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"We think they see all our flaws. That's not what they are looking to find when they look to us."
Journey back in time to witness a historical meeting between two world leaders from the voyeuristic perspective of a secret mistress.
look behind the scenes of history >> Posted 04.03.13 by BrentJS -
What makes a movie trailer good? Walking. What makes a trailer truly great? Walking in slow motion, of course. It follows then that this fan-made “trailer” featuring comedy legend Bill Murray must be truly outstanding because it contains nothing but Slow. Motion. Walking.
The trailer was actually posted a year ago by David Walton Smith, but it only started getting noticed for its epic awesomeness in the past several weeks. That’s too bad, because that means that we all needlessly went 50-some weeks without this video being in our lives. Probably the most impressive thing about the trailer is that even though it’s a really simple premise, the entire 58-second running time is funny, and the joke doesn't get old at all. We actually kind of wish there was a bit more slow motion walking to enjoy.
MORE >> Posted 07.20.12 by Mandy -
Johnny Depp is undoubtedly a huge movie star, but after the box office disappointment of Dark Shadows, Warner Bros. reportedly decided to slow down development on Depp's remake of The Thin Man. It probably didn't help that The Rum Diary was also a box office dud and that reports have surfaced that Depp's next movie The Lone Ranger is running over budget and requiring last minute rewrites. The Thin Man is one of a few projects Depp is developing with his Infinitum Nihil production company — another is an adaptation of 1970s ABC TV movie The Night Stalker and subsequent 1974-75 TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker with director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) — but those projects will have to wait as Depp has agreed to work on Moonrise Kingdom director Wes Anderson's next movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Deadline reports that Depp has signed on to star in the movie, which will be Anderson's next directing project. The move is a smart one for Depp, as Anderson is coming off of the second-most financially successful movie of his career ($45 million worldwide so far in limited release).
more about The Grand Budapest Hotel >> Posted 07.17.12 by Ryan -
As Dan Aykroyd recently revealed, a "new writing staff" was working on Ghostbusters III, essentially replacing or rewriting the script handed in years ago by The Office and Bad Teacher writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky. The name of that "writing staff" is actually just Etan Cohen, who helped write Tropic Thunder and Men in Black III, and his hiring, as reported by Variety, heralds both good and bad news.
The good news, for Ghostbusters fans, is that a third installment is moving forward and with a writer who has some experience revitalizing a movie franchise after a decade-long break. The basic plotline, as Aykroyd has admitted, would involve a new group of Ghostbusters coming in to take over for the aging, original crew. "The concept is much larger than any individual role and the promise of Ghostbusters III is that we get to hand the equipment and the franchise down to new blood because my character, Ray, is now blind in one eye, can't drive the Cadillac, has a bad hip, bad knee and can't pick up the pack," Said Aykroyd last August. "Harold [Ramis], uh, Egon is too large to get into the harness. We need young blood and that's the promise." That could mean that Cohen will mostly write for newer characters mixing with older characters, something he has experience in after Men in Black III and Tropic Thunder.
what's the bad news? >> Posted 07.10.12 by Ryan -
Back in 2008, Columbia Pictures hired The Office and Bad Teacher writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write the script for Ghostbusters III, with Dan Aykroyd saying months later that production would begin "by late fall 2009." So far, the closest thing that fans have come to getting a third installment in the franchise is the 2009 video game that brought back cast members Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson to lend their voices for their respective characters.
Instead of delivering the proposed sequel, the intervening years have resulted in Aykroyd remaining positive about the sequel's prospects, while Murray became increasingly more cagey about picking up his Proton Pack again. Besides calling Ghostbusters III "his nightmare" and deriding the efforts of Stupnitsky and Eisenberg, Murray finally admitted that he hadn't even read the script last year, eventually leading Aykroyd to reveal in March that the sequel was in "suspended animation." However, in the endless tug-of-war that is Ghostbusters III, it looks like the project is moving forward once more.
perfection is key >> Posted 07.05.12 by Ryan -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
This should come as no surprise: Casey Anthony is the most hated person in America, according to a New York Post poll. But what is surprising is that Kim Kardashian is hated more than Jerry Sandusky and Bermie Mandoff. That's right, people hate Kim K. more than a child molester and a multi-billion dollar ponzi schemer. Rounding out the list were liberal documentarian Michael Moore, disgraced politician John Edwards, O.J. Simpson, Mel Gibson, Tiger Woods, and Paris Hilton. Glad things are looking up for Paris.
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Speaking of Kim K., she's starting to appreciate her private life: "I've kind of tried to adjust my life to have a little more private life. My life is very public and so I get that, but if you can choose to have a little bit of a private life I would choose that over other things now, where I probably wouldn't have before." We can only imagine Kim said this with an entire camera crew present and while tweeting to her 14M followers.
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Seems Lindsay Lohan can't stay out of the headlines. While filming a scene for her Lifetime Elizabeth Taylor biopic, Liz & Dick, the young starlet had a "wardrobe malfunction." During an on-screen struggle with actor Grant Bowler, Lohan's little sundress proved to be no match for her curves. But it's not like we haven't seen the actress' assets before. Last year, Lohan famously posed nude for Playboy.
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Scout Willis, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's 20-year-old daughter, was arrested in New York City for drinking in public and giving police a fake ID. According to police, Scout was drinking a beer in Union Square on Monday night when she was approached by an officer. Scout was booked for criminal impersonation and for having an open container. She was released this morning without bail.
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Just as we were about to give up on Twitter as a useful tool of communication, none other than Bill Murray comes to the rescue. In May, the actor tweeted: "20 years ago we had Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Steve Jobs.Now we have no Cash, no Hope and no Jobs. Please don't let Kevin Bacon die." We can't verify that the account is Murray's official Twitter page but we're sure even if it's not, the real Murray would agree.
Posted 06.05.12 by Chris -
After debuting at the Cannes Film Festival, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom received glowing review after glowing review, saying Anderson was "at his very best" in this "very beautiful and funny movie about grief and sorrow." Moonrise Kingdom opens this weekend in the U.S. Those familiar with Anderson's previous work (Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Life Aquatic to name a few) have a good sense of the kind of movie it is. Still, it's been hard to penetrate a marketplace dominated by sequels and big-budget tentpoles — more namely, The Avengers.
No wonder Focus Features had Bill Murray give a funny video tour of the production — guided, if you will, by spiced rum. Murray breezes through the cast — Frances McDormand, the "psycho" Edward Norton, the "tall and Scottish" Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and a "typecast" Bruce Willis — before taking a few digs at the movie's sets and Anderson's costume design and individual pant-length preferences.
watch the video and check out the new posters >> Posted 05.22.12 by Ryan -
It seemed like a curious choice when Bill Murray was cast as the late US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the adaptation of Hyde Park On Hudson, but now that the first trailer has hit Yahoo!, the movie looks to be Murray's finest work in years.
Based on the 2009 British radio play by Richard Nelson (who adapted the screenplay), Hyde Park on Hudson takes place during a weekend in 1939 when Roosevelt was visited by the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth I, played by Samuel West and Olivia Colman respectively — the first ever visit to America by reigning British royalty. (And, coincidentally, the same monarchs depicted in the Oscar–winning The King's Speech.)
Complicating matters beyond the cultural divide is FDR's cousin, Margaret "Daisy" Suckley (Laura Linney), often thought to be Roosevelt's mistress. While the supporting cast looks terrific, it's Murray's performance that gets the most focus, and it looks like it could be the role that gets Murray the Oscar he missed out on after being nominated for 2003's Lost in Translation.
watch the trailer >> Posted 05.18.12 by Ryan -
One of this summer's highly anticipated movies includes a cast of misfit characters directed by a fan favorite director. No, we're not talking about Joss Whedon's The Avengers. Rather, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (though star Edward Norton did play an Avenger in 2008's The Incredible Hulk).
To help you get acquainted with this cast of misfits, the studio released character posters introducing Scout Master Ward (Norton), Captain Sharp (Bruce Willis), Walt Bishop (Bill Murray), Laura Bishop (Frances McDormand), Custodial Guardian (Tilda Swinton), Cousin Ben (Jason Schwartzman), and Commander Pierce (Harvey Keitel).
Check out the interactive character posters >> Posted 04.30.12 by Chris -
If there's one person who's refused to give up on Ghostbusters III, its Dan Aykroyd. The actor, who co-wrote and co-starred in the 1984 original and the 1989 sequel, has been championing the project for years. Bill Murray, however, has been constantly poking fun at the idea of another sequel, at one point calling it "his nightmare." Last year, Murray even admitted that he hadn't read the script from The Office and Bad Teacher writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky.
Undeterred, Aykroyd has pressed on. Last August he said the latest installment would see the original Ghostbusters give up their photon packs to a new generation, and that Ghostbusters III would get made "and hopefully with Mr. Murray." In a recent interview with The Telegraph, it seems that Aykroyd has finally given in, admitting that Murray won't appear and that the sequel is in "suspended animation."
could the sequel be made without murray? >> Posted 03.01.12 by Ryan