It’s getting warmer. The birds are chirping. The trees are blossoming. You know what that means: We are mere weeks away from seeking refuge from summer’s boiling heat by piling into our local multiplexes. And, as you saw in our photo gallery online today, there are plenty of summer blockbusters-to-be that we just can’t wait to take in. But now we want to know what’s on your radar. Take our poll after the jump and tell us which summer movies you’re most anticipating. READ FULL STORY »
Archive: April 2010 (261-270 of 677)
Apr 19
2010
06:17 PM ET
Stallone taps he-men pals Willis and Ah-nuld for 'The Expendables'
Image Credit: Karen BallardIf you’re a certain kind of red-meat action movie fan — you know you who are — then you’re already counting down the days to Sylvester Stallone’s orgy of macho mayhem, The Expendables, on August 13th. Sure, we understand that the former Italian Stallion’s output these days has been decidedly hit or miss. But The Expendables is destined to be a classic. Why? Because it features the once-in-a-lifetime summit of the Big Three action czars of the ’80s: Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“It took probably eight months to pull it off because of everyone’s schedules,” says Stallone, who also directed and co-wrote the $55 million throwback to man-on-a-mission classics like The Dirty Dozen. “With Arnold especially, we’d plan a date and then there’d be a fire or a budget crisis and he’d have to go back to Sacramento.”
Stallone says the big scene between the three icons serves as little more than a cameo for his A-list pals. But, he adds, “it really sets the hook for the movie.” Willis plays a shady mogul who hires Stallone’s band of mercenaries — which includes Jason Statham, Jet Li, mixed-martial-arts champ Randy Couture, and former NFL player Terry Crews — to overthrow a Latin American dictator. In a twist that smacks of Reagan-era box-office showdowns, Schwarzenegger plays Sly’s longtime rival, a fellow soldier of fortune. “Arnold and I talked about how it takes a while to start up the engines these days,” laughs the 63-year-old Stallone. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 19
2010
05:39 PM ET
Neil Patrick Harris among celebs in million dollar 'Jeopardy!' semifinals
Image Credit: Tony Lowe/ PR PhotosThe field has been set for the semifinals of the Jeopardy! Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational Tournament. One of these nine stars will earn $1 million for the charity of his or her choice.
May 3 semifinal match: Pat Sajak (Vietnam Veterans of America), Jane Curtin (U.S. Fund for UNICEF), and Harry Shearer (Common Ground Relief)
May 4 semifinal match: Michael McKean (International Myeloma Foundation), Charles Shaughnessy (1736 Family Crisis Center), and Isaac Mizrahi (Good Shepherd Services) — Mizrahi, the highest non-winning quarterfinal scorer, replaced Andy Richter, who can’t compete due to his tour schedule with Conan O’Brien
May 5 semifinal match: Neil Patrick Harris (Food on Foot), Jane Kaczmarek (Clothes Off Our Back), and Cheech Marin (Hispanic Scholarship Fund)
The winners of each semifinal will move on to the two-day finals — May 6 and May 7. The player with the highest two-day total will be crowned “America’s smartest celebrity” and win the seven-figure prize.
Who’s your money on? What’s your all-time favorite celebrity Jeopardy! moment? A few classics embedded after the jump: READ FULL STORY »
Apr 19
2010
04:35 PM ET
'Mad Men' done after six seasons? Not so fast...
Image Credit: AMCIs the end in sight for Mad Men? That’s the rumor today, swirling after Matt Weiner apparently told members of the National Association of Broadcasters that he couldn’t see the show going past a sixth season. (The fourth season is supposed to start airing this summer.) Except that’s not exactly what AMC says. According to Mad Men‘s home:
“No one wants to see Don Draper wearing a leisure suit. We trust Matthew’s vision and that he knows where to take the show. But with that said, M*A*S*H figured how to stretch the Korean War for more than a decade, so stay tuned!”
Oh, snap! A healthy six seasons could be a long enough run for Mad Men, but who knows what we’ll all be saying two years from now? I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see it go longer — the third season ended at the end of 1963, which means there’s plenty of ’60s goodness left to be milked. (Weiner’s rep has yet to respond to EW’s calls.)
Quality not quantity, right, PopWatchers? Do you think specific ends in sight help or hurt shows?
Apr 19
2010
04:29 PM ET
Alan Cumming out of Spider-Man musical due to beefed up 'Good Wife' role
Image Credit: Janet Mayer/PR PhotosBroadway veteran and all-around lovable character actor Alan Cumming has decided to pull out of director Julie Taymor’s in-the-works musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The Scottish actor, who was to play the Green Goblin, decided over the weekend after negotiations that he would not be able to juggle the rigors of a Broadway show and his beefed-up presence on the CBS series, The Good Wife. “He’s disappointed,” said Cumming’s rep. “He’s been attached to Spider-Man for a year and he was hopeful that it would make it to the stage and he’d be a part of it.” Alas, when Cumming was made a series regular on Julianna Margulies’ hit CBS show last month, he was forced to give up on Spidey, a big-budget and eagerly awaited musical for which U2 wrote the music and lyrics. The show, which was supposed to open in February, was delayed due to financing troubles, is officially slated to open later this year. The news follows another recent high-profile departure from the cast, after Evan Rachel Wood dropped out last month, also citing scheduling conflicts. (She was to play Mary Jane Watson on stage.) While Cumming will not get the chance to work with Spidey’s director Julie Taymor on this project, he will be starring in her feature film version of The Tempest, which should hit movie theaters by the end of 2010.
Apr 19
2010
03:45 PM ET
'Brothers & Sisters': Will Robert die? Should he?
Image Credit: Randy Holmes/ABCLast night’s Brothers & Sisters was the equivalent of running in place. Many storylines got a workout, but none actually moved forward: Kevin and gratuitously shirtless Scotty (approve) found out they were “half-pregnant”; Luc was packing (then not packing) but still hasn’t left for France; Rebecca transferred her $2 million into Ojai’s account to keep the company afloat while they dig deeper into the inconclusive geological survey results; York withdrew his offer but reserved the right to buy Ojai when they fail; and Kevin and Nora finally talked (about how they’re going to need to talk more).
For me, the most interesting turn of events was Robert not getting his top-secret job in Washington because his “resting heart rate exceeds their criteria.” I see two scenarios here: 1) The show is suddenly reestablishing that not all is well with Robert’s ticker so they can kill him off when Rob Lowe exits the show this season. 2) They want us to think that’s what they’re doing, so we’ll be surprised when he lives to go to Washington (assuming Kitty wins his Senate seat). Which do you want it to be? Which do you think it will be? Polls after the jump! (I want him to die — will be good TV — and I think the show is just crazy enough to do it.) READ FULL STORY »
Apr 19
2010
03:38 PM ET
Clip du jour: 'Used Used Car Lot'
What do you do when you want to start a new business? You use Hugh Yuse’s used car lot, of course. Paul F. Tompkins, I wish you made more videos: READ FULL STORY »
Apr 19
2010
03:34 PM ET
Mark Hamill to helm new superhero movie?
Image Credit: Todd Williamson/WireImage.comMark Hamill will always be Luke Skywalker, but his geek bona fides stretch beyond Star Wars. Besides a scene-stealing cameo in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and a devastatingly funny guest appearance on The Simpsons, Hamill was arguably the best Joker ever — he voiced the supervillain in various Batman cartoons. Expanding his dominion within the nerdosphere, the actor just hinted that he’ll be moving forward with an adaptation of his comic book series The Black Pearl, a superhero satire focused on media sensationalism.
I haven’t read Pearl, but between Kick-Ass, the upcoming Scott Pilgrim, and the totally weird Defendor, the timing seems about right for a dark-comedy riff on comic book heroism. After all, this summer will mark ten years since the release of X-Men, the film that jumpstarted the whole superhero trend. Maybe people are ready for a little bit of deconstruction. And who doesn’t love a good media satire? 15 Minutes, anyone? Anyone?
Would you watch Hamill’s The Black Pearl, PopWatchers? Or should he stick to dinner-theater productions of Guys and Dolls?
Apr 19
2010
03:04 PM ET
Cybill Shepherd to play body waxer with a hooker daughter: Best Lifetime movie ever?
Image Credit: Beck Starr/WireImage.comThe sheer idea of pairing Jennifer “Vajazzler” Love Hewitt and Cybill Shepherd in a Lifetime movie sounds incredibly genius. But now that I’ve learned Shepherd will be playing a body waxer who discovers her daughter (Hewitt) is a lady of the night, I am even more on board for this movie. It’s one of those genius TV-movie plots that sounds like a spoof, but sadly is not. (It’s actually based on a true story!)
Between those Martha Stewart movies and Showtime’s The L Word, Shepherd has been seriously camping it up lately, so I expect full-throttle Mommie Dearest-style histrionics in this flick. I also cannot wait until the inevitable promotional interview on The View where Shepherd discusses doing research on body waxing in order to properly play this character. This as-yet-untitled-movie is the gift that keeps on giving. Another gift? This clip embedded after the jump of Cybill singing “The Menopause Blues”…you’re welcome. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 19
2010
02:34 PM ET
Hollywood's '80s Remake Fever: What movie actually deserves a do-over?
Variety has published an extended rundown of Hollywood’s current slate of remakes. In a nutshell: it’s Attack of the ’80s, Part Two. Comedies like Private Benjamin and Short Circuit, horror flicks like Fright Night and Poltergeist, action movies like Conan the Barbarian and Robocop, corporate satires like Wall Street and Robocop… they’re all returning to a theater near you. Sorry, fans of quaint ideals like “originality” and “not beating a dead horse”: like reality TV and auto-tune, remakes are the fad that became the status quo.
So why fight it? The problem isn’t remakes, per se – it’s that all the wrong movies are getting remade. Friends, I think it’s time we help out our friends in Hollywood, and tell them which movies actually deserve a remake.
The key is to take a movie built on a delicious idea that couldn’t quite deliver on its premise; a film that’s fondly remembered, but actually awful. With that in mind, I’d like to propose a remake of a film so deeply and adorably weird that it could only be a bizarro-failure the first time around: READ FULL STORY »
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