Wednesday Night Rushes – Emma Stone And Kim Kardashian Are Princess Leias, And More

Emma Stone is Princess Leia – or at least she’s given over to wearing some delicious-looking, Cinnabon-styled earmuffs. Ms. Stone, alongside “Seth Rogen, Zach Galifianakis, Aziz Ansari and more” have been recreating Star Wars scenes with Samuel L. Jackson, all to promote Stand Up To Cancer’s latest range of charity T-shirts. [People]

Kim Kardashian was Princess Leia too, though she was rather less well covered. This was during the shoot of an unaired pilot for Alligator Boots, an adult puppet show from Comedy Central and Kanye West. This behind the scnes footage has just been issued online. [PopDust]

Vintage Tomorrows is an upcoming documentary about Steampunk. Unfortunately, it appears to have been filmed on a digital camera. For shame. [io9]

The UK government hold a “shortage occupation list” and if you work in one of the lines listed, you can apply to emigrate here. The list is now being updated with the addition of a number of new VFX roles from 3D supervisor to stereo artist (spot a theme?). Six movie-magic roles already on the list are being removed, and 12 are staying untouched. So, overall, that’s a -1.[Screen Daily]

Demetri Martin is putting together an animated pilot about “a family that runs a roadside attraction in the California redwoods” and seems to be still plugging away, trying to get his feature film script Will in front of cameras. A year or so ago it was going to star Paul Rudd and Zach Galifianakis but that iteration seems to be gone.[SFGate]

Rodrigo Cortes’ follow up to Buried will be Red Lights, a thriller about hoaxed paranormal occurances. Here’s the first teaser, featuring a slow moving Robert DeNiro and a very chewable final caption. I wonder what the skeptic army will feel about this one?

Michael Moore has spoken to NPR about his new memoir, Here Comes Trouble. [NPR]

David Oyelowo, who deserves an apology for getting such outrageously poor dialogue in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is locking down a role in One Shot, the Lee Childs adaptation with Tom Cruise. Oyelowo’s character is to be a detective investigating a series of shootings – but not investigating them as well as Cruise’s character Jack Reacher, no doubt. [Variety]

It’s Yakuza on Yakuza gunplay in the trailer for Takeshi Kitano’s Outrage. Note: there’s some English language dialogue. And lots of cars. Often filmed with a flipping, flopping camera move.

More Brains is a DVD documentary about Return of the Living Dead. Sign me up. Also included on the DVD will be the final interview with the late Dan O’Bannon, the film’s writer-director. There’s no preorder page yet on Amazon, though the disc is set for release on October 18th. [Twitch]

Screenings of the Straw Dogs remake in the Toronto area tonight were preceeeded by an eight-minute trailer for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Will the public get to see this trailer too? I’ll tell you when I find out for myself.

What would the child of Billy Crystal and Bette Midler look like? In the film Us & Them, the answer will be “Marisa Tomei”, apparently. Not exactly a Darwinian bit of casting. [Variety]

Sean Spillane’s song Distracted, from the very interesting and largely effective soundtrack to The Woman, can be heard online in its entirety now. Well worth a listen. [Moderncine]

This image from Pixar’s La Luna will be a popular desktop. [Pixar Times]

The opening sequence of Tom Tykwer’s 3 is a split screen collage. Tykwer has provided some commentary to explain his thinking. [NYTimes]

Steve Carell couldn’t sort out the necessary to film his scripted cameo in The Muppets. His loss. Maybe a little bit mine. [Moviehole]

The US release of cult UK comedy series Snuff Box looks rather superior to the home version. Here’s the trailer to give you some idea why:

Wot not footage from the show? Well – trust me, it’s good. So I’ll be buying that, I think. [Quiet Earth]

If Duncan Jones can find 500 willing fans with sufficiently flappy wallets, there’s going to be some Moon tie-in toys and merchandise. So, in other words: there’s going to be some Moon tie-in toys and merchandise. [Man Made Movies]

It looks like The Lady Vanishes will be getting a Criterion Blu-ray release. At least it does if you think this image is from that film. Which it is. Definitely. [Criterion]

This Avatar spoof succeeds in looking like an Atari game, but fails in having anything else to say. And what’s the point of the Atari pastiche anyhow?

Voters are receiving their first screeners for Awards season, and the movie in pole position is Chris Weitz’s Another Life. [In Contention]

I think I understand the”joke” Mandy Moore makes in this clip but it isn’t very clear and is very, very unfunny. Could this be the low point of 2011′s comedies? Or is it a realistic portrayal of how couples argue in banal and incomprehensible langauge?

Yeah, I’m not sure that last line was even meant to be a gag. [Cinematic Method via Vulture]

The Jameson Cult Film Club is back, screening films inadequately at novelty events up and down Britain. I think I’ll go to the cinema instead, thank you.

Unreality have fancast a Half Life movie with real actors that look like the virtual characters. [Unreality]

Tommy Wiseau, perpetrator of The Room, is making a videogame review web series that also involves him being abducted by naff CG aliens. They’re calling it The Tommy Wi-Show and it has an enigmatic (ie. irrelevent) trailer.

Colin Firth says that there’s already a script for the third Bridget Jones, and it very much sounds like he’s going to climb back onboard and do the Darcy again. [Metro]

Neveldine/Taylor considered a lot of possible alternatives to Jason Statham for the role of Crank‘s Chev Chelios. But it worked out well, I think. They must have either got wise or got lucky.

Alec Baldwin is to make a film with James Toback, with some of the filming to take place at next year’s Cannes film festival.  So far, the project is very secretive.[Showbiz 411]

Here’s an early, unfinished edit of Joseph Gordon Levitt’s new short film, The Zepellin Zoo.

There’s still a lot of work from his HitRECord collaborators to be added, but it’s still seeming pretty much complete. [HitRECord]

More Rushes tomorrow. More bedtime now.