Over on LatinoReview today, you can watch a video that they say is Josh Hutcherson’s audition tape for the part of Peter Parker in the Mark Webb-directed Spider-Man reboot, a role that eventually went to Andrew Garfield (Scarfield).  They say it was choreographed by up-and-coming (hee hee!) fight choreographer Larnell Stovall from UNDISPUTED 3, and that Hutcherson used the tape to get the attention of Sony execs. 

Though if this was an “audition”, given that Hutcherson’s only dialog was “Thanks” and “late for class,” I’m not sure what it was supposed to prove. That he could do basic stunt work and make this face a lot?  That he could hear a line like “Looks like your dream girl’s sweet on Parker, bro,” and not burst out laughing and ruin the scene?  I’ll admit, I was impressed with that part.

And I’m sorry I couldn’t post an embed of the video here on the site, but to make it up to you guys, I’m posting Gerard Butler’s Dracula audition below, which is arguably EVEN BETTER.

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By popular demand, here’s the trailer for The Bounty Hunter, starring Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston, from director Andy Tennant, previously of Fool’s Gold, Hitch, and Sweet Home Alabama.  The plot is very complicated, so try to keep up: Gerard Butler’s character… is a bounty hunter.  He has to track down… are you still with me?  …his ex-girlfriend.  And get this, his ex-girlfriend is played by… Jennifer Aniston.   You catch all that?  Phew, I feel like this needs a Cliff’s Notes or something with all those twists and turns.

Side note: Have you noticed a weird trend lately where every rom-com deals with a guy falling back in love with his ex?  This one, It’s Complicated, Fool’s Gold, Ghost of Girlfriends Past — I feel like there’s a Slate article or Sociology Thesis here.  I’d write a rom-com about rekindling my own past relationships, but I don’t think anyone wants to see a guy fall for a pile of rocks in the desert.
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(Girlfriend drag you to a crappy rom-com again?  Never fear, the Bud Light Otter is here!)

Here’s the poster for Gerard Butler’s latest, The Bounty Hunter, co-starring Jennifer Aniston.  It was directed by Andy Tennant, previously of Fool’s Gold, Hitch, Sweet Home Alabama, It Takes Two (starring the Olsen twins and Steve Guttenberg), and The Amy Fisher Story (made for TV).  Andy Tennant the director should not be confused, of course, with Aubrey Tennant, the Last Airpuncher.  That would be like mistaking Jesus for Pol Pot.

I hope the actors got paid in Fool’s Gold!  *Bike horn* *record scratch* *Tiger Woods bangs a cocktail waitress*

[via Yahoo]

This is the first trailer for Dreamworks animation’s next movie, How to Train Your Dragon, opening March 26th, from co-directors Dean Dubois and Chris Sanders, who previously did Lilo & Stitch.  I’ll give DW a little credit for creativity for this time, because it least it’s not about a Chinese Panda or a Mexican Chihuahua or an Australian kangaroo.  That said, Jay Baruchel seems to be trying extra hard to annoy me as the voice of the lead.  His aggressively average, schlubby everydouche character was already wearing thin the first time he did it and he seems to be laying it on extra thick here.  I don’t get it, why do they keep putting this character in movies?  It’s not interesting and it sure as hell isn’t likable.  I’d take a pedophile or an arsonist over this boring jagoff any day.  Are we supposed to identify with this guy?  Because I have an overwhelming urge to pull his underwear over his head and push his head in the toilet.  What we should do is put the Jay Baruchel character on an ice flow with Kevin James and Kenneth from 30 Rock and nudge it towards Antarctica.

[available in HD at Yahoo]

       “Lava Tacos were a bad choice.”

Gerard Butler took a break from awful chick flicks (I mean really awful) to play against type as a revenge-seeking, car-bombing madman in Law Abiding Citizen.  His wife and daughter are murdered in front of him, but the D.A. (Jamie Foxx) accepts a plea bargain that sets one of the killers free.  So Butler’s character does what any of us would do if we found out Jamie Foxx is going to represent our case in a court of law: start killraging, Death Wish style.

Directed by Gary Gray (Friday, The Negotiator, The Italian Job) and written by Kurt Wimmer (The Thomas Crown Affair, Equilibrium, The Recruit).

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