Running a bit behind today

[cleolinda]

Trufax: I was talking to my sister's boyfriend--we really need to come up with a code name for him, Sister Girl and I decided, but we don't know what yet--on Sunday and he mentioned the Twilight Tonner dolls. Apparently when I was all like YOU GUYS GO TO THE TONNER NYCC BOOTH AND JUST, LIKE... LOOK AT THEM OR SOMETHING FOR ME earlier this month, he did, and he was like, "Who's in charge here? Can we buy 400 of those for our stores?" And the Tonner people were like, "Uh... YES." Apparently it had never occurred to anyone to sell actual dolls at bookstores, even though their rival Borders has been selling the action figures and all the Hot Topic crap. So, uh... if you happen to be at a Books-a-Million and you see the Tonners there as an in-store exclusive, that's... kind of because one of their buyers has a not-quite sister-in-law who's a Crazy Doll Lady. *cough* I mean, I asked Sister Girl, and she said, "No, it totally would have been because of you, that's how he would have heard about the dolls in the first place," although of course he was the one smart enough to actually come up with the idea and get them for the stores.

And the other thing is... I don't have anything solid enough to repeat on this, but they might give Books-a-Million some kind of holiday exclusive, I don't know. It might simply be that Tonner's going to put out more stuff for the holidays, as they do, and Books-a-Million will be the only bookstore selling it, who knows.

Meanwhile, I am TIRED of this head cold. It's just bad enough to make me feel groggy and snerfy, but not bad enough to GET ON WITH IT.

Also: Remind me to tell you about the Bowl of Galadriel. Again. Uh... tomorrow. Like I said: I'm a bit behind.

Linkspam!

Congress honors late actor Paul Newman.

Forrest Ackerman Tribute in Hollywood.

Liz Smith out at the NY Post.

Why you should be reading Stephen Fry's Twitter feed: "Director just casually dropped a bombshell. I have to ride a mule tomorrow. A thousand boiling arses. Two hours up a mountain. Buttery fuck."

Mumbai slums celebrate Oscar win for 'Millionaire'; ‘Slumdog’ kids meet Mickey at Disneyland; Vanity Fair Oscar Party Obliterates Competition [Gossip Roundup] ("Elton John went to the Vanity Fair Oscar party. It's not clear if he also attended the Elton John Oscar party"); Did India's TV Censors De-Gay Dustin Lance Black's Acceptance Speech?; Oscar's Biggest Snub: Not Honoring Don LaFontaine; Eartha Kitt's P.R. asks fans to help him in his fight against The Oscars.

Images: Exclusive 'Knowing' Photos; Set pics of Nicole Kidman and Daniel Day-Lewis in 'Nine'; Katie Holmes and Paul Dano on the set of 'Extra Man'; Exclusive Photos: Thomas Jane, John Malkovich In ‘Mutant Chronicles’; Hi-Res 'Outlander' Photo Gallery!; 'Rec 2' Images Now Online; The Horsemen (2009); The Young Victoria (2009) (my guess at this point is that this is your 2010 Best Costume winner); Take A Spin In Piccolo's Power-Recliner, In New Dragonball Pics.

Trailers and clips: Watch Now: Amenabar’s ‘Agora’ International Teaser Trailer; Worth Watching - Feb 22: 'Flame and Citron' Trailer; New 'Crank 2' Trailer Seems Feasible Except This One Thing; Mel Gibson Redeems Self with Trailer for 'The Colonel'; New 'Mutant Chronicles' Trailer Online; Ferrell vs. Mosquito in 'Land of the Lost' Clip!; 'Tokyo!' Clips: Milky-Eyed Sewer Men, Domesticity, Plant Overgrowth; 'S. Darko' Trailer Causes More Fear Than Love.

trailer_spot: Funny People, In the Electric Mist, Sleep Dealer, Lorna's Silence, Eleven Minutes.

WB Sets Lots of New Release Dates! "The biggest one is the finale to J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' series with 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II' scheduled to hit theaters on July 15, 2011, roughly eight months after Part I ." 'Sherlock Holmes,' meanwhile, will open on Christmas Day.

Rumor Alert: Possible Location Shoots for Deathly Hallows Near Leavesden; New Half-Blood Prince Video of Inferi, Death Eater Attack on Burrow, Hermione Setting Birds on Ron and More; Nick Moran playing a villain? "But the film baddie, 40, says he's not too happy about the location of the new blockbuster, which will reportedly take place in glamorous Watford."

‘Watchmen’ premieres, early reviews mixed; Ridiculously Handsome Men At Watchmen UK Premiere; Review: Watchmen's faithful film adaptation may prove that Alan Moore was right after all; 10 REASONS YOU SHOULD SEE WATCHMEN (spoilers. Also, much love for Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach); An Intimate Moment Inside The Mind Of Rorschach [Watchmen]; Watchmen's Steamy Sex Scenes Are High-Five Worthy; Interview: The Man Behind Watchmen - Zack Snyder; Watchmen: The Costumes; Why you should care about the Watchmen companion DVDs; What Happens If Watchmen Flops?; Nite Owl Dark Roast coffee.

(Related: Amanda Seyfried in Snyder's 'Sucker Punch'?)

Take The Bridge Of The Enterprise In New ‘Star Trek’ Featurette; Wil Wheaton Offers Reaction To ‘Spoilers’ ‘Star Trek’ Footage: ‘Relax, People’; New York Toy Fair: The 10 cool Star Trek collectibles you must have!; The best fan art of the new Enterprise from J.J. Abrams' Star Trek.

Ashley Greene from 'Twilight' on ‘New Moon’ Script (Ashley Greene is Alice and Alice is awesome. Now you know); Vanessa Hudgens Still Holds Out Hope For Leah Clearwater In ‘New Moon,’ Zac Efron dies a little more inside; Stephenie Meyer is in Vogue, Twilight's Stephenie Meyer Admits Her Writing Sorta Sucks [Bloody Hell]; Tour of Terror: Tokyo; The Bagger in L.A.: Kiss of the Vampire; MTV Interviews Robert Pattinson on the Oscar Red Carpet (wow, they let MTV onto the premises? Also: Well, he knows the movie's coming out in June NOW); KStew Failure to Turn up to the Oscars Uncovered; ‘Twilight’ stars didn't take a bite out of romance; Twilight the Board Game. Also, apparently there was a convention a few days ago, and someone asked for Peter Facinelli's gum. And he gave it to them.

(Related: Catherine Hardwicke Adapting Gayle Forman's 'If I Stay'; Catherine Hardwicke to Work With Summit Again. Interesting.)

Michel Gondry to Direct 'Green Hornet'! Say what?

Dawn Treader Another Step Closer to Filming in Australia?

Iron Man Update: Emily Blunt will not be playing the Black Widow; Iron Man 2: It's The Alcoholic Iron Man Story!; What Is Happening To Iron Man 2?

As ‘Imaginarium’ Stalls, When Will Audiences See Heath Ledger’s Final Film?

(Related: Customized Lego Jokers from The Dark Knight. The Nurse Joker is genius.)

Roger Ebert Incurs Star Wars Fans' Wrath [Nerd Fight].

Liman, Watts and (maybe) Penn are 'Fair Game.'

'Push' Shoved; 'Precious' is the New Title for Sundance Smash.

Steven Spielberg denies rumors that his Lincoln project has been shelved.

Guillermo Del Toro Hopes To Visit ‘Count Of Monte Cristo’ With ‘Gothic-Western’ Twist.

‘Mamma Mia’ May Sing Again For Sequel, Says Dominic Cooper.

Naomi Watts Joins Woody Allen's Latest, which already includes Freida Pinto, Josh Brolin and Anthony Hopkins. Speaking of whom:

Anthony Hopkins addicted to American Idol. I also heard something a while back about him playing Guitar Hero. And while we're here, I heard a story once that (allegedly) he would go see Silence of the Lambs in theaters back in the day and tap the person in front of him on the shoulder at some key point and be like, "Hi." And you don't have to call him Sir under pain of death, UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE. And that's why I love him.

Pimped-out limited edition R3/Thailand DVD of 'The Duchess.'

Alex Proyas' Tripods movie will be the first of a trilogy of films; 'Dracula Year Zero' could be director Alex Proyas' next film.

Bullied Michael Cera Finally Signs Onto Arrested Development Movie.

'Clueless' sequel in the works; 'Clueless' sequel NOT happening.

Williamson Formulating a New Scream Trilogy.

Murderous Pig People Hate Lil' Romeo [Cult Movie Worship].

Comments

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

I am so going to the local Books a Million just to look for you.}:P

I hope Dawn Treader gets made.

LEAVE THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALONE.

[queenthesixth.livejournal.com]

In an interview about that Twilight Director's Notebook she put together, Catherine Hardwicke mentioned that despite being fired from Twilight, Summit had asked her to take on another YA adapatation but didn't mention the book in question.
Maybe this is her Twilight curse; she escapes having to deal with Breaking Dawn and the TwiMoms but ends up as Summit's go to gal for YA adaptations when she really wants to do more indie films that few people will see.

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

Oh man. Unexpected love for Twilight @ Jezebel is unexpected. WTF.

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

I didn't get a "love" vibe so much as one of befuddled amusement.

Your icon is fantastic.

[anthraxpretzels.livejournal.com]

But! Meyer does seem to know her limitations. She studied literature in college but avoided creative writing, out of fear of criticism.

....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

I laugh along with you.

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

Gosh, Michael Cera, I'm so sorry that the reason you have a career is getting in the way of...your career. You poor thing.

But hey, as long as he's in the movie, I'll be happy (even if he's not).

[blpurdom.livejournal.com]

What I loved were the comments on the article. Half of them are lines from the show ("Teamocil may cause short-term memory loss") and a lot of the usernames are directly from the show, too. ("Motherchucker".) Hee! I'll take an AD movie any way I can get it; I'm shamelessly addicted.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

'Clueless' sequel in the works; 'Clueless' sequel NOT happening.
I never get tired of this.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I also love headlines that answer questions that no one had asked, or even thought of asking, like, "Paris Hilton not playing Wonder Woman" or whatever.

[lilgoala.livejournal.com]

They made Romilda Vane foxy.

[willowtreeling2.livejournal.com]

i always thought of Legally Blonde as the sequel to Clueless and they just renamed Cher as Elle ;)

[sirinde.livejournal.com]

that's a somewhat fantastic idea actually!

[kilted.livejournal.com]

You could call him Sister's Boy. *shrugs*

[sorcha-r.livejournal.com]

"Mister Sister Girl?"

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

"Mister Girl"?

[headphone.livejournal.com]

I just ordered Edward Dollen and feel like I've donated a kidney...next up, Bellatrix Lestrange for a spleen!

[dragonzair.livejournal.com]

YAY! Dawn Treader's my favourite book, and I really hope to see this on the big-screen :/

And LOL. I love Anthony Hopkins even more now XD

[sora50.livejournal.com]

Not mention LaFontaine is downright criminal.

[blpurdom.livejournal.com]

I didn't even think about that because at the time I was too pissed off that I couldn't actually see ANY of the footage of who had passed away. LaFontaine was definitely dissed, but so were the people who were supposedly getting a tribute that the director completely screwed up.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

That's really cool about the Tonner dolls!!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, yeah. Of course, now that I've said it, watch it not happen and make me look like an ass. But it really did sound like it was a done thing.

Reading between the lines, it also sounds like Tonner's definitely doing something Twilightish for the holidays, or it wouldn't even be under discussion at all.

[edda.livejournal.com]

I think "Buttery Fuck" is an Urban Decay lip gloss shade but I'd have to check the website.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

And that's just a sample of the new and inventive expletive combinations he comes up with on a daily basis.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

and he was like, "Who's in charge here? Can we buy 400 of those for our stores?"

Hey, you know how on Chuck Ellie's boyfriend-now-fiance is nicknamed Captain Awesome (Awesome for short)? That should totally be Sister-Girl's boyfriend's name, because that? Is awesome. Hee.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is so...GUH. After watching him on Supernatural, I have to admit to a small crush. I can't wait to see him in this.

someone asked for Peter Facinelli's gum

EW! What are they going to do, take it home and chew it in orgiastic happiness? Frame it? EW!

I am so happy someone is making Green Hornet. Finally, a movie I won't have to convince my dad to go watch. He has ALL the old radio shows. (Which means I've heard all the old radio shows, too. Heh.)

I love that the first Iron Man 2 prop built was a toilet. Hee. If they do end up doing the Demon in a Bottle story, I hope they do it well.

[melayka.livejournal.com]

I second the motion for Captain Awesome, especially if he just scored the nation a sweet Tonner deal. (Conversely, he could be Captain [Insert Adjective] based upon his actual personality if he is, in fact, Not Awesome.)

[darth-snarky.livejournal.com]

That is really cool about the dolls.

Re Imaginarium: I get that Terry Gilliam has the worst luck on his movies, but wasn't Ledger dying enough? Now the movie can't get a US buyer either? Grrr. There's enough big name actors in there, beyond the whole "Ledger's last performance" thing you'd think it wouldn't be that hard of a sell.

Tonner dolls + Lego Jokers=

[lupegarou.livejournal.com]

you know what would be totally awesome?

if Tonner came out with a Nurse Joker doll.
i'd buy that so fast. i might even preorder.

Re: Tonner dolls + Lego Jokers=

[bumblebee-1983.livejournal.com]

OH MY GAWD, ME TOO!!!

[softerthansound.livejournal.com]

I heard a story once that (allegedly) he would go see Silence of the Lambs in theaters back in the day and tap the person in front of him on the shoulder at some key point and be like, "Hi."
I LOVE THAT SO MUCH, OH MY GOD.

[greedyskunk.livejournal.com]

I was 13 when that movie came out. Had he done that to me I'm sure he would have scared several years off my life. But what a story I would have.

[lily-handmaiden.livejournal.com]

That Thai "Duchess" DVD is insane on whoa so many levels. I kind of cracked up at the fact that the cover is, in the words of Keira in her Pirates commentary, "LOOK AT THAT CLEAVAGE!" and on the inside, "Also maybe she has a face."

[prncssaurora.livejournal.com]

WHEN IS YOUNG VICTORIA GETTING A US RELEASE DATE? I finally watched the trailer this weekend and I'm kind of obsessed now, because I love Victoria & Albert. And I love awesome dresses! And Emily Blunt! Sigh.

[elven-minority.livejournal.com]

Woah... am I the only one who's a leeeeeedle creeped out by the fact that when you open The Duchess dvd box, you're essentially stripping Keira Knightley?

[bgmaster.livejournal.com]

Even if he had to be bullied, it's good to see Cera finally get on board for Arrested Development.

Also: I feel pretty good about Watchmen, given that Wil Wheaton says it's awesome. (http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2009/02/spoiler-alert-watchmen-is-fucking-awesome.html)

[gwynnywonk.livejournal.com]

In relation to the awesomeness of Anthony Hopkins, there is this doll (http://www.darkfigures.com/haleacfiinho.html) as well as this one, (http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Classics-Hannibal-Lecter-Action/dp/B000K4X8OQ) which is a little less, um.... aggro?

I have a feeling he would bring GREAT disturbances to The Shelf, and that you would have to keep him padlocked in the medicine cabinet.

But yeah, I want (Sir) Anthony Hopkins to be my weird awesome uncle.

[bumblebee-1983.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, I'm giggling at that notion.

Well, all of that post really.

Imagine Dr. Lecter and the Joker, together, in the same story...oh wow. I can't wrap my head around that one!

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

WATCHMEN: Patrick Wilson is so hot heshould not be allowed to wear clothes. Fortunately, in most of his films, he doesn't!

HANNIBAL LECTER: At the SILENCE OF THE LAMBS' premiere in Sydney, which Sir Anthony Hopkins attended, he waited until after he skins Officer Pembry and wears his face and tapped the lady in front of him on the shoulder and did the ululating-against-the-glass thing. She wet herself. Also, at the after party, when people shook his hand, he adopted the Lecter stare/voice and asked: "Do you want your hand *baaack*?"