More Shortcuts In Lieu Of Real Posting: Von Trier, Seth Rogen, Tim Burton; More

- The Times uses the new Lars Von Trier film, "The Boss Of It All" to posit that minor film works can revitalize bloated big budget filmmakers (Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Soderbergh). "You don’t need to know how it ends to see that “The Boss of It All” was a freeing step for him creatively," the paper writes. [NYTimes]
- The A.V. Club: What led to you getting into stand-up comedy so early?
Seth Rogen: Um… I don't know. Hatred of myself?
Rogen wrote for Sacha Baron Cohen's "Da Ali G Show"? Apparently he wrote a lof of "Bruno" skits. You learn something new every day. [A/V Club]
- Marilyn Manson: The Movie? Tim Burton says he'd love to make a movie out of Manson's relationship with now ex-paramour, burlesque star Dita Von Teese. “I'm fascinated by Dita and Marilyn. They're like a living Brothers Grimm fairytale," Burton said. Perhaps the filmmaker is unaware that the rocker is now banging Hollywood jailbait, Evan Rachel Wood.[Buzznet]
- Movie-utilizing pop music aficionados, the Weitz Brothers ("About A Boy," "In Good Company," "American Dreamz") are going to adapt author Michael Moorcock’s “Elric” fantasy saga [Empire]
- Luc Besson is looking to float his film company on the Paris stock exchage. [Yahoo]
- George Clooney tackles football nostalgia [MTV]
- Jut-jawed Aaron Eckhart will play a widower in Universal's "Travelling." "He falls for a woman at a seminar and is forced to confront the fact that he hasn't come to grips with his own loss," sounds deep, like this entire post. [Variety]