Seems Sasha Baron Cohen’s Bruno - the followup to his mockumentary style movie Borat - has been stamped with the dreaded NC-17 rating for controversial sexual scenes. Like we had any doubt that Bruno wouldn’t push the limits for a reaction. But we know this was going to get the MPAA first in line for said reactions and now they will edit the movie down and to sneak in an R.
Like the quote at Latino Review mentions, its not the rating, but that this will reveal some of the intelligent bits from the movie.
In one scene showed at the festival, Bruno auditioned children for a subversive movie with a number of offensive acts. Clueless stage moms agreed to the increasingly absurd requirements set forth by the actor, including one woman admitting that her infant daughter could lose seven pounds in a week to fit the part.Finally, Bruno told her about the scene, in which the child had to dress as a Nazi pushing someone into an oven.
I have said before that I have not been anticipating this film at all because it sounded like it was just going to be Bruno gay-ing people into shock and horror to illustrate the intolerance of other lifestyles. Funny for about a minute then its the same gag over and over.
But he appears to be hitting up different contraversies as well and I hope that it has the same hidden brilliance that Borat had. In its lowbrow appeal there was some deeply intellectual messages and from what I was seeing from Bruno, it felt like those elements were missing. But now I get a glimmer that it will still be as smart.
I can hope.
As a genetically engineered Disney project the singer/actor combo is pretty standard. They nearly disqualify the “singers shouldnt be actors” rule because they tend to be equally good at both things. Which for the most part is “not very”.
Rob Zombie’s sequel to Halloween is well on its way despite mixed reviews of his reboot of the franchise. But it seems his odd casting choices seem to be the flavour of news today. Accordion Musical Comedian Extraordinaire Weird Al Yankovic has been cast
Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell looks like a great horror film and a new poster has hit the net.
Star Trek is getting so much positive buzz lately that the powers that be are greenlighting a sequel before it even comes out.
Andy Hallett, known in geek circles as Lorne on TV’s Angel has died of heart failure at the ripe age of 33.
The most recent Harry Potter film Half-Blood Prince is already in the can and waiting to be released come this July, but filming for the back to back 2010/2011 releases of the final chapter - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - is already underway. By this point in the story there are very few roles left to be cast, but it appears that Rhys Ifans has one of them.
Ghost Busters 3 has been rumoured in and out of Hollywood more times than I can count. But with the release of the Ghost Busters video game and Harold Ramis spearheading the movement, we are getting closer and closer to seeing a third chapter to the 80s classics over 20 years after the last film. And from the sound of things, possibly a rejuvenation of the franchise.
A brilliant new poster for Star Trek has hit the net. 
A new teaser poster for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes -staring Robert Downey Jr - has hit the net. 
Seems not even screaming droves of Wrestling fans wanted to see John Cena’s 12 Rounds this weekend. Perhaps they were all off watching Monsters vs Aliens with their mums. This left 12 Rounds to scavenge $5.3m landing in 7th on its opening weekend.
Gemma Arterton first caught my eye in St Trinian’s. Since then she has been quietly securing semi-iconic roles for herself starting with a Bond Girl, an Arabian princess in Prince of Persia, and now the demi-goddess Io in Clash of the titans.
Monsters and Aliens topped the Boxoffice on the weekend, and ask any squash around here and you will see that wasn’t a big surprise.
Last night I had the pleasure of seeing a Test Screening for John Campea’s 
A couple weeks ago when we talked about Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow in Iron Man 2, I mentioned that I had no doubts in her ability to act or maybe pull off the accent, but I just couldn’t picture it. She just didn’t “look” like Black Widow to me. 
Just about to head out to the Test Screening for The Anniversary, and today was a light dose of news, so I figured I would condense them into a “Around the Web” kind of post.
Just the other day we had a look at the UK Star Trek poster, and I wasn’t impressed. I wished upon a star for a better poster as I just wasn’t impressed and my pleas to a non-existant deity of Karma were answered.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was all WB had left in which to pole its tents, so it got pushed from the Christmas release to support the oh-nine lineup this summer. So strangely all the promotional materials had to stretch out another 8 months. So this month’s sampling comes in the form of 6 new character centric posters.
I found
Sam Raimi did an interview with Empire Magazine for their May issue, where he talks about his experience with Spiderman 3 and speculates on how he is moving forward with that under his belt.