New ‘W’ Poster Puts Brolin in Oval ‘Office’
August 19, 2008
I just saw this new poster for Oliver Stone’s W over at FirstShowing, and I couldn’t help but notice a startling resemblance to a certain other obliviously-self-confident, stupid boot-clad, reclining idiot-leader.
It got me thinking…
Maybe problem with the current administration isn’t so much that Bush is constantly saying stupid things that cause the country great embarrassment, it’s just that we don’t have a Tim character there to mug for the camera when he does, giving us an executive branch version of The Office.
So what I’m suggesting is this: instead of having an election for president this year, how about we let Bush stay in office and have Obama and McCain run for the part of Tim? Instead of debates, there would be a series of auditions where we see who’s better at looking around with disbelieving stare and playing pranks on an increasingly aggravated Dick Cheney. Just imagine how good it would be to see McCain in a will-they-or-won’t-they romance with the secretary (of Defense or someone–whoever’s mousiest), or Obama preventing a nuclear disaster by sealing the Panic Button in Jell-O. That’s the kind of national news report I’d purchase on DVD.
I’m just saying, let’s at least try it for a couple seasons.
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‘Tropic Thunder’ Proves Itself the More Popular Movie Featuring a Guy in Heavy Makeup
August 19, 2008
Weekend box office results!
1. Tropic Thunder - $25.8 million, finally answering the question of if [the actor who played] Iron Man could beat [the movie] Batman in a fight [between their movies, one of which came out a month prior].
2. The Dark Knight - Oh, how the mighty have fallen… one spot… after five weeks… and after earning over $470 million. ($16.4 million)
3. Star Wars: The Clone Wars - $14.6 million, because it’s terrible.
4. Mirrors - $11.1 million, a number that, when held to a mirror, remains the same. Spooky, huh? Except how the decimal point is in the wrong spot, and the dollar sign is reversed and at the end, and I rounded down the last 1 even though it was technically $11.16 million, so that’s also not entirely accurate. Still, spooky.
5. Pineapple Express - Dropping three spots with only $9.8 million after many people planning to see it decided instead to finish this South Park then laugh at that channel where they sell all those knives.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
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‘Whip It!’ Recreating the Magical Coupling of Fallon and Barrymore
August 19, 2008
Remember the night you first saw what what would become the defining baseball-themed romantic-comedy of your lifetime, Fever Pitch, and how as the house lights rose, illuminating a packed audience of satisfied smiles, you couldn’t help thinking how you would do anything to see Drew Barrymore and that guy who cracks himself up together again? Well, your dream is coming true, only this time America’s Official Sweetheart will be behind the scenes. Because she’s a director. From /Film:
Jimmy Fallon has been cast in Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut Whip It! Fallon has been spotted by /Film sources on set of the roller derby dramedy playing “Hot Tub Johnny”, a cheesy hungover announcer who makes nasty comments to all the skaters. My sources have also spotted Andrew Wilson, brother of of Owen and Luke (fans of Wes Anderson know as “Future Man” in Bottle Rocket), who is playing a roller derby coach. The film stars Ellen Page as “an indie-rock loving misfit” who finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin Texas.
As much as I dislike the idea of Jimmy Fallon in movies (let alone in his own talk show), I have to trust Barrymore’s instincts on this. Because she’s a director. Drew Barrymore is a director.
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‘Secret Life of Bees’ Trailer Finally Gets to the Bottom of Bees
August 19, 2008
With all that buzzing and stinging and honey-making and seemingly-impossible flying and caste-based societying, you just knew something fishy was going on in those hives. Let’s see what you’ve been hiding, bees…
Oh, I guess the whole “Secret Lives of Bees” things is a metaphor. See, Queen Latifah is like the queen bee, because they both have “queen” in their name. And the part where Dakota Fanning smashes the jar of honey represents how smashing mirrors is so cliché, so how about a jar of honey instead? But I wonder what Fanning taking the Olsen-esque aging path of cute child actor-to-haggard corpse is all about. Probably something to do with bees.
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‘Watchmen’ Has More Legal Trouble Than Your Dad
August 19, 2008
Whoop, sorry for the late start. As sent in by many people last night and this morning, a federal judge has denied Warner Brothers’ motion to dismiss Fox’s lawsuit regarding the rights to distribute Watchmen, meaning the anticipated release could be delayed, completely ruining my only plans for March of next year. As Fox tells it:
In essence, the Judge appears to conclude that Fox retained distribution rights in Watchmen through the 1991 Largo quitclaim, and he concludes that, under the 1994 turnaround, producer Larry Gordon acquired an option to acquire Fox’s remaining interest in Watchmen that was never exercised, thereby leaving Fox with its rights under the 1994 agreement,
Warner Bros. has since added:
The judge did not opine at all on the merits, other than to conclude that Fox satisfied the pleading requirements. We respectfully disagree with Fox’s position and do not believe they have any rights in and to this project.
Yikes, legal things! Let’s hope this gets sorted out in a reasonable amount of time. We’ve already had to cope with one unreleased masterwork of superhero cinema; we can’t afford another.
Warner’s ‘Watchmen’ In Legal Peril After Judge Won’t Dismiss Fox Suit[Deadline Hollywood]
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