Also in this morning's Hollywood Ink: Warner Bros. finds $200 million in the couch cushions for The Battle of Midway... Ed Asner's still making movies... and slightly more -- caveat: August -- ahead.
In advance of their winning the Emmy for Best Comedy tonight (please God), E!Online has learned that the gay kiss that so many have been agitating for has finally been shot and is in the can. So to speak.
It was a real horse race at the box office this weekend as the demon-possessed country bumpkin of The Last Exorcism edged out the smooth criminals from Takers for the number one slot. And meanwhile not a whole lot of people were making the return trip to Pandora as Avatar's re-release landed outside the top ten. Grab your crucifix and your favorite porkpie hat, your weekend receipts are here.
Self-proclaimed king of the world and guardian of Eywa James Cameron recently had a chat with Vanity Fair and talked about the future of movie technology, how he looks back on his past films, and the necessity of working the press to sell your product. And Cameron also talked about his palpable, livid disgust with cheapie 3D flicks like Piranha 3D.
Movieline's red carpet reporter, Carly Steel, went behind the scenes at one of Hollywood's hottest Emmy gifting suites and asked a few questions of some folks who will likely go home with statuettes tomorrow night: Sophia Vergara (Modern Family), Ricky Gervais (Executive Producer of The Office), and Jane Lynch (Glee). Roll tape...
Setting his hot tub time machine for the mid-19th century, John Cusack will be starring as Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue's The Raven. The film will not be based on Poe's poem, but rather on Poe and a young detective's hunt for a serial killer in Baltimore in the last few days of Poe's life. Y'know, I think I'd much rather watch a biopic proper of Poe's life, rather than see him awkwardly shoehorned into some standard killer-thriller. After the break, check out the only adaption of The Raven worth watching.
Sylvester Stallone has joined the world of celebrity Twitterers and like so many outstanding examples in the field, has taken to it like a musclebound duck to water. And Sly's even learned how to stoke the rumor mill by floating a potential villain for The Expendables sequel.
As the summer shuffles slowly off this seasonal coil, audiences decided they'd most like to see Satan plonk his thorny throne atop the box office. Yes, The Last Exorcism ruled the roost, while the dapper gents from Takers took second place, with Sly, Julia and Will Ferrell bringing up the rear. Your Friday Box Office is here.
Stop me if you've heard this one before -- Michael Cera walks into a London coffee shop and strikes up conversation with one of the locals. Before you know it, they're besties and become wrapped up in a 2 hour long discussion of films. But before they part, Cera gives the lad a hand-written syllabus of movies he simply must watch. So what gets the Cera Stamp of Approval?
Pop quiz, Jennifer Aniston: You just headlined a sperm-based comedy that opened in MacGruberian eighth place; your two movies previous were a disappointment and a bomb, respectively -- what do you do? The answer is, you take off your top and kiss another woman.
Summer drives everyone crazy at some point or another, and we may have found our own private point of no return this week at Movieline. Click through and relive the madness, and stop in for more tomorrow and Sunday with weekend editor Dixon Gaines. And don't forget: we'll all see you back here Sunday at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT for Movieline's Emmy liveblog. 'Til then, toots!
· Oh, tagline jokes! Yogi, you've made it too easy. Here's the international poster for Disney's Tangled, which goes by the name Raiponce overseas. Click for bigger. [/Film]
Hope you're a Disney stockholder. Today Toy Story 3 will become the first animated film to hit $1 billion in worldwide grosses, meaning Disney is the first studio to ever have two $1 billion blockbusters in the same year. (The other film? The Sorcerer's Apprentice. No, just kidding: It was Alice in Wonderland.) Guess this proves Russia isn't the superpower it once was, eh guys? [Deadline]
We're well-documented fans of Ari Graynor here at Movieline, so we were heartened when out sister site Deadline told us that the actress would be joining Jonah Hill in David Gordon Green's The Sitter, where she'll play a manipulative girlfriend who wrecks Hill's night of responsible babysitting. Please, Hollywood: more roles for blond comic bombshells. [Deadline]
· "Coulda been" casting is my favorite kind, and this recently unearthed casting memo for Star Trek: The Next Generation presents all sorts of goodies. Patrick Bauchau almost played Picard! Wesley Snipes was a contender for Geordi! Take a look at the memo and check out more Buzz Break after the jump:
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