In the previous two Men in Black movies, the MiB video surveillance zoomed in on famous people who were in fact aliens (or suspected aliens): In the first film, the list included Isaac Mizrahi, Danny DeVito, Sylvester Stallone, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. In MiB3, which opens this weekend, the Men in Black are monitoring new celebr-E.T.s (trademark ours), including Lady Gaga (of course), Justin Bieber, the Dalai Lama, Shaun White, and Tim Burton. So when Vulture ran into director Barry Sonnenfeld at the premiere party on the Intrepid flight deck on Wednesday, we had to ask: What makes these people aliens?
Movies
How to Behave at Cannes’s Elite Yacht Parties (If You Get In)
By Jada YuanIf there's one defining difference between the celebrities and the little people at Cannes (you know, besides having won the genetic lottery), it's the ability to get one's self on a yacht. Sure, there are some yacht owners who dock near the Palais and welcome anyone friendly and daring enough to climb onboard, offering them a glass of Champagne no matter how mid-priced their wardrobe. But we're talking about the elites-only megayachts — the ones so big that they don't fit in no stinkin' harbor; the ones whose flashing lights and cheery revelers you watch from the beach each night, anchored just far enough out to sea to make it clear that you will never be able to board one. Like Roberto Cavalli's or — the mother lode — Paul Allen's yacht, on which he threw his annual special-people-only party on Tuesday, and where, special people tell us, a spontaneous band formed with Allen on guitar, Jeremy Irons on harmonica, and Cyndi Lauper on vocals. (Allen's guest list is, however, extremely respectful of the film festival, and he invites every director in competition to come ... the lucky, talented bastards).
I grilled some yacht veterans for some do's and don'ts about life at a big boat bash.
Cannes: Robert Pattinson Talks Wasted Talent and the End of the World
By Kyle Buchanan"I'm hungry for something thick and juicy," growls Robert Pattinson at the start of Cosmopolis, and one can imagine Pattinson issuing the same order to his agents after years spent sinking his vampire teeth into wan Twilight flicks. His team earned their keep by landing Pattinson this David Cronenberg–directed movie and a berth at Cannes (where Kristen Stewart's On the Road premiered just a few days before). And yes, he's good in it.
"I always had the feeling that he'd never seen any of my movies."
Advertising
Watch an Exclusive Clip From Michelle Williams’s Take This Waltz
By Amanda DobbinsIn Sarah Polley's new film, Michelle Williams grapples with the following question: Should she give in to her intense feelings for handsome neighbor Daniel (Luke Kirby), or should she remain faithful to her loving husband (Seth Rogen)? You, like Michelle's character, will want to weigh all the evidence before forming an opinion, so Vulture now presents an exclusive clip from the movie, in which Williams seems very much in love with her cookbook-author husband. She even dances (and as we know from Blue Valentine, dancing is the true measure of Michelle Williams's affection). Take a look for yourself; Take This Waltz is in theaters on June 29 and on VOD today.
Jon Favreau Will Still Act in Iron Man 3
Jon Favreau, director of the first two Iron Man films and not-director of the third one for quite a while, will reprise his onscreen role as Tony Stark's bodyguard fellow in Iron Man 3. "It is unclear how big the role is in the third movie but having Favreau return as Hogan seems like a sign of solidarity on Favreau and Marvel’s part and an endorsement of [new director Shane] Black," THR writes. Endorsed!
Warner Bros. Hires Ad Director to Helm Sci-Fi Film
Nic Mathieu, a well-respected commercials director, will be making his big-screen directorial debut with The Wind, a new Warner Bros. sci-fi project by Men in Black 3 scribe David Koepp. While very much "under-the-radar," according to the Hollywood Reporter, we do know the picture's set in a space colony. Going by this Zenith flat screen ad Mathieu directed, Wind should be old hat for him.
Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet Joins Identity Thief Comedy
No word yet on whether Modern Family's in-house clown Eric Stonestreet gets the call to play a Kentucky baddie in FX's Justified, but if he does, he might not have time in his schedule: He's just been cast in Universal's Seth Gordon–directed comedy, Identity Thief. Stonestreet will play Big Chuck, a real estate broker who clashes with Jason Bateman's identity theft victim and Melissa McCarthy's "mess of a woman," as the Hollywood Reporter describes her character. Guess who's the identity thief in all this.
Mads Mikkelsen in Talks to Play Thor 2 Villain
Not content to sit back and enjoy the breeze coming off its ka-ching-ing runaway hit The Avengers, Marvel announced today that it's in negotiations with Mads Mikkelsen to star opposite Chris Hemsworth in Thor 2. Mikkelsen, who plays blood-weeping Bond villain Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, will join Tom Hiddleston's Loki in the Norse villain's circle. No news yet on Mikkelsen's character—although Surtr, the fire-sword-wielding giant, is still available.
Taran Killam Cast in Steve McQueen Movie
Taran Killam, poised to take over SNL any day now, is adding some dramatic work to his résumé: Deadline reports that Killam has joined the cast of Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave. He joins Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Paul Dano, and Chiwetel Ejiofor in the true story of a New York man (Ejiofor) who's abducted and sold into slavery in Louisiana in 1841. Killam will play the troubadour who does the abducting, which is a pretty big departure from playing a gay Prince Charming or an enthusiastic J-pop fan.
Advertising
Kevin Hart May Join Kevin James in Valet Guys
Comedian Kevin Hart, who is already attached to a remarkable-sounding buddy-cop comedy with Seth Rogen and recently starred in Think Like a Man, is now negotiating to join Kevin James in Valet Guys. "They play two valet guys at a high-end hotel who lose a pricey sports car and have 48 hours to retrieve it," writes Deadline. Suggestion: Give both their characters the same first name, too.
When Nicole Kidman Gave Zac Efron a Golden Shower at Cannes
By Kyle BuchananWe've seen a lot of unusual things at this year's Cannes Film Festival, like Marion Cotillard choreographing a triumphant, orca-summoning dance sequence to Katy Perry in Rust and Bone, or an anguished man in Los Tenebras Lux popping his own head off of his neck as though it were simply a grape from the vine, or Guy Pearce delivering a super-wackadoo performance in Lawless, or even Kristen Stewart shedding her Twilight inhibitions (and her clothes) in On the Road. Still, we can confidently predict that when it comes to wild, must-discuss moments from this year's fest, nothing will ever top the scene from the new Lee Daniels–directed film The Paperboy where Nicole Kidman looms over a supine Zac Efron, cries out, "If anyone's gonna pee on him, it's gonna be me," and then squirts an impressive stream of urine onto the High School Musical star's face and bare chest.
Sony Buys Rights to Ethan Hawke Looper-ish Time Travel Flick
Take Looper. Replace hit man Joseph Gordon-Levitt with Ethan Hawke playing a law enforcement agent. Replace the organized crime syndicates that send rivals back in time to be killed, with a government agency that sends agents like Hawke back in time to neutralize killers like Levitt and his employers. What you're left with is Predestination, the Michael and Peter Spierig–written and –directed movie just acquired by Sony.
Officials Offered Kathryn Bigelow Inside Access for Bin Laden Film
By Andre TartarZero Dark Thirty, the Mark Boal–written and Kathryn Bigelow–directed film about the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, may no longer be slated for a pre-election release, but new details revealed by Politico show the Obama White House hard at work courting the filmmakers. The red flag: a meeting last July 15, in which an undersecretary of defense offered to introduce Boal and Bigelow to one of the mission planners.
The only thing we ask is that you not reveal his name in any way as a consultant, because again, it's the same thing, he shouldn't be talking out of school, this at least, this gives him one step removed and he knows what he can and can' t say, but this way at least he can be as open as he can with you and it ought to meet your needs and give you lots of color.
"Incredible," Bigelow remarked. "That's dynamite," said Boal. "This is me happy."
Gary Oldman Joins Robocop
Casting The Killing's Joel Kinnaman as a slightly less robotic Robocop immediately raised eyebrows in Hollywood — "Wait, we cast WHO?" a previous Vulture post imagined Warner Bros. asking — but now that he's been joined by Gary Oldman, this is plain and simple a slam dunk. After all, Oldman has more than earned his crime-fighting chops as Commissioner Gordon in three Batman films, including this year's The Dark Knight Rises. This time around he'll play Norton, the philosophically torn scientist who brings back Kinnaman's character from the brink of death and cyborgs him — if that's not already a verb, it totally should be. We reiterate: a slam dunk, people!
Keep Up With Vulture
Masthead
- Entertainment Editor
- Josh Wolk
- Deputy Entertainment Editor
- Willa Paskin
- West Coast Editor
- Josef Adalian
- West Coast Editor
- Claude Brodesser-Akner
- Movie Editor
- Kyle Buchanan
- Associate Editor
- Patricia Greco
- Associate Editor
- Margaret Lyons
- Associate Editor
- Amanda Dobbins
- Assistant Editor
- Eliot Glazer
- Producer
- Jillian Goodman
-
Party Lines Slideshow: Benjamin Walker, Hugh Dancy, and More on Vibrators and Sex Shops
-
Susan Sarandon, Jason Segel, Ed Helms, and More at a Screening of Jeff Who Lives at Home
-
Judd Apatow, Kristen Wiig, Mandy Patinkin, and More at the Writers Guild Awards East
-
Party Lines Slideshow: Megan Hilty, Anjelica Huston, Katharine McPhee, and More at the Premiere of Smash
-
Party Lines Slideshow: Michael Fassbender, Viola Davis, George Clooney, and More at the National Board of Review Awards
