sweeney todd
Short Ends: Last Negotiator Standing
5:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Cobbling together various reports about what transpired between the WGA and the studios before negotiations were abruptly halted at the end of last week, the creators of Hollywood Rumble have produced this dramatic recreation of the unfortunate events of late Friday afternoon. · You know who’s not going broke even if the strike lasts until 2105? Les Moonves. · Why are famous people so damn crazy? A crazy stylist-to-the-stars offers his exciting theories! · Those too impatient to wait for Sweeney Todd’s release can get a small measure of relief for their barber-blueballs here. You can’t have The Office right now, but you can have An Office. More »
Secrets Of Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ Package Revealed!
7:40AM Defamer Hollywood | Of the many surprises in Sweeney Todd, Tim Burton’s musical ode to early-Victorian cannibalism, the appearance of Sacha Baron Cohen as barber rival Adolfo Pirelli is the one of the most pleasant: The British comedian ably tackles the part’s considerable vocal challenges, and cuts a fine figure in a form-fitting, periwinkle dandy suit, beneath which protrudes a bulge even more distractingly prominent than the one poking out of Borat’s signature neon nutthong swimwear. E Online’s Planet Gossip caught up with the movie’s costume designer to find out where nature ended and package-enhancing magic began: “Oh, that was the real thing,” Sweeney Todd’s two-time Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood told me the other day with a giggle, but quickly admitting, “Yeah, we augmented.” More »
7:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Pow! That’s the sound of a pneumatic cattle bolt flying into our awards-crazy melons, officially marking the start of Oscar Season: The National Board of Review has named No Country for Old Men their best film of 2007. Other big wins: George Clooney for best actor in Michael Clayton, Tim Burton for best director for Sweeney Todd, and Emile Hirsch and Ellen Page won breakthrough performances for Into the Wild and Juno, respectively. [Reuters] Categories/Tags: Awards, Ellen Page, Emile Hirsch, George Clooney, Joel Coen, Juno, No Country for Old Men, Oscars, sweeney todd, Tim Burton More »
Trade Roundup: The Rock Returns To ‘Witch Mountain’
6:30AM Defamer Hollywood | We don’t even know where to begin with this one: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is set to star in Disney’s Witch Mountain, a follow-up to one of the most formative moviegoing experiences of our distant youth, Escape to Witch Mountain. Don’t mess with Tony and Tia, Rock: They fuck you up good. [Variety] Tim Burton’s “could you turn the human-intestinal-pudding shots down a smidge?” Sweeney Todd gets a December 21st release date. [Variety] George Lucas hired white-hot screenwriter John Ridley to write the script for Red Tails, a WWII drama about the color-barrier-shattering Tuskegee Airmen, feared by the Germans for their deadly, X-wing-mounted laser rifles. [Variety] Social networking websites gone public! Analysts suspect sites like Classmates.com could do well on the stock market, backed by irresistible marketing campaigns like, “Can you believe SHE married HIM?” [THR] Innovative agents Michael McConnell and Ben Press are suing the agency for being “unfairly chained to their jobs.” Both suits cite the heavy, iron chains soldered to their ankles and tethered to their desks as irrefutable proof. [THR] More »
