Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:42AM - By Damon Houx
The American Cinematheque recently honored Robert Downey Jr. for his contributions to cinema, and got his friends Jamie Foxx, Mel Gibson and Garry Shandling to roast him in a video before the presentation. Starting with Foxx complaining about Downey going for black roles after Tropic Thunder, the piece goes into his drug use and prison stint, and covers the most famous troubled incidents the actor has had. It’s also pretty funny. Check it out.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011 7:34PM - By Damon Houx
Mel Gibson and Joe Eszterhas are both officially “bad boys” for the public lives and the trouble they’ve gotten into on and off screen. Perhaps Gibson is the Chocolate to Eszterhas’s peanut butter as the two are teaming together to tell the story of Judah Maccabee, a Jewish warrior famed in the second century B. C. according to Deadline Hollywood.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011 11:05AM - By traviswoods
When he’s not busy desperately convincing us all that he’s kind of, well, sort of monstrous, Mel Gibson actually appears to be a fairly nice guy. No—seriously!
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Thursday, May 5, 2011 5:00PM - By Mali Elfman
Jodie Foster steps in front and behind the camera to tackle the controversial subject of mental health in an extremely honest, yet somehow ridiculously humorous story about a man who is unable to cope with life and so he puts up a front, an Australian Beaver front in The Beaver. The concept is odd and the film doesn’t get much more normal, but it’s refreshing to see someone take such a big risk on a topic that is both important and relevant…
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Thursday, March 17, 2011 9:05AM - By traviswoods
Today in “Jesus, what happened to Martin Riggs, man?” news (to paraphrase Kevin Smith), Mel Gibson turned himself in to police—while his new film, The Beaver, was premiering at SXSW—at the at El Segundo Police Department “as part of his sentence for the misdemeanor battery case resulting from an alleged January 2010 incident with his then-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva,” according to Access Hollywood.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 10:03AM - By Krystal Clark
Mel Gibson and his beaver continue to have problems. By beaver we’re referring to his dark comedy that co-stars and is directed by Jodie Foster. The Summit Entertainment production took forever to get an official release date, and now it’s being pushed back. The film was originally scheduled to hit theaters on March 23, but now it’s been delayed until May where it will duke it out with the summer blockbusters!
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Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:34AM - By Krystal Clark
Jodie Foster’s latest directorial project The Beaver has been hanging in limbo over the past year due to the personal scandal that’s surrounded its star Mel Gibson. Even though Summit Entertainment released the first trailer a week ago, a theatrical release was still unconfirmed but today we’ve learned that they’ve finally nailed down a date.
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Monday, December 6, 2010 10:40AM - By Krystal Clark
Over the weekend Summit Entertainment finally released the first trailer for Mel Gibson’s latest film, The Beaver. The movie has been held hostage in limbo for ages thanks to the unfortunate public scandals surrounding its star. Now that the trailer is available online we can decide for ourselves whether or not the film (or Gibson) is worth our time and money. Check it out…
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Thursday, December 2, 2010 3:46PM - By Krystal Clark
Oh Mel Gibson, what are we going to do with you? The future of his latest film The Beaver has been floating in limbo due to his recent pr troubles. It’s kind of hard to sell Gibson as a headlining star these days but according to Deadline Summit plans on releasing the film in spring 2011. To kick start the marketing, they’ve released the first official photo of him and director/co-star Jodie Foster and they’ve announced the trailer premiere.
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