"Popularity Is the Slutty Little Cousin of Prestige": Birdman

"I don't know what I'm saying. My face is melting off. I didn't even answer anything, I just said a bunch of words," admitted Emma Stone on Monday night, sitting on a panel with three of her Birdman co-stars after a screening of their film, as part of the 92nd St. Y's Reel Pieces with Annette Insdorf series. Those…
Don't Talk to Ed Norton About the Internet Movie Database
Edward Norton was on The View today when Whoopi Goldberg asked him if there was any truth to the rumor that he might play the Riddler in an upcoming Batman movie. He responds, "Are you reading IMDb? Don't read IMDb."
Stone: De Niro vs. Norton, Round 2
Here's a trailer for Stone, a thriller starring Robert De Niro and Edward Norton, reunited some nine years after they thrilled in The Score. This looks like a slightly more sedate movie, with a lot of sitting and yelling.
Spotted! Edward Norton Plays the 'Celebrity' Card to Blow Off a Bill
In Leaves of Grass Edward Norton plays twins, one of whom deals pot. At last night's snack-accompanied SxSW screening, Edward's mellow went up in smoke when he thought he received a bill for his munchies. A witness writes in.
Edward Norton: Bleecker St. & Charles St.
[Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] May 3 @ 11:15pm Saw Edward Norton with a group of people and a young lady on his arm.
'Edward Norton, You Sure Were A Dick At Vons'
Two years ago, after Ed Norton was chivalrous to a New York waitress, we wondered if his career was on the ropes because "Quality celebrities would never be nice to you." Well, the film star must have let the financial success of the Incredible Hulk go to his head, because now he can't buy groceries without pissing…
'Incredible Hulk' Screenwriter: Edward Norton Did Not Write My Freaking Script!
For some reason, The Incredible Hulk star Edward Norton has apparently been telling fans that he wrote the screenplay for the superhero flick. This doesn't sit well at all with screenwriter Zak Penn, considering that he enjoys sole writing credit and says he'd been working on the story for more than a decade. Penn…
Bad Math and Short Memories Spin Wacky 'Hulk' Hate-In
Two percent doesn't sound like much of a quantity on its face, but it's apparently more than enough room for studio execs to rejoice after recent box-office scans reveal this year's grosses are slightly up from those of Summer 2007. Observers attribute part of the bump to "better-than-expected" openings for films…
'Hulk' Smaaaassssh 'Happening'! (And Other Box-Office Bloodshed For The Weekend Ahead)
Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your guide to the latest surges and scourges among this weekend's new movies. After a fairly predictable go of things last week, we face a pair of high-profile releases that couldn't be further apart in their critical and commercial futures, a nifty and thoroughly unnerving…
The Donut Of Truth
· Thanks to you, The Moment of Truth, no one will ever commit bigoted acts of fatism ever again! You're not the most evil TV show in history—you're bringing humankind closer together! [TMOT]
· Edward Norton prefers to let The Incredible Hulk do the junket-blabbing for itself. So tell us, Incredible Hulk—how are you…
Anti-Smoking Advocates Warn of Encroaching 'Hulk' Nemesis 'Emphysema'
Green skin, black lungs: That's what smoking-in-film watchdog group the American Medical Association Alliance is accusing Universal of showcasing in The Incredible Hulk, and thereby encouraging its teen audiences of picking up the deadly habit in order to emulate the cool on-screen persona of William Hurt's…
Presence Of Iron Man Meant To Reassure A Restless Fanboy Nation That 'Hulk' Will Get It Right
While it's tracking nicely and all set to smash Friday the 13th's other green menace—The Happening—into M. Night Smithereens, Universal is still not taking any chances on getting The Incredible Hulk word out. Besides the new one-sheet featuring a Herb Rittsian, rear-view shot of the verdant one filling out a pair of…
Edward Norton Enters The 'Denial' Phase Of Grieving For 'The Incredible Hulk'
Defamer HQ opens for business this morning with an apology to newly non-difficult Edward Norton, whose squabbles with Marvel and Universal over The Incredible Hulk appear to have been blown out of proportion by a naturally overzealous press. Via Entertainment Weekly, Norton himself went public for the first time…
'Passionate' Edward Norton Quietly Plots Revenge For Stalled Masterpiece 'Hulk'
Try as it might, Universal is facing another orgy of resistance to its big-screen efforts on behalf of the Incredible Hulk comic franchise. This time around, five years after Ang Lee's expensive, cheesy The Hulk flatlined into muscly green oblivion, The Incredible Hulk has studio flacks spinning, onlookers shrugging…
And in the debate over which cartoonish, nearly-identical-looking summer blockbuster Hulk is cooler, we'll have to go with the one that looks less like the color of Green Giant frozen peas, and more like the color of Green Giant canned peas. [incrediblehulk.marvel.com]
'The Incredible Hulk' Trailer Offers Promise Of Giant, Green, Angry Thing
The just-released trailer for The Incredible Hulk shows few signs of the shocking truth—splashed across the pages of The Finkeian Tattler—about the power-play going on behind the scenes. (For the uninitiated: Ed Norton has been offering up his creative point of view, which differs slightly from that of the 1200 other…
