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Hollywood’s Sleepy Eyed Men Ruin Everything!

By Natasha VC on July 31, 2009 at 3:38 AM

Paul Giamatti ruined Twilight. Director Paul Haggis continues to fun. The Watchmen ruins Nic Cage’s DVD’s dominance. Howard Zinn ruins Matt Damon or vice-versa.

Hows your spirit today? Is it acting “uncooperative”? Well, watch out cause you could get fired the way Twilight actress Rachelle Lefevre did! Starlets be warned, Summit studios is not down for your shitty moods or for your 10-day movie-shoot with the guy from Sideways. [Variety]

Great news for those of you eager to witness America’s proletariat fulfil their historic destiny by seizing control of the cultural means of production: leftist stalwart Howard Zinn and Hollywood hottie Matt Damon have signed on for HBO series based on Zinn’s book “A People’s History of the United States.” Eat a dick, capitalist-hegemeon! [ THR ]

Billy Crudup’s blue swinging wang has knocked Nic Cage’s Knowning out of the top slot for DVD sales. Watchmen from Warner Home Video, has shot to the top of the national home video sales and rental charts its first week. [THR]

Who among you has the emotional veracity to stop giving Paul Haggis work? The Crash director is making a new movie with Russel Crowe called Three Days. It’s a remake of the french flick Pour Elle about a wife who is imprisoned for a murder she claims she didn’t commit and the husband has devise a way to get her out. It’s assumed Crowe will play the husband. [ THR ]

Jennifer Aniston will be in a new romantic comedy curiously named Pumas. Right. [ Variety ]

Spiderman director/longtime Orc Sam Rami has signed on to direct a live-action film based on the videogame World of Warcraft. For too long the Orc community has been slandered and stereotyped in the movies. Hopefully, Rami will foster greater diplomatic ties to the isolated Orc nation. [AP]

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  • ScarletSpeedster
    July 31, 2009 at 11:57 AM

    @secretagentman: The reps did clear it with Summit. Summit said it was okay with the ten day shoot, then decided it "wasn't" okay.

    ScarletSpeedster

  • MissNormaDesmond
    July 31, 2009 at 10:54 AM

    @rhys1882: Only not embarrassing and pathetic!

  • Leege
    July 31, 2009 at 9:07 AM

    So, Jennifer Aniston will play a fan of Mexican soccer?

    I'm more of a Chivas fan myself.

  • Stream Of Consciousness
    July 31, 2009 at 8:29 AM

    I LOVE "Watchmen"! Glad it is doing good on DVD since it kind of fizzled in the theater. Is it bad that I've watched it 4 times in the last week??

  • DahlELama
    July 31, 2009 at 7:19 AM

    @ProsperDawlish: I think what he/she means to say is "thanks, Natasha, for doing great work here! And by the way, just to let you know, it's spelled 'Raimi.'" Why do people think it's their godgiven right to report typos like complete assholes?

    DahlELama

  • Mikey-B
    July 31, 2009 at 5:30 AM

    Nicolas Cage relegated to #2?

    It's time to whip out the bear suit.

  • Cam/ron
    July 31, 2009 at 4:48 AM

    @WordyNinja:

    Damon actually grew up as Zinn's neighbor.

    Cam/ron

  • ambitious
    July 31, 2009 at 4:27 AM

    @secretagentman: I read that as "The reds are stupid." Perhaps I'm always primed for bad mouthing our nation's ginger demons.

    ambitious

  • MissNormaDesmond
    July 31, 2009 at 4:17 AM

    @TipsyVonDrinklestein: Oh, I don't doubt they were looking to replace her, given the slightest excuse. So why the hell did she give them such a good excuse? WTF? Did she really think she was irreplaceable?

  • secretagentman
    July 31, 2009 at 4:16 AM

    @MissNormaDesmond: Her reps are stupid. They should have cleared it with Twilight before signing her up for Barney's Version. Her role shoots Italy and Toronto, so there's now way she could do both if the dates are the same. Also, she is contracted to do Eclipse, so if they really wanted her, they could have forced her to do it and drop Barney. So yeah, I'm going with, they wanted to replace her with a bigger name.

    secretagentman

  • cynyc
    July 31, 2009 at 4:15 AM

    @TipsyVonDrinklestein: They both have red hair. I think that was the extent of the Hollywood creative solution-ing.

    cynyc

  • TipsyVonDrinklestein
    July 31, 2009 at 4:05 AM

    @MissNormaDesmond: I find it kind of interesting that she's being replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard. Makes me wonder if they weren't looking to replace her with a name, and this was a convenient way to do it.

  • WordyNinja
    July 31, 2009 at 4:03 AM

    Jesus, Damon is really going out of his way to prove that he read Zinn's book and thus wasn't a pretentious poser for referencing it in Good Will Hunting, no?

  • MissNormaDesmond
    July 31, 2009 at 4:00 AM

    I had just read something about Lefevre. Is it me, or is she an idiot? By the grace of the casting gods, a relatively unknown TV actress gets a part in a what becomes a major franchise, and she's actually expecting them to schedule around her? Is there some element of this I'm not aware of, or is she gobsmackingly stupid?

  • SusitaDampyman
    July 31, 2009 at 4:00 AM

    I just can't understand why they don't make movies like "Hudson Hawk" anymore

    SusitaDampyman

  • intime
    July 31, 2009 at 3:57 AM

    Are "Pumas" cougars in training?

  • rhys1882
    July 31, 2009 at 3:51 AM

    Let me guess, "Pumas" will be a female-empowerment movie where the female protagonists are a variation on Cougars.

    rhys1882

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