Enough of these young whippersnappers stealing all the comic book roles! Captain America needs some crow's feet, and it's getting it in the form of Tommy Lee Jones. Love interest Hayley Atwell confirmed to the British press that Jones would be joining the film, and it's rumored he'll play General Chester Phillips. Tommy Lee Jones: your new R. Lee Ermey! [MTV]
Now that the wild and woolly Captain America casting process has concluded, fanboys need another comic book hero to tout rising actors for. Fortunately, Marc Webb is still working hard on his Spider-Man reboot, and according to THR, he's narrowed his shortlist down to five young men. Among them are three Brits and two Verge alums, and each of these rising young actors has his pros and cons. Let's take a closer look.
The organizers behind one Facebook campaign would like to think so, but they're not stopping at a barnburning guest-host stint on SNL; they want gold. "Doris Day to be (finally) Honored by the Oscars?" has launched its bid for the 88-year-old legend to collect some honorary hardware at next year's Academy Awards. Its argument? "As of 2009, Doris Day was the top-ranking female box office star of all time and ranked sixth among the top ten box office performers (male & female). Isn't it time the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences pulled out an HONORARY OSCAR AWARD?" Well? [Facebook]
Holy crap, what happened to Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson? While the rapper-actor has been known to take his acting somewhat seriously in the past, no one likely foresaw the level of commitment he'd assume for his upcoming drama Things Fall Apart. Least of all his fans, who would just like to say that Fitty can regain that 50-plus pounds of muscle and body fat any time now.
· If you're anything like me, you've been missing Cary Elwes at the multiplex. So give thanks for Ivan Reitman's taste and consideration, as the director has recruited Elwes (who currently has, like, 100 rumored projects in the works including Saw VII, Yellow Submarine and The Adventures of Tintin) to co-star in the Untitled Ashton Kutcher/Natalie Portman Sex Comedy. The actor will play a physician who works with Portman's character and "develops a flirtatious relationship." This is still opening Jan. 7; presumably they'll start filming it soonish. [Variety]
Horrible Bosses carves another notch on its ensemble bedpost, and a few other scraps from the pre-holiday news wasteland as Hollywood Ink continues after the jump.
· Sarah Silverman may have gotten a lot of mileage out of irritating the Lost producers, but you know what irritates her? When some TMZ cameraman misinterprets the show's series finale! They didn't die at the end, OK? That crash footage was ABC's decision, not Damon and Carlton's. F**k! [TMZ]
Tyler Perry's actresspalooza For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf has just lost one of its biggest stars. People says Mariah Carey has dropped out of what was intended to be the follow-up to her well-regarded breakthrough in Precious; the magazine is citing pregnancy rumors, but I couldn't get over People's notation that Carey is now 41. Excuse me while I break my hip from feeling suddenly, shockingly old. [People]
Here's one way to ensure that Sandra Bullock shows up to your network event: present her with an award. The Oscar winner's publicist confirmed that Bullock will be attending the MTV Movie Awards on June 6 to accept the MTV Generation Award, but of course, she won't be available for any kind of interview. Her ex Jesse James is more than happy to pick up her slack on that front. [People]
Let's check in with the Logan's Run reboot, shall we? Deadline is reporting that Carl Erik Rinsch (the Ridley Scott protege who was recently attached to the Alien prequel) will now be helming the sci-fi tale of a world where no one lives past 21. Sadly, this means we won't be getting the Bryan Singer-directed version anymore. Those casting sessions would have been legendary. [Deadline]
Art Linkletter, one of television's great emcees of the '50s and '60s, died today at age 97 in Los Angeles. Linketter hosted the radio and TV hit People are Funny and the long-running series House Party, which featured a famous segment called "Kids Say the Darndest Things" (later expanded into a full show by Bill Cosby, where Linkletter played wingman). Let's gawk at precocious tykes with an extra glint in our eyes today. [Variety]
Ellen Page has joined Tilda, HBO's thinly veiled Nikki Finke comedy from Oscar-winning writer/director Bill Condon. The pilot stars Diane Keaton as an intimidating Hollywood blogger and Page as "a morally conflicted creative assistant" in whom Tilda takes a special interest. Guess this means that Stitch N' Bitch (the HBO project that the Juno alum was producing with Alia Shawkat and Har Mar Superstar) is dead. [EW]
· Why is photographer Terry Richardson posing half-naked with The Rachel Zoe Project's Brad Goreski? Perhaps to see if Rachel would make good on her constant, orgasmic threats of "I die." Click for bigger.
· Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje may have turned down a guest spot on the series finale of Lost, but he's said yes to a role in the remake of The Thing.
· As we'd speculated before, Eagle of the Ninth is indeed moving to 2011.
· Jack and Diane just can't hang on to its lesbian werewolves. Now, Riley Keough has subbed in for Olivia Thirlby.
· Ken Kwapis is going to direct a Dilbert movie. And then teleport it back to 2002, I would hope.
It almost defies parody: Michael Bay has decided to rejuvenate the Transformers franchise by replacing Megan Fox with Victoria's Secret supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. Little is known of the newcomer aside from the facts that she's Jason Statham's girlfriend, she looks fantastic in garters, and she has "no acting experience." But is the latter really true, or even all that important? Movieline's been able to dig up several videos of the up-and-coming ingenue that prove she's got exactly what Michael Bay is looking for.
Fielding a second-place baseball team isn't as cheap as it used to be, folks. Ask the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have filed suit against a group of 100 season-ticket holders that the organization claims hasn't paid for its season tickets. Among them: Jon Lovitz -- yes, the Jon Lovitz, who gave the world just the catchphrase to handily apply to a scenario like this one.
It's not easy to be an actor who inexplicably owns a castle! So says Adrien Brody, who had a recent problem with the gay goats he accidentally bought: "The more well-endowed goat took a liking to the other one and I swear it was traumatic. There was a lot of crying and goat noises and I felt incredibly guilty and I didn't know what to do...It's best when you have goats that are that gay to just let them free." [Ace Showbiz via Towleroad]
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