It’s always nice to start the week with good news and though I don’t have your STD test results, I can tell you that a Martin Scorsese film (Shutter Island) wiped its ass with Ashton Kutcher’s Al-Qaeda recruitment tape at the box office. Shutter Island’s $40.2 million opening weekend was a career best for both Scorsese and DiCaprio. Reached for comment, Shutter Island author Dennis Lehane said, “To celebrate, Me n Leanahdo n Mahty ah gonna go pahty with some hookahs and then kill the sonovabitch priest who molested my daughtah.”
Meanwhile, Valentine’s Day suffered a massive 70% drop from last weekend, which is a nice bit of schadenfreude, but with an $87.5 million domestic gross thus far on a $52 million budget, it’s probably not enough to keep the mullahs who financed it from making another one. And who wants to bet this kid won’t be blowing guys for heroine in a couple years? “C’mon, man, make it $20, I was in a movie with Ashton Kutcher.” Just what the world needs, another drug-addicted former child star. Or worse, Danny Masterson.
Here’s Ricky Gervais’ beautiful introduction of Mel Gibson at the Golden Globes:
It’s pushing 15 years since Mel Gibson made a good movie, but the guy’s always a good sport and his idea for a gritty, realistic viking movie from the writer of The Departed sounds pretty good. Leonardo Dicaprio is attached, and of course Mel will shoot it in the original language, as soon as he figures out what that was. From Collider:
Gibson: I think it’s going to be English – the English that would have been spoken back then – and Old Norse. Whatever the 9th century had to offer. I’m going to give you real.
Collider: Is that really important to you.
Gibson: I want a Viking to scare you. I don’t want a Viking to say, “I’m going to die with a sword in my hand.” I don’t want to hear that. It pulls the rug out from under you. I want to see somebody who I have never seen before speaking low guttural German who scares the living sh-t out of me coming up to my house. What is that like? What would that have been like?
For Mel, I bet it’s kind of like when a guy shakes your hand and says, “Hi, I’m Avi Greenberg.”
(”Where ya goin’? Doncha wanna see what a one-eared elephant looks like?”)
With Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige, Batman Begins, and Dark Knight, Chris Nolan has one of the best track records in Hollywood (Nick Nolte has the best track marks). His next film is called Inception, and in what is sure to warm fanboys’ harbls, he says it’s the “biggest” film he’s ever made. From the LA Times:
“I grew up watching James Bond films and loving those and watching spy movies with their globetrotting sensibility…. We get to do that here, not just geographically but also in time and dimensions of reality as well. We get to make a movie that’s expansive, I suppose you’d say, in four dimensions.”
“This is the biggest challenge I’ve taken on to this point,” said Nolan, who may return to Gotham City for his next feature. “We’re trying to tell a story on a massive scale, a true blockbuster scale – the biggest I’ve ever been involved with. We tried to make a very large-scale film with ‘The Dark Knight’ and with this one we wanted to push that even further.”
So Chris Nolan thinks this movie will be huge. But keep in mind, Chris Nolan is British, and over there a “large” soda means like half a can. This is costing me $10, right? 32 ounces or GTFO, what do I look like, the Dalai Lama?
This is the trailer for Inception, director Chris Nolan’s follow up to The Dark Knight. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. We don’t know much about it yet, other than that it’s “a thriller set within the architecture of the human mind” and has lots of slow-mo. It looks okay, but as I’ve always said, for all the movies set inside guys’ minds, it’s odd how few of them involve motorboating Diora Baird.
[available in HD at Apple]
This is the first poster for Chris Nolan’s Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. According to /Film’s plot rumor…
“Inception is about entering peoples’ minds/dreams. A technology to do so has been developed and is done through an injection. DiCaprio and his team work to enter the minds of other characters in order to retrieve/plant information.”
As you can see, between the cityscape and the focus on a dude in a suit’s back, it looks a lot like The Dark Knight’s first poster. But that’s okay. Chris Nolan advertising his new movie by reminding people of The Dark Knight is kind of like LeBron James picking up chicks by reminding them, “Hey, remember how I played basketball?”
[via /Film, CHUD. Though if he wanted to remind people of Dark Knight, I would've gone with Harvey Dent Puppy]
