In a blog entry posted Tuesday to his website The Red Statements, Kevin Smith spoke out again against critics of the unconventional plan to self-distribute his latest film, Red State , and explained how his twofold VOD /live Q&A strategy will work. (Boiled down to the post’s essential message: “Suck it, haters!”) And to think, just five months ago the world thought Smith’s Sundance stunting was all crazy-talk.
When you see Transformers: Dark of the Moon this week — and you will, preferably on the biggest screen possible , if Michael Bay has any say — you might notice something a bit strange. Nope, not how Dark of the Moon manages to work in multiple shots at the departed Megan Fox ; rather, how Bay staffed his new film with a cavalcade of actors recognizable to fans of the Coen brothers. Frances McDormand, John Turturro and John Malkovich, all co-star in Dark of the Moon , and continues the strange bit of pop culture cross-pollination between Bay and the Coens that started with the casting of Fargo co-stars Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare in Armageddon . In honor of this randomness, here are five other Coen brothers players who should appear in a Michael Bay film.
Posted onDecember 2, 2010by|Comments Off on Can James Franco and Anne Hathaway Save the Oscars for Generation Y?
The stages of reaction to the news that James Franco and Anne Hathaway will host the Academy Awards next year are turning over at a record pace. There was initial shock at the randomness of their selection; the acceptance that maybe the pair would make beautiful — if awkward — music together; and now, the rationalizations for putting them on the Kodak Theater stage in the first place. “This year’s telecast isn’t just about ‘getting to the youth’ — its whole theme is going to reflect on this history of movies through the perspective of a young person experiencing the movies for the first time,” an insider told Vulture . Which is a fancy way of saying it’s about getting to the youth.
