January 25, 2006
Sandman Gets Some Trim
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Disney buys Pixar
Walt Disney announced today that it would buy Pixar Animation Studios in a $7.4 billion deal that gives Pixar animators creative control and makes Pixar CEO Steve Jobs one of Disney's largest shareholders. Additionally, Disney will also hand over its own animation studio to Pixar.
As long as Disney is able to resist the urge to start exercising creative control, this should be an awesome move for both parties. Pixar gets to keep making the best animated films in the world, and Disney gets to, uh, receive money.
Katie Holmes' sex scene goes missing
A 12-second sex scene with Katie Holmes was missing from Jason Reitman's upcoming film "Thank You for Smoking" during its screening at Sundance. Apparently nobody noticed or cared, but director Jason Reitman is making a huge fuss over the whole thing, telling people to rewatch the movie and even explaining to Sundance audiences what they were missing.
I've seen the trailer for the movie, and it looks fantastic as is. I honestly don't even understand why a Katie Holmes sex scene is even in the movie, let alone why it would make it better. That would be like Jean-Claude Van Damme trying to take on a film about the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Hilarious, but totally inappropriate.
Nacho Libre Pictures
There are some newish images from the comedy Nacho Libre, written and directed by Jared Hess of Napoleon Dynamite fame. If you think that's a shirtless Jack Black playing a Mexican wrestler, you're spot on. But if you think it's a picture of a fat John Holmes living in the desert, you're probably addicted to pornography.
NOTE: I do have pictures of a fat John Holmes living in the desert, if you'd like them.
More after the jump.
Someone Is Willing To Re-Make Magnum P.I.
Rawson Marshall Thurber, recently voted most affluently named human, has signed-on to write and direct a film adaptation of the popular 80's series Magnum P.I.
Thurber, who wrote and directed the hit comedy "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story," is not making a spoof but rather something akin to the tone of the show, which mixed humor and danger.
How would someone even make a spoof of Magnum P.I.? I mean, the storyline is that the mustached Thomas Magnum, a Navy intelligence officer-turned-private investigator, is paid by a wealthy author/playboy to live in the guesthouse of his vast Hawaiian estate, oversee security with the help of some of Magnum's Vietnam War buddies, and drive his Ferrari, much to the chagrin of the British estate manager Higgins. What is there to mock? The premise is rock solid.
Magnum's leaving the island is still what many believe has made Hawaii the hotbed of criminal activity it is today.
New Star Trek May Merge Generations
In an interview on Britain's ITV, Patrick Stewart revealed new rumors about a forthcoming Star Trek film, saying:
Apparently there's interest in bringing The Next Generation cast together with actors from different Star Trek series.
When asked how the story would explain the merging of different eras, he said, "I don't know, time warps or something? What does it matter? Nerds will eat this shit up."
Can you believe I was mocked in junior high for drawing this very scenario? At least when I kept drawing it. Every day.
