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Sean Penn’s Addition To Stooges Movie Doesn’t Make It Oscar Bait
6:33AM Richard | Sean Penn will play Larry, alongside Jim Carrey as Curly and Benicio del Toro in the Farrelly brothers’ Three Stooges movie. While some had assumed/hoped this would be a classy biopic, it’s not. Just slapstick. More »
Benicio Del Toro Officially Over Talking About ‘Che’
2:22AM STV | Give Benicio Del Toro some credit: He’s been on the Che World Tour since last May’s Cannes premiere, and there are only so many ways to deflect inquiries about his character’s mass-murder pastime.
Benicio Del Toro Puts Mouthy Bros On Notice
3:45AM Kyle Buchanan | Benicio Del Toro deserves credit for a great many things: his Oscar-winning acting, his inspiration to the mushmouthed, and now, for crafting 2009’s very first meme. More »
Upbeat ‘Che’ Trailer Promises the Holidays’ Jauntiest Four-Hour Marxist Epic
2:07AM STV | Having endured Che in its 257-minute entirety, at least one of us at Defamer HQ can attest to its new trailer’s elegance in condensing the Che Guevara biopic to a lean two minutes, 31 seconds. From Benicio Del Toro’s brooding monochrome gaze to the minimalist grit of revolutionary battle, its comprehensive compression renders the theatrical experience virtually irrelevant. Still, we sort of would have preferred more of the Bollywoodesque “Che You, Che Me” set piece that bridges Guevara’s time between Cuba and Bolivia, but! You can’t have everything. There will be plenty of time for show tunes when Soderbergh gets busy with Cleo, anyway. [IFC Films] More »
A Bathroom Attendant Etiquette Lesson With The Men Of ‘Che’
4:45AM STV | With his director newly flush after offloading Che during the Toronto Film Festival, did Benicio Del Toro defer to Steven Soderbergh’s tipping largesse during a shared men’s room visit? Is that the single stupidest question we’ve ever posed? Either way, there’s more, reports the National Post: More »
Today in Toronto Hell: Paris Shows, ‘Che’ Sells, Kevin Smith Wins a Crapfight
4:30AM STV | With most of the industry having seen what it came for and Jeremy Piven having released his date(s) back into the Canadian wild, the 2008 Toronto Film Festival is all but over. But, as befits the event’s stature, the whirlwind since our last Toronto Hell round-up deserves a closer look — from the Paris Hilton doc you’ll never see again to Kevin Smith literally keeping Zack and Miri’s shit together, enjoy the news others traveled thousands of miles for from the comfort of your own industrial slave galley:
Ten Hairy Hippies That Do Inexplicably Well With The Ladies
5:30AM Defamer Hollywood | They’re one of Hollywood’s most glorious odd couples: pixie dream girl Natalie Portman and Manson-resembling folk singer Devendra Banhart. Still, despite the fact that Portman was game enough to appear as an octopus in one of Banhart’s videos, she still can’t seem to shake those naysayers clucking, “Is she really going out with him?” She is — and she’s hardly the first fresh-scrubbed starlet to fall for a charming, soap-eschewing bohemian. With the help of Molly McAleer, we’ve put together a Top Ten list of the world’s most loved-up hippie womanizers. Is it their devil-may-care facial hair, their free love attitudes, or their penchant for sharing necklaces that draws in Hollywood’s most beautiful ingenues? Burn some incense and meditate on the subject — we’ll be out back crafting a swingset out of hemp and spit. More »
Benicio Del Toro, English Entrails Star in Stirring New ‘Wolfman’ Clip
8:30AM STV | With the hazy, nut-hugging memory of Comic-Con thankfully behind it, the world has begun to take stock of the actual news that came out of San Diego last weekend. But perhaps the biggest story broke today as an erstwhile fanboy overcame his quivering long enough to capture this preview of The Wolfman, Benicio Del Toro’s riff on the hairy horror classic. The (mildly spoiling) touchstones are all there for a hit in the making: tortured brooder Del Toro slashing top-hatted limeys; Anthony Hopkins’s furrowed, torch-lit brow; Hugo Weaving getting out of a carriage; Emily Blunt in soft-focus peril; and surprisingly grisly flashes of the title character’s prey. Seriously, this looks pretty good (the movie, not the video) but don’t get us wrong — it’s no Red Sonja. Really, though, what is? Judge for yourself after the jump. [TrailerAddict via /Film] More »
Today in Comic-Con Hell: Rose McGowan Fellates Knife, Benicio Del Toro Stays Awake
8:25AM STV | As noted here yesterday, we missed the Fox PR Caravan to San Diego Comic-Con, but that shouldn’t suggest we don’t (or you shouldn’t) care about the geek gangbang unfolding as we speak. To the contrary, we’ve actually managed to find a handful of highlights worth passing along, from Rose McGowan’s overactive tongue to Benicio Del Toro’s narcolepsy to an all-Lego Batman — and more! It’s the next best thing to not being there, we promise!
