No Hurry

Some kind of congratulations are in order, I suppose, for Dream House costars Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, who quietly married a few days ago. This would be a good time, obviously, to check out the Dream House trailer, but I can’t find it anywhere. What’s that about?

Dream House is a Universal/Morgan Creek production, and those guys know that any film coming out in 90 days has to at least have a teaser up. Wait — I don’t even see a website.

Jim Sheridan‘s haunted-house thriller shot roughly 13 months ago with additional shooting completed last December, and it’ll finally open three months from now (on 9.30.11) after bailing on a 2.18.11 opening, and there’s still no trailer? I don’t what to say except hubba-hubba, shake a leg, move it or lose it, etc.

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33 thoughts on “No Hurry”

  1. Let’s see … a film that was completed 13 months ago and just had to go do reshoots last December … delayed opening … no trailer … smells like trouble to me.

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  3. Congrats to them both, especially to the new Mrs. Way to upgrade from a living “blind item” to a man with integrity. All the best.

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  5. “Some kind of congratulations are in order, I suppose,” for two apparently decent people getting married, but permission for gays to marry is “cause for celebration among decent people everywhere.”

    The former statement is a typical dick move, Wells, and why it’s frequently necessary to wash off after visiting this site.

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  6. Hey Muckles, this is the new way it is. Try to keep up. The ONLY group you can now safely make fun of (on here at least) are fatties and the straights.

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  7. Actually, unless you know the individuals personally, no congratulations are in order. No comments at all, as a matter of fact. Funny how few people understand how that works, even the ostensible smarties here.

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  8. Regardless: am I the only one surprised by this news? I didn’t even know Craig and Weisz were involved with each other — guess I need to read more Us Weekly. Good for them.

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  9. Honestly couldn’t care less, though I guess it’s easier to root for two cool equal-footing celebrities circling 40 to get hitched than the usual bullshit where a couple of 23-year-old horndog idiots do it, or when some mid-20s It Girl marries some total douche goalie on the Montreal Canadiens or Cash Warren or Italian prince.

    But more pressing issue: HOLY SHIT, look at that RUG on Craig in that pic from the movie! That is a straight-up piece. Amazing.

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  10. LexG: disagree about the rug although I know you are a keen rug observer. If it were truly a rug, wouldn’t the hairline be filled in a bit more?

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  11. Craig has been suspected of wearing a piece for a few years now. Something about the hairline always looks latch-hooked and fake. Even in the second Bond he did. And the way this has a straight hairline AND does the “flop” is what Travolta’s piece did in “Domestic Disturbance.”

    He wears a piece.

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  12. Ray DeRousse is right. This feels like another foul ball from Jim Sheridan. The only film he ever completed on schedule and on budget was his first one, My Left Foot. Ever since then he has been afforded and indulged by financiers to edit and re-shoot and rewrite and recast and release a turkey; The Boxer, In America (admittedly Oscar nominated), Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Brothers…

    The last decent movie he made was In the Name of the Father, and that was nearly 20 years ago.

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  13. Trying to convince us that “In America” was a turkey is an uphill climb. Why do people drop 20-ton idiot bombs like that as a FACT? I mean, I don’t honestly care if you don’t like In America, or Brothers, or The Boxer, or Get Rich, it’s no skin off my back. And if you want to MAKE A CASE and back it up, I’m sure most people would entertain the possibility.

    But what is this Internet thing where people blowse in and say some dumb shit like “Jim Sheridan hasn’t made a good movie in 20 years,” or “Everyone knows Casablanca sucks” or “The Shining isn’t scary” or “Spielberg hasn’t been good since Raiders” like it’s some WIDELY ACCEPTED FACT that we’re all on board with.

    It’s like a DZ Effect or something.

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  14. Ehh, I’m gonna say nay to the rug theory. He had short, spiky hair in Casino Royale, the kind that would be way too obvious if you tried to rug it. He had the exact same hair seen above in The Invasion, which was filmed right before (and after!) CR. (Gawd, now look at me discussing this like it’s a JFK conspiracy theory).

    Anyway, I’m guessing the trailer shows up in front of Larry Crowne this week (also Universal).

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  15. LexG,

    Yes, I dislike the Casablanca/Spielberg/Shining stuff as well. Which is why I acknowledged that In America was Oscar nominated,so some people, industry people to boot, thought it had merit. Yes, bits of it had merit but overall I think most people would agree that Sheridan has not made a movie that has delivered the surprise or emotional intensity of My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father. Certainly, none of the films (In America excepted) have connected with audiences or critics like those two.

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  17. Kudos to Sheridan for improving on the tacky 8 Mile with his Get Rich or Die Trying, getting tons of mileage from a one-note musical (and screen) presence. That movie’s go so many outsized characterizations and electrifying sequences that rattle around in your brain long after its over. The naked shower fight genuinely tops the similar moment in Easter Promises, and the hallucinatory backstage death of Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje illustrates the queasy intersection between the gangsta lifestyle and the musical interpretation of said ideals. And Terrence Howard, damn – you know he just RELISHES sharing scenes with non-entity 50 Cent, because he just hams it up and acts CIRCLES around him. Total respect for Jim Sheridan.

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  18. Glad somebody else liked Get Rich or Die Tryin’. I thought it was near-great when I saw it in theaters, electric and all wintery and grimy and blue and Sheridan-legit and practically a New Jack City of rap bios… Plus this whole mean-spirited angle where 50′s out getting revenge on Scarface Akinnouye-Agbaje ON THE THE VERY NIGHT of his big show… Like he’s KILLING MOTHERFUCKERS before going out onstage, so insane and unpleasant and over-the-top… Then like all the critics hated it and everyone piled on 50 Cent and that movie’s never been seen again– don’t remember it ever being on cable. Somehow I’ve kind of downplayed how much I dug it on that first viewing, but it’s one of those things you try to talk up with any LA film snob, and they’re all appalled.

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  19. Brothers was good, though the entire movie could have ended at the skating rink when Tobey asked Jake if they did anything. Instead of just saying no, he gets all indignant and avoids the question, only adding to the paranoia and anger. Made no sense other than to propel the story forward but eh, it still worked out

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  20. Well, you guys obviously saw the films very differently. I saw Brothers in rough form and then in the final version and it didn’t impact at all. The birthday scene was good, but I think part of the problem was the casting.

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  21. And I gotta say…

    I thought The Boxer was fantastic. Loved Daniel Day Lewis, loved the love story, loved the scary IRA element–very good movie, IMHO.

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  22. I always find it kind of intriguing when people who have been in long term relationships without making a formal commitment (both had been engaged to their respective partners for a considerable time, Weisz had a child with Aronofsky) hook up and then get married in a whirlwind.

    They both seem like intelligent, talented and private people. I wish them well.

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  23. So far as I understand, Morgan Creek had a script that wasn’t ready and Jim Sheridan wanted a job, so he read the script (maybe) and told them, “Great, I’ll do it” and they were surprised but went with him because he’s still respected despite the (yes, Lex, it is generally accepted) decline in his work in the last few decades, and suddenly they were making the movie with a script that wasn’t ready with a director who wasn’t particularly right for this sort of project.

    So it’s not surprising that it’s now a problem film that they don’t know what to do with.

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  25. How long before DC wakes up in the middle of the night screaming, “My wife has an Oscar, and I’ve never been nominated!”?

    Cute couple.

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  26. To belatedly explain to the slow-witted Muckles & The Truth (sic):

    JW’s point is certainly not “a dick move”, nor does it “make fun of the straights (?)”

    The simple comparison point is that a straight couple who enter into a whirlwind romance via cheating on partners they’ve been with for long periods can marry unchallenged, but gay couples are presumed ab initio to be an illegitimate “non-committable”, coupling.

    But nice attempt to change the script. I see it didn’t really fool anyone. Pity.

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  27. Craig has played and will continue to play James fucking Bond. Nothing Weisz could do will ever measure up to that.

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