(Sorry the picture wasn’t more related, Kermit Bale gets me every time)
Poor Tom Cruise can’t seem to buy good publicity these days, but that tends to happen when you’re a total weirdo. The latest hit is an interview with American Psycho director Mary Harron, and it’s really interesting to hear her talk about her latest projects tell us what we already sort of knew about Tom Cruise. From Blackbook Magazine [via Videogum]:
How did you and Christian Bale develop his character in American Psycho?
It was definitely a process. We talked a lot, but he was in L.A. and I was in New York. We didn’t actually meet in person a lot, just talked on the phone. We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.
I can see that. Especially in that one scene where Christian Bale was all, “I like to dissect girls, as long as there are no gay people there.“ By the way, I’m nominating “as long as there are no gays” for the newest meme. “Hey, Bob, what do you say to happy hour?” “I’m in, as long as no gays are in there! You know me, I love to party, as long there’s no gays around! I’ll give a you call the next time no gays are in the room.” “Right on, man, keep f-ckin that chicken.”
Two dollars.
Terminator Salvation has grossed over $370 million worldwide so far (and still isn’t out on DVD). Yet this is happening:
Three companies belonging to Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek, owners of the “Terminator” franchise rights and producers of May’s “Terminator Salvation,” have filed for bankruptcy [...] Those owed the most money include a number of top industry law firms such as Greenberg Traurig ($437,618.61); Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard, & Shapiro ($120,672.89) and O’Melveny & Myers ($96,565.86). They also owe $25,000 to C2 Pictures, the production company controlled by previous “Terminator” owners Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna. In addition, one British individual [Orlando Wood] is owed $3.5 million. There is no reason given for any of the debts. The three companies each list estimated assets and liabilities totaling between $10 million and $50 million. [The LA Times]
But don’t worry about Anderson and Kubicek. They’ll be fine:
Sorry, folks, those are the rules - Batman sequel news, no matter how small or unconfirmed, means I have to drop everything and cover it. The word out of Comic Con (from various sites) is that a not-at-all-joking-sounding Gary Oldman said that the next Batman begins shooting next year, “but you didn’t hear it from me.” …And that’s pretty much the whole story. Meanwhile, no one has said anything about director Chris Nolan coming back, and with him busy shooting Inception, it’s hard to say whether he’d have time to shoot a Batman sequel, if what Oldman says is even true. So does that mean they’re hiring a new director? Yes. Yes they are. Brett Ratner will come aboard to direct, Christian Bale will be replaced by Will Smith’s son, Cher plays his love interest, and Shia LaBeouf will play the villain, a midget prostitute that murders.
Just Jared posted some pictures of Christian Bale looking like a balding, crack-addicted shell of his former self in Los Angeles yesterday, where he was shooting scenes for The Fighter as Dickie Eklund, a boxer who becomes a balding, crack-addicted shell of his former self (GRR, METHOD ACTING!). Bale stars opposite Mark Wahlberg, with David O. Russell (who was hired after Darren Aronofsky bowed out) behind the cameras. Fun fact: David O. Russell’s freakout on the set of I Heart Huckabees was the Christian Bale Tirade of a couple years ago, so this could be a fun set.
After the jump, see part of the episode of HBO’s “High on Crack Street”, dug up by /Film, featuring the real-life Dickie Eklund. He surprises the interviewer by telling him he used to be a professional boxer, and that he once fought Sugar Ray Leonard. Meanwhile, all I could think about was this chick, and how she probably gives awesome blowjobs. I wonder what it’s like to wake up and look yourself in a mirror and go, “Hey, look at that. I am literally a toothless crack whore.” That must be a crazy feeling. I should ask your mom about it.
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I wanted to like this movie, I really did. Seemed like a good hook - solid ensemble cast and veteran director do a movie about 30s bank robbers ostensibly aimed at adults. No toy commercials? You promise? Okay, sailor, buy me a drink and let’s see where this leads.
Johnny Depp plays John Dillinger, the prototypical cocky outlaw. “I like baseball, movies, good clothes, fast cars, whiskey…and you. What else ya need to know?”
Snappy line there, handsome. And it sounds good at first. Only after a while, you feel like there is more you need to know. Namely, what the hell is this movie about? Is it about Dillinger and the brash young FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover (awesomely played by Billy Crudup - coulda used more of him), manipulating the press and going head to head in the court of public opinion? Is it about old-school outlaws like Dillinger becoming obsolete in favor of mobsters, who do their stealing behind closed doors? Is it about Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) learning that “modern” crimefighting still requires old fashioned toughness? Is it a love story? (I hope not, because most of Dillinger’s interactions with Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard) involve him telling her what to say and then repeating his demand until she complies. How romantic. He must f*ck like a Jedi.)
