Simple, nostalgic, fantastic poster, I'd say. And just seeing all those names together, it rarely gets better than that cast. Check out Sasha Stone's more historically considered analysis here.

I had to actually blink for a second when I first saw this before I realized it wasn't actually George W. & Laura Bush. Mostly because of that headline on the right that suggests it is. When you get a good look, you can tell its Elizabeth Banks as Laura.. but who's the dude? He doesn't quite look like Josh Brolin, but he doesn't quite look like George W. Bush either. Is it just me, or does he look like Tom Brokaw? I hope theres Ellen Burstyn as Babs photos inside the issue.

No joke: Perhaps after watching Robert Downey, Jr kick all that ass, the Canadian Defence Department posted a contract tender Monday asking companies for proposals for high-tech body suits that could help Canadian soldiers carry bigger loads into battle.

The contract, worth up to $204,000, is to be awarded in June and could include creation of a prototype and demonstration suit. The work is set to run until Jan. 31, 2011.

The Canadian Press reports.

Remember when it would take 5 years to get a new Nine Inch Nails album? And remember when it would cost $15?

Just two months after the 36 track instrumental Ghosts, my teenage sex god Trent Reznor has released ANOTHER album, and this time - its completely free. Reznor says on NIN's official site: "Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one's on me."

He says:
we encourage you to
remix it
share it with your friends,
post it on your blog,
play it on your podcast,
give it to strangers,
etc.

Called The Slip, download it here (I just did, and am about to take a listen).

UPDATE: Though I still admire Trent's time management, I can't say The Slip is all that could have been.. Theres a few standout tracks ("Discipline", "1,000,000", "The Four of Us Are Dying", "Head Down"), and I'll admit a day of listening is probably not enough to fully embrace this album. But half of the tracks seemed pretty forgettable (and often quite repetitive) to me.

Though I'll admit that I've always had a guilty-pleasure excitement burning deep inside me for it, I've never actually had much faith in the Sex and the City movie. The final season kinda sucked, and even so, it tied things up a bit too much for there to be more. And the series is totally small screen, so I worried if it would just seem awkward up there. And that all still worries me. But now there's a review. And its a very good one. But its also the New York Daily News. Which might mean absolutely nothing. Either way:

The real joy of "SATC" as a movie lies in the return of all those things that mass television syndication has stripped from the series in the intervening years. The "Oh, my God, they did not just do that!" moments, the nudity, the swearing, the unabashed love of human frailty and downright wackiness. Snappy, verbal sparring punctuates the laughs and more than a few shed-a-tear moments.

But just like any great night out with best friends, "Sex and the City: The Movie" is awash with so much love that it lingers long after the last cocktail runs dry.

Though I'm not particularly interested in the series' eventual airing, The CW's 90210 spin-off just made two interesting casting choices: Tristin Wild, who played Michael, the good boy gone bad from The Wire and Jessica Walter, who will forever Lucille #1 to me. Wild will play one of the leads. Walters role wasnt noted, but I assume it will be a grandmother character. Hopefully a drunk one.

EW reports.

Moving your career to television is obviously not a bad thing to do these days, especially if you're a woman over 40. Glenn Close, Sally Field, Mary Louise Parker, Kyra Sedgewick, Holly Hunter and others have exemplified this recently, gaining roles that are both challenging and successful. But when I read this today, I wonder if Angela Bassett got some bad advice. After years of getting the shit end of the movie role stick (Mr. 3000? Time Bomb?), Ms. Bassett has got herself a full-time gig, on the final season of ER. Why not her own series? Or a series that isn't ending? Or a series that doesn't suck? No offense to John Stamos, but you deserve way better than this Angela Bassett. Remember when you were amazing in What's Love Got To Do With It?, or when upstaged Whitney in Waiting To Exhale because you were so damn good? I do. But it's not gonna make me watch ER.

Speaking of people that remind me of the early 1990s (though I will hand it to Billy, Dirty Sexy Money is a really fun time), Demi Moore has signed on for two new projects, and one of them sounds particularly promising. In case you didn't notice, Demi has actually been working lately. In the 2000s, she's actually had six roles: Ones you remember (Charlie's Angels: First Throttle), ones you shouldn't (Bobby), and ones you don't (Passion of Mind, Mr. Brooks, Half Light). Currently in theatres in the mildly received Flawless, The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Mrs. Moore-Kutcher has two roles on the horizon: One is Guy Moshe's follow-up to Holly, Bunraku, co-starring Josh Hartnett and Demi's Indecent Proposal husband Woody Harrelson. The other, which makes me a bit excited, is Mitchell Lichtenstein's Happy Tears, which falls far from Teeth and stars my favourite, Parker Posey, as a woman who travels back to her Wisconsin home to deal with a bitter sister and senile father. Moore - who physically bears a reasonable resemblance to Posey - will play the sister. I've never been a huge fan of Moore's, but definitely think she's got potential when she's surrounded with decent projects with good co-stars (G.I. Jane, Disclosure, About Last Night... and If These Walls Could Talk come to mind personally, though I'd imagine some might disagree).

Originally intended for a June 2008 opening, then August 2008, then October.. and NOW... Brian Singer's Tom Cruise nazi movie, Valkyrie, is now pushed back to FEBRUARY 13, 2009. Because that's exactly how everyone will want to spend Valentine's Day in 2009.

Clark Woods of MGM said the studio "wanted to take advantage of an opening in the schedule for the Presidents Day weekend." Yeah? Then why didn't you keep it in the summer slot it originally had? Tom Cruise is over, Clark. And it ain't gonna matter if the world finds that out once and for all in October or February.

A few weeks ago I mockingly posted the trailer for what I assumed was a straight-to-DVD entry, Zombie Strippers. Well, its actually being released theatrically by Sony, on April 18th. And they even have a one sheet out (see below). Who knew?

image courtesy of Sony Pictures

That is the official title, so I hear. Apparently set for a fall release, the filming of Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt has been happening all over, with the above clip shot in a Kansas airport. He's also been spotted at an Easter play covered in chains, and apparently Ben Affleck even fell for the joke (how could he not know). ONTD has the word:

Sacha Baron Cohen's alter ego Bruno has recently been causing trouble in Kansas, shooting the follow-up to Borat, titled Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt (now try to say that five times fast). Security was put on red alert when "a German film crew member" started "stripping down to tight shorts and dancing in the lobby of Wichita Airport" (see video of this at the bottom of the post). A church in Kansas also reported that a strange European camera crew showed up to their Easter play with the on air personality in chains.

Mike Walker of the National Enquirer reported the following on the Howard Stern Show on Thursday: Ben Affleck called comedian friend Sarah Silverman after completing a sit-down interview with a person he was told was a "very famous openly gay fashion journalist". Ben called the interview "the weirdest sit-down he has ever had with a reporter" explaining that the interviewer's (wholm he refered to as an "idiot") first question was "How Do You Like Ni**ers?" After a stunned silence, Silverman asked Affleck "Was this guy's name Bruno?" Then and only then did Affleck actually realize that the whole thing was a gag. There is no doubt that this interview will be featured in the final cut, which is currently scheduled to hit theaters in October 2008.

I'm so glad this is actually happening. Though I wonder if it will have the same marketability as Borat. Borat's central theme was making fun of America's bigotry toward foreigners, while Bruno, though also a foreigner, is used mainly to expose homophobic tendencies... Though I don't doubt both prejudices are similarly rampant in the U.S., homophobia is probably a lot more overt and conscious, and as such might divert audiences from Bruno? We'll see..

Oliver Stone's I-can't-believe-this-is-happening biopic, W, has been almost entirely cast, according to Variety:

Confimed is Josh Brolin as George W; Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush; Ellen Burstyn as Babs and James Cromwell as George Sr. Robert Duvall is in apparent talks to play Dick Cheney.

Not a bad lineup. And while I seriously question Stone's capabilities regarding this project, and the project's too-soon timing, I can't help but be extremely curious as to how this is gonna turn out. The film is said to chronicle how coked-out party Bush evolved into evangelical president Bush... which I'm sure - if done right - could be quite the ride.

W is apparently headed for a November release, meaning we'll see Brolin play Harvey Milk's killer and George W. Bush within weeks of each other, and that the film could come just as ballots are being counted for Bush's replacement.

A man of unbelievable energy, Clint Eastwood is doubling up his 2008 Oscar chances, by announcing a second directing project - Gran Torino - which he will also star, and to be released in December.

Says Variety:

Clint Eastwood will next direct and star in "Gran Torino" for Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures. Pic is skedded for a December release.

It's unclear when the movie will begin shooting, or if it has already begun production. Eastwood is known for quick production turnarounds.

Torino joins Changeling, Clint's other directing effort - a child abduction drama starring Angelina Jolie set for fall release. This comes just two years after another double feature and will make 8 films since 2000.

Dateline Hollywood offered a hilarious send-up of the marketing campaign of Kimberly Peirce's all-odds-againt-it-making-money "Stop-Loss today. With the headline "TEENAGE GIRLS SUE OVER DECEPTIVE MARKETING OF 'STOP-LOSS', Nikki Finke's site takes on the film (which I am highly anticipating) in the form of a fake class action lawsuit:

* A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of America's teenage girls against MTV Films for deceptive marketing of the new movie "Stop Loss." "The posters make it look like it's about a bunch of hot Abercrombie models making out but really the movie is about politics and other lame stuff," said Amber Elleman, the 14 year-old lead plaintiff.

* "MTV Films must have known that this poster would imply to America's teenage girls that 'Stop Loss' is a feature-length Abercrombie & Fitch catalog in which the stars would pose provocatively with their shirts and even pants off, constantly on the verge of red hot sexual encounters," said lead attorney Fran Anderson. "Shocking as it may be, it appears that a movie studio was trying to lure audiences by making a serious drama appear sexier than it really is."

If the movies as good as I hope it is, and this campaign somehow gets the "youth" to go see this as opposed to 10,000 B.C., I don't really give a shit. But Finke's joke is quite funny either way.

So in my daily internetting I came across the headline: "Krasinski/Rudolph in Mendes Comedy" and I thought to myself it was strange that Eva Mendes was getting the headline billing over the other two. But then I read, and it tells that director Sam Mendes is following up this fall's Kate-Leo Oscar hopeful Revolutionary Road with a comedy starring John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph and Cheryl Hines about an expecting couple who travel around the States looking for a place to raise their family. Not that I have anything against any of those actors (I actually am pretty adoring of PT Anderson's baby mama), it just seemed like a very bizarre next move for Mendes.

But the script's written by Dave Eggers and his wife, Vendela Vida, so its got that going for it. And the premise, though could go either way, has some promise.. I've also never seen those actors tested with film material that I believe is up to their talents, so this could be very good thing. After all, Mendes did fair best with the darkly comic American Beauty... So I guess I entered this article confused, and left it kind of excited. Bring on the Untitled Sam Mendes John Krasinski-Maya Rudolph Project!

Continuing with the gay comic theme - and on my way to making this the gayest day of blog posting ever (while I'm at it, I might as well alert you to SameSame's recent list of the gayest songs of all time, including its unfortunate omissions of Rufus Wainwright, Scissor Sisters, The Smiths... not all gays are about disco and Madonna, SameSame), - The New York Times ran an article about the ongoing Buffy The Vampire Slayer comics (which I do not read.. though I was a huge fan of the show) and the new revelation that Ms. Summers experiments with lady-on-lady sex in the latest issue.

Says the Times:

In a new issue of the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" comic book series, being released Wednesday, Buffy sleeps with a fellow slayer. And, oh yeah, she’s a woman.

He has written several stories for it, including an opening arc that introduces Satsu (pronounced SOUGHT-sue), one of nearly 2,000 slayers activated in the television show's finale. One of Buffy's prized disciples, she ends up sharing her bed.

Director Zach Snyder seems to have managed to outdo the homoeroto-fest that was 300 with his new film, next March's Watchmen. Pics were released from the set, and if these two of dreamboats Patrick Wilson and Matthew Goode are any indication, this is gonna give Batman and Robin a run for its codpiece money. In the best way possible.

I don't know how I feel about this. Granted, I'm sure it'll be way better material than The Forgotten or any of her husband's movies, but does Julianne Moore really need to take a stint on Desperate Housewives? But its happening, so says TV Squad. Moore will appear in three episodes, including the season finale, as Bree's sister. It sounds like fun casting, and part of me (the part that used to watch and like the show - I can't make judgments on it now because I don't watch it) thinks it could be a lot of fun, and the other part is a snob for Julianne and doesn't want her "image" tarnished by stunt casting. I guess what's the difference between this and all those actors and actresses who were on Friends and Will & Grace or now 30 Rock (not that I always enjoyed the former two, but I never really held it against the "guests". So I'm leaning with the former.. but the whole thing just seems a little.. you know.

Ain't It Cool News had a very interesting tidbit regarding the ongoing production dilemma regarding Heath Ledger's final project, Terry Gilliam's Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.

Almost in the vein of Ledger's last released film, I'm Not There, three actors have been hired to play the rest of Ledger's role, as an interpretation of the actor himself. The actors? Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell. Whether this works or not (apparently the script allows for it with its time-travel plot, but I question Gilliam's abilities as of late) doesn't matter, because its really the only fitting way to conclude this project, and gives Ledger's acting career as much closure as is possible given the circumstances..

Buzznet has a clip from the highly anticipated (both personally and generally) "Where The Wild Things Are." The project - directed by Spike Jonze and adapted from the Maurice Sendak book, is scheduled for release in 2009.. which seems like a while away seeing as how the film seems to have been in the works for quite some time. But while this clip doesn't really show much, what it does show seems to interpret the book, aesthetically at least, quite well (I also am a trustee in the film's adapter, Dave Eggers, and don't fear too much for its lack of quality), and I am capable of waiting another year+ for the rest of it.

image courtesy of Dolly Parton Imagination Library

Canadian filmmakers Brad Horvath and Natasha Ryan are in the midst of editing a documentary on Ms. Dolly Parton. The doc, called The Book Lady, will detail Parton's Dollywood Foundation and her Imagination Library program in both the United States and Canada. There are featured interviews with Olympia Dukakis, Keith Urban, Miley Cyrus, Kurt Browning, Justin Rutledge, Sarah Harmer, Natalie McMaster, children's author Robert Munsch and Parton herself... and the film, executive produced by Thom Fitzgerald (of Hanging Garden and 3 Needles), has already been presold to the CBC for national broadcast...

Paris Hilton's The Hottie and the Nottie found its way to the #1 position.. on imdb's worst rated films of ALL TIME. Nottie joins fellow Hilton gems like Pledge This! (#4), The Hillz (#13), and Bottoms Up (#23) on the list, making her the "worst actress of all time" according to many thousand registered imdb users.

Congrats!

The article is here, including an interview and an exclusive 3-minute clip of her directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom.

This "red band" trailer, complete with unfinished footage, of next summer's Pineapple Express is a really fun time, suggesting that the seemingly unbeatable equation of Superbad grows up, makes like Smiley Face and stars the Freaks of Freaks and Geeks while being directed by the most-unlikely David Gordon Green has worked out.

Additional kudos for casting Nora Dunn and allowing her to give the line "You're high as a fucking kite" the delivery it deserves.

Image courtesy of AP

New York magazine's Vulture blog celebrated today's 100% official end to all things strike by ending the "strike zone" section of its blog, but questioning whether the section might just lie dormant for a few months:

When we hastily named this category "Strike Zone" way back in November, we had no idea that 64 posts and three months later we'd still be using the rubric. But the joyous end of the writers' strike also means it's time to retire the Strike Zone category. We won't miss it; even though we are always desperate for something to write about, labor unrest never really stops being boring. May Vulture's least-beloved category be forever absent from our pages!

Ah, who are we kidding, we'll be writing about the SAG contract in a month. Luckily, Tina Fey's a member of that union too.

Splash News is reporting the rather risky (but I'm not complaining) choice of Amy Winehouse to write and record the theme to the next Bond film, Quantum of Solace. Amy joins the ranks of Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Nancy Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Paul McCartney, Duran Duran, Carly Simon, Madonna, Sheryl Crow, Tina Turner and, uh, a-ha.

From Variety:

OLIVER STONE TO DIRECT 'BUSH' PROJECT

Oliver Stone has set his sights on his next directing project, "Bush,"
a film focusing on the life and presidency of George W. Bush, and
attached Josh Brolin to play the title role. The director has begun quietly
shopping a script by his "Wall Street" co-writer Stanley Weiser.

Though this will be certainly be interesting (and I guess I kinda see the Bush/Brolin resemblance), I question the timing (his presidency isn't even over?) and the director (Alexander?).

I doubt you can go wrong with a Tina-Amy pregnancy comedy? But this trailer doesn't quite excite me, and maybe post-2007 I'm experiencing some baby-comedy fatigue. Doesn't it seem a bit too cute?

In the casting I didn't see coming (but works for me) department, Ewan McGregor will play Jim Carrey's love interest in I Love You Philip Morris, a dark comedy based on a true story and directed by the Bad Santa scribes.

Says CinemaBlend:

The script is apparently somewhat based in fact. It tells the story of a married conman father named Steven Russell, who winds up in a Texas prison and then falls head over heels for his cellmate Phillip Morris (McGregor). Motivated by his desperate dude love, Russell tries to escape from prison no fewer than four times, using such potentially humorous methods as dying his prison outfit to look like surgical scrubs, and faking his death from AIDS. None of them worked, and while Morris got out Russell was sentenced to 144 more years in prison for trying to get out. Whoops.

I'm a little nervous after reading that synopsis. Faking a death from AIDS via the people who brought us Bad Santa may or may not have the dark comic delicacy that won't make it offensive (to me at least).

But there's no doubt this intrigues me greatly, and Carrey and McGregor have certainly shown me the goods in the past, so them together in one film (and making out to boot) is a good start to Milk's late '08 mainstream gay counterpart.

Though nothing is official by any means, SpoutBlog ponders recent rumours that my dreams will come true and the Bluth clan will return for a feature film.

Says Spout:

A number of stories from Juno press confabs fueled rumors last week that Jason Bateman is trying to jump-start a movie based on his much-missed FOX comedy Arrested Development. Keith Olbermann, who admits to being friends with at least three ex-AD cast members, passed along a statement from the actor and series creator Mitchell Hurwitz, confirming that the movie is “something [they’re] very interested in doing, but only after the writers’ strike, and only if the powers that be approve.”

Even the thought of this has seriously made my week. While I don't trust the powers that are making Sex and the City and The X-Files summer 2008 movie realities... I have nothing but complete faith in Hurwitz and co.

This is one in a series of new The Dark Knight posters (and is my favourite by far). With still half a year before the film opens, Warner Brothers is continuing what has to be one of the most agressive and creative ad campaigns in recent memory.

A very bad I Am Legend filmgoer also posted this:

Dark Knight

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Even with the bad quality, its hard not to be totally into the buzz.

According to Variety, Reese Witherspoon has been approached to play Amelia Earhart in Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian. According to the report, Fox has moved the sequel's release date to May 22, 2009, switching places with James Cameron's Avatar, which will now open December 18, 2009.

Though I have mild optimism since Museum 2 is being co-written by Reno 911's Thomas Lennon, he also wrote the first one and we all know how that ended up.

So, Reese... I don't know if you're seriously considering this. And I get why you might be. Rendition made like 50 cents and this movie is bounded to make 200 million times that at the very least. But you don't make that many movies these days, and your post-Walk The Line resume is not looking so good. I'd seriously rather Legally Blonde 3: Blondest Ever than this.

Featuring artwork by Drew Struzan of previous Jones films and Star Wars fame, this poster certainly brings out the nostalgia.. and also makes Mr. Ford look like he's about 25 years younger than he is. Though its doubtful this film will be anything but unstoppable next summer, it better pick up the remarkable marketing pace set by the team at The Dark Knight, whose phones baked in cake-madness toppled with a six minute clip before this weekends I Am Legend has been quite the show (and it opens two months after Jones).

The New York Times had an article on Friday that explained how Juno and Lars and the Real Girl were hopeless scripts just two short years ago. With Juno in particular now on a roll (and a rare case where a screenwriter has attained celebrity status and countless press from a film's buzz).. the article offers some interesting perspective:

Two years ago a young executive at Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, hungry for some good scripts to read over the holidays, asked 100 peers to send him their 10 favorite new screenplays that would not make it into theaters before the New Year. He whipped up a spreadsheet ranking the responses, titled it “The Black List," e-mailed it around and then watched it become a Hollywood phenomenon, the kind of underground document that writers with projects stuck in development pray will mention their script.

That 2005 list began with “Things We Lost in the Fire," "Juno" and "Lars and the Real Girl," three movies that came out this fall, with the last two attracting much Oscar buzz for their screenplays.

The full article after the jump, but first a clip I found through awardsdaily.com (which also alerted me to this article) of Juno scribe Diablo Cody on Letterman a few years back. She's hard not to adore:

I don't know. It feels wrong.

The fantastically up-to-the-minute awardsdaily.com alerted me to some interesting developments.... It seems Juno stars Ellen Page and Olivia Thrillby are gonna get even friendlier this time around. Says AD, quoting New York magazine:

"With her much-acclaimed teen-pregnancy comedy Juno landing in theaters today, Ellen Page's sudden success is getting a long-gestating project off the ground. Some time ago — before her role in Juno, or even Hard Candy — Page was attached to a project called Jack and Diane, an off-beat drama about a love affair between two teenage girls..."

As Juno says: "I don't really know what kind of girl I am."

Wow. Way to not sell out after your breakthrough role, Ms. Page. And any film title that plays homage to the Cougar works for me.

Additionally, EW.com noted that Page's 2007 "breakthrough" male counterpart (or so says the NBR), Emile Hirsch is also queering up his follow-up, bringing Josh Brolin along too:

Emile Hirsch and Josh Brolin (pictured) are aligning themselves with yet another prestige project. The two, who are currently earning Oscar buzz for their roles in Into the Wild and No Country for Old Men, respectively, are in negotiations for Milk, the Gus Van Sant biopic starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the former San Francisco city supervisor and gay-rights activist. Brolin is in talks to play Dan White, the elected official who assassinated Milk in 1978, while Hirsch is eyeing the role of street hustler-turned-Milk aide, Cleve Jones. James Franco (In the Valley of Elah), meanwhile, is gearing up to play Milk's longtime lover, Scott Smith. Milk, which is scheduled to begin shooting Jan. 21 in San Francisco, is being made by Groundswell Productions and will be released by Focus Features.

After weeks of speculation, it is now confirmed that Christian Bale will star as John Connor in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Though it had been intially suggested Connor was a supporting character, it is now confirmed he is the lead.

Bale, an indie-film prince for a long time, is certainly expanding his C.V. by starring in two massive studio franchises. One can only hope the new Terminator films are as wonderful as whats happened (and I'm betting will continue to happen) with Batman. A brief article from EW.com after the jump.

Rivaling the greatness of recent The Savages poster, this one-sheet for Michel Gondry's "Be Kind Rewind is amazing.

Empire Magazine managed this really fantastic exclusive shot of Heath Ledger all Jokered-up for an upcoming cover...

I'm not usually one for fanboy big-summer-movies, but The Dark Knight is a one very notable exception. And this image of a pretty gruesome looking Heath has only upped that.

A still from Indiana Jones and Crystal Ball or whatever its called.. I can't really see Spielberg and Lucas fucking this up (too much), but I have to say I'm not exactly enthusiastic. Is Shia playing his son? They do actually look similar, though Harrison looks mighty old to be running around saving the world.

Melena Ryzik of The New York Times wrote an extensive piece on the ongoing NYC filming of the Sex and the City movie. Personally, I'm very skeptical about how something like this will turn out, for basically the same reasons everyone else is (they already concluded everything in the finale; the actresses seem in it for the money; historically this hasn't been a good idea, etc). But this article got me a wee bit more exicted (the show ran from during my ages 14-20, which is sort of perfect timing to take in a show of this mentality, I think.. I admit I was kinda obsessed). Director and writer Michael Patrick King seems to be putting a lot of thought into the process, and wants it to be more than the "Married in the City" premise I feared... he wants to explore 40something in the city. So maybe all hope isn't lost for the release next summer. And - who am I kidding - theres not much stopping me from checking it out, skeptical or not.

Some highlights (and spoilers):

When last we left our heroines — Miranda, the no-nonsense lawyer and mother turned reluctant Brooklynite; Samantha, the sexually adventurous public relations queen and cancer survivor; Charlotte, the sweet-natured wife; and Carrie, the relationship columnist and Manolo fetishist — they seemed ready to put toxic bachelors and randy Manhattan nights behind them.