Today was Inglourious Basterds day at Cannes and the movie was a huge success there! Critics loving the movie and after the premiere screening the movie got a 10 minute standing ovation.
The day stared off with a press screening and the critics were praising Quentin Taratino’s WWII movie that will change history. Then after that the cast and QT took part in a press conference where Brad Pitt told how he became Lt Aldo Raine. He said, QT came over and when he woke up the next day there 5 empty bottles of wine and a smoking apparatus, next thing he knew he was in Germany filming IB. Dang who knew Brad was such a cheap, even I can down 5 bottles of wine and still say no…I think. Eli Roth made this comment about playing his role, “Being Jewish, this is definitely for me like Kosher porn,” Roth joked. “It’s something I fantasized about since I was a very young child.” BTW how adorable is that Miami Vice Bromance between Brad and Eli?
Next up for the Basterds was the premiere and after that screening the movie got a 10 minute standing ovation! I think that says a lot! Finally those Basterds put down their weapons and lifted their glasses to celebrate a day that went extremely well!!!
I can’t wait to see this Kosher Porn of a movie when it comes out on August 21st!!!
BTW here is video from the press conference where Brad tells the cheap date story, and also includes other cast members Diane Kruger, Mike Myers and the hottie Daniel Bruhl!!!
UPDATE: Here is the video of QT dancing with Melanie Laurent dancing on the red carpet.
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Cannes is under way and The Carlton Hotel is welcoming the movies that are playing at the festival and the stars who are in them! Like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds’ Brad Pitt and Eli Roth, The Transformer from Transformers, A Christmas Carol, GI Joe and Terminator Salvation to name a few. I wish the hotels in LA would do that because that looks so awesome! I mean I seriously so want to see a huge Brad and Eli like that!!! How awesome do those Basterds look, including Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent and Til Schweiger!!!
BTW am I the only one who when they saw where they placed the GI Joe poster thought of the famous scene from Patch Adams?
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Out of all the ways I would describe Eli Roth, Basterd is not one of them. But in this context I will say that Eli Roth is one very sexy Basterd!!! Dang how good does he look in the latest poster to be released from the Inglourious Basterds, XYZ is a Basterd campaign! I so can’t wait to see him as Sgt. Donny Donowitz aka The Bear Jew, the one who uses his baseball bat to get the scalps that Brad Pitt wants!!! Plus the way he described the propaganda movie Pride’s Nation, that he directed in Inglourious Basterds to MTV Movies Blog, has me for the first time wishing the summer was already over so I can see this movie already!
Why is The Weinstein Company teasing me like this and making me wait until August 21st to see this movie! Dang them and thank you!
For the first time since he accepted the role of Donnie Donowitz aka The Bear Jew in Inglourious Basterds, Eli Roth did an on-camera interview with MTV.com about the Quentin Tarantino movie! In the interview he talks about working with Brad Pitt and how they both stayed in character, which is not a character I would want to stay in. He also describes why The Bear Jew kills Nazis by swinging bats at their heads and decapitating them as compared to scalping them like Brad Pitt’s character asked. He then talked about how he got the directing duties (besides the acting one) for Pride of the Nation from his friend with the hottie Daniel Bruel. From the way he describe the propaganda film that he directed with his brother Gabe, I can’t wait to see it. I also can’t wait to see him and Inglourious Basterds on August 21st!
Eli Roth talked to MTV Movies Blog about his upcoming behind-the-camera movies that he has coming up and he announced that he is turning his Grindhouse trailer Thanksgiving into a movie! Thanksgiving was one of the only two things I liked (the other was the car ax scenes one for each of their gruesome deaths) in the Grindhouse movie. I am so freaking excited to see what he cooks up for it especially since this is how he described it:
“the sickest, bloodiest, most violent slasher movie,†he said of the “Thanksgiving†flick inspired by the holiday-themed horror classics of the ‘80s. “I want to make the highest body count slasher film I can.â€Â
How bloody awesome does that sound! I love a good slasher film and I know after Cabin Fever, Eli will make it a cut above the rest!
As you can see in the first sentence I said movies and that wasn’t a typo! He added that he is preparing to film his first big budget film this fall.
“I don’t want to give away the title yet, because I have to make sure I own it 100%, but it’s going to be something that is really fun with lots of mass destruction,†he said. “I wanted to do something along the lines of ‘Transformers’ or ‘Cloverfield’ that was a little more science fiction-based, and with lots of chaos and mass destruction.â€Â
“I don’t want to say what [the monster is] yet,†Roth added. “Once it gets set up, I will let everyone know. It is not aliens or robots or a virus – it’s a little more grounded. But when people hear it they are going to be like ‘That is going to be insane!’.â€Â
“The plan is this: I want to do a huge budget movie, but tack on three weeks to the end of it and shoot ‘Thanksgiving’,†he revealed. “I want to do an $80 million dollar movie, and then schedule three weeks at the end to quickly shoot a $5 million dollar movie.â€Â
He is currently finishing up the script for that movie that he put on pause so he could do another movie in front of the camera called Inglourious Basterds. And on that note, here are some new scenes from IB that were too firey hot for American Idol yesterday when Quentin Tarantino was a guest mentor! And this is what Eli Roth blogged on his MySpace about them!
This was what was originally cut to air on “American Idol.” And yes, that’s me at the end, and that roaring inferno was real. No CGI bullsh!t. Omar and I almost got incinerated!
That inferno looks absolutely amazing, luckily he got out of there OK! I am so excited for IB that is coming out on August 21st, but you already know that!
