Taylor Kitsch has (rather brusquely) told the LA Times that he will not be playing the character Finnick Odair, sultry water-sports enthusiast, in the second adaptation of The Hunger Games series called Catching Fire. Rumors were swirling that he, alongside Armie Hammer and Garrett Hedlund, was up for the part. Not so, says he! Good, he's a franchise murderer. Cast Chris Hemsworth!
It was only a couple of months ago that we last gawked at Korean superstar Rain for no reason (save the reason Rain is unto himself, of course). Nothing's happened between then and now to make us want to do it again... save the reason Rain is unto himself, of course. His vpl even more so!
Actually I do have a reason - I watched a video of him performing (when he's not being adorable in Park Chan-wook movies he's a singer, you know) for the first time via YouTube and holy hell, he is a drama queen. Watch:
A sexy drama queen, but a drama queen nonetheless. God, if he were American I would judge him for that (and his wacky pop fashion choices) a whole lot harder, so I'm glad I'm able to chalk a lot of it up to cultural differences and then just ogle his abs and assorted parts guilt-free. Anyway from there down the rabbit's hole we went... hit the jump for some more, is my point.
--- The King Layer - Robb Stark himself, the actor Richard Madden that is, is going to star in a movie called Long Nights Short Mornings which according to Variety "follows a young man on an erotic odyssey through the streets of New York as he sleeps with seven women in seven nights." Like the "erotic odyssey" part that promises potential Robb Stark nakedness, but the "seven women" thing got my eyes to roll. Couldn't he hit up a gay club on Saturday or something?
--- And speaking of A Game of Thrones a whole slew of new characters will be introduced next season, which means if you've found the show confusing and over-loaded so far, just you wait. Which is right about where an adaptation of the books should stand, really. I mean I've read the books and half the names they're saying they're casting for are all, "Oh yeah, I remember that name. I have no idea who they were or what they did, but that name is familiar." I'm not a good enough nerd.
--- Pride Product - Focus Features is releasing a bunch of their many gay-related films on iTunes and on-demand this month in honor of gay pride, and watching this trailer it reminds what a strong force that studio's been in telling gay stories. So much gay greatness!
--- Song Stress - Nat takes on the teaser trailer for the Les Miserables movie starring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway and other people. I haven't watched it yet, like most things on this list it falls in amongst all the things I missed while moving the past two days. But hey I liked that song-n-dance routine Hugh and Anne got up to at the Oscars way back when. I've never seen this musical though. (Shocking no one.)
--- Death Eaters - You can find out some details on Eli Roth's recently announced new movie The Green Infernoover at BD - it's apparently a cannibal flick a la notorious seventies offender Cannibal Holocaust. It's about a place crash in the jungle and what happens from there. Eating people, apparently, is what happens from there. Oh boy can cannibal movies be the next frontier of horror? I say that sarcastically - I can't really stomach (har) them.
--- Going Wilde - Producer Megan Ellison is an American hero. She's the driving force behind getting several MNPP-fave-auteur-driven projects going, including Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie The Master, and Deadline's got word on what's going on with Spike Jonze and David O. Russell's next flicks. One bad part - Olivia Wilde, who I do not like I do not like at all, is attached to Jonze's film. Blecch.
--- Furless - Has anybody watched Teen Wolf on MTV? I haven not but I keep getting lured towards doing so with the mile-high of beefcake the show seems to be stacking. On the advent of its second season my pal Savas got to chat with the show's executive producer, which you can read here; sadly the beefcake situation is not addressed.
--- Fish Story - The sequel to Piranha 3DD is getting a simultaneous theatrical and on-demand release tomorrow, you can read the details here. I'd love to see it since the first one's so much fun, but the way my schedule's been I'm happy to hear I might be able to just plop in front of the couch and view it that way. Although I don't have a 3D TV and I worry what I'll miss without all the gore slapping me in the face. (Tale as old as time, that.)
--- And finally, three names that have been bandied about by rumormongers like yours truly to play the character of sexy-piece Finnick Odair in Catching Fire, the second Hunger Games movie, are apparently moving from conjecture towards real possibilities according to DH - they be Garrett Hedlund, Armie Hammer and Taylor Kitsch. If I wasn't so behind and short on time today I would probably give this its own post, but I am and so here:
I didn't have any photographic evidence to share the other day when I told y'all that I'd spotted Matthew Bomer in my neighborhood - now there are pictures (via). So that's what he looked like when I saw him in my neighborhood last week. (Otherwise known as "perfect.")
Or I should say old neighborhood, since I just spent the past couple of days moving out of there. And I can't think of a nicer goodbye then finally getting my White Collar sighting of Bomer - they film in that neighborhood all the time, I'd always see the signs, but never the hot piece at the center of all the ruckus... until now. Thanks for seeing me off, Matty! (Getting me off... that's another matter.)
I don't remember what movie-of-yore it was that Colin Farrell was sporting this vintage porn-star look for, if it even was for a movie, but I liked that look. Also in the "good look for Colin Farrell" column:
He should have this look all the time.
A happy 36th birthday to him today!
Oh and yes, we are (momentarily) back! Hello. I hope everybody has had a nice week. I say "momentarily" because we've got a million things to get done today before taking a half-day tomorrow so we can head out to New Jersey for Radiohead. So we'll see how today goes. Anyway. Hi.
Alright now I am really for real gone for the weekend. Y'all have a happy Memorial Day - don't forget to give pleasure to a service member (member), for patriotism's sake! I'll see you in a week!
Can we all agree that the basic premise ofChernobyl Diaries is in really bad taste? I talk about it a bunch in this week's piece on this weekend's new movies at Celebrity Beehive, but the basic gist is that they made a horror movie where the real-life victims of a real-life tragedy at turned into silly horror movie monsters, from what I gather. (No I have not seen the movie.) As I say over at CB, this is basically the equivalent of having zombies rise from the ashes of the World Trade Center.
Now... what I didn't say at CB but I will share here is, god I love bad taste! So I'll grant you that this movie's gross and offensive in theory, but I can't wait to watch the stupid teenagers on the run from dripping radioactive Russians all the same. And I would watch the shit out of a 9/11 zombie movie, too. So obviously do not look to me for guidance, my friends. I am well good and lost already.
... will (probably) be played by the always welcome Mads Mikkelsen. Hopefully in his confrontation with Chris Hemsworth he brings along the extra special and exciting form of villainy he showcased against Daniel Craig in Casino Royale...
"I want to see the bottom of your balls
on the top of the frame."
According to Robert Pattinson, that's what David Cronenberg said to him right before filming "a very bizarre scene that you won't see again in another movie" for Cosmopolis.
Pattinson, by the way, told Cronenberg no, he would not show the bottom of his balls on the top of the frame. Pansy.
Nothing starts out a day with a smile like the opening theme to The Muppet Babies. I have The Muppets on the brain especially hard today - yesterday there was that news that the director of the recent The Muppets movie is making a movie out of A Confederacy of Dunces; then I went and read thru Aaron's amazing, amazing list of his fifty favorite Muppets songs (my mind was a little blown about "The Rainbow Connection" not being his number one since it's my favorite song of all time, period, but the dude loves Rowlf - not that there's anything wrong with that); and lastly, today is Frank Oz's 68th birthday! Happy birthday, Frank!
Oh and I lied last evening, I will be posting just a bit today before heading off for the long weekend. You ain't rid of me just yet.
Happy Memorial Day, everyone! (Perverse celebration, I know, but that's how we roll.) I'm going to be offline for several days starting... oh right about now, and besides maybe a poke here or there I really won't be back until Thursday the 31st. Y'all have a good week slash holiday or whatever, and I'll see you when I see you!
You may recall this is the movie he's making about a sex addict of sorts opposite Scarlett Johansson who plays the old boobs that teach his new boobs to love. So... his character's supposed to be straight then? Huh. Coulda fooled me.
... pictures of gentleman performers that we find attractive standing around on their movies sets, here are a couple of shots of Colin Farrell wearing a tank top on the set of Dead Man Down in Philadelphia earlier this week (via). We were hoping that we'd catch sight of his co-star and pants-dropper Dominic Cooper in the background of these shots at the very least, but he's nowhere to be seen. Dropping his drawers in private, no doubt. Selfish, selfish, selfish.
(pics via) I was just thinking this morning that I needed to see if there were any new pictures of Jake around sicne I haven't checked on him since I saw End of Watch the other week. But I figured it would just be more shots of him stomping around in his ubiquitous green pants looking dour and unexmployed. Well shame on me! He's been spotted can you even believe it working on his new movie!
It's called An Enemy, I talked about it before right here. We've since read the book it's based on, The Double by Jose Saramago, which I liked a whole lot, even if I found Saramago's prose a little labored (sentences stretched for multiple pages at times). That shouldn't be a problem once it's turned into a film, though. It's being directed by Denis Villeneuve, the Quebecois director of the Oscar nominated Incendies (which I haven't seen).
And I can report, having read the book, that Jake's homeless beard actually has a purpose in the story! Although I'm surprised he didn't find a way to work the green pants in, too. .
Martha Marcy May Marlene Director Preps Exorcist for TV
What an excellent day for an exorcism! Nearly 40 years after The Exorcist became the first horror movie ever to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, Hollywood has again become possessed with William Peter Blatty’s best seller.
Sean Durkin, the writer-director of last year’s excellent but criminally underseen Elizabeth Olsen thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene, is adapting the fiendish classic into a ten-episode television series, this time backed by Morgan Creek and produced by Roy Lee, the executive producer of films like The Departed and The Ring.
Unlike the iconic 1973 film, Durkin’s version of The Exorcist follows the events leading up to a demonic possession and especially the after-effects of how a family copes with it...
The Exorcist TV series won't be formally shopped to networks for another two weeks, but executives are already calling seeking meetings to inquire about landing the Durkin update."
Good luck casting another Ellen Burstyn, dude! Or even a Linda Blair. Or even a Kitty Winn. (Kitty Winn really doesn't get enough love.)
In all seriousness, I lovedMartha Marcy May Marlene - it was my fifth favorite movie of last year - and Durkin knows how to saturate seemingly banal moments with an absolute dread, so he's theoretically well suited to this sort of thing. Theoretically, I said. Theoretically. .
... about how much I'm looking forward to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer. And I should be, right? It looks amazingly silly... but if you ask me the right kind of silly. (Plus Ben Walker and Dom Cooper, ya know.) Here's the latest red-band trailer (via) and it's got me even more juiced for presidentially slanted vamp shenanigans:
Dr. Otto Octavius: Well, shouldn't you know? Who would know?
Rosalie Octavius: Leave him alone. Maybe it's a secret love.
Dr. Otto Octavius: Love should never be a secret.
If you keep something as complicated as love
stored up inside, it could make you sick.
The irony being that Otto and Rosalie were the model of open affectionate people, but it was to be Otto's ultimate undoing all the same. I've been thinking about Spider-Man 2 a lot lately with The Amazing Spider-Man nearly upon us and everybody calling The Avengers "the best superhero movie evah!" - as much great fun as I thought The Avengers was, it really isn't in the same league as Raimi's film. And as for the former, I'm worried that The Lizard won't be able to live up to Doc Ock. Alfred Molina - who turns 59 today, a happy one to him - gives one of the greatest superhero movie performances here, and really didn't get enough love if you ask me. Post-Ledger's Joker he probably would've gotten an Oscar nomination - hell he probably helped pave the way for super-villainy being taken seriously enough for Heath Ledger's win.
"I too quit smoking (2013) AND find this type of pictures cool. Also, PSA: if you're feeling like you want to start smoking again, just remind yourself "I do not want my body and house to stink like stale horseshit", then go drink one more glass of water to entertain your hands and lips. Congrats, btw."
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