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1:58AM Richard Lawson | The return of Sex and the City, the not-return of Matthew Perry. Strange movies and people win strange festival awards, and Slovenia finally gets some sunshine. More »
Aaron Eckhart Holds Out Hope
7:50AM Kyle Buchanan | Aaron Eckhart: Hey, maybe Two-Face had a twin! Anyone? [MTV] More »
Vin Diesel Back For ‘xXx 3: xxxXXXxxx’
5:09AM Seth | Vin Diesel AbandonedFranchiseWatch: XXX: The Return of Xander Cage will reunite Vin Diesel with director Rob Cohen for another helping of the Xtreme actioner no one remembers or wants! [Variety] Aaron Eckhart will head his first action movie in Battle: Los Angeles, playing a marine platoon leader fighting an alien invasion of our fair city. Don’t use the rubber bullets, Aaron—it’ll just be a P.R. disaster for your department when the footage winds up on the news. [THR] Innovative Artists has “undergone the most significant overhaul in the agency’s 26-year history.” And what do these sweeping changes entail? Everyone gets a title! Watch out Hollywood: The Vice Associate Director of Scripted Reality Affairs is on line 1, and she sounds angry! [THR] After the jump: Which on-the-cusp-of-It-boy-status actor is partaking of It Boy ritual, “one for them, one for me?” More »
Killjoy Aaron Eckhart Settles at Least One Scurrilous ‘Batman 3′ Casting Rumour
2:00AM STV | After a handful of outlandish Batman 3 casting rumors recently trickled online in a impressionistic stream of semi-consciousness, we may have found one that not only can’t be attributed to a fanboy crack binge, but may actually be… true? And for the six of you who haven’t yet seen The Dark Knight, spoilers follow, so consider skipping ahead: Aaron Eckhart, whose Two-Face/Harvey Dent ended up as killed as any TDK character got without going through the necessary franchise terminus of burial/cremation/being chopped into pieces, confirmed this week that, yes, his villain is dead, and no, he will not be returning in any forthcoming Batman sequels. That is, Eckhart added, if there are any Batman sequels to be made at all — at least with Christopher Nolan overseeing things: More »
Aaron Eckhart’s ‘Dark Knight’ Oscar Campaign Jump-started By Loud-Mouthed Sports Columnist
7:50AM Mark Graham | While most of the punditocracy is demanding that Sid Ganis engrave Heath Ledger’s name on the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor before the month of July comes to a close, the notoriously contrarian ESPN talking head Skip Bayless isn’t quite convinced. During today’s episode of their afternoon gabfest 1st And 10, Bayless got into a heated argument with the equally opinionated (read: full of shit) mouthpiece Stephen A. Smith about whether or not The Dark Knight was better than Tim Burton’s Batman. As these conversations generally go, the topic of conversation quickly switched to Heath Ledger’s universally lauded performance as The Joker. That is to say, universally lauded by everyone but Skip Bayless. More »
Defamer Reviews ‘The Dark Knight’: Same Batman, Bleaker Bat Channel
5:20AM Defamer Hollywood | After surviving months of Dark Knight hype, viral outreach and tastefully overblown praise for late co-star Heath Ledger, Defamer finally got its chance at a screening Tuesday to see what all the Bat-fuss was about. And as editor Seth Abramovitch and senior editor S.T. VanAirsdale discovered in their second installment of Defamer Instant Reviews, not everybody is ready to validate its Second Coming status quite yet. Is it good? Absolutely. Is it the best film of the summer? That’s where things get complicated — on AIM, of course, because this watershed cultural moment deserves no less. Follow the jump for their respective two cents — mostly spoiler-free for even the most casual followers of the film, and naturally among the finest criticism available anywhere online. More »
‘Dark Knight’ Spoiler Campaign Continues as Early Viewers Break Out the Cameraphones
4:35AM Defamer Hollywood | We’re seeing The Dark Knight next week like everybody else, but since David Letterman has already wrecked everything for us, the hell with it: SPOILER ALERT. Like, seriously. The screenshots that some douchebag smuggled out of a press screening and pollenated our inbox with this morning aren’t going to shatter the Earth, but they’ll warrant crossing at least two items off your list of “Twists I Can’t Wait to Totally Ruin By Seeing Them Before the Movie.” More »
‘The Dark Knight’ Closing In on Distinction of Bleakest Film We’ve Never Seen
5:15AM Defamer Hollywood | In case you haven’t heard yet that The Dark Knight is going to be the Darkest! Batman! Ever! (complete with a mourned actor doing all kinds of posthumously hype-worthy things that no one will shut up about), Aaron Eckhart showed up in the LA Times’s summer film preview Sunday to reinforce the company line that “people will be surprised” at the bleak turns his own Harvey Dent character endures en route to becoming Two Face: More »
The Jennifer Aniston Dating Game: Fun Like ‘Go Fish’ Or Depressing And Endless Like ‘Monopoly’?
8:35AM Molly Friedman | When news that Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer got together for a “touchy, feely” lunch date and dinner in Miami over the weekend broke, the entire community of celebrity observers and glossy magazine readers let out a big ol’ collective yawn. Aniston has been linked to (and we’re roughly estimating here) seven hundred or so possible paramours since her split with Brad Pitt, and Mayer has pulled what Liz Phair would call the all-too-common “fuck and run” on so many starlets that he earned Us’s “Cad of the Year” award. But just because the gossip is yawnworthy doesn’t mean there isn’t a larger issue here: mainly, is Aniston really dating or trying to date all these guys-of-the-month, or is this charade her publicist’s idea of spinning her post-divorce life into an unglamorous version of Sex And The City? More »
