(I hereby declare a moratorium on APCB baseball posts...until tomorrow night, at the earliest.)
What's going on with that Janis Joplin movie?
Renee Zellweger's planned Janis Joplin biopic has been shelved because producers can't decide on a script. The Cold Mountain star is still desperate to star as the tragic rock singer, but she admits the project isn't likely to roll in the near future. She says, "We talked about that a couple of years ago, developing a script and seeing if it is good enough. She is an exceptional woman and it needs to be an exceptional script to tell her story in a responsible way to have her story told the way it needs to be told. And that takes time. If I am ultimately the person to do it, then great."
No. Not great. I'm not even that big a Joplin fan, but I don't recall anyone ever describing her as "pixie-ish." Now if we can just get Joaquin Phoenix to pull out of the Johnny Cash movie.
Of course, the alternative to Zellweger might be more frightening:
A rival project, starring pop superstar Pink as Joplin, is also in the works.
Pink has a lot more in common, personality-wise, with Joplin. No word on whether she can do that other thing...what was it...oh, yeah: act.
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Jeez, it's been almost a month since we talked Bond rumors. What say you, Julian McMahon?
The big question remaining was whether or not he was indeed in talks with the James Bond franchise producers, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, about taking over the role of 007. “Unfortunately, it’s something I really can’t talk about,” McMahon said. However, he continued in a way that suggested he really was talking to somebody. “We’ll see what happens in regards to that but they’ve obviously got an extraordinary franchise which I’d be honored to be involved in at any point in time. We’ll see what happens.”
In other words, no news. As for what the Nip/Tuck star is working on now...
McMahon appears as Dr. Doom in the Fantastic Four, out this summer.
And if you think fanboys got irate about organic webshooters, wait 'til they start chiming in about Doom's organic armor.
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Finally, my review of The Grudge is up at Film Threat. I believe it's the first time I've used the word "pantsless" in one of my write-ups.
The Surviving Christmas review should be up on FT later this weekend, and possibly today on Blogcritics (if I feel like getting off my ass and posting it).
No Janis Joplin movie, but Bridget Jones Diary 2 with Renee Zellweger is getting released early.
First time you used "pantsless"?
Now you should try to work "depantsing" into a review. Only time I've seen it done yet is in a Playboy review of the George C. Scott vehicle Hardcore... Well, actually it was in the caption of a photo that ran with the review (IIRC, it was in the caption of a still from the flick, of a scene where Peter Boyle, playing the sleazy PI Scott hires to find his previously virginal runaway daughter, is getting ready to do the horizontal mambo with some nondescript bit actress)....
But ever since reading that I've always liked the sound of "depantsing"....