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At This Rate, Battleship Will be Underwater Before Anyone Has a Chance to Sink It

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (30)



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  • Y’all do remember that Peter Berg is still making a movie based on the Battleship board game, right? Bless that man’s little heart: He’s brought pop-singer Rihanna into the cast. She joins Taylor Kitsch. Rihanna? This just gets better and better, folks. And by better and better, I mean: What a fucking sham. I’m just sorry that Kitsch and Alexander Skarsgård have to be involved. (Variety)

  • It’s been known for quite some time, but it’s nice to have confirmation, I suppose. Daniel Craig officially has signed on as the Blomkvist character in The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo. Not a bad casting choice. (Deadline)

  • “Mad Men,” certainly delivered on Sunday night, putting up 2.9 million viewers, the highest rated broadcast for AMC ever, up five percent over last year’s premiere. (The Wrap)

  • Terry Gilliam will direct the live webcast of Arcade Fire’s concert at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on August 5th, which is kind of cool, but also: Doesn’t Terry Gilliam have better things to do than film a live concert? Like, make that Don Quixote movie? (AP)

  • Shawn Levy is developing Judith Viorst’s children’s book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, as a live-action family film. I can’t say I really know anything about the novel, but Shawn Levy’s name (Night of the Museum) is enough for me to know that it will probably be awful. (Variety)

  • Somebody in the comments of the Inception review suggested that Christopher Nolan might be afraid of women, as evidenced by his leading female characters. Here’s another tack: Christopher Nolan is obsessed with asshole protagonists. (FSR)

  • McG’s action/comedy This Means War, which has had a round table of great actors attached at some point, including Matt Damon, RDJ, and Seth Rogen — has finally settled on Tom Hardy (Inception), who replaces Sam Worthington opposite Chris Pine in the movie about two spies who fall in love with the same woman (Reese Witherspoon). (Vulture)

  • Here’s a preview clip from the upcoming third season of “Castle,” which looks as though it begins with Fillion’s Richard Castle being mistaken for a murderer. Hey! At least he finally gets what he’s always wanted: Handcuffed by Beckett. (THR)

  • Finally, I leave you with this fanfuckingtastic image of Rainn Wilson in James Gunn’s Super, compliments of our friend Justin. (HopeforFilm)

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    Comments

    Daniel Craig as Blomkvist is just perfect. However I recently saw the The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and a remake is not necessary. It's a very good movie.

    Does Hollywood have something against the Swedes? Or am I turning into an old grumpy lady? I'm glad I don't have a lawn to shout about.

    Posted by: Scully at July 27, 2010 1:56 PM

  • Who's Tom Harding?? *ahem*cough*cough*

    Posted by: D-Day at July 27, 2010 1:58 PM

    That super hero pic looks more like Dwight Shrute than Rainn Wilson.

    Posted by: Rykker at July 27, 2010 1:58 PM

    "Castle"

    WHAAAAAAAAT?

    I'd be all like, "Bitch, I done saved your punk ass life how many times now? You best get your hands off of me. And you, calling me a scum bag? Remember what I bought for the break room? You best apologize."

    Or something like that.

    Posted by: DeistBrawler at July 27, 2010 2:01 PM

    Last year I bought two golden raspberry plants and two red raspberry plants. It's unusual to get fruit the first year so I was patient. This year, they looked very promising. A week ago I even took a photo of the luscious red and golden blobs at the end of each stem. They weren't quite soft enough yet, but bountiful and beautiful and full of promise. This morning, armed with a basket and a hearty appetite for fresh home-grown raspberries with my cereal, I went out to harvest.
    The bastard birds had eaten every single one.

    Now that. Is news to razz your berries. If I had any left to razz.

    Posted by: PaddyDog at July 27, 2010 2:05 PM

    PaddyDog, one word: netting. I remember my great-aunt had raspberry and blueberry plants. They had a big net tent over them.

    PS Sorry 'bout your cereal.

    Posted by: MM at July 27, 2010 2:08 PM

    Oh and Thank God, Beckett finally grew out the mullet from last season. That was some ugly hair.

    Posted by: PaddyDog at July 27, 2010 2:08 PM

    Paddy, I'm sorry... but that was the most hilarious thing I've read all day... And I really needed the laugh. That was without even putting it in context about Trade News that Razzes our Berries... I didn't even get that far, at first. I just started guffawing mightly at the the evil bastard birds. Because that was just gorramn hilarious. I'm sorry, I know the whole situation sucks, because I bought fresh raspberries and quite enjoyed them last night. But DAMN was that funny.

    Posted by: lubeg at July 27, 2010 2:10 PM

    I truly love Castle, no matter how bad it gets. This trailer... meh. They should have played the "scumbag" part for a laugh, but instead it just seemed lame and forced.

    Posted by: Patty O'Green at July 27, 2010 2:20 PM

    Why would ANYONE cast Rihanna in ANYTHING. The woman can barely string two words together. Is she even relevant? I ask because the only reason to cast her would be to capitalize on some coked-up exec's idea of pop culture cross reference. Are they also casting Chris Brown to kick the shit out of her?

    Peter Berg is a tool.

    Posted by: BarbadoSlim at July 27, 2010 2:24 PM

    Hee. You just know that that's the exact outfit Dwight would come up with while he pretended to be a supehero ("I hunted a werewolf once. Shot it. But when I got to it, it had turned back into my neighbor's dog"), and he'd make something similar for his sidekick, Cousin Mose.

    Posted by: figgy at July 27, 2010 2:26 PM

    they are making a movie about Rainn wilson character in Dark Angel? awesome he did actually rocked that one.
    also peter berg seriously? is she your new minka kelly project? cause he took her a couple of season to get good and you kinda have two three hours top for this one. seriously big fucking fail.

    Posted by: rio at July 27, 2010 2:34 PM

    So everybody here thinks that Peter Berg can just tell the suits at Universal "Rihann? Hell, no, I don't think so!" If you do, then you really, really overstate Berg's place on the food chain.

    Posted by: alone in the dark at July 27, 2010 3:07 PM

    "Rihanna."

    Dammit, dammit, dammit.

    Posted by: alone in the dark at July 27, 2010 3:08 PM

    Daniel Craig is all well and good but the success of the Dragon Tattoo remake will hinge on who's cast as Salander.
    Noomi Rapace fucking owns that part and I can't imagine anyone doing it better.

    Posted by: clocker at July 27, 2010 3:44 PM

    I think the American GwthDT is doomed. I don't think there is any way it can be as cynical or pointed about society or male/female relationships, and those are the elements that really make it special.

    Posted by: alone in the dark at July 27, 2010 3:47 PM

    I can’t say I really know anything about the novel

    Oh, it's not a novel, it's a short picture book...if that makes you feel any worse.

    Posted by: Jay at July 27, 2010 3:52 PM

    OOOOh! Castle. I have to have some junk food to tide me over until Dr. Who or Torchwood come back. My All Creatures Great and Small DVDs are going to run out after a few years.

    Posted by: BWeaves at July 27, 2010 4:16 PM

    Who said Chris Nolan hates women?! Who said this?! I'll kill them!!! How dare anyone say anything negative that has anything to do with God Nolan and his craft!!! HOW DARE THEY?!?! FUCK THEM! FUCK WHOEVERE SAID THAT!!! Nolan is PERFECT, every movie he made is PERFECT, and anyone who says otherwise should probably DIE!!! Inception is a masterpiece of the utmost level! The best movie ever made, in fact! Better than Gone With the Wind. Better than Citizen Kane. Better than SEX! It's the best thing that's ever been made, period. I would rather watch Inception on repeat until the end of time than have my next inhale of oxygen. I want Nolan to rape me in the ass with his genius cockc and impregnate my man anus with his brilliant sperm!

    Posted by: Case at July 27, 2010 6:55 PM

    That's not gay at all.....

    Posted by: Ted at July 27, 2010 7:39 PM

    Nope.

    Not gay at all. Random and outbursty?

    Yep.

    Posted by: Groundloop at July 27, 2010 9:00 PM

    Castle: pretty people, really fucking dumb stories. I can invariably guess how every episode will unfold before the halfway mark, and my poor old brain cells have a half-life of 15 nanoseconds. Any Pajiban could probably write something better.* I'll still watch it, of course.

    * Disclaimer: No, they couldn't.

    Posted by: Uriah Creep at July 27, 2010 9:40 PM

    “Mad Men,” certainly delivered on Sunday night, putting up 2.9 million viewers, the highest rated broadcast for AMC ever, up five percent over last year’s premiere. (The Wrap)
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    I'm supposed to care? 297.1 million nonviewers (99% of us) didn't watch.

    Posted by: , at July 27, 2010 9:59 PM

    Rowles, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day isn't a novel per se, but it is a funny book with great illustrations. I absolutely loved it as a kid. You should find a copy and read it to lil Axl.

    Posted by: MelBivDevoe at July 27, 2010 10:44 PM

    Seriously, Dustin, get ahold of the Alexander book (yes, I am too lazy to type it out). That was one of my favorite books ever as a kid and one of the few kids books I own as an adult without children.

    Posted by: Even Stevens at July 28, 2010 12:12 AM

    Scully is right that this film isn't necessary but it seems this film will happen to us all.

    I agree with clocker in that it will absolutely depend on the actress who will play Lisbeth. Oh jesus the terrible possibilities. There could be a whole post of who SHOULDN'T play her.

    Noomi Rapace was brilliant in the role and I have a fiver on her copy of Rosetta Stone: English. She shouldn't have many lines in the movie anyway.

    Posted by: C. C. Devine at July 28, 2010 1:00 PM

    Tom Hardy and Chris Pine...

    Can't they just lose Reese and have the two spies fall in love with each other?

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    I truly love Castle, no matter how bad it gets. This trailer... meh. They should have played the "scumbag" part for a laugh, but instead it just seemed lame and forced.

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