josh brolin

Josh Brolin’s Drunk-Ish Awards Tour Steamrolls Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Jenkins

5:51AM Kyle Buchanan | Whether or not Josh Brolin was drunk again last night’s NBR ceremony, his speech featured so much gin-soaked verisimilitude that we fully expected him to end it by slur-shouting, “Josh Brolin’s got issues!”

Arrested Josh Brolin Engages in Game of Kissy One-Upmanship

2:40AM Kyle Buchanan | The W. DVD is going to have some killer double features. First, video was leaked of the violent arrest of Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, and now TMZ has their surprisingly funny squad car banter. More »

Some of Josh Brolin’s Best Friends Are Assholes

7:21AM STV | A day after clearing his name in Shreveport and clearing his throat in New York, Josh Brolin wants to clear the air about where he stands with “asshole” former co-star Russell Crowe. More »

Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright Charges Dropped; Vicious New Video Hints Why

6:47AM STV | W. co-stars Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright were cleared today of charges they interfered with a crew member’s arrest last summer in Shreveport. Violent, taserific new footage defies you to disagree. More »

Sean Penn-Josh Brolin Lovefest Takes Turn For the Drunk

3:15AM STV | Sean Penn and Josh Brolin appeared together at last night’s New York Film Critic Circle awards dinner, where their Milk characters’ rivalry reportedly gave way to a more collegial, tipsy thaw. More »

Directors Snuffed in Josh Brolin’s Quest to Make ‘The Most Awful Movie I Can Find’

7:44AM STV | Josh Brolin’s World Candor Tour ‘08 stopped by MTV this week, where he announced that the script for his upcoming comic-book adaptation Jonah Hex is “awful.” Except he means it in a good way, he insists, and how could he not — especially now that the writer-directors have been left the project citing “creative differences”? More »

Oliver Stone’s Pocket Guide To Penetrating The Mystery That Is Bush

10:24AM STV | Oliver Stone is keeping everyone waiting today at Slate, where he’s set to engage Bob Woodward and a few other reporters over the facts and slip-ups threading his new film W. Things have remained mostly civil so far — no Taser jokes or Christian Bale casting rumours — though a few factual liberties have set off a bit of protest in the ranks. Thankfully, while they wait for Stone, Lionsgate now offers a pleasing historical reference for the rest of us. Behold — W. For Dummies. More »

The Visitors Cometh

3:43AM Seth | Add a plate of hamsters to the crafts services table: Defamer favourite V is making its long awaited return, with a remake in development at ABC from Scott Peters, the creator/EP of The 4400. [Variety] W. star Josh Brolin is close to signing on as the lead in Jonah Hex, the facially disfigured DC Comics gunslinger, in a movie by the Crank team. Since his recent tasering by overzealous Shreveport law enforcement has left the right side of his face paralyzed already, half the makeup work has already been done! [Variety] Eric Bana is negotiating to star in a remake of 2004 French heist drama Le Convoyeur, about an armoured car heist. [Variety] After the jump: What hunky mystery disease was spotted lunching at The Grill with Seth Rogen? More »

Crusading Josh Brolin To Take On Tasers, Shreveport Cops in Next Role

2:00AM STV | W. star and Shreveport jail alumnus Josh Brolin spoke up for the first time on Wednesday about his bar brawl and subsequent detention by that city’s police, illustrating a Southern idyll where he was maced, co-star Jeffrey Wright was Tasered and his assistant was hauled to jail for “asking too many questions.” And while Brolin and his lawyers wait for the authorities to drop the charges that require him back in court later this fall, we’re finally learning exactly how not throw a wrap party in Louisiana — if you must throw one at all: More »

Josh Brolin Lauded, Film Not So Much as ‘W.’ Reviews Trickle In

6:20AM STV | Lionsgate hosted the premiere of W. last night at the Landmark, where Josh Brolin, Oliver Stone and a celebrity cast of dozens dropped by for the first public-ish screening of Stone’s five-month miracle baby. Elsewhere, in a subterranean dungeon populated by the world’s few remaining mainstream film critics, the professionals parsed W. in terms that could best be described as lukewarm — Brolin’s performance notwithstanding: More »