I don't know if this will be a regular feature, or if it's just coincidence that another noteworthy Val Kilmer bomb was released on DVD this week. But considering that no one has been able to see Delgo since last fall, when it notoriously set a new benchmark for all-time box-office futility, today's video unveiling seems far too momentous to allow to slip through unannounced.
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One day, Chris Rock's daughter asked him the provocative question, "Daddy, why don't I have good hair?" Somehow, this has led to a documentary where Raven-Symone adjusts her two-piece weave on camera. Let's connect the dots!
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume the following Ben Stiller video was not meant for public consumption, but as is the case with sex tapes, if you don't want your production company's lightly incendiary and completely hilarious inside jokes to leak -- don't make 'em.
In basic Trailer 101 terms, the new spot for The Fantastic Mr. Fox -- Wes Anderson's animated adaptation of the beloved Roald Dahl novel -- does almost everything it's supposed to do: Lists the great voice cast (George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray), showcases its unusual style in concert with Anderson's trademark dryness, and spiritedly, economically lays out a concise plot summary. So why do I feel like running away from it and the movie it's trying to sell?
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As pertains to their work, Joel and Ethan Coen have developed something of a taste for cannibalism. Since No Country For Old Men essentially remade Raising Arizona through Cormac McCarthy's nihilistic prism (swap out a baby for a satchel full of cash, and work your way down from there), Burn After Reading inverted parts of the bloody, triple-crossing intrigue Fargo as a bloody Bush-era farce, and now A Serious Man is noshing on all the neuroses that seemed to fuel Barton Fink. Jewish male panic, professional irrelevance, sexual frustration, the struggles of the "life of the mind"... and that's just what I got from a little over a minute and a half. And which, I guess I should add, makes me all the more excited for the finished film.
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In a week filled with so much sadness -- the fatal mauling of one of TV's most colorful executives by a white tiger named Ambition, the commencement of open hostilities between critics and a man with his hand indignantly thrust up a racist octogenarian's hindquarters, the initial failure by Fox to profitably exploit the romantic difficulties of the overweight in primetime -- we've been scrambling to find something to bring us a little joy. And today, finally, we've found it.
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Steve Zahn's appearance on The Tonight Show has been making the rounds this morning, with some suggesting the actor was perhaps under the influence of some home-cultivated medicinal analgesics while discussing his day-to-day farming duties back at his home in Kentucky (he talks to a horse named Dude, ignores the sheep, shovels crap -- basically all things one might also do living in L.A., only with actual animals). I don't know, I've watched it twice now -- what can I say, I'm a Zahn fan -- and he just strikes me as being the kind of guy who marches to the beat of his own hilarious sheep-bleating impressions.
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Two years ago, Mark S. Allen, the entertainment douchebag for Good Day Sacramento (yes, it really exists, and isn't just a fanciful platform from which to launch the latest Katherine Heigl vibrating-panty vehicle) had to apologize publicly to Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry for doggedly pursuing a line of NippleGate questioning during an interview that infuriating both them and viewers. He was at it again today, but this time, he chose the wrong target: Joan Rivers.
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Hey, do you like nudity and outlandish blood spurting? Haha, trick question, we all like those things. Rarely, though, has an ad campaign focused on the two to the exclusion of all else, but then, Starz has to make a name for its news series Spartacus: Blood and Sand somehow. Come in and let's take a look at the NSFW trailer, shall we? Wear a smock (but nothing else).
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For all the public concern that has followed Where the Wild Things Are over years of development and production, Warner Bros. has to be pretty happy with the goodwill it managed to accrue last weekend at Comic-Con. But even some critics' observations that WTWTA was "the most beautiful thing we have seen" during this year's event haven't prevented Warner from enlisting author Maurice Sendak himself to defuse any lingering skepticism. Watch him make his case after the jump.
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Streets of Blood would probably qualify for enshrinement among this site's Bad Movies We Love if any of us had been able to view it prior to today, when the Val Kilmer/Sharon Stone/50 Cent corruption-in-New Orleans thriller finally makes its domestic debut via DVD. But we'll always have the trailer to consider for our Two-Minute Verdict -- a red-band, NSFW marvel of genre archetypes, ethnic stereotypes, filthy language, guns, scowls, and, from Stone, perhaps the worst Southern accent in modern cinema. Oh, and yes -- plenty of blood.
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· Disney's Tron Legacy had by far the coolest promotional stunt of anything at Comic-Con with its Flynn's Arcade experience, but -- putting aside the conceptual art they previewed -- the total amount of finished footage screened at the panel amounted to 0 minutes. So what's this nearly three-minute clip, which has appeared and disappeared on YouTube for about a year now, and appears to now be there for good? It's not the trailer, but rather test footage that screened for Comic-Con 2008 audiences. Still, as year-old test footage goes, it should succeed in mercilessly tickling the remote geek-quadrants of your brains.
We caught up with Nick Kroll, the star of ABC's ill-fated Cro-Magnon-Rom-Com Cavemen, at the Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers last night, and we had to ask him about A Good Old Fashioned Orgy.
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As we pack up our Movieline-skinned Smart Car and prepare to journey up the 5 back to L.A., we look back at our time at Comic-Con mostly with fondness, and maybe just a twinge of regret (primarily over the onset of "Twilightnitus," an irreversible form of hearing loss which manifests itself as the persistent sound of 6500 teenage girls screaming "TAKE IT OFF, TAYLOR!!!" in your ears).
Anyway, HERE ARE YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS. (WHAT?! WE'RE NOT SHOUTING - YOU'RE WHISPERING!)
Sure, the other Movieline guys might be busy at Comic-Con with realish-looking, 10-foot CGI aliens, lycanthrope six-packs, and, um, Jonah Hill doing some spray-paint-assisted Street Fighter promotion. But I can argue that I'm having much more fun here at home, safely 125 miles away from the teeming, shower-impaired masses in San Diego (I know, I know, harping on the smell at Comic-Con is cliche, but: this), because I was sitting by my computer when the red-band trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine, the much-anticipated John Cusack vehicle that does not involve a battleship being tossed at his Apocalypse-fleeing family, was posted this morning. And that trailer will now serve as the subject of our latest installment of the Two-Minute Verdict.
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