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| New "Mothman Prophecies" pics.. | December 28, 2001 |
| Source: JoBlo.com If you were watching any TV this weekend, it's likely you saw the new commercials for the upcoming Richard Gere thriller THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES. Courtesy of Sony, I've got a few cool new pics to pass along from the film. It should be mentioned that the official site will be updated in the coming weeks with all kinds of weird stuff so make sure you check back (please direct all accusations of "sellout" to scoops@joblo.com).
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| Catching up... | December 28, 2001 |
| Source: JoBlo.com We've been gone for a few days for the Christmas holiday and before we get started catching up on all that happened (or didn't happen) while we were away, I'd just like to make sure everyone had a happy holiday weekend. I got a lot of cool Simpsons and Spider-Man memorabilia this weekend, so I'm a happy camper. In any event, not a whole lot went on since we've last talked but here's a laundry list of the few tidbits from the past few days... Actor Sir Nigel Hawthorne, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE, has died at the age of 72. Had it not been for the cancer that eventually took his life, Hawthorne could've starred in two of 2001's high-profile releases. He was originally scheduled to star as Jack the Ripper in FROM HELL and was considered for Gandalf in LORD OF THE RINGS. That part eventually went to fellow Sir, Ian McKellan. (Associated Press) Despite the failure of NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE which nailed a coffin in the gross-out spoof genre, Miramax still plans on going ahead with a third SCARY MOVIE - this time titled SCARY MOVIE 3: EPISODE 1 - LORD OF THE BROOMS. As you can probably tell from the film's title, the final (?) installment in the series will take on the fantasy genre popular in such recent films as STAR WARS, HARRY POTTER and LORD OF THE RINGS. The film will follow "orphan who embarks on a magical quest around the world and beyond to rid the universe of evil." The Wayans family (director Keenan and brothers Shawn and Marlon) are not expected to return. (Variety) Michael Madsen, who showed so much promise after RESERVOIR DOGS but wound up making films like SUPREME SANCTION and SPECIES 2, will star in both BOND 20 and Quentin Tarantino's next KILL BILL. In the BOND film, Madsen will play Falco, a rogue CIA agent, although it's unclear whether this character is an ally or foe. There was no mention what role Madsen would play in BILL but it's possible he would play the pimp to Uma Thurman's hooker. Hopefully these films can turn around the career of Mr. Blonde who could never live up to his legendary character. Maybe if he hadn't turned down PULP FICTION for WYATT EARP we wouldn't be having this discussion...(Hollywood Reporter) The trailer for the Sam Jackson/Ben Affleck
suspense-thriller CHANGING LANES has gone up and it looks pretty intense so far. The
movie opens on April 5th and follows a road rage incident that goes waaaay too far.
The official website hasn't gone up yet but check back soon for more info. Find out
where to download this new trailer in our Movie
Trailers section. |
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| X-Mas Movie Commercials... | December 28, 2001 |
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Joey Baloney BEWARE - MAJOR SPOILER ALERT I watch a lot of TV these days. I never used to, but then I the baby came along and my footloose/fancy-free days of having a life were destroyed. This was a difficult adjustment for me because obviously I'm more of a movie guy. I started my transition from the big screen to small slowly. First it was a steady diet of movies on TV. TBS for lunch and TNT for dinner with some HBO for dessert. I was in training for a few months before I realized the time had come for me to crossover to the (gulp) networks. I was frightened. One time I was in a room while "Friends" was on in the background and the experience almost sent me leaping out a window like Helen Hunt on angeldust. I couldn't survive on a diet of simply cable channels and knew the crossover to primetime network television was in the name of survival. Surely it wasn't all canned laughter, forced dialogue and hammy performances. The first night (a Monday) went down like a doubleshot of Jagermeister. I didn't think I could continue. Yes, Dear? Boston Public? Weakest Link? Third Watch? <<shudder>> As traumatizing as my first night was, I was determined to continue. Tuesday was next and luckily things started to pick up. There was 24 and Undeclared - two shows I've since added to my "must see" list. So there were decent things to watch on television. It's just a matter of finding it. I'm still afraid of Thursday nights but I have become a fan of Alias, The Bernie Mac Show and cable shows like Forensic Files and The New Detectives (Cheers on Nick at Nite should not be ignored but since that's building on an existing love, I didn't include it). · 24 Don't get me wrong - I still manage to escape to the occasional movie. But now that my attendance at the movies has come to an unfortunate decline I've become more selective about which films I try getting out of the house to see. I can't afford too many more movies like THE AFFAIR OF THE NECKLACE, although they do provide the welcome opportunity for a quick nap (also a precious commodity in these post-baby days). So basically I've been watching a lot of trailers, reading reviews and paying attention to the commercials on the TV. And in watching these commercials (here's where I finally get to the point), I've noticed something odd. Let's take for example, VANILLA SKY. The marketing team at Paramount Pictures decided to quote in a televised ad for the aforementioned film, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone. The quote they used from his review is as follows: "VANILLA SKY is…an out-there erotic thriller with mind-bending secrets no review should give away!" It would seem, at least to my feeble brain, that knowing there is a "twist" ending to a movie tends to ruin the fact that there is a twist ending. If you're bringing someone to their surprise birthday party you wouldn't say, "There's a surprise waiting for you when we get home!" (I don't begrudge Mr. Travers because generally if you're reading a review you're willingly reading about a movie. A commercial, on the other hand, if you're into what you're watching, can barely be avoided.) Another case - THE OTHERS. Miramax's campaign for this movie included the same tactics used for VANILLA SKY. Playing up the "with an ending that will leave you breathless!" angle. Off the recommendation of JoBlo's 9/10 review for the film I checked it out but instead of sitting back, enjoying the film and being pleasantly surprised by the surprise ending, I'm trying to figure out whodunit for 90 minutes. And by the time "it" finally arrived, I was less than shocked. Not to say I had figured everything out, but to me the whole thing stunk of THE SIXTH SENSE. I wasn't shocked at all. This also reminds me a lot of the whole CAST AWAY trailer scandal of last year, where they practically reedited the movie down to 2 minutes and 30 seconds. I'm not completely naïve. I know ALF was really a puppet, so I can understand the bottom line to studios is putting butts in the seats. But aren't there more creative ways to go about it? Fox didn't tout FIGHT CLUB with lines like "FIGHT CLUB has a twist ending that'll leave your pants soiled with your own feces!" Or New Line coming out with "SEVEN's climactic and surprising final scene will force your body into epileptic seizures of pure delight!" And I'm not a complete spoiler prude. But a great ending is one of the joys of the movies. Taking that away is robbing audiences of that joy. As I said before, no one wants to be told, "I have a surprise for you when we get home!" cause then your mind starts wondering what a great surprise it could be (a new car! a new computer! we won the lottery!) only to find out that building maintenance just fixed the leaky faucet. That might have been a nice surprise on its own, without the fancy build-up, but over-hyping the surprise ruined it. Point being, just let people go to the movies, watch a solid film and be surprised by the twist ending. No need to beat people over the head with it. Subtlety is key. Take a note from THE SIXTH SENSE or THE USUAL SUSPECTS and to a lesser extent THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. And once, just once, I'd eventually like to achieve the purist of movie going
experiences. I want to be sat in a theater, alone, with absolutely no idea of what's about
to unspool in front of me. No previous knowledge of the plot, actors, directors, nothing.
No prejudice what-so-ever. I guess that'll never happen. |
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| Holiday schedule.. | December 24, 2001 |
| Source: JoBlo.com As you all
know, the next two business days, Monday and Tuesday, are Christmas Eve and Christmas
respectively and the news has already grinded to a halt. I will leave you with this
update for now and I'll be back mid-week with more goodies for you. I hope
everyone enjoys their Holiday weekend and the heap of movies there are to see and I hope
you don't miss me too much. Until then, here are a few things to tide you over this
Holiday week... |
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| GIGLI and THE CORE exclusive pics!! | December 24, 2001 |
| Source: JoBlo.com Man, things were going slow last Friday. There was hardly anything of interest to talk about because everyone was still gabbing about the Globes and prepping themselves for a four-day Holiday weekend. Then came a mysterious e-mail in my inbox. No subject, no text, just three jpegs attached. Their titles were "gigli," "core1" and "core2". I knew it was going to be something good. And I wasn't disappointed. We've got your first look at two of next year's big releases courtesy of our unnamed scooper. First up, let's see what Ben and J. Lo are up to on the set of GIGLI. You remember this flick right? It's the one where Halle Berry was supposed to star but had to drop out cause of X-MEN 2? Directed by Martin Brest of SCENT OF A WOMAN fame? About a hitman who kidnaps a mentally challenged kid and holes himself up in a dingy apartment with a sexy young woman? I'll cut the jibber-jabber and just show you the damn picture...
Next up, we have a look at Aaron Eckhart, Stanley Tucci and Hilary Swank in next summer's action flick THE CORE. This film follows a bunch of NASA astronauts sent to the core of the Earth to correct a temperature change that has stopped the rotation of the planet. Here's the pics:
So there you have it! Pretty cool, eh? Tucci looks like a major league weasel in this film. I love how he just throws himself into every part he plays. I'm not sure what Swank and that other actor are staring at but maybe this is when they realize the world has actually stopped spinning. Wait...don't they always say that if the world stopped rotating, the lack of centrifugall force would fling everybody off the Earth? I know a few times after a couple drinks I've had to hold on to the grass to keep myself from falling off the planet but that's another story. Actually I've researched this and this is the answer I found according to this website: "If the Earth is currently
spinning, we are spinning with it. That is, standing at the equator you are moving around
in a giant circle at almost 1000 mph. If the Earth stops, you will still want to keep
moving forward. This is Newton's first law (as stolen from Galileo): All objects retain
their state of motion unless there is an unbalanced force acting. Thus, a sudden stop of
the Earth's rotation would make it seem as though we were suddenly kicked off the ground
and made to fly eastward. (What actually happened is the Earth stopped and we kept going.)
Trees, houses, people, etc. would all get "thrown" as though we were all getting
thrown from a car that was traveling hundreds of miles per hours and ran into a brick
wall. Not so good." |
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| Sandler/Nicholson team official | December 24, 2001 |
| Source: Variety It was rumored a while back that Revolution Studios was very eager to get Jack Nicholson to star alongside Adam Sandler in a comedy entitled ANGER MANAGEMENT. The sent him the script, he read it, read it again and producers didn't hear back for over a month. They assumed his original interest in the project waned and he decided to pass. Nicholson was all but ruled out as a co-star. Then all the sudden, the actor decides he wants in. So know it's official - Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler will star in ANGER MANAGEMENT. My kudos go to whoever thought to send Nicholson the script. He just sounds perfect for the part. Listen to the plot: an
average schmoe (Sandler) who's a big of a pushover accidentally gets sentenced to take
anger management courses taught by Nicholson's character. Nicholson (obviously)
hasn't learned to control his anger at all and instead of teaching Sandler how to relax,
he turns him into a rage-filled maniac who then forcefully takes back control of his life.
The script is currently being rewritten by Sandler and longtime collaborator Tim
Herlihy and Pete Segal (TOMMY BOY, NUTTY PROFESSOR 2) is the frontrunner to direct.
Filming is scheduled to begin in March. While I'm not a huge Sandler fan, I
think these two are going to have great chemistry and should rival Ben Stiller and Robert
De Niro in MEET THE PARENTS. |
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| More movie news... | December 24, 2001 |
Source: Variety Mark Addy has joined the cast of Fox's SIN EATER for director Brian Helgeland. Addy previously worked with the director, as well as SIN castmates Heath Ledger and Shannyn Sossamon on A KNIGHT'S TALE. Addy and Ledger play priests investigating a corpse found riddled with religious symbols. (Variety) Following in the vein of STARTUP.COM, Working Title plans to make a film based on one of the most notorious Internet failures - Boo.com. The film will be based on the book "Boo Hoo: A Dot Com Story From Concept to Catastrophe," which was written by Boo founder Ernst Malmsten. Boo.com was a British-based site that sold exclusive fashion-wear to the public. It was once valued at $390 million but poor sales sank the site quickly. (Variety) Check out the brand new MEN IN BLACK 2 trailer
now available at JoBlo's Movie Trailers and also head over to
the official site for QUEEN
OF THE DAMNED which features a whole slew on new images from the film. |
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