Won’t someone let Bradley Cooper make a megabudget, effects-filled tentpole? The Hangover star has recently been on an admirable run of indie dramas, but it’s not completely intentional: Cooper tried to diversify his portfolio by attaching himself to a remake of The Crow and an action-filled adaptation of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, only no one will finance them! The latter officially fell apart today, when Legendary Pictures balked at the $120 million price tag necessary to install Cooper as Lucifer in the Alex Proyas–directed film, which would have been packed with wall-to-wall angel battles. Does sex no longer sell?
NFL great Kurt Warner proved he can throw a football in the Super Bowl, but can he draw a TV audience?
The USA Network is banking on it, and has drafted Warner to host “The Moment,” a new, nine-episode reality series in which participants get a second chance to go back and take a different direction in life.
“Everyone has a ‘what-if’ moment in their life — a decision or path they could have taken — but rarely do they get a second chance to explore what they could have been,” the show’s executive producers, Charlie Ebersol and Justin Hochberg, said in a statement. “We created a format that taps into this emotion, and proved so powerful that it attracted Kurt Warner — the guy who got his own second chance — to his first reality hosting gig.”
Warner does have a pretty convincing feel-good story.
He went from an out-of-work player bagging groceries to quarterback of the St. Louis Rams and MVP of Sup
Start ordering your cheese and wine and planning your Oscars parties, the nominees have been announced for the 2012 Academy Awards. Hot off the win from the Golden Globes, The Descendants scored five nominations in big categories but it was Hugo and The Artist that both roped in 10 nominations to lead the way. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close snagged a few nominations after being completely shut out in the Golden Globes.
Poor, Michael Fassbender. The Academy turned their backs on him after he gave us four excellent performances this year (Shame, X-Men First Class, Jayne Eyre, and A Dangerous Method) and may have had the best year as an actor.
Even before Fox debuted Fringe in 2008, the series suffered under the unfair question of whether it would be the next version of its producer J.J. Abrams Lost. Once the show aired, it was quickly clear that the show had no such intention: it was more episodic, less baroque and more of a paranormal-gumshoe show along the lines of The X-Files, and it would be a full season until it developed into the parallel-universe sci-fi thriller that we now know Fringe to be.
The question for Abrams Alcatraz is now, instead, whether it will be the next Fringe.
