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Today in Comic-Con Hell: Rose McGowan Fellates Knife, Benicio Del Toro Stays Awake
8:25AM STV | As noted here yesterday, we missed the Fox PR Caravan to San Diego Comic-Con, but that shouldn’t suggest we don’t (or you shouldn’t) care about the geek gangbang unfolding as we speak. To the contrary, we’ve actually managed to find a handful of highlights worth passing along, from Rose McGowan’s overactive tongue to Benicio Del Toro’s narcolepsy to an all-Lego Batman — and more! It’s the next best thing to not being there, we promise!
Did Prolific Robert Rodriguez Trade Rose McGowan for 22-Year-Old in His Latest Romantic Drama?
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Box-office bombs and Barbarella casting crises aside, we hear today that the Robert Rodriguez Girlfriend Roundelay may have simply been too crowded for Rose McGowan to keep her place during the couple’s bust-up. A tipster sends word that Rodriguez has moved on to 22-year-old Kat Dennings, the Charlie Bartlett ingenue currently shooting Shorts with the filmmaker in Austin; the duo has reportedly been seen at locales around town — including Rodriguez’s hot tub, we’re told — but for all we know that could just be a bit of refreshment after a long, midsummer day under the scorching Texas sun. More »Robert Rodriguez Salvages His Once-Promising Career By Relieving Rose McGowan Of Her Girlfriend Duties
7:00AM Mark Graham | Up until the point where filming began on Planet Terror, Robert Rodriguez’s career was flying. Long considered one of Hollywood’s more prolific directors (11 directorial credits between 1995 and 2005), the auteur specialised in churning out FX heavy (yet, comparatively speaking, low-budget) B-films that ended up being very profitable for both himself and the studios that released his pictures. But Rodriguez’s life and career began to fall apart as he began an on-set relationship with his lead actress in Planet Terror, Rose McGowan, a relationship that not only ended up costing him his marriage but also one that seriously derailed his career. Most recently, he had been pushing to get studios interested in his $70 million remake of Barbarella which, natch, would star his new soul-draining harpy love interest. However, nary a studio in the world was willing to take a risk on a movie with that budget that had Rose McGowan as a lead (nor would they touch Red Sonja or Women In Chains!, two other projects he tried to secure financing for with his flame in the lead). Now, it appears that the friction between Rodriguez’s personal and professional lives landed the pair an all-expenses paid trip on the Splitsville Express. According to Page Six:‘Women in Chains!’ to Fill Networks’ Long-Standing Rose McGowan/Mud Wrestling Vacuum
10:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Even though Rose McGowan and Robert Rodriguez have yet to shoot their planned Barbarella remake — which is going to start any day now if McGowan’s recent fantasy promise holds — they’re wasting little time moving forward with their next classy genre collaboration: Women in Chains! No, seriously, that’s what they’re actually calling it: More »
Stalled ‘Barbarella’ Remake Coming Together Nicely In Rose McGowan’s Head
3:00AM Defamer Hollywood | In the latest flimsy edition of Barbarella Will Be Remade (No Really We Mean It) Quarterly, perennial cover girl Rose McGowan grabbed another opportunity to swear on a stack of imaginary scripts that she is super-seriously-definitely reprising Jane Fonda’s original role in the long-gestating Robert Rodriguez do-over. And it is a do-over according to McGowan, who gets her critical faculties (and probably a few tempers at Universal) in a lather just thinking about it: More »Short Ends: ‘Indy 4′ Golf-Cart-Driving Secrets Revealed!
5:25AM Defamer Hollywood | The guy who took this video of Harrison Ford and George Lucas on the last day of production on Indy 4 is probably going to wind up hanging on a hook next to that loose-lipped extra in the Universal lot commissary’s meat locker. · He’s got the funny electric cars, the high-profile political and social causes, and the obligatory self-destructive streak, but the opening weekend failure of Michael Clayton has Slate wondering if he’s bad at the part of being a movie star the studios actually give a shit about. More »
When Life Gives Publicists Marriage-Ending Adultery, They Make Adultery-Ade
6:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Caught in our inbox pitch filter: “Rodriguez and McGowan find love on Planet Terror Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan have found love on Planet Terror! The director and actress met on the set of the movie Grindhouse, and have gotten engaged just in time for the DVD release of PLANET TERROR – available tomorrow, October 16th. Please share this information on your site in support of this film.” More »
Trade Roundup: Rose McGowan Takes Early Lead In ‘Barbarella’ Remake Casting Race
9:10AM Defamer Hollywood | · Robert Rodriguez will direct a remake of 1968 Jane Fonda sci-fi spank vehicle Barbarella for Universal; producer Dino De Laruentiis describes their plans for the project thusly: “In our vision, the future is female, and I can’t wait to introduce ‘Barbarella’ to a new generation of moviegoers.” We think we know where he’s going with this: space lesbians! [Variety] · Realising that launching a hopeful summer blockbuster in the magical month of May seems to boost even the most disappointing of mega-budgeted sequels to record-breaking heights, studios are rushing to claim May release dates for their 2008 and 2009 movies. [THR] · Broadway Out of Ideas: The Addams Family is being adapted into a musical, scheduled to hit the stage in 2009-10 season. Is it too early to make the easy joke about slapping a Gomez moustache on Hugh Jackman? [Variety] · Following its corporate parent’s “NBCU2.0″ mandate to get both cheaper and dumber across all divisions, NBC News shitcans anchor Stone Phillips after 15 years on Dateline, replacing him with a non-union model who will open a briefcase that may or may not contain a videotape of that evening’s stories. [THR] · Richard Gere will take time off from his busy schedule of publicly despoiling Bollywood actresses to produce and star in Hachiko: a Dog’s Story. [Variety] More »
