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Werewolves Devour Brendan Fraser In Bloody Box-Office Tragedy

1:55AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your bulletproof guide to everything new, noteworthy and potentially misconceived at the US movies. This week, werewolves attack, Brendan Fraser slums (again), and the Weinsteins dump Mickey Rourke. More »

‘Dark Knight’ A Golden Guano Machine

2:00AM Seth | Welcome to August, where besides you and that weird dude in the mailroom who collects signed photos of the Howard Stern Wack Pack, the office is eerily devoid of life. Comfort yourselves with some box office numbers:

Summer Can Only Get Better as Let-Down Trifecta Storms the Multiplex

2:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Welcome back to another week of Defamer Attractions, your regular guide to the fresh hell of what’s new at the movies. After taking a Hancock holiday weekend to find ourselves, we’re back in full-on summer anguish mode as yet another massive comics adaptation hits theatres, Brendan Fraser goes a-spelunkin’ and Eddie Murphy returns with… we don’t even know. But! We also have our eyes on a few alternatives both at the theatres and in the comfort of our air-conditioned caves, so all is not lost. As always, our opinions are our own and elegantly spot-on — which, of course, you’ve come to expect and we’re happy to oblige! More »

Brendan Fraser and The Rock To Fight C.O.B.R.A., Sing Y.M.C.A.

7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Actors have finally been found to play the two soldiers in the G.I. Joe crew who most resemble members of the Village People. At least, according to movie scoop site Latino Review they have. G.I. Joe, Steven Sommer’s tentpole movie about the legendary action figures, will be hitting theatres in the summer of ‘09. And so far, the casting news has been pretty ho-hum — you’ve got your Sienna Millers, you’ve got your Ray Parks — but today that all changes, thanks to Brendan Fraser and the Rock. More »

Brendan Fraser’s Kids To Soon Ask, ‘Mummy, Where’s Mummy?’

9:20AM Defamer Hollywood | And you thought they wouldn’t last. Actually, you probably haven’t thought about them at all, but Revenge of the Mummy: The Ride star Brendan Fraser, and his wife, Afton Smith (“Ursala’s Friend” in George of the Jungle) are splitting after nine years. Nine years of marriage. In Hollywood years, that’s like not getting divorced at all. People reports: Brendan Fraser and his wife Afton, married since 1998, are going their separate ways. The Mummy star, 39, announced through his publicist Wednesday that the couple are ending their marriage. “They continue to maintain a close and caring friendship,” representative Ina Treciokas said in a statement, the Associated Press reports. More »