We see Dubya confess that God wants him to run for president and his mother just looks at him with shock, it seems Cheney has nothing but contempt for Dubya having to correct him on the pronunciation of “Guantanamo.” “W” appears to still be on track for its October 17 release date, though director Oliver Stone has admitted to still be editing the damn thing.

It looks intentionally funny and I wonder if that’s just a marketing ploy or if this thing is really going to be a devastating satire. And with a pre-election release is this movie going to fire up both the Republican base to vote McCain to spite Hollywood liberals and/or liberals who will realize again that we just let some dumbass from a WASPy family run the country into the ground for the past eight years. I think that’s what my interest in this project will be - if there will be any tangible affect on the election.

Update: Hellboy is also playing videogames with Chuck, auditioning for a girls group, hanging with the American Gladiators and taking a moment to film a PSA.  All good stuff, but the Lipton one is still the best.

I don’t know if this is a television commercial or just an internet funny, but it makes me wish that Guillermo del Torro filmed lots of these little promotions with Hellboy going on Letterman, Leno, Kimmel and making the rounds at say, The View, Live with Regis and Kelly, etc.

It would be bizarre and funny much like the clip below. Also, does it get any better than hearing James Lipton give a “booyah?”

Now that Marvel has wrested control of their film properties comic book geeks are beginning to see the dividends with the formation of the Marvel Universe on film. We saw this first with Iron Man where at the end Nick Fury makes an appearance and mentions The Avengers and now with next weeks The Incredible Hulk we are seeing a crossover with Tony Stark.

It was supposed to be a non-secret that Tony Stark would appear briefly in the film, but with the success of Iron Man, Marvel is wasting no opportunity to cash in on that success and parlay it to help out The Incredible Hulk. Will it work? Maybe, but it’s great to see Tony Stark appear in the film and with all the easter eggs dropped throughout the latest Marvel adventure it is obvious they are building towards an Avengers movie with all of these characters appearing in one film.

The Incredible Hulk smashes into theaters on June 13.

Will Smith’s dysfunctional superhero movie Hancock has to be good right?  I’m not sure if I’m just trying to talk myself into the movie, but aside from Watchmen, we’ve long be overdue for a movie that pops the balloon of the “superhero” film.  Plus, I’ve long thought the most interesting aspect of “superheroes” are the peeps with powers who aren’t heroes at all.  The guys who are too apathetic or lazy to do anything, the ones who want to get drunk or use their x-ray vision to check out women (which yes only works if you want to see their bone structure but that’s important too and also seems way more witty when you’re 13).

Regardless, Will Smith stopped by the Ellen DeGeneres show yesterday and brought with him this clip.  It doesn’t reveal much, but it’s interesting that after getting a slew of movies about an uptight rich white guy learning how to “keep it real” or “live life” from a sassy black chick/dude, Hancock goes the opposite route and looks to be about how a dysfunctional black dude learns to tone it down from a smarmy white PR guy and eventually be accepted by white society.  In other words he learns to be less black and more white.

Ahhhh, racial stereotypes.  Glad to see Hollywood and society has come so far.

This one dropped during American Idol, which I don’t watch. So, um, at least Hellboy is getting exposed to a huge audience. Just not sure how many people watching American Idol would be stoked to go see Red in action.