January 23, 2006
Da Vinci Code To Premiere At Cannes
The 58th Festival de Cannes, beginning on May 17, will open with Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code, starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou, two days before the worldwide release. Good news for those attending the festival, but inconsequential to the middle-aged woman behind me at the theatre during Da Vinci's trailer. Her loud whispering revealed that it looked like a 'renter' to her, to which her overweight friend replied, "Have you read that yet? I don't read, but I hear it's so good." The two would later agree that Cars looked cute.
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Fox Is The New Penguin
Good news for people who like foxes and children:
The man behind last year's biggest Sundance success story, "March of the Penguins" director Luc Jacquet, said that his follow-up will be "The Fox & the Child," a project combining nature documentary footage and a fictionalized story. "Fox" centers on a young girl and her friendship with the eponymous animal. An adult female narrator will relate the tale as a memoir of her childhood.
Producers hope the public won't confuse The Fox & the Child with the similarly titled pornographic film, Foxy & the Child which focuses on the exploits of Foxy, a past-her-prime hooker, that befriends a junior high boy (played by 33-year-old newcomer Burt Hardlength) while on a trip to the World Intercourse Championships. Which film will rule the box office? Only time will tell.
Good Charlotte is Good Actor?
Joel Madden, lead singer of Good Charlotte, will make his film debut in the drama Valley of the Damned, said to be "the Trainspotting for the new millennium," but crappy. To help prepare for the role, Madden will consult his girlfriend Hillary Duff:
She'll probably help coach me along. I really do respect her work, so she's someone who will help me when I ask her questions. I'll say, 'How did you do that?', and she'll tell me.
As examples of specific questions, he added, "Like, how did you get your teeth so big? Or how did you convince someone you were an actress?" Madden later took back the comment about respecting Duff's work after he actually saw her work.
West Wing canceled
NBC announced on Sunday that West Wing will be canceled at the end of its seventh season. The show won four Emmys for best drama, and will end this spring with the inauguration of the new fictional president. It's too bad they couldn't come up with a more exciting way to end the series. How about instead of electing a new president, the United States gets in a nuclear war with the rest of the world and the planet explodes. That'd be the best finale in the history of television.
Silent Hill Trailer Showcases Small Town
So the Silent Hill trailer was released, and let me tell you, this place looks like one shit-hole of a town. First of all, it snows some kind of soot. Secondly, it's full of feral children. And third, there seems to be a constant threat of mutant attack. So what keeps visitors coming? The girls!
Indiana Jones 4 Is Still Being Written
Will Indiana Jones 4 be made? George Lucas still says so. Possibly in response to recent reports that Harrison Ford wouldn't continue the series if it's not done in the next couple years. Lucas claims we'll see Indy by 2007:
You know, we just write and write and write and write and write. But we are getting closer, and hopefully this year we will have a start date and we will have a script that we all love and hopefully it will come out next year.
Lucas added that Jeff Nathanson, writer of Catch Me If You Can, has joined the likes of Frank Darabont in penning a script. Though fans have waited since 1989 for another chapter in the saga, we must remember that Lucas needs this long to sufficiently ruin another franchise.
