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Nine Throws Down The Oscar Gauntlet
3:30AM Dodai
Judi Dench! Penny Cruz! Nicole Kidman! Daniel Day-Lewis! Kate Hudson! Sophia Loren!!! And, uh, Fergie! And everyone is SINGING & DANCING. [YouTube]
Now You, Too, Can Lose Money Financing a Weinstein Company Film
3:50AM Defamer Hollywood | The inevitable karmic payback for Fraggle Rock: The Movie is coming swift and severe at The Weinstein Company, where Harvey Weinstein is reduced to bringing in outsiders to get two of his long-delayed passion projects off the ground. Relativity Media appears ready to kick in at least half of Nine’s $80 million budget, meaning the long-delayed, Daniel Day-Lewis/Nicole Kidman-starring musical will finally start shooting this fall. More »
New J.J. Abrams Series ‘Fringe’ Billed By Fox As ‘Felicity With Smoke-People’
8:35AM Seth | Fox’s fall schedule announcement introduces only two new shows: a comedy called Do Not Disturb (formerly The Inn), and J.J. Abrams’s new series Fringe, which will air Tuesdays at 9 after House. Details on Fringe are being kept under close wraps, but based upon a slew of promotional images over at TV Week, we think it revolves around a conspiracy discovered by a quality control technician at a menthol cigarette factory, played by Joshua Jackson. Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, meanwhile, and new animated shows Sit Down, Shut Up and The Cleveland Show won’t air until mid-season. Executed: Back to You, Canterbury’s Law, K-Ville, Nashville, New Amsterdam, The Next Great American Band, The Return of Jezebel James and Unhitched. [Variety] Daniel Day-Lewis may be taking over the role vacated by Javier Bardem in Rob Marshall’s movie on the musical Nine. Bla bla milkshake jazz-hands bla bla. [Variety] More »
Top Five Most Cringeworthy Facial Hair Moments In Cinematic History
8:15AM Molly Friedman | We didn’t think it was possible, but the insanely dateable John Krasinski is not looking so hot these days. Due to an upcoming role in the Sam Mendes-directed Farlanders, John is sporting a nasty beard that resembles something one of the Geico cavemen would wear. And while we’d never judge an actor for tossing out their razors for months for the sake of their craft, this terrible beard inspired us to take a look back at the most cringeworthy facial hair in cinematic history. From one actor’s frizzy salt-and-pepper rat’s nest to one mustache’s journey inside another man’s taint, our top five lie after the jump: More »Unleash Your Inner Oil Baron
7:47AM Defamer Hollywood | While we wait for Paul Thomas Anderson to reissue a There Will Be Blood DVD edition that his masterpiece and its fans deserve, we can take comfort in the imagination of said fans around the Internet. We’ve learned that today, for example, is the first-ever International Talk Like Daniel Plainview Day, honouring Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis’s eminently quotable anti-hero for the ages. “If you’ve ever heard about ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day,’ this is essentially in the same vein,” write organisers Harrison Simon and Donald Polaski. “Also, do your best to drink a milkshake, preferably someone else’s.” Some sample quotes follow, but we will probably default to taking our dates to the Peach Tree Dance. I said, get liquored up and take ‘em to the Peach Tree Dance! Bastard in a basket! I’m finished. [Facebook] More »
An Open Letter to P.T. Anderson on the Occasion of ‘There Will Be Blood’’s Miserable DVD Release
8:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Dear Paul Thomas Anderson, More »
The Best Actor Nominees Are Some Of The Worst Dressers In Town
4:02AM Molly Friedman | Except for (maybe) George Clooney, the nominees for Best Actor at this year’s Oscars aren’t known for playing it safe on the red carpet. From Daniel Day-Lewis’s preference for tiny suits to Viggo Mortensen’s disdain for anything bland, we’re not accustomed to seeing plain penguin tuxes from this group. But judging from their track records, they all have ways of showing their true colors without actually wearing them all at once. So we reviewed their greatest hits and greatest misses to figure out which way they should swing on Sunday. More »
BAFTAs Buck The Green Trend, Go ‘Orange’ Instead
7:19AM Defamer Hollywood | While No Country For Old Men has been collecting most of this award season’s Best Picture statuettes, the stuffy limeys at BAFTA instead decided to award their prize to one of their homegrown jewels, the weepy Anglophiliac wet dream Atonement. However, the most intriguing award of the night had ostensibly nothing to do with a great performance and everything to do with ensuring that the British Academy of Film And Television’s bottom line was sufficiently padded. The award in question, the Orange Rising Star Award, was handed to Shia LaBeouf and presented by the mobile phone company Orange. Now that the normally reserved BAFTAs have cashed in their principles for a taste of the almighty dollar pound note, can The Oscars be far behind? More »
Can We Just Put The ‘There Will Be Blood’ Homoeroticism Issue On The Table Already?
10:33AM Seth | [Warning: Some spoilers ahead.] There’s been an ongoing There Will Be Blood debate over here at Defamer HQ, with one faction having emerged from the P.T. Anderson masterpiece convinced what we had just witnessed wasn’t just a searing allegory encapsulating the epochal struggle between American capitalism and religion, but also some very kinky oil-prospector-daddy on boy-of-the-cloth goings-on. (OK, fine. That faction was us.) More »
