Before diving in with the coming week's releases, let's take a quick look at last week's. I think the poll results usually paint a pretty telling picture of who is reading this blog. The weekend's big box office winner, Tyler Perry's "I Can Do Bad All By Myself," failed to pick up a single vote in the poll. "Sorority Row" took top spot in the poll (70% of your votes), followed in a distant second by "Whiteout" and "9," which were basically tied, at 15% and 13% respectively.
My takeaway is that you readers are on the younger side -- ie below 30, or at least not yet parents -- and that you prefer spectacle to schmaltz. That's definitely an overly broad generalization, but I do find the fact the weekend's biggest earner, by quite a wide margin I might add, didn't even pick up one vote in last week's poll. Now, let's take a look at what's in store this week... Read more...
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Happy “Battle: Los Angeles” week, folks! We’ve been eagerly tracking this so-out-there-it’s-gotta-be-awesome project for awhile around these parts, and with Ne-Yo joining the cast it’s gotten even more interesting. Aliens, scandal-plagued rappers, Harvey Dent kicking ass -– as cameras begin rolling on the February 2011 flick, what more do you need?
One of the more interesting aspects of the film emerged earlier this year, when we interviewed filmmaker Jonathan Liebesman, who oversaw “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” and this year’s impressive Sundance thriller “The Killing Room.” At the time, the only actor who had come on board the aliens-invade-Los Angeles film was Aaron Eckhart, and Liebesman said that the star was planning to channel Dirty Harry. Read more...
The hardest thing about making an alien movie is finding new ways to depict your invaders; the hardest thing about being a leading man like Aaron Eckhart is finding new ways to reinvent yourself. These days, both struggles are being waged with “Battle: Los Angeles."
“We are doing our best to do something that hasn’t been done before,” said 29-year-old South African born director Jonathan Liebesman, best known for getting gory with “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” in 2006. “This is a more down and dirty alien movie. This isn’t like ‘Independence Day.’”
This time, Liebesman’s sci-fi action thriller centers on a marine platoon that must protect the City of Angels from alien invaders. Read more...
Last week, we brought you the news that Amber Heard would be romancing Johnny Depp (and showing a lot of skin in the process) in "The Rum Diaries." Now the rest of the cast has been filled out, which means Depp's Hunter S. Thompson project is finally becoming a reality.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Aaron Eckhart and Richard Jenkins have joined the cast of the 1950s drama. Eckhart will play Sanderson, a wealthy landowner who believes everything can be bought. Read more...
FROM SPLASHPAGE: In the past, Aaron Eckhart has had no problems stating matter-of-factly that Two-Face was done for, telling SuperHeroHype back in September that his character was as "dead as a doornail." Well...maybe not that dead.
When MTV News caught up with "The Dark Knight" star on the Golden Globes red carpet, he was considerably less convinced of his character's demise, and of the possibility that he could reprise his role as Harvey Dent/Two-Face in a sequel to the record-breaking film.
Continue reading Aaron Eckhart's hinting at a possible return of Two-Face on Splashpage.MTV.com!
After his brilliant turn as Harvey Dent in 'The Dark Knight," one would expect the handsome Aaron Eckhart to be signing onto big A-List roles right and left. But he's remained relatively quiet, taking no big parts, just working on "Traveling" with Jennifer Aniston.
However, it looks like Eckhart might be ready for that to change. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he's just signed onto Columbia's sci-fi thriller "Battle: Los Angeles." It will be the first time he's really played the action hero, and been front and center of the action.
The story centers around a Marine platoon, who battle alien invaders right in the middle of Los Angeles. Eckhart will play the platoon commander. Read more...
