Benedict Cumberbatch is doing a weird nasal voice for The Grinch. What is this mess? I mean, I bet it will make a billion dollars, but this is a no for me. [LaineyGossip]
Stella McCartney’s latest collection is a sack-y snooze. [Go Fug Yourself]
Happy 39th birthday to Oscar Isaac. [Dlisted]
I don’t understand Ansel Elgort. [Pajiba]
Guillermo del Toro dumped his wife last year. [Wonderwall]
Never watched The Walking Dead in the first place. [Looper]
Kim Kardashian talks about why she sent perfume & chocolate to her haters. [Buzzfeed]
Chip & Joanna Gaines are having a boy! [Starcasm]
A week’s worth of photos of or from reality stars. [Reality Tea]
The Obamas might make a deal with Netflix. [Jezebel]
Why do we need yet another Grinch? The first one was sheer perfection. Every thing afterwards has been pure nightmarish dreck.
Agreed.
Nobody can improve upon Boris Karloff. Nobody.
Ok, I just watched the promo. It looks like fun! I guess I can treasure Boris AND like something new.
The cartoon with Boris Karloff narrating just can’t be matched, especially by live action. Everything just worked.
Come up with new ideas rather than remakes, people. There are scads of books and stories out there to be drawn on if you freeze at the keyboard. And stop making born-to-be-animated stories into live-action films, please. Two different art forms. Works in animation, not so much in live action.
After seeing the promo- it’s not bad, but looks as though they will be dragging it out too long. A half-hour old-style cartoon show made the same point in a few seconds. The Grinch is a meanie. Yeah, we know.
Well at least they did a better job on Max the dog. I refused to watch the Jim Carrey movie specifically because of how they did the dog. This one appears to have done better with Max. The minion at the beginning? Barf.
The other posters are right – Boris Karloff is perfection. Even Cumberbatch can’t beat that.
I don’t understand why you’d hire Cunberbatch and then make him sound like it’s not him. If they didn’t specifically mention him, I would habe thought they just hired some random voice actor.
Stella is designing for Chico’s?
Bwah hahaha! I just came here to legit ask how her line is still afloat. Who they heck is wearing that??!!??
Any series the Obamas want to do, I’m there for it.
Okay, now I kinda wanna know what went down with Del Toro and Lorenza Newton. 3 decades is a loooooong time.
And….I’m kinda looking forward to The Grinch. I like that Cumberbatch does the fluff occasionally.
The fact that he thanked his screenwriter lady friend and not his ex wife seems fishy. His PR team had to use People to clarify they’re “just friends”. Eh regardless, he is pretty low key on the gossip radar.
I am obsessed with the original, hated that live-action crap from the 90s or whenever it was, but I think this looks hilarious and adorable. I don’t really see the problem with his voice, either – I mean, he is an *actor* so slightly altering his voice in order to get into character makes sense to me. I can totally understand why people would not be happy about this, though – I agree that the original was perfection. It was so charming and hilarious.
ok but baby grinch in the live action is possibly the cutest thing ever!
HAH! I won’t argue against that! I think that we all need to feel free to enjoy what we like, ya know?
Yes- the worst is when live-action actors use their own voices for cartoon characters. That rarely works well. There’s a reason why good voice actors can do many different voices.
An example is the way Olive The Other Reindeer was ruined by the dull flat voice of Drew Barrymore. Everyone else in the cast was an experienced voice actor. But Drew didn’t realize that what works in live-action and when reading to your kid just doesn’t work in a cartoon. It could have been a mindlessly re-watchable holiday show, not spectacular but okay, except her voice as Olive just was horrible and inescapable since she was in virtually every scene. I don’t know why somebody sensible didn’t talk her out of it. The only way to salvage it would be to record her part again with a real voice actor.
My kids and I love Olive! Think it’s an under-rated gem and watch it almost every holiday season.
The voice sounds fine from what little you hear of it…it’s a cartoon. It does not sound like him, which is kinda impressive actually. Can’t have the Grinch and Shere Khan sounding the same either.
I do wonder how he will sound in IW–both of these and Thor were done 2 years ago now.
It looks cute like The Lorax. I’d watch it.
I’m a fan of all Grinch movies to date and I watched the trailer for this one yesterday and I thought it looked really fun. I’ll be seeing it for sure!
I never got the hype with Cumberbatch. He bored me in Star Trek as Kahn. He was flat as Dr. Strange. I saw him in another film, but can’t recall the name. He always seems to be the same character only in different costumes. Needless to say, I will not bother to watch this version of the Grinch.
He was horribly miscast in Osage County. He did a terrible job. He was great in the Imitation Game, though.
I dont mind the voice actually but the film overall, I think is gonna be a mess. And Pharrell must have cost them a lot of money if they need to use that song in this movie too.
Del Toro dumped his wife for a fishgirl?
They’ve put his name to this like it’s some huge selling point. They are two or three years too late for that.
Cumberbatch’s? Yeah, I thought he was no longer popular. Ditto Hiddleston.
Well, it genuinely is, his last Q score was the best it’s ever been. He finally crossed over from web ‘fame’ to established after Strange.
Got lucky, some actors don’t transition that well.
Got to keep in mind that social media/fandom fame isn’t where it’s at. You need the general public to recognize you and be willing to buy a ticket.
I like Benedict and enjoy watching him. Looking forward to this
Jim Carey was amazing as The Grinch. I swear his performance was worthy of an Oscar. This just doesn’t seem right, but very cute.
“Guillermo del Toro dumped his wife last year.”
He loved monsters more than her.