inglorious bastards

First Photo of Brad Pitt Hints ‘Basterds’ Is Just a Catalogue Shoot

9:04AM STV | After a long slog winning over everyone from skeptical Germans to Cloris Leachman, Quentin Tarantino is already a little more than a week into shooting his World War II action epic Inglourious Basterds [sic]. And now the first photo from the set features star Brad Pitt in smooth, modelesque repose — just the way we remember our grandfathers telling us about the European front. See him in all his Nazi-scalping sartorial splendour after the jump. More »

Quentin Tarantino Hops Aboard the Cloris Leachman Comeback Train!

5:20AM Kyle Buchanan | The Weinstein Company today announced that Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic Inglorious Bastards has begun principal photography, and the accompanying press release was notable for two reasons. First, the official announcement spells the title as “INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS,” aping the misspelling on the title page of the widely-leaked (and poorly spelled) script; does this mean that the film will goose-step into theatres bearing the same appellation? Still, there was one other tidbit tucked into the end of the film’s cast roundup that we’re shocked to find wasn’t the subject of its very own, trumpet-blaring announcement: More »

Quentin Tarantino Chokes the Life – And the Money – Out of Bitter Germans

9:05AM STV | Hollywood can’t win for losing these days with the German people, whose extra-defending litigious streak has nothing on the wounded national pride recently suffered after readings of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards screenplay. While the thing has gathered dust on our computer desktop since midsummer, it’s being voraciously consumed in Starbuchsens, on MeinSpace and around other social-gathering hotspots around the country; the ensuing national controversy condemns “scenes of vengeful Americans bashing, scalping, shooting and strangling German soldiers” and — worse yet — the almost certain state subsidies promised to the Deutschland-based production: More »

Mike Myers Extends Comedy Hiatus, Joins ‘Inglorious Bastards’ Cast

4:05AM STV | Overbearing hype aside, Inglorious Bastards really wouldn’t be a Quentin Tarantino film unless he revived at least one moribund career in the process. Enter Mike Myers, who is now confirmed to play British Gen. Ed Fenech, “a military mastermind who takes part in hatching a plot to wipe out Nazi leaders.” It’s a relatively small part, we’re now told, with Fenech featured on only seven pages — 29 lines total — recruiting a Nazi killer reportedly tailored for Simon Pegg, who has yet to be officially attached.

Zen And The Art Of Pacing Yourself At The Sundae Station

10:58AM Seth | · There’s an art to gorging on a casino buffet dessert station, and YouTube’s Feeder-Scene Queen Deidrababe is going to walk you through it, blondie by blondie. Deidra: You have a standing offer to do premiere spread reviews for us. [Deidrababe's YouTube Channel] · Well, it seems someone heard our appeal to reason in the Trade Roundup today: Variety is reporting Brad Pitt has signed on for Inglorious Bastards. Pitt. Novak. Roth. The Weinsteins are back! [Variety] · As Playgirl publishes its last hard edition, a gallery of some of their greatest covers. We know we’ve rubbed many a one out to Alan Thicke’s sensual mullet and the sultry divorce-porn of Kramer Vs. Kramer. [GiggleSugar.com] · Lil’ Kim’s karaoke party ends in the bludgeoning death of both a woman and at least one performance of “Don’t Stop Believin’.” [AP] · Hey, look everyone! It’s the new Quantum of Solace poster! [RR] More »

Universal Pregnant With ‘Inglorious Bastards’ After Drunken Weinstein / Tarantino Three-Way

8:40AM STV | The completely fabricated demand for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards — the subject of white-hot, Weinstein-fuelled media speculation until a real phenomenon worth covering came along — is reportedly entering the realm of fact on its way to a deal at Universal. Variety notes today that the Weinsteins may partner with the studio for a 2009 release; few other details are available except that Paramount is/was the second choice of Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein and, of course, a conveniently planted reminder that Tarantino met with Brad Pitt in his recent casting quest.

Amy Poehler Joins Cast Of ‘Office’-Unrelated ‘Office’ Spinoff

6:35AM Seth | Baby Mama’s supporting womb Amy Poehler is in “final negotiations” to star in the “don’t-call-it-a-spinoff” The Office spinoff. Said Poehler, “The second I heard Aziz Ansari had already signed on, it really just became a matter of ‘when do we start?’” [Variety] Most annoyingly overhyped project ever (and it’s still just a script! Barely a glimmer of a storyboard in its amorous father Quentin Tarantino’s eye) Inglorious Bastards is said to now be considering Leo DiCaprio to star, in addition to Brad Pitt. Also on their shortlist: Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin, and Jesus Christ. [Variety] Wait a second—Desperate Housewives is actually committing to the whole jump-ahead-five-years gimmick used in the season finale? We guess so, as all the kids on the show have been replaced by teenage actors. Maybe that’s what Grey’s Anatomy can do with Katherine Heigl: Set next season in 2118, where all your friends at Seattle Grace enjoys the benefits of a miraculous age-freezing pill, except Izzie, who didn’t sign up for trials. (And died of natural causes at 86.) [THR] Lost writer Craig Rosenberg will make his feature directorial debut with The Panopticon, about “a medical salesman who receives a mysterious videotape from himself telling him the world will end and that he must stop it.” [THR] Fox has ordered a presentation for Sincerely, Ted L. Nancy, a non-scripted comedy based on the popular disgruntled-consumer-fights-back Letters From A Nut books, an inferior retread of Don Novello’s classic The Lazlo Letters. [THR]

Is Downtrodden Weinstein Company Paying to Play at New Showtime?

2:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Disgruntled as its recent self-esteem plunge has made us, no one could realistically suggest that the Weinstein Company is what you’d call “circling the drain.” Maybe “studying the drain,” or even “pawning the drain,” if today’s latest Harvey newsflash is to be believed: The Weinsteins have locked up a deal with Showtime as the premium-cable outlet for 95 films over seven years. Starting in 2009, the agreement covers both Weinstein Company and Dimension Films releases, including the so-hot-no-one-will-claim-it Inglorious Bastards and Rob Marshall’s musical Nine.