Linkz, the Eight and Powerful
Friday, July 6, 2012 at 6:00AM IndieWire a conversation about Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone and the auteur theory
Vulture "Now that you've seen Magic Mike..." on anticipation mania in movie culture.
The Daily Beast on Anderson Cooper's coming out. I forgot to congratulate him. Well done.
The Film Experience remember when we did A Face in the Crowd as part of the Best Shot series? That was such a good one. I was horrified that the movie was barely mentioned in Andy Griffith's obits (RIP)
Tom's World
BlackBook did you know that Christian Bale used Tom Cruise as inspiration for his Patrick Bateman American Psycho performance.
Gallery of the Absurd thanks TomKat for years of illustrative inspiration - big gallery o funny
Guardian on the TomKat divorce and Cruise's box office appeal
Forbes names Tom Cruise king of the box office again. He's #1 in money-making actors for the past year with DiCaprio, Adam Sandler, The Rock, Stiller, Sacha Baron Cohen, Depp, Will Smith, Wahlberg and the Twilight boys rounding out the top dozen.
Finally... heres' the first teaser photo from 2013's Oz, The Great and Powerful. What'cha think?
No star names appear but it'll be James Franco as the Wizard, Mila Kunis as The Wicked With and Michelle Williams as Glinda. Will you be following that yellow brick road or have you had it with the reimaginings?
Reader Comments (14)
As dubious as I am about OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL, that is a great poster! "From the producer of ALICE IN WONDERLAND" worries me and Sam Raimi doesn't feel like the right director at all.
Sigh. But what I'm really waiting for is the WICKED movie.
I gotta say, I started out decidedly ambivalent on the TomKat divorce, but now that it looks like she's gone full Kill Bill (Bomb Tom?) on him and the Church of Scientology, I could not be more invested. Who knew Katie Holmes of all people had it in her? You could not make this media narrative up if you tried.
In other news, I was very sad to hear about Andy Griffith. He was always a class act. Loved him in Waitress a couple years ago.
I'm with TB on this one. Ordinarily, I could not care less about celebrity divorces. But bring in the possible major repercussions for Scientology, and now you've got my attention.
Get 'em, Katie.
Mila Kunis is another villain? I wonder how many she has to play to be typecast, and what kind of toll it would have on her career by the time she's forty.
Anyway I've been pimping this post both on Facebook and Twitter. Title may say it all, although not everyone agrees with it. http://ludicdespair.blogspot.ca/2012/07/whites-whimsy-and-moonrise-kingdom.html
Yeah-I never thought I'd be on Katie Holmes's side on, well, anything, but the whole dirty laundry on Scientology thing has me very interested.
Im not defending Tom Cruise at all believe me.
But part of me wants to shake Katie and say "Hey, you knew exactly what you were getting into when you started this relationship!"
It's not exactly like Cruise kept his Scientology beliefs to himself. The whole wolrd knows his religion and how engrossed he is in it.
How could they have not had this talk when they initially decided to have a child in the first place?
@David I thought that too initially, but honestly It's easy to ignore warning signs when you're 25. It's even easier to avoid them when it's the biggest movie star in the world that has set his sights on you. It's even easier still to ignore warning signs when the man you're starry eyed over has the backing of an organization that has built itself almost entirely on its ability to brainwash, coerce, and then keep new members. So yeah, it was dumb. But who hasn't made those dumb mistakes?
...And now that I've written that, I know just how effective her press releases have been lol I was completely grossed out by Katie Holmes up until those divorce papers were filed. Girl has got this press thing locked down. What a champ.
I can't help but groan that "from the producer of Alice in Wonderland" keeps getting trotted out and top-lined on posters...LIKE IT'S A GOOD THING! (Ugh, get me a bucket.)
Could be a mess still, but that teaser poster really is quite great. Plus I'm automatically in for any Michelle Williams project so even if it is a mess, I'll still be seeing it.
She received a MAJOR payday when she married Cruise.... Phyllis Gates did the same with Rock Hudson... and there are many, many more who act as wives to shield the husband' homosexuality.
The weirdest cae I know involves Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn and Evie Wynn Johnson ...
I dont feeling a bit sorry for Katie Holmes. She knew what she was getting herself into. She signed the contract because she wanted to. She was free to say no and willingly did it all. Why is she crying pity now?
She played the game, she tried to sell herself as a fashion icon-when she is in fact a fashion disaster- she did the interviews, she said she would pay to watch his film instead of her own, she posed for the paparazzi, she paraded her daughter for photographers, she did it all.
She was young, ok, but many people ate 25/26/27 are already married, have kids and responsabilities. she was not 16. And, at the age of 26/27 whatever age she was back then, she had been working in Hollywood for a few years, had already dated other guys (the fringe/diane kruger guy, the idiot from american pie, josh hartnett), and the rumours about Tom Cruise, scientology, his other divorces and his sexuality had already been young onnfir many years. Had she never heard any of this? She cant be that stupid.
She still owes him a lot. If it wasnt for him, she would be back into obscurity, nobody would ever remeber her name, face or that we once knew she existed. And she will walk out of this with a lot more money than she could ever make herself.
And couldnt they discuss this whole religious upbringing issue before they had the damn child???
I'm glad Anderson Cooper finally came out, even though his being gay was a well known fact. I also think huge congratulations are in order for singer Frank Ocean, who came out earlier this week as well (on Independence Day no less); I can't even begin to imagine how difficult it must have been for a young black man who's in the early stages of his career to come out, especially in a genre of music that is notoriously homophobic. I'm a fan of his, and I hope his decision doesn't affect him negatively.
Yes, yay Anderson Cooper and Frank Ocean.
Also, I'm REALLY excited for the Oz movie... James Franco is interesting and he has me the least interested of all. I am soo excited for Milla Kunis and Rachel Weisz (whom you didn't mention) as the wicked witches and Michelle Williams as the good witch. SO excited. I love all three of those actresses and James is a good choice to make me interested in the actor too.
I wasn't interested in the Oz movie until I saw the poster. Then I understood, oh, the movie is going to be fun. (I tried to read the Frank L. Baum Oz books - I found them indecipherably dull).
But I still like James Franco. He's clever and talented and fun (and beautiful still). Sometimes I think he's starting to resemble Warren Oates, but since I have great admiration for Oates, that's okay.
I wonder if Franco and Sam Raimi found their time together working on Spiderman turned into a bit of a grind, and thought of something lighthearted to do together as a kind of antidote.