I saw this trailer in on the big screen before the Batman movie, but Body of Lies didn’t totally grab me. Maybe that’s because I was in batman mode. Still, it’s Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe so I have no doubt that this will be an excellent movie. It comes out October 10. Have a peek.

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This movie The Road will certainly be of interest to me because it mentions two things right off the bat. Viggo Mortensen and post-apocalyptic. How could I miss out. It sort of reminds me of an S.M. Stirling book called Wolf and Iron and I highly recommend it. Anyway, here’s the scoop:

That book is Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winner of the same name. It’s about a father and son who navigate a countryside devastated by an unnamed catastrophe.

The film, which stars Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron and 11-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee, also was shot in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans and on Mount St. Helens in Washington state for scenes of devastation.

But most of the film was shot in and around Pittsburgh.

Hillcoat found abandoned coal fields, a deserted amusement park and an 8-mile stretch of closed freeway as locations.

“It’s tangible, the misery and hopelessness and the bleakness,” Mortensen says. “It gives you much more to work with if you’re filming in that world instead of a green screen.

“You have to bring a story to life in a movie in a way you don’t have to in a book - even a book as powerful as that.”

But Mortensen says that, like the book, the film adaptation is more than bleak imagery.

“I spoke with Cormac before we started shooting,” he says. “I think what’s made this story so universally loved is because it’s really about protecting your child, no matter what the circumstances.

“At its core, it’s a love story.”

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Sounds like something pretty great to me. I’ll be looking forward to a trailer on this one.

Oliver Stone’s W is getting all ramped up for the fall. I bet this movie will be a big help for Obama.

Katherine Heigl who plays Dr. Izzie Stevens might be killed off of NBC’s Grey’s Anatomy this next season. The writers might give her character a brain tumor because they are mad about her dropping out of Emmy contention.

Katherine Heigl could be killed off Grey’s Anatomy next season, a well-placed source tells Us Weekly in its latest issue.

The idea came after Heigl, 29, withdrew herself from Emmy contention, saying that she didn’t feel she was “given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination.”

In response to Heigl’s griping, staffers are considering giving her character, Dr. Izzie Stevens, a brain tumor.

“[Producer] Shonda [Rhimes] and the writers are [angry] at her,” the source tells Us. “It’s their way of [messing] with her. She won’t know whether she’s going to live or die.”

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That’s pretty harsh, but maybe she wants out because she’s a big movie star now.

Now this movie Defiance looks interesting simply because of Daniel Craig. I liked him in whatever Tomb Raider flick he was in, and then of course he impressed the hell out of me in Casino Royale. I’ve seen him in The Golden Compass and Invasion too, but I liked him both those times as well so I’m sure a WWII movie like this will be no exception. I really hope that next Bond movie comes out soon.

I’ve got to admit that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Brad Pitt looks really darn good. It’s a movie where the main character is born old and as time goes on he actually gets younger. There’s just something about it that interesting and also haunting. Have a look.

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Now this is quite a bummer. If you’d never seen Courteney Cox’s show on F/X called Dirt, then you were missing out. It was a very cool show about a gossip magazine and all the interesting characters surrounding it. My favorite was the schizophrenic photographer Don Konkey.

Courteney Cox has revealed her FX series Dirt, in which she plays the editor of a weekly celebrity magazine, won’t be returning for a third season.

“It just got canceled,” Cox, 42, told TV Guide

Season 2 of the series, was cut short by the writer’s strike.

But Cox won’t be sitting home bored. She and hubby David Arquette with whom she produced Dirt are already working on other projects.

“We’re developing all kinds of stuff right now. We’ll be producing more stuff together, for sure,” the actress told TV Guide.

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The show is definitely worth checking out on DVD for some good entertainment. It really is too bad it’s not coming back though.

I can tell already that Oliver Stone’s new movie W is going to be a big controversy. This poster is just a huge list of Bush-isms and while those misspoken quotes are a great source of material for jokes, I’m not sure that Stone isn’t going to re-write most of this story to be what he wants anyway. He tends to do that.

This trailer for Marley & Me will have some people excited that this book is finally being made into a movie. My wife will be in line to see it opening night I’m sure. Have a look.

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