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The Internets today: Tom Cruise’s career is on life support, yadda yadda. Is the Internets correct? I’m not fond of talking about Tom Cruise around the water cooler, but I’d say the Internets are wrong. Does that make me a relevant revolutionary? United Artists, which is headed up by Cruise and Paula Wagner, has pushed back the release date for Bryan Singer’s expensive kill-Hitler flick, Valkyrie, from October ‘08 to February 13th, 2009. Yes, that means Tom Cruise will battle Jason Voorhees. Amazing.
This marks the second calendar move for the poorly buzzed and semi-mocked war film. Previously, Valkyrie was set for a [...]

The full movie trailer for Tropic Thunder has finally dropped and I’m still not sold. When the photo of Robert Downey Jr. playing a black soldier in the movie about the making of a movie, I garnered a bit of hope. My good, but easily excited, friend Alex at FirstShowing saw some footage at ShoWest, and was trying to convince all of the inhabitants of our 2008 SXSW house that it showed a lot of promise.
But after seeing this trailer, I’m not quite sure I believe his assessment. I trust that Robert Downey Jr will deliver a good performance. I’ve never been dissatisfied with any of his performances to date, [...]

A teaser trailer for Madagascar: The Crate Escape premiered on the DVD release of The Bee Movie. Ben Stiller gives us an introduction to what we should expect from the sequel to the 2005 hit computer animated film. So far I’m not impressed. I think a lot of people were very disappointed with the first film, and while the second film promises to deliver more penguin hilarity (something that was highly advertised but lacking from the first film), I’m not quite sure that it will.
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Last week Paramount premiered the first photo from the upcoming Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder which featured Robert Downey Jr dressed as a black man. The movie studio has released two new photos and a official plot synopsis at Showest. As always, click on the photos to enlarge.

“When a group of actors shooting a war movie includes Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an over-the-top Australian-born method actor who has gone to extremes to get into character, novice thesp Sandusky (Jay Baruchel), gross-out comedy star Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), Four Leaf Tayback (Nick Nolte), the real-life inspiration for the film, pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) and rap star Alpa [...]

I opened up my email this morning to see a message from my friend Neil at FSR titled “LOL Are you kidding me? This is awesome…”
Turns out that Entertainment Weekly released the first production photo for Ben Stiller’s summer comedy Tropic Thunder, and it features our first look at Robert Downey Jr.’s character Kirk Lazarus, who is a black man. That’s right, Robert is in black face, and from what little I can tell from the photo, he doesn’t look that bad as a black man. But even funnier, Robert plays a white man playing a black man. confused?
His character, Lazarus, is a “very serious Oscar-winning actor” who is cast [...]

Owen Wilson’s recent suicide attempt has put his acting career on hold. EW reports that sources close to the production of Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder say that Wilson will no longer be doing the film. Wilson was scheduled to shoot for a week on the film which also stars Bill Heder, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr.  Tropic Thunder follows a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie, who,through a series of freak occurrences, are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying. Dreamworks has no comment.
It’s too bad he won’t be in the movie, but so is life. Let’s hope Wilson takes the proper time to recover from [...]

Fox has hired Mr. & Mrs. Smith screenwriter Simon Kinberg to do a complete overhaul of The Hardy Men.
Kinberg has also written: xXx 2, X-Men: The Last Stand, and the upcoming Hayden Christensen/Samuel L. Jackson sci-fi thriller Jumper.
As we previously reported, Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise star as once wunderkind youth sleuths, have grown up. Long estranged, they’re brought together to solve one last case. The action comedy is based on the classic mystery book series The Hardy Boys. The movie re-teams Stiller with Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy. The studio hopes to put the film into production by 2008.
Cruise first met Stiller after seeing his Cruise impersonation [...]

Robert Downey Jr. and Jay Baruchel have signed on to star in the Ben Stiller-helmed comedy Tropic Thunder for DreamWorks. The Stiller, Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen penned screenplay is about a big-budget war movie gone wrong. I wonder if this means Tom Cruise is out?
A new Spider-Man 3 clip will be shown on the March 5th episode of Heroes.
National Treasure 2 starts filming next week.
A new online poll shows that over 85% of people have cried at the movies. Wow, and I thought I was the only one. Did I just write that for the while world to read? Uh-oh.
Oliver Stone says “Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut” DVD is [...]

Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise have signed on to play The Hardy Men, a action comedy based on the classic mystery book series The Hardy Boys.