According to Nikki Finke, who as far as I can tell is the only source for this, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. were approached by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences about hosting this year’s Oscars as a duo, but turned them down. Pretty disappointing, especially if RDJ was considering doing the whole show in blackface, as Billy Crystal used to do. But you can hardly blame them for not wanting to take orders from this guy:
So Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movie has a poster now. Here it is. Tagline: “Holmes for the holiday.” Ha, get it? It’s cute ’cause it’s stupid, like a dog that falls down. Speaking of dogs, I would hug the sh-t out of that bulldog up there.
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This new, longer trailer for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes showed up on YouTube this morning, but there’s nothing I hate more than a YouTube video with the embedding disabled, so I waited for someone else to rip it and now I’m using that. Oh I’m sorry, was I boring you with details? God forbid you actually take an interest in how my day was.
I thought the old cut of the trailer looked more promising, where Robert Downey takes a puff on his pipe and immediately jumps out of a window. In this one, they show him running across the room and commando rolling first, and it seems less goofy and slapstick and more “serious action movie.” But aside from that, and the generic-action-epic music, it still looks mostly comedic. Which is the right direction when you’re dealing with Robert Downey Jr. beating people up with a cane. I remain cautiously optimistic. But I swear to God the first person to call it a “bromance” movie is getting punched in the throat.
This is a new behind-the-scenes featurette from the set of Iron Man 2. The first 45 seconds are in French (the boom mic guy can’t keep his equipment out of the shot, but if they fire him they still have to pay his salary for three months, so it looks like they’re stuck with him, c’est la vie), but the rest the interviews are in English. Although the nerds who control the internet demand I post anything Iron Man-related immediately, I don’t really find these ‘making-of’ videos all that interesting. To me, making movies is kind of like making sausage. I don’t want to see what goes into making the sausage, I just want to cook it up and eat it out of a homeless woman’s vagina. I guess I’m old fashioned like that.
[via ComingSoon]
Entertainment Tonight has been hard at work this week, sending not one, but two of their trained seals to the set of Iron Man 2, where they asked the stars the tough questions, like “How’s your diet going?” and “Why come you’re so pretty?” (There’s briefly a cool part at the 56-second mark where Whiplash cuts a Rolls Royce in half with his whips). They didn’t talk to Mickey Rourke, probably because if E.T. anchors get dog fur on their clothes they melt like the wicked witch, but they spent plenty of time with Gwyneth Paltrow, who we see as the only person on the set breathing into a gas mask. Probably because her lungs are more important than yours, they live in England, you know. She also had this to say:
“Pepper’s evolving a little bit in her look, you know, but she’s still rocking all the high heels. I can’t believe that I can put on a bathing suit, or wear these costumes that are tiny and short or whatever, and still feel good about myself!”
It’s true, Gwyneth, you’re so amazing! Come on, everyone, let’s build a Paltrow monument that you can see from space! It’s almost as if she has all day to exercise and have private chefs cook her healthy food while immigrants take care of her kids or something. Anyway, ScreenRant has a nice, spoilery breakdown of what clues to the Iron Man 2 plot this video may have revealed. You know, if you’re some kind of Schloimo Dorkowicz.
