Also in this morning's Hollywood Ink: Danny McBride and Aziz Ansari to battle an Olympic-Size A**hole... Keanu Reeves starts a Generation... Harry Potter finds some help for The Woman in Black... and more ahead.
Overture has released another clip for Let Me In, the remake of the artful Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In. Here, it looks like they're trying to win over fans of the original (who are understandably skeptical), while a previously released clip catered to the larger group of Americans who care more about vampire action than foreign films. But can Overture really please everyone?
The Queen screenwriter Peter Morgan has accused former British prime minister Tony Blair of plagiarizing his script. In his memoirs, Blair's account of what was said when he went to kiss hands with the Queen Elizabeth II in 1997 is apparently very similar to the dialogue that Morgan wrote. Morgan surmises that either he guessed exactly right in the script (unlikely), that Blair decided he liked Morgan's lines enough to use them, or that the former prime minister simply confused the film with the actual events. Blair claims to have never seen the film. Alternate guess: Blair's ghost writer uncovered a vast conspiracy between the lines of what was actually said and used Morgan's dialogue to cover himself.
[Telegraph via NY Times Arts Beat]
New photos from the upcoming Captain America have been released from the film's set in... Britain? What!? So much for patriotism. In any case, it looks like the captain (played here by a stuntman, not the very carefully cast Chris Evans) has his work cut out for him -- while he chokes on exhaust fumes from a bulky military cycle, Red Skull's henchman zip along on sleek bikes that look like they came from the future. Check them out after the jump.
On a day where Martin Freeman may have become Peter Jackson's new Hobbit, it looks like Ron Howard may have become our new Peter Jackson. Howard and Akiva Goldsman just closed the craziest deal ever ever ever to adapt Stephen King's Dark Tower series into a Lord of the Rings-surpassing movie trilogy and television series -- and they'll film it all at the same time, using the same actors and sets. What?
Now that Betty Draper has been reduced to a constantly frowning plot device during this season of Mad Men, it stands to reason that Emmy-nominated star January Jones would want to branch out a bit and ply her trade on the big screen in a big, fun comic book movie. However, if the first images of Jones as Emma Frost on the set of next summer's X-Men: First Class are any indication, she didn't stray very far from her Mad Men wheelhouse. Here are some caption-ready photos of Jones in various stages of high-hatted misery.
· Parkinson's disease rom-com Love and Other Drugs has a new, post-coital poster, but as Vulture points out, it will leave you wondering only one thing: Why is Jake Gyllenhaal covering his mouth? Click through for the confusing full image and more Buzz Break.
We may have a Bilbo! EW is reporting that Peter Jackson's favorite hot potato, The Hobbit, has finally selected its lead and is negotiating a deal with him as we speak. So who's the lucky actor?
And to think, James Bond fans went apoplectic when Daniel Craig was initially cast as 007 because he was blonde. Quintessential American Clint Eastwood has revealed that following Sean Connery's exit from the Bond series in the '60s, he was asked to take over as the suave MI:6 agent. This, years after he was also asked to play Superman on the big screen. So why didn't this Hollywood icon become even more iconic? He knew better.
After her jive-stepping cameo on the So You Think You Can Dance finale last month and a Top Ten list appearance with David Letterman yesterday, Ellen DeGeneres made her surprise Broadway debut as the nurse in Promises, Promises last night. The woman loves cameos! At this rate, we'll surely see her in the live 30 Rock episode in one of Liz Lemon's sedative-induced dream sequences. [People]
Onscreen defecation. Back hair removal. Gay-shaming Newsweek reporter Ramin Setoodeh. Britney Spears's vagina. What do they all have in common? They're all featured in the insane Joaquin Phoenix documentary I'm Still Here, and if you can believe it, there are some things in it that are even weirder. Here are the 9 most unsettling things about the movie:
Remember back in the spring when it seemed almost comical to see the Summit Entertainment wishlist for Breaking Dawn directors? Gus Van Sant, Sofia Coppola, Bill Condon, Stephen Daldry... these were not the people to follow in the footsteps of David Slade! But then Summit actually hired Condon, and now it turns out that they almost found a match in Coppola, as well. Spoiler: She's a Twilight Mom.
It was the pixie-ish cry heard 'round the internet on Tuesday: Oscar-nominee Carey Mulligan told Vogue that she's simply not famous enough to make a cameo appearance on Glee. Like any good Gleek, however, Mulligan's not letting the tyranny of fame (and Ryan Murphy) get in the way of her dreams. Her vocal stylings are featured prominently on the just released new single from retro outfit Belle & Sebastian. So does she have what it takes to join the ragtag kids in New Directions?
The novelist James Ellroy, a man who knows from both successful and unsuccessful screen adaptations of his work, is fond of saying that money is the gift no one ever returns. But in Hollywood, anyway, that doesn't mean you can't complain about it being the wrong size, the wrong color, redundant or any litany of other common gripes by authors who stand by as their darlings are shredded at the movies. And few ever did it better than Anne Rice right here at Movieline.
This is just getting ridiculous: AMPAS issued a statement late Tuesday announcing that stroppy New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard had not only sent a handwritten reply to news of his honorary Oscar win, but an acknowledgment that "schedule permitting, he would come to Los Angeles for the November 13 Governors Awards event." Schedule permitting! Who's he kidding? He probably booked that day for Hyundai maintenance weeks ago. [Deadline]
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