While Vince was busy smashing Pajiba’s Texas Instruments graphing calculators, there was a viewing at Sundance for The Woman, a new film from director Lucky McKee, who does not, unfortunately, have a sister named Tits. McKee previously directed some other stuff, but namely The Woods, which starred Bruce Campbell and therefore makes it awesome. But McKee’s latest film is getting buzz for something that happened off the screen – namely some guy freaked out during the screening and had to be escorted out.

The man, who is not identified in the video, claims that The Woman is incredibly offensive to women and should not be shown. In fact, he points out that one woman in the audience fainted. Wow, sounds like it’s a pretty graphic film, so what’s it about, IMDB?

When a successful country lawyer captures and attempts to “civilize” the last remaining member of a violent clan that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades, he puts the lives of his family in jeopardy.

So it’s like Nell but with graphic violence? Cool, I’ll take it. As for the guy and this perfectly timed video… he’s an actor and it’s fake. I don’t necessarily have much proof other than some comments on a YouTube page, but I’ve got a pretty good BS detector and the siren is blazing on this one. But I tip my hat to Lucky and crew, because their promotional idea is working and many people who are annoyed with this a-hole want to see the film now. Maybe I’ll try something similar for my first film, Watch Me Bathe Grandma.

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(The Bruce Campbell mammogram machine made preventative cancer check-ups fun and sexy.)

For the record, I hate giving superheroes cutesy nicknames like they’re my frat bros, but I gotta keep these headlines down to one line so there you go.  Anyway, Sam Raimi favorite and all-around awesome guy Bruce Campbell recently told Access Hollywood that he’ll have “a major part” in Spider-Man 4, which is set to start filming in January.  A fourth Spider-Man isn’t the best idea, but it’s hard to go wrong with more Bruce Campbell (who’s previously had cameos as a wrestling announcer, a waiter, and theater usher).  Bruce Campbell is like a cross between Robert Downey Jr. and Patrick Warburton, and I would f’ck both those guys.  Wait, what?  Who typed that?

No word yet on what role he might play, but might I suggest the obvious?  Bruce Campbell should play Bruce Campbell with an evil hand.  It would make it awesome and meta-fictional, like JCVD but less Belgian.  And with more webbing.

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My Name is Bruce, directed by and starring Bruce Campbell, is sort of like JCVD (trailer) meets Three Amigos.  It opened Friday in New York, and for the next two months, Bruce Campbell will be working his way across the country making personal appearances in every city where it opens.  He’ll be in Philadelphia on Wednesday and in Boston on Friday – see the full tour schedule after the jump.

I’m a little more excited for JCVD than for this, but I can’t deny that Bruce Campbell leaves particles of guys like Van Damme in his wind.  I think he could take Van Damme and Seagal at the same time, especially if he had a chainsaw for a hand.

Trailer also available in HD at Apple.

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Sam Raimi said at Comic-Con last week that a fourth Evil Dead movie was in the works, with Bruce Campbell on to star.  Well, sorta.

“I love working with Bruce Campbell and he’s like Allison [Lohman, star of Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell]. He’s super willing to do anything to make it right. He’s a very funny guy, but mostly he’s got this quality where he will physically do anything to get the shot done right, so I would love to work with Bruce again because I’d love to test those limits. I’d love to make another Evil Dead picture. And actually that’s in the wheelhouse. I’d like to work on it with my brother Ivan [Raimi] when he comes up next week.“ [GeeksofDoom]

Unfortunately, in the movie world, saying you’d like to do something rarely has much of an effect on what actually will happen.  But I’d be all for this, especially if they got Bruce Campbell back. Failing that, they should just get Tobey Maguire.  He was pretty hardcore when he turned into black Spiderman.    

Andy Griffith will star alongside Doris Roberts, Marla Sokoloff, and Paul Campbell (whose dad is Bruce Campbell, but not the Bruce Campbell) in Play the Game, an indie comedy that began filming in LA on Monday.  In related news, Wilford Brimley’s grandchildren just bought him a DVD machine.

Story tracks a single guy who teaches his widowed grandfather to hit on girls. [Variety]

Teaching an old man how to hit on girls is easy. 

Step 1: Mask old man scent with Axe Bodyspray.  Step 2: Avoid mention of BMs in casual conversation.  Step 3: Roofies.  See? Easy as pie.  Eat your heart out, Mystery*, you can take your kino-escalating and shove it.

*Anyone else think he stole the goggles-on-tophat look from 4 Non Blondes?