Buscemi enjoys The Company of Men

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Tee hee.

Martin Landau, Steve Zahn, and Steve Buscemi have joined Ron Livingston in Raul Sanchez Inglis’s The Company Men, the story of a collapsing toy company.

Add that to We’re the Millers, Youth in Revolt, Keep Coming Back and St. John in Las Vegas, and you’ve got just another September for Mr. NoSleeps McLatte.

FINAL Igor poster

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We’ve seen quite a few variations, but this is the final movie poster for the upcoming animated Igor, or so says the delightful Cinematical. (And they’re never wrong)

For a larger size, click here.

OFFICIAL Delirious trailer!

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It feels like I’ve been waiting for this trailer forever.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=fYxHfD77kTs[/youtube]

Delirious opens August 15 to limited audiences, and will surely bring much success and happiness to its already sparkling stars: Steve Buscemi, Alison Lohman, Michael Pitt, Elvis Costello and Gina Gershon.

We love you, Tom DiCillo; we don’t care if you have no advertising budget.

Delirious has no ad budget

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He wanted me to come up with a series of skits using the main actors from the film which we would then leak to websites like YouTube and MeToobe. Flicker would provide the video cameras and crew and I could do whatever I wanted just as long as it generated real, measurable buzz on the web.

I’ve mentioned the viral marketing campaign before, but here’s the official explanation from DiCillo himself. The videos are fantastic and, apparently, unscripted. This goes to show just how impressive the talent in this movie really is. There are only two so far, the argument with Buscemi and a wrong, wrong, so very wrong setup with Gina Gershon and a sex tape. I laughed, but felt pretty bad about it.

Not that I wouldn’t totally watch that tape. At one point, Gershon asks DiCillo if he’d be participating. “I’d like to…be in it, Gina,” he purrs, vodka in hand. Yeah, you and every other man on planet Earth.

Oh, and one more thing. The ‘Hostess Twinkie’ comment from Buscemi’s clip is in reference to Living in Oblivion, not some ‘clever’ product placement. So there.

DiCillo apologizes

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The following section has been invisibilized and withheld from public view. The author wishes to offer sincere thanks to TISBuscemi.com for pointing out the should-a-been-obvious reason. The deleted section will be reinstated a few months after the film’s release. For those who already read it I ask your forgiveness–this is my first blog.

I am not a woman who is easily swayed. Your futile attempts at an apology have barely chipped at the icy enclosure of my unforgiving heart. Good day, sir.

To TISBuscemi.com

Thanks for the advice and support. And again my apologies. I know you will greatly appreciate Steve’s performance in the film. Any other helpful suggestions go ahead and leave me a comment.

T.DiCillo

I uh, umm. You, err, I… excuse me, I have something in my eye. But you’re not off the hook yet, pal.

To TISBuscemi.com. Thanks very much for the objective observation. I was in too deep and should have known better. You made a valid point. I appreciate it and offer my sincere apologies. Please see Blog 12 to see the corrected error offense.
Tom

Okay, enough.

I feel kind of bad. This website is supposed to be about Steve Buscemi, but I am totally falling in love with Tom DiCillo. First of all, look at the guy. Yeah. Also, invisibilized? That is so adorable. I just want to braid his hair and give him a manicure while we bake cookies and giggle about boys. I am not even kidding.

You are forgiven, Mr. DiCillo, and I want to thank you for being so A+. I never thought my words would matter so much to you, or anyone, and I most certainly did not expect you to apologize - three times. I spent all day trying to think of the best way to go about addressing this, because you really have just flattered me speechless (don’t worry, it won’t last). Artists like you, who give a damn and care about the fans, rather than the money the fans represent, are saving the industry. I feel like a total tool for typing that, but it’s absolutely true.

Like I mentioned originally, everything you’ve done has only made you more and more appealing. It isn’t just about your cheekbones and hair. Even if you have offered a hearty ‘go to hell’ for me and my website, I would have supported this movie - and not just because of Buscemi. You made a fan out of me months ago, like it or not, especially now that we’re such BFFs. You are a decent person, and that pleases me.

I am so glad we had this little talk.

DiCillo ruins Delirious

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Just in case you didn’t really want to see the movie, and would rather like to read how it ends, read the latest blog entry from director DiCillo’s official website. If you don’t want to feel bitter disappointment and dejection*, I suggest you perhaps going outside to pick flowers for awhile or tune into NPR for an afternoon of personal enrichment and unique perspectives.

I want to hate you so bad, DiCillo, but you’ve already made me like you too much. Damn you.

*I maybe am being just a little dramatic. Maybe.

“Best Week” isn’t

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[Or] it could be a shrewdly calculated and executed piece of stunt marketing in which Buscemi and DiCillo knowingly acted out this artsy slap-fight in hopes of it becoming viral enough to generate some free publicity (which it now is) for thier no-budge little indie flick.

Gosh, you think? The DiCillo/Buscemi blowup over Delirious made the Best Week Ever blog, and comments are harsh. The public notoriously hates viral marketing (remember those billboards a year ago for CourtTV?) but I think these are at least entertaining. Whatever anyone’s opinion is, as it’s been said, it’s working.

Casting switch, comic books for Igor

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There’s a lot of action in and around the Weinstein Co.’s CG-animated monster movie “Igor.” Eddie Izzard has replaced Jeremy Piven as the insane Schadenfreude, and producer Exodus Film Group has inked a deal for a series of comic books based on the film with IDW Publishing.

This one absolutely cannot miss. Chris McKenna, John Cleese and Steve Buscemi could sit around to talk about the various sizes of bolts available and it would be funny, entertaining and fresh. That’s not even taking into consideration Sean Hayes, Jay Lenno, Molly Shannon and now Eddie Izzard.

Production has just wrapped up, which means news will leak in slowly but steadily. Igor is slated for release October 24, 2008. Buscemi will voice Scamper, the cuddly widdle bun-bun above.

Have another Hostess twinkie there, pal.

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My, my. That’s just plain not nice.

The scandal! The drama!

Tipped in by both readers Sarah B. and creator Chioke. Thanks, guys!

Delirious trailer

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If you missed it before, here’s the (alleged) trailer for DiCillo’s upcoming film Delirious.

Do you see? Do you see why I’m so psyched?

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