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Pull out your pens and tablets, because our running tally of Incompetent First-Time Criminal Dark Comic Thrillers Set in Wintery Locales–a list that currently includes Fargo, A Simple Plan, Big Nothing, Ice Harvest, Big White, and probably other things I’m forgetting–has a new entry: Thin Ice, Jill Sprecher’s wintery locale-set comic-thriller about incompetent first-time criminals Greg Kinnear and Billy Crudup. It looks… sort of familiar?

Shame Blockbuster is all but gone. This genre deserves its own section.

As much as he loves continually producing shittier versions of things you once loved, George Lucas is reportedly struggling with his efforts to write another Indiana Jones. With Steven Spielberg throwing him under the bus about how stupid Kingdom of the Crystal Skull‘s crystal skulls were, Lucas is now taking a little more time to decide what fabled object Indy will be searching for. Speaking to Vulture, Lucas revealed he has not yet settled on whatever bullshit trinket will be chased after, saying:

“Actually, I told [Spielberg] I didn’t have it yet. I told him about the story, but I really haven’t found the MacGuffin yet. I mean, I know what it’s about, but I just have to find a MacGuffin that fits into the arena we’re working in.

Well, I’m sure you’ll figure something out, George. And I’m sure, whatever that thing is, it will probably be pretty convenient to sell as a toy. Were there ever some kind of holy, mythical Hulk fist gloves?

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View the Gallery / 20 Photos » Posted by Photo Boy – A behind-the-scenes look at how Scarlett Johansson bralessly poses for Vanity Fair. – Conan O’Brien destroys the sanctity of marriages for ratings. – Making Sarah Jessica Parker stand nest to Elizabeth Hurley just isn’t fair. – Sara Jean Underwood Read More …

The explosions expected to constitute the majority of The Expendables 2‘s plot last night brought tragedy, killing one stuntman and leaving another hospitalized in critical condition. The accident happened during second unit filming on Bulgaria’s reservoir Ognyanovo, while the main cast and crew were shooting principal photography some two-and-a-half hours away. Police are looking into the incident, and to protect the victims and families, the identities of the two men are not being given at this time. Production company Nu Image/Millennium Films released the following statement in regards to the incident: “It is with great regret that we confirm this unfortunate accident. Our hearts go out to the families and those on the production affected by this tragedy. The filmmakers are working closely with the authorities in responding to and investigating this accident.”

Following up on the New York Times bestselling success of A Shore Thing – Those words just happened. – Snooki is currently promoting her latest book Confessions of a Guidette where she enriches readers’ lives by inviting them to join the “Snooki Style Revolution.” So for your edification, here are some nuggets of wisdom from Read More …

German production studio Bavariapool has decided to get into the English-langauge filmmaking business, and in the interest of not delaying the inevitable, they’re going to get right to a Nicolas Cage thriller. Though Cage’s last film, Drive Angry, is only in the 75th spot in the year’s German box office–that’s 30 spots below New Kids Turbo–the company has decided it makes good enough sense to cast Cage alongside German actress Veronica Ferres in Black Butterfly, a $ 13 million remake of the French television series Papillon noir. Cage will play Paul, a reclusive author who somehow befriends a drifter–WITH FATAL CONSEQUENCES, I’m told. This is a Nicolas Cage thriller, after all, and fatal consequence standards must be maintained. Shooting is expected to begin early next year in Germany, so if you’re German, and this spring you hear someone on the street shouting, “I’ll die in the name of honor!”, don’t worry: that’s just Nicolas Cage, doing what he does in Europe.

The Hangover, Part II has already been at the center of a lawsuit involving an injured stuntman, another lawsuit about Mike Tyson’s stupid tattoo, and a third suit over whether it’s OK to serve drinks and show monkey blowjobs in the same room, and now a fourth suit has arisen over the film’s content. Aspiring screenwriter Michael Alan Rubin has filed a complaint claiming, “The production of Hangover 2 is not a complete ‘literary’ or ‘artistic’ works of the Hangover Defendants as credited in Hangover 2,” which is to say he thinks the studio and writers stole the movie from a script he wrote called Mickey and Kirin, an autobiographical piece based on his own experiences marrying a woman in Japan and honeymooning in Thailand. Rubin is suing for copyright infringement, misappropriation of publicity rights, and, strangely, defamation–this last bit stemming from his worry “the filmmakers suggested the inference that he was under the influence of drugs when he ditched his girlfriend and proposed to a male-to-female transexual prostitute.” Essentially, if someone were to believe his idiotic story that The Hangover 2 was stole his experiences, they would thereby think that he had drugs when he was marrying a transexual prostitute, which would then make the film slanderous. This is the sort of logic that makes sense when you are a crazy person.

Rubin hasn’t found a lawyer to back him and is representing himself in this case, and he’s reportedly provided no evidence that anyone involved in The Hangover, Part II would have ever encountered his script, so regardless of the validity of the claims, don’t expect the suit to get too far. But do expect a second lawsuit claiming The Hangover stole his experiences, changed the setting to Vegas, and made everything funnier. Seems like the obvious Plan B.

Seeing someone feigning the other gender to work as a servant comes as nothing new to those of us raised on steady cable airings of Mrs. Doubtfire, but never before has the issue of cross-dressing servitude been addressed with such a heavy, heavy hand and so little assistance from Harvey Fierstein as in Albert Nobbs. Glenn Close plays the title character, a transvestite butler who promises to take Mia Wasikowska to America with them if she’s willing to get married and overlook that “Albert” is clearly just Glenn Close in a bowler. Say HEH-LOOOOOO to Albert Nobbs:

As you may recall, in June of last year, writer Oren Uziel and Glee: The 3D Concert Movie director Kevin Tancharoen made a seven-and-a-half minute Mortal Kombat fan short that starred Spawn and Seven of Nine but did not include techno music nor Christopher Lambert–an offering of evidence that the Mortal Kombat story could in fact be effectively told without techno music nor Christopher Lambert. Fans loved the realistic, gritty take on the material–because gritty realism is clearly the only way to adapt a fighting game that included the ability to tear your opponent’s skeleton out of their body or transform them into an infant–and Warner Bros., who at first sought to take down the short, commissioned Uziel and Tancharoen to make a a 10-episode internet series, and yet still Chris Lambert never got a call. Never got the call for the film sequel, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, either. It was really some bullshit times for Chris Lambert.

Well, now that the Uziel and Tancharoen have Tested Their Might with that miniseries, they have become the Supreme Mortal Kombat Warrior, with New Line hiring them to reboot the film series with a new movie that would continue with the darker tone instigated by the director of Fame and The Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll. By the way, here’s what that dark, edgy short looked like again:

Could probably use more techno.