The Beaver finally debuts tonight for an audience at South by Southwest, where one half of the Jodie Foster-Mel Gibson braintrust that brought the celebrated-cum-troubled project together will present the film in person. Guess which half?
Every moviegoer over the age of 18 has experimented with some kind of drug movie, and this weekend, Relativity Media rolls out another addition to this expansive genre of pharmaceutical films. In Limitless, Bradley Cooper stars as a downtrodden writer whose luck changes dramatically when he starts using an experimental drug called NZT. Before we embrace this new subgenre of substance cinema though, let's review the nine types of drug movies that have already been embraced by Hollywood.
She may have been the first person voted off American Idol, but that doesn't mean Ashthon Jones is ready to throw in the towel on that whole "being famous" thing. "I would love to play Whitney Houston," Jones told NextMovie. "I did one of her songs on Idol. I think I could do her really well." Judging from Houston's past, the singer does seem ripe for a biopic. Unfortunately, Jones doesn't want to delve into Houston's messy recent history with drugs and Bobby Brown. "It would be her career from the beginning and stop way before then. I wouldn't do that to her -- I love her. Whatever she's going through, that's her business. I don't want to dip into that." Screenwriters, start your typing... [NextMovie]
If you were hoping that the Farrelly Brothers had finally found their Moe, some bad news: Johnny Knoxville won't star in the bros' Three Stooges reboot, after negotiations between the Jackass star and Twentieth Century Fox failed to get past jump street. On the upside, you can now begin the Stooges cast carousel all over again. Benicio Del Toro, anyone? [THR]
For some reason, I imagine John C. Reilly taking the lead on this staged photo of the cast of God of Carnage (Reilly, Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster and Christoph Waltz) holding director Roman Polanski. "OK, the four of us will pick you up, and you just lay there like you're the male version of Cleopatra. Deal?"
Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: If Red Dawn ever gets released, it will have new villains... Hollywood tries to revive Mr. Limpet again... DVD purchases of Hereafter will help Japan... and more ahead.
The Russian X-Men: First Class trailer has more of everything -- More special effects, more banter (in Russian), more heroes and... more footage of what look like concentration camps. Actually, the way the epic, melodramatic music plays over this footage, you'd swear the studio was begging for Oscar nominations and not a vote of confidence from hipsters and comic book geeks. Watch your back, Super 8!
"We need to keep it gangsta and take our sh*t to the next level," pleads Die Antwoord rapper Yo-Landi to Ninja, her partner in crime in the Harmony Korine-directed short Umshini Wam. And just how do the South African zef hip-hoppers do just that? By pimping out their wheelchair rides, shooting guns in empty suburban parking lots, smoking comically large joints, and dreaming of life as "Gang$ta number one." Watch the entirety of Umshini Wam (translation: 'Bring me my machine gun') after the jump.
The latest plot details about Transformers: Dark of the Moon come not from a children's book, but from a synopsis on the Random House website for a 400-page novel based on the film. Unfortunately (or perhaps fittingly?), this synopsis may be one of the most vague, lifeless paragraphs ever written. But let's have a little fun anyway! With a tip of the hat to William S. Burroughs, I've rearranged all of the clauses into several different and equally meaningless alternate synopses. Read through and see if you can spot the real synopsis amid the impostors.
Congratulations to all of the SXSW award winners last night! Really though, a large chunk of those congratulations belong to the indie narrative Natural Selection, which swept the awards with a total of seven wins. Robbie Pickering's film took home the top prize from not only the jury comprised of Roger Ebert, Logan Hill, Michelle Satter, but also from the audience. Tristan Patterson's Dragonslayer, which looks like a real-life version of teen angst movies like Suburbia and The River's Edge, took home the top documentary award. Check out the full list of winners in every category, from Narrative Feature to Poster Design, after the jump.
If you were hoping that a new photo from Captain America: The First Avenger would mysteriously surface on the Internet this afternoon, you're in luck. The most recent still features Chris Evans in full Captain America regalia, being held hostage by two leather-clad men (Nazis? Assassins sent from a future Charlie Sheen to destroy all World War II trolls?). Alas, the only way to free the Marvel superhero and save American ideals is to come up with a genius caption for the photo below. Ready... set...
Like Gwyneth Paltrow, Tina Fey believes people are overly mean to Gwyneth Paltrow. "Any time you talk about being a working mother and you complain about it in any way, people eat your face," Fey tells InStyle. "I remember reading some interview where Gwyneth Paltrow said something like, 'I missed my kids on the set one day and I was crying.' And I thought, Yeah, I've totally done that." She added, "But on the Web site where I read it there were these furious comments. 'But you're a movie star!' Yes, it's much worse for a mom serving in Afghanistan. Of course. But there's just no forgiveness." [People]
First time director Cindy Meehl brought the capacity audience at Austin's Paramount Theater to its feet with her crowd-pleasing documentary Buck, about Buck Brannaman, the gentleman cowboy-horse whose life and work partially inspired Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer. After the film, Brannaman and the filmmakers walked onstage to a rousing standing ovation for a Q&A filled with horsemanship advice, behind-the-scenes details, and a shout out to the Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan.
Fox hasn't forgotten about the idle Daredevil franchise parked in its garage, today reportedly enlisting The Twilight Saga: Eclipse director David Slade to revive the comics-hero series.
Let's hear it for Jonah Hill! The newly thin comedy star has taken to his official Twitter account like a duck to water -- or like an impostor to Twitter, as the case may sometimes be -- offering fans a peek behind the curtain at the making of 21 Jump Street. On Tuesday's docket: The firing range. "Let's shoot some bad guys, motherf***er!" Hill wrote. Click ahead to see the slightly NSFW picture of Hill, post-bad guys-shooting. (This is assuming that flipping someone the bird is not suitable for your office.)
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