The Hot Blog Archive for December, 2008

The Valkyrie X-Mas Special

Just when Hollywood was counting it out, Valkyrie takes control of the situation and creates the first-ever Hitlercentric Christmas musical special with all the movie’s stars…

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But What

Box Office Mojo announced to its subscribers today that

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Seven Pounds

I really don

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Mamma Mia Latest "Record Breaking" DVD

This comes right on the heels of Mamma Mia! passing Titanic as the highest grossing film in UK history.
The Dark Knight reported 3 million units on its first day of release, though like opening day box office, the numbers for both of these films are skewed by internet and retail pre-sales, which are much more significant now than they were just a year or two ago.
The numbers for both films are excellent, though not beyond huge and not likely to crack Finding Nemo’s DVD record of 28 million units or even Shrek 2″s 16m – 21.6m units (depends on when they were reporting and how you account for returns).
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Press Release
WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON MAMMA MIA! THE MOVIE TAKES IN

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BYOB – Wednesday

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More Cool, Very Expensive Junk

* $240,000 Mark Hamill’s hero “Luke Skywalker” lightsaber from Star Wars and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
* $120,000 Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi original “C-3PO” droid helmet worn by Anthony Daniels
* $96,000 Second Draft Original Handwritten Manuscript of You Only Live Twice Signed ByRoald Dahl
* $96,000 Full-Sized Animatronic “Joe” From Mighty Joe Young
* $90,000 Signature “Wolverine” black leather battlesuit from X-Men
Here’s the catalog from Profiles in History

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Short Ends…. (Pt 3 of 2)

ALAN ROSENBERG’S STRIKE
It

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BYOB – The Spirit Movies Us…

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Short Ends… (Pt 2 of 2)

GOLDEN OLDIE – Why hasn

Short Ends

GIVE AWAY THE DAMNED RAZORS!!!

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DP/30 – Benicio del Toro – Che’

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DP/30 – Man On Wire – The Producers


A chat with the Andrea Meditch & Maureen A. Ryan, two of the people who brought us the Oscar short-list doc, Man On Wire.

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Because I Do Enjoy Crazy…

This has been coming over the e-transom, over and over again… and now, you can enjoy it!!!
IT IS NOT A SPAM, but if you received that message second and plus time JUST CLICK DELETE button and have a nice day. Don’t feel bad, please understand original Scarlett’s family very desperate to shout down that humiliating antichristian “actress” clones line career development. Hello dear Ladies and Gentlemen! I would like inform you that Scarlett Johansson (actress) actually is a clone from original person Scarlett Galabekian last name, who has nothing with acting career. That clone was created illegally by using stolen biological material. Original person is very nice (not d**n sexy),most important – CHRISTIAN young lady! I’ll tell you more,those clones (it’s not only one) made in GERMANY – world leader manufacturer of humans clones, it is in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Mr. Helmut Kohl home town. You can not even imaging the scale of the cloning activity. But warning! Helmut Kohl clone staff strictly controlling all their clones (at least they trying) spreading around the world, they are very accurate with that, some of them are still NAZI type disciplined and mind controlled clones, so be careful get close with clones you will be controlled as well. Original person is not happy with those movies, images, video, rumors and etc. spreading on media in that way it would be really nice if we all will try slow down that ”actress” career development, original Scarlett will really appreciated that. Please remember that original Scarlett’s family did not authorize any activity with stolen biological materials, no matter what form it was created in it was stolen and it is stolen. It all need to be delivered to authorized personals control in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Original Scarlett never was engaged, by the way! Her close friend Serge G. P.S. CONTROLLING ACTIVITY OF ANY CLONES IS US MILITARY OPERATION. H.R. 534, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003, was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives on February 5, 2003. After discussion, it was passed on February 27 by a vote of 241-155. It now moves on to the Senate for consideration. This bill makes it unlawful for any person or entity to perform or participate in human cloning, or to ship or receive embryos produced by human cloning. The penalties are imprisonment of up to 10 years and fines of $1 million or more. These now join other nations as diverse as Norway, Australia, and Germany, which had already added cloning for any purpose to their criminal code. And in Germany where it carries a penalty of five years imprisonment they know a thing or two about unethical science.

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Soderbergh Talks Che' Controversy

The cameraphone of it all is what it is… but still, interesting to see SS take on the discussion head on…

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DP/30 – Josh Brolin – W. & Milk

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The interview
Available via Google
Or in QT (200mg), after the jump…

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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