By Jason Apuzzo. • Iron Man 2 will be available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download on September 28th. Has anybody watched Iron Man yet on an iPad? Just curious as to what that would be like. Does Gwyneth Paltrow actually become likeable that way? Is there an app for that?
• It looks like Despicable Me will be getting a sequel (Even More Despicable? Utterly Deplorable Me?), after that film’s big opening weekend. Just ask Pixar or Dreamworks – children’s animation represents the ultimate gold mine right now for any studio. And now, if perhaps a few more movies could be made for we adults in the audience …
• More lukewarm reviews coming out now about Inception. Here’s one from influential blogger Eric Kohn. Money quote: “Inception bucks any sort of lasting emotional impact in favor of brainteasers. It’s awesome, sure, but also a bit cold.” No surprises here. This has been Nolan’s problem all along – among others. I’ll be weighing-in more about all this soon.
• A “sex scene” may appear in the extended cut of Avatar that arrives in theaters in August. It’s bad enough that Julia Roberts and James Franco just did a sex scene together. Do we really need this?
• Industry watchers are asking (see here and here) whether Mel Gibson can survive his latest scandal. This is becoming an increasingly practical problem because of all the projects Gibson is tied in to. Most people don’t know, for example, that Gibson currently owns the film adaptation rights to the great Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. See here what Ray has to say about that …
• AND IN TODAY’S MOST IMPORTANT NEWS … Helena Mattsson has been cast as a “statuesque, educated, ice cold and lethal … 6-foot blond assassin” in the new film Guns, Girls and Gambling starring Christian Slater and Gary Oldman. And since all of us have a few statuesque, educated, ice cold and lethal 6-foot blond assassins in our lives, I hope she does justice to the part.
And that’s what’s happening today in the wonderful world of Hollywood …
Posted on July 13th, 2010 at 1:10pm.
A better movie needs to be made out of Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” Truffaut’s version was strangely distant and off-putting. It’s a shame that the current movie rights are tied up with Gibson. Given how unhinged he’s become lately, it doesn’t seem that a better “Fahrenheit 451” movie is going to come from him.
I never fully appreciated Scarlett Johanssen’s acting ability until this movie, and by acting ability I mean ass.
What has happened to Gwyneth Paltrow’s career? Why is she now just playing the girlfriend in “Iron Man”? Whatever happened to starring in movies like “Shakespeare in Love”?
I think there is something to Jennifer’s post below about women getting written out of the movies. If the fanboys can do it to the classic films, they can do it to the actresses in current films today too.
Please no, not an “Avatar” sex scene. The one in “Team America” was bad enough. Cameron is such a psycho. Who needs more of his wierdo aliens?