Writing by Dave on Thursday, 7 May, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Something about online film journalists has everyone doing one of three things: 1) Taking wild guesses as to who will land the Green Lantern part, 2) sending passive aggressive tweets about how possible Green Lantern casting is non-news, 3) ignoring it entirely and laughing.
I’m 2 parts 3 with a single part 1 in the sense that less than a handful of posts down is the rumor that Bradley Cooper will be dawning the green tights. And I also posted that story that Latino Review was totally wrong about placing Chris Pine at the top of the list for the Hal Jordan/Green Lantern role. Now, I’m going to link you LIKE THIS to another Latino Review report. This time they are making another semi-educated guess in favor of a muscular 25-year old named Shawn Roberts who worked on Latern-director Martin Campbell on something called “Edge of Darkness.”
I’m also laughing, because whomever ends up getting the part will make all these back and forth blog posts obsolete.
Also on the Green Lantern front, it got pushed back to 2011. The original date had it coming out on December 17th 2010, but now Warners is listing it as June 17th, 2011. The Christmas-to-summer transition sounds like a mix of two things. One, the crew now gets some time to actually film the movie instead of rushing it through. Two, Warners is pushing it to go against Pixar and Cars 2. That’s some confidence to show in a superhero film.
Then again, Warners has always been weird about it’s big films, lest we forget how The Dark Knight doing so well pushed Harry Potter to this July for no other reason than this year needed more Warner-friendly reciepts.
Writing by Dave on Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 at 10:23 am
Jason Reitman is really stepping out of his father’s shadow. Of course, when I write it like that, it sounds like I just re-watched Juno, Reitman’s most recent film. But, I’m talking about his newest, called Up In The Air. It features George Clooney as a corporate downsizer who is obsessed with collecting frequent flier miles.
Reitman’s pre-Juno film, Thank You For Smoking starring a single-faced Aaron Eeckhart was a humorous musing on PR lackeys for Big Tobacco. Juno was about teen pregnancy, and Clooney’s involvement in a film about a corporate lackey shot in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the great depression has me psyched for more quirky looks at socially relevant topics.
Yeah, these pictures are of George Clooney in a suit. So, if no one else, my Mom will click ‘em.
Writing by Dave on Monday, 27 April, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Perhaps you’ve seen the documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston about the bi-polar songwriter. If not, the bare minimum you should know is that Johnston is one of those borderline geniuses who gained the momentary public spotlight in the early 90s when Kurt Cobain wore a t-shirt featuring the cover image of Johnston’s “Hi, How Are You” album. Even though Johnston was in a mental hospital at the time, this started a bidding war that eventually ended with Atlantic Records picking up the troubled artist.
The pop culture spotlight hit Johnston once again in 2004 when he released “The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered”, a two-disc compilation. The first disc featured popular musicians like Bright Eyes, Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips and Tom Waits covering songs written by Johnston. The second disc featured Johnston’s original recordings of the songs. Then came The Devil and Daniel Johnston documentary in 2006 and won the Director’s Award at Sundance.
Now, three years later, there is a biopic in the works from director David Miller (My Suicide) and the part of Daniel has already been cast, and - oddly - approved by Johnston himself…
Writing by Dave on Monday, 27 April, 2009 at 11:30 am
I was having a discussion with someone about corsets this weekend. My arguement was that they aren’t that difficult to pull off. That being said, Megan Fox’s waist has dropped my jaw.
Megan Fox is on the set of Jonah Hex with Josh Brolin and John Malkovich. Malkovich is using vodoo to raise an undead army of confederate soldiers and Brolin - as Jonah Hex - will try to stop him. Fox will play Leila, a gun-wielding beauty and love interest for Jonah.
But who cares what the movie is about with that corset. Damn.
Writing by Dave on Thursday, 23 April, 2009 at 6:08 am
Saw this picture up with our brothers over at Film School Rejects. Neil’s description of the photo goes like this: Another shot of Megan Fox in leather from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which comes out of the latest issue of Maxim Magazine. Thanks to FSR reader Christopher M. for the tip.
Chris M? The /Film “reader?” Why is Chris M not e-mailing me? Chris! Chris! I love pictures, that’s like, all I do.
Anyway, yeah, Megan Fox pictures will always be welcome here without any real news. Ever since the pictures of her from Jennifer’s Body allowed me to come into y’all’s internet life, occasionally…well, you just have to pause and look at how hot she is.
Writing by Dave on Monday, 20 April, 2009 at 8:31 am
Feast your eyes on Russell Crowe as Robin Hood in Ridley Scott’s upcoming Robin Hood flick, possibly called Robin Hood, and possibly dealing with Nottingham’s relationship with the French, while under their control. I know, I know, that sounds weird, but I swear I’ve read all this in the trades. Check the Dregs, it’s there.
USA Today debuted the picture of Crowe in his Hood getup, notably without tights but with semi-historically accurate thick leather armor.
I’m kidding, I have no idea if that is historically accurate. I don’t think Ridley Scott does either.
Writing by Dave on Tuesday, 14 April, 2009 at 11:49 am
Yes, officer! Yes, officer!
Sorry, that’s just my reaction to seeing a police that isn’t Lt. Daniels from The Wire. Obviously, I’d call him “sir.”
Horton Foote, the guy who won an Oscar for the screenplay for To Kill A Mockingbird and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play The Young Man From Atlanta, died in March. His final screenplay was called Main Street, and it is filming now in Durham. N.C under the direction of Tony Award winner John Doyle.
Ellen Burstyn, Andrew McCarthy, Patricia Clarkson and Colin Firth join Bloom in the piece, produced by Reliant Pictures.