You know how Steven Soderbergh announced last month that he would retire after finishing his Liberace biopic and remaking The Man from U.N.C.L.E.? Well, he wasn't so set on withdrawing from the film business because the 48-year-old director has signed on to direct a Channing Tatum stripper project.
Forget disgruntled theater owners: the tattoo artist who inked Mike Tyson's face back in 2003 is suing Warner Bros. over The Hangover Part II, claiming copyright infringement of his famous work. The tribal face tattoo, which Ed Helms spoofs in the sequel in a clear nod to Tyson, not only shows up in the film, it's prominently featured in the film's marketing campaign -- and that could mean big trouble for Warner Bros.
In anticipation of the May 6 limited release of The Beaver, Mel Gibson spoke candidly last week about the film, his high-profile image crisis and his relationship with director and long-time friend Jodie Foster. But in the sprawling conversation, the Oscar winner failed to discuss his most intimate co-star and the namesake of his potential comeback project: the beaver puppet.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Royal Wedding of summer blockbusters. Goodness! You can't go three feet without stumbling onto a new character poster, promotional banner or massive trailer. Which is fine, since this thing looks like the summer blockbuster to end all summer blockbusters. Literally, if the Decepticons get their world-destroying way. Click ahead for the new theatrical poster, which is comically large scale, but tiny in Shia.
Having enjoyed the work of Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, and An Education director Lone Scherfig, I'd been optimistically looking forward to the lit adaptation One Day. (Just look at this sexy, lip-parting smooch -- best movie poster kiss ever?) But as the first trailer for the decades-spanning romance reveals, there's another co-star angling for attention in the August release: Anne Hathaway's distracting British accent. Watch the trailer and see what I mean after the jump.
· Movie anniversaries are like Hansel: So hot right now! Empire magazine is the latest to take part in this craze, reassembling Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Martin Short (plus director John Landis) for a Three Amigos reunion. Fabulous! And not just because if you didn't approve of this, Lucky Day would pump you so full of lead that you'll be using your... well, you know. Click ahead for a first look.
As the Universal marketing department has helpfully reminds everyone, summer starts early in 2011 with Fast Five hitting theaters today and likely speeding toward a massive summer-like opening. Yet which upcoming blockbuster could make the Fast Five opening -- which is on-target to hit around $70-80 million -- seem like chump change?
Movieline's Summer Preview continues with the season's most anticipated films from critic Michelle Orange:
According to reports today, Dwayne Johnson has agreed to headline and produce a biopic of black country star Charley Pride. Could this be The Rock's chance to Walk the Line to the Oscar podium or just another milestone in the continuing evolution of the former WWE wrestler?
It certainly seemed like a false rumor -- a slightly amusing false rumor, but still -- that Harry Potter star Emma Watson had left Brown University because fellow students were teasing her with taunts of "10 points for Gryffindor" whenever the actress answered a question in class, and now Watson has confirmed it as such. Click ahead to read what the Deathly Hallows star wrote on her website about leaving Brown, and the bullying rumors.
Asteroids, ants, volcanoes, Truman Capote, screw buddies. Often times, high-concept Hollywood ideas come in pairs. Which is why it should come as little surprise that there are two Linda Lovelace biopics in the works, though whether either will hit theaters is certainly up for debate. Ahead, a brief guide to help you tell these in-development films apart.
While Arnold Schwarzenegger waits to see which studio will want to get into the Terminator business, will he sneak back into theaters with a pulp-y character piece? Vulture reports that Schwarzenegger may star in Cry Macho, an adaptation of N. Richard Nash's 1975 novel about a failed horse trainer who gets into the kidnapping business. Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) is attached to direct. [Vulture]
It might sound crazy, but doesn't Cars 2 seem to be flying under the radar heading into the summer blockbuster season? Oh, sure: It's a Pixar release and the sequel to a film that grossed over $460 million worldwide, but there isn't as much gotta-see heat permeating off Cars 2 as some of the other big releases. Which is why this new poster -- which pegs Cars 2 to the Royal Wedding -- is just what the doctored ordered. Click through for a look.
This weekend in Fast Five, Dwayne Johnson makes his Fast and Furious franchise debut as Luke Hobbs, a hulking law enforcer who tangos with the wrong street racing crew. How did Johnson (née "The Rock" in the entertainment industry) transform himself from a professional WWE body slammer to a bankable film star, worthy Saturday Night Live host, and -- most surprising -- a respectable Academy Award presenter?
With love in the air -- or, more accurately, the Royal Wedding permeating news coverage -- what better time than now for Summit Entertainment to release a new picture of Logan Lerman and some fair maiden about to kiss in The Three Musketeers. Let's hope that upon completion, this lip-lock is a bit more passionate than the first kiss from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. (Come on, Prince William; you've got to lock that down.) Anyway, click ahead to see a first look at The Three Musketeers.
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