Michael Bay has officially started the Transformers 3 release-date countdown on his Web site -- which, in the grand scheme of things, is not nearly as important as the reality of seeing just how unglamorous megabudget filmmaking can sometimes be. Take this video that began making the rounds over the holiday weekend, featuring some blue screen, some hydraulics, a pop and a scream. Watch 44 seconds of your summer sausage being made after the jump.
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Last week, our Michael Musto had a hell of a time finding people who paid money to see Knight and Day, but you can trust that for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (with its massive, record-breaking haul), his mission was a little easier. One alarming discovery: The fanbase for Team Jacob has swelled enormously, while the Team Edward ranks can claim few besides a lascivious cougar in a straw hat. Check out his findings below:
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In the latest installment of Movieline's video reviews, chief film critic Stephanie Zacharek drops by to deliver her take on the less-than-beloved fantasy effort The Last Airbender. Will Stephanie go a little easier on Manoj's Folly than her peers, or is it just as irredeemable as you've heard? There's only one way to find out -- the video's after the jump.
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Folks, let's face it: There's only one movie that really matters this summer. Nevertheless, while Inception doesn't open for another two weeks, we'll all just just have to make do with The Twilight Saga: Eclipse for now. And you'd better believe a lot of moviegoers are totally fine doing exactly that. But what exactly are they seeing, anyway? In her latest video review, Movieline's chief film critic Stephanie Zacharek breaks down the new Twilight blockbuster. Click through and join the party.
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After defining the outer limits of Hefty Bag couture at the premiere of Sex and the City 2, is there anyone who wasn't waiting with bated breath for Liza Minnelli's next big fashion moment? Good news, everyone: it came last night during her promotional appearance on the Home Shopping Network to promote the Liza Collection, a series of scarves, sequins, bangles and draped charmeuse that is guaranteed to make you look fabulous even when you may be lolling back on a chair or struggling to stay awake on national television. Rich Juzwiak from FourFour has kindly collected the best moments from her two-hour spot, of which there are many:
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In her confirmation hearings this week, Supreme Court hopeful Elena Kagan has presented herself as an even-handed and experienced arbiter of our nation's Constitution. And while we may know slightly more about her judicial point of view on such delicate social issues as abortion and gay marriage, only today did Kagan face the most important, polarizing question to date: Team Jacob or Team Edward? Video after the jump.
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A day after Batman 3 and Salt received their own real-life viral-marketing boosts, have a look at this 13-year-old in England trying to pass himself off as anything but some wall-climbing, vacuum-pad-rocking allusion to Sony's forthcoming Spider-Man reboot. Don't confuse this with James Franco's own viral adventures, which have nothing on this clip that races from WTF to hilarious back to WTF in 60 seconds flat. This kid is walking on a wall, people. Marc Webb, we have found your leading man.
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What did you do this weekend? As promised, Tilda Swinton spent her Saturday dancing in an Edinburgh flash mob that recreated a scene from Laurel and Hardy's Way Out West. I could tell you that it was to raise awareness for her 8 1/2 Foundation, but you've seen the screencap. You already know you have to watch this.
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Remember that scene in Children of Men where Clive Owen watches from the treeline as Michael Caine's character jokes with the gunman to pull his finger? And then the shooter blows his hand clean off? Yeah, Toronto -- you know which one I'm talking about, especially today as the city surveys the dystopian damage from the ongoing G20 Summit. Not surprisingly, it makes for riveting, ghastly online viewing as the user-generated videos mount; this is a location shoot no one would want a part of.
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Today Movieline introduces a new video feature: Not-so-live, from my living room, reviews of this week's movies. My video review of the Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz action-comedy, Knight and Day, now in theaters, can be found here. And click below for my take on Grown Ups, starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, and Chris Rock, which opens in theaters tomorrow and which just may make you rethink your views on public swimming-pool etiquette. As always, more in-depth reviews can be found in our review archives. Enjoy!
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For this week's installment of The Hollywood Kid, Michael Musto has become Movieline's man on the street, grilling theatergoers on what they thought of the new Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz flick, Knight and Day. The hardest part: finding people who were seeing it instead of Toy Story 3 (sorry, Cameron -- your penis-loving travelogue was all for naught). Still, Musto persisted, and got an immortal crack about Legend out in the process. Enjoy!
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When Movieline recently interviewed Bret Easton Ellis about the cinematic adaptations of his novels, he singled out Roger Avary's Rules of Attraction as his favorite. The most acclaimed part of that film was the stream-of-consciousness montage chronicling the hedonistic European trip of Victor Ward (Kip Pardue), and this month, Pardue and James Van Der Beek got together to create a semi-sequel to the clip that pays homage to Ellis's novels (including his new book, Imperial Bedrooms) and all the films based on them.
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Tom Cruise is no longer cool, a truth he just can't face -- if he could, he'd be cooler. In the opening moments of Knight and Day, Cruise strides through an airport in a uniform of coolness that may as well have been assembled from a checklist: Distinctive Persol sunglasses, an obviously cashmere V-neck sweater layered over a surely-not-Hanes T-shirt, a Baracuta jacket -- I'm only checking off the brand names the same way he and his costume department must have. The ringtone on his character's phone is "Louie, Louie." And he actually does some of his own stunts, just to show he can. Cruise really may be the hardest-working man in show business right now, but on him (in direct contrast to James Brown), all that sweat just isn't cool. Once coolness leaves you, how do you get it back?
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Somehow this all escaped me as a 12-year-old horror viewer and in the intervening decades since its mythology has burrowed its way into pop culture, but: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge is just about the gayest mainstream film of the '80s. Hell, not "just about" -- it is, as the new documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy illustrates in specific, awesome detail. Click through for the proof in a mildly NSFW excerpt.
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Summit on Sunday unveiled a collection of new videos pegged to next week's momentous release of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, showing off some of Bella and Edward's panty-soaking pillow talk and the latest 60-second TV spot to stir the Twihard masses to pulsating hormonal rage. But I'm especially fond of the featurette suggestively titled "Newborn Vampire Army," in which a bevy of Twilight stars attempt to explain the unholy alliance between the Cullenesque "good" vampires and Jacob's werewolf clan -- all to defeat the bad vampires of the title, who are coming for Bella. None of which would matter much in the grand scheme of things were it not kind of... hilarious.
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