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Big Screen
Bill Murray Gave ‘McG’ The Headbutt To The Face You’ve Been Longing To Give Him
8:02AM the cajun boy | Maybe you’ve heard of Joseph McGinty Nichol, popularly known as “McG,” director of such films as Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and the upcoming Terminator Salvation. Perhaps you’d like him to get beat up, if only because he calls himself McG? If so, don’t fret—-Bill Murray already did it. More »
Big Screen
McG Still Calling Himself McG; New Terminator Is About Yelling?
6:53AM Max Silvestri | This month’s Esquire says that the new Terminator movie is all about a scream, or something, but that the scream is bad, and McG definitely isn’t a tool. Oh super. This movie will be great. More »
Small Screen
Soon, Sarah Palin Will Launch A Celebrity Clothing Line
12:30AM Richard Lawson | A comedy gets a major cast, an HBO movie gets majorly political. A skater gets a reality show, as do many, many fashion people. Because they’re so interesting! Everyone watches TV on the internet now, especially Lost. More »
Christian Bale Is Christian Bale Is John Connor In ‘Terminator Salvation’
2:48AM STV | The fake-trailer aesthetic harnessed so exquisitely in Tropic Thunder has been revived this week for Terminator Salvation, whose new teaser isn’t a preview of an action film as much as it’s bombastic, uncanny self-parody priming you for a movie about Christian Bale yet again playing the world’s most tortured action hero. More »
Hey–What’s That Transforminator Doing In ‘Terminator: Salvation?’
8:01AM Seth | ET has been pumping its first look of Terminator: Salvation this Tuesday, to be presided over by none other than the world’s most recognisably uni-named pop-spectacle-overseer himself, McG. (Eat his dust, Tarsem.) Today, however, we bring you the promo to the promo. It’s as fitting an exclusive as we are likely to find for you on this, Pop Culture Doomsday: A fourth sequel to a picked-over Schwarzenegger franchise about a battle for human survival after a nuclear annihilation. Doesn’t get any more apocalypto than that! More »
‘Terminator: Salvation’ Wants Schwarzenegger For His Head, Not His Body
8:40AM Defamer Hollywood | Not content to be upstaged by a toilet-transforming usurper, Arnold Schwarzenegger recently hit up the set of Terminator: Salvation (above), sparking rumours that director McG will employ an unorthodox method to get the California governor’s face into the movie. According to a tipster for Latino Review, the special FX-filled plan would require little of Schwarzenegger’s time and give him a kickin’ new body in return: More »
Arnold Schwarzenegger Confused by New ‘Terminator’ Footage, Robot Ambiguity
3:25AM Defamer Hollywood | Busy accepting Bollywood paychecks, offering tank rides to children, and occasionally running the state of Colly-fornia, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has somehow carved time into his schedule to screen footage from the upcoming, unessential McG sequel Terminator: Salvation, starring Christian Bale as John Connor (and virtual unknown Sam Worthington as an amnesiac maybe-Terminator). So, does he give the new film a molten steel-dipped “thumbs up”? According to the LAT, not so much: More »
McG’s ‘Terminator’ Stakes A Spot In The Distant Future
6:09AM Seth | Any plans for Memorial Day weekend 2009? Great! That means you can catch the opening of Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, McG’s utterly essential contribution to the futuristic-robot-killing-machine franchise that keeps on giving. [Variety] The WWE entered into a deal with Fox, giving the studio “a first-look deal” for any project starring one of their wrestlers, and first dibs on John Cena to voice an irascible musk ox in Ice Age: Boot Camp. [Variety] A three-month Chinese government ban on Hollywood product has ended, with a March release set for National Treasure: Book of Secrets and 10,000 B.C., after government censors screened both films to ensure they contained “no fingerprints of that lie-spreading Spielberg-devil.” [Variety] More »
