Josh Brolin has talked about his “W” arrest for the first time. “None of us were drunk, we had just finished shooting three or four hours before. We were out…in the beginning, it was like [smacks hand] okay! It was time! We did it! We were so proud, what an accomplishment!…and then this fucking happens. To me it was ridiculous. I have never seen…I have never ever, ever, ever, ever seen an escalation of paranoia and abuse like that…ever. And I know a lot of cops. Everybody knows I have a checkered past and I’ve been in situations that are kind of tough. I’ve never ever been treated like that by cops. Ever.” [Hollywood Elsewhere] Brolin talks more “W” in this YouTube clip which shows more clips from the film including funny combative scenes between Bush and Cheney.
Jeffrey Wells is on a roll. He’s also got the first onesheet/poster for Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” which won’t be out until summer 2009. [Hollywood Elsewhere]
Alan Moore doesn’t hate “Watchmen” anymore than he hates all Alan Moore film adaptations says the graphic novel’s illustrator Dave Gibbons. All Alan Moore Adaptations are loathed equally! [Sci-FiWire]
The Oscars are so strapped for cash, they’re ending their 50-year ban on having move ads and trailers play during the commercials for the Academy ceremony. Hey, maybe studios will use it as an opportunity to unveil exclusive new trailers. Hey, that’d be rad and probably an even bigger reason to get people to tune in. Win, win for everyone. There are stipulations though, every studio is allowed to purchase only one spot, and only for movies to be released after the last Friday in April. [LATimes]
The new international “Frost/Nixon” poster is much better than the last one. At least from a design perspective. We’re still not convinced about that movie, but we do love us some Frank Langellaa so maybe their is hope. This is probably as good as place as any to say, remember the New York Times raves about the Langella flick, “Starting Out In The Evening” last year (they put it on their top-10 list)? Well, it was good, but it certainly wasn’t that good. [InContention]
Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler are going to appear together in Frank Darabont’s psychological thriller, “Law Abiding Citizens.” [THR]
Julie Taymor’s “Spiderman” musical (with U2 doing the music) is getting a $40 million dollar budget. The highest ever on Broadway. We kind of can’t wait to see that trainwreck. [Vulture]
