ELLEN PAGE’S BROTHER THINKS HE’S A DOG

03.28.08 Written by Vince Mancini

This is the trailer for The Tracey Fragments, starring Ellen Page before she got famous for Juno; back when she was apparently going the Jennifer Jason Leigh career route, where you try to get raped and have the shit kicked out of you on camera as much as possible.  Synopsis:

15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is naked under a shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he’s a dog.

Description of the trailer:

Fade in:  Indecipherable split screens.  Folksy acoustic guitar plays.

ELLEN PAGE: My name is Tracey Berkowitz.  Fifteen.  Just a normal girl who hates herself.

ME: Check, please.

[Higher res trailer available at Apple]

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CHILDREN OF MEN COMES TO TV

03.28.08 Written by Vince Mancini

This could get pretty kinky...

Alfonso Cuarón’s critically acclaimed movie Children of Men may soon be coming to TV.  Writer-Producer of Battlestar Galactica David Eick is writing a pilot script.

“It’s really taking root more in the origins of the novels [upon which the movie was based] in that it will focus on the cultural movement in which young people become the society’s utter focus. Much like our culture, whenever Lindsay Lohan does something, it becomes the headline of every news show. It’s about how, when you don’t have a responsibility to the next generation and you’re free to do whatever you want, where do you draw the line?” Eick said in an interview with SciFi. “It’s not really a war show like the movie was. It’s more an exploration of that issue." [Source]

If picked up, Eick plans for different character to give birth to a creepy CGI baby at the end of every episode.

Making of the creepy CGI baby video:

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LARRY THE CABLE GUY BOUGHT A NEW TRUCK

03.28.08 Written by Vince Mancini

Ebay recently finished a charity auction of "one of a kind celebrity experiences", including:

Tickets for you and a guest to meet Djimon Hounsou at the premiere of his upcoming film Push. (Top bid currently $1,010.54)

An all expenses paid trip to a Counting Crows concert to be their roving correspondent for the day.

Lifeline radios signed by Tom Hanks. (sold for $2550)

A personalized video birthday message from Colin Firth. (sold for $9,300)

There were a couple others involving Scarlett Johansson, Kristin Davis, and Shakira, but my personal favorite was Larry the Cable Guy.

Bid on Larry’s fully loaded 2000 Dodge Ram, 2 VIP tickets to one of his shows, and a meet & greet opportunity! (sold for $22,200)

Clearly Larry upgraded to the 2003.  I heard it has power windows and remote keyless entry.  Oh to be famous, if even for one day…  In related news, I will still eat a cat turd for ten dollars.  Proceeds go to the Lance’s bar tab memorial foundation.

[Thanks to Burnsy for the link]

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DOLPH LUNDGREN IS BACK, BABY

03.28.08 Written by Vince Mancini

I must break you.  Sexually.

Dolph Lundgren (aka Ivan Drago, aka He-Man) is planning to star and direct Command Performance, an "action thriller" he describes as "Die Hard at a rock concert."

Lundgren will play the drummer in the warm-up band for a big American act performing for the Russian premier. Naturally, the bad guys break up the show. And just as naturally, the drummer is an ex-Marine.

"I got the idea from Madonna," said Lundgren, who wrote the script with Steve Latshaw. [Ed. Note – Producer of Vampire Trailer Park.  Seriously.] "She did a concert for (outgoing Russian President Vladimir) Putin a few years ago."

Of course, Madonna battled menopause, rather than terrorists.  Lundgren who’s 50 now, plans to do all his own stunts, and his own drumming.

Lundgren, a one-time karate champ who was discovered modeling in New York, burst onto the international stage in 1985 sparring opposite Sylvester Stallone in "Rocky IV." While his Hollywood star dimmed during the ’90s, he makes movies that are seldom seen in the U.S. but pack ‘em in around the world.

And of course he returned to prominence after appearing in a popular reality show in which he boned Flava Flav.

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WILL SMITH MOVIE UPDATE

03.28.08 Written by Vince Mancini

Sorry sir, this car has neither a license plate that says fresh nor does it have dice in the mirror.  God, I hate my life.

A German site has a new batch of pics from Will Smith’s latest, the Peter Berg-directed Hancock (trailer after the jump).  In the film, which opens in July, Smith plays a superhero who’s falling out of favor with the public because he keeps running around kicking people in the face and shouting "Welcomeda Earff!"

Okay, maybe not.  Actually I think the plot is kinda like My Super Ex-Girlfriend.  Will Smith plays a superhero who’s had a string of bad PR moves and now no one likes him.  It’s kind of casting against type, because in real life Will Smith could star in Babyraper and it’d still gross $50 million the first weekend.  

[Thanks to 'Rotwangchung' for the caption] 

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