Anne Hathaway Catwoman

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... Viggo & Fassy would be our Sherlock Holmes & Watson. (pic via)

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--- A New Midnight - The third book in Clive Barker's Abarat series will for sure be out in September, says Mr. Barker himself. It's called Absolute Midnight. It's been listed on Amazon for then for awhile so I guess he's just making we know for sure for sure here. I might have to go back and read the first two volumes, my memory's pretty vague on it at this point. The last one came out several years ago. It's a good series though. Now that I've finished A Dance With Dragons I've picked Barker's Imajica back up, which is also great.

--- One Million Movie March - If you haven't been you oughta be keeping up with Glenn's epic journey through the Melbourne International Film Festival - he's seeing like 30 thousand movies over the course of it's couple weeks and writing up his thoughts over at Stale Popcorn. Of movies I haven't yet seen but am dying to see he's already seen Meloncholia and Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Innkeepers, amongst others. Jealous.

--- Two For Hugh - Two bits of Hugh Jackman news - he's apparently pretty much set to star in the movie version of Les Miz, and it's about time he made a movie musical wouldn't you say? Even if I have very little interest in seeing this I can say that all the same. And secondly, he's revealed who the villain will be in the second Wolverine movie. I guess it's a spoiler but we'll probably hear all about whoever gets cast when it happens so I doubt anybody will be able to avoid this news for too long.

--- Frat Boys - Seth Rogen and Zac Efron are teaming up for a fraternity-themed R-rated comedy, says Deadline. Somebody's balls better end up on somebody's chin, is all I gotta say.

--- Head Go Boom - Alexandre Aja is going to produce a TV series based on David Cronenberg's 1981 telekinesis classic Scanners? This is what awesome sounds like.

--- Betting On Braga - I say this every time I link to one of these but man I love Craig's Take Three series at The Film Experience. He always manages to make me think about performers that I either don't give enough thought to personally or don't hear other people mention often enough. His latest is on Alice Braga. She was great in Predators; much better than that movie knew what to do with.

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--- Return To Oz - Chris Meloni is apparently up for "a major role" in Zach Snyder's Superman movie. We don't know what that role is yet, although if he signs on I'm guessing we'll hear soon. There's speculation he could be Lex Luthor, or perhaps Perry White. I guess Snyder need someone willing to make out with dudes and moon the audience for his Superman movie? That'd make it different than previous incarnations, for sure.

--- Toy Boxed - I'm really hoping that Tom Hanks was just talking out of his ass when he mentioned the possibility of a fourth Toy Story movie, because that is a terrible idea.It would be a terrible idea even in the wake of Cars 2 - the Toy Story franchise wrapped up just fine already in the third film. Just make the damned Incredibles sequel already, you fools!

--- Slim Jim - I've been meaning to give some love to Jim Sturgess for a few months now but keep forgetting, so I'll take that attractive new photo of him in his new rom-com-of-sorts with Anne Hathaway (via PopWrap) as the chance to make it up momentarily. I'd never seen him in anything until I watched his odd Gaiman-y London-based horror-flick Heartless - before that he never jumped out of pictures at me, but once you actually see him in motion I discovered his appeal. And he is very appealing.

--- Rocco To Rebel - Nat's updated the schedule for his "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" series, which is always a treat - upcoming films include some Visconti & Delon, some Aliens, and some Jimmy Dean.

--- Bad Andy - Just in time for tennis season, Joe's posted a ranking of the hotness of the 16 dudes at Wimbledon. Scanning through it the first time this morning I missed that it was ranking the people still playing and got all defensive about the lack of Andy Roddick, but Andy already blew it I guess. Well even if he sucks, I'll take this chance to exploit him at least. (As a sidenote though, I'm getting a little obsessed with Feliciano Lopez these days, so he might start popping up post-wise.)

--- New Flesh - Over at Stale Popcorn Glenn's taking a look at three grand ol' flicks, slapping Cronenberg around with Vivien Leigh, mounting Eisenstein with Debbie Harry, to delightful effect.

--- Rescue Rosario - I worry for Rosario Dawson. She should be getting better work. She is a delight, yet somehow she's stuck in third tier parts in Kevin James comedies. The horror. Good news: she's just signed on for a lead role in an indie drama called Fire With Fire. Bad news: from the description at that link it sounds like it's much more the male lead's film, and the male lead is played by Josh Duhamel, which... well he's pretty. And he's playing a fireman here, so that'll be some fantasy fuel. But that only marginally makes up for the probable sidelining of Rosario. Unless there's a scene like this one from Backdraft. Then all bets are off.)

--- And finally, Spike Jonze's Scenes From the Suburbs is online! Watch it here (via) - and I recommend expanding it to full-screen. I personally haven't finished watching it yet, though I've only gotten about 10 minutes in so far and will have to finish it tonight. 

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As in, "My goodness how I want to graze my upper lip against Michael Fassbender's mustache - aka The Fassystache - every time they show it in this, the first trailer for David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, a film which costars Viggo Mortensen and Keira Knightley and Vincent Cassel." Make sure to use "Fassystache" in a sentence today - you will not be disappointed. Trust me. Anyway I took several billion screen-caps from the trailer for Fassy looking anguished and Keira baring her underbite if you wanna check them out after the jump. Hit it.
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... you can learn from:

Dead Ringers (1988)

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