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Finally, The Jake Gyllenhaal/Ron Howard Hip-Hop Video You’ve Clamoured For
8:23AM Kyle Buchanan | Sometimes, life is kind enough to fill a need you didn’t even know you had. Here, then, is a hip-hop video that stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Ron Howard for some reason. You’re welcome! More »
Ron Howard Unwilling To Blame ‘Punk’ Michael Cera for ‘Arrested Development’ Holdup
2:33AM Kyle Buchanan | Lower your pitchforks! Even as yet another Arrested Development actor comes aboard the movie (more on that later), Ron Howard is defending Michael Cera’s right to maybe shred the film’s script, if he wants to. More »
7:35AM Kyle Buchanan | By George: Here at Defamer, we’ve made it no secret that we didn’t really care for Frost/Nixon (in the crowded cinematic genre that is “movies that employ a titular blackslash,” we still have a soft spot for Face/Off). But could our opinions have been swayed by the suavest, most-mustachioed actor/director around, George Clooney? Writer Peter Morgan says Clooney made a full-court press for the helming gig: “(Clooney) said things like, ‘We are really going to kick arse with this!’ Not going with him was a complete fucking agony because he suggested doing some script work at his house by Lake Como – at which point my wife was just shaking her head.” We can see it now: noted Clooney wingman Mark Wahlberg as Richard Nixon. “Hey there, Frostie. Say hi to your mother for me!” [Daily Express] More »
‘Arrested Development’ Film Tracker: Two Contracts, Two Directors?
5:10AM Kyle Buchanan | It’s time to haul out our favourite “musty old claptrap”: Defamer’s Arrested Development Film Tracker™! Today, THR says that two important AD contracts have finally been signed, locking down a studio (Fox Searchlight) and paving the way for an actual script to be written. Then, though, the trade throws out a bizarre curveball about just who exactly will be directing the movie: More »
Introducing the Handy New ‘Arrested Development’ Film Tracker!
5:31AM Kyle Buchanan | Now that our fierce election year is over, we can turn their attention to more pressing matters like what is the goddamned status of the Arrested Development movie. In that spirit, then, we offer you the brand-new Arrested Development Film Tracker™, which will bring you up-to-the minute cast confirmations, disavowals, and cagey statements of, “I don’t understand the question, and I won’t respond to it.” Today, we have a brand-new development straight from the mouth from one of Arrested’s key players. To the banana stand! More »
Richie and the Fonz Reunite For ‘Happy Days: The Obama Years’
5:36AM STV | See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die Today we offer a new pair of videos as an addendum to our recent, authoritative list of Dos and Donts for Making the Perfect Celebrity PSA. First up: Absolutely DO coax Ron Howard and Henry Winkler into whatever outlandish pro-Obama Happy Days reprise they can stand, such as the one after the jump that premiered today at Funny or Die. And if Andy Griffith agrees to join Howard for a bewigged ride all the way back to Mayberry, all the better. However: DO NOT, under any circumstances, enlist Rhea Perlman, Valerie Harper and/or Garry Freaking Marshall as your elder voice of reason. Especially Marshall! This election is just too close — and Georgia Rule far too recent — to risk some new, William Ayers-like smear campaign this late in the game. More »
Grazer/Howard Lament Lackluster First Reviews Of ‘Frost/Nixon’
8:20AM STV | In our ongoing effort to bring you the very latest critical distaste for every prestige film this fall, we follow up last week’s collection of lukewarm W. reviews with hot-off-the-presses ambivalence toward Frost/Nixon. Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play reunites Frank Langella and Michael Sheen as, respectively, the 37th president and his pesky TV inquisitor; the early word confirms that the film offers gravitas to spare, but you’ll want to bring your own pillow: More »
6:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Now that Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have had blockbuster Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons put off indefinitely by the strike, we think we’ve identified a perfect fill-in project that could hit on many of the controversial religious themes that made Da Vinci such a huge success: The 13th Disciple, a planned “fantasy-adventure” film about Jesus Christ’s reincarnated evil twin. We’ve already cast longtime Grazer muse Russell Crowe in the heretical leading role. [Reuters] More »
