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Summer Can Only Get Better as Let-Down Trifecta Storms the Multiplex


Welcome back to another week of Defamer Attractions, your regular guide to the fresh hell of what's new at the movies. After taking a Hancock holiday weekend to find ourselves, we're back in full-on summer anguish mode as yet another massive comics adaptation hits theaters, Brendan Fraser goes a-spelunkin' and Eddie Murphy returns with... we don't even know. But! We also have our eyes on a few alternatives both at the theaters and in the comfort of our air-conditioned caves, so all is not lost. As always, our opinions are our own and elegantly spot-on — which, of course, you've come to expect and we're happy to oblige!

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9:10 AM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By STV
4,813 views, 23 comments

Latest by n/a: Oh my, watching those vids of Brendan is very sad making. I must go rent the Blu-Ray "George of the Jungle" this weekend to re-burn my neurocircuits back to the glorious, balls-bobbling, naked Brandan sex meat image that made that more »

short ends

Jay Leno Fully Supports Hairy British Comedian Russell Brand's Right To Marry

· Russell Brand contemplating the meaning of death on The Tonight Show is kind of like watching a debate about the existence of God between a Chinese Theater Johnny Depp impersonator and a St. Bernard. [Tonight Show]
· Judge Larry "Phil Spector Trial" Fidler flatly denies claims made at the end of Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired that he insisted the director's 1997 rape re-trial be televised. And for some light background reading material, The Smoking Gun brings us the original 1977 trial testimony. [Slate, TSG]
·The LAT's Sunday magazine staff are let go, with the paper's business department taking over operations—beginning with their ambitious relaunch issue, "Las Vegas: A Fabulous Place to Spend Some Weekend Dollars!!!" [editorandpublisher.com]
·We don't know about you, but there's been many a night when we could have used some tough-loving straight-talk from Emancipatia, the anti-drunk-dialing mammy thimble. Thank you for being a friend, Auntie Mance! (Scroll down.) [queserasera.org]

6:35 PM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Seth
3,908 views, 27 comments

Latest by Calraigh: I don't know why that link didn't work but here it is! It's sweet! + Watch video more »

red carpet confessions

Roman Polanski's Victim Apparently a Fan of 'Roman Polanski' Documentary

The curious path of the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired took another bizarre turn this week when HBO hosted an actual red-carpet "premiere" for the film in New York — the same city where it had attempted to secretly screen the doc for a week-long Oscar-qualifying run last month. Then, as Vulture noted today, things got even weirder when Polanski's 1977 statutory rape victim, the then-13 Samantha Geimer, showed up as one of the guests: More »

3:50 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By STV
3,916 views, 6 comments

the doc is in

Distributor Rescues Roman Polanski Doc From Theatrical Siberia, Preps For Oscar

ThinkFilm today announced its acquisition of theatrical and DVD rights to the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which made as many headlines recently for its acclaimed Sundance run as for being dumped in New York and Pasadena for a week by its Oscar-craving original buyers at HBO. The cable network retains the broadcast rights, planning a June 9 premiere ahead of ThinkFilm's July 11 theatrical release. We know what you're thinking — a TV premiere before theatrical? But it's not that unusual, and it can only help in the awards push sure to come. More »

3:30 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By STV
590 views, 4 comments

Latest by STV: @CherylGerbil: HBO gave the film its requisite one-week qualifying run in theaters last month in New York and LA, so technically it is not premiering on TV. more »

buried alive

Outlandish Oscar Rules Force Film Arguing For Polanski's Exoneration To Wait for Cable TV

We'll call this Confounding Oscar Reality #259: A tipster tells us today that the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which painstakingly makes the case that Polanski's conviction for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor was a travesty, has opened theatrically after leaving Sundance in January with a $1 million dollar deal and loads of acclaim. But wait — why are we hearing this from a tipster? Where is the marketing? Where are the reviews? Where is the heated discussion about the Polanski case? Thanks to Academy Award rules and a fickle distributor, that might have to wait. Follow the jump to find out why. More »

12:05 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By STV
2,664 views, 12 comments

Latest by jackass penguin: For Jessiedir. I am very familiar with the case, long before someone decided to make a film about it...where do you think this vitrol comes from??? While there may have been what you and the filmmaker have deemed a "witch hunt" more »

brett ratner

Brett Ratner To Attempt To Learn 'The Polanski Speed-Seduction Method' On 'Rush Hour 3' Set

Perhaps feeling that he's gleaned all the horndogging wisdom longtime mentor and occasional make-out coach Robert Evans has to offer him, preternaturally hacky Rush Hour fauxteur Brett Ratner has now invited a Hollywood legend whose hot-tub-hosted appetites were even more outsized than those of his beloved teacher to work with him on the latest installment of his signature franchise. Today's Variety reports that fugitive director Roman Polanski has been written into Rush Hour 3, currently shooting in Paris, and will play the part of a policeman who will try to interfere with stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker's efforts to bicker with one another while crashing a variety of comically undersized French automobiles. Var explains how Ratner recruited Polanski for the role: More »

11:54 AM on Fri Oct 27 2006
By Mark
188 views, 11 comments

Latest by Xenu: True enough. There's only one kind of oration Singer's after. more »

roman polanski

Polanski Thanks Heaven For Little Girls Justice

In the interest of finally wrapping up coverage of the Roman Polanski Swede-Propositioning Libel Trial, a verdict has finally been rendered. And: Huzzah! Justice is served! Take that, thin-skinned, fugitive director! More »

3:48 PM on Fri Jul 22 2005
By Mark
66 views

roman polanski

Hey, Why Does Roman Polanski Live In France?

If you've been following any of the Roman Polanski libel trial, in which the fugitive director is suing Vanity Fair for writing that he tried to seduce a Swedish woman soon after his wife's tragic death, you may have read that Polanski's testimony is being beamed to London from France to avoid possible extradition to the United States, which he fled after being convicted of statutory rape in 1977. The transcripts from that trial have finally been released, and The Smoking Gun reminds us exactly why Polanski had to "relocate" to extradition-free France: More »

3:03 PM on Wed Jul 20 2005
By Mark
309 views

short ends

Short Ends: Lamas Chippendaled Out Of Playmate Wedding?

· "The two of us have chosen to take different paths, but will continue to support each other in the spirit of the goodness and light that brought us together." Commenting about the sudden, possibly stripper-induced cancellation of his client's wedding, Lorenzo Lamas's agent waxes surprisingly poetic. (Eh, you know his assistant wrote it.) Still, it's hard not to view any Lamas-related misfortune as karmic payback for Are You Hot?
· Kathy Hilton says what all of America's been thinking: "This show fucking sucks."
· Sienna Miller's mom doesn't know if her daughter and nanny-zapping fiancée Jude Law will reconcile, but allows that if she had a nanny that spicy, she'd have "hit it" too.
· For the record, Mia Farrow doesn't think that Roman Polanski hit on that Swedish chick, either.

5:46 PM on Tue Jul 19 2005
By Mark
116 views

roman polanski

Roman Polanski Denies Swede-Seduction At Funeral

roman-polanski.jpgSure, director-in-exile Roman Polanski admitted in his libel trial against Vanity Fair, he had his share of fun as a young cocksmith on the loose in Hollywood at the height of his powers, taking women three at a time when the opportunity presented itself, but he was never this shameless a horndog: More »

10:35 AM on Tue Jul 19 2005
By Mark
162 views