Since Tom Ford's A Single Man is a period piece, perhaps it's only fitting that the film's reviews tend to reference another bygone relic: print magazines. Seemingly every evaluation of Ford's ultra-stylish debut can't help but compare its look to that of a glossy fashion spread, which is a common criticism leveled at gay directors who've got terrific costumes and immaculate production design. (When the director is straight, critics merely call him "David Fincher.")
Movieline collected 9 such accusations, though really, it was as easy as shooting fish in a Jonathan Adler-designed barrel. Could they come to any consensus on exactly which magazine Ford's film is supposed to resemble? Let's find out!
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· Cameron Diaz is now attached to the raunchy comedy Bad Teacher, in which she will portray a profane, ruthlessly social-climbing pedagogue stuck in a love triangle in her middle school's debauched teachers' lounge. Jake Kasdan will direct and, with any luck, mine some of the more unintentional hilarity Diaz brought to her role as the club-footed private-school instructor in The Box. [Variety]
It's Complicated loses its MPAA battle, the best title of the year finds a home at DreamWorks, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
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· Got B-roll needs? 1-800-BBB-Roll has B-Roll solutions. [YouTube]
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Stolen Twilight: The She-Pirate Saga continues today at Movieline with a very interesting development in the case of Samantha Tumpach, the New Moon-themed birthday party attendee now facing hard prison time for videotaping the movie (among other things, including the singing of "The Birthday Song,") in an Illinois movie theater. Summit Entertainment continues to be tight-lipped about the incident, but one sparkly prince has come to her rescue: New Moon director Chris Weitz. Distraught over what he deemed to have been an unfair she-piratehunt, Weitz sent an e-mail to the Chicago Sun-Times:
"Needless to say, the case seems to me terribly unfair and I would like to do what I can to address this," Weitz wrote in an e-mail.
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Bloody Disgusting has heard a rumor that the Josh Brolin/Megan Fox Western Jonah Hex is about to go into reshoots with a new director. According to the site, Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) will be subbing in for original director Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who), who made his live-action debut on the film. Those of you with longer memories may remember that Hayward himself stepped in when the directing duo Neveldine/Taylor (Crank, Gamer) was let go close to production. That gig is one heavily scarred hot potato! UPDATE: Bloody has updated their story, saying Hayward will actually remain on the project, but confirming Lawrence has come on board as a consultant. [Bloody Disgusting]
Project Runway's upcoming video game for the Wii will feature the final eight contestants from the sixth season as playable characters. I hope this means I can pick Carol Hannah and utilize a warp whistle that transports me to Nina Garcia's final airship. Or as Gordana, I can deviously toss banana peels in front of the van heading to Mood. And of course, as Nicolas, I can show his gross sci-fi dress to Tim Gunn, who comments, "Sorry. Your alien princess is in another castle." [LAT]
· Esquire has put together a pictorial tribute to Up in the Air's Vera Farmiga.
· The LAT says Josh Brolin is in talks to appear in Men in Black 3...they just don't know as who, or when.
· Is Glee a little bit racist?
· Just when you started feeling good about year-end movies to see, here come the Worst Movies of the Decade to give you terror flashbacks.
· ABC had ordered a speed-dating show titled...and I'm almost embarrassed to even type this...Conveyor Belt of Love. At least that was better than their first choice, Lazy Susan of Over-the-Clothes Heavy Petting.
Good news, fangirls! Next summer's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will be available for viewing in glorious IMAX. Whether this is the real, towering IMAX known to select theaters around the country or simply the more plentiful, junior-sized, Ansari-tweaking screens everywhere else, let there be no doubt that when Kristen Stewart brushes hair out of her eyes, you will feel the gust of wind. And, more importantly, Summit Entertainment will stop at nothing to overtake The Dark Knight's all-time opening-weekend record.
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If you cue up some Daft Punk, don some dark shades, and cross your eyes while viewing the above still, you just might be able to replicate the sense of watching Tron Legacy in 3D next December. Until then, however, you'll have to satisfy yourself with what Disney released today: the first official picture from the movie (featuring Olivia Wilde and Garret Hedlund) and the teaser poster, featured after the jump. If you need me, I'll be trying to get the Space Paranoids high score at Flynn's Arcade.
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I hope you guys appreciate this. I'm about to wade into Kevin Smith's official Twitter page, which is kind of like walking into some really poorly tended public restroom at a Shell station in Elizabeth, NJ (and finding the only toilet shattered), just to fish out some graffiti on the status of the title of his A Couple of Dicks. Inhale deeply, hold it, hold it ... "The Movie Formerly Known as A COUPLE OF DICKS has finally settled on a (network-policy-dictated) replacement title! While we'll always have DICKS in our hearts, the title we just now locked makes me smile on a bunch of different levels - including this 1: we can now advertise our movie properly (& ironically). And said marketing begins... on every print of SHERLOCK HOLMES, Christmas Day!" Gassssssssssp. Wheeze, wheeze. [That Kevin Smith]
More today about Steven Soderbergh's documentary about Spalding Gray premiering next month at Slamdance. Now it has a title: And Everything Is Going Fine. In addition to screening his doc about the late monologist, Soderbergh will participate in the Park City fest's Filmmaker Summit, a talkathon about the marketplace, financing and other grave concerns affecting the indie infrastructure. The bookings come a year after Soderbergh was a Sundance heavyweight, appearing with an unofficial world premiere of The Girlfriend Experience and a 20th anniversary retrospective of sex, lies and videotape. The man gets around. [Variety]
· Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are in talks to star in Columbia's comedy Pretend Wife, which is about the story of... well, nobody seems to know. "Under wraps," that sort of thing. The best I can do is note that it was once titled Holiday in Hawaii, Sandler's Chuck and Larry director Dennis Dugan may direct, and it'll probably be the kind of project whose framed poster Sandler's Funny People character would have sloughed off on his starstruck assistant five years from now. [THR]
Rashida Jones gets Social, a manslaughterer wants to inspire you, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
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· Thanks to the good folks at UniversalPoster.com, you can now choose from a handsome array of David Hasselhoff posters, then personalize them with an inscription to yourself or someone you love written in The Hoff's actual handwriting! They make wonderful Christmas gifts. [B3ta]
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Samantha Tumpach, the 22-year-old girl who sat in jail for 48 hours after a Ft. Lauderdale theater-owner had discovered in her possession a digital camera with less than four minutes of New Moon footage captured on it, is now in the hands of the state. The Muvico theater chain said in a statement that they had "neither the expertise nor the authority" to know whether or not what Tumpach did constitutes a crime, and would leave it "up to prosecutorial discretion to determine the seriousness of any charges that might be leveled." That sort of contradicts what they said at the time of her arrest -- which was that they were going to press charges unless the police they had summoned to the manager's office formally arrested the girl, which they then did.
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On the eve of tonight's Biggest Loser finale, The Wrap broke a story about a halted 20/20 investigation into the dangerous risks (dehydration and bloody urine galore!) that NBC's contestants take to lose weight for the reality competition. ABC News allegedly put the brakes on the story when the Loser contestants who had previously agreed to talk were threatened with $1 million lawsuits. So wait, do we have this right: You mean there might be ugly, health-threatening side effects to losing half of your body weight in two months? [The Wrap]
