The Corey Haim filmography that began with the 1984 family drama Firstborn will end next month with Decisions, the last movie Haim completed before he collapsed and died of an accidental drug overdose today at age 38. His IMDB page shows a host of others in pre-production, but Haim rolled film on this one last November in L.A. with director Jensen LeFlore. As the clip below hints, you might say it's slightly flawed. But as the movie's executive producer implied, it's not Haim's fault.
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The full, 90-second teaser for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is due tomorrow, but why not tease the teaser with a 10-second version today? Here's what you get: two full lines, one of which is a howler. Shots of the Pacific Northwest! Bella and Edward on a bed, not in a bed. And, of course, the Taylor Lautner torso. Sadly, no one is marrying vampire babies or cracking rib bones yet. Give it time, kids. Give. It. Time.
VERDICT: If they're going to tease tomorrow's trailer, I'm going to tease tomorrow's verdict. Oh, who am I kidding: I loved it so much, I don't want to have sex with it til marriage.
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Let's return now to Movieline's roving video powerhouse Carly Steel, who had the happy fortune recently to catch up with Clash of the Titans co-star Izabella Miko. The actress plays the film's Athena, goddess of wisdom and war -- and apparently the repository for a massive python that Miko wasn't quite ready to share the screen (and especially her shoulders) with. But that was just the beginning of her animal problems. Carly gets the full story from Miko -- along with an appeal for environmentally conscious single men with a spare $100,000 lying around -- after the jump.
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Though he's still technically an NBC employee thanks to the magical, snafu-inducing language of network contracts, Andy Richter co-hosted Live! With Regis and Kelly today and took full advantage of the platform. "Do you have any ill feelings toward NBC or Jay?" Kelly Ripa asked him. Short answer: Um, yes! Slightly longer answer: "It's very frustrating when someone says... 'I'm going to hand this over'...and then doesn't," he said. "Multimillionaires are always being forced to do things they don't want to do." Longest answer: the full clip, after the jump.
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For the first, mostly irrelevant analog minute of the new Tron: Legacy trailer, a familiar-looking man with a voice for luxury car commercials delivers big news to a younger man in his 20s: he was paged the night before by the boy's long-missing father. This is shocking for a number of reasons, not the least of which being the fact that someone in 2010 can still get paged. A motorcycle voyage to Flynn's Arcade, a mysterious portal to the unknown ... do you see where all this is leading? Precisely! Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges is still being held against his will by an evil, blacklight-abusing microprocessing regime, and only his son can get save him, after 93 minutes of Light Cycle races, Ultimate Identity Disk tournaments, and Michael Sheen showing off his wicked Air Guitar Hero moves in an outfit even gayer than the one he wore in New Moon!
Verdict: My memory stick just involuntarily uploaded.
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Jimmy Kimmel welcomed the blue-tied Robert Downey Jr. to his post-Oscar special Sunday night, where the actor unveiled the latest trailer for Iron Man 2. I'm just going to slap a huge SPOILER ALERT on this because everything that can possibly be good about the movie -- Downey's wan heroism, his chemistry with Don Cheadle and Gwyneth Paltrow, Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell turning the villain knob to 11, new outfits and gadgets, guitar wankery beneath roaring gunfire, etc. etc -- is all given away right here in under three minutes. Oh, and look: Scarlett Johansson! And her stunt double! This is filthy!
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After an energetic but brief blast of a teaser, Apparition has released the full trailer for The Runaways, and it's much closer to the tone of the movie than that first clip -- they even added appropriately Quaaluded Dakota Fanning narration to drive home that "drowsy rock movie dream" vibe. What else is there? Would you settle for some underage lesbian shenanigans?
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If you've not yet experienced the internet phenomenon that is Chatroullette.com, a sort of Metropolitan Museum of Self-Diddling and Guys Looking for Breasts you can access for free online, you might want to join Jon Stewart on his guided tour. Along his encounters, Jon runs into countless other journalists covering the same beat (Brian Williams' was investigating the site as part of NBC Nightly News's ongoing series, Felched By America), Daily Show correspondent and noted Nintendo-addict Jason Jones, and other surprises we won't give away here. Strangely absent from the proceedings? Sen. Roy Ashburn. Enjoy!
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In a shocking bit of interspecial backlash, an intransigent rabbit named Smokey begs to differ that Inglourious Basterds is "the thing that happened in cinema this year." In fact, the real thing that happened in cinema this year is that a rabbit has more of a clue than our psychic pals and much of the Hollywood establishment about what will win the Best Picture Oscar come Sunday. Maybe it's just Smokey's savant-like understanding of the preferential ballot, or maybe he took Nicolas Chartier's impassioned e-mails to heart -- it really could be anything. But this is as informed and credible an Oscar forecast as any we've yet seen at Movieline HQ, so consider yourself advised. That said, Smokey also chose David Carradine as a dark horse on my "In Memoriam" Montage Pool ballot, so grain of salt, etc. Click through for the most adorable Oscar prognostication ever.
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Oscar producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic are trying to banish winners' thank-you speeches to a backstage camera, leaving precious time at the podium for tearful blubbering, one-armed pushups, and cute-but-in-retrospect-creepy-and-unsolicited French kisses, but I'd wager that we're still going to hear more than a few winners thank God, and more importantly, their agents. At least it will provide more material for this helpful montage (after the jump), which collects just about ever salient Oscar thank-you ever committed to YouTube, I'm guessing. Marvel at the uniformity of gush, and remember what Anna Paquin once looked like with clothes on. [Buzzfeed via Vulture]
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The recently renamed Legend of the Guardians is the first CG-animated film from director Zack Snyder, if you don't count Watchmen and 300. Rimshot! What's interesting about the new trailer for the film, though, is how it tries to sell Guardians as a fun family film with talking animals, while playing down the many Snyder trademarks on display.
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Time now for an introduction: Carly Steel is the newest addition to the Movieline family. A veteran of E! and TV Guide network, Carly will be Movieline's on-camera correspondent at Hollywood awards shows, premieres, parties and anything else you can slap a red carpet in front of. Last night, she attended the Angeleno magazine Pre-Oscar party, where she chatted with British actress Nathalie Press -- nominated for an Indie Spirit Award for her work in 50 Dead Men Walking-- as well as costar Rose McGowan, who offered some awards night tips, spoke of her own paralyzing red carpet fright, and admitted to a bad habit of breaking into architecturally significant homes.
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How do you sell a wonky script about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency to the Funny or Die audience, which only loves foul-mouthed babies and celebrity cameos? Simple: You hire Ron Howard to direct it, then fill the five-minute clip with every famous presidential impression ever. Will Ferrell and Dana Carvey as the Bushes! Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford! Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph as the Obamas, and unkillable SNL veteran Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton! Also, Jim Carrey as Ronald Reagan for some reason! (Admittedly, it is kind of the best one.) Watch, bask in the star wattage, and scratch your head a little bit:
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If there's one thing Patrick Wilson specializes in playing on screen, it's the good-looking wimp. Whether it's Little Children, Phantom of the Opera, or Watchmen, his characters might seem like attractive, decent guys on paper, but when it comes down to it, they lack that decisive, manly je ne sais quoi. Now, Wilson's SXSW entry Barry Munday has made that manifest: This time, Wilson has literally been de-balled.
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time started filming almost two years ago, and it's had an unusually long post-production schedule, which is a good thing for a (typically rushed) summer movie, right? Hey, it worked for Star Trek! So why, then, is this new trailer so leaden?
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