On the following pages, I’ve got some new pictures of Anne Hathaway in costume as Catwoman from the set of The Dark Knight Rises. Since I know how sensitive many of you are to spoilers, the first page only shows my fan-art recreation of the costume. Sorry to anyone I fooled you into thinking this was an official publicity still. It isn’t. It’s just a drawing. That’s supposed to be her litter box in the background on the bottom right.

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When it was announced that Spike Lee would be remaking Park Chan-Wook’s 2003 Korean hit Oldboy, I assumed that Oldboy 2: Who You Callin’ Boy, would star a respected African-American actor as the lead, Bro Dae-Su. Instead, they went with Josh Brolin, whose character will now be named “Joe.” Don’t I feel silly.

Brolin was rumored to be on the short list, now it’s official: Brolin will topline the Mandate Pictures redo, which begins production in March. Brolin, who just wrapped Men in Black 3 with Will Smith, next begins work on Warner Bros’ Gangster Squad. It looks like he’ll squeeze in Oldboy before shooting Jason Reitman’s Labor Day opposite Kate Winslet; that movie is set to begin production in June.
The new Oldboy has script adapted by Mark Protosevich [Thor, I Am Legend], who will co-produce. |Deadline|

Meanwhile, there’s reportedly still an offer out to Christian Bale to play the villain. Brolin should be fine — he’s already worked with Oliver Stone, the white Spike Lee, twice, so by now he should be used to heavy-handed blowhards. Also, his name would make an awesome broism if it didn’t already have “bro” in it. Brose Canseco, Broseph Stalin, Maximillian Brobespierre – Josh Brolin. By Brove, it’d be perfect! But no, it came pre-broheimed. His ancestors really f*cked us on that one.

UPDATE: A Dark Knight Rises Facebook Page just posted some more, much spoilerier set pictures. Those begin on slide 7. Consider yourselves warned.

Courtesy of Splashnews (via JustJared), here are some new pictures of 33-year-old British dreamboat Tom Hardy as Bane on the set of the Dark Knight Rises in Pittsburgh (or “Shittsburgh,” as Sienna Miller pronounces it). He was wearing this same outfit in the teaser trailer, so I assume none of these pictures are what you would call spoilers. He basically looks like a bondage porn version of He-Man. And as if He-Man wasn’t already gay enough, they got the handsomest guy they could find and slapped gag over his mouth that looks like a giant anus. He-Man: The feelings you never dealt with.

Anyway, I guess the big question on everyone’s mind is what’s on that note Tom Hardy’s reading. I think I have an idea…

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An eBay user claiming to know the identity of British “street artist” Banksy had been auctioning off what he claimed to be Banksy’s real name.  The bidding started at $3,000 and eventually climbed to almost a million before eBay pulled it.  The seller later re-listed it, and it looks like it has since been pulled again.  Apparently, Banksy’s identity wasn’t considered “tangible enough” for eBay (unlike, say, my wang, which is considered extremely tangible — it even comes in a box!).

Given the artist’s penchant for pulling fast ones on the public [what is the evidence for this, by the way?  being secretive or provocative is not the same thing as deceit -Ed], the recently deleted EBay auction was widely suspected of being a prank, possibly by Banksy himself. Meanwhile, similar auctions claiming to have the identity of the artist have been popping up on EBay, though it remains unclear if the sellers are connected. [LATimes]

I named Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop my favorite film of 2010, because whether he’d invented Mr. Brain Wash or not (he claims he didn’t), I thought it was a brilliant illustration of how art, entertainment, and marketing work.  Like the movie, many have speculated that Banksy himself was behind the auction, or that it was just a publicity stunt, or that it was a marketing ploy to get people thinking about Exit Through the Gift Shop during awards season.  Either way, no one has any idea, but everyone is free to spout their own bullsh*t theories, which makes it perfect conversation fodder down at the coffee shop.

Meanwhile, I’m planning my own documentary, Exit Through the Gif Shop, starring Christian Bale:

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I watched the West Coast feed of the Golden Globes last night and it seemed like something was getting bleeped every five minutes.  Most of it was inconsequential (Gervais saying “for God’s sake”, for example), but I did make a note to find out what Christian Bale said to Robert DeNiro that was bleeped while the telecast cut to commercial (yes, taking notes while watching the Golden Globes, that’s your glimpse into my sad, pathetic existence for the day).

Hollywood Reporter found out and boy, was it ever… well, sort of boring.

(As Bale was finishing up his speech, he blurted out De Niro’s name, swore and began talking again before the music swelled up and the show cut to commercial.)

“I just told him he’s the sh!t. You see an actor of that caliber and Robert Duvall… I don’t know if he’s here… those guys are the sh!t,” Bale joked to a room full of reporters backstage. “I just wanted to say I’m proud to be in the same room as him.”

In retrospect, I don’t know what I was expecting.  Something both vulgar and dangerous?  “Thanks very much to the HFPA, and before I go I just wanted to say that Helen Mirren’s AIDS p*ssy caused 9/11!”

Anyway, I’m sorry this turned out to be such a non-story, so here are some pictures of January Jones’ awesome dress.  That’s right, dress.  That’s exactly what I meant.

[via SocialiteLife]