Who really is going to work on the 3rd BATMAN movie script?

// February 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // What's Poppin

You’re going to be seeing this one everywhere today, so let’s get it out of the way quick. In a report about David Goyer leaving FlashForward, Nikki Finke pegs script duties on the third Batman movie as one of the primary reasons he walked away. The direct quote from Goyer was pretty vague (”As my feature projects have started ramping up again, I felt I was being pulled in too many directions”) and Finke spins that directly into a statement about Goyer and Jonathan Nolan writing Batman 3. (”Goyer’s feature career is really heating up, since he co-wrote Batman Begins, and penned the story for The Dark Knight, and is now writing the third Batman installment with Chris Nolan’s brother Jonah.”)

Without any further confirmation, don’t get too excited about that yet. Goyer has a lot of feature projects in the fire, and while Finke has had a lot of good info lately, this one sounds like she’s spinning a broad statement into something too specific. There may be work of some sort going on, but read this one as unsubstantiated for now.

Andrew McCarthy gets gun pointed at him in Ethiopia.

// February 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // What's Poppin

Times sure have changed for ’80s heartthrob Andrew McCarthy. While penning a piece for travel magazine AFAR, the actor was detained at gunpoint after entering an Ethiopian church without proper documentation.

The actor, who found himself without his paperwork while visiting the historic Lalibela church in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, was confronted by an armed guard. “His gun [was] pointed at my back,” McCarthy writes. “I thought his reaction to my offense was extreme; I tried to say as much. He grunted something in Amharic and prodded me with the tip of his rifle.”

After being escorted from the church, McCarthy was helped to safety by residents of the town.

Despite the alarming incident, the actor maintained his sense of humor, saying it was “just the kind of thing that happens when you show up alone in a distant country without a plan.”

Superbowl audience endures some heavy off key singing by the WHO.

// February 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Where's the Beef

Please take this microphone away from me!!!!

This has nothing to do with movies but you know you wished it did or not. Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend, the two surviving members of the original quartet, appeared on a circular stage in the center of Sun Life Stadium, accompanied by their backing band and sounded like shit!!

They played a nearly 12-minute set that included all or parts of five tunes: “Pinball Wizard,” “Baba O’Riley,” “Who Are You?,” “See Me, Feel Me” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again. While watching this performance I came to terms that what once was a great band, well is pretty much over.

The annual Super Bowl half time concert has become one of rock’s highest profile gigs, with U2, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Prince, the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney each taking the stage in recent years. The medley format is not unusual for artists with such a deep catalog — Springsteen and Prince took a similar approach. The lighting show was off the hook but Roger was so off key it was horrible. It looked like play time at the elderly home and Peter and Roger where on heavy meds. Rock on!!

Dear John, Avatar got kicked out of NO.1 position.

// February 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // What's Poppin

Sony-quarterbacked “Dear John” thwarted a drive by James Cameron’s “Avatar” for an eighth No. 1 weekend, as the over-achieving romantic drama’s wily counter-programming play scored an estimated $32.4 million in opening domestic boxoffice during Super Bowl weekend.

“Avatar” posted a $23.6 million tally to grab second place on the frame, just days after receiving nine Oscar nominations. The sci-fi epic — which this week became the top-grossing domestic release ever, after previously setting foreign and global records — lifted its cumulative boxoffice to $630.1 million domestically and $2.21 billion worldwide.

Lionsgate’s “From Paris With Love,” starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, was sacked by Americans’ preoccupation with the pro football telecast, as the crime thriller bowed limply with $8.1 million in third place

Valentine’s Day opens February 12th, 2010

// February 7th, 2010 // No Comments » // Trailers

A diverse group of Los Angelenos navigate their way through romance and heartbreak over the course of one Valentine’s Day. Couples and singles experience the pinnacles and pitfalls of finding, keeping or ending relationships in a day in the life of love.

That’s how they describe the movie. To me it’s another corny ass movie about relationships but you be the judge. Don’t get mad at me when you come out of the theater thinking “WTF? I just spent 50 bucks on tickets and popcorn for this shit” I’m just saying folks.