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Flotsam & Jetsam
10 Things From Comic-Con That You Need To Know About
6:00AM Brian Moylan | Why bother going to San Diego for Comic-Con when you can just sit in your living room and read all the good coverage of it! Now, when you talk to your nerdy sci-fi friends, you won’t look like an idiot. More »
Big Screen
Gwyneth Paltrow Implicated In Deflation Of Scarlett Johansson
8:59PM Ryan Tate | So who put Scarlett Johansson on that strict diet that reduced the starlet to a shadow of her former self? Gwyneth Paltrow, the noted medical expert who last year hallucinated from undereating. More »
People
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | [Actor Mickey Rourke was locked up in a Moscow prison for three hours as he prepared for his role playing a Russian villain in the "Iron Man" sequel; image via Splash]
Mickey Goes to Jail
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | [Actor Mickey Rourke was locked up in a Moscow prison for three hours as he prepared for his role playing a Russian villain in the "Iron Man" sequel; image via Splash] Mickey Rourke Now The Latest Marvel Actor To Suffer a Lowball Offer
7:25AM Kyle Buchanan | Mickey Rourke’s paycheck: less than 1/3 of Charlie Sheen’s. [/film] More »Emily Blunt Rumoured For Umpteenth ‘Iron Man 2′ Villain
8:01AM Kyle Buchanan | Iron Man formula: less Sam Jackson, more Emily Blunt. [Variety] More »
Samuel L. Jackson Wants His Motherfucking Self Off This Motherfucking ‘Iron Man’ Sequel
2:40AM Kyle Buchanan | It’s a bad time to be a Marvel movie actor, unless you’re Robert Downey Jr. (or Gwyneth Paltrow, who’d be the first to say that it is always a good time to be Gwyneth Paltrow).
With Addition Of ‘Iron Man 2,’ Mickey Rourke Now In Everything
8:32AM Seth | Mickey Rourke isn’t waiting until Oscar night—and the promise of shiny gold hardware he can drunkenly threaten to sodomise Sean Penn with at the Governor’s Ball—to start capitalising on his newfound Hollywood clout. More »
8:15AM Kyle Buchanan | Too Many Irons In the Fire: Though Robert Downey Jr. is signed on for an Iron Man sequel and an Avengers film that will group together Marvel heroes including Thor, the Hulk, and Captain America, the actor is starting to sound a little concerned about the latter property. “If we don’t get it right, it’s really going to suck,” he told MTV. “Nothing that happened in Iron Man is really outside the realm of possibility. Once you start talking about Valhalla and supersized super soldiers and jolly green giants, it warrants much further discussion.” [MTV] More »
Robert Downey Jr. Loves Terrence Howard Too Much to Discuss His ‘Iron Man’ Exit
7:40AM STV | Having already dodged one crotch-burning close call this week, Robert Downey Jr. wasn’t about to set himself up for another one for the sadists at MTV. In an interview this afternoon, the Iron Man star hewed close to the Marvel party line when asked about the expulsion of co-star Terrence Howard from geek Eden in favour of an allegedly less-difficult Don Cheadle: More »
