January 25, 2006
X-Men Titled
20th Century has confirmed that a title for X-men 3 has been chosen and is currently being cleared for usage: X-Men: The Last Stand. The title had already appeared in USA Today, making it the rumored front-runner up to the confirmation. The Last Stand narrowly beat out fan favorite title: The One That Will Probably Suck. I Mean, Brett Ratner Is Doing It. And Juggernaut Is Way Too Small. But Did You See Beast? He Looks Kind Of Good, Huh?
Also confirmed yesterday was 13-year-old Ira Schultz, whose bar mitzvah went splendidly. Congrats, Ira!
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Sandman Gets Some Trim
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.
