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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
Anybody see BLACKTHORN yet? Really good movie. Hope some people check it out. Available On Demand as well.
Also, just got out of REAL STEEL. I have to go double check, didn’t DP say it would make around $90 million? Man. This thing seemed like it should be a commercial juggernaut. Kids and families were going apeshit in the theater. Seems like it would make twice that easily. Very well executed for what they were trying to do. I don’t know much about this stuff but i wonder if they should have released it at Thanksgiving or next Memorial Day or something. Just smelled like a big hit to me.
I haven’t seen Blackthorn but I’m dying to. I checked its official site and sadly it doesn’t look like it will be playing in Milwaukee.
This movie news makes me obscenly happy.
http://www.chud.com/70004/breaking-primer-director-shane-carruth-prepping-upstream-color-for-november-start/
PaulMD, I was wondering if you got a chance to (or cared to) see Fassbinder’s World on a Wire when it was in Milwaukee (at UW-M, I believe).
Paul, it’s your typical scenic, beautiful Western, so big screen is ideal, but like I said you can order it On Demand at home. Hopefully you have a big TV and maybe that’s your best bet.
I love the fact that a relatively traditional Western like Blackthorn was directed by the co-writer of Open Your Eyes.
http://www.cowboysindians.com/Blog/October-2011/Galloping-soon-to-a-theater-near-you-Blackthorn/
Was pleasantly surprised by Craig Brewer’s “Footloose” redo: it’s like a solid B’way revival of a classic musical.
No real surprises, but everybody does their job really, really well, and all the qualities that made the original a beloved classic are honored.
This thing could turn out to be a bigger hit than I thought going in.
Kids who don’t know the 1984 “Foot” will enjoy it because it has enough contempo touches to make it accessible and “relevant;” and nostalgists who love the Herb Ross version will be relieved–and surely pleased–that it hews so closely to the original, and doesn’t screw up the (irresistible) template.
HOUGH POWER LOOK AT HER.
I will be there with Kleenex in hand.
Just watched FX’s American Horror Story. Really good. Have a hard comprehending them maintaining that level of intensity each week.
We’ve got a decent TV but I was really hoping to see Blackthorn in theaters. Looks like something that plays best on a big screen.
NDB, I did not. Must have played at the Union Theatre on UWM’s campus. I used to see movies there quite often and they show a lot of really good stuff there. I did see four movies at the Milwaukee Film Fest a week or two ago.
I a little amazed on how many people are calling the 1984 Footloose a “classic”. Many reviews I have been reading saying that “remake of the 1984 classic” ummmmm…not a classic…guilty pleasure maybe….
@Krillian
That American Horror Story pilot RUUUULES. It’s a Ryan Murphy show, though, so it’ll be unwatchable by episode 10.
Bennett- How about a “minor (dance flick) classic”? Or a “(mass) cult classic”?
I have affectionate memories of the Ross original–actually saw it 3 times during its theatrical release (at first-run prices!)–but never considered it a “classic” (not even a dance flick classic) in the sense of a game-changing masterpiece like, say, “The Red Shoes.”
Still, “classics” do come in various stripes and packages.
In the B’way world, some people actually consider ALW’s “Cats” and “Phantom” to be “classics.”
Bennett: You evidently didn’t get the memo that announced any movie made before 1990 is a classic. Hence: “The classic slasher movie Black Christmas…”
Black Christmas IS a classic!
What is Kevin Bacon’s best movie? I’m partial to Tremors.
The original Black Christmas is definitely a classic. Very scary movie. Tremors is also excellent.
I don’t know about ‘best movie’, but surely one of Bacon’s best performances (in a long career where he’s quite good far more often than he’s not) is in The Woodsman, where he played a recently-paroled child-sex offender who was trying to put his life back together. It’s a solid, low-key drama that treats a generally taboo subject with humanity and maturity.
The Woodsman is a sad and powerful (if not exactly enjoyable) film and Bacon is tremendous in it. He’s also really good in the underrated Stir of Echoes.
Paul: Agree about Stir of Echoes. Black Christmas? Not so much.
The 2006 Black Christmas is a veritable Squackapalooza.
Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Lacey Chabert and Mary Elizabeth Winstead five years ago before two of the four hit the wall, plus all kinds of other hot trim.
Plus the dreamy Oliver Hudson.
The BC remake does have quite the cast, and it’s entertaining in a so-bad-it’s-good way (love the flashbacks and the special holiday cookies). I haven’t seen the original in a long time, but I remember it being extremely creepy and frightening.
Netflix is kindly giving me the opportunity to catch some older horror flicks, which I’m taking advantage of because October = horror movies. This week I’ve watched Intruder (bad) and Scarecrows (pretty decent).
Yay, squack.
Does anyone else find it amusing-ironic that Bacon played a high school student in “Footlose”…two years after “Diner”?
And six years after playing a frat pledge in “Animal House”?
Say what you will about Kenny Wormald in “Footloose 2.0,” but he’s definitely more convincing as a high schooler, lol.
wormald is 27 (and pretty much looks it when you’re sitting next to him)….
How’s scooterzz always sitting next to these people? I’ve never been in a room with a celebrity in my life, unless you count Jeff Wells or former Atlanta Brave Bob Horner.
Where are you guys meeting all these celebrities? If I was in the same room with a real celebrity, I’d pass out.
I sat two feet from Mario Bello and William H. Macy in Toronto at a screening of Thank You For Smoking. I’ve sat that close to a handful of others in Toronto at the film fest.
Yeah, I don’t go to any of that shit. One time, as I’ve recounted here before, I saw Jordana Brewster at the movies and gave her a nod of acknowledgment and said “hi” like a total dumb-ass… She breezed right by me without even looking. This is a move that makes me feel like total shit when I’m in my office or apartment hallway and extend an unrequited hi to some beardo asshole, so it was exponentially more depressing to have an actress I’ve absolutely gotten boners to just ignore me wholesale.
lex — today i’m in a room with johnny depp…it’s how i make a living…
Are you going to be in a room with Amber Heard?
yep, yep (i believe that’s the correct response)
God that sounds like an infinitely better way of making a living than rotely typing out all the dialogue to the last 29 minutes of a black and white, distorted videocassette of a big Oscar movie that doesn’t even come out til mid-December in some decoration-free posthouse bunker surrounded by guys who hate movies.
Lex: If you see movies at the Arclight, you’ve been a room with lots of celebrities. I don’t think I could even count the number of celebs I’ve seen there.
Best movie ‘high schooler’: 28-year-old Sidney Poitier in BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, five full years after playing a doctor in NO WAY OUT.
I go there all the time, and I’ve seen a few there, the biggest “names” being Viggo Mortensen or Drew Barrymore, but just seeing some star in a windbreaker buying movie tickets isn’t like actually BEING IN A ROOM with them asking them questions. I don’t know how Poland or scooterzz or Wells does THAT. David has even suggested letting me try it, I just can’t do it. I would freeze up. They’re supernatural… What am I gonna ask an actress? I couldn’t come up with those questions, and if I was in the same room with any of my Top Ten, I’d literally faint or freeze up. It’s like they’re not even human or even real… they’re like Jesus or something.
I live in the ass-end of friggin New Mexico, not even close to where they actually make films here, and Ive run into a few celeb types.
Lex: Oh, I get the distinction you’re making now. Most of the one-on-one situations I’ve been in with ‘name’ actors have been at collectors shows, when they’re sitting at a table hoping you’ll pony up for an autograph or photo (and of course this is usually older actors, not Kristin or Dakota). I’ve done the “love your work” thing a number of times at the grocery or theater, and it usually goes well. I think the only actors I’ve socialized with (through mutual friends) are Tess Harper, Armin Shimerman and a gal from Real World: Miami — I didn’t faint or freeze up. 🙂
Really, Scooter?
He totally fooled me. I could’ve sworn he was 21 at most.
On the other hand, Hough looked like she was 28 in some scenes and 16 at other times.
Like most young women these days, I suppose.
Favorite celeb siting?
Walking into the men’s room at an awards show a few years back and encountering Johnny Depp and Ben Kingsley. Very surreal.
duh/
“sighting.”
Hey, Lex: Read this and try not to throw up a little in your mouth:
“Twilight” thesp Cam Gigandet is set to join “True Blood” star Anna Paquin in Shana Sosin’s indie drama “Free Ride.”
Pic marks the first production for Paquin’s production company SCAMP, whose other principals include Cerise Hallam Larkin, Mark Larkin and Paquin’s husband and “True Blood” co-star Stephen Moyer.
Based on a true story, “Free Ride” finds Paquin playing an abused single mother who moves to Florida with her two daughters to make a life for herself amid the colorful yet turbulent culture of the late 1970s.
Gigandet will play Paquin’s love interest in the film, which co-stars Drea De Matteo (“The Sopranos”), Liana Liberato (“Trust”), Ava Acres (“Five”), Jeff Hephner (Starz’s “Boss”) and another “True Blood” thesp, Brit Morgan.
Sosin (“Girls! Girls! Girls!”) is writing and directing “Free Ride,” which is being produced by Cerise Hallam Larkin, Susan Dynner and Paquin. Moyer will exec produce with Mark Larkin and production is skedded to start Oct. 24 in Sarasota, Fla.
Brian Dreyfuss of Featured Artists Agency reps Sosin and was heavily involved in packaging the project.
Paquin, who stars alongside Ryan Phillippe and Luke Wilson in Nu Image/Millennium Films dramedy “Straight A’s,” most recently starred in Kenneth Lonergan’s “Margaret” and Wes Craven’s “Scream 4.”
Gigandet is coming off a trio of genre pics including “The Roommate,” “”Priest” and Joel Schumacher’s “Trespass.” Thesp was recently cast as one of the leads in TNT’s Western drama pilot “Gateway.”
WME reps both Paquin and Gigandet, who are also repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Luber Roklin Entertainment, respectively.
HA! The best part is calling Cam Gigandet a “thesp,” like he’s done time on the boards at the Globe Theatre wrestling with his interpretation of Henry V, like he’s fucking Alan Bates or something.
Gigandet, speaking of, is another one whose age is all up and down the map, playing high school in EASY A but he’s like 30 in other movies…
A new mystifying one is Michael Arangano, who was like five years old in ALMOST FAMOUS, but now has that Nick Stahl type deal where within a decade he’s playing these sketchy beardos and hustlers and doing movies where he’s banging 40 year old women… then he’ll turn around and play a high school kid in RED STATE; Since 2000 it’s like he’s aged from 5 to 35 then back to 18 again depending on the movie… Sometimes he’s Sam Rockwell Norton, other times he’s some high school punk.
people who make youtube videos are now starting to be
celebrities ..
check the craziness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG5pDME9Iq4
the big name stars lose points like George Clooney- Leo Dicario – Brad Pitt .. and some others. they are just too famous … for a dp/30
but then there are actors who have to fake it for a dp/30 just so they can get an award …Nicole Kidman… never see her again… Halle Berry and Jennfer Connely … never see those again .
I perfer real actors… the more famous you get the less real you become sometimes .. Kristen Stewart was amazing in the Adventureland dp/30 … it was so awkward … now she becomes less real cause she’s done 1000 twilight interviews .
i dunno maybe its actors under 30 who seem the realist to me… like Jennifer Lawarence dp/30 but then old dude Wiliam Hurt does his strange bit for 5 minutes that ruled .. Aaron Sorkin and Viggo Mortensen these guys are always serious and never funny so thats their realness .
i haven’t met any of these actors – probably never will .
what could i possibly say they haven’t heard before ?
the only downside of dp/30 right now is that at least 100 actors should have automatically had a dp/30 by now .
who’s to blame for this ?
Arangano is wonderful and very funny in CEREMONY. Michelle Trachtenberg is also someone who flips from older to younger all the time.
BLACK CHRISTMAS is totally a classic. It’s basically the proto-slasher film, predating HALLOWEEN, and it’s quite scary and effective at that. I never saw the remake, although I generally find Morgan/Wong’s works fun. (LOVED the WILLARD remake…) TREMORS is honestly tremendous. At a certain point in my life, I had every line memorized, which says something about me…
PaulMD, by INTRUDER do you mean the Sam Rami produced slasher film? It’s not great but I do remember it being a fun VHS rental for me quite a long time ago.
I’m kind of really excited for FOOTLOOSE, even though I’ve never been that into the original. I love Brewer’s voice as a filmmaker so far, and it seems like a good fit.
That’s the one JKill. It has its charms, but overall it’s a pretty bad low-budget slasher flick. Most of its charms stem from the fact that it is so poorly made, acted, written, directed, etc. It’s pretty cheesy.
FYI Dave or whoever: Heinz Bennent’s last name is spelled incorrectly on the main page.
another version of realness
Are Scarlett Johansson’s new Dolce & Gabbana ads overly-photoshopped?
http://www.makeherup.com/2011/08/23/are-scarlett-johanssons-new-dolce-gabbana-ads-overly-photoshopped/
i’d say yeah .. strange how you need to look like a robot to sell makeup. they could have saved money and just printed the ads from the island movie. only a small numbers of people would have noticed.
will Scarlett show for dp/30 for We Bought a Zoo ? can Matt Damon use his Bourne skills and force her … but then Scarlett can use her Iron Man skills and get away…
plus it sucks there wasn’t a dp/30 for Lost in Translation .
am i the only one who thinks Tower Heist not only looks terrible but makes the prospect of using it as a test film for shutting the theatrical window extremely troubling.
Are they making the price so high and the film so unappealing that the whole thing is doomed to fail, thus silencing the debate?
You’re nuts… TOWER HEIST is going to be MASSIVE, that trailer KILLS every time I see it, and it has someone/something for everybody. It certainly does NOT look terrible.
Best fake teenager ever: Malcolm Mcdowell.
I’ll never claim to have my finger on the pulse of the movie going public, but i have a real hard time seeing Tower Heist being massive.
If it does, i’ll be wrong. But man, it feels like a whole lot of nothing adding up to a whole lot less.
Eddie plus Stiller alone = 50 mil opening weekend.
Throw in Broderick, Affleck, Precious, Alda, even Michael Pena, it’s literally a movie with something for everyone (except for guys who like looking at white women.)
Casey Affleck makes it feel even more like an Oceans Eleven rip off.
I do love that you referred to the girl as ‘Precious’. I don’t remember her name either.
I’m just not feeling it. 50 million opening would feel like a gift based on what im seeing.
Just saw the trailer, and Lex is right. It’s like Ocean’s 11, but for families.
first time i saw the tower heist trailer i liked it – second time not so much ..and lets leave how much money it’ll make to DP ..he’s the expert.
flypaper movie – a bank heist movie coming soon to dvd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V03YB2-OFYQ
Stockard Channing was 34 when she did GREASE. And Julie Harris, then 27, played a 12-year-old in MEMBER OF THE WEDDING. Oy.
Tresspass is opening day and date? I just saw a commercial that said “See it in theaters or On Demand”
I was not aware of this. Though to be fair, i’m not that bright.
Trespass movie – press conference ..
director says all movies end up on dvd . they can’t control that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvuBTlt3Dcg
The Moretz/Reeves Taxi Driver pics = AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME, especially the one of Moretzy in the Giant Hat.
CUTE. CUTE!
saw the ‘tower hiest’ trailer tagged on to the first opening day screening of ‘moneyball’ at citiwalk… the crowd went wild (and, by crowd, i mean all 8 of us)…. that said, i’m guessin’ it’ll be huge….
A few months ago I read how Samuel L. Jackson had signed on to The Killing Games, and it had Kellen Lutz (Twilight) and Nina Dobrev (Vampire Diaries). But then today when I went to see what Redbox had, there’s this cheesy-looking cover for Kellen Lutz-Samuel L. Jackson in ARENA. Just another one of those projects where I don’t get why Jackson would ever sign on.
Puss in Boots moving to Oct 28 is a good sign for Tower Heist. I think many are hungry to see Eddie Murphy return to form.
So im hung up on this new version of The Thing.
It’s a prequel, or so i’ve been told and not a remake. So why did they call it The Thing?
Should every film in the franchise have been called Alien or Terminator?
I’m confused.
I’ve been confused all along, too; And at some point weren’t people saying it was a PARALLEL MOVIE set at the Norwegian camp at the same time as the ’82 film?
Because Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Eric Christian Olsen (speaking of dipshits who still play high school kids at age 37) and Mr. Eko from LOST don’t strike me as very Norwegian (or was it Swedes), and from the looks of the trailers there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of ‘WINTER 1982’ period detail.
NINA DOBREV is SO SMOKING HOT BOW TO HER.
Krillian, I just checked out the trailer for that on YT… Please do the same… It is a riot.
funny ..
read the text for each picture…
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/celebrity-photos/celebrity-photos-of-the-week-oct-12/article2197635/
at some point e! will cancel Kardashians
their entire empire will fall ..
maybe thats the most interesting time to interview them . when it becomes real.
I read something yesterday (I think in the LA Times) that said The Thing 2011 takes place a few days before Carpenter’s version.
Does Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje get to say “I just can’t believe any of this voodoo bullshit!”?
Lindsay Lohan Legit Has Rotten Teeth And Bloody Hands Pictures
http://ology.com/celebs-and-gossip/photos-vom-lindsay-lohan-legit-has-rotten-teeth-and-bloody-hands
some quick notes ..
legally blond and captain kirk have a movie .. directed
by McG … who needs a dp/30
this means war 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0bgeU0ARyZs
good news for LexG ..
Fred Durst Signs Deal With CBS & CBS Studios, Will Star In Comedy Project
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWESOME.
Durst = GOD. Durst’s showbiz arc is so strange… Actually liked both of his theatrical films, but lately he’s gone back to music, and now CBS COMEDY.
There is nothing this man can’t do, but he should keep directing. He’s pretty good.
watched a preview of the thing 2011 on g4 .
they got some fancy jackets and flamethrowers …
also The Three Musketeers has nice costumes …
if drive 2011 got super popular everybody would be wearing that jacket,,,
so while the movie reviews might be average how about a dp/30- for some costumes and set pieces …
somebody works hard to make fancy clothes for movie stars but they don’t get the credit …
photo story …. 30 seconds to read . true or fake ?
http://dailybooth.com/gabriellas_
I read this headline today at Aint it Cool News.
“Craig Brewer’s FOOTLOOSE is fun in all the right places–and until you’ve seen it, reserve judgment!!!”
The review is so hedged it should have come with a landscaper. The last paragraph is so weird.
“See the film before you dismiss it. You don’t have to like it, but you at least have to give it a fair shake before you bad mouth it.”
I don’t get it. Why would you waste space in a review addressing the negative element. ‘Sure, you think it’s dumb… but come on guys…. GIVE IT A CHANCE’.
Sad.
Fun in all the right places? Does Shawn Edwards write reviews for AICN now? That isn’t a quote from KCPX-Tulsa? Though I suppose it’s true that you should give a movie a chance before you badmouth it.
So in an article posted as a “review”, this guy is asking people to spend money and time on something whether they have any interest in seeing it or not, and if you don’t comply, you’re a judgmental asshole.
This is why AICN is meaningless.
” Though I suppose it’s true that you should give a movie a chance before you badmouth it.”
I don’t completely disagree with the sentiment. the internet seems built on a solid foundation of pointlessly tearing shit down based on snippets and clips and surface based logic.
i feel it’s perfectly justified to bag on remakes based on their very existence, especially in a time where everything is a remake, recycled and repackaged. This weekend you have Footloose and the Thing. I can’t bag on the film without seeing it but surely i can be allowed to indulge in a little skepticism for a cinematic culture so bereft of new ideas that we end up with two refurbished movies on the same weekend.
And that’s the thing about the online film community. They will unabashedly tear down remakes until they find one they like and then turn into whiny fucks screaming ‘COME ON GUYS, GIVE IT A CHANCE’. They created this hate based, talkbacker culture of FUCK ‘EM. Love doesn’t stand a chance anymore. Which is why films like Drive die such beautiful deaths. There’s so much snark, that when these online film critics who spent decades writing about how films ‘raped their childhood’ and spinning disgusting metaphors into ‘reviews’, they lost the ability to articulate cinematic love. On the same site as Capone’s sugary sweet treacle is Harry’s Thing headline.
“Harry says THE THING prequel is the warmest load of shit on screen in ages!”
Right above that well articulated thought is this weird plea.
“At a loss at what to see in a theater this weekend… Harry says take a DRIVE!!!”
The article detailing his hatred of The Thing is twice as long as his praise for Drive. And that’s not rare. Most online film types do a much better job articulating their anger than they do swathing a movie in praise.
Maybe that’s why it seems so odd when these guys try to reason with the angry, cynical audience they have fostered for so many years. I almost find it amusing when someone like Faraci or Knowles makes an impassioned plea for a movie. They can say something is shitty a thousand different ways, but they barely have the ability to convey love.
Write better reviews. Don’t indulge base impulses in your writing. Avoid rape metaphors. Spend as much time praising a good movie as you do railing on something you hate.
That’d be a good start.
So a too-faithful Thing remake prequel is a load of warm shit while a too-faithful Footloose remake is better than you’d think and worth paying $10 for even if you think it looks terrible? Just want to make sure I’m following AICN logic and reasoning. I’m with you anghus. I agree with everything you say above. Too many of the online reviewers suffer from what you highlight as well as excessive personal anecdotes that have nothing whatsoever to do with the quality of the film they’re supposedly reviewing.
PIRANHA 3-DD has been moved to 2012. Nooooooooooo! I was so looking forward to that Thanksgiving weekend, and I’m always charmed when Dimension releases a violent genre flick around a family Holiday (WOLF CREEK at Christmas, GRINDHOUSE at Easter…)
THE EDUCATION OF CHARLIE BANKS is great, and Durst’s direction (the tone, performances, visual style, use of music) is really strong. I hope Durst keeps making movies. As someone who was a Limp Bizkit fan, I’m glad he’s still out there and doing stuff. The CBS sitcom story amused me greatly this morning.
Come on. You knew that was coming. The only real surprise would have been if Piranha 3DD actually opened as originally scheduled.
I made it through about 30 minutes of The Education of Charlie Banks. Didn’t like it at all, and I love Eisenberg.
Ha, true. The fact that there was no poster or trailer this late in the game was a clear warning. But I had faith, and that faith was just shattered…I’m really curious to what Gulager and Co. have up their sleeves for this one, since Aja’s was so delirious and awesome.
Oh I want to see it badly, too. Aja’s is delirious and awesome. But there was no way this was actually coming out in November.
they filmed Piranha 3DD here and it wrapped in like July.
Then i started hearing about it being released this year. I realize turnaround times are getting shorter, but i couldnt see the scenario where it would be done at all by November. Four months for post and release? that sounds insane.
I don’t know much about the production other than Hasslehoff was here filming scenes, and a camera op friend of mine posted a memorable facebook update
“Filming a nude waterslide scene in 3D”
I believe they’re bringing back people who died in Piranha 3D. And Gary Busey is in it. Good times.
so after Scott Pilgrim the best thing Mary Elizabeth Winstead could find is the thing ?
maybe she’ll do better in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter …
footloose should have been a tv movie they can rerun like a dozen times .
still waiting for Amber Heard and Lindsay Lohan dp/30 ..
plus Chole Moerez who is smarter than everybody.
Evan Rachel Wood just got another dp/30 …this one DP asked like 50 questions . the only new thing i learned is
that she can sing and wants to do a movie about Janis Joplin…..
Evan Rachel Wood sings Justin Bieber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M-uiUj-VfA
the one dude who owns Marvel is Stan Lee .
dudes been at it for like 25 years and he gets no dp/30 …
however i’m not sure if Stan could say anything new that he hasn’t said at every comic con he goes too .
new tv series called boss on starz ..
this show seems important so it should get a dp/30 – a few new actors in it .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_%28TV_series%29
i tired watching whitney on nbc again – i just didn’t find any of this funny … Whitney hit some sort of tv jackpot …so that might deserve a dp/30 .
the least funniest show on tv is still on tv . how’d that happen ?
Betty WHite is funnier than Whitney and she’s like super old.
movie headlines from the future .
http://i.imgur.com/2Jl8w.jpg
so i’m listening to the radio and some old Pearl Jam comes on …so i stopped listening and just watched it on youtube .
radio drove me to youtube .
too bad Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam don’t act..he’d make a good crazy / evil guy in movies or tv shows .
hollywood directors put him into die hard 5 …. maybe he’ll be good and he’ll get a dp/30
they made a doc ..
Pearl Jam Twenty documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0gOEKnIbwA
so where is the dp/30 ?
woah a bigger movie geek than DP – DP you have competition from some dude i haven’t heard of .
Zack Mosley Reviews 65 (!) Films Just Screened In Vancouver!!
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/51628
DP – you failed to make Freddie Highmore a star with his 2 dp/30’s .. he won’t get any more interviews will he . like ever.
but all is not lost . you want Jessica Chastain and Evan Rachel Wood to win some oscars so they will get even more dp/30-‘s