http://www.thebadandugly.com Hollywood insider news and celebrity gossip Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:10:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A year after the cancellation of the cult TV show Twin Peaks, director David Lynch's follow up prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was a box office failure, putting what many people thought would be the nail in the franchise's coffin.  That was the case until now. Star of the ... http://www.thebadandugly.com/2009/06/18/maclachlan-wants-to-revisit-twin-peaks/ Martin Scorsese's latest, Shutter Island, will hit theaters on October 2 this year and I for one couldnt be more excited. Leonardo DiCaprio seems to get a little bit better in every collaboration with Marty, and this role looks like an extremely challenging task.Joining the cast is Mark Ruffalo, Ben ... http://www.thebadandugly.com/2009/06/18/shutter-island-preview-released/ Ah, yes.  With all the painfully vapid crap polluting the tube these days, I never understood why Futurama, a legitimately entertaining show with a sizeable fanbase, was left languishing in the TV graveyard.  What's more, the fact that the post-Fox DVD specials were every bit as smart and funny as ... http://www.thebadandugly.com/2009/06/10/futurama-revived-by-comedy-central/ While Sarah Palin, who apparently still exists, may have spoiled the surprise a little while back, it's still good to hear confirmation that Stephen Colbert will be taking his act to Baghdad.  Here's a snippet from the Variety.com report: Stephen Colbert will broadcast four shows next week from Baghdad, where he ... http://www.thebadandugly.com/2009/06/05/12141/ Well, I think we all saw this coming.  The word on the web is that we've already had our first "Bruno"-related lawsuit, and the movie is still some way from hitting the big screen.  A lady by the name of Richelle Olson claims that she now needs a wheelchair or ... http://www.thebadandugly.com/2009/06/04/first-bruno-lawsuit/ Good grief.  It seems as if this is really going to happen.  You may not think it a particularly big deal that someone's going to make a Waldo movie, but you're ignoring the manifold steps involved in such a project.  At some point a man or woman entered a ... http://www.thebadandugly.com/2009/06/02/waldo-to-become-a-movie-seriously/   I may not be the most objective fellow when it comes to matters relating to 50 Cent, and it's the same case for many fans of the genre formerly known as hip-hop.  The problem, you see, is that I've been a champion of rap since my earliest exposure to the ... http://www.thebadandugly.com/2009/06/02/somebody-apparently-thinks-50-cent-should-be-in-more-movies/ If you've read any of my posts thus far, you'll be painfully aware of the fact that I am very much a Hollywood outsider.  The industry, insofar as it can be called an industry rather than simply a loose agglomeration of assholes, makes as much sense to me as Memento ... http://www.thebadandugly.com/2009/05/30/who-are-you-and-why-lindsay-lohan/   Here are the facts as revealed by Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment today: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn will hit U.S. theatres in December 2011, about a month after it reaches the rest of the world. It'll also be released in 3-D where available. Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, ... http://www.thebadandugly.com/2009/05/29/spielbergs-tintin-to-hit-us-theatres-in-december-2011/   This is good news indeed.  Any movie involving Simon Pegg and Nick Frost is guaranteed to be at least moderately entertaining, and with a premise as accommodating as this movie's, it should be better still.  For those not up to speed, messrs Pegg and Frost are set to shoot a ... http://www.thebadandugly.com/2009/05/27/seth-rogen-to-voice-titular-character-in-simon-peggs-paul/