When Movieline last checked on Steven Spielberg's War Horse, it was to show you pictures of the director and some horses. Now that the first official still from the highly anticipated second half of Spielberg's 2011 double-bill has been revealed (Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin hits theaters days before War Horse in December), it appears so, too, has the "war" portion of War Horse. At least in the form of three frowning British officers.
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How bad are the reviews for Red Riding Hood? Well, Beastly -- which was so unanimously reviled it even got lampooned on Saturday Night Live last week -- scored a fresh rating three times higher than what Catherine Hardwicke's fairytale is currently rocking on Rotten Tomatoes. Yikes. Ahead, nine of the sharpest barbs against Red Riding Hood.
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Is it possible to like and appreciate Guillermo del Toro while accepting that an R-rated, $150 million adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness is not an economically sound idea? Yes! Let me and a couple of other realists show you how.
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Also in this Friday edition of The Broadsheet: The Robocop reboot gets a writer... David Simon comments on the arrest of Snoop... The Three Stooges finds its Moe... and more ahead.
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Sergio Leone has been deceased since 1989, but thanks to his children Andrea and Raffaella Leone, we are still going to see a new, more definitive cut of his classic crime epic Once Upon a Time in America. Apparently the new cut will restore 40 minutes of new footage to the 229 minute version of the film and will now clock in at a little under 4 1/2 hours. The new cut will be supervised by Fausto Ancillai, the sound editor on the original film. Given that Leone shot over ten hours of footage, maybe his children's children will boost the running time to 5 or 6 hours in another 30 years? [Variety]
I was one of the few who wasn't totally enamored with the Super 8 Superbowl spot, which felt rushed and uneven to me. Knowing full-well that my minority opinion probably caused J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg no grief whatsoever, I'd still like to go ahead and formally apologize, because this new full length trailer is phenomenal.
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· Don't even ask. Just know that we miss Mad Men and this is the closest thing we'll get to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce melodrama for quite some time. [Funny or Die]
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"What?" you ask. "Weekend Forecast? Is it Friday morning already?" Sorry, not quite. But why wait to have a glance at the week's new releases big and small, good and bad, cash-magnets and otherwise -- accompanied, as always, by Movieline's peerless reviews and bulletproof box-office projections? Consider this moving up our release date; read on for the lowdown.
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In Catherine Hardwicke's frightening version of the fairy tail classic Red Riding Hood, Gary Oldman co-stars as Soloman, a fiery enemy of the occult who is not entirely convinced Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is who she says. How did Oldman get to the point of eccentric supporting actor in 'tween bait after starting his career as a scrappy leading man? With every actor a direct line can be traced through their in order to gauge their current place in the industry and, with Oldman, he's become one of the go-to wicked villains. Let's take a look at eight milestones in the career of one Gary Leonard Oldman.
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Austin is a place that likes to think of itself as strange -- as in the city's motto, "Keep Austin Weird." But it really seems more nerdy than weird when the massive film-music-tech bonanza that is South by Southwest kicks off every year, drawing thousands of geeks of all stripes to congregate. And for the next week or so, Movieline will be among the crowds of geek illuminati reporting on film goings-on from the ground. Join us, with the magic of technology!
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Friday marks the limited release of Electra Luxx, the surprisingly sweet-natured film about the adult entertainment industry. Writer/director Sebastian Gutierrez and real-life girlfriend Carla Gugino (who plays the titular porn legend) are just the latest Hollywood-types to humanize porn stars, and in honor of this momentous occasion, Movieline has compiled some of Tinseltown's other takes on the adult industry.
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Twitter star -- and Bristol Palin basher -- Meghan McCain has had knives out for the upcoming HBO movie Game Change since it was announced that the Mark Halperin and John Heilemann book was coming to the small screen. "I hope all the leakers that talked to Mark Halperin are pleased -- that book is 70 percent fiction," McCain wrote on Twitter last December. "I am sure the miniseries will come out in time for the next election to make sure everything Obama campaign related looks flawless. It's like being part of something that never dies." Now that casting has started up on Game Change in earnest, it appears McCain has some further thoughts on the telefilm.
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Good news, kids: Less than 48 hours after Julian Schnabel's public dismay over the "R" rating for his new, youth-focused Middle East drama Miral, the MPAA has come around with a PG-13. A tsunami of youngs will no doubt ensue at the art house when the film opens March 25 via... who else? The Weinstein Company, whose MPAA-whispering godfather Harvey Weinstein also happened to shake off Blue Valentine's NC-17 last fall. (To say nothing of his forcing of The King's Speech's R-rated square peg into a PG-13 round hole.) Congrats to the whole team! [THR]
Considering the modest budgets of the first three films in the Twilight "saga" (gag), it's a bit surprising to see just how much Summit Entertainment spent on the two parts of Breaking Dawn. The vampire baby-filled split-finale cost the studio some $263 million, a nearly $200 million increase from Eclipse. To be fair, Summit anticipates both films clearing $1 billion in combined revenues, so money well spent. Of course, where it was spent remains a mystery. Some of those extra dollars can be attributed to the reported $25 million salaries of Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. The rest? Hey, glitter isn't cheap... [Wrap]
· If you ever catch yourself daydreaming about how awesome being famous must be, remember back to this picture of 56-year-old Miljenko Parserisas Bukovic, and his 82 tattoos of Julia Roberts' face. Because, yikes, this is kinda scary. Click ahead to get creeped out, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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