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When The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb joined Twitter yesterday as @MarcW, he didn't bother to wait to start his social networking experience until after he had his identity verified with a little blue check mark as so many other celebrities do. Instead, he offered proof of his identify in his very first tweet, uploading an awesome still image of Andrew Garfield in repose atop a street light with the simple caption: "Peter Parker. Good Balance."
see the new image and posters >> Posted 05.12.12 by BrentJS -
It's been a while since we heard anything about Gangster Squad, basically since a couple photos arrived online in January. Last month, however, Warner Bros. decided to bump Gangster Squad out of its October release, handing the date instead to Ben Affleck's Argo and leaving Gangster Squad in limbo. Now that Warners has released the first trailer for the movie, we're not sure about the studio's reasoning.
Gangster Squad was based on the LA Times article "Tales from the Gangster Squad," written by Paul Lieberman, which tells the true story of how a special task force of LAPD officers was assigned to secretly target East Coast gangsters like "Mickey" Cohen (Sean Penn) who had moved into the city. Led by Sgt. John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), the "Gangster Squad" includes Michael Pena (30 Minutes or Less), Robert Patrick (Flags of Our Fathers), Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker), and Giovanni Ribisi. However, the trailer revolves mostly around Brolin, Gosling, and Penn, particularly in the love triangle that involves the latter two and Emma Stone.
watch the trailer >> Posted 05.10.12 by Ryan -
Denis Leary has made a nice career out of playing cops and firemen lately. After playing firefighter Tommy Gavin on FX's Rescue Me for seven seasons, Leary is very happy with his latest role — playing "Emma Stone's dad" in Sony's upcoming Spider-Man reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. "That’s the point in my career I’ve reached," Leary recently told The LA Times. "It will be ‘Emma Stone’s dad’ now, which, by the way, I’m fine with being. She’s the real thing; she’s fantastic."
Leary plays Capt. George Stacy in the reboot. While the character does meet a tragic fate in the Marvel comic books, it looks like Leary will be sticking with the franchise, admitting last August he will return for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, should the potential sequel happen. That means more improvising of his dialogue as he did for director Marc Webb.
new writers hired for Amazing Spider-man 2 >> Posted 04.25.12 by Ryan -
Sony's upcoming Spider-Man reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man, will tread much of the same ground as director Sam Raimi's previous Spider-Man trilogy, taking Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) back to his high school beginnings and the infamous radioactive spider bite that turned Parker into your friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man. However, the reboot is also adding some new elements, including a mystery surrounding Peter Parker's deceased parents (Embeth Davidtz and Campbell Scott), Dr. Curt Connors' (Rhys Ifans) transformation into the Lizard, and Parker's romance with Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). Parker's first love in the Marvel comic books, the character of Stacy did appear in 2007's Spider-Man 3 (played by Bryce Dallas Howard), but, then, there were so many characters in that movie it's hard to remember.
While attending the recent WonderCon in Anaheim, Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb told NBC Chicago's Popcorn Biz that the relationship between Gwen and Peter will be an important part of the movie's story.
read webb's and stone's comments >> Posted 03.29.12 by Ryan -
The Amazing Spider-Man will open in theaters this July, and already Sony is getting ready to spread the word. The first order of business is to separate the Spider-Man reboot from the previous trilogy, something the studio has done by starting to promote the movie as the "untold story that tells a different side of the Peter Parker story," as revealed in the recent official synopsis.
Director Marc Webb is continuing Sony's effort, admitting in a recent interview that the "untold story" aspect of The Amazing Spider-Man is what will differentiate it from the other Spider-Man movies. "It’s really important for us to be able to communicate that this isn’t a remake of Sam Raimi's movie," Webb said in a Comic-Con annual magazine (transcribed via Latino Review). "There's a new territory, there's a new villain, it's a different Peter Parker."
webb on gwen stacy, the lizard, and Spider-Man's "trickster" quality >> Posted 02.06.12 by Ryan -
After star-making turns in 2009's Zombieland, 2010's Easy A and, most recently, in this summer's The Help, actress Emma Stone has the luxury of being able to choose her next project and, after appearing in the upcoming comic book adaptation of The Amazing Spider-Man and the crime drama Gangster Squad, it looks like she will be returning to comedy.
Deadline reports that Stone is attached to star in Little White Corvette, a comedy about a nerdy brother and his wild sister (Stone, we assume) who travel to Miami to sell off cocaine they found in the trunk of their late father's car (we'll assume it's a Corvette). Stone has been interested in the script since last summer, but now that it has sold to GK Films, shooting will begin in late summer when Stone is available.
Little White Corvette was written by Michael Diliberti, who co-wrote the script for 30 Minutes or Less (which was directed by Stone's Zombieland and Gangster Squad director Ruben Fleischer). No director has been announced yet for Little White Corvette, though Stone and Diliberti will executive produce.
Matthew fox heads to WWII in Emperor >> Posted 01.06.12 by Ryan -
Sony Pictures has released two new high-quality still images from director Marc Webb's (500 Days of Summer) Spider-Man franchise reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. One of the images — previously seen as a lower quality image — features Andrew Garfield in Spidey's civilian identity of Peter Parker sporting something of a neo-punk look complete with Ramones t-shirt, while the other features Emma Stone as Peter's high school sweetheart, Gwen Stacy, attending a funeral.
see the new images >> Posted 01.04.12 by BrentJS -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
The Wall Street Journal took a break from P/E ratios and IPOs to name Emma Watson's pixie 'do and Justin Bieber's "swish" as the most influential haircuts of 2011, with the Journal claiming the fastest-rising searches for celebrity haircuts on Google are for Ms. Watson and Mr. Bieber.
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The mystery blonde pictured with Jim Carrey last week — the one roundly admonished online for stealing her hairstyle from the '90s — has been identified as Russian Anastasia Vitkina, currently attending school in NYC.
Earlier this year Carrey engaged in some other odd behavior, recording a creepy video love letter to Emma Stone and painting a giant spermatozoa on the outside of his NYC apartment.
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Ashton Kutcher looks to have moved on from Demi Moore, tweeting a pic of himself with screenwriter Lorene Scafaria, who is rumored to have hooked up with Kutcher as early as February of this year when he tried out for the male lead in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, a film she wrote. (The part ended up going to Steve Carell).
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Deiondra Sanders, the 19-year-old daughter of Deion Sanders, is calling BS on her mom Pilar's claim that she read about her divorce on TMZ.com, and is making no bones about whose side she's on, unleashing a flurry of tweets criticizing her mom for a half-naked photo shoot, hosting parties like she's a 20-year-old model, not cooking dinner, "flying out to see other n**gas," and even closing one tweet with the hashtag #GoldDigginH*e.
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Tiger Woods' former mistress Rachel Uchitel is expecting and posted her baby registry online that includes $300 nipple pumps, a $500 high chair, a $300 car seat, a $1000 stroller, and $300 cashmere bedding.
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Spider-Man fans may not be getting the same kind of "present" as Batman fans this holiday season, what with a 6-minute prologue to director Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises running before select IMAX prints of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, but at least Sony is dishing out some new goodies via the official website for director Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man. The site just went live and it contains the trailer and all previously-released still images from the movie, as well as several new still images, set photos and desktop wallpapers. The site also includes a new story synopsis — that calls Amazing "the first in a series" of new Spider-Man movies — and descriptions of the characters played by Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans and Denis Leary.
see new images and learn about the characters >> Posted 12.15.11 by BrentJS -
Late last month, Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy) was reported to be the "front-runner" for the lead role in the live-action adaptation of Akira, and now he's officially landed the role.
THR reports that Hedlund is in negotiations to star as Kaneda, the heroic leader of the Capsule biker gang in the post-apocalyptic city of New Manhattan (replacing Neo-Tokyo in the classic Japanese manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo). Eventually, Kaneda has to fight his fellow gang member Tetsuo who takes over the rival Clowns biker gang once his telekinetic powers awaken.
While Hedlund is the only cast member who has accepted an offer, other cast members could follow. Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter were offered the roles of The Colonel and Lady Miyako, respectively, at the end of last month, and, reportedly, Keira Knightley has also been approached for a role.
Serkis to play Caesar in Rise sequel; Emma Stone thinks He's F**king Perfect >> Posted 11.04.11 by Ryan