Happy Friday! Also in this edition of The Broadsheet: Hysteria coming to theaters… Your one-stop Shame sex-talk shop… Another Spider-Man stage player takes a tumble… Lou Reed and Metallica explore the outer limits of unlistenability… and more.
· In the vein of Will Smith and Ridley Scott, Steve Carell might deserve one of Movieline’s surveys of rumored projects you’ll probably never see: The actor is now linked to Lunatics, an adaptation of the comic novel about soccer-dad combatants that is Carell’s third reported movie in development in the last 10 days. Someone’s publicist deserves a booooo-nus.
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· Hysteria — AKA the Maggie Gyllenhaal vibrator movie that debuted this fall in Toronto — will be distributed via Sony Pictures Classics. [Press release]
· Four actual headlines/stories from the Los Angeles Times’s 24 Frames blog: “Michael Fassbender: NC-17 rating could help Shame.” “Michael Fassbender exposes more than skin in Shame.” “Michael Fassbender’s naked girlfriends in sex drama Shame.” “Carey Mulligan: I wasn’t uncomfortable being naked in Shame.” And in the latest, this quote from director Steve McQueen: “To go to pay to see nude people in Shame — you’re wasting your money.” Well? Which is it? [LAT]
· Speaking of the LAT, here’s an amusing anecdote about some consultants who thought it might be worth making the newspaper — like the actual paper — smell like “Starbucks and coffee cake.” [The Atlantic Wire]
· Matthew James Thomas, who plays the lead in Broadway matinees of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark took 10 stitches this week after an unspecified head injury. The producers…
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