As befits the maker of four consecutive American masterpieces in the '70s, nothing can possibly override Francis Ford Coppola's lifetime exemption from irrelevance. Which isn't to say he's reliable; his much-anticipated return from a 10-year hiatus ended anticlimactically in 2007 with the incomprehensible, navel-dwelling drama Youth Without Youth. But Coppola wasn't about to disappear again, turning instead to Tetro, his first original screenplay since The Conversation and your official Vincent Gallo fix for the next two minutes.
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William Shatner has made little secret of how he felt about being left out of the Star Trek movie that his demi-Vulcan contemporary is featured in so prominently. Still, he's managed to pipe down in recent months, turning to other, more pressing topics on his YouTube talk show, such as an ongoing feud with his wedding-invite-witholding nemesis, George Takei. Now, Access Hollywood's Billy Bush subjects Shatner to the trailer of the Paramount blockbuster that J.J. Abrams could never have been made without him -- yet somehow managed to all the same. Watch as his face chills into an oil portrait of envious engagement, soaking in every frame as he Pines for a return to his glory days chasing hot, green Orion tail.
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· Here's the video of Julia Roberts's potty-mouthed prepared statements at Film Society of Lincoln Center's tribute to Tom Hanks last night. Honestly, we thought she managed to keep things more funny than offensive, until the Sleepless in Seattle line about not wanting "to f**k Meg Ryan with Rosie O'Donnell's d**k."
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The last we checked in with The Celebrity Apprentice -- a season fraught with internecine conflict -- Dennis Rodman was shouting something about vertical workflow as he stuffed Clint Black into a Coleman cooler. The ugliness didn't end there, as things have grown quite contentious between the Rivers women and Melissa's surviving female teammates -- poker champion Annie Duke, and Brande Roderick, Playboy Playmate and the entrepreneurial force behind financiallyhung.com.
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In Backlash, Susan Faludi argues that Fatal Attraction -- the gold standard of a certain kind of Hollywood thriller in which a deranged woman invades the life of a happily married couple to reap violent destruction upon their lives -- was not just an anti-feminist film, but was rather crafted with the express purpose of delivering an anti-feminist message. She's probably right, but I loved it anyway, and will likely sit through any domestic intrusion movie (ooh -- great title. Domestic Intrusion, starring Halle Berry and Kiefer Sutherland) so long as there's at least one decent wife-on-murderous-slut catfight in its third act. Yesterday, we wondered what we might expect from the latest addition to the canon: Obsessed. In its honor, then, we premiere our slightly truncated spin on the classic top ten, The Movieline Nine...Crazy White Bitch Edition.
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It's been barely over a week since Britain's Got Talent's Susan Boyle shuffled that doily-printed sack dress into our hearts (well, some of our hearts). And in that short time, she's not just become a household name; she's become an anti-sex-symbol for our times, provoking heated debate over what constitutes "appropriate" eyebrow volumes and domestic arrangements when it comes to our frumpy, spinster popstars. But Boyle hadn't truly ensconced her meaty hooves into the pop culture pantheon until last night, when her name came up in a South Park episode. It wasn't in the most complimentary of contexts -- no singer every wants to be so overexposed as to induce the puking of balls -- but that's no matter. Boyle has arrived. The clip is after the jump.
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The new Paper Heart trailer is as good a means as any for determining one's Twee Tolerance Index, measuring your genetic capacity to endure the soft-spoken brand of naive preciousness that Charlyne Yi heaps upon this hard-to-classify, scripted-doc hybrid.
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While preparing to play a struggling comic in this summer's Judd Apatow film Funny People, Seth Rogen performed a few secret gigs in Los Angeles to get in touch with his stand-up roots. Now, it's possible to see just how far those roots extend, as a YouTube clip has surfaced of the teenage Rogen performing at a Vancouver comedy club. Squeaky-voiced and holding steady at the fighting weight he was recently forced to slim back down to, Rogen regales the crowd for ten minutes with jokes about Jews, school, and sports. While the set's G-rated humor gives little sign that this young Canadian talent will grow up to someday date-rape Anna Faris onscreen, Rogen nevertheless showed precocious promise. The clip, after the jump:
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At last night's The Informers premiere, we caught up with Thumbsucker star Lou Taylor Pucci, who talked to us about the bond he developed with costar Brad Renfro shortly before that actor's tragic overdose death. Remembering the longtime addict who was once splashed across the front page of the LA Times in handcuffs, Pucci could barely reconcile the stocky, broken Renfro with the star of films like Apt Pupil and Bully.
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Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker has bounced around the festival circuit for more than six months to virtually unilateral acclaim -- so much so that the latest trailer for the Iraq bomb-squad thriller (opening June 26) feels almost anticlimactic. Almost.
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The Weinstein Company has taken a stirring new approach to hype since successfully setting an Oscar trap for Kate Winslet: Hammer American Idol viewers over the head with Quentin Tarantino and Inglourious Basterds. The filmmaker, who'd previously guest-judged in 2004 (Diana DeGarmo will never forget him), appeared last night as a mentor for "Idol's Night at the Movies." And while I will defer to our resident Idol-ologist Seth Abramovitch for an official assessment of Tarantino's counsel, follow the jump for a glimpse at the actual "movie" part of the QT dog-and-pony show.
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Two days after going nuclear with his (among other things), Jamie Foxx offered his apology during an appearance on The Tonight Show. Jay Leno broached the subject with care, lest Foxx reactively fall back on a burst of more race-bait rhetoric, but the Oscar-winning actor and comic expressed quick, unequivocal regret. And then he blamed the real culprit: the Internet.
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Movieline was not to launch for another 48 hours, but it made a strong impression as the final table at the 2009 edition of the Hollywood Assistant Beer Pong Tournament. With the hopes of teammates from studios, agencies and production companies rising and falling like the fate of a new spec script on the tracking boards, El Guapo Cantina was alive with the tapping of ping pong balls and the odor of spilled beer and any number of Axe products. If you missed the action or would like to piece together your memories of the magical night, we have all the sights and sounds you desire.
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In this edition of the Two-Minute Verdict, have your first glimpse at (and judgment of) the trailer for Antichrist, the new effort by Danish provocateur Lars Von Trier. You may know him best for degrading some of the world's most respected actresses (Nicole Kidman in Dogville, Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves), but with his latest, there is but one objective for star Charlotte Gainsbourg: Keep. Screaming.
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Welcome to The Two-Minute Verdict, Movieline's regular feature dedicated to parsing the best, worst and weirdest new movie trailers on the market. In the spirit of our grand opening, we begin here with not quite a review, but rather a game: How many Sam Rockwells can you count in the teaser for his one-man, multi-character thriller Moon?
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