-
Monday, October 5
While the wreckage of her acting career is still smoldering, Lindsay Lohan's career as fashion designer looks headed for a similar result. Hired as "artistic adviser" to the struggling French label Emanuel Ungaro, she presented models appearing "in loose-fitting jackets that flapped open to reveal that they wore sequin-covered pasties, in the shape of hearts, on their breasts, leaving several people in the audience aghast." Classy, Lindsay!
Noted French art director Fabien Baron savaged her dryly, saying, "We love Lindsay Lohan — as an actress. Period." And style.com photographer Greg Kessler took pics of front-row guests "asking them to pose as Ms. Lohan by holding up their hands, ashamedly, in front of their faces."
This is just the latest in a series of setbacks for LiLo. Her most recent movie (Labor Pains) went straight to DVD, and it was reported she turned down the Heather Graham role in The Hangover because the script "had no potential." There is one small glimmer of hope for a comeback. She's confirmed in Robert Rodriguez's Machete, set for release sometime in 2010.
Posted 10/5/2009 by reelz
Related: Lindsay Lohan | The Hangover | Machete | Labor Pains
-
Thursday, October 1
Jamie Foxx has been added to the cast of Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures' latest Todd Phillips (The Hangover) comedy, Due Date. He joins Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis.
Foxx and Downey Jr. recently starred in The Soloist together, a drama by Joe Wright about the true story of Nathaniel Ayers (Foxx), a talented musician who becomes homeless after developing schizophrenia, and Steve Lopez (Downey Jr.), a Los Angeles Times columnist who writes about him for the paper.
In Due Date, Downey Jr. will star as a stressed-out father who hitches a ride from a college student (Galifianakis) in the hopes of making it to his child's birth on time. Foxx will play a longtime friend of Downey Jr.'s character who once dated his wife (played by Michelle Monaghan) and has maintained a secret relationship with her.
Next Showing: Due Date is currently slated for a November 5, 2010 release
Posted 10/1/2009 by BrentJS
Related: Jamie Foxx | Zach Galifianakis | Robert Downey Jr. | The Soloist | The Hangover
-
Friday, September 18
Todd Phillips took a chance when he forced Warner Bros. to let him cast Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis in The Hangover, but his gamble paid off when Hangover became the highest grossing R-rated comedy ever in July. Up next for Phillips is Due Date, a road trip comedy about an expectant father (Robert Downey Jr.) trying to race home to see the birth of his child alongside an annoying travel partner (Galifianakis).
Variety reports that Michelle Monaghan is set to join the comedy as Downey Jr.'s pregnant wife, reuniting her with her Kiss Kiss Bang Bang co-star. Shooting begins this fall.
Next Showing: Due Date is scheduled to open November 5, 2010
Posted 9/18/2009 by Ryan
Related: Michelle Monaghan | Todd Phillips | Zach Galifianakis | Robert Downey Jr. | The Hangover | Due Date
-
Sunday, August 23
The Hangover, a fresh buddy-road-trip comedy made for $35 million, went on to rake in an incredible $403 million worldwide. With profits like that, it was inevitable that talk would turn to the possibility of a sequel. Break-out funny man Zach Galifianakis confirmed a few weeks ago that a script was being worked on, but had doubts about his participation in The Hangover 2.
I'm not running to do The Hangover 2. I told Todd [Phillips], the last thing I want is the Police Academy chain all of the sudden.... You've got to be careful with something like that. The movie's really good, why bother with a sequel?
While Galifianakis' comments are not exactly a ringing endorsement of a sequel, his co-star, Bradley Cooper, was far more optimistic when he was recently asked about The Hangover 2.
We're actually really excited about the second one. We were talking about it while we were filming the first one 'cause we were having so much fun. Warner Bros. actually wanted to do it before it even came out.
Posted 8/23/2009 by BrentJS
Related: Bradley Cooper | Zach Galifianakis | The Hangover
-
Friday, August 21
While Bradley Cooper readily admits that rejection "is such a huge, inherent part of the [movie] business," the Hangover star told USAWeekend that losing the role of Green Lantern to Ryan Reynolds was difficult to take:
It was more of an ego hurt than any sort of artistic one.
Cooper must feel that way because, artistically, he's busier than ever. With All About Steve opening September 4, the romantic comedy Valentine's Day currently shooting, and starting work on the A-Team next month before heading over to The Hangover 2. He also recently took part in a Middle East USO tour where he couldn't hide from his Green Lantern rejection:
It's surreal being in a forward-operating base in Afghanistan and having a Marine coming up to you and him going, "Hey, man. Sorry you didn't get Green Lantern."
Posted 8/21/2009 by Ryan
Related: Bradley Cooper | Green Lantern | A-Team | Ryan Reynolds | All About Steve | The Hangover
-
Thursday, August 13
When a movie becomes the most successful R-rated comedy ever like The Hangover has, it's a given that its stars are going to suddenly explode into more movies. With a Hangover sequel already in the works, the movie's trio of stars have also lined up other projects. Zach Galifianakis is working with Hangover director Todd Phillips on Due Date, Bradley Cooper will be seen next in All About Steve a comedy with Sandra Bullock that opens September 4, and Ed Helms has lined up the comedy Central Intelligence, where an accountant is thrown into the world of espionage after re-connecting with an old friend on Facebook. The script is written by MadTV's Ike Barinholtz and Dave Stassen.
Helms will also star in Cedar Rapids, a comedy from producer Alexander Payne (Sideways) and director Miguel Arteta, where Helms will play an insurance salesman who travels cross country to attend a convention in an attempt to save the jobs of his co-workers. Rapids starts production this October.
There's no word if Helms will shoot Intelligence before work begins on Hangover 2 in the fall of 2010. He can be seen next in The Goods: Sell Hard, Live Hard, which opens August 14.
Posted 8/13/2009 by Ryan
Related: Alexander Payne | Bradley Cooper | Miguel Arteta | Todd Phillips | Zach Galifianakis | The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard | Ed Helms | The Hangover | Ike Barinholtz
-
Sunday, July 26
Variety reports that Robert Downey Jr. has struck a deal with Warner Bros. and will star in Due Date with Zach Galifianakis. The comedy, which begins shooting this fall and is scheduled for release sometime in 2010, will see Downey as an expectant father who goes on a road trip in order to make it to the birth of his first-born child.
The movie will be directed by Todd Phillips (Old School, Road Trip) from a script by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland (with revisions by Adam Sztykiel). Phillips' most recent movie, The Hangover, recently became the highest-grossing R-rated comedy ever.
Posted 7/26/2009 by Rich Z
Related: Todd Phillips | Zach Galifianakis | Robert Downey Jr. | The Hangover
-
Monday, July 13
Considering the success of The Hangover, a sequel seems like a foregone conclusion. However, it's one that Warner Bros. decided to make two months before the hit comedy even opened. While no details regarding the story for The Hangover 2 have been given, the movie is set to open Memorial Day weekend in 2011.
Director Todd Phillips credits the success of the movie to stars Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ed Helms, all of whom Warner Bros. was nervous to cast.
I remember some executives just didn't understand the casting, and on The Hangover, I felt we'd been seeing the same faces in a lot of comedies, and that it was time to mix it up. Warners was a bit apprehensive...
With The Hangover poised to be the top-grossing R-rated movie for Warners this year, Phillips was certainly right. Now he just has to figure out what to do in the sequel before it goes into production October 2010.
Posted 7/13/2009 by Ryan
Related: Bradley Cooper | Todd Phillips | Zach Galifianakis | Ed Helms | The Hangover
-
Thursday, July 9
Us reports Lindsay Lohan turned down the role of "Jade the call girl" in The Hangover, saying the script, "had no potential."
For the record, The Hangover has grossed nearly $209M and is arguably the summer's biggest hit. (Of course, the part ended up going to Heather Graham, who needed career revitalization nearly as badly.)
This is the latest indignity suffered by Lohan. Her next movie, Labor Pains, is going straight to video on August 4th. And her most recent theatrical release, I Know Who Killed Me, forced some critics to gouge their own eyes out, with Slant's Rob Humanick saying, "criticizing it seems the equivalent of beating up special needs children."
Posted 7/9/2009 by reelz
Related: Heather Graham | Lindsay Lohan | I Know Who Killed Me | The Hangover | Labor Pains
-
Thursday, June 18
It's summer. Time for baseball, gin and tonics, and movies (not necessarily in that order). Here are 10 women who are getting us to ask theater managers: "Can ya turn up the air conditioning?"
Check out our list of the 10 Hottest Chicks from the Summer Flicks. Yes, Megan Fox made the list. See the other 9!
Posted 6/18/2009 by reelz
Related: Amy Adams | Heather Graham | Krista Allen | Moon Bloodgood | Zoe Saldana | Megan Fox | Leslie Mann | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Penelope Cruz | Avatar | Star Trek | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | Olivia Wilde | Terminator Salvation | Sienna Miller | Year One | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | The Hangover | G-Force | Funny People | The Final Destination | Burning Palms