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Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man’s James Cameron

8:05AM Richard Rushfield | Sanity is a relative term in the realm of Hollywood directors who generally function on a mental health continuum ranging from borderline OCD cases on the benign end to paranoid schizophrenic megalomaniacs on the deeper end. More »
People

Paris Hilton Gets Halloween Scare From Violent Boyfriend

3:05AM Brian Moylan | Like the Tim Curry song says, anything can happen on Halloween. Paris Hilton can get choked, Tinsley Mortimer can tape a reality show, Elton John can get sick. It’s Monday’s leftover gossip candy. More »
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Gerard Butler, You Are Officially On Movie Star Probation

5:03AM Brian Moylan | It was a big weekend for Gerard Butler. His movie Law Abiding Citizen opened at number two at the US box office and he hosted Saturday Night Live. Too bad both of them sucked. And now he’s on notice. More »
People

Kelly Bensimon Needs A Smell Test

8:14PM Andrew Belonsky | Kelly Bensimon has odour issues. Marge Simpson will have a three-page Playboy spread. Isaiah Washington’s still having a hard time finding work. And Nicolas Cage has a lot of money the government wants. Enjoy your Friday gossip roundup! More »
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Awful Looking Nic Cage Remake May Find An Audience After All!

10:50AM Natasha VC | Remember how you emailed a friend that trailer for some failed movie? One that by all appearances looked like a total misfire and couldn’t get a distributor? Even though thespian powerhouse Nic Cage was the lead? Remember how you laughed? More »
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Don’t Say We’ve Never Said A Nice Thing About Tyler Perry

3:22AM Natasha VC | Uma Thurman, Nicholas Cage and Tyler Perry are all things that won’t win them automatic scorn. This is progress. Also, Martin Sheen may get the chance to be in charge of freedom again. Finally. More »

A Very Important Nicolas Cage Related Query

5:04PM Jess McGuire | Question: has Nicolas Cage ever had good hair? I’m struggling to think of a time I’ve ever seen his noggin and thought “That’s some fantastic follicles you’ve got there, Cage.” I suspect he looked pretty good in Wild At Heart but it’s been a while since I’ve watched that movie so I can’t be certain. Also: the above photo is from the fantastic website The Catalyst, which features famous people and cats. So simple, but so awesome. How beautiful is Bewitched star Elizabeth Montgomery?! She’s wicked hot. Hell, cats even make David Crosby look more doable! More »

Nicolas Cage In Yellowface And Other Mr. Miyagi Suggestions For The ‘Karate Kid’ Remake

3:58AM Seth | Hollywood’s steady death march to the Idea-Killing Fields continues with news today that Jaden Smith—smarmy hatchling of the dangerously in black love super-couple Will and Jada Pinkett Smith—will star in a re-imagining of sacred 1980s cinematic text, The Karate Kid. Set to shoot next year in Beijing and other locations, the film won’t be a straight-ahead remake, but will rather “borrow elements of the original plot, wherein a bullied youth learns to stand up for himself with the help of an eccentric mentor.” With no word on who will play the pivotal role of handyman mentor Mr. Miyagi, we thought we’d offer some casting suggestions to go along with the logical “Ralph Macchio : Jaden Smith” equation: More »

‘He Can Die in Hell’: Werner Herzog vs. Abel Ferrara Moves to Round 3

5:40AM STV | We swear we didn’t mean to throw a bucket of gas on the smouldering crash site where Werner Herzog collided a while back with Abel Ferrara, leaving the legendary auteurs fighting for their lives over Herzog’s plans to remake Ferraras’s 1992 masterpiece Bad Lieutenant with Nicolas Cage. But thanks in part to our revealing audience with Herzog last summer, the fire is back to uncontained levels today as Ferrara picks off his Bavarian contemporary one vicious shot at a time in Filmmaker Magazine: More »

First Look! Disney Mule Johnny Depp Reviving Tonto For New, ‘Lone Ranger’-Starved Generation

9:00AM STV | With infidel Mickey Mouse still in hiding after last week’s death-sentence fatwa, Disney appears to be rolling the dice on a bold rebranding of sorts. Behold — Disney Depp (née Johnny), whose anchoring of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise yielded yesterday’s news of not only Pirates 4, but also the star’s attachment as Tim Burton’s Mad Hatter in a live-action Alice in Wonderland and as Tonto in a revival of The Lone Ranger. The announcement was made Wednesday in Disney’s marathon State of the Mouse Biennial, putting its jittery investors at ease, its fans in an uproar and the press into some kind of overwhelmed coma. Johhny Depp? As Tonto? In Josh Groban’s incredulous words, “Really?!” More »