Jul 14 2006Little Man is Looney
Before anyone spends any money seeing the Wayans Brothers latest venture, Little Man, this weekend, I just wanted to point out that besides looking terrible, the idea is stolen. It's a Looney Tune! You know, the one where Bugs takes in the pint-sized criminal after inadvertently stealing his loot, better known as "Baby Buggy Bunny." And I'll tell you, White Chicks isn't so far off from when Bugs dresses up like a woman, either. The Wayans Brothers may very well be swiping all their ideas from Bugs Bunny cartoons. And here I was, assuming the Devil provided them.
Jul 14 2006The Amazing Screw-On Head Online
The Sci-Fi Channel has adapted Mike Mignola's (creator of Hellboy) one-shot comic, The Amazing Screw-On Head, into an animated pilot they've put online. Watch it, and if you like it, fill out the survey that says you want more. I didn't have time to watch the whole thing yet, but what I saw looked great; like the comic's style has been animated with the Aeon Flux style. It seems like the writers and animators really got the material and stayed true to it.
Besides, this will finally imagine my life-long dream of people having screw-on heads. Well, not everyone, just ugly people. So when we're talking, I can screw their head off and not have to look at it.
Jul 14 2006The Descent One-Sheet
A new poster for The Descent is out, from the studio that brought you Saw and Hostel. I hear it's "the best horror-thriller since Alien." From the poster, this looks to be the scariest movie ever set in an Ocean Spray commercial.
Jul 13 2006DOA: Dead or Alive Stills
I still find it unbelievable that they're making a movie out of the fighting (and occasionally beach volleyball) game Dead or Alive, so I constantly remind myself with these images. Almost to the point where I'm hurting myself. But not quite.
More under the cut.
Jul 13 2006Raven-Symone Having Adventures in Babysitting
Adventures in Babysitting, the 1987 classic starring Elisabeth Shue as a high school babysitter forced to take the kids she's watching downtown, where they encounter a wild cast of characters on their adventures throughout the night, is next in line for a big remake. Disney announced plans to remake the picture with hyphenated That's So Raven star Raven-Symone in the babysitting shoes. My biggest problem with the casting: there's no way Raven's gonna be able to scale that wall.
Yet again, Hollywood has to ruin the films of my youth. I can still recall how after I saw the movie as a kid, whenever I had a babysitter over, I'd remember it and think, "I wish my babysitter was Elisabeth Shue. And that she'd let me at least finger bang her."
Jul 13 2006Broken Lizard's Beerfest Poster
The fellas in Broken Lizard will clever enough to come up with, not one, but three taglines for their new film, Beerfest: "Bring on the beer. They've got the nuts," "Prepare for the ultimate chug of war," and "Comedy on tap." Then they ran out of room above the title, so they stopped. Then they finished it off with a couple of sexy ladies holding beer. And by "a couple," I mean one woman twice. But with that mirroring effect you'd hardly know it.
Jul 13 2006Deliver Us From Evil Finds Distribution
If the Catholic church hated The Da Vinci Code, wait until they see this one. Lionsgate announced they will distribute Deliver Us From Evil, a documentary about a serial raping pedophile priest:
Lionsgate announced today it has acquired domestic distribution rights to Deliver Us From Evil, a documentary about a pedophile Catholic priest whose serial rapes were known to, and concealed by, the American Church for over 30 years.
I hope this one does well. Not so much because I care about exposing corruption in the Catholic church, but because I'd like to see it remade as a comedy with Will Ferrell. I think he could bring a lot of laughter to serial raping pedophilia.
Jul 12 2006The Prestige Trailer Footage
Entertainment Tonight scored a real scoop with the first footage of Christopher Nolan's The Prestige, starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. And you thought ET only covered celebrity couples they could make up cute names for.
See the footage and hear some woman's loud, grating voice talk over it in the clip above.
Jul 12 2006Arrested Development Movie in the Works?
An Arrested Development movie? Maybe so, says Maeby:
TVGuide.com: Do you think there might be an Arrested movie at some point? The final episode implied as much when your character, Maeby, tried to sell the rights to the Bluth story to Ron Howard.Shawkat: Mitch actually recently told us that there is a good possibility for a movie, and that he's talking to Ron Howard about it.
Since they couldn't even maintain the ratings to support the show, I really doubt anyone's going to finance this movie, but it would be great if it got made. The larger problem stands in that creator Mitch Hurwitz is currently talking to Ron Howard about it. Between pointing out the "irony" of Opie winning an Oscar and assuring that he "could have played Fonzie if he wanted to," Howard's blabbering will keep this movie in arrested development.*
*See what I did there? It's like the title of the show.
Jul 12 2006First Shot From Stardust
I know there are a lot of Neil Gaiman fans somewhere, so I thought I'd point out that the first production still from the film adaptation of the author's Stardust is online. The film boasts a cast of Robert DeNiro, Peter O'Toole, Claire Danes, and the pictured Michelle Pfeiffer.
Someone will have to tell me if I should be excited about this. The only thing I know about Neil Gaiman was that he did the Sandman series of comics, and that if you mentioned that in high school, you had to sit at a special table where they played Magic.
Jul 11 2006Rocky Balboa Trailer
There's just something about a Rocky movie. As soon as you hear that familiar, iconic anthem, you can't help but think, "Why would they ever continue making these? Have they not seen the current sequels?" But they have made it, so go ahead and watch the trailer. It's the one time you can calmly watch the brutal beating of an old man without feeling the guilt of actually watching the brutal beating of an old man. But seriously, that old guy at the bar was asking for it the way he kept blabbering about "The War."
Jul 11 2006New Batman Called "The Joker"?
Speaking in an interview with Turner Classic Movies, Sir Michael Caine got on the subject of the work he was doing with director Christopher Nolan and mentioned offhand that he'd be making "The Joker" next year:
I wanted to work with him and then Christopher Nolan who directed Batman is doing a smaller film called The Prestige about magicians and it's very interesting. And we're going to make The Joker next year.
Now ordinarily this might mean something, but you have to keep in mind that Michael Caine is very old and probably doesn't know what he's saying anymore. Caine calling the movie "The Joker" doesn't make it its name any more than my Grandma calling me "Gary" makes that my name (it isn't even similar). Sometimes you just have to face that the elderly aren't making any sense. Sometimes they're going to do things like mix up movie titles or wander around your yard muttering about clovers. There's a fine line between hot movie scoops and the onset of senility.
Jul 11 2006Night at the Museum Domestic Trailer
The domestic trailer for Night at the Museum has been released, boasting a ton of new footage not seen in the international version from yesterday. It's perfect if you loved The Indian in the Cupboard but hated the restriction of furniture, the obnoxious little kid, and respect for another culture. Having now seen this extended trailer, I can say Night at the Museum definitely looks far better than my own childhood night at the museum, which eventually led to a custody hearing.
Jul 10 2006Night at the Museum International Teaser
The international teaser for Night at the Museum has been released, starring Ben Stiller as a museum security guard shocked to find one night that the displays are coming to life. The film also features Ricky Gervais, Dick Van Dyke, and Robin Williams hamming it up as an animated display of Theodore Roosevelt.
Scientists will be glad that the trailer finally answers an age-old question: if you re-animate a tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, does it grow skin and become a normal dinosaur or remain a skeleton dinosaur? I won't ruin it for you.
Jul 10 2006The Office Coming to Theaters?
Reportedly, the BBC's comedy unit is looking to start making more movies based on their hit sitcoms, the first of which is said to be Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's The Office:
Kenton Allen, creative head of BBC Comedy Talent, is heading up a scheme that, in Allen's words, would allow its comedy stars "to paint on a bigger canvas." Among the shows reportedly being considered for a big-screen version is The Office, starring Ricky Gervais.
From the impressions I've gotten from Gervais and Merchant, I doubt this would ever actually happen. I think they did everything they wanted to with the characters in the two series and Christmas specials, regardless of how badly fans want more.
I mean, how long have we begged for a Facts of Life movie to no avail? They say they did what they needed to with the characters, but I maintain that Tootie has always been too rich to be explored on the small screen.
Jul 10 2006First Shot From The Prestige
Though telling your parents you want to be a magician will still get you disowned, making magician films in Hollywood is all the rage. There's Edward Norton doing tricks in The Illusionist, and now Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman are playing rival magicians in writer/director Christopher Nolan's ironically titled The Prestige (no magician will ever get prestige). This first shot from the film shows Jackman displaying that he wears his watch on the underside of his wrist for coolness, while Bale shows that he's reprising his role from Newsies for some reason.
