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7/31/08: Today's Linkage
[Posted by Jeff Sneider]
Kris Tapley is "not big on" the idea that Johnny Depp may play The Riddler in the next Batman film, and frankly, I agree. Since when did villains overshadow the superheroes themselves?
Vulture interviews Tarantino mainstay Michael Madsen about his possible involvement in "Inglorious Bastards." Speaking of which, if Quentin doesn't end up casting Eddie Murphy (which has been rumored for the last few weeks), why not Chris Tucker? After all, he gave his best performance as Beaumont in "Jackie Brown" and he was also great in the half-war movie "Dead Presidents."
Talk about cool news! Quint lands a movie deal the same day that Moriarty's installment of "Fear Itself" debuts on NBC. The question is, when will we see Harry Knowles' "2gether 4ever?"
Empire debuts a classy quad poster for Jon Avnet's "Righteous Kill," which stars the two greatest actors of all-time, and no I am not talking about 50 Cent and Donnie Wahlberg. No offense Mr. Cent. As tough a time as the media has given De Niro and Pacino lately, I'll still be there opening night for their first teaming in 13 years. If their reunion winds up half as good as "Heat," I'll be happy.
Cinematical sinks its teeth into a story about Godiva releasing a "Twilight" chocolate bar. It certainly sounds dark and delicious but I'll wait and see how it tastes... if I can afford it.
With "Swing Vote" opening tomorrow, 411 mania has a cool retrospective of Kevin Costner's career. Unfortunately they leave off "3000 Miles to Graceland," a guilty pleasure in which Costner rocks some bad-ass 'burns.
I saw Guillaume Canet’s French thriller "Tell No One" last night and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. So here, just for the heck of it, is Stephen Holden's glowing review in The New York Times. Track it down, give it a chance, and if you dig it as much as Stephen and I did, disregard the title and tell everyone about it.
Vulture laments the delay of the much-anticipated "Ghostbusters" videogame. By the time this thing gets released, Baby Oscar will be in a retirement home. Hopefully they'll use the additional time to resurrect Vigo the Carpathian who was always overshadowed in "Ghostbusters" lore by Slimer and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
MySpace has the first look at the trailer for Peter Sollett's comedy Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, starring Michael Cera and my personal celeb crush Kat Dennings. It also features a hot soundtrack (Modest Mouse, Vampire Weekend), a trio of supporting funnymen in Jay Baruchel, John Cho and Aaron Yoo, plus the naked girl from "Broken Flowers" and a Gray's Papaya cameo! I could watch this trailer an 'infinite' amount of times. Seriously, what's not to like?
Jeff Wells points to a bootleg version of "The Wolfman" trailer, which despite its poor quality, looks pretty good. It seems Universal is aiming for an R-rating because there's some nasty gore in there, which is always reassuring.
In other trailer news, Cinematical finds out "What Just Happened?" The Hollywood satire stars Robert De Niro as a movie producer based on Art Linson and a bearded Bruce Willis as a thinly-veiled version of Alec Baldwin circa "The Edge."
Finally, I direct you to a June 13th posting at Dark Horizons about Lionsgate's decision to dump "Midnight Meat Train" in a handful of theaters this weekend. At first I wasn't too concerned because I figured that at at least one theater in L.A. would step up and show it but having checked my local listings, I see the closest theater is in Norwalk, CA. As a horror fan, I'm extremely disappointed that I won't be able to check out a midnight screening this evening and if you feel the same way, you should let Lionsgate know in the comments section of this post. How am I supposed to ride the train if it doesn't stop in my neighborhood?
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Posted by: David C. | August 01, 2008 at 07:04 AM
"Midnight Meat Train" is getting the same shoddy treatment (release wise) that "Rogue" got earlier this year. But that one proved to be a very solid horror entry. Am hoping "Meat Train" is the same ...
Although if that's the case, why are studios burying decent horror pics and releasing stuff like "Prom Night" wide?
Posted by: Christian Toto | August 01, 2008 at 07:47 AM
"the naked girl from 'Broken Flowers' " hmmmm...
Posted by: The Playlist | August 01, 2008 at 08:02 AM
Yes, the actress has a name. Alexis Dziena. Scary thing is, I didn't even have to look that up. So I do apologize to her but that description is how I, and many others, know her. Although I heard she was the only good thing about Fool's Gold.
Posted by: Jeff | August 01, 2008 at 01:36 PM
Christian, it doesn't make sense to me either about what gets released and what doesn't and on how many screens and where. All I do know is that Prom Night is the single worst movie I have seen all year.
Posted by: Jeff | August 01, 2008 at 01:38 PM