Oh God this gives me a massive hard on. Funtown Auto is one of my favorite internet videos of all time. Apparently the guys behind that masterpiece are back with Cars III, premiering at the New Beverly Cinema in L.A. on October 8th and 9th with an introduction by comedian/God-king Patton Oswalt (or so the video would have us believe). I know I gush, but if this doesn’t get you at least a little sexually excited I’m not sure we can be friends. Unless you have a puppy!
[Thanks to Burnsy for the tip]
There was a time when I can remember listening to an Adam Sandler album and literally thinking to myself “This is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.” These days, every movie he’s in makes $100 million dollars and his choice of projects seems driven by the desire to see just how shitty an idea has to be for it not to be a huge success.
Here’s to hoping Bedtime Stories (new trailer after the jump) is finally the one. It’s directed by the worst director in Hollywood (Adam Shankman), centers around the world’s most overused plot device (the kids’ stories come true!), and co-stars some kid with a lisp. Ugggghhhh. Why do people think that’s cute? Would it be cute if he walked with a limp or had a lazy eye or the occasional siezure? A misshapen skull? God damn man, they’re like spiders on my pillow.
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IFC Films recently released the trailer for Filth and Wisdom, “directed” by “Madonna”. It began as a short film and ended up not quite a feature at 80 minutes long. It will get a limited US release October 17th.
A Ukrainian immigrant, A.K. (Eugene Hutz), finances his dreams of ‘trans-continental superstardom’ with his band, Gogol Bordello, by turning tricks as a role-playing cross dresser. As A.K. literally whips the privileged of London into shape, he also secretly pines for the object of his affection, Holly (Holly Weston), an aspiring ballerina looking for her big break while moonlighting as a slippery stripper. Meanwhile, Juliette (Vicky Mclure) steals medicine from her pharmaceutical job in hopes of quenching her dreams of helping Africa’s youth. [Apple]
Since premiering in Berlin in February, it’s been racking up the kind of unimaginative reviews you’d expect for Madonna movie:
“Madonna would do well to hang on to her day job” -Telegraph. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote “Well, it had to happen. Madonna has been a terrible actor in many, many films and now… she has graduated to being a terrible director.” Jonathan Romney of Screen International called the film “good-humoured, averagely average vanity project” and “a cheap and cheerful comedy,” adding that “Madonna simply cannot direct actors.”
I’m surprised no one went for the “it’s better than stealing babies” angle.
Ever since it was announced that Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi would both be back for Spider-Man 4 and 5, the question on everyone’s mind has been, “For the love of God, what about Kirsten Dunst?”
“I’m in,” said the actress matter of factly. However, when pressed to make the announcement official, Dunst quickly changed her tone, and rather cryptically added, “I’m not saying anything, I know there’s rumors…” [MTV]
There you have it. Not a done deal yet, but it’s looking likely enough that I feel comfortable ending my hunger strike.
Since people know McG mainly as the guy behind awful movies like Charlie’s Angels, he’s been quick to point out that he took the job of directing Terminator 4 only with the blessing of Terminator 1 and 2 director James Cameron. In an interview at Comic-Con (video after the jump), he said:
“The only thing I was concerned about is I didn’t wanna disrespect Jim Cameron. So I went down and I talked to him and I told him what my take on the material was, and he told me he was actually interested in the way I made films, which I was surprised to hear, and then, uh, you know, he told me a story about how he was making the second Alien picture and he was following the great Ridley Scott and people thought he was nuts and he had a vision and he went for it. And you can’t operate from a place of fear, and he kicked me in the ass and said, “Go do it.’”
Jim Cameron’s take on it appears to have been slightly different:
Q. Are you involved at all in the Christian Bale production of Terminator 4?
A: It could be a big steaming pile or it could be brilliant. Sam Worthington is in Avatar and the new Terminator and he likes the script, but I never saw it. There was no blessing involved.
Obviously, one of them is lying. Hmmm, director of the highest-grossing film of all time or the sleazy one-named dude who used to make Korn videos, I just don’t know who to trust… I think what gave him away was that part about Jim Cameron being interested in how he made films. “And I was like, I dunno dude, I just point the camera at chicks and make sure their hair looks really bangin, ya know?”
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