By Jason Apuzzo. The Social Network has a new teaser trailer. It’s pretty good, actually – although it’s still feeling like it’s all about lawsuits and female groupies. Is this about Facebook, or is this the Phil Spector story? The film will also be opening The New York Film Festival.
• Someone has posted an early review of Battle: Los Angeles, another big-scale ‘invasion of America’ flick (this time aliens). The review is a little tepid on this film, which seems to be a kind of Cloverfield take on Independence Day. Battle: LA apparently features Michelle Rodriguez as … a crusty-yet-benign Latina soldier! When have we seen that before? Maybe they should call this Battle: Pandora.
• … which reminds me that Michelle Rodriguez is also featured – wearing an eyepatch – in the new Machete trailer. It’s a terrible, straight-to-video-quality trailer, and Robert Rodriguez better re-cut it fast if he still wants his tax credits.
• The title of the next Jack Ryan movie will be Moscow. I guess that’s because Kiev wasn’t available.
• Ian McKellen says he’s just “marking time” until production on The Hobbit begins. If that’s the case, then I’d like to invite Sir Ian to review Salt for Libertas because I don’t feel like sitting through that film right now.
• James Cameron apparently made $350 million off Avatar, but don’t worry – he’ll gamble it all on whatever he’s shooting next.
• On the Christopher Nolan front, word comes today that Batman 3 may start shooting in April, Warner Brothers is having trouble marketing Inception, Nolan’s Inception cast members are bad-mouthing Palin and Dick Cheney, Nolan would love to do a Bond film, and Nolan also took a great deal of trouble (including filming certain scenes in 65mm) to properly convert Inception into the IMAX format. Nolan’s also thinking of joining the Miami Heat on a sign-and-trade deal, once he clears waivers.
• The Mel Gibson situation is growing so out of control (see here and here) that it almost defies belief. Porn stars, racist rants, death threats, Russian mistresses, child custody lawsuits, secret recordings … why can’t Mel’s films be this entertaining? Edge of Darkness is looking like such a bore right now.
And that’s what’s happening today in the wonderful world of Hollywood …
Posted on July 9th, 2010 at 6:46pm.
Why does Aaron Eckhart look like he has a really bad sunburn? Is this all we women get – guys with bad sunburns?? You guys get Bar Rafaeli, we get this dude? C’mon, throw me a shirtless Taylor Lautner photo or Gerard Butler photo or something!
I think who ever took the picture tried to correct to color and waaay overdid it.
I agree. I thought it was a little weird when I found it, but I didn’t have the time to fix it.
Speaking of Robert Rodriguez movies. I saw Predators(His studio) last night and the only positive thing that I can say about it is that it’s better than Alien Vs. Predator or Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem. Otherwise it was dreadful. What gets me it that it has a 64% on a certain movie review website that aggregates reviews. With some honest and professional exceptions in the reviewing community I think that standards for what “critics think” constitutes as a good movie has been dumb downed so far that it would make our Government Run schools (I HATE THE TERM PUBLIC SCHOOLS. There’s nothing public about them and the public doesn’t want them) blush. Talk about grading on a scale!
Why do Hollywood actors think badmouthing conservative politicians is the way to make people want to go and see their dumb Hollywood movies? What is the cast of “Inception” thinking to be badmouthing Palin and Cheney? What does it have to do with their film? Forget it. I’m just not going to see this now.
The new Jack Ryan movie sounds AWFUL. What? Actual Tom Clancy novels too conservative in nature to adapt? You’ve got to make up some bullsh*t plot to reboot the franchise. I hope TC doesn’t sign off on this garbage.
Hate to say it, but I think Clancy signed over the rights to film adaptations of the character a long time ago for a lot of money. I doubt he has much say in the matter at this point.