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Director? I Hardly Knew Her!, You Got Comic Book in My Movie
Seth Green Going Back to College For Directorial DebutSeth Green has built up a long résumé as actor, writer and producer in a relatively short time, and he's about to add first-time movie director to the list. He tells Moviehole that he plans to direct The Freshmen, an adaptation of a comic book he and Hugh Sterbakov created for Top Cow Productions. (Hey, that's my old alma mater, too!) The story, as Green describes it, is a cross between Revenge of the Nerds and X-Men, and revolves around a group of misfit kids just starting off in college only to find themselves beset by mostly minor super powers. One guy compulsively hoards nuts, another has intoxicating belches, and another guy's lengthy endowments suddenly give "freshman fifteen" a whole new meaning.
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Here's a roundup of the best stories and articles in Movies Without Pity this week:
Find out why director Guy Ritchie is the Ayatollah of ripping himself and others off with his new crime caper RocknRolla.
Bill Murray is a comic genius, but he's not a genius at picking roles that are appropriate to his level of talent. We run down the biggest wastes of his time.
Our own Mindy reviews Body of Lies. It's okay, she guesses.
Did you know they put out a 10th anniversary edition of Can't Hardly Wait on DVD? It's apparently pretty awesome. (The 20th Anniversary Beetlejuice, not so much.)
Okay, so maybe Quentin Tarantino didn't really write the original script for Sex Drive... but if he did, he'd be pissed.
Check out our complete recap of the Watchmen preview footage, then hear what director Zack Snyder and Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons have to say about the film.
Did you know Christian Slater is doing TV now? Apparently, Kuffs was the beginning of a bad streak. Check out what he has to say about his new show, My Own Worst Enemy.
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Box Office Tally, For Kids!, The Biz, Video Games Killed the Movie Star, You Know
Max Payne saves us all from Beverly Hills ChihuahuaMark Wahlberg's videogame adaptation Max Payne managed to unseat Beverly Hills Chihuahua after the talking-dog movie had been at the top of the weekend box office for two weeks in a row. But no other new release did better than a third helping of Chihuahua. I'm starting to wonder if there's something wrong with me for not thinking that movie could possibly be good. But I'm going to stick with what I said last week: The problem lies with America.
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Here are some of the top movie-related stories from Movies Without Pity this week:
Marky Mark's House of Payne -- We hypothesize Marky Mark's rap soundtrack to Mark Wahlberg's Max Payne. Tighty-whiteys not included.
Alan Moore Endorses Watchmen Movie! -- ...Yeah, that's an old headline from 1987. But apparently, he was totally on board back then.
Raaarrrgh! Hulk DVD Smash Expectations! -- The Incredible Hulk DVD comes out on Tuesday, and we tell you what you need to know before you go and buy it.
W.: Oliver Stone's Conspiracy Notebook -- Ollie Stone is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, and thinks the cast of W. is out to get him, if his set diary is any indication.
Star Trek Movie Images Explode like the U.S.S. Reliant -- J.J. Abrams has set off a clusterbomb of Trek movie pictures. Never before has a blurry picture of Scott delighted so many. (Okay, me.)
Quentin Tarantino's Sex Drive -- Did you know QT wrote the original screenplay for Sex Drive? Neither did we! Or anyone else. (It's not true.)
Dan and Zach Talk About Watchmen -- Not a sequel to Zack and Miri Make a Porno, but judging by how turned-on they are by 25 minutes of Watchmen footage, it might as well be.
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This Friday's movie releases have something for everyone. For the politics-loving conspiracy theorist, there's W., Ollie Stone's take on the current president. For horny teenage boys -- hell, for horny boys of all ages -- there's Sex Drive, a teenage sex comedy whose red-band clip on the Internet features a woman giving the film's heavy set protagonist a Lewinsky before using him as a human toilet (I'm not kidding). And for the ladies, there's 40-year old Dakota Fanning in The Secret Life of Bees. Choose wisely, because something's gotta get that damn Chihuahua off the top of the chart.
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