Club Jade

This is just getting ridiculous, honestly. If the ‘manliest’ franchise of them all, James Freaking Bond, has a nail polish collection, why can’t we? (I do hope I’m speaking too soon, given we of a a major release date or two coming up in 2013…)

You can get up close and personal with the Bond swatches at The PolishAholic and Polish Addict: I’m partial to Live And Let Die and The World Is Not Enough, while The Spy Who Loved Me may make for a good Phantom Menace Amidala look.

The Skyfall line is OPI’s holiday collection, and should be available at salons and (some) beauty retailers now.

The notable lack of a big franchise fantasy film* for the season makes the coming months slim pickings for genre fans, unless one happens to be a preteen girl (Twilight) or their younger siblings (Bolt) or a [male] comics fan (Punisher: War Zone, The Spirit) or one of the two people who thought The Day the Earth Stood Still remake was a good idea. Okay, so maybe I’m wrong.

At least the rest of us can console ourselves with the fact that there now exists a sci-fi horror musical with Giles Anthony Stewart Head rendering violence upon Paris Hilton. Right? Or at the very least, Daniel Craig takes his shirt off. Vote for up to eight movies beneath the cut! (more…)

Go boldly to the newstand: Star Trek is the cover story for the new Entertainment Weekly. The cover promises new photos and a set visit, but if you’re dying to see something, there are already a few images out and about the web. In any case, it shouldn’t be a long wait: We’ll see the story and images up at ew.com soon enough.

Bond joins the party: In other news, the first full trailer for Trek is set to be attached to Quantum of Solace.

• Adaptions: Ridley Scott is planning a return to sci-fi with Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War; io9 found some comments from Haldeman and suggestions for filming (or not) his back catalog.

• Pirates payday just a rumor? Writer Terry Rossio says that Johnny Depp isn’t getting $50+ million for a fourth POTC film. Cinema Blend has doubts. Whatever, man.
• Don Cheadle in for Iron Man 2: Cheadle will replace Terrence Howard as sidekick (and eventual War Machine) Jim Rhodes.
• For adults! Like me! The Jim Henson Co. has picked up a “comedic film noir murder mystery” script called The Happytime Murders. It sounds a little like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but I’m a total sucker for muppets so I’ll probably end up seeing it anyway.

IndianaJones.com posts another behind-the-scenes video, this time focusing on the original iconic Hat. TheRaider.net also has a scan of a new photo featuring Shia LaBeouf and Cate Blanchett.

• Hobbit: Del Toro still in negotations.

• Bond: Quantum of Solace teaser poster and 22 other things we know about next film.
• Lessons learned: Gore Verbinski won’t take on a fourth Pirates movie without a script,. Good to know.
• Review: AICN not impressed with Jumper.
• What? Rob Zombie to direct new Conan?
• Eye Candy: In the Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue, modern stars pay tribute to Hitchcock.

• The Dark Knight website posts a memorial to Heath Ledger.

• Disney to re-release Toy Story in 3-D.
• Writer’s Strike: Lionsgate and Marvel are latest to make interim deals with the WGA.
• The title of the new James Bond film is Quantum of Solace. Uhh… okay!
• Eye Candy: New Iron Man sure to make awesome action figures.

Harry Potter passes James Bond as the film franchise that brings in the most bucks worldwide. Star Wars is #3.

According Variety, this is without taking inflation into account, and Star Wars is still champ domestically. Damn right.

He’s the Jedi who sets many a Wanton’s heart a-thunkin’. He was the “man’s man, ladies’ man, man-about-town” in Down with Love. He was even supposedly considered for James Bond.

But he tells The Boston Herald that he chose his latest role (as Beatrix Potter’s love, Norman Warne in Miss Potter) because of the character’s awkwardness.

Flashes of Little Voice, anyone?

Casino Royale director Martin Campbell says Ewan McGregor was approached to play to play James Bond, but turned the part down.

Casino Royale, the latest James Bond movie, will film scenes at Villa del Balbianello in May. The Villa served as one of the more recognizable locations in Attack of the Clones.

London’s Daily Mail is reporting that Rose Byrne will play Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale. Byrne (IMDB) played Dormé in Attack of the Clones, sucked face with Brad Pitt in Troy, and is currently featured all corseted up in Casanova and the upcoming Marie-Antoinette. (via Cinematical)