It was announced yesterday in the UK that the local Advertising Standards Authority -- the bureaucracy apparently in charge of making sure impressionable young British yobs don't grow up to be wholly corrupt, irretrievably violent and oversexed yobs -- has banned the final poster for the horror film The Last Exorcism after reported numerous complaints from parents. But a glimpse at the American poster suggests it's nothing a quick dab of Photoshop can't fix.
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When Jon Favreau was talking about the coming "bloodbath" in the summer of 2011, it's doubtful he thought of Larry Crowne. After all, how could fading box office titans like Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts compete with a vast array of superheroes, wizards, killer robots and Mike Tyson? But that doesn't mean Larry Crowne isn't at the top of my must-see list, especially with Hanks -- directing for the first time since That Thing You Do! -- playing what appears to be a nicer version of Jeff Winger, wooing a dissatisfied college professor (Roberts) on his way toward self-enlightenment. Plus, there are apparently scooters involved. Click ahead to see Hanks and Roberts together for the first time since Charlie Wilson's War.
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Also in this morning's edition of The Broadsheet: A sinking battleship may have doomed Universal Studios COO Ron Meyer... The Lost City of Z won't find Brad Pitt... people are still fainting during 127 Hours... and more ahead.
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So, the teaser poster from AFM for The Beaver emerged and...suddenly the room is filled with elephants. Of course there's Mel Gibson himself, and then the fact that he's hiding his face behind a stuffed beaver. And yes, it is a bit topical and ironic that the note on the poster portrays him as mentally unstable. Really though, I actually think the poster for Jodie Foster's directorial effort is pretty effective as far as Mel Gibson/stuffed animal movies go. But check it out for yourself, and feel free to submit taglines.
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Michael Ausiello has just announced that Fancast executive TV editor Matt Mitovich will join him in running his new consumer TV site for MMC. Starting November 29, Mitovich will assist Ausiello in developing the site and defining it's editorial plan. Upon the site's launch in January 2011, he will serve as the editor-at-large. Full press release after the jump.
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· Because we love you, here's a video of Paul Rudd in a commercial for Super Nintendo in 1991. Look, he's passionately sticking his tongue out as he plays! (Michael Jordan was influential in those days.) To be fair, F-Zero was an awesome game, and his intensity is justified. [Vulture]
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Who knew making a television show about time travel and dinosaurs would be so difficult? Oh, right, everyone. The Los Angeles Times reports that a majority of the writing staff on the Steven Spielberg-produced Terra Nova was let go last week 20th Century Fox Television, though show runner Brannon Braga (24) remains. Despite the staff setbacks, Nova is still on-target to premiere in May 2011 with a two-hour stand-alone pilot, before joining the schedule full-time the following fall. Fingers crossed? [LAT/Show Tracker]
Eventually NBC is going to have so many comedy series that expanding their Thursday night line-up to a second night (and thus finding room for Parks & Recreation) will be a breeze. The network picked up a pilot today based on comedienne Chelsea Handler's memoir, Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea. The show will focus on Handler's twenties, and unfortunately not on her batty relationship with 50 Cent. [Deadline]
· To hear this Pokémon fan tell it, the latest version is "off the f***ing chain." Whatever that means. Click ahead to watch the highly NSFW video (which is likely the first time Pokémon, the f-word and the n-word all appeared in the same sentence) and then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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With part one of The Deathly Hallows arriving in just two weeks, it seems that Harry Potter Fever has spread through the Internet with the velocity of Bieber Fever. It's gotten so all-encompassing that even bloggers of a certain age like the Jeffrey Wells have trekked into the fray. "No one of any taste cares very much about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1," Wells writes, goosing millions of Hogwarts fans in the process. "The franchise peaked six years ago with Alfonso Cuaron's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." Except for the fact that it didn't.
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I don't have a lot to add to Joan Rivers's Twitter-based pan of the new Susan Boyle holiday album The Gift, which arrives in stores and online Nov. 9. I just really hope Boyle cites it verbatim on national TV, prompting Rivers's lengthy reconsideration at The Rumpus or somewhere and Boyle's subsequent olive branch in the comments. Also: Didn't Rivers's husband commit suicide? Tacky, tacky, tacky.
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13 years ago, Sean Duffy was the conservative Midwesterner on The Real World: Boston. Now? He's a conservative Midwesterner in the House of Representatives. Duffy was elected to Congress in Wisconsin's 7th district on Tuesday, handily defeating Democratic State Senator Julie Lassa. "People aren't concerned about a reality show from 15 years ago," Duffy told The Daily Caller in May. Just think: In 15 years, President Vinny Guadagnino might be saying the same thing! (Gunshot.) [PopEater]
On Tuesday, Sylvester Stallone enraged many a Twitter follower (and Movieline commenter) when he tweeted that it was time to "get the Manchurian Candidate out of the drivers [sic] seat before were [sic] ALL soaring off a cliff into Oblivion." Clarifying his remarks, Stallone said,"The Manchurian Candidate was a movie about fake president who was put there by foreign enemies to destroy America. Scary concept. Rise up!" It's not every day you see a major box office star comparing the President of the United States to a sleeper cell, but apparently Stallone wasn't doing that. See what he meant to say was...
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As dawn rises on the results of the Republican tidal wave that swept through Election Day, let's all go back to a similar time period: George W. Bush's presidency. A time when 9/11 happened, the Iraq war started, Hurricane Katrina struck, the war in Afghanistan started and the country was guided straight into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. With so many lows to choose from, what does the former president say was the worst moment of his two terms in the White House? That time when Kanye West called him a racist, of course!
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Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Brad Pitt is at the center of a possible Jesse James reunion... Al Pacino goes to Wall Street... True Grit no longer under your Christmas tree... Amy Winehouse makes a comeback (sort of)... and more.
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