Seth Rogen (Really) Makes a Porno
Kevin Smith’s upcoming comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno, with Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen, may actually be a porno. No, seriously. The MPAA is trying to slap it with an NC-17 rating, meaning you’d have a tough time seeing it down at the megaplex.
So what’s in this thing that makes it so, like, porny? We asked Seth, and here’s what he said…
“It’s like a romantic comedy,” Rogen told us this week, at the press day for The Pineapple Express, which opens in August. “It’s a romantic relationship moviewith a lot of porn and balls.”
Wait, whose balls? “My balls are not in it,” he clarified.
Still, Smith is fighting for an R rating, as he did when Clerks first got slapped with an NC-17simply for dirty language. “You can disembowel someone in a youth hostel in Romania, but you can’t show people having sex,” Rogen said. “I think it’s weird.”
If Zack and Miri does get an NC-17, Rogen thinks his hit flicks Knocked Up and Superbad should have, too.
“This is not anything outside of what we’ve done before,” he told us. “The word porno is in the title, and that kind of freaks people out.”
Well, that and the balls, maybe.
Jesse Bradford As Dubya’s Frat Buddy?
Jesse Bradford (anyone remember him?!) has been cast as Thatcher in Oliver Stone’s Bush bio-disaster pic W.… Thatcher was Bush’s fraternity president in college.
I really don’t understand… why do people continue to sign up for this project? Is it for the controversy? Their belief in the man? Or the money? (My bet’s on the latter!) How many people does Oliver think are going to see this movie? No major production company would even touch the movie; it’s being produced by Lions Gate Films, who have brought us such amazing yarns as Bratz, The Condemned and Happily N’Ever After. I guess that actually sounds like some great company for W..
*sigh* Whatever.
Production is apparently well underway in Shreveport, Louisiana. Bradford is joined by Josh Brolin (W himself!), Elizabeth Banks (Mrs. W), and Ioan Gruffudd (Tony Blair). Pic is currently set for release in October.
Has Justin Ever Heard Jessica Sing?
Does Justin Timberlake know that his girlfriend, Jessica Biel, once tried to make it as a singer?
Sadly, however, Biel didn’t get farat least not in college.
The sexy starlet was rejected for a spot with the Amalgamates, an a cappella group at Tufts University, according to GQ senior editor Mickey Rapkin’s new book, Pitch Perfect: A Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory.
“The Mates focus on blending in our auditions,” one unnamed “Mate” says. “She wasn’t very good at it…We are kicking ourselves, in case you’re wondering.”
Also kicking himself is Friday Night Lights star Scott Porter. The hottie who plays Jason Street on the hit NBC series tells Rapkin he has some big-time regrets about leaving professional a cappella group Mosaic when he decided to take a shot at Hollywoodespecially when he learned Mosaic snagged the opening-act gig for Prince during a New Year’s Eve concert.
“That’s a rock star moment,” Porter says. “I am on this massive amazing TV show that everyone loves, but I devoted eight years of my life to taking the next step with a cappella music.”
And if you think a cappella isn’t hip, Masi Oka of Heroes fame just gave you some more ammunition.
He admits that he once wore a purple leotard and a tutu while singing an a cappella version of “Flashdance” with the all-male Bear Necessities at Brown University. The rest of the group “chickened out and wore leg warmers and bandannas,” Oka says. “But I thought we had to go all out. A cappella is all about commitment.”
Perhaps Oka will be asked to re-create his tutu drama when Pitch Perfect is made into a movie. Elizabeth Banks’ production company recently optioned the film rights.
Teaser Poster for Oliver Stone’s W.
Lionsgate’s Cannes Film Festival Teaser poster for Oliver Stone’s W. gives you a very good idea of what you can expect from the upcoming George W. Bush biopic. This won’t be a dramatic retelling of W’s life! But can Human beings and fish really coexist peacefully?
Official Plot Synopsis: Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of our 43rd President to the big screen as only he can. W takes viewers through Bush’s eventful life — his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith, and of course the critical days leading up to Bush’s decision to invade Iraq.
W stars Josh Brolin as George W. Bush, Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush, James Cromwell as George Herbert Walker Bush, Academy Award® winner Ellen Burstyn as Barbara Bush, Thandie Newton as Condoleezza Rice, Jeffrey Wright as Colin Powell, Scott Glenn as Donald Rumsfeld, and Ioan Gruffud as Tony Blair.
source: IOnCinema