Wednesday, on his 80th birthday, Oscar-winner Robert Duvall was honored in Hollywood with his own hand-and-footprint ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Naturally, the wires only took the most flattering of photographs to celebrate the occasion! Because nothing says, "We respect your award-winning half century in film and television," like a picture of an old guy with crap on his hands. Does this bring Duvall one step closer to that Oscar nod for his role in Get Low, for which he's already nabbed numerous critics' awards and a SAG nomination? Let's hope so. Caption away after the jump.
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Of course it is! We all know the world is going to end this year, not next. Ahem. According to those eggheads at NASA -- the same ones who made a big deal about an arsenic-based "alien" life form on earth -- Roland Emmerich's disaster porn 2012 is such a bad example of science-fiction, that it doesn't even deserve to be called science. "The agency is getting so many questions from people terrified that the world is going to end in 2012 that we have had to put up a special website to challenge the myths," said Donald Yeomans, the head of NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission. "We have never had to do this before." Fun! Let's check this sucker out.
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The NFL postseason and the Academy Awards go together like pigeons and Bisquick. Which is to say, they don't go together! If this refrain sounds familiar, that's probably because you fondly remember the eve of the MLB postseason, when your crack(ed) staff at Movieline matched up each playoff team with a corresponding Oscar contender. Well, that format is back and better than ever as the NFL playoffs begin! Which Super Bowl hopeful is this year's Inception? Click ahead for the breakdown.
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Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Anyone wanna buy Dennis Hopper's art? ... The King's Speech makes a deadly new enemy... A photo history of Nicolas Cage's screen coiffure... You're not deep-reading enough... Because apparently the "mass audience" just doesn't get real creativity... and more... (You might want to have a drink before this edition, honestly.)
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There's a lot of hype surrounding the new Red Epic digital cameras. For one thing, Peter Jackson is planning on using thirty of these bad boys to shoot The Hobbit. Now, the first one that has shipped and...it was immediately stolen! The camera was taken from OffHollywood studio executive Mark Pederson's home in France along with some money and now, Red Executive Jim Jannard is offering $100,000 as a reward for the camera's return. Chances are, these burglars have no idea that they stole such a rare camera, so click below the jump and take a look at the picture. If you see some street peddlers trying to sell this thing for a few thousand dollars, chances are you can buy it and make a profit. That is, if they aren't already using it and the money to make their own fantasy epic to rival The Hobbit.
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As if 2011 wasn't already bad enough, now comes news that director Stephen Sommers will not be returning to direct the first sequel in the G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra franchise. But while his first film did gangbusters at the box-office and was widely regarded as "not as bad as it could have been," don't despair just yet. In fact, this news opens the door for the perfect pinch-hit director to take over and work his magic.
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After being inexplicably snubbed by the Art Director's Guild, Grown-Ups finally has an award under its belt. The People's Choice Awards honored Dennis Dugan's humanist work of art" with an award for Favorite Comedy Movie, while its star, Adam Sandler, took home a trophy for Favorite Comedic Star. As of now, the film is still eligible for both a Best Picture Oscar and a Razzie, so choose your side and keep Grown Ups awards machine in motion! Other news: America really likes Twilight, House and Eminem. The full list of winners is after the jump.
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· You'd think one anthology of awesome movie insults would suffice, but this new reel of cinematic slams is fantastic. Dumb and Dumber, Matilda and 1939's The Women finally get their dues. [YouTube]
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I won't take up more of your time explaining why Cosmopolis is maybe the fifth or sixth most optimal Don DeLillo novel for a screen adaptation by David Cronenberg, but two new developments surrounding the looonnng-gestating project most definitely bear noting. Needless to say, Robert Pattinson's casting as paranoiac, Manhattan-crossing, billionaire-in-the-unmaking Eric Packer is pretty important. But are we ready for the consequences?
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If you know anything about Bill Murray -- or at least the "Bill Murray" that the actor has cultivated through years of inscrutability -- you know he loves total randomness. Whether tending bar at SXSW or crashing Halloween parties or allegedly peekabooing fans and telling them, "No one will ever believe you," Murray is the merry prankster of celebrity run-ins. As such, that he crashed a karaoke party in Manhattan recently, sang an Elvis Presley album cut, and then stuck around for another four hours should come as no surprise.
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We're a week into the Blue Valentine era, which is thrilling news for me and the eight other film writers in the world -- eight! -- who can't wait to see the grueling, ratings-exploiting, confoundingly overrated Ryan Gosling/Michelle Williams dissolving-relationship drama flushed forever down the post-Oscar drain. Only a month and a half to go! Let's meet these valiant souls who have seen through Derek Cianfrance's emo-fascist folly and stand unbowed and unshaken by the stiff gust of superlatives in its wake.
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Now that the initial shock about four of the six winning Mega Millions lottery numbers also corresponding to the numbers on Lost has worn off -- worn off in the sense that Movieline HQ has set the Doomsday Clock back to 11:58 -- it seems like a good time to see what Hurley himself thought of these shenanigans. Take it away, Jorge Garcia.
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Now that January is underway, it's time to place our bets for the coming year. When we look back 12 months from now, who will have successfully jump-started their flagging careers with new films/albums/stints in rehab and/or prison? Which C-listers can rise from the ashes of pop culturedom like phoenixes, and which of them will at least be fun to watch along the way -- career coup or no? Ahead, Movieline takes stock of the celebrity comebacks most likely to occur in 2011; chime in yourself and tell us who you'll be rooting for to claw their way back to the top (or bottom).
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· Here's hoping Lorne Michaels' New Year's resolution involved getting Jay Pharoah more airtime. The dude is funny, but -- more important -- he's also cool. Like cool in a way that SNL hasn't been in years. Pharoah helped out his friends Money Making Jam Boys -- being uncool, I've never heard of them either -- by doing a bunch of impressions last week. Click ahead to watch Pharoah's spot-on impersonations of Jay-Z and Kanye West, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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(If you have yet to watch this week's episode of How I Met Your Mother and you plan on doing so, then, yes, spoiler alert!)
How I Met Your Mother went down a road rarely traveled on Monday when they, quite surprisingly, killed off Marshall's dad. Even though the nature of sitcoms is supposed to be lighthearted (hence, not a drama), death sometimes seeps its way into the narrative for a number of reasons. The most sad, obviously, is when the actor portraying the character dies during production and has to be written out of the show. Other reasons, though, from contract disputes to -- as in the case of HIMYM -- a darker narrative have been a good enough excuse to kill off a sitcom character. Here now a brief history of sitcoms and how they deal with the death of a character.
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