"Cowboys and Aliens" is one of those projects that will either be really awful or really awesome: Apache Indians and white settlers come together when an alien spaceship crash-lands in their city. Daniel Craig is in talks to star.
Funny little news today about the internet, about foreign box office, about annoying reality shows on CBS and bizarro ones on Canadian TV. Plus news on your home movie about furries.
Maybe you've heard of film director Joseph McGinty Nichol, popularly known as "McG." Perhaps you'd like him to get beat up, if only because he calls himself McG? If so, don't fret—-Bill Murray already did it.
Pixar continues its eerily strong success streak with its latest picture, about a floating house. Terminator is in trouble, while the Ben Stiller bubble has yet to pop. It probably never will.
It's just a near-summer Friday, so not all that much is happening. A Trainspotting author turns to directing. Jim Carrey will soon be steaming into your town. And terrible TV series and movies still get made, every day, in this old place of ours.
This month's Esquire says that the new Terminator movie is all about a scream, or something, but that the scream is bad, and McG definitely isn't a tool. Oh super. This movie will be great.
Out of popular demand, and several days too late, the results vastly exceeded our expectations. [YouTube via BoingBoing]
As if on cue, Christian Bale has surfaced with tail tucked neatly between legs to apologize for the rant that has kept bloggers, Access Hollywood reporters, and talk show hosts knee-deep in material for days.
There's two sides to every story of a superstar's verbal smackdown of a futz-happy DP. If we're to believe Radar, Shane Hurlbut—the berated cinematogapher in question—was a set terror the crew was glad to see humiliated.
OHHHHH GOOOOD, word has emerged of yet another recipient of Christian Bale's generous anger-gifting: trailblazing feminist hero Gloria Steinem!
We've now had several days to absorb Christian Bale's tirade—an egomaniacal eruption from the depths of Mt. Methodia the likes of which we haven't seen since Russell Crowe's phone-flinging lobby escapades.
· Look, Shane Hurlbut interrupted the emotional lynchpin of the entire Terminator Salvation story! Now people who dress up as its characters for Halloween might wind up looking totally ridiculous.
· "Penn. Rourke Hathaway. Streep. We're on a first name basis." Um...are you sure about that, LAT?
· Vanity Fair gets a…
Well, they say if you stick around in Hollywood long enough, your biggest liability will eventually turn into your most bankable asset. (Actually they don't say that, but they should.) It certainly was Aggro Batman's case, as his fist-shaking haranguing of Japanese passersby who snap his photo but fail to produce the…
We hate to admit that we've listened to Christian Bale's tirade in its various forms so many times, it now comes off sounding like perfectly level-headed discourse, oooh goood you fucking little pricks.
Ain't It Cool News fanboy oracle Harry Knowles refuses to post the Christian Bale rant, but goes on at some length today on why he chose to side with the mercurial action star.
It's not often that an actor's diva tirade is so seismically preposterous as to inspire an outpouring of sheer joy and responsive creativity from a deeply appreciative public. But that's precisely what Christian Bale's has done.
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Now that we've done the Running Man to the Christian Bale Rant Heard 'Round the World, we have some questions about the man on the receiving end: Shane Hurlbut, the cinematographer on Terminator Salvation.
Responses to Christian Bale's meltdown varied widely: lust, sympathy, disgust, and even indifference. ("Please," one actor with a small part in Transformers told us. "That would have been a good day on the set.")
Tales of tantrums can get exaggerated in the telling, but having now heard the audio, we can safely say Christian Bale's Terminator Salvation freakout on a DP who wandered into his shot is certifiably insane.
