Will Lindsay Lohan (top left and middle) be able to pull off Elizabeth Taylor in the new Lifetime movie, Liz & Dick? Lohan hasn’t earned her chops yet to become the caliber of actor as the Academy Award-winning drama queen, Ms. Taylor — but she definitely looks the part! (Deadline)
Every artist has suffered rejection — and now Francoise Mouly, art editor of The New Yorker mag, has a book out called Blown Covers that is dedicated to the many interesting, but perhaps too incendiary, potential covers submitted for their vaunted weekly — no doubt supplied by the likes of such high-profile contributors as Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Maira Kalman, and Saul Steinberg.
There’s a new horror movie art book out called, appropriately, The Slasher Movie Book by J.A. Kerswell for all you blood-lovin’ film fans out there…
And The New York Times asked six artists to come up with new takes on the classic Jason slasher pic, Friday the 13th…
The US Postal Service is celebrating Hollywood directors with a quartet of new stamps featuring Billy Wilder, John Ford, Frank Capra, and John Huston. (Deadline)
The new Wes Anderson comes out in selected theatres on Friday — and whether you love or hate his brand of esoteric films — you cannot deny the auteur’s unique sense of style and attention to detail that permeates every frame of his work.
Will there be blood or frogs raining down from the sky — or perhaps male prosthetics involved? Lord only knows, but you can bet that Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of such contemporary classics as There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, and Boogie Nights, will be up to something original with his latest film, The Master.
You’ve gotta appreciate new movie posters that try to mix up perspectives (even if it doesn’t always help at the box office), as seen below in Virginia, the directing debut of screenwriter, Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar).
Old school rock legend, Neil Young, has signed up new school poster star, Shepard Fairey, to do a whole batch of cover art for his new album, Americana, which kinda reminds me of that classic one-sheet for Terence Malick’s Days of Heaven…
Hollywood’s recipe for ruining American childhoods, but gaining International box office success: take a lo-fi 1970’s board game like Battleship (the Pong of board games) and Transformers the shit out of it!
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