Of the hundreds of movies currently in development, few have as much potential as Cogan's Trade. The adaptation of George V. Higgins' (The Friends of Eddie Coyle) pulp crime novel boasts a testosterone-heavy cast that includes Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Sam Rockwell, Ray Liotta and Richard Jenkins, and comes from director Andrew Dominik -- he of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford fame. This is to say, if you aren't excited about Cogan's Trade, you should get excited. And as such, perhaps ignore this first set picture of Pitt in character since he looks like a late '90s version of Nicolas Cage.
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Murder mysteries have both harrowing and hokey connotations, but AMC's new trailer for its series The Killing looks to raise the bar on the genre for good. Let's check out the gritty four-minute trailer and recall our favorite murder mysteries (of all types) after the jump.
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As you may have heard, Movieline hero Donald Glover released his latest work as rapper Childish Gambino to the Internet on Tuesday morning -- and the songs are anything but a joke. Sure, the first single (the deliciously rauncy "Freaks and Geeks") contains quite a few comical lyrics, but on the whole, Glover's rap persona is quite serious. To put it another way, consider the EP akin to Donald Glover's Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. And yet! Despite all that melancholia there are pop culture references galore. Loads of them, in fact. Ahead, Movieline offers a comprehensive list of hot topics Glover raps about during the 20 minute EP.
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Fairytales are meant to teach lessons -- and the older you get, the more twisted those lessons become. Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood -- featuring a virginal Amanda Seyfried in that iconic red cloak, enveloped in the crimson of sensuality and blood lust, a young woman inexplicably drawn to the big, bad wolf -- isn't the first film to take the fairytale's latent messaging to darker, and we mean really dark, places.
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Mark those Google Calendars, friends: The season finale of 30 Rock will air on May 5, followed in weekly succession by the hour-long season finales of Community (May 12), Parks and Recreation and The Office (May 19). For the three of you who care, Outsourced will have its season (series?) finale on May 12. [Deadline]
· Every time you think move mash-ups are as played out as Charlie Sheen, a great one comes along to remind you that they're mostly awesome. The latest? "From Vegas With Love," which takes The Hangover and Daniel Craig's James Bond and splices them together to form something totally great. Also: Bradley Cooper as the next James Bond. Make it happen! (I'm only half-kidding.) Click ahead to get the James Bond theme stuck in your head, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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Curious as to how Charlie Sheen came into possession of a machete when he visited the offices of Live Nation to discuss his nationwide tour? Apparently, the fake weapon actually belonged to one of the executives Sheen was meeting with. According to E! Online, the guy thought it would be funny to have Charlie embrace his inner Che Guevara. Totally normal, Live Nation dude! Pro tip: Let's keep Charlie Sheen away from any sharp objects, even fake ones. [E!]
If you can believe it, Charlie Sheen has only been dripping his tiger blood on Twitter for seven days. As Sheen is happy to point out, his foray into the social networking platform landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records for fastest Twitter user to one million followers. Something that helped with his "record" was that Sheen almost immediately received verification by Twitter, to let fans know that it was really him. Which begs the question: How do celebrities get their accounts verified?
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I shouldn't publicize them, but the zealots lobbying for the automatic 'R' rating of movies containing any depiction of tobacco usage are back and crazier than ever. Take their latest missive singling out Rango -- the PG-rated No. 1 film in the country -- for some characters' occasional consumption of cigars and "a cigarette." Noooo! What about the children?
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"Brandishing a sword and carrying a bottle of so-called 'Tiger Blood', Charlie Sheen met with executives of Live Nation Entertainment on Monday to talk about the possibility of taking his 'act' on a nationwide tour." As you can see, things are going quite well for Charlie Sheen since being fired from Two and a Half Men by CBS. [RadarOnline.com]
Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: Bill Clinton and Charlie Sheen aren't in The Hangover Part II... Julie Taymor might be out of a job.... Liking movies on Facebook could have an entirely new meaning... and more ahead.
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A French trailer for Thor has hit, and I would estimate that it contains about seven seconds of new footage, if that. Of this seven seconds, there are really only two shots worth noting. In order to save you the two minutes you'd have to spend just to see that extra few seconds, I took a screen-captures of each noteworthy shot. For purists, or people who get a laugh out of American super-hero movies dubbed in French, the entire trailer is here too.
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· Sit back and relax tonight with this video of every Power Ranger ever battling it out for no reason whatsoever. If anyone asks, this clip is from Japan's new tokusatsu seriesKaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. [io9]
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Music video director and celebrity progeny Adria Petty (daughter of Tom) has inked a deal to direct the horror pic Suffocate, about "a group of city workers who enter a hoarder's condemned brownstone and find it loaded with deadly traps and an unrelenting killer." If you've seen A&E's Hoarders, you know what a brilliant set-up this is. Beware the lady with the piles of crap and a family of stray cats living underneath stacks of newspaper clippings and Costco boxes! And hey, while we're on the subject of Petty's fascination with real-life horrors, what ever happened to that MTV-bought Paris Hilton doc she made, Paris, Not France? [Deadline]
