Tarantino.info today received a poster for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards. The source still isn’t sure whether it’s official or fan-made.

Today, the internets have washed ashore something that I would very cautiously describe as a potentially real but early draft test print-out (can I say this anymore cautiously?) of an Inglorious Bastards teaser poster. I’ve attached a small version. You all know how cautious I usually am with rumors and other things, there were a few factors that let me determine that this was in fact worth posting considering the medium to high possibility of this one being rather real as opposed to fan-made.

I don’t know who this guy is, so I can’t verify whether or not he’s as cautious as he says. But I can tell you that I have a friend who sleeps with tighty whities on because he’s afraid something might crawl up his pee hole at night. I think you’ll agree that that’s pretty cautious.

[Thanks to The Playlist for the link - they've also got the lowdown on the latest casting]

Mark Wahlberg has been talking to MTV lately, and besides the usual boring crap and jokes about how Max Payne could beat up Batman, he had some good Manny Shyamalan stories.

“[Night] gave me the worst advice he could have ever given me. He said, ‘After [‘The Happening’], you can never hold a gun again. You know that, right?’ I said, ‘Are you crazy?’ He said, ‘I’m serious, don’t ever hold a gun again.’ And I said, ‘I don’t know about that, man.’”

See, Manny thought his movie would be so huge that it would forever typecast all the actors. He thought so many people would see The Happening that Zooey Deschanel would walk down the street and people would whisper, “Oh my God, is that the chick from The Happening? Holy f-cking shit, I can’t believe the star of the most brilliant f-cking smash hit film of the millenium is in my town.” He thought it would be so huge that if Mark Wahlberg was in another movie where his character was even remotely similar to his character in The Happening, the entire audience would shut down, and be like, “This movie is bullshit. Everyone knows the guy from The Happening would never do that.” I’m telling you, that’s what it’s like inside the mind of an insane, megalomaniacal midget. He’s like Lex Luthor, if Lex Luthor’s plans for world domination always involved making shitty movies.

The early reviews for the Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading are in, and surprisingly for the dudes fresh off the four-Oscar winning No Country For Old Men, some of them aren’t that positive. Take some dicklicker from Variety, for example:

Nothing about the project’s execution inspires the feeling that this was ever intended as anything more than a lark, which would be fine if it were a good one. As it is, audience teeth-grinding sets in early and never lets up.

…on any more substantive level, “Burn After Reading” is a flame-out.

Of course, he goes through the usual knocks on Coen Brothers movies – silliness, cartoony characters – and lest we forget, a lot of critics weren’t too fond of The Big Lebowski either. In fact, this same critic, Todd McCarthy, gave The Big Lebowski almost the same review.

[Burn After Reading] Major star names might stoke some mild B.O. heat with older upscale viewers upon U.S. release Sept. 12, but no one should expect this reunion of George Clooney and Brad Pitt to remotely resemble an “Ocean’s” film commercially.

[Big Lebowski] World premiered at Sundance as a special screening, this Gramercy release looks headed for a mixed critical and luke-warm B.O. reception upon its release in March.

Reading bad reviews of the Big Lebowski feels like going back to your high school guidance counselor’s office and listening to him tell you you won’t amount to anything. Oh yeah? OH YEAH? Well guess what, smart guy, I started a movie blog after I got fired from editing porn! At least 20 people read it and I get to take masturbation breaks during the day! During the day! What have you done? WHAT THE F*CK HAVE YOU DONE??

Which is to say, I dunno, the movie looks funny to me. *tries to act casual*

Todd Solondz recently found a financial backer for his next film, a semi-sequel to his 1998 film Happiness. I know what you’re probably thinking, “Who? What? Where am I? You’re not my real father.” But bear with me. I’ve included a couple clips from Happiness so you know what we’re dealing with. It’s one of the creepiest, weirdest, funniest movies I’ve ever seen. Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the sweaty pervert who makes obscene phone calls is one of the finest performances in all of cinema.

Solondz wrote the screenplay, which revolves around a group of struggling individuals. struggling to find a place for themselves in an unpredictable and volatile world. The narrative is told through a series of intersecting love stories.; the past haunts the present and imperils the future: ghosts circle and loom, trouble and console.

The project has been incubating for years, with Emma Thompson, Demi Moore and Paul Reubens rumored to be attached. “Happiness,” which featured themes of child molestation and rape, initially received an NC-17 from the MPAA board but was eventually released unrated. [Variety]

An NC-17 rape and molestation movie with Peewee Herman in it. I just came.
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Famous movie and TV writer guy Aaron Sorkin recently announced his plans to make a Facebook movie. It may sound like a crazy idea, but not to the billion people who’ve already uploaded videos on YouTube titled “Facebook: The Movie”. Sorkin, who last wrote Charlie Wilson’s War, released the statement via, what else, Facebook:

I’ve just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented. I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I’ve started this page. (Actually it was started by my researcher, Ian Reichbach, because my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she’s been dead for 33 years.

And that joke’s been dead for 10.

I honestly don’t know how this works, which is why I’m here. If anyone has any questions I’d be happy to answer them as best I can. If anyone has any comments I’m glad to listen. And if anyone has any Facebook stories I think they might be helpful.

So there you have it, a Facebook movie. I guess the writing is on the wall! Get it? Writing on the wall? You know, because on Facebook… … Whatever, I was leaving anyway.