Rainy day, it's all right

[cleolinda]

If you have not seen the lolarity that is next week's Entertainment Weekly Twilight cover (plus a sparkleized version by orangeokapi13. Plus another version over at FW. Plus Maybelline icons, and I'm kind of tempted to snag one) from yesterday, I suggest you hie yourself there with a quickness. Truly, it is magnificent, and the best laugh you will have all week. (And just think: I'm getting this in the mail.)

ETA: THIS JUST IN: THERE ARE PICTURES INSIDE THE MAGAZINE AS WELL. OUTSTANDING.

Apparently I am a Waffler. Sadly, I suspect this is fairly accurate.

Crystal skulls turn out to be fakes.

"Iranian missile photoshop" photoshoppery.

Robbery try ends when victim offers iced tea.

Then we'll grab a bite at 404 Not Found.

The Five Totally Not Dirty Words You Can't Say in the New York 'Times,' or, why Go Fug Yourself and Harry Potter were too dirty to quote.

Tor Free eBooks Giveaway Has Positive Effect on Sales. I suspected it would! I have, uh, my own experience as a book buyer to back this up.

Bitchiness breaks out in the world of biography.

Now X-Women Can Be Bimbos Too [Rant].

'Prisoner' Details Hinted; AMC Wants To Adapt Classic SF.

Elizabeth Spriggs, Mrs Jennings in 'Sense & Sensibility,' has died. Oh no! I loved her in that movie. She was also the original Fat Lady Portrait in Harry Potter, because, by law, everyone in Sense and Sensibility is required to end up in Harry Potter somehow.

SD Comic Con: Thursday Schedule Online Now. WHY IS IT SO AWESOME? *sob*

Images: New UK 'Quantum' Quad Emerges; Awesome New Russian Poster for 'Babylon A.D.'; Neil Gaiman on the set of 'Hellboy 2' ("Selma Blair asleep by a rock... Selma awake and pretending to be a book cover..."); Renee Zellweger on the set of 'My One and Only'; New, Nonsensical Quote-Free Shots from 'Ghost Town.'

Trailers and clips: New Hellboy II Clip Revealed; Trailer Blazer: 'Tropic Thunder' mockumentary 'Rain of Madness'; Must Watch: Badass Red Band Trailer for 'Hell Ride'; Must Watch: Freaky New 'Quarantine' Trailer; 'Max Payne' Trailer Might Be Best Action Movie Trailer Based on a Video Game Inspired by Action Movies Yet; Oh sweet God.

trailer_spot: Tropic Thunder, 12, Traitor, Taken, Psycho.

Knight's Bale Talks Wayne's Arc; Bale's Struggle With Batman's Voice; Knight's Bale Did Own Fights; The Dark Knight to Pack Theaters Just Before the Dawn (they've added 3 am AND 6 am shows, which are still selling out); Discuss: Will 'The Dark Knight' Suffer from Too Much Hype?; ‘The Dark Knight’ Took Over New York City, And Our Intern Steve Was There! MTV's intern, that is. Although I think I could probably use an intern around here.

Christian Bale Keeping It Real For ‘Public Enemies’ Role Opposite Johnny Depp.

Super Short Harry Potter 6 Teaser Coming to IMAX?; Heyman on Tom Felton as Draco in "Half-Blood Prince: "Nuances are Terrific" Plus Info on a New Plot Twist (WHAT? WHAAAAAAAT?).

Interview: 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army' Director Guillermo Del Toro; Interview: Hellboy II's Creature Mastermind - Doug Jones; From the 'Beast' to 'Hellboy.' Aww, I wondered if anyone else remembered Beauty and the Beast from the '80s. I wasn't old enough to be allowed to watch the show, but even then I was reading the TV Guide articles about how crazy the fandom was, even if that wasn't what they called it then. Good times.

New X-Files pics; New X-Files Comic Wants To Be Television Show So Badly.

'Quantum of Solace' - Official Blog Report #16.

Darren Aronofsky Helming 'Robocop' Remake? I... he... what?

‘Twilight’ Star Mike Welch Reveals Plans To Go From Bloodsuckers To Samurai Swords.

Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes is Robert Downey Jr.; Robert Downey Jr. Vs. Sacha Baron Cohen: A Tale Of Two Holmes. I... I just wash my hands of all of this madness. It's going to hurt my heart so bad if/when one or both of these suck that I'm just going to step back and pretend that neither is happening. Call me if one of them turns out to be decent, I'll be over here with my head in the sand.

Brad Pitt's Name Heard in Vague Relation to 'Inglorious Bastards'; Script for Quentin Tarantino's 'Inglorious Bastards' Surfaces. I'm having a real hard time getting enthused for another WWII movie, though. Sometimes I wonder if there aren't more hours of WWII film than there were in the war itself.

Is Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che’ Headlining the New York Film Festival?

Warner Rides On 'Elfquest.'

'Cloverfield' + '28 Days Later' = 'Quarantine'; Eco-Horror Goes Extra Vague With 'The Colony.'

Fincher's 'Heavy Metal' a No-Go at Paramount.

Val Kilmer on 'Bad Lieutenant' and Voicing KITT.

Do Not Want: Talking Animal Comedy from 'Made of Honor' Screenwriter.

Remember 'Kinky Boots'? No? Well, It's Going to Be a Broadway Musical.

How Joss Whedon’s ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’ Was Born: The Making Of A Cult Musical.

5 Reasons 1980 Wasn’t the Best Year for Movie Musicals.

Headless Zombie, Meet Helpless Scientist. Naked. (NSFW)

Comments

[pinstripe-bindi.livejournal.com]

I refuse to predict anything RDJ is going to do will suck until I have actually seen it. He could announce he's going to play all the characters in a one-man off-Broadway revival of Annie, and I still wouldn't pass judgement until I'd seen it.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I would pay to see that.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

He looks like... Zombie Cedric more than anything.

If Zombies sparkled and wore makeup at least.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Re: HBP PLOT TWISTORAMA

NO GODDAMNIT YOU FUCKERS LEAVE HIM ALONE >:(

[salamandersam.livejournal.com]

Why are they insisting on messing up the HP series so much in the movies? If they have no Fleur in HBP, and no Bill, what are they going to do for the plot points they figure into in Deathly Hallows?

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna be pissed if I don't get Fleur and Molly's catfight ending in grudging acceptance over Bill's sexy mutilated face.

Also, WEDDING OF AWKWARD. I WANNA SEE A WIZARDLY WEDDING OF AWKWARD, DAMNIT.

[jcipa.livejournal.com]

Gah! WTF are they doing to the HP movies?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

You know, I've been very supportive of changes they wanted to make to the movies... until this one. They just seem to be doing really wacky stuff this time around. STOP IT.

RE: Harry Potter

[falco-conlon.livejournal.com]

WWHHAAAAAAAAT?

[raynala.livejournal.com]

RIP, Fat Lady. ♥

[wildcatlizzie.livejournal.com]

I honestly love the inside shots; especially the one in the rain. When you forget about the characters that they're supposed to be, it's really a beautiful shot.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the rain really is nice. It helps that the b/w means they can't try to do anything weird with vampire makeup on him, and the rain means they can't powder him or do anything bizarre with his hair. So really, it just has a nice, natural look to it.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you followed this, or if you aren't interested, or what, but:

JonBenet's Family Cleared After New DNA Test (http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/10/ramsey.dna/?iref=hpmostpop)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did see that--I wasn't sure if I should post it or not. It's horrifying in retrospect--the family went through all that, and only now have they cleared them. And over the years I've read extremely impassioned theories from crime experts on both sides of the did they/didn't they fence... but only one side was right.

[misachan.livejournal.com]

For all that RTD looks nothing like Holmes (aside from being dark-haired) I think he could knock it out of the park in the role. Quirky, driven genius he can do, and he's a big enough nerd that he'll make sure the character stays Holmes despite whatever craziness Ritchie throws in there. Frankly, that he's not Jason Statham is a big enough relief to me.

As for The Abomination...really, I can handle Sascha Baron Cohen playing Holmes. It's Will Ferrell that's giving me conniptions. He's going to play Watson as a buffoon because all he plays are buffoons, and I hate hate hate that. Hate it.

Re Twilight: that is some seriously tragic hair. Do Twilight vampires not have reflections? Edward looks like he styles his hair in a wind tunnel.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

Will Farrell playing anything gives me conniptions.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Lord, on behalf of all Sherlock Holmes fans everywhere: whatever we did, we’re sorry.

[poinsley.livejournal.com]

I'm really intrigued by a Prisoner remake. I just hope it does the original justice...

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Man, Twilight does NOT have enough crossover appeal to be the next Harry Potter. Crazy talk, all of it.

[queenthesixth.livejournal.com]

I used to watch Beauty and the Beast on TV. I was fifteen and it was a guilty pleasure viewing after the stresses of studying because I was doing my Inter Cert that year. So I've liked Ron Perlman since. It's about time he got his due, I think. I'm really looking forward to Hellboy II.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

I sent a link of the Twilight cover along to the Fug Girls, and they expressed sadness over the fact that R.Pattz is "always playing people who end up dead".

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Like Liam Neeson, in a way.

[the_rainbow_jen]

God, between the EW insides (WTH, EW. Just, WTH) and the HBP news (Anyone care to go in on a hit of Steven Kloves with me?) I think I might need to start a drinking game. Take a shot everytime someone posted completely unrelated publicity stills for Twilight, and take two everytime a spoiler for a Harry Potter film reveals they're adapting fuckall from the books.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

Steve Kloves did adapted one of my favorite book to movie adaptations though, so I can't hate him too hard. Wonder Boys - book and movie - are made of complete and utter win. It's funny though - all the changes/leaving out stuff in Wonder Boys makes sense. And he didn't commit as much character murder as he does with the Potters. Can't figure out why they suck so incredibly hard. Except for the fact that they started making the films while SHE WAS STILL WRITING THE FREAKING BOOKS.

[edoraslass.livejournal.com]

Dude, they've been threatening for at least 20 years, and I will believe in an Elfquest movie when I'm sitting in the theater, throwing a screaming fanboy/girl fit about how the casting for Skywise sucks.

unless it's Ewan McGregor or Robert Downey Jr

[alliemolloy.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten about Kinky Boots! It was a great movie.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

THERE ARE PICTURES INSIDE THE MAGAZINE AS WELL.

...And they are apparently of the scene where Edward finally gave in and broke Bella's $*#&! neck.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Here's what a loser I am: I keep thinking of the scene in the first book where Bella passes out after they take blood samples in class, and Edward's all like, "I've seen corpses with better color [har har har]! I thought Mike Newton was dragging you out back to bury you in the woods!"

(Or maybe this is his fantasy of disposing of her body after flipping out and killing her that first day? The black and white, so moody!)

[youngcurmudgeon.livejournal.com]

If all Sense and Sensibility actors must be in HP (which I don't deny), my question is: who will Hugh Laurie play?

[misachan.livejournal.com]

Remus Lupin. And if I had my way they'd digitally insert him into the previous movies, too.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Okay, finally got around to looking at the other EW scans, and I’m telling you, somewhere in the Summerland, Bela Lugosi and Bram Stoker are weeping with laughter as they pound each other’s shoulders.

[huehau.livejournal.com]

You can just sense RPatz's shame in those pictures. I hope that paycheck had a lot of zeros after the first number otherwise I can't see how this would be worth it.

[allie-meril.livejournal.com]

I thought about passing along the robber-iced tea link for your spam when I saw it. *g*

Instead, I offer this substitute: Dancing, a.k.a. Where The Hell Is Matt? (2008) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY). I got this vid via Very Short List, and when I watched it earlier this week... Well, words can't describe how purely happy I was, watching it. I recommend watching the high quality version because it's beautiful, and also any of his other videos, particularly the first dancing video (http://youtube.com/watch?v=bNF_P281Uu4), the lecture (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z92o20KYH5g) (3 parts, about 1 hour total), and the outtakes. Basically, "watch everything on his channel" is my advice.

[elsajeni.livejournal.com]

My mom went to a Beauty and the Beast con! And yet she still thinks I'm crazy. (I tell my mom about fanfic projects. At first because I just couldn't keep my mouth shut, but now mostly because it's funny.)

[elsajeni.livejournal.com]

Also, I just rented Batman Begins and I actually had a problem with Bale's Batman voice... because it was different from his Bruce Wayne voice. Sure, "Batman is gruff", whatever, but did he build a voice transformer into his mask or what?

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

Robert Downey Jr. can do anything. I'm sure of it.

Remember - the world was really skeptical when he was cast in Iron Man. And now everyone is eating some really tasty crow.