on the elite team of Navy SEALs that succeeded in killing him. Variety reports that Bigelow will start production on the previously announced film over the summer, with Boal currently writing the new happy ending into his latest draft. Should we just pencil this one in for release on May 1, 2012 to coincide with the anniversary of bin Laden's death? [Variety]
There are still an entire summer's worth of blockbusters to sit through before the October 14 release of Paul W.S. Anderson's The Three Musketeers, but that doesn't mean Summit Entertainment is going to let up on the onslaught of promotional images. Below, find a trio of stills featuring Christoph Waltz, Milla Jovovich and Logan Lerman and begin the countdown.
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Apparently Prince William and his new bride Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (a.k.a. Kate "The Fascinator" Middleton) are visiting Movieline's HQ, our sinister little supersuburb of Los Angeles. Don't ask why. Just pee yourself with glee while crying. Julie Miller and I are torqued for their arrival, and we've decided to plan their itinerary. I hope it isn't too glamorous or upscale for them.
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"For a generation of kids who grew up reading [J.K.] Rowling's books and watching Hollywood's big-screen adaptations in the shadows of 9/11, there have been inevitable echoes of the real world in Harry's sometimes reluctant quest to defeat Voldemort." I mean, maybe? I always saw a more striking link in all those years of Paula vs. Simon, but you tell me. [THR]
Here's your first look at images from Rod Lurie's Straw Dogs remake, which moves the setting of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film from England to America, and sets up L.A. couple James Marsden and Kate Bosworth for a really unpleasant vacay in the Deep South. The EW scans also include your first look at True Blood's Alexander Skarsgård in the role of Charlie, a character at the center of the original film's most controversial scenes.
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If you are a fan of Pixar, you might recall that in 2008 the studio announced an exciting 3-D love story called Newt that would hit theaters in the summer of 2011. But the project, about the last remaining blue-footed newts on the planet, mysteriously disappeared from the studio's production schedule and finally, Pixar's CEO is ready to explain why.
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