· Introducing the newest additions to HBO's True Blood: Grant Bowler and Theo Alexander, who respectively play Coot -- a rugged werebiker -- and Talbot, an "intensely beautiful" boytoy to Russell Edgington (played by Denis O'Hare), the closest thing Mississippi vampire society has to a David Geffen. [The Live Feed]
Terry Gilliam's first attempt to get his film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground was beset by so many calamities (including the injury of the original lead, Jean Rochefort), that it had to be shut down. However, Gilliam's recently expressed a wish to revive the project, and according to Collider, Robert Duvall will be his new Quixote. Ornery-rific! [Collider]
The Salahis certainly screwed the pooch by crashing the White House, but the gravity of the couple's error wasn't apparent until today, when the cast of The Real Housewives of New Jersey weighed in on Tareq and Michaele's déclassé actions. Dina Manzo and Teresa Giudice called the couple irresponsible, but Caroline Manzo told US that the Salahis basically Skype with terrorists: "There are plenty of ways to get your 15 minutes. I thought it was irresponsible -- very irresponsible. We are at a time of war and what message does that send to those who want to do us harm?" Can't wait to watch what happens to Andy Cohen's knowledge of national security. [Us]
· Mila Kunis demonstrates to BlackBook the proper way to exit a car (click for full-size), and also dishes on her sex scene with Natalie Portman in the upcoming Black Swan: "It's two girls making out, and guys have a thing for that. And Nat is like every guy's dream. She's a nerd's idea of heaven."
· British prime minister Gordon Brown was asked to say a word about Reese Witherspoon at the House of Commons today -- and ended up composing a tribute to Renee Zellweger instead.
· In an effort to head off the sinking of his Battleship, director Peter Berg flew some writers down to San Diego to tour a destroyer, then spilled on the addition of aliens to his board game adaptation.
· PopEater says things have gotten so bad between ex-lovers Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff that only one will be coming back to Dancing with the Stars next season.
· Michael Cera has made two claims to MTV: 1) The Arrested Development screenplay is still being outlined, and 2) For Halloween this year, he went as a "sexy rapist." Believe what you will.
While we mentioned in Hollywood Ink this morning that the third Jackass film would bring you all the penis-puppetry and horse-semen guzzling your stomach could handle in glorious, stereoscopic three-dimensionality, we failed to note the final paragraph of the Variety story on the project -- which reports, probably quoting directly from an unchecked press release, that the film will "lense in Knob Lick, Kentucky, Mianus, Connecticut, Fukang, China, Buttzville, New Jersey and Gayville, South Dakota." This is surely the most international Jackass movie yet, but we wish the boys the best of luck in Mianus, where we hear getting a shooting permit is a real pain in the ass. [Variety]
Next year's DreamWorks animated film Oobermind has gotten a late-stage title change, but this one's all-encompassing, as it renames the main character, too. Now, Oobermind will become MasterMind, named after a supervillain (Will Ferrell) who defeats his superhero rival and then falls into a state of ennui. Enjoy your latest round of replacement ADR, Will! [Slashfilm]
It looks like Roman Polanski was finally able to cobble together that $4.5 million bail, as Swiss authorities announced today that he will be released on Friday, to be put under house arrest at his Alpine chalet. (Whether or not he will eventually extradited to Los Angeles to face sentencing is yet to be determined.) So, how bad will confined life at the chalet get? Let the LAT fill you in:
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If you're Michael Bay, it's easy enough to blow off a diss coming from the starlet who used to wash your car. He might just have to absorb the one flung his way by Oscar-winning Avatar composer James Horner, who, in a new interview, complains that Bay doesn't quite understand the little moments that help round an action film into a true drama. "[N]ot to mention names, but if it was Michael Bay making this movie we wouldn't be having this conversation," Horner told the LAT. "These things wouldn't matter or they certainly wouldn't matter as much." Fair enough, but let's see Jim Cameron try to find the human drama in a Victoria's Secret ad. [LAT]
· A new report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers asserts that growth in the 3-D sector will be limited over the next five years to genres such as science fiction, horror and concert films. Fittingly, word has emerged that forthcoming sequels to Zombieland and Jackass will be produced and distributed in 3-D, affirming Hollywood's prudence in both rolling out the expensive technology on profitable films and guaranteeing that stunt-driven projectile vomiting/scrotum stapling is depicted with all the cutting-edge veracity it deserves. [Variety]
The Bourne trilogy makes a technological leap of its own, Summit Entertainment sprinkles around some hard-earned Twilight cash, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· The dreamy Brothers threesome popped by Unscripted to answer fan questions. It's kind of like Between Two Ferns, just without the passive aggressiveness and shaved ladyparts stuff. (So not as good.) (But still pretty good.)
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Apparently that formal audition wasn't necessary, because the beleaguered Salahi family is already acting chummy with other subjects for Bravo's upcoming Real Housewives of Washington D.C. Does this mean they've been cast? Bravo remains mum, but my unlicensed body language radar says yes. At long last, we'll get to learn if Joe Biden's line of skinny-girl martinis lives up to the hype. [Gawker]
It's been rumored, and now it's official: Director Paul Greengrass is exiting the fourth installment of the Bourne franchise. Greengrass and Damon had always seemed ambivalent about continuing the series past The Bourne Ultimatum, but Universal pressed on and commissioned two scripts. Now, the studio will have to look elsewhere for a new helmer and pitch some woo at Damon to stay on board. Greengrass's official statement, after the jump:
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More proof that the President hates freedom and Beagles? The annual run up to the football ends poorly for Charlie Brown tonight. But this time it's President Obama pulling out the primetime pig skin. The president has bumped tonight's A Charlie Brown Christmas so that he can address the nation on his Afghanistan policy. Meanwhile, ABC has found Charlie Brown a new time slot on December 15. [Time]
Long after we'd thought we'd put the whole "Judd Apatow as thinly veiled neoconservative" business to rest comes this poster for imagined raunchcore romp The 46-Year-Old Political Virgin -- part of a larger, grassroots Photoshopping movement to sweep through the Right in recent months. The Awl has curated some of the best. [The Awl]
· The Iron Man 2 poster has been released, and not only does it feature Don Cheadle's War Machine, but it also reminds me how many main characters this sequel has to service. Click for bigger.
· Prison Break's Marshall Allman and The OC's Shannon Lucio (Lindsay? Ugh) have been added to season three of True Blood. More people to see naked eventually!
· Meanwhile, Tom Cavanaugh has been cast as the lead ranger in Yogi Bear.
· Kaltxì. Ngaru lu fpom srak? Oh sorry, I lapse into Na'vi speak when I get excited.
· Zach Galifianakis has made a celebrity playlist for iTunes. In related news, that is the first time I correctly spelled his last name on the first try.
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