MANNY PWNS MEXICO

06.13.08 Written by Vince Mancini

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Like strip clubs, posters for The Happening are a little different south of the border. 

Fox Mexico’s unique marketing campaign behind "The Happening" has some here thinking the M. Night ["The Dickhead"] Shyamalan thriller contains scenes filmed in Mexico.
That’s because Fox Mexico has altered the poster to give it a local flavor [¡Ay que pico! -Ed.]. The original poster depicts a line of abandoned cars on a two-lane highway leading to a U.S. city on the horizon. The Mexican one-sheets, in contrast, show a similar scene with backdrops of emblematic landmarks in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey, the nation’s three largest cities. [THR]

Dude, you can’t just change the movie to suit the country you advertise in.  Still, other studios are following suit.  German ads for The Incredible Hulk depict him smashing the windows of Jewish-owned businesses, while in China, the Joker works in a nail salon.

No word on why they re-titled it The End of Times or chose not to change his name to "M. Noche".

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TARANTINO WAR FILM IN 2009

05.27.08 Written by Vince Mancini

Tarantino modeling his latest accessory, a rawhide manpurse

Rumors of Quentin Tarantino’s war epic Inglorious Bastards have been around for at least three or four years now, but the latest word around the campfire is that he plans to finish it by 2009.

[on a French TV at Cannes] Oh, yeah, no. The next movie I’m doing is my WWII movie Inglorious Bastards. I actually just finished the first draft of the script and when I go home I’ll be finishing it up…and if all goes well [pregnant pause] I will be here 2009 at Cannes with my war film INGLORIOUS BASTARDS!!! [applause].”

I’m excited for this movie, but wary.  Tarantino’s hard to trust because he seems like he does a lot of cocaine.  I tend to take statements from cokeheads with a grain of salt seeing as how I’m not a Persian club promoter. 

Wait, was that racist?  In retrospect, I’d say it was more nonsensical than anything else.  *doffs coonskin cap, nods contentedly*

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