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Big Screen
America To Critics: Drop Dead! Couples Retreat Owns Weekend
3:30AM Richard Rushfield | When it comes to comedy, there’s no arguing with taste. And if what America wants in their humour is the smirking, manic, his-lips-say-wacky-but-his-eyes-say-death-can’t-come-quick-enough antics of Vince Vaughn, then who are we to argue? More »
Big Screen
Musicals, Gondolas, Cowboys And Aliens!
11:11PM Richard Rushfield | Ashes may still be raining down on the city. Summer doldrums may be stifling the rest of America. But for Hollywood, this week marks the kick-off of Festival Season! Ole! And the party is breaking out everywhere you look. More »
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 »
People
Ellen Fails at Twitter, While Jon Favreau Wins
10:11AM Owen Thomas | In today’s famous people Twitter stunts, talk-show lesbian Ellen DeGeneres wanted a million Twitter followers by today. She’s almost 13% there! Meanwhile Jon Favreau has taken celebrity Twitter posting to its logical conclusion.
‘Esquire’ Wants You to Know That Vince Vaughn is Fat Now
8:44AM Kyle Buchanan | When Vince Vaughn first made his mark with Swingers, he was so whippet-thin that his wild, improvised riffs almost seemed to be a unique form of cardio. Now that a decade has passed, though, things have changed — a fact that Esquire’s new issue takes great pains to point out. Vince Vaughn is not thin anymore, each line of its cover story (entitled “The Biggest Man in the Room”) seems to say. No, Vince Vaughn is now a fatty, a great big fatty fat person. Think we’re joking? Enjoy this opening paragraph, with all the ooky, relevant parts bolded in Defamer ChubbyFont™: More »
Spiteful ‘Iron Man’ Producers: We Never Liked Terrence Howard Anyway
9:47AM Kyle Buchanan | When it was announced that Don Cheadle would be taking on Terrence Howard’s role in Iron Man 2, a simple explanation of “financial differences” (as well as an inability to get the War Machine costume sufficiently baby-wiped) was all that was forthcoming from the filmmakers’ side. Then, Howard spoke to NPR and compared the Marvel braintrust to a non-singing network of pimps, forcing the filmmaking team to take the gloves off. Now, in a discussion with EW, sources close to Marvel and director Jon Favreau leaked the real details behind Howard’s firing, and they involve bad acting and one very surprising salary: More »
Hunky Hyphenate Justin Theroux Now Just Showing Off With ‘Iron Man 2′ Writing Gig
6:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Like most celebrants of cinema’s smoldering, dangerous geek-stud archetype, we’ve been following actor Justin Theroux’s career arc for a while — mostly in front of the camera, obviously, where his roles in Mullholland Drive, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Six Feet Under and elsewhere yielded a batch of performances we presumed would catapult him to the A-list sooner or later. But now it’s just getting ridiculous, as we’re learning that Theroux just nabbed one of the most desirable writing gigs in Hollywood: Iron Man 2. More »
Non-Crisis Averted as Jon Favreau and Marvel Reportedly Settle on ‘Iron Man 2′
2:15AM Defamer Hollywood | The Earth is easing back on to its axis today after a full month of panic that Jon Favreau might skip out on directing Iron Man 2 — not that he threatened to, mind you, though all it took was one candid MySpace entry to fertilize fanboy concern that money, ego, release-date controversies or all of the above might conspire to shatter the fragile bond between the director and the cheap-arse overlords at Marvel. More »
‘Ant-Man’ Cometh, and More Fallout From ‘Iron Man’’s Golden Weekend
2:25AM Defamer Hollywood | Gosh, Marvel Studios, just take a minute to chew your food, would you? Less than 24 hours after its debut picture Iron Man finished a $100 million opening weekend, studio boss David Maisel was all over town announcing Marvel’s forthcoming slate — through 2011. As we noted yesterday, an Iron Man sequel is naturally to follow on April 30, 2010, while an adaptation of Thor will drop that same summer on June 10. It gets fairly outrageous from there: The First Avenger: Captain America appears May 11, 2011, followed by The Avengers — combining Iron Man, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk and Thor a mere two months later. (The studio says its sitting out 2009 as a result of a development lag left over from the writers strike.) More »
