Movieline says
It’s been a rough week for Brett Ratner, whose big, ostensibly crowd-pleasing ensemble comedy Tower Heist debuted to lukewarm box-office figures and whose promotional endeavors have found him invoking his sexual history and bedroom technique to cringe-inducing effect. Today Ratner apologized for a “joke” he made over the weekend, responding to a viewer during a Tower Heist Q&A that “rehearsal’s for fags.” Wait, what? This is the guy co-producing the forthcoming Academy Awards?
THR
Jared Leto, 45, will soon be donning the iconic silk pajamas and smoking jacket of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who died Sept. 27 at age 91, for an upcoming biopic from Brett Ratner.
EW
Director and producing mogul Brett Ratner says film critic aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes is a destructive force in Hollywood. Speaking at the Sun Valley Film Festival last weekend, the Rush Hour…
it's true because superman versus batman wasn't really all that bad. sure it wasnt great but people made it out like it was terrible. we all know some people like to have their opinion drown out others and its often the extreme views. either too postive or too negative that tries to get the most attention.
Agreed, it's sucks to see something try and break the typical mold we are currently stuck in but ends up "too different" so people tear it to shreds. Everyone's biggest complaints were "it's too dark" or "it was not funny"... Well it was a dark movie, and it wasn't meant to be funny. That's about it. It was advertised as is, I fail to see why people expected anything else. Seeing Batman V Superman try to be more than just your typical CB movie but fumble on some regards then get torn to shreds for it, then seeing something like Captain America:TFA or the Thor movies release and use a hell of a lot of humor as a crutch to cover up the fact they hold no real plot or substance yet be glorified and told they just set the standard is kinda frustrating. I'm not trying to turn this into a Marvel vs DC thing, I know someone is gonna yell fanboy at the top of their lungs. It's just the only examples I could think of.
Deadline
Amazon Studios has acquired Victoria Woodhull, with Oscar winning Room star Brie Larson poised to produce, and play the first female candidate for the presidency of the United States. Amazon bought it in a pitch package deal. Ben Kopit, who wrote the Warner Bros film Libertine that has Brett Ratner attached to direct, will write the script. Larson will produce alongside Whalerock Industries’ Lloyd Braun and Andrew Mittman. Anne Woodward is exec producer and Whalerock’s John-Eric Capps is co-producer.
Nutty.