Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges — maybe the two coolest actors (save for Helen Mirren) over the age of 60 in Hollywood — are close to deals to star together in Great Hope Springs. From teevee writer Vanessa Taylor (“Alias,” “Everwood”), Springs is about a couple who spend a weekend in an intense counseling session to determine the fate of their marriage. Philip Seymour Hoffman was once in line to play the shrink, but has had to bow out due to scheduling conflicts. (The Playlist via Production Weekly)
Channing Tatum is attached to Ion, a sci-fi romance that’s already being described as the next Avatar. The plot revolves around a man who travels to different Earths and dimensions in order to find his reincarnated lover.The script comes from Will Dunn; Tony and Ridley are set to produce. (Heat Vision)
Speaking of the next not Avatar, Fox producer John Davis has purchased the screen rights to Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. (24 Frames)
Pierce Brosnan and his son, Sean, will star together in Bonded, which is being described as an Oliver Twist-eseque thriller about “a Mexican teenager named Jesus who, after the death of his mother, is sold by his father and smuggled into America, where he’s forced to work as a bonded slave laborer in a Los Angeles sweatshop.” Mo Ramchandani Devil’s Creek) will direct, based on his own script. (The Wrap)
Brad Pitt and his Plan B production company have purchased the rights to another Michael Lewis non-fiction book, The Big Short, about the 2008 financial crisis/meltdown. Charles Randolph (The Interpreter) has been tasked with scriptwriting duties. Pitt has also optioned Moneyball, which he’s currently turning into a movie. (Collider)
I don’t know why you’d find this interesting, but maybe you will. Here are the Top Ten movies moving the most merchandise, demonstrating once again that it’s not just about selling movie tickets. (THR)
1. Toy Story 3
2. Iron Man 2
3. G.I. Joe
4. The Princess and the Frog
5. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
6. Shrek Forever After
7. Monsters vs. Aliens
8. Avatar
9. How to Train Your Dragon
10. Star Trek
Finally … I dunno, people. It’s like, I kind of want to make fun of Twilight fans who would set up a tent city to camp out for the Eclipse premiere, but you know: They probably get made fun of enough as it is. In fact, that may be why they’re such rabid Twilighters in the first place.
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People who camp out for Twilight, iPhones, The Phantom Jedi or whatever, or who get really petulant about iPhones vs. Android, or who endlessly argue & gossip about celebrities need to have their own planet in some other galaxy. Go be as small-minded as you want, just stop breathing my air!
Posted by: the new transported man at June 25, 2010 9:52 AM
What about all the Star Wars nerds who set up camp for The Phantom Menace? THEY NEED TO BE MADE FUN OF TOO!
Posted by: Jen at June 25, 2010 9:54 AM
uhm. murder doesn't seem out of line here.
Posted by: Turtle Rape at June 25, 2010 9:54 AM
While not nearly as bad, these Twilight campers remind me a little bit of the women I saw last week. There is a small music theater near where I live. I walk by it every day (usually twice a day) when I walk my dog. Every so often, a popular group will be in town, and I'll see various people lined up in front of the theater early in the morning for an evening show.
Last week, however, Adam Lambert was in town. He was playing on Friday night at 8:00 pm. I took my dog for a walk on Thursday around 9:30 pm or so and saw two middle aged women sitting in lawn chairs waiting to get. They were camping out front, for at least almost 24 hours to see Adam Lambert. I was pretty stunned.
Also, how does that work logistically? Does someone come by before the show and pick up all their lawn chairs and blankets and food? How aren't you completely exhausted by the time the show starts and, thus, ruining the experience? I don't quite understand it.
Posted by: Forbiddendonut at June 25, 2010 9:58 AM
The good thing about this is that in 20 years, their kids will these videos and these women will (and should) know deep, deep shame.
Posted by: Tracer Bullet at June 25, 2010 9:58 AM
The longest time I've waited in line for anything since I was a kid is an hour and a half, once to get tickets for Crazy Horse/Sonic Youth/Social Distortion (I'm dating myself, I know. What idiot actually stands in line for tickets now? Oh, wait ...) and once to ride one of the monster coasters at Cedar Point.
24 fuckin' hours? I can't wrap my brain around that. There's nothing I'd wait in line that long for. Not even Halle Berry.
Triumph needs to pay a visit to the Twilight crew when Breaking Dawn comes out.
Posted by: DarthCorleone at June 25, 2010 10:36 AM
I once spent an entire day waiting in line to see The Cure at Nassau Coliseum in the rain, with like every other kid in every other high school in the NY/LI area and it was ALOT of fun but I will never ever do it again. I mean I was...15...maybe and, it was The Cure. These are grown peoples standing in line for sparkly vampires. Sheesh.
Posted by: JenVegas at June 25, 2010 10:45 AM
Ha! I'm personally not a fan of waiting in any line or sparkly vampires but really, if they're having fun, who cares?
Because behind that seemingly inoccuous fun lies a cornucopia of culturally poisonous buying habits, literature, fashion, & communication. Plus, these people will eventually breed.
Posted by: the new transported man at June 25, 2010 10:50 AM
Ha! I'm personally not a fan of waiting in any line or sparkly vampires but really, if they're having fun, who cares?
You know, Aleia, that's a good point. I totally agree. They really aren't hurting anyone or causing any harm. It's their lives and if that's how they want to spend their time and are having fun, all the more power to them.
Posted by: Forbiddendonut at June 25, 2010 10:51 AM
TNTM,
Spot on.
Posted by: , at June 25, 2010 10:53 AM
Quick! While they're all in one place!
NOW IS THE TIME TO STRIKE!
Posted by: The Other Agent Johnson at June 25, 2010 11:02 AM
There is one way to have fun with midnight releases of terrible, horrible franchise movies without napalm, as admin so appropriately suggested. It is called "get shwasted with your friends and MOCK UNTIL YOU PASS OUT". The movie, not the fans, because hearing them defend that shit is MUCH funnier than making them cry.
Posted by: Kevin at June 25, 2010 11:09 AM
That Streep and Bridges movie sounds like the most depressing shit ever. Old people yapping about their broken marriage. For two hours. Jesus... I'd rather watch any of the "Twilight" movies. Seriously.
Posted by: Slash at June 25, 2010 11:21 AM
Springs is about a couple who spend a weekend in an intense counseling session to determine the fate of their marriage.
Yeah, that’ll get butts into the theater. I’d rather see yet another crappy Baynis movie than listen to a couple bitch about and at each other for 2 hours - even if that couple is Streep & Bridges. Yeesh.
And yes, Twilight fans are sad. I try not to make fun of them though – seems to me they’ve had enough of that in life, hence the out-of-proportion fandom for such a crappy book/movie.
Posted by: Groovy Violet at June 25, 2010 11:38 AM
I've camped out for tickets to playoff games and to concerts. So I really have no leg to stand on to look down on the Twitards.
That said, I have longed discarded any fantasies of playing QB or lead guitar. Twitards really think that Ed Cullen and Jacob are the standard of romance.
I fear for the poor guys who have to compare to that!
Posted by: Fredo at June 25, 2010 11:48 AM
The plot revolves around a man who travels to different Earths and dimensions in order to find his reincarnated lover.
Twitards really think that Ed Cullen and Jacob are the standard of romance.
I fear for the poor guys who have to compare to that!
Hell, I'm not worried. Have you seen some of those chicks? Heard them talk? Not really the type I'm going for, you know? I like a woman who's a little more... how do you say it... what's that word again?
Oh, right. SANE.
Posted by: The Other Agent Johnson at June 25, 2010 12:21 PM
I like a woman who's a little more... how do you say it... what's that word again?
Oh, right. SANE.
Let me know if you find one.
Posted by: Fredo at June 25, 2010 12:38 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but those folks are standing outside of Grauman's for the Twilight: Eclipse premiere. I don't think they're actually going to get to see the movie. So they're camping out just to see the actors walk the red carpet.
Streep ... "Bridges" ... hasn't that movie been done?
Posted by: , at June 25, 2010 1:58 PM
How can Twilight not be moving the most merch? Not even in the top ten? Say wha?
Posted by: Renegator at June 25, 2010 2:25 PM
Oh for the love of god. THIS. THIS is why they hate us. This is why I hate us!
Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at June 25, 2010 3:39 PM
Not to go against the comment grain, but...I'm looking forward to the Bridges/Streep combo. What do you expect of these two? A 'Mamma Mia' sequel? Supporting roles in 'Pirates 4'? Sheesh. I'll take this 2 hour therapy flick over another season of 'In Treatment' any day.
P.S. Dear Taylor Lautner, You will never be as hot or attractive as Zac Efron. While your efforts are admirable, the end result is determined. Best Regards...
Posted by: Barnes78 at June 25, 2010 5:07 PM
That was painful. A tent city of crazy people who think the stars of the film are watching the news intently, seeing who is going to be at their premiere. Oy.
Posted by: megaroni and cheese at June 25, 2010 6:07 PM
Channing Tatum is attached to Ion, a sci-fi romance that’s already being described as the next Avatar.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Charming Potato makes Sam Worthington look like a master thespian. At least Sam has an Australian accent, which is sexy.
Posted by: MM at June 25, 2010 6:22 PM
How do you know if a woman is crazy?
Does she have a vagina?
There's your answer.
Posted by: CptCrckpot at June 25, 2010 7:32 PM
If George were here, he'd flay those twihards in a profanity-laced tirade. Anybody know where George is,anyway? Is he OK? Seriously...
Posted by: stryker1121 at June 25, 2010 8:11 PM
i'd love a woman who wants to be immortal with me and my family.
Posted by: Utah Dynamo at June 25, 2010 11:19 PM
I know she's high up on the Older Dame We'd Like To Date list, but don't get entirely snowed by her good looks/roles, charm and talent. Helen Mirren is a good 0.5 parts crazy for every part badass. She's got some 'interesting' ideas about sexism and gender roles (and sadly some unsolved issues related to personal trauma, but I'm certainly not her psychiatrist, so I guess I'm out of place) that can't be solely attributed to the generational divide. I'm not saying that we need to throw the Mirren out with the bathwater, but she's not lacking in the batshit department. True, she's balls more graceful in every arena of her life than a lot of her contemporaries or younger colleagues, but it's just that some of the ideas she espouses would be difficult to square with the more feminist sensibilities of this site or its posters. Just a thought.
Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at June 26, 2010 3:48 AM
As long as we're just talking about the teenage Twilight fans, I agree with Aleia. Teenagers are expected to fall hard for things, even stupid things, they're practically genetically wired for it. In fact, I predict that if this sight is around in another ten years a fair chunk of its twentysomething readership will be ex-Twihards, and probably extremely cynical ex-Twihards at that.
Now the Twihards that are old enough to drink are another matter. Its one thing to be caught up into a shitty emo adolescent fantasy when you are an adolescent, when you are pushing 30 (or 40!) and are caught up in a shitty emo adolescent fantasy, well I'm sorry but you're just too stupid to live.
Posted by: Irving Washington at June 26, 2010 10:10 AM
Oh, and to clarify, "old enought to drink" means old enough to drink legally. Which here in the US is 21 years, for some god-unknown reason.
Posted by: Irving Washington at June 26, 2010 10:13 AM
i don't drink alcohol i drink red Bull. i also eat my own boogers whenever i bleed i drink my own blood.
People who camp out for Twilight, iPhones, The Phantom Jedi or whatever, or who get really petulant about iPhones vs. Android, or who endlessly argue & gossip about celebrities need to have their own planet in some other galaxy. Go be as small-minded as you want, just stop breathing my air!