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Kristen Stewart And Lady Gagadong Just Want To Move On

1:15AM Foster Kamer | Kristen Stewart thinks she’s boring now sans social life. Oh, honey. Lady Gaga wants Kanye to respect the cock(y decision she made to leave their tour). Jon Gosselin: still a cock. Presenting your Saturday Morning Gossip Roundup: More »
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All Outraged Roads Lead To Roman

4:00AM Richard Rushfield | One thing is for sure, where ever you stand on the Roman Polanski case, you are angry today. Fingers are pointing; names are being called. And we’re just getting warmed up. Here’s your day in Polanski: More »
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Brett Ratner Too Important To Focus On Playmates Or Directing

6:29AM Richard Rushfield | As any Master of the Universe can tell you, the key to success is an ability to multi-task. And to always be talking into a phone so you look busy and important, especially when hot girls are around. More »
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Sequel Director Is Publishing’s Latest Embarrassing Sugar Daddy

3:49PM Ryan Tate | Oh, hey there, literati. Remember when that German factory manager took over Random House? Sad. But take heart: The director of Beverly Hills Cop IV is investing in the biz, too. Exciting! More »

Today in Sundance Hell: Oddsmaking, Empty Seats, and Brett Ratner Speaks!

3:10AM STV | Your daily fest-news buffet continues with a saint-making Brett Ratner and a worrisome slowdown at the Sundance ticket booth.

Brett Ratner Barely Earns Hugh Hefner Seal of Approval

6:56AM STV | Hugh Hefner spent some time last weekend recounting his Hollywood obsession for the LAT. Conspicuously missing from his list: Brett Ratner, who is likely to direct a Hefner biopic in the years ahead. More »

To Make the ‘Guitar Hero’ Movie, Brett Ratner Needs You To Stop Buying the Game

7:10AM Defamer Hollywood | While conducting interviews at the VMAs yesterday, the nearby booth advertising Rock Band 2 was the cacophonous bane of our existence — though no one was more unhappy to see it than director Brett Ratner. As you may recall, the Defamer-beloved auteur (and big penis enthusiast) aspires to direct a film adaptation based on Rock Band’s rival video game franchise, Guitar Hero. Since the idea continues to boggle our minds, we knew we had to venture a question, even if the resulting Defamer-on-Ratner interaction threatened to spin the world off its axis. Fortunately, the Rush Hour 3 helmer was every bit the gentleman. We blame the heatstroke. [MTV] (Video after the jump) More »

‘Guitar Hero: The Movie’ Rich In Ratnerian Themes Of Artistic Fakery

3:02AM Seth | Art-eschewing, mainstream-tentpole- project-maker Brett Ratner’s love for the video game sensation known as the Guitar Hero knows no bounds. His obsession with the instrument sim and its groupie-nailing expansion packs stems back to his formative years at NYU film school, when he’d busk in Washington Square Park, playing as many Police songs as he could using the four notes he was capable of eliciting from a harmonica. The first time he picked up Hero, it gave him the same quaternary musical thrill (”Smoke on the Water,” for example, became a four-colour kaleidoscopic “red red blue/green green blue blue/red red green/ yelllooowww”), and he since has gone about incorporating the game into many of his smaller projects—everything from Miley Cyrus videos to Mariah Carey videos. But an actual Guitar Hero movie? He’d love a crack, he told MTV Multiplayer: