The blogs, they are abuzz today over some very suspicious domain names that Disney recently registered. Monsters2.com! Could that be confirmation of the long-rumored Monsters, Inc. 2? TheTigerKingMovie.com! Might that possibly be a spinoff of The Lion King? OhSayCanYouPee.com! Wait, what?
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Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and squeezed into one last massive summer weekend at the movies. And this week really does play like some pyrotechnical grand finale, with films of all sizes going off at once, a dud or two plunging to the ground and the transfixing afterglow of smoke from the season mostly past. Look skyward after the jump.
· You know your movie publicity tour is really covering every base when your lovely star manages to find the time to squeeze in an in-depth discussion of her director back-shaving techniques. (#1 on the neck and shoulders, #2 on the upper back and blend gradually to a #4 as it reaches Judd's bushy coinslot).
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How well can Summit keep its Twilight actors in line after the Rachelle Lefevre debacle? Take it away, Nikki Reed at Nobu last night! "I don't know anything about it other than a schedule conflict," she told People. Good, good. But then this, on the appeal of Robert Pattinson: "Rob is sort of feminine looking and I think young girls like boys that look like women." Maybe...don't...say it that way. [People]
From Jeff Wells: "'A friend confides that [Vanity Fair] is doing a story on the Moneyball fiasco.' He doesn't know who the writer is but says he's 'heard about the article from a friend who was on the project. Should be very interesting. My understanding is that the angle is pro-Soderbergh and will detail how he was screwed over. Screwed by Amy Pascal, Bryan Lourd and, yes, Brad Pitt. Soderbergh was certainly not a creative auteur run amok on the studio's dime. The email trail from Pascal to Soderbergh makes it very clear that she was fully aware of what the film was and was excited and into it until the end.'" Oooh...we love reprinted e-mails! [Hollywood Elsewhere, Image via Playlist]
Well, this was sort of inevitable, and yet it had never even occurred to us: Screenplay is a $2.99 app for the iPhone, and has all the basic functionality of Final Draft: It offers formatting, scene elements, auto-complete character names, pagination and scene re-ordering. Mitigate the shame of being one of those "laptops in coffeeshops" people, as you apply the final touches to your third draft punch-up while everyone else assumes you're playing Enviro-Bear 2000. (No idea if it accepts Final Draft files.) Just remember, kids: screendriving is dangerous and against the law! [iPhoneAppReviews.net]
One of the most-speculated about documentaries made this past year was By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, a film with unprecedented access to Barack Obama's presidential campaign directed by Amy Rice and Alicia Sams and produced by Edward Norton. The doc (encompassing the last three years of Obama's career) will air on HBO in November, but it screened for the first time in Los Angeles last night. What are the big takeaways?
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Producer Michael Deeley has a new memoir called Blade Runners, Deer Hunters, And Blowing The Bloody Doors Off--My Life in Cult Movies, among whose juicy Blade Runner anecdotes include Rutger Hauer's introduction to Ridley Scott. Hauer's wardrobe included "pink silk pants and a Kenzo sweater with a fox fur draped over his shoulder. He had bleached his hair and was wearing Elton John-style glasses. Ridley was seriously upset, convinced that we had foisted on him a gay activist to play the most aggressively masculine part in the picture." Forget about a must-read -- this is a must-see. Pictures, anyone? [La Daily Musto]
With one powerful swat of his mighty bear paw, Seth Rogen took out Doug Ellin and the rest of the cretinous Entourage crew recently, calling the series creator a "moron" and "asshole" in response to a recent line on the show referring to his "oddly fascinating ugliness." But today he took on an arguably far more formidable foe: his Knocked Up costar, Katherine Heigl.
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Never one to shy away from the latest in moviemaking technology, James Cameron has revealed a new Avatar set photo featuring the sci-fi epic's most marvelous motion-capture innovation yet.
It has been a big week for Joan Rivers: She survived a vicious Comedy Central mauling and a cheap shot by a Good Day Sacramento host that resulted in an expletive-laced live TV tell-off. Yesterday, Joan Rivers channeled her inner Joan Rivers (it's somewhere in there) at a TCA press conference to attack Jay Leno, her former Celebrity Apprentice enemies and anyone else in schvitzing distance, including a blood relative.
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· Kara DioGuardi will be returning for another malapropism-filled season of American Idol, says E! Safe landing, Billy Bush!
· Why won't Paramount let Steven Spielberg helm Matt Helm?
· Jude Law has announced that, uh, "following a relationship last year, he has been advised that he is to be the father of a child due in the fall of this year." Star claims the mom is Rachel McAdams's sister.
· Universal's upcoming Michael Cera starrer Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World is being turned into a video game, a natural move since it's based on a heavily game-inspired comic book. Comic Alliance breaks it down.
· Sherri Shepherd had her pubic hair ripped out on The View today. Simultaneously, millions of Americans plucked out their eyeballs.
That's not a typo. A British receptionist with a dream, a camcorder and a two-figure budget is the latest model for aspiring, charmingly broke filmmakers around the world. And although Marc Price isn't gloating (or quitting his day job) yet, his helpful insights into no-budget moviemaking imply a future beyond desk drudgery.
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Ingenuity springs from necessity, as evidenced by California Cryobank, an L.A. sperm repository who responded to flagging sales by offering a cutting-edge new service: celebrity look-alike spunk. Which isn't to say they've handed a plastic cup and the April '78 issue of Chic to some Vegas-based 73-year-old Burt Reynolds impersonator and ushered him into a sleekly furnished Ejacuchamber to do his thing. Rather, they've classified their inventory according to the male celebrity its donor resembles most.
It's been a little while since Roseanne Barr's made headlines, and she quite naturally has attempted to rectify that by employing that Hollywood option of last resort: baking "Jew cookies" and dressing up as Hitler for a photoshoot. Sorry, Jennifer Love Hewitt -- this idea's been claimed!
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