· Two months to go until HBO premieres the next season of True Blood, but they've already released this dual-image promotional poster. While others see either a trail of blood or a vampire coupling, all we're able to picture is Ryan Kwanten's taut midsection. But then, that's always the case.
· Aziz Ansari and other comedians live-Twittered through a midnight screening of Crank 2, prompting angry film purists Harry Knowles and Devin Faraci to muddy up an entirely valid point (maybe don't encourage people to whip out their cell phones during a movie?) with macho, 140-character threats of physical violence.
· American Idol's Adam Lambert seized the chance to be pitcher for a day at Dodger Stadium.
· While we wait patiently for Mitch Hurwitz to begin work on the Arrested Development movie, critics are calling his interim series a disappointment.
· Christ, Ellen! When did you turn into Us Weekly?
As an observant news reader noted this morning in an e-mail to Movieline, "Has the Onion taken over the BBC?" It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world -- at least not as bad as a Jedi constabulary taking over Scottish law enforcement.
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Welcome to the first installment of Movieline Attractions, your guide to everything new, noteworthy and Zac-alicious at the movies. This week: Efron faces an unusual enemy in Jason Statham; Russell Crowe scoops the world; and a Disney film you probably haven't heard about commands attention at the art house. Fearless, peerless box-office predications await as well -- and it's all just across the jump.
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In today's Hollywood Ink ... From Versailles to Marmont ... Reese gets mean ... Bruno gets an R ...
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· No, that wasn't an earthquake you just felt. That was YouTube and the major studios coming to terms on a deal that would allow the site to stream thousands of mainstream movies and TV shows -- for free. Don't expect Iron Man to stream alongside Sex Man anytime soon, however; the studios will host their own content ("library titles," according to one report) on their own sites nudged well above the vast, unwashed YouTube fray. Expect more on this here in the days to come.
· Which reminds me: Aren't SAG negotiations still stalled on the very issue of new media residuals? All of the sudden my head hurts.
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· Twilight star Robert Pattinson smells like roses, claims a weirdly invested costar.
· Gwyneth Paltrow was once good friends with a woman who took great pleasure in hurting her. However, in another universe, an alternate Gwyneth Paltrow (with different hair) was the one doing the hurting! It's complicated.
· Zac Efron loves the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, he just doesn't love the songs of theirs that you love, OK?
· Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint will all be aged via makeup to play far-older versions of themselves for an epilogue in the final Harry Potter film. We don't have to put spoiler alerts on that sort of thing anymore, right?
· I guess Lifetime's pretty determined to capture that old Project Runway magic, because they went and got Heidi Klum pregnant again for the new season casting right now.
The other day, while speaking to director Brett Ratner about his new Rat Press book imprint, we half-joked that he'd taken up publishing because filmmaking wasn't keeping him busy enough. The half that's not a joke goes like this: Ratner has been attached to no fewer than nine separate projects in varying stages of development over the last two years, from his New York cop pilot Blue Blood to Conan to the Web-polarizing Beverly Hills Cop 4.
Together, in a much-needed lightning round of titles, rumors and gossip, we squared away his priorities for the record -- and, with any luck, a little more accurate IMDB page. (And we didn't even get to Playboy, his reported Hugh Hefner biopic.)
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Pictured, star of stage and screen Rupert Everett debuts a new look on The Martha Stewart show.
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A new age of Darwinian democracy has taken hold of Hollywood, and Movieline's inaugural Tournament of Champions has cut off its first four franchise casualties. After the jump, help separate two more chumps from the running before this weekend's championship bout.
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Maybe Michael Bay is feeling some recession-era pressure, stretching creatively or simply pulling everyone's legs. Whatever his reasoning, Bay recently told MTV Movies about taking a year off after Transformers 2 and filming a "small little movie I keep wanting to do." Heresy! But... interesting! So we scoured nearly 20 years' worth of Movieline's unproduced-script archives and found the five likeliest projects* for the mega-director to keep his eye on:
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Hi, Mom! Ready to find your son heartless? Here goes: I do not care about this Susan Boyle Britain's Got Talent lady that is sweeping the interwebz. "Break out the tissues!" warns every single person who posts it online. No, no I will not. In fact, here is what I'm breaking out: Movieline's inaugural edition of "Enough Already," the rant column to be used only when we're at our breaking point. Which I am.
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In today's Hollywood Ink ... Zac defies the odds ... Cannes crams ... Coffee and kebabs with the Turkish Golden Girls ...
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It wasn't a Watchmen-esque battle of studio titans, but the industry nevertheless kept an eye on the high-stakes ugliness brewing between the producers of Terminator: Salvation. Alas, just when it was getting good, the simmering front-office duel between Hollywood vet Moritz Borman and the "shady" upstarts at Halcyon Entertainment found a resolution.
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· Having tired of SNL's nerdy comic grind, Andy Samberg has apparently hit the growth hormones just in time to woo The Cougar (premiering tonight on TVLand)! But if his new look isn't your taste, feel free to spin the Carousel of Cubs until you find one to your liking.
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Movieline is searching for interns -- a few bright stars who'd like to work behind the scenes at a shiny, new site with the savviest readership in Hollywood.
So what are we looking for?
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