In a press conference for the Fighter, Mark Wahlberg — discussing his fondness for Amy Adams — was refreshingly honest about his assessment of The Happening. Fucking trees, man. (Movieline)
I was such a huge fan of [Amy Adams]. We’d actually had the luxury of having lunch before to talk about another movie, and it was a bad movie that I did. She dodged the bullet. I don’t want to tell you what movie… All right, The Happening with M. Night Shyamalan. It is was it is. Fucking trees, man, the plants. Fuck it. You can’t blame me for wanting to try to play a science teacher. You know? I wasn’t playing a cop or a crook.
Lindsey Lohan was kicked from the potentially career-saving Linda Lovelace biopic, Inferno, and now Malin Ackerman has been replaced as the woman who starred in Deep Throat. (The Wrap)
Two of those 13 Prolific Screenwriters Whose Faces You’d Never Recognize, Rhett Rheese and Paul Wernick (Zombieland) have been hired to direct a movie called Doc and Howie, based on Steve Leff’s Black List script. It’s about two men who fail to help an old lady with her groceries and become responsible for her death. They then meet the granny’s two gorgeous grand-daughters, Doc and Howie, and must decide whether to tell them their role in their grandmother’s death. (THR)
Justin Bieber was named the artist of the year by the American Music Association. You make of that what you want. (THR)
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in a feature film based on the non-fiction JFK assassination book Legacy of Secrecy, written by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann. It’s another JFK conspiracy movie, this one positing that the Mafia may have been behind his death. Martin Scorsese may direct. (Deadline)
Speaking of assassinated presidents, Steven Spielberg has announced that Daniel Day Lewis has been cast as Abraham Lincoln in Spielberg’s long-gestating Lincoln, based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, adapted by Tony Kushner. (Deadline)
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Googling the American Music Awards brings up such travesties as Kid Rock, Miley Cyrus and New Kids on the Block.
I think it's safe to say that the "Music" in "American Music Association" means about as much as the same word in "MTV".
Posted by: Paultera at November 22, 2010 11:31 AM
Marky Mark shined a whole lot of life on that Actresses in Vanity Fair table discussion where everyone started ragging on Amy about loosing out in a part in a big flop film, like she wasn't good enough to play in that crap. Love it. Someone thought Zooey "at least she can sing" Deschanel was a better actress than Amy Adams, and that's the same person that wrote a film about killer plants as an allegory for God's vengeance. Because, much like C.S. Lewis, everything Shyamalan does comes back to Jesus.
Justin Bieber was named the artist of the year by the American Music Association.
This makes my brain bleed. Seriousfuckingly.
Posted by: Rykker at November 22, 2010 11:45 AM
Justin Bieber was named the artist of the year by the American Music Association. You make of that what you want.
This is really off the subject but I noticed over the weekend that the MurderTank is dangerously low on the blood of Canadian pre-fab pop singers. Just throwing that out there.
The AMV's were terrible as usual, so I flipped over to PBS's rerun of Paul McCartney's Gershwin Award concert. Despite the Jonas Brothers and a bad rendition of "Black Bird" it was a great watch.
Posted by: ThunderSacTriumph at November 22, 2010 11:48 AM
You know, I think the only thing on earth that could have made me less interested in seeing Inferno than I already was is the news that Malin Ackerman is now starring in it. Good lord, that woman is even more boring than Kate Bosworth. Very pretty, mind you, but just hearing her name puts me to sleep. I'm sure Lindsay Lohan would have been a trainwreck, but at least she makes some sense in the role.
Posted by: Tae at November 22, 2010 11:59 AM
Justin Bieber was named the artist of the year by the American Music Association.
Fuck you, Canada.
Fuck. You.
Posted by: The Other Agent Johnson at November 22, 2010 12:01 PM
Surely Daniel Day Lewis is too short to play Lincoln. If I was making a movie about Lincoln I'd cast Liam Neeson.
And not just because he's tall enough but because I think he would do a better job. DDL is a bit of a ham. Liam Neeson can do subtlety.
Posted by: Ballymena Bob at November 22, 2010 12:04 PM
I still adamantly believe The Happening was designed to be terrible. Because there's no way someone made a movie that horrible unless it was on purpose. Right? I mean, I know Shyamalen has fallen off the wagon but...not that badly right? He couldn't make a movie THAT bad without it being on purpose. RIGHT?
Posted by: Littlejon2001 at November 22, 2010 12:37 PM
finally Wahlberg saw "the happening"
Posted by: caro at November 22, 2010 12:40 PM
I was going to say Ballymena Bob, I thought Neeson was attached at some point. I guess those are about the only two actors you could consider. Hopefully we don't get to see a movie where Lincoln likes to cut people with knives, and abandon his boy.
Posted by: e at November 22, 2010 12:46 PM
On last night's interview Marky Mark...ahem, Mark Wahlberg stated he goes to church every day. Every damn day. I'm thinking he curses an awful lot for a "goin' to church every day" kinda guy. I mean, there are some folks who say "fucking" with great frequency and tenacity, and there are some folks who go to church every day (I stay far, far away from people like this), but rarely do the people in this Venn Diagram intersect.
Posted by: EJ at November 22, 2010 12:47 PM
But what the hell is an AMA? Seems completely random and totally unimportant. So, yay for you, Bieber.
The Other Agent Johnson, we birthed it, you made it a star. Take some responsibility.
Posted by: becks at November 22, 2010 1:09 PM
Daniel Day Lewis playing Lincoln is brilliant. "I drink your milkshake AND free your slaves!"
Posted by: Dingles at November 22, 2010 1:28 PM
[phone rings. Wahlberg answers]
Marky-Mark: S'up? Shyamalan: Can I speak to Mark, please? Marky-Mark: Yo, you got him, G. Shyamalan: Mark! Hey, what's up? It's M. Night Shyamalan. How you doin' pal? Marky-Mark: [under breathe] ...shit Shyamalan: What's goin' on, buddy? Surprised I'm calling? Marky-Mark: Um, no man. How ya' been? How're the kids, these days? Shyamalan: The kids? You want to talk about my kids, you MOTHERFUCKER! YOU DON'T GET TO TALK ABOUT MY KIDS, GODDAMMIT OR I WILL FUCKING CUT YOU! DO YOU HEAR ME?! Marky-Mark: Whoa, hold up G... Shyamalan: Don't tell me to hold up, Mark, you piece of shit! Did you think I wouldn't fucking hear about what you said in the press conference, you stupid FUCK!? Did you actually think for a split-fucking-second I wouldn't get a phone call five-fucking-minutes after you walked away from the mic? You goddamn ingrate! You know, your mouth is a cage for your tongue if you just close your fucking teeth? Marky-Mark: Yo, man I feel real bad about that, G. It just kinda came out, y'know? Shyamalan: Oh, it just came out, huh? Well then I guess all is forgiven since there was nothing malicious behind you FUCKING MY CAREER IN THE ASS, YOU STUPID FUCKING ASSHOLE! Marky-Mark: Listen, man. I'm sorry. Really. I just wasn't thinkin' I guess. Shyamalan: Goddamn right you weren't thinking! You haven't had a thought in your head since your coke-addled mother dropped you on your fucking face when you were a baby, you fucking dolt! If you had a thought in your head, you'd know better than to cross me, bitch! Marky-Mark: You're right, M. Night. Absolutely right, man. I fucked up bad and I'm real, real sorry. Shyamalan: Well, sorry just gonna cut it "G." No-no. Sorry's not gonna come NEARLY close enough to cutting it. I'm going to need something from you. Marky-Mark: Shit, man. What do you want? I told you I ain't got no more Funky bunch C.D.s the last time you called. Shyamalan: Motherfucker, I don't want your fucking boy-band music! Pull your head out of your ass, bitch! I want you to sign something. Marky-Mark: Oh man...what is it? Shyamalan: There's a little project I'm putting together and I think you'd be great for it. Marky-Mark: I don't know man. Shit didn't exactly blow up for me after The Happening, y'know? Shyamalan: Motherfucker, have you read the news lately? You saw what I did to fucking Mel Gibson didn't you? I own Hollywood, bitch! You'll do what I fucking tell you! Marky-Mark: Whatever you say, Night. J-just, don't hurt me or my family. Shyamalan: That's better. Now, I've got a new movie I think you'd be perfect for. I want you to come read for it and we'll work out the contracts later. You think you can handle that simple fucking task, you fucking twit? Marky-Mark: Y-yeah man. Whatever you need, baby. W-what's the movie called? Shyamalan: Let's just say I've already got your brother and Haley-Joel-Osmet on board. That fucking kid still owes me for the hooker I had "disappear", y'hear? Now get your bags packed; I want you on the next flight to Philly. Marky-Mark: Yes, Mr. Shyamalan. Shyamalan: Yes, Mr. Shyamalan what? Marky-Mark: Yes, Mr. Shyamalan, sir.
Posted by: superasente at November 22, 2010 2:19 PM
Can I just say how happy it makes me that Daniel Day-Lewis is gonna be THE Abe Lincoln? He's gonna own it.
Agreed, grace b. I think I'll love this movie. I have very little information yet I'm already salivating. They need to get Gwyneth Paltrow for Mary Todd.
Posted by: becks at November 22, 2010 2:29 PM
I still adamantly believe The Happening was designed to be terrible. Because there's no way someone made a movie that horrible unless it was on purpose. Right? I mean, I know Shyamalen has fallen off the wagon but...not that badly right? He couldn't make a movie THAT bad without it being on purpose. RIGHT?
This is a joke, right? But maybe you're right. M Night Shamalamadingdong is punking us like Andy Kaufman or Juaquin Phoenix. The Last Airbender was just him at the apex of his punking craft.
Posted by: ed newman at November 22, 2010 2:45 PM
Great. Another chance for DDL to chew scenery in a stovepipe hat. Can't wait.
Posted by: Mac at November 22, 2010 2:52 PM
I could be mistaken, but wasn't the Linda Lovelace biop already half-done or something? I could've sworn that I've been hearing about all of Lohan's "raw emotions" and "blahblahblah" during her scenes (see: gangbangs). Did I make all that up?
Posted by: coryo at November 22, 2010 3:35 PM
Shyamalan wrote The Happening as a B-movie. It's designed to be cheesy, but not horrible. It fails on both parts, as the truly horrible moments are the intentionally cheesy scenes like when Marky Mark tries to negotiate with a POTTED HOUSE PLANT!!!!!
re: Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln. I thought I was alone in not really enjoying his more recent performances. I'm hoping that Spielberg can reel in DD-L, because he's been in Snidely Whiplash mode way too fucking long. As for being too short, yes he's a few inches shorter than Lincoln was, but Martin Sheen (5'7") played Robert E. Lee, and Lee was pretty tall.
Posted by: Groundloop at November 22, 2010 5:20 PM
coryo, I don't know - I thought filming hadn't started (or had barely started). All I know for sure is that they kept releasing promotional posters for this film that was barely underway...
Posted by: Edith at November 22, 2010 5:36 PM
I like Daniel Day-Lewis, but regardless, you guys are missing the real news. Tony motherfucking KUSHNER! Adapting Doris Kearns Goodwin! ...and Spielberg directing?
This is an unholy trinity of talent, y'all. I'm not sure where this is headed. It's like Jeremy Feist adapting the book of Mormon, as directed by your 6th grade band teacher. I think the end times might be here.
Googling the American Music Awards brings up such travesties as Kid Rock, Miley Cyrus and New Kids on the Block.
I think it's safe to say that the "Music" in "American Music Association" means about as much as the same word in "MTV".