Links: Atomic Blonde, Underwater Armageddon, La La Lynch,
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 7:08PM Pajiba at what point exactly did Dev Patel get hot?
Variety Billy Brown, who previously sexed up Viola on How to Get Away with Murder, will costar with Taraji P Henson in the new thriller Proud Mary which has nothing to do with Tina Turner
/Film Van Helsing reboot gets a new writer
Coming Soon Charlize Theron's Coldest City gets a title change. It's now Atomic Blonde
NYT Whoa. I thought that little kid (Shailene Woodley's boy) on Big Little Lies looked familiar. Turns out he's that child theater critic who does all the popular Broadway Youtube reviews
Boy Culture interviews old Hollywood actor Carleton Carpenter who talks Debbie Reynolds, Cary Grant and being bisexual in Hollywood in a new memoir called "The Absolute Joy of Work"
The Playlist has ranked every best picture nominee of the 21st century. Weirdly they made a huge accounting error that kept Moulin Rouge! out of the #1 spot by a truly embarrassing margin
MNPP the King Arthur trailer is obsessed with crotches
Interview Evanna Lynch, Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter, is interviewed about her post Potter career by another Potter alum
The New Yorker looks at Harry Belafonte's 1956 mega hit "Day-O" and the social power of song
i09 a new movie is begin described as "Underwater Armageddon." Kristen Stewart is in talks to headline
AV Club the law that allowed actors to have their ages hidden from IMDb is probably in danger of being overturned
Comics Alliance the proposed X-Men TV series has not announced a list of characters yet but Blink will be amoung them. Actress Jamie Chung has been cast in the role
Screen Crush is stating that Logan has a post-credits scene. If there is one it most definitely did not screen for critics as I waited until the lights came up. (I generally stay for credits... and did so before post-credit scenes were a regular thing)
Film School Rejects the use of primary color in La La Land
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La La Land as directed by David Lynch (file under: the internet is fun) and a iphone rehearsal for La La Land's opening number filmed in a parking lot
Reader Comments (23)
Underwater Armageddon: Nope. If it were, 100%, Underwater Armageddon, the focus would spotlight a seemingly apropos but not actually appropriate group of people trying to solve the crisis. Remember: The main characters of Armageddon were oil drillers rushed through Astronaut training. A plot detail that Ben Affleck asked why it couldn't be reversed and was told by Michael Bay to "shut the bleep up." Charming. So, are the actual main characters a group of chefs that have to design a water-proof frosting derivative? And why does that sound like a decent parody of the modern disaster movie?
I saw Viggo Mortensen today. That's big news.
Love it when trailers are re-cut like that, but this one was I have to say was a little weak.
I refuse to read posts that have more than 2 pages. That playlist link has 7! I refuse. That is one thing that I really appreciate about this blog; it doesn't play that stupid page click game. Kris Tapley and Guy Lodges old site was made pretty much unusable due to this issue (prob why it no longer exists!).
The Playlist's ranking of the Best Picture nominees of the 20th century annoys me so much because so many of my favorite best picture nominees were ranked so low. The fact that Atonement and Moulin Rouge! are as low as they are breaks my heart.
"Van Helsing" was a bad idea because the character does not work a super hero- now if he was closer to Dr Strange that might work
How is Erin Brockovich only #43 on that Best Picture ranking?
It's embarrassing that Inception and A Serious Man were that freaking high on that list.
That playlist list? Bizarre.
Underwater Armageddon.... no thanks. Armageddon sucked!!!!!!!
I can't take that Playlist ranking seriously when they seem so down on Mo'Nique's performance in Precious.
Rami - I know right... I can't really take people seriously when they talk bad about Mo'Nique's performances. For me, one of the only performances (along with Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine) that truly deserved to steamroll and dominate the entire awards season.
I remember during that awards season, a famous film critic -- maybe Siskel? -- did a video about the nominees. And for supporting actress he honestly tried to say Mo'Nique's performance was hammy and overrated and Maggie Gyllenhaal was actually doing the best work in the category. All I could do was scoff. lol
About the Potter alumni, I still find that Rupert Grint was the best. He's the only one I would have considered - twice - for an Oscar nom in the franchise, out of the kids. He was a total natural and revelation in "Philosopher's Stone" and again when the screenplay allowed him to show range beyond the comic relief status in "Deathly Hallows, Part 1"... it was really cool to see him transform himself completely in his small part in "CBGB" as a punk rocker in front of the very same Snape, Alan Rickman, who I suspect played a decisive part in the casting. Emma Watson is obviously the luckiest one in choosing roles (even if she has been in several flops, like Amenabar's "Regression" or Aronofsky's "Noah"), while Radcliffe is taking nice risks ("Swiss Army Man")... but Grint is the one I'm quite confident will be nominated in the future once he lands a role that sees beyond his red-haired iconic look... I guess he'll have to dye to get considered for leading? I need to see "Moonwalkers", by the way.
I love that Dev Patel has been all "guys, I looked good in Lion so I am keeping it."
Proud Mary sounds rather interesting. I think Taraji P. Henson will be trying for that second Oscar nod for the next few years, and -- not for nothing -- Billy Brown is a total fox.
I'm over live-action X-Men endeavors (who are the people who actually want more solo Wolverine movies?), so I'll pass on any future series and stick with the 1990s animated version on Hulu.
Jesus Alonso: I totally forgot about that terrible Regression and Watson's terrible performance in it. I was so surprised to learn that Amenabar directed. Yikes.
Jesus Alonso: I kind of see it as coming down to either Radcliffe or Grint for first Awards blood. Radcliffe makes more interesting choices overall, but Grint's giving TV a shot. Oscar. Emmy. Who wins? Or do they, effectively, tie?
Troy H.: I'm getting the sneaking suspicion that Fox is dangerously close to announcing that they're doing the same thing Sony did with Spider-Man for every X-Men movie, after Logan functions as a grand finale for Singer-verse X-Men, and that the rest of them, going forward, will be spiralling outward from Deadpool's slipstream. (Why else do you think Drew Goddard is involved in writing Deadpool 2?) Deadpool 2 probably gets that empty November 2018 MCU slot, for the record.
Yeah, that Best Picture ranking is all over the place. Plus, why are they including movies from 1999? Just because the ceremony was in 2000, doesn't mean they are 20th century films.
This has been a point of contention for me for quite some time. When someone tries to throw some piece of Oscar trivia at me and they screw up the years.
"Who won Best Actress in 1983?"
"Shirley MacLaine"
"Nope, it was Meryl Streep..."
AAAAHHHHHH!!!! That is false. Meryl Streep won for her 1982 movie when the cermony took place in 1983/
The fact that they criticize the leads' "reedy" voices in Moulin Rouge! but don't mention the same problem in La La Land...
Ben: I feel your pain. The Oscars year thing is bothering me at the moment. Even the Academy is muddying the water, by saying on their YouTube channel that here's a clip of Leo winning the 2016 Oscar, etc. The Godfather won the 1972 Oscar for Best Picture - so how come La La Land will soon be winning the 2017 Oscar? Aarrgghh! It's IMDb that has led the confusion, by (understandably) listing awards according to the year in which they were awarded, rather than the year for which they were awarded.
@Volvagia: FOX has multiple new X-Men films in the pipeline, including a new mainline X-Men film adapting the Dark Phoenix Saga, with James McAvoy et al.
Sean C.: They're not dated, though. And, even if they were? Gambit, and how much it DOESN'T EXIST. Apocalypse generally got crap reviews AND the box office was kind of middling, so in spite of being in the pipeline, that Dark Phoenix 2.0 adaptation is probably not going to happen.
@Volvagia: New Mutants is scheduled to film shortly, and at least per Sophie Turner, so is the next main X-Men film.
Sony cut a deal with Marvel because of their chaotic business situation. FOX isn't in those straits at all.