Not cool, Corbett. So not cool. After the United States of Tara actor assured Movieline yesterday that his beloved Sex and the City character Aiden would "one hundred percent" not be appearing in the franchise's second film, a new SATC2 trailer premiering at the ShoWest convention has confirmed otherwise. In the film clip, Carrie happens upon Aiden while in Abu Dhabi with her three gal pals and wonders aloud, "We bump into each other halfway around the world? That means something." [HuffPo]
The Emmy-winning actress has been tapped to play a Pittsburgh veterinarian in CBS's untitled pilot from How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. The project centers on an unmarried couple, Tommy (Kyle Bornheimer) and Gina, and their friends -- Pressly's vet will be Tommy's best friend. Unfortunately, this casting decision throws a wrench into Rules of Engagement star Patrick Warburton's plan for Pressly to become a regular on his CBS series if it is picked up for a fifth season. [THR]
Reports today have Time Warner, Lionsgate and the private-equity firm Access Industries as the last companies standing in the bid for the near-bankrupt MGM. The bids are said to range from $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion, with Time Warner as the odds-on favorite to bring the Lion home and consolidate its library of pre-1986 MGM classics with the ailing studio's own catalog -- not to mention to take over the James Bond franchise and sole control of The Hobbit, set to go into production later this year. A decision is expected from MGM's board in "several weeks." [Reuters via THR]
Between Terminator Salvation, Avatar and Clash of the Titans, Sam Worthington may be on the A-list hot streak of his career. So you can't really blame him for attempting to keep that going with a bit of creative fudging with the first franchise. Or rather, maybe you can't blame him, but according to Worthington himself, it appears that Terminator's producers have heard enough out of him.
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It's a widely held belief that if Robert Altman had only been able to produce his much-maligned 1980 adaptation of Popeye in 3D, the legendary filmmaker would have truly realized his vision for the monoeyed, bulging-armed, spinach-gorging sailor of comics and cartoon lore. Now, 30 years later, the technology is here, and it is on.
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At Monday's Why Did I Get Married Too premiere, Tyler Perry reportedly came out with the actual cast of his screen adaptation of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. And it's decidedly lighter on star power than the "dream cast," with Mariah Carey, Whoopi Goldberg, Janet Jackson, Kerry Washington, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kimberly Elise and Macy Gray filling in spots where the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Beyonce Knowles and Alicia Keys were once rumored to be under consideration. It shoots this summer in New York, with an outside shot of being ignored by Perry come Oscar season 2011. [AOL Black Voices]
· Duh-nuh-NUH-nuh-NUH-nuh-NUH-NUH, duh-nuh-NUH-nuh-NUH-nuh-NUH-NUH... To the digitized loop of "Peter Gunn" comes word that the classic '80s video game Spy Hunter is set to be developed as a feature at Warner Bros. This comes after years of development stops and starts at Universal (where else?). Presumably Hunter will go 3D like all the studio's tentpoles, thus reinventing the deadly smoke-screen weapon for a new generation and, in all likelihood, getting the high-revving thriller banned in Malaysia. [Variety]
Emma Stone doubles down with the studios, John Steinbeck makes his Movieline debut, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
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It was a done deal anyway but Dimension Films has given Scream 4 the go-ahead with Wes Craven back directing, Kevin Williamson writing and, sigh, the "triumvirate" of Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox Arquette (second only in history, methinks, to Caesar, Magnus and Crassus, but I digress...) reprising their roles. The release date -- mark it now, kids -- is 12 April 2011 and said to be almost 11 years to the day since the last film of the trilogy slashed into cinemas. You could measure the years since you stopped caring about Ghost Face and discover it's almost exactly the same time frame.
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Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock really together? Not in the sense of Sandy's Oscar speech but as mother and daughter?
300-D? Zack Snyder, who's making Guardians Of Ga'Hoole in 3-D and is converting Sucker Punch to the format, is open to the retro-stereoscoping of 300. This is surely Spartier!
Bindi Irwin does a spot of panda-whispering to promote straight-to-DVD Free Willy: Escape From Pirate Cove, another production that buccaneered the status quo by adamantly refusing to use falsies.
Rather than just use kids to blurb-quote your movie when no-one else will, why don't distributors find out which 80-100 movies these young'uns had to have so bad and use the "So good your children will beg you to steal it!" angle.
Because Mamma Mia! was a successful song-show-movie, now Tom Hanks is doing the same for Green Day's concept album American Idiot! Tom, after Apollo 11 and From Earth To Moon, why not Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon? It screams out for 3-D and IMAX and a million speakers all blasting out! Upside: repeat business from all the fans who can't remember the first viewing except to say it was "awesome".
James Cameron's biggest acceptance speech clunker and it's probably worse than you remember! Star signs align as M:I-III beauties birthed! Ronnie Raygun lays the Star Wars smackdown!
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It was just yesterday we were parsing paycheck roles and today the Hollywood It Crowd's A-Listiest ingenue joins the club -- at just 24 and while she's on the way up! Speaking to Vanity Fair, Amanda Seyfried says it's hard to turn down rom-coms because, "they pay a lot of money. Sometimes, when you want to buy an apartment in Manhattan, you gotta do one or two." She even helpfully tells us which roles paid for what real estate. There's no talk of the remuneration for her latest, the limited-release, non-rom-com Chloe, though VF practically commands readers to scour the web for sapphic segments featuring Seyfried and Julianne Moore. Perhaps Seyfried's on some sort of clicks-for-cash back-end deal? If that's the case, she'll be getting another apartment very soon. [Via Vanity Fair]
· Greenberg star Greta Gerwig shared a lot of things in her interview with us, but not this anecdote about the Berlin Film Festival, which she saved for the T Magazine blog:
'For the first press conference, I didn't really express what I needed to the makeup person. I looked like I walked off the set of "Designing Women." I look like I'm 40. I have the biggest hair. The makeup's really heavy. My friends even Photoshopped a picture of me into "Designing Women" and gave it to me when I got back. And then everyone started e-mailing me and was like, "Hey Greta, how's the weather in Dallas in 1986?!" Oh my God, it was the first time that pictures of me were everywhere, and I look crazy. And the best part of it was that my mom thought I looked amazing.'
[Photoshop rendering a Movieline recreation]
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Our nationwide crisis is finally over, everyone: After a grueling Captain America audition process that saw virtually every adult male try out for the role, including John Krasinski, Ryan Phillippe, Dane Cook, everyone who's ever been a day player on Gossip Girl, David Archuleta, House minority leader John Boehner, and Sean Young dressed in an off-brand Captain America costume purchased from Party World (that, due to licensing issues, was named "Admiral United States"), the role has finally been filled!
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After weeks of perplexingly accurate leaks about the actors who would be Captain America, I'd almost forgotten how fun it is to deal with a casting rumor invented by a British tabloid! Today's fun bit of prevarication is that Slumdog Millionaire's Freida Pinto and House star Olivia Wilde be joining the next James Bond film as Bond's arm candy, an idea advanced as fact by the British Mirror. Actresses, what do you have to say in response?
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Neither Kellan Lutz nor Mickey Rourke ended up in Conan when all was said and done, but at least they'll have another chance to share the same craft services table and muscle mass supplements. Variety says Lutz is joining Rourke in Tarsem Singh's War of the Gods, where he'll play Poseidon. Between this, Clash of the Titans, Percy Jackson, and God of War III, Greek mythology is really having a moment, no? [Variety]
