No stranger to either cloying pseudo-comedy or redoing things already huge in France, Patch Adams and Nutty Professor director Tom Shayac is reportedly coming out of retirement to direct an English-language remake of 2011's The Intouchables.
You're going to have to wait a bit longer to watch Brad Pitt slick his hair back.
Keeping with the trend of marketing Paul Thomas Anderson's latest as intriguingly cryptically as possible, the Weinstein Company today released this ambiguous, fluid-soaked first poster for The Master. Determining the pictured liquid probably begins the long-anticipated The Master viral campaign, so take a look below, and maybe we can unlock a close-up, uncensored look at those sand boobs Joaquin Phoenix has been working on.
As the Weinsteins were reminded of back in February, Scary Movie sequels do not just spontaneously manifest as soon as enough horror catchphrases reach the ears of a grinning Ghostface mask.
It's taken them a while, but film marketers seem to finally be catching on to the fact that if you the ever-critical internet has a welcoming soft spot for minimalist poster design. For Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Django Unchained--his spaghetti western-style film that sees Jamie Foxx as a former slave out for vengeance against ranch owner Leonardo DiCaprio--the Weinstein Company has fully embraced the less is more approach with this poster that trades floating heads for stylized silhouettes, not even mentioning the film's title or stars.
Of course, this is just a teaser poster, and it may well be an internet only design. Until we know otherwise, let's assume theater lobbies will instead be seeing a version that uses a still from Ray with some chains hastily photoshopped into the reflection of his sunglasses. "From the guys who brought you Pulp Fiction and Booty Call," eh?
Let's have a sit-down, guys. Bullying: it's a real issue. Thanks partially to the internet and, by my eye, poor breeding, kids today are even bigger shit-heads than the kids who bullied us were. Bigger in general, too. Have you seen the size of these 12-year-old turds now? You'd better believe I'm scared when I see a pack of them getting out of school. They are terrifying.
Anyway, while my friends and I used to just escape bullying by skipping gym class and carefully avoiding mention of how many hours we'd put into the latest Final Fantasy, some bullied youth are sadly taking more tragically drastic measures, up to and including suicide. Because of this, you may have noticed there's recently a larger movement forming to gets bullies to cut their crap, and there's now a documentary called Bully coming out to tackle the issue head on and show both kids and parents just how big of an issue bullying has become. That's good, right? Unfortunately, the MPAA thinks kids shouldn't be allowed to see the film, so it's not that good.
Though at this point it seems like a new Scary Movie pops up spontaneously as soon as enough memorable horror catchphrases reach the ears of a grinning Ghostface mask, unbelievably, that is not the case. People make these things! That is someone's daughter--probably Mr. Electra's daughter--out there in a bra, pillow-fighting a George W. Bush lookalike. Sadly, the Weinsteins seem to have forgotten that, and they aren't going to make their planned April release date for the next Scary Movie film--a reboot of the series, which probably just means replacing the Ghostface mask with that red-faced guy from Insidious and the newfound freedom to re-use a few Sixth Sense gags. They've officially pushed the film all the way back to January 11 of next year. Sorry you have to wait, Scary Movie fans, but just think how many more Paranormal Activity films there will be to lazily reference now! Several!
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