Many have tried and failed to reboot Wonder Woman for contemporary audiences (some rather famously – looking at you, David E. Kelley). If The CW succeeds with “Amazon,” their origin series will envision the Amazonian warrior princess as a tough twentysomething fish-out-of-water named… Iris.
According to Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva, a casting breakdown calls for Wonder Woman/Iris (maybe that’s just a code name, let’s hope) who’s at least 5′8″ and looks to be in her twenties; the character “comes from a remote, secluded country and until now has spent most of her life as a soldier and a leader on the battlefield.”
Wonder Woman may be a leggy Amazonian goddess who’s handy in a fight, but her journey is so Beastmaster 2: “Because of relentless brutality of her life at home, Iris looks at our world with absolute awe and astonishment. She’s delighted and just as often horrified by the aspects of everyday life that we take for granted: skyscrapers, traffic, ice cream. It’s all new and fascinating and sometimes slightly troubling to her.”
This Wonder Woman is a tactless heroine with no social skills who’s an overachieving idealist who “can tell when you’re lying to her,” although it’s unclear whether that’s because she has a Lasso of Truth or if that iconic accessory has been metaphorically internalized.
“Iris is completely unschooled in our world, our culture, our customs,” continues the breakdown. “And she’s completely inexperienced at interpersonal relationships. She has no social filter, does not suffer fools, and tends to do and say exactly what’s on her mind at all times. She’s bluntly, refreshingly honest. She can tell when you’re lying to her. And she doesn’t have time or patience for politics or tact because she’s too busy trying to experience everything our world has…
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Also in Monday’s early round-up of news briefs: Cloud Atlas may have had a slow start in North America, but it is possibly proving to be a big hit overseas; The Weinstein Company is grabbing a thriller starring Chris Evans, Jamie Bell and Octavia Spencer for theaters; And Chasing Ice tops out the Specialty Box Office over the weekend.
The Weinstein Company Nabs Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer
The thriller stars Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, John Hurt, Ed Harris, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner and Alison Pill and set in the future. After a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but a revolution brews. TWC picked up rights in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
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Dorothy’s Oz Dress Goes for $480K
Judy Garland wore the blue gingham when she was whisked away by a tornado landing her in Oz with her dog Toto. The wholesome frock was mismatched with a sparkling pair of ruby-red slippers which caught the eire of that wicked old witch. The dress sold for $480,000 at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills this weekend. Also selling, Steve McQueen’s racing jacket ($50K) and a prop watch worn by John Belushi in The Blues Brothers ($15K), Deadline reports.
James McAvoy Eyes WikiLeaks Pic
The Last King of Scotland director wil join Benedict Cumberbatch in the untitled project about the website that released classified information online. Cumberbatch will play WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while McAvoy is in talks…
Also in Friday’s early round-up of news briefs: Oscar winner Javier Bardem gets a Hollywood Honor ahead of Skyfall release; A Royal Affair, Chasing Ice and Starlet are among this year’s look at new Specialty Releases; And Harold & Kumar writers are eyeing their next gig.
Twilight Fans Set Up Tent City for Monday’s Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Premiere
Distributor Summit is offering camping spots to 2,200 Twi-hards, making this the franchise’s largest camp to date and almost double last year’s. The final Twilight premiere takes place at LA Live on Monday, Deadline reports.
Lindsay Lohan’s New PR Team Pulls Her Out of Barbara Walter’s 20/20 Interview
Dissatisfied with “the direction ABC wanted to take the interview,” Lohan’s new PR reps, Rogers & Cowan, have said that the actress will not appear on 20/20 for an interview with Walters on a scheduled slot set to air November 16th, Deadline reports.
Specialty Release Preview: Chasing Ice, Citadel, Coming Up Roses, In Another Country, A Royal Affair, Starlet
Bernadette Peters and French actress Isabelle Huppert will open their latest respective films Coming Up Roses and In Another Country,. Starlet with Dree Hemingway has a San Fernando Valley adult film industry bent, while Citadel won SXSW Festival’s Audience Midnight section prize. Film sales outfit Submarine releases the climate-change documentary Chasing Ice via its distribution label Submarine Deluxe, scoring talk show attention as a result of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation, while Magnolia’s A Royal Affair will get a traditional theatrical rollout, Deadline reports.
Javier Bardem Nabs a Hollywood Star
Academy award-winning actor Javier Bardem has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bardem, who plays villain Silva in the latest Bond movie Skyfall, was joined by his female…
I don’t watch The Good Wife, because on Sunday nights I choose to fill my head with quality television like The Real Housewives of New Jersey and the shitty remake of Steel Magnolias (more like Soft Weeds), but I’m all about a scene that involves ice cream and finger sex. So some woman named Kalinda and her piece (or who ever that dude is) were having angry words in an ice cream parlor full of laughing children and their conversation went so well that he decided to end it with a little rage-filled finger love. Because nothing brings out the sweetness in ice cream like poon juice, he stuck his fingers in Kalinda’s ice cold treat and she licked it up. To sluts like us, this isn’t that big of a deal, but think of the oldies watching this who had a coronary right after they made a soft-serve in their granny panties.
But I have a technical and probably really stupid question. Dude’s arm is behind her so how is he giving her some fingering fun? Is her coochie hanging off the seat? Is he poking her in the ass? Is he part Gumby and his arm just really, really long? Is there a hole in the bottom of the seat? If the answer is the last one, please give me the name of that ice cream parlor, because I need to go there.
And CBS should’ve joined forces with Baskin-Robbins to do some cross
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As Robert Pattinson leaves sparkly tear stains on Reese Witherspoon’s country couch (read that as “Reese Witherspoon’s country cooch” if you need a more interesting visual today), the Health Department is knocking on Giovanni Agnelli’s door after getting complaints from the neighbors about the rank scent of curdled armpit cream and dirty butt sweat coming from his place. It wasn’t from a bunch of squattin’ hobos having an orgy. It was from Kristen Stewart wallowing in her stank misery, because RPattz won’t call her baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.
Some source tells Radar that KStew is in the Sunset Plaza area, hiding out in the house of her producer friend Giovanni Agnelli (not to be confused with Lapo Elkann’s grandpa). The source says that KStew has gone against nature and achieved the impossible by actually feeling real emotion. KStew is bawling, eating ice cream, bawling, eating ice cream and bawling some more, and she’s doing all of it far, far away from a shower.
“She is beyond mortified and humiliated and she is also broken hearted. She says she truly loved Rob. She says he was her soul mate, but she blew it and now she is scared that she has lost him forever. She is pretty much inconsolable.
Kristen hasn’t showered or changed or washed her hair in several days.
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Oh, it’s been much too long since we’ve all frozen our finger tips on the ice cold cuntiness that pours out of Kunty Karl’s ghoulish prune lips when he comes for a bitch. This newest ice pick of words from the Grand Dame Bitch of the House of the Death Eaters comes from The Sun and normally I look at anything that comes from The Sun with suspect eyes, but Kunty Karl would totally say this. It’s practically stamped with a platinum certified cunt seal. (FYI: The platinum certified cunt seal is a picture of Choupette Lagerfeld winking.) As Karl ran his fingers through the mop of cob webs on top of his head, he shat out this piece of pot kettle pricelessness about the Middleton sisters:
“Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don’t like the sister’s face. She should only show her back.”
Kunty Karl slapped her down like that. Damn. That crypt keeper went IN on her. That’s like a poem by Yeats if Yeats was a straight-up, black-hearted harsh bitch who had his soul removed because it made him look fat. But I’m sure Karl will make it up to Pippa by sending
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Full Story »The last pre-Dark Knight Rises weekend at the multiplex came and went without much incident, unless you call The Amazing Spider-Man losing his grip on the No. 1 spot after one week an “incident.” You decide! Either way, your Weekend Receipts are here.
1. Ice Age: Continental Drift
Gross: $46,000,000 (new)
Screens: 3,881 (PSA: $11,853)
Weeks: 1
The Ice Age franchise celebrated its 10th anniversary by rolling its opening-weekend domestic gross back to 2002 prices — the fourth installment of the series earned almost precisely what the original earned out of gate a decade ago. It still amounts to only the third highest opening of the series, but Fox will take it (not to mention deposing one-week wonder The Amazing Spider-Man for No. 1).
2. The Amazing Spider-Man
Gross: $35,000,000 ($200,900,000)
Screens: 4,318 (PSA $8,106)
Weeks: 2 (Change: -43.6%)
It took 11 days — including a holiday — for Sony’s comics reboot to hit the $200 million mark domestically. That’s fine and all, but in the summer of The Avengers and mere days ahead of the Dark Knight Rises megastorm that will wipe Spider-Man off the map, it’s not really good enough, is it?
3. Ted
Gross: $22,147,000 ($158,993,000)
Screens: 3,303 (PSA: $6,705)
Weeks: 3 (Change: -31.2%)
Time and time again over the last few weeks, the one conversation that seems to come up among me and people whose taste I generally trust involves the title Ted and the phrase, “It was better than I expected.” If its box-office hold after three weeks is any indication, I am not the only one having this conversation.
4. Brave
Gross: $10,695,000 ($195,596,000)
Screens: 3,392 (PSA $3,153)
Weeks: 4 (Change: -45.5%)
Another reasonably good hold here, though what’s…
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Also in Friday morning’s round-up of news briefs, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone woo a Comic-Con crowd revealing some possible projects on the horizon. David Letterman meanwhile let’s out a possible Dark Knight Rises spoiler (proceed with caution when reading) and finally Miguel Arteta boards a comic crime novel.
Ice Age 4 Arrives in N. America with $225M-plus in Overseas Box Office
Tracking services give the animated feature an opening in the $50 million range, though Fox is estimating $38 million to $40 million because of the lingering strength of Madagascar 3 and Brave, THR reports.
Schwarzenegger, Stallone Play the Crowd at Comic-Con
The two wooed the crowd and they ate it up in a press conference for The Expendables 2: Real American Heroes. Schwarzenegger revealed that a Twins sequel (possibly triplets) was in the works and that the cartoon The Governator may be a go after all, after being put on hold following his sex scandal, Deadline reports.
Will Smith in Talks for Cain and Abel Pic
Smith is considering making his directorial debut as well as star in the story about the feuding Biblical brothers. The working title is The Redemption of Cain, Deadline reports.
Warning: Possible Dark Knight Rises spoiler alert follows….
Did David Letterman Spoil The Dark Knight Rises Ending?
In the middle of a lively chat with Anne Hathaway, the late-night talk show host offered praise and perhaps a spoiler. “Of course Batman is dead in the end,” he said, which seemed to shock Hathaway who plays Catwoman in the pic, THR reports.
Miguel Arteta Heists a Bank
The Cedar Rapids director will direct a big screen version of Troy Cook’s comic crime novel 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers.…
