The Mirren-Hopkins-Hitchcock Dream, and 5 Other Tales You Will Be Speaking About Today

Happy Thursday! Also in today’s edition from the Broadsheet: Tom Cruise tries (kind of) to speak up Top Gun 2… Ryan Seacrest may land on Today… There's a film within the Oscar search known as The Lady inside a Septic Tank… and much more. · The biopic-y Alfred Hitchcock and the building of Psycho could have a clumsy working title along with a tortured history, however the lengthy-suffering Anthony Hopkins project apparently includes a new studio in Fox Searchlight, a brand new director in Sacha Gervasi, and — I'm able to’t even believe I’m penning this — new interest from Helen Mirren in playing Hitchcock’s wife Alma. To repeat: Hopkins and Mirren may take part in the Hitchcocks. I am talking about! Maybe Alison Brie can enjoy Jesse Leigh. [THR] · And today imagine Ryan Seacrest co-hosting Today. It might happen — if Matt Lauer decides to depart the show in 2012. Can Seacrest and Ann Curry be also within the same room without leaving some type of blistering, bloodstream-red-colored, category-5 cultural cyclone over the land? Will we actually want to discover? [WSJ via Deadline] · Tom Cruise isn’t carrying out a very convincing job of taking Top Gun 2 seriously: “I stated to Tony I wish to make another movie with him. We haven’t designed a film since Times of Thunder. Tony and that i and Jerry, we i never thought that people would try it again. They began arrive at us with one of these ideas of where it's now. I figured, ‘Wow, that might be… what we should could do now.’” [MTV] · Melancholia’s seem designer reveals about this ending: “It’s the loudest factor I've ever mixed. I needed it to struggle and fight using the Wagner piece, therefore it attempts to drown the Wagner piece. Yes, it’s just a little untidy, however i wanted so that it is very overwhelming and i believe I been successful with this.” And just how. I suggest sitting as near to the screen as you possibly can for optimum effect. [NYT] · Your mileage can vary, however the Lady inside a Septic Tank seems like precisely the type of foreign-language Oscar entry we have to enhance this season’s race. [THR] · Going a little off subject, is not probably the most effective political ads you’ve seen up to now within the 2012 presidential race? Well, besides some of Herman Cain’s, I suppose. [via Andrew Sullivan]