The Hot Blog Archive for March, 2009
BYOB – A New Week
Hopefully, some of the louder people – well, one – will be calmer this week.
Not a whole lot going on these days… maybe y’all have something great to chat about…
Who's Casting The Watchmen: Separated At Birth?
A blog comment made me laugh… silly…
“While the world ponders whether Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a ROBERT DOWNEY CLONE or a JAVIER BARDEM CLONE, I’d like to submit that here he most looks like another pop culture luminary:
SCHNEIDER from “One Day at a Time.”
LexG
Could it be?
Friday Estimates by Klady Watched
$28.1 million.
Want to put the Watchmen opening into perspective? That’s your number.
It’s what 300 did on its opening Friday, two years ago.
Opening weekend, of course, has nothing to do with the quality of the movie. It
BYOB 368
I’ve been learning/wwrestling with new technology in the form of AVCHD… looks great… but all kinds of new formatting issues. Once I figure them out, I think it will be a love affair. Until then, frustrating as hell. But we have some great stuff from Bill Mechanic, Mary Stewart Masterson/Kristin Stewart/Aaron Stanford, and Mark Duplass coming your way with more after that as I head into my annual March/April travel frenzy.
Meanwhile, I leave you some more space to talk amongst yourselves… thanks for being civil…
Bring Out Your Dogs
NATIONAL TOUR LAUNCHES SEARCH FOR A SPECTACULAR CANINE
In celebration of the releases of Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Bolt and Space Buddies on Disney Blu-ray and DVD, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment is hosting a special casting call to find one camera-ready canine for a bark-on role in an upcoming Buddies film!
The first audition, will be held at The Grove in Los Angeles, on March 7th, 2009, will feature dogs strutting their stuff on a catwalk, and auditioning in front of friends, fans, and furry creatures a like.
The Beverly Hills Chihuahua catwalk requires participants to arrive “camera ready” in the style of Beverly Hills Chihuahua…glamour, fashion & doggy bling with outrageous outfits! The Bolt runway is looking for all types of dogs, action star and super heroes full of talent and tricks! Auditions will take place across the country in seven cities and will be documented for Director Robert Vince to choose the final star.
Audition dates, cities and venues:
LOS ANGELES
Watchmen BYOB In The Non-IO Era
Our very own Comedian has been thrown out of the window for 48 hours for verbally napalming the blog and attempting to rape reasonable discourse.
Hopefully, a huge opening weekend for Watchmen will calm him down, as he has, at times been a valued commenter to this blog. In the meantime, feel free to throw ideas around in a civil way for a while…
The Watchmen Review (98% spoiler-free)
The Watchmen pre-game checklist is, indeed, the buzz of many writers. But after seeing the film, not so much.
Big blue cock?
Not that big a deal, albeit utterly unnecessary.
Ultraviolence?
Not for kids, and interestingly one of the areas where Mr. Snyder decided to be less faithful to the graphic novel, but hard-R comic book acceptable for adults.
Casting?
Not as much of a problem as expected
Friedkin Responds To Roizman's Blu-es
I twas less than a week ago when a review of the French Connection blu-ray went all sideways.
The Aaron Aradillas interview with Owen Rozman ran last week.
This week, Friedkin speaks to the issue directly, though pointedly, not to Roizman.
You should listen for yourself, if interested, but it comes down to Friedkin’s position that this is the best version of the film ever made, that the printing process in the early 70s was somewhat random and not as consistent as some believe, and that Roizman was not invited to participate in the print production in any step of the process for the film, so his opinion now is unwelcome and irrelevant.
