Seeing as how it's Free-for-All Friday, we decided...wait, it's not? Still only Tuesday? Well, damn. Here we were, inspired enough by Lady Gaga's insane Kermit outfit (which she wore this week on a German television show) and Animal skort to whip up eight more looks for the singer that have been drawn from the vast Jim Henson filmography. Won't you take a look?
In an interview with the Telegraph in support of Antichrist, which opens in the U.K. this Friday, Charlotte Gainsbourg discussed some of the on-the-job hazards that come with working on a Lars Von Trier film. For starters, you might find yourself on the receiving end of a Moon Von Trier at any given moment. What's more, you might not hear every film actor's favorite words -- "Cut, print, BRILLIANT WORK. Let's call it a day everyone, drinks on me!" -- until you nail the scene in which your eyeballs are nearly choked right out of their sockets:
"Of course, Lars has a way of being provocative," she says, airily. "You can see that he enjoys that. But it's like a child wanting to..." She allows the sentence to tail off, smiles coyly, then starts again. "Well, Lars does like to show his bottom now and then." Did he show it to her? "Yes he did," she says, giggling, "shortly before we started to shoot, just to make me feel more comfortable." [...]
You gotta love Japanese TV. If an American show were to set about introducing Daniel Radcliffe to a Potter fanatic, they'd probably pass it along as an hour-long commercial for Half-Blood Prince, its 48-minutes' worth of scenes and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage interspersed with first-person testimonials from the little girl with leukemia whose family home was foreclosed upon just months before and whose dying wish it was to meet the boy wizard in the flesh. Which she would, two minutes before the show cut to its closing credit sweep, as 45,000 balloons dropped and Miley Cyrus sang something uplifting about magic being real if you just believe in the background.
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E!'s Answer Bitch responds at length to a publicist plant reader inquiry about whether Channing Tatum timed his marriage to help publicize next month's release of G.I. Joe. Good question. Was Stephen Sommers ousted from the production as the big day approached? Then yes, probably so! [E!]
· It's only taken a half-century, but Hollywood is closer than ever to adapting Ayn Rand's colossal novel Atlas Shrugged for the screen -- the small screen. Charlize Theron is said to be in talks with Lionsgate about an Atlas miniseries for the new Epix network, the premium channel the studio is set to launch with partners MGM and Viacom. Theron replaces the slightly busier Angelina Jolie as the front-runner for the project, which needs to begin principal photography in 2010 to keep the producers' book option in effect. [THR]
Uma Thurman goes to Africa, Nicolas Cage goes Green (maybe), and much more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· Some might say this YouTube apology for beating Rihanna is long overdue, but I think it's just overdue enough. Play him off, Keyboard Gato!
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Beastie Boy and upstart independent-film distributor Adam Yauch has been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his left salivary gland, he announced today in New York. He is expected to undergo surgery immediately and make a full recovery. Yauch, who turns 45 on Aug. 5, disclosed the news in a video with his bandmate Adam Horovitz; it accompanied an announcement that the Beasties had canceled its summer tour itinerary, including performances at Lollapalooza, All Points West and a September date at the Hollywood Bowl. Meanwhile, business at Oscilloscope Pictures, which last week acquired the Oscar hopefuls No-Impact Man and The Messenger, will continue without interruption. We at Movieline wish Yauch all the best and hope to see him healthy at the Toronto Film Festival in September. [THR]
There's something about Outfest this year that has participants kinda sorta ignoring the "Out" part. First, openly gay director Todd Holland recommended that "young, gay male actors" ought to stay in the closet (oldies, fatties, and ladies need not listen, we're guessing), an assertion he had to walk back days later. Now, The Opposite of Sex director Don Roos is throwing his hat in the ring.
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Shortly before a bomb threat forced The Ugly Truth press junket to evacuate the Four Seasons this weekend, Movieline attended a press conference where Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler discussed the appeal of R-rated romantic comedies, the sensational vibrating panties scene and its effects on their child co-star.
· Behold, the UK poster for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and a Persian rug his wig.
· Rich at FourFour looks at just how closely Labor Pains resembles Lindsay Lohan's own life.
· If your mom cares who Mike married in the season finale of Desperate Housewives, here's the answer!
· Pssst, Michael Cieply. It's not called "The Watchmen."
· Hey, it's Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson, wearing next to nothing and wrestling each other in the ocean. They like to call that "Monday."
This morning, Variety brings the happy news that Top Chef hostess Padma Lakshmi, the glassy-eyed, munchie-afflicted judging table wingwoman to Craft superstar Tom Colicchio, has signed a development deal with NBC in hopes of producing a sitcom set in "the culinary world." And yes, we also see the Cajun, Bam!-farting elephant in the room; it's impossible to think "NBC" and "popular cooking show host" without the short-lived, but profoundly terrible, Emeril flash-frying the pleasure centers of your brain into permanent anhedonia. To assist the network in its quest to develop a proper starring vehicle for Lakshmi, we've set up the Movieline QuickPilot Challenge: with just $300 in your development budget, you, the proud Peacock creative exec, must carefully select the proper items from the NBC Whole Sitcom Foods and deliver the most delicious show possible. Go!
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So! Just how bad are things for Brüno, anyway, whose weekend grosses plunged nearly 73 percent from its opening frame barely a week ago? Pretty bad, actually, when you look at the history it made at the box office -- and the history it might be about to make in the courtroom.
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Consummate entertainment-journalism professional Billy Bush just tweeted this about the tanking negotiation that has a live-trainwreck-loving nation on the edge of its seat: "now that @ryanseacrest has entered the simon salary zone, what's left for @paulaabdul and laGuardia?? and Randy?? tuff for FOX..." Seriously -- poor Kara laGuardia! She's always been so much easier to access than Randy JFKson. Tune in to Access Hollywood tonight for more of Bush's expert commentary! [@BillyBush]
Any movie based on a line of boys' attack-Barbies, directed by the man who brought you Van Helsing, and starring Marlon Wayans and Joseph Gordon-Levitt without the least bit of irony has turkey written all over it, and nothing in the trailer for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra suggests otherwise. Indeed, the signs were there early on, after a number of stunt mishaps narrowly averted serious disaster -- though resulted in at least one cleavage-singeing for star Sienna Miller. She confirmed as much to Australian press at a stop on the movie's worldwide promotional tour, saying, "Luckily it wasn't my breasts, it was the bit in-between. It got a bit burnt when an explosion got a bit close."
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The LAT's Patrick Goldstein has a problem! Even though virtually every poster for Judd Apatow's Funny People has above-the-title credits for Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, and Leslie Mann, the only poster that Goldstein has seen (a Los Angeles billboard, no doubt pointed out to him by the Brentwood pre-teens or Hollywood producers whose lunches provide most of the material for Goldstein's columns) lacked those credits. This is clearly an issue, as no one has any idea what Adam Sandler looks like without being told. So what happened?
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