"Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work" Opens Friday September 3rd

The documentary "Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work" opens in Calgary this Friday, September 3, 2010 at the Uptown Theatre. Starring Joan Rivers and many more.

A PIECE OF WORK takes the audience on a year long ride with Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life; it peels away the mask of an iconic comedian, laying bare both the struggle and thrill of living life as a groundbreaking female performer. Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg (THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK, THE TRIALS OF DARRYL HUNT) expose the private dramas of this irreverent, legendary comedian as she fights to keep her career thriving in a business driven by youth and beauty.
A PIECE OF WORK takes the audience on a year long ride with Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life; it peels away the mask of an iconic comedian, laying bare both the struggle and thrill of living life as a groundbreaking female performer. Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg (THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK, THE TRIALS OF DARRYL HUNT) expose the private dramas of this irreverent, legendary comedian as she fights to keep her career thriving in a business driven by youth and beauty.

"The Winning Season" Begins Friday September 3rd

Opening in theaters starting this Friday, September 3rd is THE WINNING SEASON, starring Sam Rockwell, Emma Roberts and Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)

New York City, NY:  Village East Cinemas
Culver City, CA:  Culver Plaza 6
West Hollywood, CA: Sunset 5

Set in suburban Indiana, the film stars Rockwell as Bill Greaves, an adult misfit recruited by the local high school principal (Corddry) to coach the school’s floundering girls’ basketball team.  Initially retreating from what appears to be a hopeless situation, Bill perseveres and manages to help the team and its captain (Roberts) ratchet up its competitive spirit, while the girls offer Bill a renewed life focus.  THE WINNING SEASON also stars Shareeka Epps, Emily Rios and Margo Martindale.

Cooper And Reynolds To Be Buddy Cops

The buddy cop genre was really birthed with Lethal Weapon back in 1987 and to this day it remains the definitive movie in the genre, however news arrives today from Risky Business that a new contender is entering the ring as Bradly Cooper and Ryan Reynolds are set to team up in a Sheldon Turner scripted action comedy.

Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper are signing up for take-your-dads-to-work day.

The busy actors are attached to star in an untitled original action-comedy written by Sheldon Turner (“Up in the Air”), who snagged north of seven figures for the gig. The story follows two friends, who are also San Francisco cops, whose fathers were once partners on the police force. The older generation is forced out of retirement to help their sons crack a case, with typically antagonistic results.

The actioner is meant to have an updated “Lethal Weapon” flavor that plays into edgier R-rated territory.

This sounds more comedy-centric than Lethal Weapon although inevitably that film is listed as the movie they are aiming to replciate, the addition of the dads could go either way, making things either very silly or if cast well and scripted smartly, a cool twist to the genre.

Aronofsky to possibly direct 'Wolverine 2'?

Darren Aronofsky is one of the best, most imaginative and original filmmakers working today.  Every film he touches is great.  I've never seen the man make nothing short of a fantastic movie, period.  Which is why when I hear that TOLDJA! is reporting Aronofsky is one of the final two contenders to direct 'Wolverine 2', I digress.

Aronofsky is way too good of a filmmaker to be wasting his time with a sequel to what was nothing but an average comic-book movie.  The man is too good for it, way too good.  I love Hugh Jackman, and think he's a fantastic actor who puts his all into his roles, but I think it's time he puts ol' Logan to bed.  We had two great films featuring Wolverine and two bad ones.  Let's call it even and not tip the scale.  Darren, please, devote your talents and time to something better.

Life As We Know It Poster

Warner Brothers has released the poster for the Josh Duhamel and Katherine Heigl comedy drama "Life as We know it." via Comingsoon.Net.

From the trailer I thought it looked pretty funny and the poster clearly hopes to garner some male interest with Duhamel being a comically inappropriate father figure who is still irresponsible.

 

Weekend Box Office: August 27-29

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 

1.  Takers - $20,512,304

2.  The Last Exorcism - $20,366,613

3.  The Expendables - $9.5 million

4.  Eat Pray Love - $6.8 million

5.  The Other Guys - $6.2 million

6.  Vampires Suck - $5.2 million

7.  Inception - $4.8 million

8.  Nanny McPhee Returns - $4.7 million

9.  The Switch - $4.5 million

10.  Piranha 3D - $4.3 million

A tight (but not exactly nail-biting) race for first place kept us waiting a little longer for the box office results to finalize, but in the end Takers just barely beat out The Last Exorcism for the top spot by less than a half million in one of the last weekends of the summer.

Both movies performed well by going over $20 million in their debut.  Any worries that the re-release of Avatar (special edition!) would spoil it for everyone else this weekend were put to rest quickly when it failed to even crack the top 10, although it did earn an additional $4 million to go with the gazillions James Cameron is still swimming in from its initial release.

The Expendables continues to play well, earning another $9.7 million to bring its total to $82 million, as does Eat Pray Love, which added another $6.8 million to bring its total to $60.5 million.  The Other Guys held its fifth place spot this weekend, inching within less than a million to reach the $100 million mark, and letting Will Ferrell know that the world has forgiven him for Land of the Lost.  Inception actually moved up from ninth to seventh with $4.8 million.  Its total now stands at $270 million domestically. 

Vampires Suck continues to suck (mostly for existing), dropping 52% and from second to sixth place this weekend.  It has now grossed an inexplicable $52 million.  Nanny McPhee Returns held its ground from last week, staying in eight place with another $4.7 million.  No one seems to care about The Switch, which is quickly fading from the top ten with just $4.5 million, and the novelty has already worn off for Piranha 3D, which drops from sixth to the tenth place with just $4.3 million.

It's no longer in the top ten (although it's better than most of movies currently in the list), but it's also worthy of note that Toy Story 3 become the seventh movie in history to cross the $1 billion mark worldwide this weekend.  It also marks the first time a studio has had two films gross more than $1 billion worldwide in a single year, with Disney's Alice in Wonderland earning $1.024 billion earlier this year.  Toy Story 3 should easily top Alice's worldwide gross, and if it continues to play well could even reign as Disney's highest-grossing film if it passes Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest's worldwide gross of $1.066 billion.  Anything's possible.

Stay tuned next week, when Machete, The American and Going the Distance battle each other out for first place on Labor Day Weekend.

Patrick Wilson's "Barry Munday" Now Available on VOD

Want to see Patrick Wilson as a new kind of ladies man?

You can now watch BARRY MUNDAY on On Demand, Xbox Live, Playstation, Amazon and Vudu.

BARRY MUNDAY opens in theaters on October 1, 2010.

A suburban wanna-be ladies man, wakes up in the hospital after being attacked in a movie theater, only to realize that he is missing one of his most prized possessions... his testicles. To make matters worse, Barry learns he's facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman he can't remember having sex with. With this being Barry’s last chance to ever be a father, Barry reaches out and embraces the journey of parenthood and the onslaught of bumps that face him along the way. Filled with an ensemble of unusual characters, "Barry Munday" is the surprisingly heart-warming tale of a guy who finds it took losing his manhood to be a better man.

Official Poster For "Jim"

Check out the new poster for upcoming sci-fi movie "Jim" which opens in New York on October 8 and in Los Angeles on October 15.

Being steadily crushed under the weight of debt, unemployment, and increasing isolation, Jim reaches a breaking point. Over a game of solitary Russian roulette he contemplates an unspeakable act of violence as a way of leaving his mark. He is stopped short by a vision of his deceased wife who convinces him that he should instead focus his remaining resources into an act of creation. Armed with his wife's frozen eggs and a new resolve, Jim secures the services of a large biotech firm to help him create an heir who will be engineered to overcome the obstacles of common men.

Meanwhile in the distant future Niskaa, the leader of a group of genetically modified beings, controls a race of worker clones in a super-industrialized, post-human Earth.  As he tries to restore his decrepit empire he comes face to face with a young clone that shows an unprecedented capacity for reason and empathy.  Somehow connected to Jim via dreams, the clone manifests secrets of nature that Niskaa has not accounted for…

FF Reboot Casting Rumors

Unfortunately, FF doesn't stand for Full Frontal or Freshly Fucked, although the latter may still be used to describe Fox's relaunch of its film version of Marvel's Fantastic Four.

It wasn't that long ago, 2005 to be exact, that we got the campy release of Fox's first attempt at turning the Stan Lee created super team of Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), Johnny Storm (Chris Evans) and Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis) into the next big comic book movie. it didn't quite work out the way they expected, and I still don't know how Jessica Alba stripping down and going invisible on the bridge helped Mr. Fantastic and The Human Torch get by everyone. I'm literally rolling my eyes right now. Up and slightly to the right while access the memory banks of how Alba looked just before going invisible. Anyway, that crapfest surely didn't warrant the equally awful sequel that plagued the screens just two years later. But now, Fox is going for the hat trick and creating a third Fantastic Four film within a decade. Their hopes and dreams of a mega-hit rest on the fact that they're going to use a completely new cast and crew, much like Sony is doing with the Spiderman franchise. 

At this point, I don't want to add too much validity to this, because, as the title states, these are just rumors right now, but COMIC BOOK MOVIE, you know, THAT website, where opposable thumbs aren't a prerequisite to post articles, reports that the studio may be going after big names like Bruce Willis and Kiefer Sutherland to star as the movies new THING. They would only have screen time in the first segment of the movie as Ben Grimm, and then step aside for the all CGI THING and doing only the voice over. 

It seems strange to me that the one character that would get the least screen time would be the biggest hollywood name in the cast. 

It was said a few weeks ago that Adrian Brody (Hollywoodland) may be tapped to play Reed Richards in the reboot, opposite Vampire Bill himself, Stephen Moyer (True Blood), who Fox has reportedly sent an offer to play Doctor Victor Von Doom. I'm a fan of True Blood, but I have to say, its not because of Moyer's acting. Maybe its the character, but his delivery has been really the only thing I've ever mentioned about that show in the ways of a complaint. In all fairness, though, I've never seen him in anything else. Alice Eve and Kevin Pennington have also been suggested to be the frontrunner for Sue and Johnny Storm respectively. 

So, if any of this holds true, and I tend to lean more toward the more cheaply priced, young actors, I'm going to have to call bullshit on the Willis and Sutherland rumors. I just don't see them tossing the cash for a voice, when they're cutting corners on the rest of the main roles. 

Personally, I don't think it matters if you have Robert Redford in his prime acting opposite Glenn Close. No talent is going to be able to keep a sinking ship of this magnitude afloat. Fox is "polishing brass on the Titanic. Its all going down, man. "

"Back to the Future" Reunion Promo Videos

The "We're Going Back" movement is in full swing, and you can now view three promo videos for the event featuring Bob Gale, Dean Cundey, and none other than Goldie Wilson himself, Don Fullilove.

We’re going back ... spanning november 5th 2010 to november 12th 2010 you can join fellow back to the future fans re-create marty mcflys week in 1955 to CELEBRATE the 25th anniversary of back to the future WITH all proceeds going to team fox for Parkinson's research. the biggest back to the future event ... IN HISTORY!

- MEET CAST AND CREW
- VISIT ORIGINAL FILMING LOCATIONS
- GET UP CLOSER WITH SEVERAL TIME MACHINE DELOREANS
- MUSEUM OF SCREEN USED PROPS, CONTINUITY POLAROIDS AND BEHIND THE SCENES PICTURES
- RIDE A HOVERBOARD WITH GRIFF’S 2015 GANG AND THEIR STUNT TEAM
- ENCHANTMENT UNDER THE SEA DANCE AT THE SAME FILMING LOCATION