Hancock, with Will Smith and Jason Bateman, from actor turned director Peter Berg (The Kingdom). Still, I think it’ll always have to be Monster that gets the most ink in Theron’s filmographies and hopefully long-off obituaries, at least until we collaborate on a home-made project. We’re destined for nothing long-term, though — I’ve listened to too much Third Eye Blind. No faultless saint, that Stephan Jenkins, but I think he probably met some crazy.
Daily Archives: August 7, 2007
Leelee Sobieski Rides Night Train
So according to Variety, 24-year-old looker Leelee Sobieski will be reteaming with her squirrelly Joy Ride costar Steve Zahn in the indie flick Night Train, also alongside Danny Glover.
Written and directed by Brian King, the movie is described as a thriller which centers around three strangers competing
for a mysterious object on a train on Christmas Eve. Presumably that object is not a used DVD copy of Reindeer Games. This is all fine and well, but the Sobieski film that everyone should be most looking forward to is Uwe Boll‘s In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, which must be supported at all costs, including personal sanity. After all, how else do we get the full trilogy of that sword-and-sorcery videogame series?
Eddie Murphy Goes to NowhereLand
At the recent press day for Stardust, in addition to
asking him about runaway producer credits and Beverly Hills Cop IV,
I asked former Warner Bros. executive turned independent producer Lorenzo di
Bonaventura (Transformers) about his forthcoming NowhereLand, pegged for a September 10
start date with star Eddie Murphy and director Karey Kirkpatrick, (Over the Hedge,
Charlotte’s Web).
have great ambition to make a movie in the vein of Big or Jerry Maguire,
where it’s comedic but very, very heartfelt. It’s about a man who’s having some
issues, can’t connect with his daughter, doesn’t really understand her, and also
doesn’t really understand what’s happening to himself at work. And she has an
imaginary world that begins to intercede in his work, so he begins to value her
imaginary world not for her [before] he then comes to his senses.”
So basically it’s another in the vein of moralizing family movies that Murphy used to mock, except with the lack of a space between the title’s two words, to further irritate me. But isn’t this also basically just like the episode of The Simpsons where Homer takes
an interest in Lisa because she suddenly can do no wrong in picking weekly
football winners? Maybe Murphy’s taking these sorts of movies so that he can get paid and then just give bundled DVD sets of this, Daddy Day Care and The Haunted Mansion to all the kids that he fathers out of wedlock.
Jennifer Lopez: From Tejano to Salsa
Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie (the four whores of the apocalypse?) ruled the
tabloids with their tales of boozy excess, criminal mischief and the
like. That era was powered by Jennifer Lopez. The artist formerly known
as J. Lo owed her ubiquity partially to her high-profile relationship
with fellow actor Ben Affleck, naturally, but also to the fact that at every turn, she seemed to be
launching a fragrance or shooting a music video or opening a (generally
cruddy) movie or feting the opening of an Arby’s.
If there was a red
carpet, she was on it. No wonder so many people seemed eager to
celebrate her Hollywood downfall or demotion. That turbulent time is
not too far in the past, but Lopez — with the aid of new husband Marc
Anthony, her costar in El Cantante — is working hard to make sure it remains in the rearview
mirror. “Marc helped me with this in the beginning,” she confesses in a recent interview.
“I just didn’t know there was another way to live.”
“At that time, I
was like, ‘I’m going to live my life, I’m not going to let this change
me,’” Lopez continues. “But you’re out there and then all this stuff is
happening to you and you’re on the cover of the tabloid every week. And
you’re like, ‘Wait a minute, this is not working in the way that I want
it to work.’” For the full feature piece, from FilmStew, click here.
On the HollyShorts Festival
The HollyShorts Film Festival, an
annual short film festival showcasing the best and brightest short films from
around the globe, takes place
10-12, 2007
film Euthanasia, at Nacional, located
at 1645 Wilcox Ave.
Hosted by LATV’s VJ Viviana Vigil, the festival will feature an action-packed
showcase of 58 short films, along with a creative panel on Saturday, August 11
and a business panel on Sunday, August 12 at the Cinespace Digital Superclub in
Hollywood. The closing night party will be hosted by legendary hip hop emcee Biz
Markie. Festival day passes are $20. For all other information, click here.