Can’t wait until September 22nd for the premiere of Heroes Season 3?

That was a stupid question, let us rephrase: Who cares if we have to wait for another season of Heroes when NBC keeps releasing sexy pictures of Hayden Panettiere?

Check out the rest of the promo images for Volume III: Villains by clicking Claire’s pretty face, though don’t expect and Kristin Bell posters, as she is strangely and disturbingly absent.

We think a lot of folks are going to be as surprised as we were when Summit Entertainment plops The Brothers Bloom in the LA/NY markets on December 19th, and we’re 100% sure Dave’s Mom will love it on January 16th when it gets wide release.

Dave’s seen it, and he’s all smiles:

I had a love affair with Rian Johnson’s debut film, Brick, a old fashioned noir detective story set unironically in high school. At the time of its release, I was studying what goes into making a noir film for a screenplay I was writing (though let’s not talk about my failed career, now), and was delighted to see another filmmaker who was able to pull the best pieces of a good noir detective story together, while giving it a new twist by putting Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s brooding high school outcast a mouthful of out-dated slang and a detective/commissioner relationship with his vice principal.

Brick went on to with the Originality of Vision prize at 2005’s Sundance film festival, grossing an estimated $2,075,743 for a film that cost somewhere around half-a-million dollars. And in an all-too-rare display of trust in a fairly-new filmmaker, someone green-lit The Brothers Bloom as his next project.

It’s possible that I’m going to have a prolonged love affair with this film to, as it is about con men, another much-beloved subject of mine, and also manages to take a genre so established and still turn out something that feels different from the other genre films I’ve seen before…

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Michael Moore is going ot release his latest docu-opinion piece, Slacker Uprising, for free online on September 23rd to those that live in the US or Canada at SlackerUprising.com. Moore’s $ 2 million dollar film follows him on a 60 city tour through the battleground states of 2004’s presidential election as he does all he can to get the young, college “slacker” crowd to vote.

Check out the preview:

Here’s the thing about this film: It’s really depressing on the eve of another “historic” election to recall that time 4 years ago. It was a time when we thought the Democrats couldn’t lose because of Bush’s horrible first-term policies, but the Dems did lose and we were subjected to 4-more years of Bush.

Although the power to vote should be promoted, those of us who already vote in our local and national elections just get to relive a period of extreme optimism similar to our current Democratic feelings and remember how so much hope added up to another red win, somehow.

Whatever, we’ll watch it. Just so we can make fun of Michael Moore.

He’s fat.

Occasionally, something happens in the pop culture sphere that motivates Dave to stay up long into the night expounding his semi-autobiographical opinion in a blank word document.

Since the leaking of Metallica’s new album Death Magnetic has a predictable impact on the torrent community (it goes something like: “download it even if you don’t want to hear it because they took on Napster way back when”), Dave’s maniacal thoughts will be published in full….below the cut…beware the pure hatred!

It’s one of those weird things, like making clean versions of heavy metal albums, but Kevin Smith’s Zach and Miri Make a Porno has a watered down version of this week’s red band trailer that they have released for the general audience. Less cursing doesn’t have to equal less funny, but this is Kevin Smith we’re talking about, and he’s directing a movie about two people who make a porno flick.

If you aren’t ready to see R-rated material, we don’t think any green-band preview is going to change your mind, especially when the red-band was fuck-laden and hilarious. This trailer doesn’t fall flat on it’s face, but it’s easy to see why marketing directly to their curses-and-boob lovin’ audience directly is actually producing a better product.

And on the downside to the awesome news that Ghostbusters 3 might get a chance to see the silver screen (for better of for worse), we also have a denial of this Kevin Eastman inspired rumor that there would be a new live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

Looks like it’s a no go, according to TMNT writer Steven Murphy, who says there is no truth to the rumor. There have been “talks,” but it’s probably not going to happen.

So, we doodled Leonardo’s mask on a turtle carcass. That’s how we deal with our grief.

Paint us surprised, which can only be some sort of Dr. Seuss like color whose polka dots are kept uniform in a pool of liquid paint, because Variety has added the first taste of actual progress on the front of a live action Ghostbusters 3 that we’ve had this year.

The Ghostbusters video game, announced last year, postponed any discussion of a live action Ghostbusters 3 with the original cast, now, about 10 months later, we get news that Dan Ackroyd’s comments earlier this week about two up-and-coming writers penning a new Ghostbusters wasn’t just Ackroyd wishful thinking.

From Variety:

Columbia Pictures is getting serious about scaring up a new installment of its blockbuster “Ghostbusters” franchise.
The studio has set “The Office” co-exec producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write a script for a film designed to bring back together the original cast of Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson.

Studio would not comment on the development and has been mum on recent rumors that there was interest in making another installment of the franchise.

The scribes just wrote “Year One,” a comedy that was directed by Ramis. Ramis with Aykroyd wrote the first two installments of the films. Ivan Reitman directed both the 1984 original and the sequel that was released in 1989. The close proximity between the writers and original Ghostbuster Ramis is evidence that the ghost chasers have sparked to the idea of returning.

Eisenberg and Stupnitsky, rumor has it, have discussed this project with both Reitman and Ramis, and will probably include a story about the next generation of Ghostbusters. Who those are, and the involvement of Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen are still hanging in the balance.

Regardless of if this is a good idea or not, it’s nice to have some solid news 19 years after the last Ghostbusters movie.

Ok. Here’s what we know about Ghostbusters 3:

-Dan Ackroyd wrote a draft that was huge and turned down for being far too expensive to actually make.

-Dan Ackroyd reveals that this project is called Ghostbusters In Hell:

“I wrote a script called Hell Bent, Ghostbusters go to hell basically. The premise is that it’s Manhellton. There’s Manhattan and ManHELLton. And if you can build an inter-dimensional phase system so that you can go from one dimension to another. We’ve succeeded doing that and we go to the hell side.

Downtown, Folley Square - where the cops are, they’re all blue minotaurs. Central Park is this huge deep mine, green demons there, surrounded by black onyx thousand foot high apartment buildings with classic red devils. Very wealthy. And we go visit a Donald Trump like character - Mr. Siffler. Lou Siffler, Lucifer. So I will say we meet the devil in it.”

- Harold Ramis speculates that Ben Stiller could be cast in the 3rd Ghostbusters.

-Nothing happens for awhile.

- A Ghostbusters video game is announced, forwarding the storyline to the 90s, where the guys are government-sponsered. The developers think about calling the game Ghostbusters 3.

- No one wants to distribute the Ghostbusters video game and the project slips into limbo where it remains.

- A rumor starts that Judd Apatow is going to pick up Ghostbusters with Seth Rogen, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and Romany Malco as the new clan.

-Seth Rogen says this isn’t true.

-Dan Ackroyd says this, which re-ignites rumors of a third live action Ghostbusters, while simultaneously sparking more Apatow gossip:

We don’t know what’s going on anymore. Our best guess is that there is a Ghostbusters 3 script being written by two more guys. Our theory also assumes that Dan Ackroyd doesn’t know that Rogen doesn’t know anything either, so they are just shooting rumors back and forth.

Someone get them in a room together.

Man, the internet is a crazy place.

Last Friday, David Duchovny (of Californication currently, you X-phile!) admitted himself to a treatment center for sex addiction. Since then, we’ve been surfing around gossip sites as we normally do, and occasionally someone will make a good DD = sex addict joke.

Like Videogum’s realization that Duchovny’s “rub my belly” ad has whole new undertones:

Which reminded us about this Gawker blind item concerning a B-List TV star having sex with an extra for 3 hours: Duchovny? Is that you?

Which reminded us of this thinly-veiled rumor about Duchovny cheating on his wife, Tea Leoni. Which now seems like less of a rumor.

Which lead us to link surf through the comments and we found a ping-back for a Radar article where online speculators suggest that Tea was having an affair with Billy Bob Thornton while Duchovny was sleeping around. Supposedly, she went on tour with him and was secretly dating Billy Bob?

Whatever, the internet makes this vast web of gossip so easy to sort, we’re building a David Duchovny XXX-File!

Our bad, we are really sucking at the jokes recently…

Hello, Heavy Metal week.

As soon as people started poking around the Heavy Metal/Curious Case of Benjamin Button scandal, a lot started coming up from Kevin Eastman, who is apparently unable to keep a secret (like the live-action Turtles movie).

We say this, because in a video interview with RBGFilter, he mentions that Zach Snyder (300, Watchmen), Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) and Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy). And that’s quite a slate to add to David Fincher and Eastman himself, both will also direct R-rated animated segments.

We’d be totally fine with this rumor. We ARE totally fine with this rumor, it’s just that Variety chose today to do a big piece on Guillermo Del Toro’s future schedule through 2017. It includes some cool things like remakes of Frankenstien, Jekyll and Hyde, an adaptation of an unreleased novel and – of course – two Hobbit films with Peter Jackson.

No mention of Heavy Metal, which will have to come before The Hobbit (August 2010 is the rumored release month) if they want some Del Toro action.

We just think Kevin Eastman is excited that Guillermo wants to direct a segment and has started getting excited publicly. Which is fine, except it gets us excited, even though we’re pretty sure our hopes will be dashed.