Hint: It's a trick question. Which isn't to say there might not be a few surprises in today's Weekend Forecast, but you're going to need to see some serious attrition and infighting from the five new wide releases (not to mention an avalanche at the art house) before Stallone and the boys will give up their testosterone throne. Let's check out the radar...
· Here's the trailer for Inebriation, an alcohol-soused parody of Inception. You'd be amazed at how well the film's spinning rooms and car crashes carry over when all the characters are drunk. (Sadly missing: A moment where Fake Leo mourns Fake Marion, narrating, "She had herself declared sober by three different breathalyzers.")
Seriously: Movieline's Vault is hiding some serious magic from 1992. How about what I presume is the first in-depth profile of J.J. Abrams, then 26 and rich from his screenplays for Regarding Henry and the Mel Gibson vehicle Forever Young? And maybe a tad too candid with journalists: "Well, I know this is gonna sound crazy, but Mel is just so f*cking good-looking that you can't believe it. He has a really funny personality, and you find that you can forget that he's this mega-movie star when you're with him. But the truth is, I spent a lot of time just staring into his eyes." It always starts so innocently. [Movieline]
Marc Webb's Spider-Man reboot has taken a page out of David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo talent search by pairing one American with four foreign-born actresses in an attempt to cast Peter Parker's love interest (who, FYI, isn't Mary Jane). The current shortlist: Teresa Palmer, Imogen Poots, Lily Collins, Ophelia Lovibond and Emma Roberts. (Mary Elizabeth Winstead was on the list, too, but unfortunately didn't make the cut.) Based on previous experience, expect the role to go to Roberts. [THR/Heat Vision]
It's that time of the week, Dear Reader, when we all make a field trip out of the office and dowwwwwwn to the refurbished Vault at Movieline HQ, where another year of back issues from our print era emerges for online consumption. Today we welcome back 1992, and when I say it was a good year, I'm not making small talk. This was a really good year. What else do you call it when Tom Cruise laments missing out on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (with Steven Spielberg!) and Liam Neeson goes on the record about cigarettes and erections? Read on for these and other selected highlights.
· People! It sucks people. As in, the giant alien spaceships that threaten Los Angeles use tractor beams to suck unsuspecting citizens through the sky to certain doom. Click ahead for the full poster (courtesy of Shock Till You Drop) and more Buzz Break.
The brilliant marketing campaign for Piranha 3D has included everything from girl-slapping to flying penises to spooked tourists, so it goes to reason that the next logical step would be a personal touch. Take it away, Movieline favorite Adam Scott: "#PIRANHA3D. Has to be seen to be believed," he writes on Twitter. "I guarantee you will get yr money's worth." But just what does an Adam Scott Twitter guarantee include? Click ahead to find out.
Of the hundreds of films reviewed and ranked each year at Rotten Tomatoes, only a handful make it into theaters with the spectacular disapproval of every critic who laid eyes on it. And tomorrow, after a long summer of bashings, trashings and general eviscerations, one such film may arrive in the season's grand finale of futility -- a 0-percent rating. Any guesses?
The word from Indiewire's Todd McCarthy is that Terrence Malick's oft-delayed Tree of Life is delayed once again: "I'm convinced we won't be seeing The Tree of Life until, at the earliest, the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Or perhaps it could turn up at the New York Film Festival a year from now." Or perhaps when hell freezes over; bear in mind, this film was supposed to come out last year. Between Malick's infamous perfectionism and the surprising executive upheaval at Apparition, Tree of Life seems caught in a perfect storm of inertia. So when will it finally get released? Click ahead to vote in Movieline's patented Tree of Life release date poll.
How did January Jones come to occupy the part in X-Men: First Class that had been previously tapped for Alice Eve? Comic Book Movie reports that Eve petitioned Fox to be let out of her contract after script changes left her unhappy with the direction and size of the role. Huh. Well, it's a good thing Jones has so much to do during her day job on Mad Men! Er, never mind. [Comic Book Movie via Cinema Blend]
Piranha 3D may have pumped $18 million into the economy around Lake Havasu, Arizona, but it also appears to have made very stupid tourists very scared. "One woman was bringing up to me that the movie was coming out, and she asked - as serious as serious can be - 'Oh, but are there still piranha in the lake?'" one local resort owner told the LAT. "At first, I kind of took it as a joke. But then I let her know that that's the computer-generated part of the movie. And she was very relieved, saying, 'Oh, I'm so glad to hear that.'" I've been sitting here for five minutes trying to think of a response that obviously doesn't exist, so... moving on, I think. [LAT]
Also among today's development news: Alexandre Aja follows the comics trail... Idris Elba is a dick (but not like that)... Wesley Snipes is still taking roles... and more!
· This faux ad where Gary Busey plays a fantasy football coach is... hmmm. Unsettling? Loud? Aggressive? Pretty funny? A sign that Gary Busey has accepted his evolution into a centaur? You tell me. [Videogum]
At a time when most actors are happy to add as many franchises as possible to their plate (just ask Daniel Craig), Tron Legacy star Garrett Hedlund would rather take on indies like On the Road, and that's why he bailed on the Captain America shortlist. "To be in something that had a second and a third film following it, we felt that Tron already had that, you know," he told Fade In. "To mix in another heroic character with that was not necessary. In short, we kind of always passed on it. I didn't really think that was my gig." [Fade In]
As you may have seen today elsewhere, a (very) rough look at the status and depth of Paramount's 2010-11 development slate has found its way online. There is a lot there, folks, but rather than break down one nascent Kathryn Bigelow, Tony Scott on Ben Stiller project after another, this seems like an opportune time to let the scientifically calibrated Movieline Development Graph sort it all out. It's a maiden voyage! Get the Champagne and compare your notes below.
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