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MGM Swats Rogue Critic in Latest Round of ‘Valkyrie’ Backlash
1:45AM STV | It’s been far too long since MGM was on the defensive over Valkyrie, the campaign for which uncomfortably started in its own office lobby but has since found decent enough traction in theatres and on TV. So! Right on cue, and apparently just for old time’s sake, a high-ranking New York film critic has found something new to whine about. More »
Sometimes There’s So Much Booty In the World, It Feels Like Kevin Spacey Can’t Take It
4:15AM Defamer Hollywood | As Esquire once famously teased, “Kevin Spacey Has a Secret,” and now, finally, that secret has come to light: he’s a good samaritan! Already notorious for a well-intentioned, late-night dog walking that turned ugly in the most homoerotic way, the actor was snapped this weekend in Croatia enacting a “pay it forward” so unorthodox that it would make even a newly R-rated Haley Joel Osment blush. Says The Sun: More »
High On ‘Dark Knight,’ Warners Contemplates Next Steps For McBoringface Superman
2:30AM Seth | With The Dark Knight now the second-highest domestically grossing film of all time, some of Batman’s friends and co-workers are having trouble convincingly faking their delight over his success. First and foremost among that group would be Superman, with one source claiming the Kryptonian native had gotten “catty” with the cowled vigilante recently, demanding to know if he’d “remembered to celebrate Mother’s Day this year,” before adding, “Come on, Flash. Let’s go play Wii Fit,” and storming out of the Justice League cafeteria. It’s no secret what the source of that animosity is— Bryan Singer’s uninspiring take on the Superman mythos fizzled at the box office, failing to capture the public’s imagination—and according to Variety, the very fate of the failed franchise reboot now hangs in the balance: More »
‘Tell Me You Love Me’ Runs Out Of Simulated Sex Positions
5:45AM Seth | · HBO prosthesiscore drama Tell Me You Love Me has abandoned its second season, with series creator/Jodie Foster tabloid companion Cynthia Mort releasing a statement explaining the creative team was “unable to find the direction of the show for the second season,” blaming in part “the considerable amount of time” since the first season aired. Translation: “None of us could recall what any of our whiny characters were fighting about, and the shock of a set of slapping latex balls has sort of worn off.” [Variety] · Ellen Barkin, Ving Rhames and Rob Corddry have begun shooting on indie spy comedy Rogues Gallery—de facto work stoppage be damned! [Variety] · Gilmore Girls‘ Alexis Bledel will star in The Good Guy, a romcom also starring Andrew McCarthy, Anna Chlumsky, and several other of your formative crushes. [THR] · Studio, a show about Studio 54 and set in that cokeopolis’s heyday, is coming to Showtime, with Bryan Singer in talks to direct the pilot “if his schedule permits.” We have a feeling it’ll permit. [THR] · Family Guy showrunner David A. Goodman will adapt Last Blood—a comic about “human survivors of a zombie massacre who find themselves protected by a band of vampires who need their blood to survive”—into a feature. (”That reminds me of the time we feasted on Zsa Zsa Gabor at Frank Sinatra’s house in Palm Springs. [Cue flashback].”) [THR]
Bryan Singer Claims Consolation Prize in Comic-Book Development Sweepstakes
3:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Three months is apparently an eternity in comic-book years: Just when we thought we’d gotten our heads around the impact of Iron Man’s smashing success, it looks like that The Dark Knight’s Batrocket into the box-office record books (another $24.6 million on Monday!) necessitates a whole new flurry of comics-centric development around Hollywood. And while Wired has a roundup of movers and shakers basking in collective geek glows of summer hits also including Wanted, Hellboy II and The Incredible Hulk, newly flush Warner Bros. handed off a chunk of the spotlight to slumping Bryan Singer just for the hell of it: More »Jealous Harvey Weinstein Stakes His Own Claim to ‘Valkyrie’ Debacle
2:55AM Defamer Hollywood | Amid all of Tuesday’s post-holiday hustle and bustle, we regrettably overlooked perhaps the most profound news item of the day: Harvey Weinstein indirectly hopped in the Valkyrie fray at Cannes by picking up US theatrical/DVD rights to Operation Valkyrie, a 2004 German retelling of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. It’s the same film Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer made (or are making, with worse accents) only to see it bumped twice to a Feb. 2009 release-date Siberia by Cruise/UA’s partners at MGM — oddly the same folks with whom The Weinstein Company shares its own distribution deal. Small world, eh? It gets even weirder — kind of. More »
‘Valkyrie,’ UA Not Just Another Cruise/Wagner Casualty, Say Cruise/Wagner
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Michael Cieply’s latest dispatch from the Tom Cruise beat inventories the wreckage from the mid-air collision that is Valkyrie and United Artists, including exclusive interviews with hobbled pilots Paula Wagner and Bryan Singer. For Singer’s part, he’s fine to let the film speak for itself if and/or when it’s ever completed and released. But for Wagner, Cruise’s UA partner and designated press scold, skeptics like us just! Don’t! Get it! More »
Delayed Flight of ‘Valkyrie’ a Good Sign, Says MGM
7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | The craziest movie star in America is playing a Nazi colonel with one eye, one hand, and three fingers who tries to bomb the Fürher and take over the Third Reich, but instead kills everyone in the room but Hitler, and eventually dies by firing squad. What more could America want on PRESIDENTS’ DAY WEEKEND? More »
