Since we’ve all watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo like good little people-who-are-trying-to-figure-out-why-the-hell-it’s-is-such-a-phenomenon-because-even-my-parents-care-about-it-now, it’s the perfect time to reflect on what would’ve happened if David Fincher ditched Rooney Mara and opted for another ingenue to play Lisbeth Salander. Carey Mulligan? Ellen Page? Anne Hathaway? If I had the MS Paint prowess, I’d whip up renderings of Barbara Stanwyck, Faye Dunaway, and 94-year-old Joan Fontaine in the nose studs and combat boots, but I’ll leave that to your imagination. After the jump, check out a bunch of very accurate, wholly hypothetical Lisbeth portraits.
I’m personally in love with the Ellen Page portrait. She’s so delighted to be a traumatized Nordic hacker! The Johansson work is devastating, and not just because of the iPhone-style nudity: As Fincher pointed out, she almost stole the part from Mara. Aww. And yet, I think this drawing is more than commensurate.
Actresses as Lisbeth Salander [But You're Like Really Pretty via Huffpost]
Full Story »With 2011 drawing to a close, your faithful Movieline editors are taking a look back at the year that was, starting with a catalog of the 9 biggest OMG moments in movies and moviedom. Celebrate the batshit-insane happenings, most shocking screen scenes, death-defying stunts, crazier-than-fiction episodes, and nuclear-level meltdowns of the year… and add your own favorites to the pile. Ah, memories!
9. The Human Centipede II
Let’s kick things off with the moment at the end of The Human Centipede II when I glanced over and realized the woman next to me had passed out from the onslaught of depravity being committed onscreen and was in need of medical attention. Lucky her – she fainted right before the very worst of Tom Six’s uncensored director’s cut. I wasn’t quite so lucky.
8. Bridesmaids’ pooping
Never go cheap on Brazilian BBQ, ladies.
7. The making of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’s Burj Khalifa scene – or, confirmation that Tom Cruise is insane
What’s a multi-millionaire celebrity to do when normal people kicks just don’t deliver enough excitement anymore? Why, run around the outside of a skyscraper a mile up from the ground because your stuntman is too afraid of heights to do it himself. In. Sane. cue golf clap
6. Drive’s brutal, gorgeous facestomping
It’s the most delicately moving and gorgeous moment in Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive: Ryan Gosling delicately moves Carey Mulligan into the corner of an elevator for a sweet, tender kiss – one so pure, so spiritual, that a heavenly glow emanates around them with the pulsing of true love. And then, in a flash – IT’S FACESTOMPING TIME! Few scenes this year…
Among the most admired (and controversial) films of 2011 is also one of the most striking New York-set movies in years: Shame, director Steve McQueen’s unflinching glimpse inside the life of Manhattan professional Brandon Sullivan (Michael Fassbender) as he struggles with sex addiction and his reckless sibling Sissy (Carey Mulligan). The quotidian nature of Brandon’s routine — subway commutes, nondescript office work, late-night jogs — not only mask his emotional freefall, but belie the everyday tensions, pleasures, challenges and privileges associated with living in one of the world’s most intoxicating cities. Now you can tryst where Brandon trysts, drink where Brandon drinks, and brood where Brandon broods thanks to Movieline’s interactive Shame location map.
McQueen, who first visited New York as a child in 1977, said his ensuing trips to the city commenced an enduring fascination with the its inhabitants and functions. “I remember Elvis dying and the blackout,” he recalled in a recent chat with Movieline. “But the thing about Brandon — and it was very meticulous — was where he would live, where he would work, how he would travel to work, what he would eat, where he would eat, take-out, where he would do his laundry… etcetera, etcetera. So that was, for me, very important to me. By coincidence, people talk about it being a ‘New York movie,’ but really, it was about his ritual. That was it.”
After developing international renown as both a visual artist and a feature filmmaker (his debut Hunger, also starring Fassbender,…
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Carey Mulligan, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire as Daisy, Jay and Nick in The Great Gatsby. Leo’s dandy hair wave just made my nipples do the Charleston and I’m convinced he should play Austin Scarlett in a movie – Lainey Gossip
Katy Perry and Russell Brand might be spawning but probably not – The Superficial
The Kuntrashian’s arch rival (next to irrelevancy) went out last night – Hollywood Tuna
Darren Criss flashes his freshly waxed nipples for People – Towleroad
Cameron Diaz’s puts a few more miles on her coochie’s odometer – Celebitchy
And then a drunk hobo started furiously licking at Kathie Lee Gifford’s pits since he knows her sweat is 100 proof – (site NSFW) Drunken Stepfather
The dudes (and chicks who appreciate them) of GQ’s Men of the Year Awards - The Berry
Jackson Rathboner dials down the glamour and leave his crushed velvet suit at home for Twilight’s Toronto screening – Popsugar
Amanda Seyfried narrowly avoids a camel toe situation in Marie Claire – Popoholic
The fuck is Fishsticks Paltrow wearing? - Just Jared
You in danger, SamRo’s new piece…and mystery baby – ICYDK
Out’s Out 100 cover is 50% ginge. FYI. – OMG Blog
Meanwhile, in New Delhi… - The Daily What
Looooooooooove it! Wannamarryit, wannafuckit, wannaeatit, wannaskipwithitthroughthefields, etc… – I’m Not Obsessed
Warm fuzzies – Cityrag
Blame Glamberace if your Walgreens was all out of L.A. Looks gel - Hollywood Rag
#DEMMESSES (the balloons, the baby chain, the everything) – SOW
(Image via Andy Athineos/INFphoto.com)
Happy Friday! Also in this edition of The Broadsheet: Hysteria coming to theaters… Your one-stop Shame sex-talk shop… Another Spider-Man stage player takes a tumble… Lou Reed and Metallica explore the outer limits of unlistenability… and more.
· In the vein of Will Smith and Ridley Scott, Steve Carell might deserve one of Movieline’s surveys of rumored projects you’ll probably never see: The actor is now linked to Lunatics, an adaptation of the comic novel about soccer-dad combatants that is Carell’s third reported movie in development in the last 10 days. Someone’s publicist deserves a booooo-nus.
[Deadline]
· Hysteria — AKA the Maggie Gyllenhaal vibrator movie that debuted this fall in Toronto — will be distributed via Sony Pictures Classics. [Press release]
· Four actual headlines/stories from the Los Angeles Times’s 24 Frames blog: “Michael Fassbender: NC-17 rating could help Shame.” “Michael Fassbender exposes more than skin in Shame.” “Michael Fassbender’s naked girlfriends in sex drama Shame.” “Carey Mulligan: I wasn’t uncomfortable being naked in Shame.” And in the latest, this quote from director Steve McQueen: “To go to pay to see nude people in Shame — you’re wasting your money.” Well? Which is it? [LAT]
· Speaking of the LAT, here’s an amusing anecdote about some consultants who thought it might be worth making the newspaper — like the actual paper — smell like “Starbucks and coffee cake.” [The Atlantic Wire]
· Matthew James Thomas, who plays the lead in Broadway matinees of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark took 10 stitches this week after an unspecified head injury. The producers…
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Happy Wednesday! Also in this edition of The Broadsheet: Carey Mulligan on her part of earning Shame’s controversial rating… Sylvester Stallone gets sued over The Expendables… The End is nigh for Warner Bros…. Shakespeare supporters protest Anonymous… and more.
· You can’t really call this “news” after everything that’s been written and otherwise rumored about Shame, but as presumed, the MPAA ratings board has officially issued an NC-17 for Steve McQueen’s acclaimed new film about a sex addict (played by Michael Fassbender) in New York City. Distributor Fox Searchlight expected it all along and will attempt to make it the first NC-17 picture ever nominated for an Academy Award. Good luck! Sincerely — after 21 years, it’s time. [Deadline]
· Speaking of Shame, Carey Mulligan says her full-frontal nude scene “wasn’t uncomfortable”: “It was a very small set and a very small crew, so it didn’t feel like I was doing it in front of that many people.” Ha! I saw her topless from the front row of a recent stage production in NYC. Live! Mere feet away! The Half-Mulligan! There were hundreds of us! Anyway. I’m just saying… Honestly, I don’t know what I’m saying. [LAT]
· A screenwriter named Marcus Webb filed suit in New York on Tuesday, claiming that Sylvester Stallone lifted the concept and plot of his blockbuster The Expendables from Webb’s unproduced — but registered, copyrighted and circulated — screenplay The Cordoba Caper. Aha! So Webb is the responsible party! Get him, everyone. [Reuters]
· Warner Bros. has picked up The End, a spec script chronicling three interweaving tales of people facing the imminent end of the world. [ Full Story »
Well, lookie who just officially entered the Oscar race! Fox Searchlight excitedly Tweeted today that they’ll release filmmaker Steve McQueen’s hot festival pickup Shame on December 2, 2011. That means two things: A) Rejigger those early Oscar charts to allow for stars Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, and B) get ready for some erotic, angsty December sexytime. Just in time for the holidays! [@FoxSearchlight]
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Happy Thursday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Gatsby goes Bollywood … An avant-garde legend passes away … Steven Spielberg takes on a partner for Robopocalypse … Hollywood’s latest plastic-surgery nightmare fuel … and more.
· Yikes! Reese Witherspoon was struck by an 84-year-old woman motorist Wednesday while jogging in Los Angeles. The Oscar-winner was treated for minor injuries at a nearby hospital and released. Thank goodness. Joggers everywhere, take a health and safety tip from me: Just stop exercising. [LAT]
· Baz Luhrmann is finally getting his $127 million, 3-D Great Gatsby adaptation aloft in Australia, with new cast addition Amitabh Bachchan — yes, that Amitabh Bachchan, the inveterate Bollywood idol — playing the “shadowy gangster” Meyer Wolfsheim. Aussies Isla Fisher and Jason Clarke have signed on as well, joining topliners Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan. [Variety]
· The gonzo/avant-garde cinema guru George Kuchar — who, with his twin brother Mike, created a half-century’s worth of no-budget curios that have influenced two generations of do-it-yourself filmmakers — died on Tuesday following a battle with prostate cancer. He was 69. [NYT]
· Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks — which already has partners in India’s Reliance conglomerate and distributor Disney — have now enlisted Fox’s foreign-distribution muscle for his next directing project, the megabudget sci-fi blockbuster hopeful Robopocalypse. It’s currently set to open July 3, 2013. Maybe Paramount can supply the craft services. [Deadline]
· Congratulations to 17-year-old Ali Lohan for her precocious, preternatural advancement to the Plastic Surgery Nightmare Hall of Fame. It’s sick, it’s sad, it’s the Lohans. [Yahoo!]
· “Brett Cummins, a 33-year-old KARK meteorologist, woke up on Monday in a bathtub next to a corpse wearing a dog collar.” Of course he did. [Huffington Post]
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Be still, my Nicolas Winding Refn-loving heart! The redband trailer for the Ryan Gosling-starrer Drive that debuted today at Comic-Con has hit the web, providing a taste of the taut, gorgeous crime thriller-romance that Refn co-panelist Guillermo del Toro went bananas over today in Hall H. Do yourself a favor and watch this, already!
Gosling stars in Drive as a quiet, unassuming young Los Angeleno — Hollywood stunt man by day, getaway driver by night — who falls for the young mother (Carey Mulligan) who lives next door. Only problem is, her husband’s fresh out of jail, and he needs help with one last job.
What ensues is a stylish L.A.-set “fairytale” of sorts, not to mention a heart-wrenching romance and killer electronic soundtrack. The redband trailer does a good job of conveying the arc and escalation of the film without giving too much away; suffice to say, Gosling’s stoic, silent act belies an antihero capable of inflicting incredible violence in the name of protecting his loved ones, and Albert Brooks makes the most captivating and unlikely villains in recent memory.
FilmDistrict releases Drive on September 16. Read more from the Drive panel live-blog here.
[via IGN Movies]
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Comic-Con is up and running, and that can mean only one thing: Photos of your favorite stars and filmmakers interacting with fans at the San Diego Convention Center. Ahead, a gallery of images from day one of ‘Con, featuring many of your favorite Breaking Dawn co-stars, with cameos from Carey Mulligan, Guillermo Del Toro, and… the Free Hugger of San Diego?
Click here to launch the day one slideshow.
[Photos: Getty Images]
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