Here's an inspirational story for the holidays: Director Tom Shadyac was living the dream as the A-List director of cash cows like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor and Liar Liar. Then, after surviving a near-fatal bike accident, Shadyac adopted a completely new perspective on life. He sold his house and moved into a mobile home, got out of Hollywood, and gave away a large amount of his money. Now, he's directed the documentary I am, which purports to examine what's wrong with the world and what we can do to change it.
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While the Water For Elephants trailer certainly doesn't skimp on the elephants, it's oddly lacking in clowns, lion tamers and all of the other outcasts and oddities that make the circus so fascinating. I suppose that seeing Robert Patinson and Reese Witherspoon hang out with an elephant is almost as interesting, but still, if Hollywood is going to go to the circus, it'd be nice if they went all the way.
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Unless you were one of the chosen people Fox Searchlight invited to their lot two weeks ago for a special "screening" of the trailer for Terrence Malick's Tree of Life -- or, you know, unless you spotted it pirated on YouTube; or in the theater when you saw Black Swan -- this is the first time you're seeing anything resembling moving images from the much-delayed film. Try not to hyperventilate, folks! Let's hold hands and take a look together.
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Sometimes the Internet is a miserable place, filled with know-it-alls, egomaniacs, ingrates, trolls and all other assorted forms of villainy; other times, it produces this video of Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter saying "not you" to an assorted array of random celebrities and cartoons. Thanks, Internet! You're good for today. Click ahead to watch. No, not you. Not you either. OK, you can.
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It seems like the Gangster-comedy sub-genre should be scraping the bottom of a dry well by now, but they just keep coming! And while A Somewhat Gentle Man indeed looks like rehash of dark comedy we've seen before, the fact that character actor and Lars Von Trier regular Stellan Skarsgård (Breaking the Waves, Mamma Mia!) plays the lead offers hop that maybe this Norwegian import has more to offer than the trailer suggests.
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Well, if nothing else, maybe Take Me Home Tonight will go down as the death rattle for the 80s nostalgia coming-of-age film. It's set in 1988, so I suppose maybe we'll see one in a few years set in 1989, but based on this trailer, I'd say it's about time to move on. It's actually bizarre how comfortable the marketing for this film seems with every single overused last-great-party-of-youth cliche known to man. That said, the film does have one secret weapon, and as with Yogi Bear trailer, it's extremely under-utilized here.
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Can you believe that we live in a world where five versions of The Fast & The Furious exist? Me neither! But they do, and people love them. Which, despite having never seen one of the films in this franchise, I can understand: Watching property get decimated at an alarming pace is fun...especially when you don't have to clean up after all those explosions.
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Another day, another trailer featuring Johnny Depp. You know what that means: The biggest actor in the world will have two more Golden Globe nominations to add to his impressive tally next year! Never mind that he only voices the chameleon at the heart of Gore Verbinski's Rango; if the Golden Globes can nominate Jennifer Love Hewitt as Best Actress in a Mini-Series, they can certainly find room for another shot of Depp.
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Oprah Winfrey is really enjoying her time in Australia. When she isn't sailing around Sydney Harbour with close friend Russell Crowe -- or shopping at local gift shops -- she's putting Hugh Jackman in grave danger. Well, not really: The Australian National Treasure received a cut above his right eye while taking part in a zipline-stunt-gone-bad at a taping of Oprah's Ultimate Australian Adventure on Tuesday. "That was so much fun," said Jackman, "until the end." Let's hope that isn't one of the taglines for Real Steel. Click ahead to watch the unfortunate hilarity.
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There's a lot to be angry about in the world today. Neverending wars, a capsized economy, political stalemates, the Cincinnati Bengals, racist cupcakes... Wait, you didn't hear about the racist cupcakes? They're delicious and all, but ugh. Why do you have to be so racist, cupcake?
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Much like The Matrix spawned two unwatchable sequels, so too did Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; in fact, if you can even remember one nonsensical plot point from either mega-grossing sequel -- hell, if you can even remember their titles -- you're already ahead of many people watching the just released teaser trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Still, that first film -- that was fun! Can Pirates 4 recapture the glory?
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Just one month after Gwyneth Paltrow and her blond tresses brought "F*ck You" to the halls of McKinley High School on Glee, another fair-haired beauty has taken a crack at Cee-Lo's anthemic 2010 hit. That's right, earth: Anything Gwenie can do, Gossip Girl star Taylor Momsen can do better? Don't shoot the messenger; this is just the world we occupy in the 21st century.
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Last week, comedy icons Jason Segel and Jack Black sat down at the ol' Black family piano to duet on the holiday classic "Little Drummer Boy," and we here at Movieline HQ couldn't help but wonder if they out Bing Crosby and David Bowie'd Bing and Dave. (Final verdict: They didn't.) Now, it's Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly's turn. The comedy twosome got together with Funny or Die to film a fairly straightforward remake of the iconic (and comfortably bizarre) pairing, only stopping to add a few flourishes. Like this exchange: "It's Bowie. It's David F***ing Bowie!" / "And it's Bing F***ing Crosby, pal." Click ahead for some holiday cheer.
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After awhile, there are only so many action movies about cops, spies or puddle-faced Shia LeBeouf one can take. A little variety is needed! So that's why I'm glad that Thor is here. Isn't it time we had a big, rollicking action movie starring a pantheon of Norse gods? After the break, take a look at the trailer for Marvel Studios' latest salvo for summer movie domination, Thor.
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Earlier this week when Chelsea Handler received press attention for calling Angelina Jolie a homewrecker during her stand-up routine, the E! hostess claimed that her digs weren't anything new. "I've been making fun of Angelina Jolie since she made out with her brother! [...] If I've learned anything from this, it's to write some new jokes." In an effort to substantiate this claim, Movieline dug through some of Chelsea Handler's stand-up archives -- where instead of any other incriminating Jolie-related material -- we uncovered one vintage gem of a then baby-faced Handler.
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