An E-Trade Baby movie? You’re sh*tting me.
This kid will be addicted to heroin in five years, if he's not already. Count on it.Wow. I’ve hated the E*Trade baby ever since they replaced the original, expressive one with the awful new guy, who...
View ArticleWriter hired to adapt What to Expect When You’re Expecting
What to expect when you're not expecting the Spanish InquisitionI was sitting here feeling bad that I’d covered barely any movie news this afternoon, so then I start going through the trade news, and...
View ArticleMeet the guy with 82 Julia Roberts tattoos
Meet Milijenko Parserisas Bukovic (that’s so weird, MY middle name is Parserisas!). The 56-year-old newspaper vendor from Mexico has 82 tattoos of Julia Roberts, and sources say he may eventually win...
View ArticleFootloose remake trailer: Kevin Bacon is from Bawston now
Yesterday I posted the first batch of pictures, and now we have a full-length trailer for the MTV Films-sponsored remake of Footloose, which is pretty much indistinguishable from a sequel to Step Up to...
View ArticleBrad Cooper out of The Crow remake, Channing Tatum sought as replacement
Casting America’s most blue-eyed WASP Bradley Cooper as the mixed-race goth icon in The Crow remake is one of the dumber ideas to come out of Hollywood, a town built on terrible ideas. Now Cooper is...
View ArticleCBS Films Making The Hangover Meets Old Dogs
I’ve been in the blogging business long enough to know a winner when I hear one, and this concept is GOLD, JERRY, GOLD. Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure) is directing a script by Dan Fogelman (Fred...
View ArticleUniversal already talking possible Snow White & the Huntsman sequel
The queen bathes in Gargoyle jizzUniversal Chief Ron Meyer won major points with me last month when he admitted that his studio had made “a lot of sh*tty movies.” And also “Wolfman and Babe 2 are two...
View ArticleCam Gigandet and his talking penis: the movie
I’ve often said of Cam Gigandet that I’d rather staple my scrotum to a moving helicopter rotor than have to stare at that goblin-faced baboon for a single second, but once again my pleas have been...
View ArticleFox is still trying to make a Family Circus movie
I’m including this clip from Go, because even though it came out 13 years ago, it sums up my feelings on Family Circus. Time has not been kind to The Family Circus, mainly because The Family Circus was...
View ArticleYour new ‘The Crow’ is… James McAvoy?
Last time we heard about Relativity Media’s reboot (remake?) of The Crow, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo was directing and it was set to star Bradley Cooper in the lead. Which is like casting the captain of...
View ArticleAvi Lerner wants Meryl Streep for ‘The Expendabelles.’ Wait, what?
Here’s some news I initially thought was a joke: producer Avi Lerner is reportedly looking to cast Meryl Streep, Cameron Diaz, and Milla Jovovich in a female version of The Expendables called “The...
View ArticleRussian Driver Covertly Ties His Broken Down Car To A Stopped City Bus, Safe...
Now that we know why Russians do the crazy things they do (because “don’t be a p*ssy” — that’s why!), we can, more than ever, enjoy insane footage of them trying psychotic stunts. Like the guy in the...
View ArticleAmazon's Rumored Music Streaming Service Sounds Amusingly Terrible
Via Flickr/Jessamyn Amazon is locked in a struggle with Google, Apple, and a few others for attention from your eyeballs, all of the time. Mostly it does this by offering services through Amazon Prime,...
View ArticleWWE’s Original Idea For The Shield Involved Goofy Props And Was The Worst
For every great WWE character or idea, there’s a backstory full of horrible “what could have beens.” Stone Cold Steve Austin had names like Ice Dagger and Chilly McFreeze pitched at him. Vince McMahon...
View ArticleRemember That Time The X-Men Teamed Up With Leprechauns?
Marvel/General Mills In the long history of the X-Men, the run on the title with Dave Cockrum and Chris Claremont is probably one of the most influential. Cockrum’s gorgeous art and Claremont’s soapy...
View ArticleIs Facebook On The Verge Of Accidentally Committing Suicide?
MGM For some time we’ve been of the opinion that Facebook is f*cked. It’s a public company where the founder has to explain the Internet to people who own pieces of it: There’s only one way this story...
View ArticleWhy Turkey's Politicians Are Trying To Ban Twitter: An Explainer
You may have heard that yesterday, the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, “banned” Twitter in Turkey. It seems to be more than chest-thumping: The site has been experiencing widespread...
View ArticleDon’t Want To Lose Your Job As A Driver? Don’t Post A Video On Facebook...
One of these days, people have to realize that posting every single thing they do, especially anything that might be illegal or misconstrued as such, to Facebook is a terrible idea, right? It’s not...
View ArticleSurely Nothing Will Go Wrong With The FBI’s Facial Recognition Database
Buena Vista There’s a lot that’s been written about what might happen when the government finally gets a facial recognition program up and running. And apparently the FBI will be putting those...
View ArticleSome Lady Let John Daly Hit A Golf Ball Out Of Her Mouth
Via Instagram Remember when some random desperate-to-be-famous lady was like, “sure, stick a golf tee in my butt and try to hit a ball off of it?” Remember how she ended up with a lawsuit and a badly...
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