This is super old news by internet time, but I was in movies all afternoon and evening.
Even after a super hero-free summer (I skipped Wolverine), I’ve got to say I’m still experiencing super ennui. The Dark Knight pretty much satiated my need for dudes in costumes running around fighting other dudes in costumes. Is that [...]
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Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in Iron Man 2
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That unpleasant sound you just heard was all of nerdkind collectively soiling their Spider-Man Underoos over the first image of Mickey Rourke in the upcoming Iron Man sequel.
Iron Man was great and all and we’re big Robert Downey Jr. fans here at LiC, but this whole [...]
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“We don’t put Wallace Beery in some fruity movie about suffering.
I thought we were together on that.” – Jack Lipnick, Head of Capitol Pictures
Ok, I’ve been slacking on some of the daily production items that appear in the trades for the last couple of months. The truth is they’re a pain in the ass to [...]
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The long, tortured history of John Madden’s Killshot comes to an end on January 23 when it finally gets a theatrical release. A crime thriller based on the Elmore Leonard novel, the film starring Diane Lane, recent Golden Globe winner Mickey Rourke, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Thomas Jane has been completed since 2006. Test audiences were [...]
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In the wake of John Hillcoat’s The Road officially getting bumped to 2009, the LA Times’ Patrick Goldstein spoke with Harvey Weinstein about the juggling going on with a number of his other films. Speculation is that The Weinstein Co. is low on money, but Harvey has a rational answer for each move.
Fanboys. The story [...]
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The ever vigilant Nick Plowman of Fataculture just gave me the heads up to Anne Thompson’s Variety report that Fox Searchlight beat out Lionsgate, Overture, The Weinsteins, Sony and others for the rights to distribute Darren Aronofsky’s much praised film The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke, Evan Rachel Wood and Marisa Tomei.
Which studio’s logo appears on the film [...]
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As Toronto fires up and Venice winds down, here’s a smattering of reviews of the higher profile films critics are talking about.
The Wrestler. Though he found the plot of Darren Aronofsky’s film predictable at times, THR’s Stephen Farber liked this story of a former wrestling star, especially the performances, calling Mickey Rourke’s a career-best:
“Rourke dispenses [...]
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