-- Let the speculation begin. "Howling Mad" Murdock actor Dwight Schultz will be showing up for a cameo in Joe Carnahan's "The A-Team," according to a fansite. Hopefully, this means we'll be seeing other cameos from the rest of the team. Who doesn't want to see Mr. T give this young guns A-Team a vote of confidence with a tiny cameo role. Hell, he can leave his gold chains at home if it makes him happy. Schultz is great, but the fans want what they want: bring back T. (The Official Dwight Schultz Fansite, via Cinematical)
-- "Mad Men" producer Matthew Weiner is turning his attention to film now that the latest season is finished. He's now getting set to helm "You Are Here," a romantic comedy that he wrote. Independent financing is already in place and the cast will include the likes of Jennifer Aniston and "The Hangover" stars Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis. No word on a synopsis, but he'd better get cracking or he's going to leave a lot of "Mad Men" fans very disappointed. (Variety) Read more...
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The movies team working on location at San Diego Comic-Con this year did a kickass job. They flat-out crushed it. In addition to all of the coverage we've been rolling out since last Wednesday, there are literally boxes of tape just waiting to be digitized and served direct to your waiting eyeballs.
Since the onslaught has really only just begun (seriously, you have no idea), I figure now might be a good time to remind you of a few delectable video nuggets that you may have missed. I hadn't even seen some of these until yesterday. SDCC is a big show and the amount of coverage we have from it is almost overwhelming. So peep these vids before the next giant load rolls through. Read more...
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Ah, Mike Judge. Thank you for "Beavis & Butthead." And for "Office Space." And for this exclusive clip from your next movie, "Extract." In a sort of reversal on his 1999 abused employee comedy, "Extract" tells the story of an abused factory owner named Joel (Jason Bateman). The dude just can't seem to catch a break: his less-than-competent workers walk all over him and his apparently unfaithful wife does the same.
In this exclusive clip, Joel meets Cindy (Mila Kunis), a new temp at his plant. Is that some chemistry I'm detecting there? Or maybe just some gold-digging? Before we can find out, Joel's entrepreneur/spiritualist pal Dean (Ben Affleck, looking mighty Savior-like) shows up to spoil the fun with his crass comments. Awesome. If you're at San Diego Comic-Con this week, make sure you check out the "Extract" panel on Saturday. MTV's Josh Horowitz will moderate as Judge, Bateman, Kunis and fellow star Kristen Wiig reveal new footage and field questions!
As you know -- and if you don't, I'll set the dogs on you -- MTV Movies Editor Josh Horowitz will be moderating a panel at San Diego Comic-Con this week for Mike Judge's next laugh-fest, "Extract." Judge is the brilliant mind behind such classics as "Beavis & Butthead," "King of the Hill" and, of course, "Office Space." Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
Appearing alongside Judge at the panel are stars Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis and Kristen Wiig. And they all want to hear from you. Seriously! We appreciate that a lot of you folks don't get to attend Comic-Con, and we want you to have your say at the Q&A! Send us your questions at tips@mtvmoviesblog.com and Josh will do his best to get them all answered at the panel.
He helped create the signature look of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” made Gwyneth Paltrow fat for “Shallow Hal,” and is currently turning Kanye West into a wrinkled old man for his upcoming “Stay Up! (Viagra)” music video. But at night, make-up and effects legend Tony Gardner is re-inventing the zombie.
“Basically, it’s the end of the world; the entire nation is zombies,” Gardner told us of “Zombieland,” which features Woody Harrelson and young rising stars Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Amber Heard and Mila Kunis, and is due in theaters in time for Halloween. “And [the humans] are trying to get from the east coast to the west coast.”
Judging from the plot (humans running from the living dead), “Zombieland” sounds like your typical end-of-the-world thriller - but the comedic elements promise something unique. “It’s a comedy,” Gardner insisted, looking past the ghastly nature. “It’s really funny.” Read more...
"The Book of Eli" officially has my interest. We've watched the film rack up a pretty nice casting line-up in Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman and Mila Kunis, but something was missing in this post-apocalyptic story. That something was obviously the Punisher.
That's right -- Ray Stevenson, aka the new Punisher (who you'll see shoot up the place next week in Punisher: War Zone), has joined the cast of "Eli." According to Variety, he'll be playing an enforcer dispatched to kill Eli, that poor man who's just trying to guard a book and save humanity. Read more...
Mila Kunis is becoming quite the action heroine. This fall, she played a pretty kickass assassin in "Max Payne," and now she's going post-apocalyptic. According to The Hollywood Reporter, she's joining Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman in Albert and Allen Hughes' sci-fi thriller "The Book of Eli."
The story centers on a lone hero named Eli (played by Washington), who must battle his way across a desolate American wasteland, protecting a sacred book that holds the key to saving the future of humanity. Kunis will play a woman named Solara, who is hired to betray Eli. She's slowly won over, and ultimately joins him in his quest. This means she'll get to take on Gary Oldman, who's determined to steal Eli's book for himself. Read more...
With his nearly-flawless track record and growing status as Hollywood’s smartest satirist, if you’re not looking forward to Mike Judge’s next movie you must be so dumb that you’d rather sit at home and watch “Ow! My Balls!” Now, Mila Kunis is spilling the beans on Judge’s upcoming flick, entitled “Extract.”
“I just wrapped the movie last night,” she told us this past Friday. “Jason Batemen, Ben Affleck, myself, Kristen Wiig – it’s super awesome, with a really funny cast. Like in the vein of ‘Office Space,’ but it takes place in an extract factory.”
Although details on the film have been hard to come by, Kunis did cough up some key information on her character: “I play a pathological liar who’s a kleptomaniac, but also, just a lost little soul,” said the “That '70s Show” star. Read more...
He’s a 67-year-old veteran of more than 150 film and TV projects, a member of one of Hollywood’s royal families, and the winner of several Emmy and Golden Globe awards. So you might be asking yourself: What the hell is Beau Bridges doing in “Max Payne?”
“I’ve never played [the video game], but I have five kids,” Bridges explained to us recently. “And when I told them that I was going to be in ‘Max Payne,’ they were all excited! They were like, ‘Oh, Dad, that’s awesome. I can’t believe it!’ So I knew it was a game that had a big following.”
Naturally, the big draws of the film are names like Mark Wahlberg, Ludacris and Mila Kunis. But it’s Bridges’ charismatic, borderline-maniacal businessman character who steals several key scenes away from the others, as Payne (Wahlberg) investigates which side he’s on in a bloody gang-vs.-cops war that’s consuming their city. Read more...
