Posts by Lane Brown

  • World Premiere: See the Video for Stephen Malkmus’ “Senator,” Starring Jack Black

    In August, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks dropped the Beck-produced Mirror Traffic, Malkmus’ fifth post-Pavement album. Today, thanks to the folks at Matador Records, Grantland is proud to premiere the new video for “Senator,” starring Jack Black as a cattle-prod-wielding, reelection-seeking senator and Office Space‘s Gary Cole as his Stetson-wearing, guitar-soloing hype man. Directed by […]

  • Hugh Jackman

    Q&A: Hugh Jackman on Real Steel

    It’s a blight on Hollywood’s good name that they’ve taken this long to provide us with a movie about boxing robots. Arriving in theaters on Friday is Shawn Levy’s Real Steel, in which Hugh Jackman stars as an absentee dad who bonds with his young son (Dakota Goyo) as they train an eight-foot automaton to […]

  • Hero Author Sues to Block Release of In Time

    Science-fiction author Harlan Ellison is suing for compensatory damages and to block the October 28 release of Andrew Niccol’s In Time — in which Justin Timberlake stars as a wanted man in a world where people can pay to extend their lives — claiming the movie’s plot is too similar to his 1965 novel Repent, […]

  • Bryan Cranston

    Breaking Bad Renewed for Sixteen Final Episodes

    Following weeks of intense negotiations, Sony and AMC have reached a deal to produce 16 final episodes of Breaking Bad. Those episodes will be filmed together but may or may not be split into two seasons depending on how many Emmys Bryan Cranston feels like winning. Grade: A+ [Vulture] On Saturday, Captain America‘s Hayley Atwell […]

  • Senna

    Q&A: Senna Director Asif Kapadia on Ayrton Senna, Spoilers, and ‘Creating a New Film Genre’

    Arriving in theaters in New York and Los Angeles today is Senna, the award-winning, Grantland-approved documentary from director Asif Kapadia about the life and tragic end of Brazilian Formula One champion Ayrton Senna. Impressively cobbled together from a mountain of archival video, Senna (being distributed by ESPN Films, among others) forgoes the standard talking-head interviews […]

  • Jonathan Demme

    Jonathan Demme to Save JFK

    Jonathan Demme has optioned Stephen King‘s upcoming 11/22/63, about a high school teacher who travels back in time to prevent JFK’s assassination (and the only good Oliver Stone movie since the ’80s). Grade: B [Variety] In a shameless bid to woo 18-24 demographic, Robert Redford has added Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, and Richard Jenkins to […]

  • Roseanne Barr

    Roseanne to Remake Roseanne

    Following Tim Allen and Martin Lawrence back to TV will be Roseanne Barr, who just signed a script deal with 20th Century Fox TV to write Downwardly Mobile, a sitcom about an “an optimistic blue-collar family living in hard times.” Casting is underway for a third Becky. Grade: B+ [Deadline] Mark Wahlberg will broaden his […]

  • Bruce Willis

    Bruce Willis is a Real American Hero

    Bruce Willis is negotiating to star in the increasingly weird-seeming G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation as Joe Colton, the original Joe. He’d join Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki, and RZA, and be inexplicably directed by Jon M. Chu, the guy who made the Step Up movies and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. Grade: B [HR] Oren Moverman […]

  • Contagion

    Did The Onion Predict Contagion’s ‘Gwyneth Paltrow Gets Bird Flu’ Marketing Push?

    Conventional wisdom says that, in times of economic uncertainty, audiences will seek the escapist comforts of light, edgeless movies — your Paul Blarts, your Smurfs, your Hangovers. So, as the New York Times wonders today, with a third Great Depression looming, what are the marketers at Warner Bros. to do with this fall’s Contagion, the […]

  • Catwoman’s Motorcycle Takes Out a Camera

    The hijinks continue on the Pittsburgh set of the Most Serious Movie in the World, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. Last weekend saw a Batmobile wedding. Then on Saturday, Tom Hardy’s steroidal villain, Bane, played the half-time show at a Steeler’s game. And yesterday, a stand-in for Anne Hathaway (Catwoman) plowed into an IMAX […]

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