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Iron Man’s Rap Sheet Of Drunken Break-Ins Confuses Japanese Populace
6:26AM Kyle Buchanan | Before his career resurgence in Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr.’s best-known performances involved Wild Turkey, aluminium foil-wrapped inducements, and the cushy beds of strangers. As the actor recounts, these roles apparently never made it overseas. More »
Tom Cruise Inherits Coveted K-Fed Spot on ‘Details’ Magazine’s 2008 Power List
7:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Details unveiled Tom Cruise this morning as the cover boy of its annual Power Issue. Sadly, Cruise only makes No. 7 — a position shared last year by Kevin Federline and Larry Birkhead. But perhaps it’s the thought that counts: Previous Power Issues have ranked the “most influential men under 45,” but the magazine has expanded its age range in 2008 to include “the most influential men under 47,” thus barely qualifying the 46 year-old star in time for his Valkyrie promo tour. Excerpts of his acceptance speech follow the jump. More »
Robert Downey Jr. Saved, Jamie Foxx Doomed in ‘Soloist’ Oscar Oblivion
6:18AM STV | The fallout from Paramount’s recent release-date shuffle continues today, with agents and saber-rattling DreamWorks brass continuing their protest over The Soloist’s move to 2009. While we sustain our first impression that the Jamie Foxx/Robert Downey Jr. tearjerker will in fact be better than the diabetic-coma inducing trailers already in circulation, that’s not much comfort to those who fear the bump from November to March will impugn Soloist’s profile among critics and audiences alike. But now, as a peace offering to the angry gods at CAA who packaged the film for the ‘Works with its clients Downey, Foxx and director Joe Wright, Paramount has forged a silver lining for one-third of that jilted braintrust. More »
7:10AM Seth | Going Full Fair. We’ve already had our day of fun at the L.A. County Fair this past Saturday, but if you stop by tomorrow, make sure to check out the Pepper Street Stage at noon. It will play host to a whole array of planned “Activities for Retarded Children & Adults,” which you’ll either want to check out, or picket, depending upon which side of the Simple Jack controversy you fall. [LA County Fair] More »
‘Thunder’ Strikes Again in Hollywood Holiday Wasteland
2:30AM STV | Rising and shining today after a long, lucrative season of hits and hits and hits — the second richest on record, we’re told — what better way to welcome fall than with a hungover glimpse at the Labour Day weekend’s multiplex triumphs? Another day off, you say? We’re afraid we can’t help you there, so for now, behold your Tuesday Morning Box Office:
Hollywood Treats Labour Day Moviegoers to Festive Abundance Of Crap
2:05AM STV | Welcome to a special Labour Day edition of Defamer Attractions, your regular guide to what’s new, noteworthy and potentially nausea-inducing this week at the movies. We’re as shocked as anyone to see another bottleneck for wide releases, with five films vying for scarce holiday dollars before studios roll out their fall collections. Alas, there they are — only one dumpee can finish on top, and our overeducated guess follows below. We’ve also got a hunch over who stands to lose big, our regular underdog pick for your consideration, and the best of the best new DVD releases for you three-day-weekend homebodies. As always, our choices are our own but positively elegant in their accuracy. You’re welcome!Australia’s Appetite For Retards, Blackface Ends Batman’s Box Office Reign
12:30PM Clem Bastow | It is now approximately five million years (let’s see if the Dido fans correct me on that one) since the latest Christopher Nolan Batman installment, The Dark Knight, opened at #1 on the Australian box office charts. But just when you thought it was going to stay perched atop the charts like Christian Bale brooding on top of a skyscraper for the rest of our natural lives, along comes the little satire that could – Tropic Thunder – to ruin the party. The question that remains begging to be answered through all this, is: does this mean that The Dark Whopper will be reduced in price?
The film, which also stars Robert Downey Jr and Jack Black, grossed $3.05 million on its opening weekend to take the number one position.
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‘Tropic Thunder’ Makes America’s Pee-Pee Maker T-t-tingle
2:40AM Seth | Having been nudged awake this morning by a shirtless man in a fedora and pink Chuck Taylors as you snoozed peacefully beneath a table outside Intelligentsia Cafe, another Sunset Junction appears to have come and gone—as has any memory of the last seven hours you spent there. We’ll give you a moment to gather your belongings before inundating you with the weekend’s box office receipts: More »
Will This Performance Save Tom Cruise’s Career?
3:05AM Seth | If nothing else, Tropic Thunder will go down as summer 2008’s greatest single incubator of distractingly hairy outcroppings. Having already been lulled into a heady ’stache trance by the marvelous things happening atop Robert Downey Jr.’s lip on a recent GMA appearance, we now present for you a scene featuring Tom Cruise’s much buzzed-about cameo as Les Grossman, the furry-knuckled, sociopathic studio chief who wants his war movie delivered on time and under budget. More »
