Looks like The Weinstein Co. has discovered a new release date for the Timur Bekmambetov-produced "found footage" moon landing pic Apollo 18. (In the immortal words of Bob Weinstein, "Found, baby!") The bad news is that the mystery project, originally slated to open next month, is moving aaaaall the way from April 22 to Jan. 6, 2012. Yeesh. A last-minute nine month delay doesn't bode terribly well for any film, but then again, so little is known about Apollo 18 just yet that maybe it doesn't matter much. At least this gives the Weinsteins plenty of time to add ReleaseQuest™: Apollo 18 to their slate of upcoming video game adaptations. [Deadline]
I was almost positive we'd never have to talk about awful-ass Black Swan again, but here comes a kick-ass, scorned ballerina with a tale to tell: Sarah Lane, a 27-year-old American Ballet Theater soloist who worked as a body double on Black Swan, tells EW that there's a "cover-up" to prevent people from knowing she performed 95% of the cygnet moves in the movie. Now, I can't guarantee that Sarah isn't wearing black wings and circling her house right now like a crazed Sean Young type, but her quotes sound legitimate.
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While Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch getting knocked around by critics, it's as good a time as any to remember that he's the man responsible for bringing Superman back to the big screen for Warner Bros. The renewed enthusiasm for the Man of Steel here in 2011 has led some to wander back to 2006, and the nearly forgotten about Superman Returns from director Bryan Singer. How come that movie failed to connect with audiences? Singer has an idea.
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A tremendous week of news deserves no less a finale than this: The Weinstein Company is going into the video-game business. "The TWC Games label will utilize The Weinstein Company and Dimension Films' strong and recognizable properties, and work with external partners to develop and publish video games for mobile, social, and console platforms," announced a press release, punctuated by Bob Weinstein's observation: "With all of the digital platforms, there are so many opportunities to broaden our audience with compelling, high quality, cost-efficient, video game entertainment." No kidding! But what should come first?
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Another day, another casting announcement for HBO's Game Change, the movie about the 2008 presidential campaign. Woody Harrelson has been added to the apparent Oscar-nominee-only cast as Steve Schmidt, John McCain's senior campaign strategist and adviser. Harrelson joins Ed Harris as McCain and Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin in the Jay Roach film. Expect Sarah Palin to continue to belittle this project on Fox News. [EW]
If you've been wanting to prove your masculinity by dropping $999.99 on Scarface, you're in luck: As of Sept. 6, Universal Studios Home Entertainment is releasing a limited edition package of the film for nearly $1,000 which includes everything except a real-life Cuban drug lord and a pile of cocaine big enough to correct your inferiority complex.
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Thursday night on The Office, Steve Carell's Michael Scott proposed to his girlfriend Holly (Amy Ryan) and informed his co-workers that he is moving to Colorado. This makes us all sad -- we love Michael Scott, and we love Steve Carell! And while Carell has what should be a long and illustrious movie career ahead of him, we've seen sure things go off the rails plenty of times before. As such, Movieline offers these instructive lessons from watching those small-screen stars who've gone big-screen before him.
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Just a quick shoutout -- to ourselves -- for adding a few new elements that hopefully make everybody's Movieline experience a little more comprehensive. Off to the right you'll find Out of the Gate, a weekly module that will tell you what's opening. Below that is By The Numbers, which will keep you updated with the weekend box office and each film's cumulative total. Everything is linked, so click through to read Movieline reviews and other related coverage. And let us know if something's not working!
· District 9 -- the original Inception Exception -- was one of 2009's most surprising and worthwhile films. But was the ending satisfying enough? Not according to the good folks behind the "How It Should Have Ended," who have come up with an alternate take for the fate of Wikus (Sharlto Copley) in their latest video. Click ahead to watch the dark comedy, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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If it's Friday, it's apparently time for ridiculous news: Stage mother extraordinaire Dina Lohan tells PopEater that former movie star Lindsay Lohan is dropping her last name "and just going by Lindsay." You know, like Oprah and Madonna. Mama Lohan also reveals that she and her daughter Ali will ditch the surname in favor of Dina's maiden name, Sullivan. So, get used to seeing "Starring Lindsay" in whatever direct-to-DVD movie the former Ms. Lohan makes next. [PopEater]
Some clever soul with a serious Big Lebowski fetish and a modest facility with graphic design has created a Monopoly board game based on the Coen Brothers' 1998 classic. It's great in theory, but let's face it: If regular Monopoly takes hours or days to win, nobody would ever have the focus to finish this one. Anyway, I'll totally wait for the No Country For Old Men Game of Life, thank you very much.
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Orphans tend to get a bad rap in films. Some are emotionally disturbed, some suffer stereotypically evil step-parents and most are left to escape their miserable realities through fantasy. Enter Sucker Punch's Babydoll (Emily Browning), a Lolita-lookalike dealing with all three conditions in this weekend's action-fantasy film from Zack Snyder. To mentally prepare you for the plight of cinema's latest little orphan Annie, Movieline revisits nine of the most noteworthy (and inspiring) strays to ever hit the big screen.
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Whoa. An epic new series of remembrances and recollections of the late Elizabeth Taylor features the disclosure of a secret the icon carried to her grave -- or at least to an interview in 1997, when she let slip a disturbing, off-the-record bombshell about Giant co-star James Dean.
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"His d*ck is moving in and out of her." That's how former Variety editor Peter Bart describes the infamous on-set sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now in his new book, Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob, (and Sex). But what does Sutherland remember about his, um, junk's alleged movement?
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Move over, Olsen twins: Sylvester Stallone is stepping into the fashion ring with his own celebrity clothing line. And according to a recent article in Women's Wear Daily, the first wave of his lifestyle brand for men will take inspiration from Stallone's iconic Rocky and Rambo films, because of course. So what exactly can we expect from the design house of Sly?
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