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Guy directors totally don’t know how to react to Kathryn Bigelow winning the Directors Guild of America award for The Hurt Locker except with figurative pulling of pigtails, as a roundup of facepalm reactions at Jezebel shows. See also: Tom O’Neil of Gold Derby calling Bigelow’s DGA win “shocking.” Is this because, as he goes … more…
So, we have Benicio Del Toro about to land as the Wolfman, and now we get word that Sam Worthington may be playing Dracula in a Summer 2011 flick. What’s going on is this: Universal is trying to reboot its Universal Monsters brand. Besides Dracula and the Wolfman, the Universal Monsters stable includes Frankenstein, the … more…
Item: Tim Burton will head up the jury at Cannes this coming May. Burton, quoted at Empire, notes that: After spending my early life watching triple features and 48-hour horror movie marathons, I’m finally ready for this. Item: The Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective on the art and film of Tim Burton continues through April. … more…
Not only are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie not on the verge of breaking up, and not only did she not cheat on him, but In Touch Weekly, which broke the big news, are a bunch of no-research-doing, no-rumor-confirming, unscrupulous, unprofessional babies, according to E! Online. Or perhaps because scoop envy is mighty. This has … more…
Item: Bruce Campbell is making a sequel to My Name Is Bruce, according to an email he sent to Ain’t It Cool News. It is to be called Bruce vs. Frankenstein. As Empire points out, this isn’t exactly Bubba Nosferatu, which we Bruceheads have been eagerly awaiting since Bubba Ho-Tep blew our little geek minds, … more…
This news is two weeks old, so it might be moot at this point (though I suspect not), but readers of the fan site David Tennant The Site are raising money to endow a seat in his name in the new theater under construction at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s home base in Stratford-upon-Avon. All the … more…
No one can stop talking about Mo’Nique’s flash of hairy legs at the Golden Globes, according to stylist. Or perhaps because too many uppity broads have gotten the idea that because a two-day growth of facial hair on a dude = sexy, they can go around au naturel, too. The notion that women are human … more…
Item: NBC will pay Conan O’Brien a severance of $40 million— no, wait, maybe it’s $45 million. Well, some of the dough will go to O’Brien’s laid-off staffers, but still: that’s a ton of money to not work. Item: NBC is going to lose hundreds of millions of dollars broadcasting the Winter Olympics next month. … more…
The third Transformers movie “won’t be as robot-heavy and there will be fewer explosions,” according to the Los Angeles Times blog Hero Complex, which quotes Michael Bay thusly: “It gets much more into the robot character.” Or perhaps because Megatron secretly longs to dance upon the stage, but fears how this will impact his relationship … more…
Folks actually care whom Jon Gosselin is fucking this week, if the fact that People magazine profiled his otherwise anonymous and unceleb-a-riffic new girlfriend is any evidence. Or because privileged society girls who totally plan to go to law school know something about publicity whores that we don’t. This has been your WTF Thought for … more…
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