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Is This a Leaked Scene From the Script of Taylor Lautner's Action Drama Cancun?
1 hour ago
Today, it was announced that Taylor Lautner will make his first stab at non-Twilight stardom with Cancun, an upcoming action vehicle that Lautner's father Dan will produce for Summit. The film isn't set to go into production until this summer, and yet a very mysterious tipster sent us four pages from the tightly guarded script, complete with Dan Lautner's script notes. Since we're nothing if not generous, Movieline has passed those pages on to you. Enjoy! …
E-o Captain, My Captain
2 hours ago
In need of a little news to brighten up your Friday? Disney has announced plans to return the Michael Jackson-starring, Francis Ford Coppola-directed short film Captain Eo to Disneyland, beginning in February 2010. Can its primitive 3D compete with an audience that will already have experienced Avatar's high water mark? That I can only answer with two high-pitched words: "Hee hee!" [DisneyParks] …
Best Dance Crew Judge Got Served
3 hours ago
Another pillar in the reality TV dance competition community has fallen today. Shane Sparks, a judge on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew, was arrested this morning for alleged child molestation. Sparks, who also choreographed So You Think You Can Dance and You Got Served, will have to dance battle 9 charges including a lewd act upon a child that occurred in 1994 -- a serious allegation that could result in a ticket on the The Hot Sex-Offender-Registry Express. [PopEater] …
Buzz Break: Old Dogs
4 hours ago
· USA Today has your first look at the Owen Wilson-voiced Marmaduke. Sigh. What pop hit will he perform a mandatory lip-sync to in this movie? Lady Gaga?
· Kick-Ass isn't even out yet, but they've already got a title for the sequel: Balls to the Wall.
· What's the Star Wars weather like right now? Let's just say that if you had a spare Tauntaun around, you might want to slice it open and crawl in.
· "I've moved on creatively from The Terminator," says James Cameron, "so I'm not really interested in that imagery and even those ideas anymore -- and I'm not sure the world is that interested either. It's run its course, I feel."
· It's official: Jon and Kate are legally dunzo. If only that meant that we were finished with them. …
In Theaters: Avatar
5 hours ago
There is a Christmas dinner debate that lives in infamy at my house: It's 1997, and Titanic had been released a few days earlier -- should we go? My brother was almost ecstatic in his derision: James Cameron was a buffoon and no one was going to go see a movie where everybody already knows the end. Nix. I was sure, and looking back I don't even remember why, that the thing was going to be huge, and everybody knew the end to the Civil War too, jerkhole. We didn't go see Titanic. You know the rest. But the fact that people were still shit-talking the prospects of what went on to become the biggest grossing film of all time even after it hit the theaters (but before the first returns came in) says something about the boulder-sized grudge the zeitgeist seems to hold against Cameron. History repeated with Avatar, which …
Remember the Musical Sequence from (500) Days of Summer? Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown.
6 hours ago
Man, oh man. So, Ok. In (500) Days of Summer, remember that part where Joseph Gordon-Levitt is so pleased that he got inside Zooey Deschanel's American Apparel boy shorts that he launches into a full-fledged musical number scored to the Hall and Oates classic "You Make My Dreams"? Well, I have a hunch that director Marc Webb is feeling mighty unambitious right about now, because Shoreline High School has gone and filmed their own lip-dub of the song, and it's shot in (seemingly) one take, and it was filmed backwards, and it's amazing. How long before Hollywood signs Mr. Ballew's Video Class to a three-picture deal?
Take a look for yourself: …
Jersey Shore 'Softy Guido' Award, Week Three: 'Fade to Black'
6 hours ago
Before we get to this week's inevitable winner, a question to all Jersey Shore zealots: Who expected Ronnie to be the most ridiculous cast member? I still can't believe it. He far outdoes Jwoww and Snooki, who, at this point in the tanning process, look like talking Chicken McNuggets from old McDonald's commercials. Ronnie cries often and bursts into fancy leg-jive boogaloos and shits where he sleeps and breaks his own rules about love-falling-in and pounds the floor when the beat gets too big. You can't dislike the "guido" whose dancefloor behavior looks like Sly Stone coping with a lava pit. Anyway, after the jump I crown this week's big wuss. …
Late Night Highlights: Cupcake Dave, Best Buy Conan and More Snooki!
7 hours ago
NBC's after hours programming soared to new product placement heights last night when Jimmy Fallon invited a reverend onto his show to literally preach about Subway's Big Philly Cheesesteak Melt. Not to be outdone, Conan O'Brien staged a skit at a Subway restaurant and then rolled a clip of himself working at a Best Buy, where he aggressively tried to sell customers on the new Kodak S730 Digital Frame. The startling clips, along with the other highlights you missed while celebrating your lucrative Nickelodeon deal, after the jump. …
The Messenger's Ben Foster: 'I Love and Hate What I Do'
7 hours ago
With awards season in full swing, Movieline has launched a new recurring feature called "For Your Reconsideration," where we speak to the talented people whose contributions to the year in film are worthy of a second look. This week: Ben Foster from The Messenger.
For years, directors have counted on Ben Foster to add verve and nerve to a host of supporting parts in films like 3:10 to Yuma, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Alpha Dog, but Oren Moverman's The Messenger affords him a different opportunity: the chance to harness all of his skill and become a leading man. As Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery, Foster expertly illustrates a man who's unmoored upon his return from the war, yet pulled into the gravity of two very different people: his new partner in a casualty notification unit (Woody Harrelson), and a young widow (Samantha Morton) who Will becomes consumed with after …
Alien Hatcher Dan O'Bannon Dies
8 hours ago
More sad passings: Sci-fi and horror screenwriting maestro Dan O'Bannon died in L.A. at age 63. Best known for scripting the Star Beast screenplay that went on to become Alien, he was also the guy who turned Philip K. Dick's We Can Remember It For You Wholesale into Total Recall and wrote and directed 2005's The Return of the Living Dead. His last credited project (for characters he created) is for the Ridley Scott-directed Alien prequel set for a 2011 release. Hatches to hatches, dust to dust. [Empire] …
Jennifer Jones Dead at 90
8 hours ago
The mercurial Hollywood leading lady Jennifer Jones died Thursday of natural causes at her home in Malibu; she was 90. An Oscar-winner for 1944's The Song of Bernadette as well as the wife and muse of legendary producer David O. Selznick, Jones had not acted on-screen since 1974's Towering Inferno. Her life was radically turbulent, peppered with breakdowns, family crises (her and Selznick's daughter committed suicide in 1976) and memorable performances in classics including Duel in the Sun. A terrific critical profile of her career is here; TCM plans a four-film retrospective on Jan. 7. [Nyt] …
Hollywood Ink: It's Taylor Lautner vs. the Cartels in Cancun
9 hours ago
· Amid talk that Taylor Lautner might follow his New Moon/Eclipse tandem with the franchise kick-starter Max Steel, Summit Entertainment and the star's manager/father have gone ahead and pinned him to the action-thriller Cancun. Lautner would star as a college student on spring break in the titular Mexican city, where it's all fun and games until a drug cartel kidnaps your love interest and friends. Shirtlessness ensues, etc. etc. This movie's still in development and it probably made $10 million in the time it took to write this bullet. [THR]
Warner Bros. treats Steve Carell to a $2 million holiday gift, Carell's Get Smart director tries to stay busy, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump. …
TV Bites: Introducing Cymphonique, Your Next Teen Star
9 hours ago
· Yes, that's her real name. And she acts, sings, dances and is the daughter of rapper-turned-actor Master P and the sister of pint-size rapper-turned-actor Romeo. Nickelodeon has snatched up the 13-year-old multi-talent with a substantial deal to add to her existing projects and possibly create a show for her. So start saving for those Cymphonique alter-ego concert tickets. [THR]
Julie Benz has no illusions about that unbelievable Dexter finale, NBC might be looking to replace Conan O'Brien, and more TV Bites after the jump. …
Movieline Attractions: Ready. Aim. Avatar.
10 hours ago
Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and Na'vilicious at the movies. This week, while I'd like to say it's a close, competitive holiday block of new releases at the box office, I'm afraid there really is only one story. You know the one I'm talking about. Tall? Blue? Cat noses? That's the one. Read on and help me parse it and its peers. …
Why Phantom Menace Sucks Tauntaun Balls: The Definitive Text
23 hours ago
· I hope you can carve 70 measly minutes out of your lives to watch this painstakingly researched, edited, argued and market-tested video review of why Star Wars: The Phantom Menace -- the Howard the Duck of the Star Wars series -- well and truly sucks Tauntaun balls. Well done, Mike of Milwaukee -- and have you ever considered a career change to Christmas special narrator? Your lilting tones comfort us. (We've embedded part one after the jump; click through to access the next six chapters.) [YouTube via /Film] …
Au Revoir, Mon O'Dell
17 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST
Veteran anchor-Barbie Nancy O'Dell has announced she will be stepping down from her 13-year perch at syndicated showbiz news magazine The One with Billy Bush, and her last episode will be this week. Her publicist Annie Jeeves says she is "pursuing a new opportunity" but would not elaborate further. Maybe a surprise addition to sex up the new, post-Diane era of Gma? Ohhhhh myyyyy gaaaaaaaaaaad.* (*Kristen Wiig Sue Voice) [AP] …
Snookin' For A Part-Time Job
17 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST
Jersey Shore's reigning guidette Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi learned last week that reality infamy comes at a price. Like that cushy job back home: "I was a receptionist at a corporation...I was getting good money, like $13 an hour. I got fired when I asked for time off to go to L.A." Look at the bright side though, Snooks: You met Mike Tyson, pitched a dating show on Conan and learned some valuable advice from that new clubbing buddy of yours, Kristin Cavallari of The Hills: "She told the girls not to read the stuff online...You're going to have haters and you're going to have lovers." [E!] …
The 5 Most Ridiculous Golden Globe Best Picture Winners. Ever.
17 December 2009 3:20 PM, PST
The Golden Globes honor film comedies and dramas, and sometimes that's unfortunate. Brilliant comedies don't necessary come out every year, and every so often the dramas lag too. 1977 was very comedy/musical-heavy (Annie Hall, The Goodbye Girl, Saturday Night Fever) and 1990 was drama-heavy (Dances With Wolves, Goodfellas), and for that reason we'll give the Hollywood Foreign Press some credit for picking these five weird winners. But not too much -- the #1 entry on our list is laughably unforgivable. …
What's On: Gilly, Did You Torch That Christmas Tree?
17 December 2009 2:40 PM, PST
No one can deny that of all the current Saturday Night Live cast members, Kristen Wiig deserves to host the show's Christmas special most. This season, she has appeared in 90% of the show's skits and probably holds cue cards on the rest. But out of all the Kristen Wiig characters (Target Lady, Penelope, Suze Orman even?), why Gilly? Hopefully NBC has some grand plans for its verbally-restricted, mischievous schoolgirl. …
In Theaters: Nine
17 December 2009 2:10 PM, PST
According to Lilli (Judi Dench), the redoubtable costume designer and major domo to famed Italian director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) in Rob Marshall's alternately stimulating and enervatingly dull adaptation of the Broadway musical Nine, directing is a highly overrated job. What it boils down to, she insists, is simply answering a series of questions with yes or no, then surrounding yourself with lackeys who will do your bidding. What's missing in this summation, of course, is the degree of difficulty often involved not in making a decision well but in making one at all; the courage -- or, as often, arrogant folly -- it takes to have conviction in your own ideas. In deciding to adapt Nine, itself a musical treatment of 8 ½, Federico Fellini's modernist masterpiece about creative paralysis, megalomania, and indecision, Marshall must have known he'd have a lot to answer for. And while many of his …
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