"I don't feel like doing funny movies anymore. I don't feel funny." This is what Chris Rock says in the trailer for his film, Top Five, which features ultimate art-imitating-life meta moments.
“What’s this movie about again?” Allen asks me as we settle into the seats at the theater. I lie to him for the third time and say that it’s a German documentary about women artists. “No Nazis?” he asks. “No Nazis,” I assure him. By the time he sees the bloody tampon it’s already too late.
The Veronica Mars movie won't be released in theaters (and online!) until March 14, but the benevolent powers that be (lol Warner Bros.) have posted the first two minutes of the movie. It's basically a two-minute refresher of the premise, although it does discuss how she's grown out of the old vengeful Veronica:…
Let us ponder this rumor with a quietly shitting Eric Northman. If you've hung in there with True Blood this far, congratulations — you have the television stamina of a silverback gorilla, which I guess means you have a lot of stamina. Your dedication to a series that often oscillates between frenzied, nonsensical…
Everyone's favorite actress and regular star of Tweet Beat, Bette Midler, is joining an HBO movie in development about the life of Mae West, who would have been a regular star of Tweet Beat if Tweet Beat had existed during her time and who is definitely still everyone's favorite actress.
Yes this is a trailer for a real movie and no, we have no idea why a man pretending to be Jewish to get a girl is interesting but that's apparently the premise of the movie Jewtopia, coming out this week in very limited release. Ivan Sergei plays Christian O’Connell, a man who wants to marry a Jewish "Because I never…
Former porn star Linda Lovelace's story is apparently so captivating to those in Hollywood that there has been more than one attempt at making a film about her life over the last few years, with different actresses popping in and out of the title role. The one that's made it to the big screen is called Lovelace, it…
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 09: Actor Brad Pitt arrives at the 'World War Z' Australian Premiere at the Star on June 9, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Caroline McCredie/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)
Rumors surfaced this summer that noted hipster greaseball photographer Uncle Terry would be making a feature-length documentary film about Lady Gaga, after he followed her peeing, doing yoga, bathing in glitter and what have you on tour for 10 months last year in order to produce 350 pages of glossy hedonism to hawk…
NBC has just announced that country singer and American Idol winner Carrie Underwood will portray Maria Von Trapp — the role originally played to perfection by the radiant Julie Andrews — in a TV remake of The Sound of Music. There are no words for what we are feeling about this atrocity. Instead: the Kübler-Ross…
Look, it's Dreamworks' The Croods, a new animated flick that will absolutely be compared to Brave because it's about a female protagonist with frizzy red hair who makes her parents' lives' hell. The animation looks lovely, and I'm excited for another strong lady lead. Plus, The Croods has a secret weapon: Nicholas…
Tonight's the night when Hollywood's young stars turn out to get a little goofy at the annual MTV Movie Awards. We can pretty much count on something wild happening, but will it come from host Russell Brand or one of the many unpredictable nominees? Will every victory belong to Katniss Everdeen or will Harry Potter…
Maggie Gyllenhaal was interviewed by the New York Times about her role in the new movie Hysteria, and when asked why sex scenes are so difficult to tackle in a film, she said it's all about the reality of it:
In what basically amounts to proof positive that a book is worth reading, The Hunger Games trilogy has cracked the top three on the American Library Association's list of the most frequently challenged books of 2011—which means they're among the books that parents and educators have most often complained about being…
It's the moment we've all been waiting: As of this second, Hunger Games is officially in theaters, and everyone is so excited they can hardly contain themselves—even the Weather Channel is getting in on the action. How are you celebrating this monumental occasion? Have you done enough Hunger Games workouts to fight…
It's probably obvious to anyone who's ever watched the Oscars and constantly exclaimed, "What the f*&k?!" when the most boring, mediocre piece of crap cleans up in every category, but now a new study has confirmed that the people who decide the winners of the coveted movie industry awards are strikingly Caucasian and…
Last month, Fox News accused the Muppets of being anti-oil and of pushing a communist agenda in their new movie. Well, during a press conference after the movie's UK premiere, our fuzzy friends fought back. In classic Muppet style, Kermit sets things up in his usual charming way, and Miss Piggy steps in to deliver…
Whoa. Blast from the past. Ferris Bueller is back from wherever movie characters live once the movie is over, and he's got something he wants us to buy. This mysterious ten-second teaser for a Super Bowl ad has just surfaced, showing Matthew Broderick playing a 40-something Ferris—a sight which is as unnerving as it…
Newsweek recently held its annual Oscar Roundtable, which features actors talking to each other about their craft. Here's a snippet of George Clooney relying on a steady stream of swear words as he discusses his strategy for making movies these days. Yes, he admits he makes his money by doing commercials, but only so…
Matthew Wilder has dropped Lindsay Lohan from Inferno, his biopic about porn star Linda Lovelace, citing "the impossibility of insuring her—and some other issues." Aw, and she was so excited about the part. Chin up, LiLo!
