Saturday Rushes – Pee Wee’s New Movie, The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo’s New Trailer, And Much More

Sarah Silverman is charging up for a strike on target:

Silverman is marshaling fellow comics for a fund-raiser in Texas titled, Live From N*****head: Stripping The Paint Off Of Good Ol’ Fashioned Racism.

The name is a reference to Republican presidential Rick Perry’s hunting grounds where the word censored above was painted at the entrance until recently. [EW]

Though they haven’t seen it, PETA have taken objection to the “message” of Cameron Crowe’s new movie:

We Bought a Zoo conveys the misleading and downright dangerous message that no special knowledge—just a lot of heart—is needed to run a zoo.

Does it? Does it convey that message? I suspect PETA might end up with egg on their face. [E!]

If scheduling permits, Joseph Gordon Levitt has a role in Django Unchained waiting for him. Scheduling, please permit [Variety]

Tiny Terry Trivia Time. Mr. Gilliam is currently enjoying Neal Stephenson’s Reamde and he’d love to turn it into a film but “it won’t happen.” Besides, he also notes that “It’s long enough to be a film festival.” Here’s the full audio of his interview on Radio 2.

In other “things that film industry people would like to do” news, Paul Reubens says that Pee Wee Herman would like to appear on Dancing With The Stars. If it happens, look forward to lots of Dancing With The Stars videos in these Rushes posts. I won’t apologise. And, apparently, he’s asked the Kardashians to appear in his new, Judd Apatow-produced film. Not sure I like the sound of that so much.

That film, he says, will “begin filming in three months at Universal studios.” And so the needle swings back towards the smiley emoticon. [E!]

I think this trailer for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has new footage. At least it’s a new cut.
Millenium, Les hommes qui n’aimaient pas les… by Lyricis

Robert DeNiro is to play Bernie Madoff in a HBO movie. John Burnham Schwartz, author of Reservation Road, will be adapting the non-fiction book The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust. Hang on – trust is dead now? And Bernie Madoff killed it? That explains everything. [Deadline]

There’s to be a Christmastime musical episode of Community, complete with newly composed songs. Apparently, the plot will see the study group standing in for the glee club. [TV Line]

The latest little promo for Puss in Boots features plenty of footage from the film cut together to Lady Gaga’s Americano.

Curious as to how Kitty stole Puss’ boots? Perhaps the solution lies in last night’s episode of Derren Brown’s  Experiments.

Metallica are planning a 3D feature film, though we don’t really know yet if it will be a documentary, concert film or fiction, just that the director will need “stones.” [Deadline]

Twin Peaks‘ Madchen Amick is to join Buffy‘s Sarah Michelle Gellar in Ringer. These are what we call downward career trajectories, but what heights to fall from. [TV Line]

Russell Brand has been down to Occupy Wall Street and has written about it. A couple of Brandish excerpts:

There can be few cultures that would unthinkingly welcome into their fold a man dressed as I was in the macabre attire of a spandex scarecrow but the occupants of this pop up civilization offered me first food, then shelter and then, incredibly, hope that we can change the world.

Brianna who is seventeen, pagan-pretty and dusky, is attending college by day and occupying Wall Street by night like some heart wrenching cross between Pocahontas and Batman.

It’s an honest piece, I think. [Brand]

Kino Video are to distribute the Redemption catalogue of films in the US. Precisely as you’d expect this will mean an avalanche of Jean Rollins movies are headed to US shelves. [Variety]

Constantine director Francis Lawrence won’t be making a Sgt. Rock movie because he wanted to set it in the future and the studio disagreed. His next picture is likely to be an adventure-ised biopic of Houdini, or maybe an adaptation of Laura Hillebrand’s Unbroken. [Film School Rejects]

Kit Harrington and Joel Kinnaman are contenders to play the leads in Arthur & Lancelot, a modern day retelling of some Camelot tales. They did a screen test together recently, so I’d say it’s actually looking 90% good for them, 10% good for their agents. The Wedding Crashers‘ David Dobkin is directing. [The Hollywood Reporter]

B. Boy is a new balloon character designed by Tim Burton for the upcoming Macy’s Thankgiving Day parade. Here’s a model, some of Burton’s sketches and B. Boy’s whimsical backstory.

B. was created, Frankenstein’s monster-style, from the leftover balloons used in children’s parties at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. Forbidden from playing with other children because of his jagged teeth and crazy-quilt stitching, B. retreated to a basement lair, where he obsesses over Albert Lamorisse’s film The Red Balloon and dreams that he, too, will be able to fly someday.

Burton is as Burton does. [Artsbeat]