http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/ Copyright 2010 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:50:58 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss How many years has the Farrelly Brothers' Three Stooges movie been in preparation? Since at least 2004, which is when the New Yorker's Ian Parker wrote about the project as well as the Farrelly's hope that they might get Russell Crowe to portray Moe. The project is cursed. The only thing that can save it is Mel Gibson signing on. Movie Trailers - Movies Blog... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/drop_it_already.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/drop_it_already.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:50:58 -0800 On 12.2.09 Cinematical's Monika Bartyzel, following-up on a Variety announcement, reported that Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman would be teaming up for a new flick "about a man who creates his own religion." The feature would cost in the vicinity of $35 million with Hoffman playing "the Master," an L. Ron Hubbardish figure "who starts a faith-based organization in the 1950s. He teams up with a twentysomething drifter named Freddie who becomes his lieutenant until the kid finds himself questioning the faith he's gotten himself involved in." In its announcement story, Variety wrote that "the drama does not so much scrutinize... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/oh_daddy.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/oh_daddy.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:19:54 -0800 This Hurt Locker spot ends with the words "now playing." Sitting on shelves at Walmart and Blockbuster and Laser Blazer and wherever else defines "playing"?... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/ni_bijou_action.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/ni_bijou_action.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:59:40 -0800 I know Steven Soderbergh's forthcoming virus movie, called Contagion, is going to thrill and enthrall because there's nothing better than when a idiosyncratic high-integrity helmer goes down the primal popcorn route. Except I really don't want to see a virus movie about pale-faced people staggering around with their noses bleeding and sores on their cheeks. I don't want that stuff in my head. To paraphrase Jack Nicholson, "Go sell virus someplace else -- we're all stocked up here." (The Playlist's Rodrigo Perez has the scoop.)... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/outbreak_was_en.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/outbreak_was_en.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:43:27 -0800 We're all expecting the humor is be sharp and bee-stingy during Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin's hosting of the 3.7 Oscar Awards. But it's highly unusual for an official Oscar poster to sell the hosts rather than the event itself...no? Hasn't every previous poster just settled on some new rendering of the classic iconography?... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/anticipation.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/anticipation.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:20:48 -0800 An iPhone repair site called iResQ has posted photos of a possibly authentic representation of the forthcoming iPhone 4G. The big news is that it's about 1/4 inch taller than the iPhone 3G . The 4G is supposed to come out sometime this summer. I may not be able to get it because of the terms of my AT&T contract. Everyone really despises AT&T, and with good reason.... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/wee_bit_longer.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/wee_bit_longer.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:56:16 -0800 Santa Barbara Film Festival chief Roger Durling conducted an intelligent and intriguing discussion last night with Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow at the Lobero theatre. You can't hear him as clearly as Bigelow on my video clip, but that's okay. The Loveless, Near Dark and Blue Steel weren't right for me. Like many others I got on the Bigelow boat with Point Break, and it was clear sailing until September '08 when I first saw The Hurt Locker, at which point she entered my all-time pantheon. Here are Kris Tapley's impressions of same.... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/bigelow_in_sb.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/bigelow_in_sb.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:34:46 -0800 Rich Juzwiak of fourfour.com has compiled all the famous bathroom-mirror-shock scenes into one YouTube clip. He misses, of course, the seminal grandaddy of mirror-scare scenes from Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) -- i.e., the moment when Catherine Denueve closes her bedroom closet door and the mirror catches a guy standing behind her. The Repulsion moment happens around 1.35. I guess Juzwiak didn't use it because...what, it didn't take place in a bathroom? The man is handicapped. His montage is a perfect distillation of the myopic mentality of film nerds for whom the term "older film" is something made in the early '80s.... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/mirror_freak.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/mirror_freak.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:17:31 -0800 Stephen Colbert's latest Sarah Palin riff (which aired last night) concluded with a blunt but stirring punchline. (It took him a while to get there.) More crackling is the argument about Palin on Joy Behar's CNN show between the disapproving Ron Reagan Jr. and the Medusa-haired Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com.... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/a_virus_is_a_vi_1.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/a_virus_is_a_vi_1.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:45:41 -0800 Eight years ago Newark Star-Ledger film critic Stephen J. Whitty asked Harrison Ford about Marshall Fine's notion that stinking rich film stars should consider using their power and freedom to make small personal indie-style films, and "he thought I was crazy," Whitty reports. "Ford isn't just an actor but a movie star, too -- not just a celebrity but a commodity. He's extremely aware of how long he chased success in Hollywood, acutely conscious of the business of the show business he's in. And he's at peace with that. [During our interview to promote Kathryn Bigelow's K9], "the words 'money', 'business', 'job' and... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/did_it_to_himse.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/did_it_to_himse.php Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:29:27 -0800 http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/maximus_hood_re.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/maximus_hood_re.php Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:28:00 -0800 Everyone wants health care reform but the Democrats "couldn't sell it," Bill Maher said to Jay Leno last Friday night. They're so impotent in their unwillingness to wield power that "they couldn't sell a cub scout to a pedophile," he said.... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/good_one_3.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/good_one_3.php Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:18:17 -0800 Ed Luce's Financial Times assessment of the Obama administration's failure says it's basically caught in a campaign mode, and that the principal bad guys behind this emphasis are Obama's four most trusted aides -- chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser David Axelrod, spokesperson Robert Gibbs and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. A HuffPost summary states that "if current trends continue, this once mesmerizing Camelot-ish operation will be be seen in the history books as the presidential administration that -- to distort slightly and inversely paraphrase Churchill -- never have so many talented people managed to achieve so little with so much." "Just over... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/they_done_him_w.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/they_done_him_w.php Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:36:51 -0800 Marshall Fine is wondering why three fabulously wealthy big-name actors who are past their prime and on their way down -- Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson -- don't just retire from the mass-market movie game and henceforth act only in pure indie or even straight-to-video flicks for young directors who could use their help. In a pig's eye. You'd think that a marquee-name actor with several hundred million in his or her bank account would want to make movies for quality-chops alone and hang the box-office. But for some perverse reason the richer actors get the less inclined they are to make... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/for_their_souls.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/for_their_souls.php Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:32:35 -0800 Notes on a Season columnist Pete Hammond recently reported Avatar director-writer James Cameron believes that were it not for the Alice in Wonderland, Hubble 3D and How To Train Your Dragon eating up all the 3-D screens in March that Avatar might reach the $3 billion worldwide mark. I asked Cameron about this myself two nights ago and he confirmed. I don't know about the $3 billion but he's almost certainly right that if Avatar could remain in all the 3-D venues it would continue to earn big-time into March and April.... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/move_over.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/02/move_over.php Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:49:32 -0800