Here's the new Sherlock Holmes poster you guys have been waiting for so anxiously. "Where iz it, I cant waiiiiiiiit." Is what you said on all your Sherlock Holmes Fan Forums. "OMG, Fans of Baskerville, who else is so excited... CONTINUE READING CAN WE EVEN COME UP WITH A WORSE TAGLINE FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES?»
Posted on October 26, 2009 in
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Tags: Guy Ritchie | Jude Law | Robert Downey Jr. | Sherlock Holmes
And so it begins. Viral marketing website for Stark Industries. Iron Man II comes out in just one billion more months! ... CONTINUE READING BUILT STARK TOWERS, THROW THE BIGGEST EVENTS/GOT LIQUID, ARMOR, I CAN PAINT ALL DENTS»
Posted on July 27, 2009 in
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Tags: Don Cheadle | Gwyneth Paltrow | Iron Man 2 | Robert Downey Jr. | Scarlett Johansson | Tony Stark
Today Variety reports that the 1985 cult classic Girls Just Want To Have Fun is being remade. This is huge news for fans of the often overlooked, actually quite witty dance movie (if Dorothy Parker wrote a teen dance movie... CONTINUE READING WHO SHOULD STAR IN THE GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN REMAKE?»
Posted on May 29, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Abigail Breslin | Chace Crawford | Dancing | Ed Westwick | Girls Just Want To Have Fun | Helen Hunt | Jonathan Silverman | Leighton Meester | Michael Cera | Robert Downey Jr. | Sarah Jessica Parker | Shannen Doherty
Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes trailer, you guys: Fair enough. You see, despite this movie's modern pacing and winking humor, it is still a period piece, so it makes sense that within the framework in which these events are supposedly taking... CONTINUE READING SHERLOCK HOLMES LOOKS ELEMENTARY (SORRY)»
Posted on May 19, 2009 in
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Tags: Guy Ritchie | Jude Law | Robert Downey Jr. | Sherlock Holmes
It was a big deal for a while last summer when Tropic Thunder released previews containing the scene where Robert Downey, Jr. urges Ben Stiller to "Never go full retard." I watched the DVD last night and was curious as... CONTINUE READING TROPIC THUNDER SOLVES ITS R-WORD PROBLEM WITH A DVD EXTRA»
Posted on December 19, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder
Paramount is having a little fun with the annual season of For Your Consideration ads leading up to the big movie award nominations, mounting a new "campaign" for the Tropic Thunder character Kirk Lazarus, played by Robert Downey, Jr. And... CONTINUE READING FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: ROBERT DOWNEY JR. IN BLACKFACE»
Posted on December 9, 2008 in
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Tags: Girl Talk | Kirk Lazarus | Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder
Hey, look, some nice person has bootlegged the fake trailer for Satan's Alley, one of the movies Tropic Thunder character Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey, Jr.) won one of his Oscar-bait Oscars for, which is in the movie Tropic Thunder. I... CONTINUE READING THE SATAN'S ALLEY TRAILER FROM TROPIC THUNDER»
Posted on August 21, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Robert Downey Jr. | Satan's Alley | Tobey Maguire | Tropic Thunder
When I went to see Iron Man (back in the spring of 1847), the theater erupted into enthusiastic applause during the scene in which Tony Stark is flying in his private jet with a Ghostface video playing in the background.... CONTINUE READING DELETED SEEN: TONY STARK MEETS GHOSTFACE KILLAH»
Posted on August 15, 2008 in
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Tags: Coachella | Ghostface Killah | Iron Man | Robert Downey Jr. | Tony Stark
Sure, Robert Downey Jr. in black-face is controversial, but let's not forget Steve Martin in Mexican-face. Before there was Tropic Thunder, there was The Three Amigos: a comparison. ... CONTINUE READING HOLLYWOOD MORE OUT OF IDEAS THAN WE THOUGHT»
Posted on August 15, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Chevy Chase | Coachella | Jack Black | Martin Short | Robert Downey Jr. | The Three Amigos | Tropic Thunder
This is from May, but everyone's sending it around this week as RDJ crests another summer '08 hypewave, this time for Tropic Thunder, of course. Here he is running maniacally through a Blockbuster grabbing movies off the shelves and sharing... CONTINUE READING ROBERT DOWNEY JR. TOURS THE LAST VIDEO STORE IN AMERICA»
Posted on August 12, 2008 in
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Tags: Robert Downey Jr. | TV On The Radio
After disability advocate groups raised issues with Tropic Thunder's repeated use of the word "retard" and other offensive terms to describe a role played by Ben Stiller's character in the movie, DreamWorks has agreed to meet with them. It's almost... CONTINUE READING TROPIC THUNDER'S SIMPLE JACK WEBSITE WENT BYE-BYE»
Posted on August 5, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Jack Black | Robert Downey Jr. | Simple Jack | Tropic Thunder
After last week's double hit of actually-pretty-good pretend websites for Simple Jack and Tugg Speedman, Tropic Thunder continues to roll out (Get it? "Roll" out?) more viral marketing stuff with a new "official website" for one of the movie's characters.... CONTINUE READING ALRIGHT, TROPIC THUNDER CAN KEEP PUTTING OUT FAKE WEBSITES»
Posted on July 24, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Jack Black | Robert Downey Jr. | Steve Coogan | Tropic Thunder
The latest in Tropic Thunder's marketing effort to re-create the internet as it would be if the fake movie-within-the-movie actually existed are three new fake websites: Simple Jack and Scorcher, the fake websites of the fake movies Ben Stiller's character... CONTINUE READING IT'S TROPIC THUNDER'S MARKETING WORLD NOW, WE JUST LIVE IN IT»
Posted on July 15, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Jack Black | Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder
There probably are still many people out there in America and the world who, if you mentioned Tropic Thunder, the new movie coming out August 22, would say "What's Tropic Thunder?" But everyone else is probably, like me, getting a... CONTINUE READING DEAR TROPIC THUNDER MARKETING TEAM: YOU ARE OVERHYPING YOUR MOVIE»
Posted on July 14, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Fool's Gold | Jack Black | Robert Downey Jr. | Steve Coogan | Tropic Thunder
There's a new montage of film clips promoting the movie Tropic Thunder out today: a "trailer" for a movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie called Rain Of Madness, the documentary about the making of "the most expensive war movie of all time." It's a little... CONTINUE READING RAIN OF MADNESS: A PROMOTIONAL MOCKUMENTARY FOR TROPIC THUNDER AND A JOKE THE KIDS WON'T GET»
Posted on July 9, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Apocalypse Now | Ben Stiller | Rain Of Madness | Robert Downey Jr. | Steve Coogan | Tropic Thunder
Do you guys remember when Iron Man came out? That was forever ago. I wonder what's up with him. I know that the Hulk and Iron Man mythologies have been around for almost 50 years so there's plenty of historical... CONTINUE READING SPOILER ALERT: TONY STARK CAMEOS IN THE INCREDIBLE HULK»
Posted on June 9, 2008 in
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Tags: Edward Norton | Iron Man | Robert Downey Jr. | The Incredible Hulk
So, this video with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr. played during the MTV Movie Awards last night, which I did not watch because Lindsay and I had a coin toss over who would have to suffer through... CONTINUE READING THIS TROPIC THUNDER VIRAL VIDEO IS AN ASSHOLE»
Posted on June 2, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Jack Black | MTV Movie Awards | Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder | War In Iraq
lindsay: there's a new Tropic Thunder super-restricted red band trailer and it's so worth entering your birthday to watch! lindsay: do you have anyone who you just look at them and laugh lindsay: like ben stiller gabe: there is you... CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: TROPIC THUNDER: GOOD MOVIE OR BEST MOVIE EVER?»
Posted on May 16, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Jack Black | Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder
Tony Stark looked out at the falling snow. He had rid the world of crime and poverty, but could he rid his heart of feelings for Mr. Darby? It seemed impossible. Pepper Potts came down to the laboratory with a... CONTINUE READING YOU CAN MAKE IT UP: IRON MAN 2: THE EDGE OF REASON»
Posted on May 8, 2008 in
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Tags: Bridget Jones Diary | Colin Firth | Homosexuality | Iron Man | Mark Darcy | Pepper Potts | Robert Downey Jr. | Tony Stark
I personally spent 100.8 million dollars to see Iron Man this weekend, but it was worth it. It's just weird that no one else saw it. At this point, independent cinema has been legitimized enough that you'd think more people... CONTINUE READING I THINK WE KNOW WHO WAS THE REAL HERO OF IRON MAN»
Posted on May 5, 2008
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Tags: Ghostface Killah | Iron Man | Robert Downey Jr. | Terrence Howard
lindsay: The first time I saw the trailer for Iron Man I thought it was a joke gabe: hahahah lindsay: I thought iron man was going to be like 3 kings lindsay: I thought it was about the war gabe:... CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: IRON MAN VS. SEX AND THE CITY»
Posted on May 2, 2008 in
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Tags: Batman | Iron Man | My Best Friend's Wedding | Robert Downey Jr. | Romantic Comedies | Sarah Jessica Parker | Sex And The City | Superheroes | The Break-Up
Movie Hole (via /film) reports that viewers who sit through the credits of Iron Man will get a glimpse of former World War II hero turned S.H.I.E.L.D. superspy Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson, like the real Nick Fury, but black).... CONTINUE READING PRO TIP: STAY IN YOUR SEAT THROUGH THE IRON MAN CREDITS»
Posted on May 1, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Iron Man | Nick Fury | Robert Downey Jr. | Samuel L. Jackson
Recovering sweater thief Robert Downey Jr. went on Letterman last night to promote Iron Man and talk about his 14 year old son, Indio. When Letterman expressed genuine love-feelings for Iron Man and said he thought it was because Downey... CONTINUE READING ROBERT DOWNEY JR.'S GROUNDBREAKING THEORY OF FILMMAKING»
Posted on April 30, 2008 in
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Tags: David Letterman | Iron Man | Robert Downey Jr.
David Carr's profile of Robert Downey Jr. in the New York Times featured a gold medal winning anecdote about Downey showing up two hours late for a meeting with a director, barefoot and carrying a shotgun. ROBERT DOWNEY JR. FOR... CONTINUE READING ROBERT DOWNEY JR.'S CONSERVATIVE BELIEFS NEED NO EXPLANATION SAYS ROBERT DOWNEY JR.»
Posted on April 21, 2008 in
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Tags: Estate Tax | Iron Man | Robert Downey Jr.
I've got some exciting news guys. I just got an email about a very important contest: "Befriend Iron Man on MySpace and Enter to Win a chance to attend the Premiere and Meet Robert Downey Jr." ARE YOU KIDDING ME?... CONTINUE READING DEFRIENDSTER IRON MAN AND WIN A CHANCE TO NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH ROBERT DOWNEY JR.»
Posted on April 8, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Iron Man | MySpace | Robert Downey Jr.
