Work it! Photos: FlynetOnline.com 8 more photos of Robert Downey Jr. and his gym bag(?) are after the jump. ...

Robert Downey Jr. did some sort of all-day interview with a guy who writes for GQ. It's a ridiculously long article, and so I'm going to sum it up for you all so you don't have to spend your day reading it. RDJ likes herbs and algae/protein shakes. He has a really strict regimen that seems to be what is keeping him on the straight and narrow path after many arrests and a couple long stays in jail. His best friend and butler Jimmy is around all the time and the two of them seem to keep each ...

I'm not much of an action movie fan, but I went to go see Iron Man yesterday because everyone's been raving about it and Robert Downey Jr. did not disappoint. The trailer for the new Indiana Jones movie played before the film and I have to say, I got nostalgic for the days when my sisters and I used to watch the trilogy on VHS repeatedly, memorizing the dialogue and even becoming mildly obsessed with Sean Patrick Flanery, who played Indy in the TV series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. So you can imagine my disappointment at reading this morning ...

First SJP wanted to be a gay icon (see old post: A History of ...Sarah Jessica Parker) and now she wants to be "America's Most Fabulous Mom" Basically she's planning to cover all female archetypal roles before she dies. She's already done plucky child star (Annie), brainy nerd girl (Square Pegs), longsuffering girlfriend (The Robert Downey Jr years), blonde ditz (LA Story), trophy girlfriend (First Wives Club), gay icon/fashion muse/sex symbol/career girl (Sex & The City) so why not? But she has a lot of competition for this latest title.Though I often express dismay at my favorite ...

Did you have any doubt? Robert Downey Jr. has signed on to reprise his role as Iron Man in a sequel. The comic book actioner about a billionaire weapons maker who invents a superhero suit to fight evil did close to 100 million in business in its first three days. All of the characters could have died and the world could have been blown up, and that amount of money would have insured a sequel. The movie is actually pretty rad if you're a comic book geek or 10. Except for the end. Jeff Bridges acts ...

I'm not as familiar with the Marvel Comics character Iron Man as I am with other superheroes, but I do in general like the big-screen, big-budget treatments of those courageous men and women in tights. Some (Superman, Batman, X-Men, Spider-Man) have fared better than others (Sheena, Brenda Starr, the Punisher, Captain America) to be sure. On paper, Iron Man has great credentials. The first release from Marvel's own production company, it boasts a budget in excess of $100 million, a cast full of Academy Award nominees and even a winner (Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard and ...

As I predicted Iron Man grossed $100 mil on opening weekend. Total worldwide cume as I type this is already past $200.Some initial much lower estimates claimed that Iron Man was not the household name that Spider-Man or Batman were and are and couldn't therefore gross in their level. But what people rarely considered in opening weekend monetary terms is that Iron Man is super accessible. You don't need that familiarity. Think about it: It's not magic. It's not a mutation. No radioactive arachnid required, no fake science like cosmic or gamma rays to be explained. His ...

I went into Iron Man pretty much expecting another fluffy superhero movie... but I was very pleasantly surprised... it seems to be so much more than that.The opening sequence is pretty damn spectacular, and is definitely one of those scenes that just grabs you and throws you around a little before the movie settles in.It's a really good mix of the marginally fluffy, the very serious and the "realistic" superhero stuff... it doesn't always dwell on the "how" (like "how does this chest mounted power thing actually work"), but instead concentrates on the "why" and the results, which ...

I saw Iron Man over the weekend at the Ziegfeld. Here's the Iron Man Official Site.It rocks.It's so great to see Robert Downey, Jr. back on his game.I've always thought he was great since Heart and Souls in 1993.As for the film, the special effects are great too...This is one sci-fi film where the performer actually upstages the magnificent special effects.Jeff Bridges is virtually unrecognizable. And that's a compliment to his acting, too.See this one... It's great fun! ...

• Just saw Iron Man. Yeah, it was as good as everyone else seems to think. Robert Downey Jr. was spot on! #
• My right eye offends me, so I’m thinking I’ll need an eye-patch soon. #

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L'Homme de FerWe joined the throngs of people over the weekend to see Iron Man. I will admit to some hesitation on my part when I learned that Robert Downey, Jr. would play Tony Stark. Definitely not a typical role for him, and with his past antics, I found it difficult to think of him in a superheroic way. But seeing the movie changed that. He was funny, charismatic, very likeable and seemed very suited to the role of arrogant-a**hole-turns-goodguy. In fact, I liked everyone in the film, from Gwyneth Paltrow's girl-Friday Pepper Potts to Jeff Bridges' ...

Robert Downey Jr. is looking hotsy here, with the touseled hair and the dirt and the sports car suit. His new flick Iron Man beat the crap out of competition such as that Patrick Dempsey crapfest Made of Honor over the weekend. It brought in $201 million over the weekend. That's a lot of ducats. Made of Honor only made 15.5 million. I think it's the combined hair disaster of Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan. Seriously, she's got some sort of secretary bob and and he's got a pouf. Stop. Now. This is very good news for ...

Robert Downey Jr and 14-year-old offspring Indio at the Lakers-Jazz playoff at the Staples Center on Sunday. (Photo: Noel Vasquez/Getty Images via Zimbio) ...

Okay, okay…I know I said I was going to write about the Spanish language issue of Blue Beetle, but I’ve got limited time this weekend as I’m making the move, so will most likely write about it early next week. I DID, however, want to talk about Iron Man THE MOVIE, which I saw one and three-quarters times today (the film burned after an hour and a half the first time I tried to see it and couldn’t NOT see the ending, so I took advantage of the rain check the theater gave me to watch it again later). I ...

Howdy, y'all. JA from MNPP here, contributing a lil' conversation to The Film Experience whilst Nat's off rubbing elbows and nobbing hobs with the Indianapolis elite.So it's May 2nd, and with today's release of The "Robert Downey Jr. Is Really Worth The Insurance Costs, Guys" Movie, it marks Summer Movie Season. Cue shit blowed up real good. Not to knock The Cinema of Sweaty Season - did I mention I'm typing this from the spot I've been camped out at for three months waiting for Speed Racer to open next week? Christina Ricci is Trixie, yall! - but ...

Iron Man is a film that had everything going against it. It languished for years in development hell, went through no less than three potential directors, at least two other title stars (including Tom Cruise - yikes!), and eventually became the first film financed by a new film studio division of Marvel Comics. Once director Jon Favreau signed on as director, the sparks of doom didn’t stop flying even then. Robert Downey, Jr. was announced to fill the title role, and immediately tongues wagged. “Downey? he’s one messed up guy!” Then I realized that so was Downey's character, Tony Stark. ...

Time magazine has released its list of the 100 most influential peeps in existence, and of course a good chunk of it are entertainers! Honey, this is America. If you want to get high-brow, move to...well, move to....you could go....shit, the world is doomed. Included on the list are MIley Cyrus, Robert Downey Jr., Herbie Hancock, directors Joel and Ethan Coen, Bruce Springsteen, Mariah Carey, George Clooney (Roseanne writes the article about him, he was on her show back in the day), Tyler Perry, and Chris Rock. Mariah Carey must have read this on ...

Gwyneth Paltrow is showing off some skin here in her get-up for the Iron Man premiere in Los Angeles. I have to admit that I've been something of a chronic hater of this woman because of some things she's said in the past that I've found obnoxious when she was trying to appear intelligent, worldly and cultivated. But I want to try and clear my head of any of those prejudices of mine, an view this outfit of her as objectively as I can. Now, this ensemble strikes me as being very "classic JLo," if you know what ...