Father's Day always seems to get the short shrift. Here's just one example: while Major League Baseball offers players the chance to use pink bats on Mother's Day (to support breast cancer research), there isn't a blue bat to be found around baseball parks today. Come on, MLB! (Sorry, but wearing blue wristbands to support prostate cancer research isn't the same thing as swinging a blue bat; it's the symbolism.) Here at Movieline, though, we're equal opportunity parental lovers, and that means one thing: a chance for you to celebrate your favorite onscreen dads. Click through to get your favorite film father the digital version of that ugly tie you saw at Macy's.
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Following his well-publicized homophobic rant at a Tennessee standup date two weeks ago, Tracy Morgan met with LGBT advocacy group GLAAD and two teens who were kicked out of their homes simply for being gay as part of his apology tour. He'll be heading to Tennessee next week to apologize to audience members. Is this necessary? Or rather, helpful? Feels like overkill (or a death at a funeral) if you will. Did we decide if we're seeing The Son of No One anyway? [TMZ]
The early glimpses from the set of Rock of Ages promise a number of garish '80s-era delights, most covered in thick, wiggy shag and threads reclaimed from a wardrobe shop just across the street from Hell. But the first look at Tom Cruise as rock star Stacee Jaxx promises something leaner, inkier and... well, not as Cruise-y as you're accustomed to. Click through for a glance.
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· The ubiquitous Ken Jeong is still ubiquitous. For his latest appearance, The Hangover Part II star dresses like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever in this American Heart Association PSA about giving CPR. Just an FYI: It's a little bit better than his Pepto-Bismol commercial. Click through to watch, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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Thanks to The Hangover Part II, Bangkok has been on the short end of jokes recently -- and not just because of its schoolyard-taunt friendly name. The film presents the Thailand capital as a city of squalor -- even referring to it as such -- filled with scum and villainy known only to Mos Eisley. But, guess what? It kinda sorta is -- at least according to the general-director of the Thailand tourism department.
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The New York Times outsourced its review of Page One: Inside the New York Times to former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, and his response was less than fawning: "The movie, directed by Andrew Rossi, is, in a word, a mess," he says, soon adding, "Like a shopper at the supermarket without a shopping list, Page One careers around the aisles picking up this item and that one, ultimately coming home with three jars of peanut butter and no 2-percent milk. [...] The Times deserves a better movie, and so do you. See His Girl Friday again." Still seeing it. And I'd pay double to watch David Carr square off against Roz Russell. [NYT]
Jason Reitman is busy. Hot on the heels of the news that he plans to adapt Joyce Maynard's 2009 book Labor Day with Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin in starring roles, comes word that Ivan's son has been hired to do some rewrites on Burt Wonderstone. Reitman won't direct the Steve Carell-led magician comedy -- 30 Rock's Don Scardino will do the honors -- but, per THR, "sources say he sparked to the idea of putting his stamp on an A-list comedy project such as this." Sure. [THR]
We now visit that famously vague, gossipy realm of Internet discourse known as the IMDB message boards, where a translation of a French-language interview with Tree of LIfe DP Emmanuel Lubezki has surfaced to announce that director Terrence Malick hasn't finished tinkering with the film. To wit, who's up for a six-hour cut?
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Also in this Friday edition of The Broadsheet: Charlie Day circles Pacific Rim... Darren Aronofsky heads to HBO... Alison Brie loves breakfast in bed... and more ahead.
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"Here's a little movie-magic fun fact for you. I did all my research for that scene by going on Chatroulette, that website where guys masturbate for strangers. My moves in Hall Pass are an amalgamation of, I don't know, maybe 20,000 different dudes. I took the facial expressions from SexHog22; I took the hand motions from GrizzlyBearDong. Those guys really know what they're doing." [Playboy]
Annette Bening is one of our most celebrated four-time Oscar losers, right up there with Julianne Moore. (Glenn Close glowers menacingly from her 0-5 cell.) Now that she's picked her first role since No. 4 loser The Kids are All Right, is Bening assured that a gold statuette is in her future? Let's investigate ahead.
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Open up your Google Calendars, movie fans! Universal has just set release dates for three highly anticipated films: The Oliver Stone-directed Savages will open on Sept. 28, 2012; Despicable Me 2 arrives on July 3, 2013; and Oblivion with Tom Cruise is set for July 19, 2013. Yes, 2013. Nothing like planning ahead! Write these dates in the Internet version of pencil, just in case. [Deadline]
· The Transformers: Dark of the Moon promotional push continues with the release of five more new stills. Which is fine, if only because this picture of Shia LaBeouf hanging on to a collapsing building for dear life is pretty awesome. Question: Who comes in for the save: Bumblebee or Optimus Prime? Click ahead for the pic, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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Accio, intrigue! World-renowned Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has said numerous times that she would never write another Harry Potter-related book -- and at least once that she would consider doing something else with the characters; thanks, Oprah -- which begs the question: Is her newly launched "Pottermore" website the start of future Hogwarts adventures?
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Gavin O'Connor didn't win the directing run-off for The Wolverine, which is a shame. For Hugh Jackman. At least judging from this new poster for the fall MMA drama Warrior, which makes stars Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton look like co-Mr. Universes. Imagine what O'Connor could have done for the already-jacked Jackman! The Wolverine could have been Pumping Iron with Adamantium. Anyway! Click through for the ladyporn poster.
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