THIS IS NOT FOX’S WEEK
04.01.09
Fox makes Schadenfreude Sloth want to c-walk
A full-length, DVD-quality workprint of 20th Century Fox’s Wolverine has reportedly leaked online (you can check the comments section from two posts ago if you want the link), though the film isn’t set to be released until May 1st. ThePlaylist speculates that it could be the work of someone angry over the WB/Fox Watchmen fiasco, while I’m content to merely pleasure myself chuckle at their misfortune.
In other Fox news, there was a bad batch of Slumdog Millionaire DVDs sent out that were missing the special features promised on the box, such as deleted scenes and featurettes. Fox has set up a hotline to replace the faulty DVDs, but no word yet on how much this will end up costing them. Man, it must be awesome working for Fox. The way I picture their board meetings, one guy wearing a blindfold walks around the office and shouts “Marco!” And all the other guys have to shout “Polo!” And then the blindfolded guy will take an orange out of his orange sack and throw it in the direction of the shouts, and anyone who gets hit has to make more popcorn.
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In Fox’s defense, there’s really no such thing as a good batch of Slumdog Millionaire DVDs.
If you work at Fox, I bet you can call in sick for four straight f’ing months and still stay on the payroll.
BIRFFFFFFFFFDAY!!!
Also, the Spanish subtitles on the Slumdog Millionaire DVDs were done by Mrs. Reitemayer’s ninth grade Spanish I class.
Birffday? Who? Al? No shit!
I don’t like to say I told you so but…wait…I love to say that.
True true Swi, happens every year or so, right around the same time, even.
Well then piss off then!
Nah, just kidding. . . Happy Birffday, Dawg!
Fox accidentally releasing a workprint of a movie is what we in the movie industry like to call a “courtesy flush”.
Rorschach’s Journal April 1 2009…HAHAHHAHAHA SUCK IT TOM ROTHMAN! EAT A DICK YOU FOX MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
Happy Birthday, Al.
Ignore the fucking comma please. I’m having one of those weeks.
Heh. Bubbles.
:)
Yeah. Maybe it’s the Canadian accents, but that show, Bubbles in particular, crack me up.
I’m printing this story and handing it out to everybody I hear bitch about bad things only happening to good people.
Fuck Miike I’m comma happy today. WTF?,,,,,,,
You must be taking pause and smelling roses and whatnot.
Careful there J, your participle is dangling.
Hugh Jackman was the inspiration for Carly Simon’s biggest hit.
Happy Birthday, Al.
(BTW, Canadian Birthdays consist of your annual “Free” dental/eye/ear/nose/throat/ass exam, and a six pack of LaBatts, of course)
Are you offering to provide the above-mentioned exam, Stoney? Cuz I’m down with that.
I’ll even bring the beer.
Some dude painted blue was seen wandering the Fox editing rooms with his dick hanging out right before this happened. Suspicion was raised, but then they just found out it was Brett Ratner who’d gotten lost on the way to the club.
New up!
I swear we should pitch a series/movie revolving around a board room of incompetent studio executives to FOX and see how far into development it will get. I say one and a half award-winning seasons before cancellation or one good film followed by 4 increasingly shitty ones.
just watched it last night. this movie was beyond turdish. fox has done i again! that is all
I clicked on one of the links and found a workprint of Australia. Damn you, Tom Rothman!
WHAT A TURD. Seriously, I’d rather sit through I Know Who Killed Me again than watch Wolverine a second time. It’s shit dude. It’s really just a bunch of scenes without any form. How did this movie get made? Who paid money to make this? I picture Sex Man sitting in front of a computer like Weird Science. Though, instead of making a hot magic broad that would get him laid, he made this crap by feeding it random pages from the comic, clips of every shitty 007 movie stunt, his copy of Commando, X-Men 3, his fan fiction journal, and the entry from his nightmare diary when Ryan Reynolds showed up to be his boyfriend but didn’t have a mouth. The shark blows up in the end, save your money.
Yeah it was really pretty bad. And does Fox think we’re stupid enough to not get that they just recycled all the music from Transformers? Come one now. Nerds pick up on that crap.
As somebody who is gay for Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds and anything X-Men related, I cannot stress how utterly shitty this film is. It is the how-to of how-not-to’s.
I did laugh at some AICN talkbacker describing it as “like being raped and then handed a bill for it after”. I’m pretty sure that metaphor doesn’t really hold water.