By Jason Apuzzo. • A new poster is out for The Social Network, the new David Fincher movie starring Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake about the co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. Can Fincher make this interesting – or will this just be Adventureland meets Wall Street?
• A new trailer is out for Predators, the reboot for that faltering series. The new film stars Laurence Fishburne and … Adrien Brody? Adrien Brody?
• Are excuses already being prepared for Inception faltering at the box office? Some interesting speculation at the NY Post today. [The classic ‘it’s too smart for middle America’ excuse.] You heard it here first: no way Inception rescues summer.
• Raquel Welch does another colorful Fox News interview, this time with Mike Huckabee. Somebody at TLC please give Raquel her own show, right now.
• Speaking of interviews, here’s Jean-Luc Godard’s sit-down interview at the Paris premiere of his latest (and last?) film, Film Socialism. He’s looking pretty ragged, frankly. May be time to hang it up.
• AND IN TODAY’S MOST IMPORTANT NEWS … forget Inception – this summer’s most anticipated film (by me) is clearly Piranha 3D … and that film also has a new poster out today. Think of this film as a Pixar movie for adults. Piranha 3D has a great cast featuring Jessica Szohr, Steven R. McQueen (grandson of Steve McQueen!), Elisabeth Shue, Jerry O’Connell, Ving Rhames, Richard Dreyfuss (quasi-reprising his role from Jaws), Christopher Lloyd … and a bevy of lovely, endangered female beachgoers such as the ones shown on your right.
Freedom isn’t free. Everyone should be concerned about beach safety, without which American men – and especially women – are unable to enjoy weekend recreational swimming and sunbathing. We’d like to thank the makers of Piranha 3D for highlighting the sacrifices that sometimes need to be made in order to keep America’s beaches safe and secure.
And that’s what’s happening today in the wonderful world of Hollywood …
Posted on June 23rd, 2010 at 2:30pm.
“Freedom isn’t free. Everyone should be concerned about beach safety, without which American men – and especially women – are unable to enjoy weekend recreational swimming and sunbathing. We’d like to thank the makers of Piranha 3D for highlighting the sacrifices that sometimes need to be made in order to keep America’s beaches safe and secure.”
Heh, good one Jason, I couldn’t agree more. 🙂
You mentioned in a previous post that Inception reminds you of The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions for which agree to a degree. Inception also reminds me of Minority Report. If you recall Minority Report received gushing reviews that subsequently were “revised” or more correctly “reevaluated” later. It was the typical critics love it and the great unwashed are too stupid to know what’s a good movie. I also have to mention that I’m weary of the constant drum beat of pre-previews in the theaters for Inception. Is it me or does Nolan come across as smug and pretentious in his soundbite in this pre-preview clip?
Good points, all. What I found so smug recently was the way Nolan was bad-mouthing 3D – all the while he’s using just about every other digital trick in the book with “Inception,” and even shot some of “The Dark Knight” in IMAX for goodness sake. He’s just irritated he didn’t get to 3D first. Now he’s saying he’ll get dragged into using 3D by the studios, but I’ll bet anything he’s drooling over the possibility behind the scenes.
He’s really the epitome of the cold, passionless filmmaker to me.