Are you as wiped out from The Oscars as we are? God, we were up until 4 a.m., not fun. A recap of things going around the web while we had our head up our asses with Oscar concerns…
OK, one more. Oscar Ratings were up about 6% (not a ton), but still much lower compared to previous years. Last year’s rating were the lowest ever. [AP] Wait, AwardsDaily is now saying it’s 13%
– OK, another Oscar-related story. We did better than Scott Feinberg and Anne Thompson (18 correct) in our Oscar predix (19 correct). How about that? Feinberg can be fierce with his picks, so we take this as a nice little feather in our cap. InContentions Kris Tapley got 21 of 24 picks right, damn. [AwardsDaily]
Film School Rejects have the right approach of skepticism here: Dan Aykroyd is talking out the side of his mouth? “[The Script to “Ghostbusters 3″] is commenced early summer. Hope to be in production by late fall 2009.” The script is being penned by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupinsky of “The Office” and “Year One,” which was a very amusing screenplay, but like FSR, we continue to maintain a wait and see attitude. It will take a great script for everyone to agree to be in it. Aykroyd of course only needs 98 pages written by monkeys and he’ll gleefully sign up, but Bill Murray is a much more discerning person.
John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Clark Duke and Craig Robinson are set to join the MGM comedy “Hot Tub Time Machine.” Cusak and Corddry are locked in, the latter two are in negotiations. Good cast. [Variety]
Robert Pattinson is off to shoot “New Moon,” very shortly. [EW]
Mickey Rourke talked more “Iron Man 2” on the Oscar red carpet to E!, but its more of the same and essentially: Yeah, I’d love to do it, but they have to make the right offer. [IESB]
Naomi Watts has joined the cast of Woody Allen’s next film (not “Whatever Works”) that already features Josh Brolin and Anthony Hopkins. The film is still untitled and her role is unknown. [Variety] Apparently ‘Slumdog’ damsel Freida Pinto has joined the cast as well. We guess her career has officially begun too. [RopeofSilicon].
Zack Snyder says Alan Moore is just as curmudgeonly as he appear online. [SplashPage]
