A special charity auction is being held online benefiting Jayni and Chevy Chase’s Center For Environmental Education. The highest bidder (and a friend) at the auction will get to spend a day with Downey on the set of Iron Man 2 in Manhattan Beach CA, including time with the actor in Downey’s trailer. The Center For Environmental…
Competing Sherlock Holmes movies will be racing to see who can get before the cameras faster. Guy Ritchie (Rocknrolla)’s version already has Robert Downey, Jr. on board as Holmes but now Russell Crowe says he wants to play Watson. He was quoted in Australia’s Daily Herald as indicating this desire although an anonymous source was…
DreamWorks has decided to produce their own animated take on super-heroes with Master Mind. Entertainment Weekly is now reporting that Robert Downey, Jr. may lend his voice as the lead character, opposite Tina Fey. According to IMDB, the film is a “satirical take on super-hero movies, in which a notorious villain loses his oomph after…
Sure, we know that actors occasionally lose themselves in the role and start acting like their characters in real life. Robert Downey Jr. may have been concentrating too much on his Tony Stark role from this summer’s Iron Man movie in this interview with Moviehole.com. What’s got everyone buzzing? Well, here’s an excerpt: "My whole…
The collection of posts that may not warrant a full entry of their own. Excelsio — er, onward and upward: When I saw this bit about Franklin turning 40, I have to admit that wasn’t the Franklin I was thinking of… yes, Franklin Richards is 40 years old too. And people complain about Bart Simpson…
Variety is reporting that Robert Downey Jr. has signed up to play titular detective Sherlock Holmes in the upcoming Warner Bros. movie to be directed by Guy Ritchie. Shooting starts this fall, which means it shouldn’t get in the way of Iron Man 2, which Downey also has on the table with a prospective 2010…
Robert Downey Jr. must have enjoyed his foray into comic book films as Tony Stark in the breakaway success of Iron Man. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Downey is in talks to star in another long-in-development comics property, Cowboys & Aliens. While the armor-clad Marvel Studios’ film rises above the $500 million mark in ticket…
First off, right out of the bullpen, I want to warn readers that this review of Iron Man, the first self-financed feature film from Marvel Studios, WILL HAVE SPOILERS. Normally, I try to keep any stories involving a new release free of them, but as you will read, this film is just chock full of…
I like everything but the logo. Downey rocks. And flies. Without drugs, too! Here it is, go nuts: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/large_trailer.html It happens the day after May Day, next.
Entertainment Weekly just released the cast picture for next summer’s Iron Man. The line-up shows us Robert Downey Jr. as wealthy weapon-maker Tony Stark, Gwyneth Paltrow as his administrator Pepper Potts, Terence Howard as his buddy/bodyguard (and later War Machine) Jim Rhodes, and a clean-headed Jeff Bridges as mentor (and villain?) Obadiah Stane. Those of…
Thanks, Entertainment Weekly! This is the shiznit! Okay, I know lots of people out there liked the old square tincan one, but this — this is sleek and brassy and colorful and… well, it just looks like I’d picture Iron Man’s armor looking. Kudos to FX guy Stan Winston, who designed them to fit on…
No, not what’s Next, that’s opening up this weekend. It’s based on a Philip K. Dick story and starring Nicholas Cage, Jessica Biel, and Julianne Moore. To paraphrase Lawrence Peter Berra, it’s Deja Vu all over again. No, I’m talking about what’s coming down the pike. First, from USA Today, here’s a new pic of…
