Even with all of the upcoming promotional obligations for Your Highness, new projects with Mila Kunis, Oscar-related spats, aborted autobiographies and Ph.D. classes at Yale, James Franco has agreed to teach a third-year class on directing at the Tisch School of the Arts. Obviously.
If you're the kind of person who hates reading about bad movies achieving box office success, here's some bad news: Adam Sandler's latest comedy Just Go With It -- which currently rests at a shameful 18 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, has just passed $100 million domestically. Has Adam Sandler, the patron saint of scathing critical responses, actually developed a foolproof formula for turning awful films into multiplex gold?
As mentioned earlier, Jeff Robinov will take over as president of the Warner Bros. motion picture group this week, and apparently he's already got some ideas about where the studio should go in the next five years: Back to the comic book shop with Batman, Superman, The Flash, Wonder Woman and maybe the entire Justice League.
Great news: Violet Wister's Damsels in Distress has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics! If you're not sure why this is a cause for an exclamation point, consider that this film is the first in twelve years from Whit Stillman, the critically acclaimed filmmaker responsible for The Last Days of Disco and Metropolitan. Also consider that it's a 30's-style song and dance comedy starring Greta Gerwig and Adam Brody. Suffice to say, Movieline HQ is pumped! [NYT/ArtsBeat]
And just like that, only eight teams remain in the inaugural Movieline Basketball Movie tournament. Are you sad that Juwanna Mann didn't advance to the next round? Well, then you should have voted! All four fourth seeds took the pounding they deserved in round one, but that doesn't mean there weren't a couple of surprises. Let's look at which films advanced to the Elite Eight.
Here's something you probably never thought you'd see: According to Kristin Dos Santos of E! Online, one of the five Oscar-nominated directors from this year's Academy Award ceremony is apparently scheduled to appear on Gossip Girl later this spring. Who is the mystery director?
On Friday, Jeff Robinov will officially succeed Alan Horn as president of Warner Bros., meaning he'll be the man responsible for giving films the green light at the studio. Just not films from David Fincher. In a profile on Robinov in the Los Angeles Times, the former production executive is revealed to "hold grudges," and apparently won't work with the Oscar-nominated Fincher following clashes between the two during Zodiac and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. So, no Benjamin Button sequel then? [LAT]
Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: Another Black Swan star speaks out for Natalie Portman... the Candyland movie gets some screenwriters... Peter Bart responds to the response about his Don't Look Now sex story... and more ahead.
Remember Agatha Christie's iconic, elderly spinster detective Miss Marple, who solved crimes in between knitting and gardening? Well, Disney's going to make another movie about her, only this time she'll be younger and played by Jennifer Garner (who is producing as well). Also, this one's set in modern times. So uh... I guess she'll solve crimes between shopping for shoes and dining at Soho cafes? And, if they're changing all of these elements, it seems like they might as well "reboot" the name too. I mean, they can't actually name this sexy female detective for a new generation Miss Marple, can they?
In between fielding questions about Natalie Portman's thong bikini in Your Highness, director David Gordon Green confirmed that he hopes to remake Dario Argento's horror classic Suspiria next. As someone who really likes horror movies, I'm usually somewhere between disheartened and furious each time Hollywood announces a remake of another one of my favorite '70s films. But a remake of Suspiria actually has real potential. Here's why.
If you didn't get your poster fill from The Tree of Life and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, don't worry: The boys from The Hangover Part II have arrived from Thailand, and they've brought a monkey in a sleeveless jean jacket. Let's get this party started?
No, this isn't the devastating end to a Hitchcock movie: Farley Granger, the actor whose 60 years of credits included starring roles in the Master of Suspense's Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951), died of natural causes at age 85 in New York City. You'll notice he was also gorgeous. Let's revisit a trailer from his finest hour on film and discuss his fantastic legacy.
Another day, another Natalie Portman authenticity scandal. But this one isn't about how much dancing the Oscar-winner did or didn't do in Black Swan; it's of even more significance, to a certain segment of the movie-going audience: Did Portman use a butt double in her upcoming medieval comedy, Your Highness?
Today in sinister Harry Potter artwork news, Warner Bros. has released a new poster from the franchise's final installment Deathly Hallows: Part 2. In it, the teen wizard engages in a high-stakes staring contest with his archenemy Lord Voldemort, played by a noseless Ralph Fiennes. Click through for the terrifying full-size image.
Forget Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and up-and-coming starlet Jessica Chastain. The real star of Terrence Malick's anticipated drama The Tree of Life is its breathtaking cinematography courtesy of quadruple Oscar-nominated Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki -- so much so that Lubezki even said that the camera work took precedence over all actors and dialogue on set. To further prove this point, Fox Searchlight is giving the real Tree of Life star 70 close-ups in the film's new mosaic poster.
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