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Monday, September 26, 2011 at 9:50AM 
La Daily Musto turns out Lourdes is in her mamma's movie W.E.
Deadline does a post-mortem on Drive's box office failure. Young men didn't show up. Can we all agree that I'm a genius for my sure to be prophetic "people will love it ten years from now" post? Get back to me in 2021.
Movie|Line talks to director Jose Padilha about his Brazilian Oscar entry Elite Squad 2 and the rumors of Michael Fassbender becoming Robocop
⇚ HF Magazine talks to Miles Teller (Footloose). Kidman & John Cameron Mitchell have high praise from Rabbit Hole.
Tom Shone Ten great things about Moneyball
Frankly My Dear Jamie Foxx sending Will Smith a fruit basket for pulling out of Django Unchained
Hark! a Vagrant, my favorite web comic, begins a Wuthering Heights adaptation just in time for the revival of Brontë Sisters fever in the film world. P.S. what's that about exactly? The renewed fever I mean. I know what Wuthering Heights is about ;)
Bizarre Caption Alert!
I'd seen the new Anne Hathaway as Catwoman photo a few times around the net and didn't think to share it (you've already seen it no doubt) but for whatever reason I actually read the caption at Daily Mail...
Um... Catwoman was famous before most of us were alive and before La Pfeiffer was even a tween. Just sayin'. (Don't think Julie Newmar or the ghost of Eartha Kitt would be pleased.)
Reader Comments (7)
Miles is kind of hot but the accent on Kenny Wormald is the reason to sit down and watch the remake on HBO.
The explanation in the article that younger audiences don't go to the movie theatres is something to worry about. I prefer my own, that maybe the foreseen battle for the male star kingdom between Gosling and Fassbender -box office wise- isn't happening yet because the reigning king (Pitt in his Moneyball) is still alive and kicking. But that's me mixing up in my mind pictures of The Lion King and Moneyball after reading the other post.
Speaking of Fassbender, I don't want him to be Robocop. I don't want him to go the steroid route to start playing heroes, superheroes and other franchise makers. And he just can't be fit for everything.
And speaking of fit, can you even have a sandwich wearing that Catwoman outfit? That was my second thought when I saw the pictures. The first one being, wow, those are some stilletos! But I've been watching (too many) Sex and the City reruns lately.
I think it's true that for most of people Catwoman is indelibly linked to Pfeiffer, only after watching the 1990s Batman franchise I learned about the previous ones, and I'm older than your average reader, so maybe in some years people will have Halle Berry as their first Catwoman reference. <shivers>
I do wonder what they do in those outfits when nature calls, specially Batman whose outfit seems to be made of tires.
iggy... but it's kind of like saying that Michael Keaton made Batman famous or Heath Ledger made the Joker amous. these characters were famous long before most of these actors who have played them recently were working. i just think considering Eartha Kitt and Julie Newmar's fame is so linked to that character and the character was famous from both comic books and tv and cinema before Pfeiffer that it's weird to give her credit.
BUT... obviously she's the best one ;)
/3RT -- honestly i have no idea what Kenny Wormalds accent is supposed to be when i see that trailer. like i couldn't place it in any country or region.
I've always imagined Batman to smell like urine in the morning, to be honest.
Haha! I'm so glad they haven't found out the way to have smell in movies.
Nat, I agree with you and I think it's unfair, but it's so the times we're living when DSL speed seems to have shortened our collective memory and made us lazy to do some very little basic research. Or to what's even worse, taking a yahoo answer or wikipedia content as research.
Drive already made its budget back (15mil). So in reality it's not a failure at all.