June 2008 Archives

Land of the Free, Home of the Bush

by DeAnn Welker June 9, 2008 9:00 AM
Land of the Free, Home of the Bush

About 300 people turned out to watch a movie on an outdoor screen (because there's no theater in town) in a football field in Crawford, Texas, the famous home of President Bush -- and around 788 other folks.

Jack Black's Kung Fu Whups Adam Sandler's Israeli Counterterrorism

It's never exactly a shock when a kids movie (which are known to be big box office draws) and the weekend's widest release is the top movie at the box office, so there were no big surprises this weekend: Kung Fu Panda chop-sockied the competition with $60 million on 4,114 screens to top the weekend box office. [That's no dim sum! Get it? No? Sigh. - Z]

Transformers 2: Revenge of Poor Filmmaking

The full title of Transformers 2 has been revealed! Since part of the movie was being filmed in Pennsylvania, I was hoping it would be called Transformers 2: Amish Paradise, but that is not the case. (Also, Pennsylvania is apparently standing in for China.) No, the movie is called Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, thereby guaranteeing that Megatron, who we last saw at the bottom of the Dino de Laurentian Abyss, will be making a return. The film also has the distinct honor of being the 27th sequel to have the word "Revenge" in the title.

Will it be able to live up to the legacy of other great "revenge" movies? Let's compare:

Lindsay Lohan Going Through Labor

by Tippi Blevins June 6, 2008 11:59 AM
Lindsay Lohan Going Through Labor

Like a lady going through the seemingly endless agony of contractions and finally squeezing out a ten-pound screaming baby, filmmakers are finally birthing Labor Pains. The film had encountered trouble when Capitol Films faced a "cash crunch," according to Variety, placing it in "limbo" for a time. This is the same difficulty that affected Nailed last month, but Labor picked up new financing at Cannes thanks to Nu Image/Millennium Films Overnight Productions. (The name just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?) Now with production set to begin next week, they've announced that Lindsay Lohan has signed on to star.

Witchblade Gets One Step Closer to Reality, Nudity

Last week we reported on the revelation of the first teaser poster for the 2009 Witchblade movie, depicting a bare-assed model wielding the superheroine's mystical gauntlet. While no actress has yet been cast in the sure to be boob-licious role, they have chosen a director and a writer! And they're actually pretty experienced, too -- none of those two-credits-on-IMDb fellows here. Only one problem -- they're Australian. I don't trust anyone whose toilet flushes clockwise.

Sandler Takes A Shortcut to Horror-ville

by Tippi Blevins June 6, 2008 10:41 AM
Sandler Takes A Shortcut to Horror-ville Seems like lately you can't swing a cat without hitting a new horror movie. (Watch, now someone will make a horror movie where the villain's weapon of choice is a cat he swings around like a lasso. Screw knives and chainsaws. Have you ever been on the wrong end of a pissed-off Siamese?) An editor once told me, "The worse the economy is, the more people flock to horror stories." Maybe it takes their minds off their problems, or helps to put things in perspective. Sure, variable interest rates suck, but at least they don't hack you into bits and wear your face like a Halloween mask. Adam Sandler seems to agree: He's just launched a new label called Scary Madison to produce genre projects, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Things We Lost In The Fire Shortly after it was reported that last Sunday's fire on the Universal back lot destroyed the studio's video vault, some sets and that archaic King Kong ride, studio brass came out assuring film buffs everywhere that nothing they lost was irreplaceable. Now there is some indication that that may not be entirely true.

So you say you've been waiting for a sequel to Zack Snyder's fast-zombie remake of Dawn of the Dead? Too bad! Seriously though, Zack Snyder is producing a movie called Army of the Dead, but it apparently has absolutely no narrative connection to Dawn of the Dead. Also, he's not directing it. Sigh. Watchmen had better be totally awesome, or I'm gonna be pissed.

McClammy Goes Back to School

Look out, Hollywood -- it's about to get all Clammy up in here. Wayne McClammy, which is not a pseudonym, as far as we know, was the director behind both the "I'm Fucking Matt Damon" and "I'm Fucking Ben Affleck" music videos that ran on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and now he's gonna make a feature film. The movie, called Cool School (uh, really?), will center on advertising executives in their early 30s who are sent back to high school to find out what it means to be cool. Now, as hilarious a premise as that sounds, McClammy has some big shoes to fill -- there have been many great "adults going back to school" movies, and unless he wants it to be just another Old School, he should go back and learn from the masters. Here are six "adult education" movies worth copying notes off of.

Swear To Blog! McG Says Terminator Spoilers Are Fake McG is seriously over people making fun of his name, you guys. Oh, and he also totally wants you to know all those Terminator spoilers you've been reading about all week aren't true. I'm serious. He blogged about it. Kthxbye!

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