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.
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.
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.
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.
No matter what you thought of the Oscars, Anne Hathaway remains a class act who seems chronically unable to take herself seriously. That's the royal likability you pick up in Genovia. On Conan last night, the newly ordained Catwoman rapped (in the style of Lil Wayne) about her brushes with the paparazzi. And now? She's already become the most impressive Catwoman ever -- besides Sean Young.
What do Madonna and Movieline staff editor Louis Virtel have in common? August birthdays, for starters -- which brings us to the jumping-off point for the latest episode of Verbal Vogueing. And that's not all! This jam-packed NSFW edition features everything from #BannedChildrensBooks to the best Tim Gunn impression you've heard all day. Next. Level. Click through to check it out.
Whilst watching the Shrek franchise, you may have wondered: How does Puss, the swashbuckling cat voiced by Antonio Banderas, justify donning footwear but not clothes? A new video for his upcoming spin-off movie, Puss in Boots, has your answer. This movie star endorses a freer, more versatile lifestyle choice: No-pants pants!
What do you get when you combine Jay-Z, Kanye West, pyrotechnics and an Otis Redding sample? Apparently, the new Spike Jonze-directed music video for "Otis," a track off of Jay-Z and Kanye West's collaborative album Watch the Throne inspired by Redding's "Try a Little Tenderness." Click through to take a look at the explosive fun and keep an eye out for a cameo by 30 Minutes or Less star Aziz Ansari.
Now, now, Nightmare on Elm Street and Mortal Kombat both hold precious spots in our nostalgia-addicted hearts, so let's not argue about whether Freddy Krueger or Liu Kang would win in a bloodbath. Let's just acknowledge the facts: Freddy is a downloadable player in the new Mortal Kombat game, and you can watch him claw the daylights out of his opponent in the following video. No, this is not a dream.
After scoring a critical and commercial hit with his directorial debut, 2009's Zombieland, director Ruben Fleischer decided to make the relatively humble crime comedy 30 Minutes or Less (in theaters Friday) as his follow-up, rather than take on some huge Hollywood work-for-hire gig like Mission: Impossible 4, which he was once in the running to direct. And as he tells Cinema Blend, when he watched the first trailer for the Brad Bird-helmed spy sequel, he knew he'd made the right decision.
This is how it begins, Marvel. First, fans are checking out construction on the Cleveland set of The Avengers; next, they're posting videos, spy pics and scene descriptions to the Internet at a pace that can only be described as break-neck. (If you don't believe that, just ask Christopher Nolan.) ABC affiliate WEWS in Cleveland hit the still-building set of Joss Whedon's superhero supergroup spectacular during lunch hour, and found many local residents delighted at the prospect of a Hollywood production shooting on their very own streets. Never mind that Cleveland is reportedly being used as a stand-in for New York. Click through to see what foam rubble looks like.
Lest you think The Change-Up and this weekend's 30 Minutes or Less are the final entrants in this summer of R-rated comedies, The Weinstein Company still has Our Idiot Brother scheduled for Aug. 26. The Sundance hit features Paul Rudd as the titular dullard, along with Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer as his put-upon sisters. Should be an easy sell, right? (Especially to the indie hipster crowd.) Well, maybe not -- provided this new Funny or Die video of Rudd pitching marketing ideas to Harvey Weinstein is legitimate. Wait, it's not? It's just a hilarious spoof? Oh, good. Click through to laugh.
Ever wonder what it's like to hang out on the set of an alien-themed movie with Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig? Now you can find out, thanks to a bonus feature from Paul (now available on DVD and Blu-ray) that shows the Saturday Night Live stars performing an impromptu desert musical with Joe Lo Truglio (Superbad) for crew members. Trust me, it'll have you praying for a big screen adaptation of Who's Your Alien, Now?
When the first image of Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle was released online last Friday, the Internet reaction went from meh to meh. This is par for the course when dealing with superhero-costume-first-looks, but lest you think the online handwringing about leather pants and Bluetooth-enabled sunglasses didn't reach Hathaway herself, the Dark Knight Rises star is here to set you straight.
One of the more famous staples of Michael Bay's visual vocabulary is, without a doubt, the 360-degree spinning shot, in which the camera circles actors as they stare meaningfully into the distance -- one of the most instantly recognizable directorial flourishes around (also see: J.J. Abrams and those damn lens flares). Within, marvel at the signature circular hero shot in a supercut edit piecing together said shot for a minute and a half of Michael Bay epicness.
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