Image Credit: Barry Wetcher/HBOI usually don’t have my act together enough to watch Bored to Death on time (HBO, Sunday nights, 10-10:30 ET). This week was different! So here I am posting about “Forty-Two Down,” which guest-starred Kristen Wiig as a wino wackjob and Kevin Bacon as his “highly evolved” (because he can’t grow a beard) self. READ FULL STORY »
Archive: October 2010 (131-140 of 590)
Oct 25
2010
01:15 PM ET
Justin Bieber's perfumed wristbands and dog tags: I spent a minute thinking about them. And so will you.
Image Credit: PRN/PR PhotosYou may have heard that Justin Bieber is set to release a new unisex fragrance called My World. But in case you only caught a headline, I read deeper. According to Women’s Wear Daily, My World will be infused in wristbands and dog tags with “patented resin technology designed to hold the scent for at least one year.” At first this seemed totally ridiculous — does the younger generation not have time to squirt a bottle? — but then I had to admit it makes some sense: Girls like to put perfume on their wrists and rest their heads on boys’ chests. (Let’s pretend we don’t see how that latter bit works when the roles are reversed.)
The My World-scented accessories are expected to debut in Wal-Mart on Black Friday. Bieber did an interview with WWD over instant message. Asked what scent he likes on girls, he answered, “I actually like the Britney Spears perfume on girls. It smells good.” In other breaking news: He admits he’s contemplated changing his signature hairstyle. “I’ve cut this style different ways, but I was thinking about shaving it off or changing it. But I know now isn’t the right time. Maybe [for my] next album.” The 16-year-old has already learned that personal growth should only occur around release dates. Well done.
P.S. Even though I’ve watched him dry his hair, I still can’t believe he achieves that look with “no product.”
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Oct 25
2010
12:47 PM ET
'Gossip Girl' exclusive clip: Blair gets attacked by [spoiler]!
Any Gossip Girl fan knows of Blair Waldorf’s fondness for Audrey Hepburn and her repeated Hepburn dreams. “It was in the books that she was obsessed with Audrey Hepburn and there was also a part of the books that described how she was trying to live in the movie version of her life but things never quite lined up,” explains executive producer Stephanie Savage. “So we sort of combined those two elements to give her these signature dreams where she was trying to have these perfect Audrey Hepburn moments, but her subconscious always intruded.” Tonight’s dream includes a literal intruder in the form of a masked attacker, an homage to 1967′s Wait Until Dark. Savage says it’s an omen of bad things to come. “It’s kind of Blair’s sixth sense kicking in to warn her that something is afoot,” says Savage. “The last thing we saw Chuck do was make a call potentially summoning Jenny Humphrey to town. We always joked in the writer’s room of Blair’s sixth sense that she could literally, like, smell when Jenny Humphrey was back in Manhattan. We kind of used that heightened notion as a way of kicking off the episode.”Does this mean Little J is back for good? Says Savage, “I’d rather leave it open ended, but this is her re-introduction to Gossip Girl this season.”
And what else is in store for tonight’s GG? For one, a plethora of NYC-friendly cameos and locations. Says Savage, “In our episode, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are hosting a New York Observer event that Tim Gunn and Isaac Mizrahi, among others, are being honored at and they’re all there. We actually shot on the top of The Standard Hotel in The Boom Boom Room. We’re the first people who ever shot up there.”
Watch below for an exclusive look at tonight’s GG opening and for the show’s first-ever Hepburn-inspired dream sequence. READ FULL STORY »
Oct 25
2010
12:10 PM ET
Danny DeVito leads 'The Lorax' (with Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Rob Riggle, and Betty White)
Image Credit: Illumination Entertainment/UniversalIt could be the most environmentally-conscious movie since Avatar. USA Today has the first look at The Lorax, the 3-D adaptation of the 1971 Dr. Seuss book in which the gruff title character (voiced by Danny DeVito), pictured, speaks for the trees that are being chopped down by the Once-ler (voiced by Ed Helms), a naive businessman who turns disastrously greedy. Zac Efron will voice the young boy who wants to find the Lorax because even though the Once-ler destroyed the forest, there is still hope for Mother Nature. Betty White will voice the boy’s grandmother, who remembers the world when it was still green. (“They live in an outrageously artificial world where all things natural have been replaced by plastic and steel. It’s like living in Las Vegas,” producer Chris Meledandri, head of Illumination Animation, joked to USA Today.) Rob Riggle will voice another new character, described as “another industrialist who sells cans of fresh air to the polluted world the Once-ler creates and wants to keep it that way.” (Anyone else just think of Spaceballs?)
Thoughts? Sounds like perfect casting by Universal and Illumination. I remember chatting with DeVito about his 2006 holiday movie Deck the Halls for one of EW’s movie preview issues, and he spent 10 minutes convincing me to see An Inconvenient Truth, which had just hit theaters, immediately. (It worked, too: I went that night after we hung up.) DeVito’s passion — and his penchant for giving memorable interviews — should definitely garner the film some headlines when he does the media tour. Watch a clip from the 1972 TV version of The Lorax below. READ FULL STORY »
Oct 25
2010
11:45 AM ET
'Superman: Earth One' turns Supes into an angsty, hoodie-wearing 21-year-old
Image Credit: DC ComicsNew costumes on old superheroes are always fun, even though they’re always awful. Exhibit A: In the upcoming Superman: Earth One, Supes is portrayed as a modern 21-year-old. “Modern,” of course, means three things: Hoodie, hoodie, and hoodie! Nothing says “Emo-Superhero Angst” like the subtle, shadowy folds of a hooded jacket. Continuity: rebooted!
Ultimate Superman: Earth One is part of a limited series DC is rolling out that reimagines iconic superheroes as young crimefighters in the modern age. So Hoodie-Superman won’t stick around for very long. Too bad: on the Wall of Shame dedicated to Younger Versions of Superman, the Earth One look is still miles above Europop-Superboy. What do you think, PopWatchers? Do you dig the look? Or do you get migraines from youth-centric reboots of old superheroes?
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Oct 25
2010
11:25 AM ET
Director Gareth Edwards talks about making his sci-fi movie 'Monsters': 'I was s--ting myself'
Image Credit: Matt Carr/Getty ImagesBritish director Gareth Edwards admits that he was “constantly s—ting myself” while filming his debut movie Monsters, which hits screens this Friday and was shot in Mexico and Central America. “In Guatemala, there was a gunfight outside our hotel,” he recalls. “And there was a prison riot and prisoners decapitated some inmates and put their heads by the prison fence. We tried to hide that from the actors. One time we went through Mexico and the week before, there had been a machine-gunning at a local café. We tried not to tell the actors about that either.”
Edwards contends, however, that his terror during the shoot had nothing to do with such incidents. “It was never about what was happening around us,” he says “It was always about, ‘Is the story making sense?’ We were trying to make something that was different. So there was always this sense of, ‘What are we doing? This is crazy!’” READ FULL STORY »
Oct 25
2010
10:55 AM ET
TV Fashion: How are your favorite crimesolvers overdressing today?
People on TV dress well. They dress outside of their purported salary range. They dress outside of anyone’s salary range. Nowhere is this reality/fantasy divide more clear than in the Procedural Land. Medical examiners wear high heels at a crime scene. Henleys are the shirt of choice for the well-manicured crimefighter on the go. Yeesh, the characters on NCIS: L.A. basically look like employees at a Silicon Valley start-up company, solving crime as a team-building exercise. As viewers, we accept that TV people dress several fashion levels above their actual profession. If every character dressed normally, it would be depressing. It would be like the BBC without an accent. Not that! Anything but that! See below for a helpful visual analysis of what articles of clothing your favorite gumshoes and attorneys are wearing RIGHT NOW…
Image Credit: Monty Brinton/CBS; Neil Jacobs/CBS; Randy Tepper/Showtime; Bob D'Amico/ABC; Michael Muller/USA; Vivian Zink/NBC; Jeffrey Neira/CBS; Monty Brinton/CBS READ FULL STORY »
Oct 25
2010
08:56 AM ET
'South Park' apologizes for stealing 'Inception' parody dialogue
Did the Inception parody that South Park aired last week seem eerily familiar as you watched? Don’t worry, you (probably) weren’t being incepted. The South Park episode lifted significant chunks of dialogue from a video posted on CollegeHumor.com back in August, to such an extent that South Park has had to apologize publicly. ”It’s just because we do the show in six days, and we’re stupid and we just threw it together,” South Park creator Matt Stone told The New York Times. “But in the end, there are some lines that we had to call and apologize for.”
According to the Times, it was all a big mix-up: “When [Stone and Trey Parker] could not find a movie theater showing Inception, and were unable to get a DVD of the film (or find a watchable version on BitTorrent), they turned to other parodies of the film on the Web, and found the CollegeHumor video.” Stone adds that taking CollegeHumor’s jokes “was a mistake, and it was an honest mistake.”
Check out CollegeHumor’s “Inception Characters Don’t Understand Inception” after the jump, then visit South Park‘s site to see that show’s “Insheeption” episode. The Inception parody starts around 6:30. Some key shared lines to look out for include “Sometimes my thoughts of my dead wife manifest themselves as trains” and “We need to move to the next dream level before these projections kill us”/”We need to move them all to the next dream level before the projections kill them.”
Do you buy Stone’s explanation for all this? Does this seem like just “an honest mistake” or something worse? Sound off in comments. READ FULL STORY »
Oct 25
2010
12:17 AM ET
'Paranormal Activity 2' fends off the 'Blair Witch' curse. But will there be a 'Paranormal Activity 3'? Should there be?
When Paramount Pictures first announced it was making a sequel to the horror phenomenon Paranormal Activity, a lot of people were highly skeptical — including me. Like The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity seemed like one of those fluky, out-of-nowhere smashes that couldn’t be repeated. Greenlighting a sequel so quickly — and then hurrying it into production just seven months after the first movie hit theaters — felt like a classic case of trying to get lightning to strike in the same place twice. After all, we all know how the Blair Witch sequel, Book of Shadows, turned out: it bombed big time, making less than a tenth of what the original film did at the domestic box office, dashing any hopes of a Blair Witch 3. When you think about it, how many really worthwhile horror movie sequels have there been anyway? For every Dawn of the Dead or Scream 2 or Evil Dead II (which was really more of a beefed-up remake than a sequel), there are a whole lot of Poltergiest II: The Other Sides and Exorcist II: The Heretics. So it’s a pretty stunning achievement for everyone involved in Paranormal Activity 2 that they didn’t just beat expectations with the movie’s $41.5 million opening weekend — they smashed them to a bloody, horror-movie pulp.
You can be sure that at this very moment there are conversations going on in the executive suites at Paramount about a potential Paranormal Activity 3. In fact, there already have been: Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore has said, “It’s certainly our hope that [producer] Oren [Peli] and his team have the ability to deliver another chapter in this.” On the one hand, while reviews were generally positive (including our own Owen Gleiberman’s), audiences gave Paranormal Activity 2 a decent-but-not-spectacular CinemaScore of B, perhaps suggesting some fatigue with the whole demons-caught-on-faux-home-video premise. On the other hand, as a return on investment — Paranormal Activity 2 cost a mere $3 million to produce and had relatively low marketing costs — this franchise seems like the closest thing possible in Hollywood to a tree that grows money. How can they resist doing another one? Or even several more?
But what do you think? Where does Paranormal Activity 2 fit for you in the canon of horror sequels? Do you see any creative life left in this franchise, or should they quit while they’re ahead? Give us your best pitch for what you’d like to see in a Paranormal Activity 3. I’m sure the folks at Paramount would love to hear it.
Oct 25
2010
12:01 AM ET
Vote in our Scariest Big-Screen Psycho Killer bracket tourney: Freddy Krueger vs Michael Myers! Jack Torrance vs Hannibal Lecter!
Image Credit: Everett Collection (4)Question 1: You are all alone, unarmed, in a darkened alleyway. At one end stands A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s Freddy Krueger, at the other Halloween‘s Michael Myers. Which way do you run?
Question 2: You’re all alone, unarmed, on the third-floor stairway of an isolated mansion at midnight. At the top of the stairs, you see The Shining‘s Jack Torrance, wielding an axe, and at the foot of the steps is The Silence of the Lambs‘ Hannibal Lecter with a plate of fava beans and a nice Chianti. Again, which way do you run?
These are the kinds of hideous dilemmas you’ve been facing all month long as part of EW.com’s single-elimination Psycho Killers bracket game. But despite the urge to pull the comforter over your head and dial 911, you’ve faced the terror head-on — whittling the field down from 32 creepy competitors to just four ferocious fiends. Your votes in today’s semifinals will determine the ultimate champs in our Horrorverse and Dramaverse divisions, who’ll then advance to what’s certain to be a violent, blood-soaked finale. Click here to see how the entire Psycho Killer bracket has played out thus far, and after the jump, place your votes. Polls will be open for 48 hours only, so what are you waiting for — take a stab (badum-bum!) and do your part to help name the All-Time Scariest Big-Screen Psycho Killer! READ FULL STORY »
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