David Cross appeared on Countdown on Monday night, where host Keith Olbermann coaxed an update about the development of the long-gestating movie adaptation of Arrested Development. And that's when things got awkward.
With the news cycle grinding to a halt and multiplexes stuffed with also-ran 3-D genre releases, August is officially living up to its status as August. As the summer winds down, theatergoers are left with the unenviable task of deciding between films like Conan the Barbarian and Shark Night 3D. Out over Labor Day weekend -- so technically September -- the grindhouse-y horror film (with the non-grindhouse-y PG-13 rating) promises thrills and sharks. Also, Katharine McPhee's tears as Luke from The O.C. threatens her with tales of sharks dining on flesh. Where's Ryan Atwood when you need him to defend your honor?
After seeing the unintentionally hilarious first trailer for Real Steel this June, we laughed until we cried cyborg boxer-sized tears inside Movieline HQ. After all, it used every cliché in the book to advertise an earnest drama about a washed-up boxer (Hugh Jackman) who pours all of his lost fighting ambitions into a robot that he coaches Rocky-style towards a futuristic championship. Lucky for us, DreamWorks has released a featurette in which Jackman and director Shawn Levy more effectively pitch their dystopian robo redemption movie. Take a look.
If you're a Martin Scorsese fanboy or girl troubled by the fact that the great director is releasing Hugo -- a 3-D kids movie that looks like something Shawn Levy could have directed -- this year, some hope: the first trailer for Scorsese's long-in-the-making HBO documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World has arrived online, and it's as epic as the film's near four-hour running time. Click through to watch.
Movie stars: they really are just like us! They didn't like Terrence Malick's Tree of Life, they have trouble containing their bladders on international flights, and they break up gritty street fights? Perhaps! At least if they're Ryan Gosling, who performed the latter chivalrous act recently in New York. Now, thanks to a passerby who couldn't ignore the opportunity to capture the escalating urban violence on her cell phone, there is footage online. Ahead!
Ever since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Movieline -- as well as pretty much anyone who has seen Martha Marcy May Marlene -- has been predicting an Oscar nomination for its breakout leading lady Elizabeth Olsen. Now, thanks to two more haunting trailers from Fox Searchlight, you can double dose on Olsen's apparently brilliant work as a young woman trying to move past her eerie cult experience and wonder again, "Will Olsen be this year's Jennifer Lawrence?"
About 10 years ago, someone thought it might be a good idea to adapt the 1984 hit Gremlins to the video-game realm. And maybe it was a good idea! In practice, however, a new sample from the game's development phase suggests something went horribly, cheesily wrong along the way.
When was the last time we saw a hypersexual family comedy? Does Addams Family Values count? In The Family Tree, we revisit the forgotten genre and talents of Christina Hendricks, Hope Davis, Oscar-winning songwriter Keith Carradine, Dermot Mulroney, Gabrielle Anwar, and Selma Blair in full Velma Kelly drag. How refreshing! It also helps that Christina Hendricks weeps about dildos.
In the upcoming dramedy 50/50, 27-year-old Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) finds out he has a cancerous tumor growing in his back, and proceeds to tell his best friend Kyle (Seth Rogen) outside a coffee shop. If only it happened like that in reality. 50/50 is based on the life of screenwriter Will Reiser, and when he called Rogen, his best friend, to tell him the bad news, the Knocked Up star was in a compromising situation: mid-poop. Click through to watch Rogen explain.
Nothing edifies the soul like an endless barrage of CGi fire. Remember when you'd come home from school in your wool cap, set your knapsack down in the chilly den, and Mother would crank up computer-animated flames in the plasma-screen hearth? Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance understands and would like to add a few more soul-tickling items to your precious memories: Nicolas Cage's terrifying gaze, leather jackets, and fire pee. Serious.
Anne Hathaway is in theaters today with the weepy romance film One Day, but the film isn't the first time she's had to pine for a boy on screen. In fact, Hathaway was crying over a relationship during one of the very first times she stepped in front of a camera. In a 1997 commercial for Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, Hathaway had to deal with her boyfriend moving away and her delightfully '90s-teen wardrobe, and did so with plucky aplomb that pointed toward future stardom. Her anonymous Justin Bieber lookalike BF? Not so much. Click through to watch.
"I done a lot of things, that I ain't proud of. Hurt a lot of people." So says a repentant Gerard Butler as real-life ex-con Sam Childers at the beginning of the trailer for Marc Forster's September curio, Machine Gun Preacher. How can Childers save his crumbling soul? By becoming a born-again missionary helping orphans in the Sudan... and by hurting those who oppose with the aide of a bazooka. What did you expect?
Like the killer in a Texan massacre tale, this Jessica Chastain person keeps coming back! In every possible supporting role! With the new movie Texas Killing Fields, the Tree of Life lumberjill co-stars alongside Sam Worthington (who looks a lot like Nathan from The Real World: Seattle these days, in case you were wondering) and Chloe Moretz in a tale of serial murder and Southern accents. Director Ami Canaan Mann is Michael Mann's daughter, which officially makes this film a hotbed for a new school of talent. And Jeffrey Dean Morgan is like the principal of that school.
Today in 3-D sequel news, Screen Gems has unveiled the trailer for Underworld: Awakening, the fourth (and possibly last) installment in the Kate Beckinsale vampire-and-werewolf franchise. So! Squeeze into your best leather body suit, find some blue cellophane to look through, and click ahead to see Beckinsale reprise her role as the most badass vampire warrioress at the box office.
Back in May, Movieline editor S.T. VanAirsdale participated in Saatchi NY's third annual 7×7, an event where seven experts from seven fields presented seven different creative ideas for seven minutes. (That sound you just heard was George Costanza's head popping off in excitement.) For his portion, S.T. unveiled "The Lumet Conundrum," an in-depth analysis of the "the imperative to work versus the imperative to work well," named in honor of the late Sidney Lumet. After all, the prolific director had a fair share of lemons among his many glasses of lemonade -- and he's not the only one.
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