Insult meet injury: Not only did Cowboys & Aliens defeat The Smurfs at the box office over the weekend by slightly more than three apples, but C&A star Harrison Ford used his guest appearance on Conan last night to brutally murder a Papa Smurf doll. Not cool, Han Solo. Not. Cool. Click through to watch the smurfed up video evidence.
If you think the comedic body-switch is a tired movie conceit, you're not alone -- or rather, you're not original: We were thinking that way back in 1989! In a new video that mashes up the trailer for The Change-Up with Big, Vice Versa, Freaky Friday, 13 Going on 30 and many others, we see just how formulaic this cinematic trope can be. Fred Savage, your agitated comic timing remains admirable.
With a name like Shark Night 3D -- and a trailer that highlights bikini-clad co-eds and shark attacks -- you would be right to assume that the upcoming David R. Ellis-directed film would be packed to the gills with boobs and blood. As the director told Movieline at Comic-Con, however, it's not. "This movie is just a really smart, well-written movie with great character arcs, great twists, without having to have gratuitous nudity or language. Jaws was PG-13. The Birds. All those really great horror films." Fair points, David! Though you might want to tell the marketing department, since the first clip from Shark Night teases gratuitous nudity and some shark-related ultra-violence.
If the hideous sweater, disgusting mane, and title didn't tip you off, Paul Rudd's character in Our Idiot Brother is supposed to be an idiot. Though the first trailer gave us a good idea of the dunderheadedness we can expect, this glimpse at a scene between Paul Rudd and Movieline pal Bob Stephenson indicates that the titular dude's stupidity knows no bounds.
TeenNICK -- the network that scored a major coup this week with its new block of retro Nickelodeon programming called "The '90s are All That" -- just reacquainted us with the glory that was Clarissa Explains It All. Remember Clarissa's sweet hubcap collection? Or her pet caiman Elvis? Or her superhuman computer/DOS prowess? Well, here's one perk of Clarissa you probably don't remember: Her family predicted Cowboys & Aliens.
As someone in my Twitter feed asked this evening of Yahoo! Movies and Marvel Entertainment, "Why would you post the final scene of a movie?" Answer: It's only part of the post-credits sequence that ends Captain America, released in order to get audiences back into theaters to see the full Avengers-related final post-credits tease. But, still: Why ruin the ending of the movie you're actually selling right now? [Watch the spoilery clip after the jump.]
Ever since Netflix upped its mail-delivery DVD prices to the two-digit level, how are you surviving? Or are you? Sorry, that was presumptuous of me. You've chosen to die young, and I understand. And so does Funny Or Die, which has put together a video about Netflixpricepocalypse. Jason Alexander stars, and he is concerned about whether your viewings of The Wire are in jeopardy.
Cowboys & Aliens may very well be a total bore (read Movieline's review here), but the marketing campaign has been anything but. Not the trailers, mind you, but the press rounds! Between Jon Favreau's awesome cast interviews and this sketch that Harrison Ford did with Chewbacca ("Chewbacca") for Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday night, perhaps a movie about this group of people hanging out would have been preferable to the finished Cowboys & Aliens product. We'll never know, but at least we'll always have Ford calling Daniel Craig his "Wookie bitch." Click through to watch the funny.
Last January, when director Lucky McKee debuted his latest horror pic, The Woman (about a family man who traps and imprisons a feral lady he finds in the woods) at the Sundance Film Festival, he got quite the audience reaction; one moviegoer fainted during the film's brutal denouement, and another stood up at the post-film Q&A to berate McKee over the film's value. Today, we've got the first trailer for the controversial pic; watch it and decide -- does The Woman appear to be a work of "art" or "bullshit"?
Movieline's Louis Virtel returns to the YouTube frontier this week with his second installment of Verbal Vogueing, the Web series that combines close cultural reads with all the hashtag hilarity one can reasonably stand. In this episode, join Louis on an expedition through the dizzying effluvia of Glee, Jersey Shore, and a must-watch lightning round of #OscarWinningDragQueens. It is what it sounds like -- which is to say, ready for your own submissions in the comments and very, very NSFW.
It's Tuesday fun time (or, as we prefer to call it in this brainfried, sweltering midsummer, Tuesday): A clever Dutch designer has offered up a time-killing slice of movie-wonk ecstasy with his video, "A History of the Title Sequence." In it, Jurjen Versteeg offers call-outs to eight celebrated title designers and their most famous work, the sum total of which provides the arc of title design for the last century-plus. But can you identify the films that each citation invokes? Read on to give it a shot.
Ever wonder why some actors appear comically oversized next to their castmates on movie posters? It could have something to do with each actors' popularity, billing or -- as evidenced by a new Funny or Die video featuring Steve Carell -- strict contractual demands. Watch the former Office star fight for prime positioning on the Crazy Stupid Love poster ("Would you rather see Ryan Gosling's face or mine?") based on an argument that involves pancakes, Seth Rogen and hilarious never-before-seen artwork for Carell's first feature, Curly Sue.
In today's installment of Cowboys and Aliens and Strange Web Featurettes, Chinese-American filmmaker and visual effects guru Freddie Wong draws his pistols in the robotized Old West with Jon Favreau. Make sense to you? No? Watch, gawp, and smear yourself with chocolate sauce blood.
Is it a monster movie? A ghost tale? A demonic thriller? Clive Owen's battling something in the new international trailer for Intruders, but what they are, exactly, remains to be seen. Suffice to say, he's not going to let these shrouded, hooded figures mess with his daughter (Ella Purnell, who played the young Keira Knightley in Never Let Me Go) for long. Hit the jump to see what director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) has up his sleeve.
The proprietors at the Alamo Drafthouse -- a theater where texting/talking during a screening is considered grounds for decapitation -- asked Jesse Eisenberg how he feels about loud patrons at the cineplex. You'd think Eisenberg would roll with the idea and complain about such whippersnappers, but instead he rebelled and claimed that talking during movies helps build community. Oh, Jesse. Your weird social skills are the ultimate cinematic treat.
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