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Brad Pitt To Bleeding Paparazzo: 'If You Want
War, You Will Get It' [The Forest Belongs To Everyone]

post from Defamer on 25 July 2008 06:05:00 PM. © Defamer

In the latest Pap Said / Celeb Said scandal, the mystical forests of Brangelina's French estate turned into a bloody battleground where one ruthless pap and the Jolie-Pitts? head of security attacked each other with walkie-talkies and teeth. As the NY Daily News reports, freelance photographer Luc Goursolas was so determined to slip into the compound unnoticed that he spent five hours on foot, decked himself out in camouflaged clothing, only to come face-to-unhappy-face with the soccer team?s unamused top guard. As Goursolas claims:

?I was pouring blood. I threw myself at them, put blood all over them, and told them that I had HIV so they would stop hitting me...The forest belongs to everyone.?

But from the sound of it, Pitt disagreed so vehemently with this last statement that the actor underwent a Hulk-like transformation into Tyler Durden, and joined this fight club himself:

The scene, reminiscent of that infamous slapstick evening when a NY pap jumped on top of Lindsay Lohan?s car and called it a hit-and-run, is similarly described in very different ways by Goursolas and Tony Webb, the guard at the center of the action. But figuring out who to believe means figuring out whether or not Pitt really morphed into our favorite rippled muscle man role in his steadily dimming archive. Despite the pap?s claim that the guards ?hit him with a walkie-talkie, punched and kicked him, leaving a head wound that required three stitches,? Webb and his Chosen Two-protecting soldiers are the only ones who left a local hospital with nostalgically-termed ?doctor?s notes? giving them four days off-duty. So as much as we enjoy the vision of Pitt storming out of his chateau shirtless, fists clenched, and telling the pap that ?what you are doing is bad!?, doctor?s notes speak a bit louder than colorful words.

POLICE: PAPARAZZI, GUARDS, FIGHT AT BRAD PITT AND ANGELINA JOLIE'S CHATEAU [NYDN]

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Dr. Horrible Sequel Has Been Planned, DVD Contest
Announced

post from /Film on 25 July 2008 05:50:06 PM. © /Film

At the Joss Whedon Dr. Horrible Comic Con panel, Jed Whedon confirmed that there are vague plans in place for a Dr. Horrible sequel. When asked about the posssibility of a next part to the series, Whedon said:The idea is that there will be another part, so we’re not going to tell you about [...]

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Meg Ryan Becomes Latest Member Of Reviled 'Fat
Suit' Club [Gimmicks]

post from Defamer on 25 July 2008 05:50:00 PM. © Defamer

To say that Meg Ryan's career is in a free-fall would be to imply that her career hasn't already hit rock bottom. While it's true that she's poised for a potential comeback in this fall's remake of The Women, anyone with half a brain realizes that her star died the day the news broke that she was schtupping Russell Crowe on the set of Proof Of Life back in 2000. Making matters even worse for America's Former Sweetheart?, in Meg's newest (straight-to-DVD) movie called My Mom's Hot Boyfriend, she becomes the latest in a long string of actresses to strap herself into a fat suit only to magically "slim down" to win the heart of a handsome man — a trick which stopped being funny the second time that the Friends gang went to that well. While we're not about to get up on a pedestal and start going off about the offensiveness of fat suits, this news did prompt us to go back and take a look at some of the stars who have donned prosthetics to plump up on-screen in the past (rarely, if ever, to humorous effect). Play along with our latest round of Defamer Bingo after the jump.

[Photo Credits: The Makeup Gallery]

Hollywood sweetheart Meg Ryan gains ten stone... after donning a fat suit [Daily Mail]

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Comic Con: Woah, The Wolfman Actually Looks Kinda
Cool

post from /Film on 25 July 2008 05:41:31 PM. © /Film

An exclusive Wolfman trailer premiered at Comic Con. The footage began with the Universal Logo. Cut to a guy walking through the woods. He comes across something, scared, he drops his lantern and runs away. Voice over states “25 years ago my father found him”.“He was tore to pieces and half eaten. Whatever did it [...]

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Red Band Clip For Punisher: War Zone is Very
Cruel to Faces

post from /Film on 25 July 2008 05:27:22 PM. © /Film

Judging from the number of heads that explode, collapse and squirt in this new Comic Con footage for Punisher: War Zone, I imagine these luminaries attending a press screening: Rambo, Ricki-Oh, Lucio Fulci and the “Crushing Your Head” guy from Kids in the Hall. When the first trailer hit and underwhelmed fans, director Lexi Alexander [...]

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'American Teen': Finally, the Movie That Makes
the Multiplex Safe for Fake Reality [The Unreal Deal]

post from Defamer on 25 July 2008 05:25:00 PM. © Defamer

We're prepared to be in the minority of viewers who could pretty much take or leave American Teen, director Nanette Burstein's new documentary about the turbulent senior years of five Indiana high-schoolers. While the film has found a fairly inspired critical following and scored consistent audience accolades during its short time on the festival circuit (starting at Sundance, where Paramount Vantage bought it for around $1 million), we tend to like our characters a little more relatable, our drama a little less forced, our resolutions a little less predictable.

And our documentaries a little more... documentary.

The rap on American Teen, as perhaps best chronicled in an unusual LA Times two-fer about its deceptive marketing and equally deceptive filmmaking, is an illusion of veracity that even Vantage has sought to downplay. The next judgment that doesn't invoke John Hughes and/or The Breakfast Club (neither of whose anxious appeal Teen so much as touches, let alone grasps) will be the first.

Which isn't Burstein's fault, of course. But in her careful, interwoven cultivation of jock, princess, geek, indie-girl and the nondescript cute guy who floats between them, she goes unquestionably puppetmaster over everything and everyone, so much so that you'd think her budget has a line-item for serendipity. She's everywhere at once as a girl's nude photo circulates the entirety of the Warsaw High School student body's cell phones and e-mail inboxes; she pushes a camera dolly through the school's corridors, lest shots of her subjects walking lack for style or energy.

Nevertheless, she defended herself in the Times:

"I was really surprised actually and have been upset by it," Burstein said of the level of pushback American Teen has generated. "There's accusations that it's staged and scripted and that I went after the stereotypes, and it's just not true.

"I think it's unusual to have a very narrative documentary, so people aren't used to it," she continued. I think people have a hard time believing teenagers are willing to be that intimate on camera. So sometimes I feel I'm being criticized for what the film's achievements are."

Burstein also believes she's being targeted for wanting to make a documentary film with broad appeal, which runs counter to the image many have of docs as dry, wonky films driven by policy and ideology.

There probably is some truth to this latter point, as aggressively as Vantage is pushing Teen everywhere from the Web to the multiplex, with its Hughes-derivative poster art conspicuously sandwiched between those for fare as populist as The Mummy 3 and Step Brothers. This isn't the way things are done among the tony doc crowd, a sliver of which is lucky these days to get one screen for one week let alone five and counting through at least mid-August.

Again, not Burstein's fault. But she is the one playing fast and loose with animation breaks, voice-overs, garden-variety teen angst and even an ending retrofit for a sequel if enough suckers fall for her schtick. That potential alone makes American Teen — or at least its opening-weekend numbers — worth watching; if TV is any indication, reality's never easier to love than when it's fake.

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Live from Hall H: Watchmen Footage Brings the
House Down [Comic-Con 2008]

post from Film School Rejects on 25 July 2008 05:23:00 PM. © Film School Rejects

First it was the "surprise guest" Dave Gibbons joining Zack Snyder and the cast of Watchmen on stage in the famed Hall H, then it was hearing the cast wax intellectual about Alan Moore's book, then it was an extended set of clips that caused every die hard comic book ...

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Attenborough blames films for violence

Richard Attenborough, the famous psychologist and documented researcher has said that violent scenes in films were responsible for making guns and knives seen normal. Oh wait a minute, he?s neither of those, he?s a director and actor who once played a knife wielding killer....Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect content.

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Comic-Con 2008 : Unofficial Hobbit Panel

From the onering.net panel:Sitting in the back of a room jam-packed with LOTR fans is always an interesting experience. Since theonering.net is “unofficial”, this meeting is pure speculation, sprinkled with information garnered from media sources and their own message boards (of which Guillermo del Toro himself is an active poster) The panelists are [...]

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Comic-Con 2008 Interview : Simon Pegg

I’m sitting here at round table, tucked in a corner of the San Diego Convention center, talking with the creators of SPACED, the British television show that garnered a huge geek following across the pond and is building buzz now with the American DVD release.It also paved the way for the two films Shaun of [...]

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