It’s a conspiracy witchunt! Please disregard the rumors! Please disperese, there’s nothing to see here! Tom Cruise’s “Valkyrie,” is doing fine, no really. Despite being bumped straight out of Oscar season contention, the producers behind the film insist you’re ignorant and, “It’s all good.” “Anybody trying to dismiss us or write us off doesn’t understand the business,” United Artists chief Paula Wagner says sounding much like a scary and dogmatic Nazi herself. “Nothing is going to stop us.” [New York Times]
Roger Ebert won’t be attending Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival. “Sigh. I was really happy with this one…A broken hip adds to my tour of medical adventures. My current plan is to take it easy, obey the doctors orders, and start writing reviews again,” he writes. Unfortunately, you’ll have to watch Ang Lee’s “Hulk” and Tarsem’s “The Cell,” without him. Tears. [Spoutblog]
“That’s ‘Neil Patrick Harris.’ I’m not a big onion guy. And sliders make you poop. So that combination of the two is not good for me.” – Neil Patrick Harris insists there’s a difference between Neil Patrick Harris and NPH the White Castle-loving debauched meth freak in the “Harold & Kumar” films. [MTV]
Girls want to have fun in their menial bit parts in superhero films too! USA Today speaks to three comely ladies in three upcoming super hero films, Gwyneth Paltrow (“Iron Man”), Liv Tyler (“The Incredible Hulk”) and Maggie Gyllenhaal (“Batman: The Dark Knight”). Unfortunately, instead of sounding like smart underused actresses they’re made to look like airhead twits to responding to questions like, “what super power would you have if you could choose? (not to mention the retarded color-coded scheme to keep their answers apart) Shameful shit. [USA Today]