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Ron Howard Still Confident in The Dark Tower Going Forward

Earlier this month, Universal put the brakes on Ron Howard’s ambitious adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower because of budget concerns. Not that Howard is concerned. “We’re thinking of starting in early spring [of 2012] now,” he told EW . “I can’t really say who’ll be in it yet, but Javier Bardem has shown a great deal of interest. We’ll know by the end of the summer, when our flashing green light goes solid.” [ EW ]

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Bad Movies We Love: Shanghai Surprise

I tried so hard to find an Oprah-themed Bad Movie We Love this week. Bad news, my darlings: they’re all not good enough. Beloved is too boring, Native Son is too serious, and The Color Purple is too funny. (Trust me.) So I rallied and made big choices. This week I’m commemorating Tree of Life star Sean Penn’s filthy past and Oprah’s biggest finale guest : the ineffable, the insufferable, La Sleaza Bonita herself, Madonna. Read: THIS IS A GREAT DAY. And the movie is a legend among awful, latrine-stink cinema, a rancid little misfortune cookie called Shanghai Surprise . Or as I prefer to call it: Not-So-Fast Times with Frigid Wife .

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Bad Movies We Love: Shanghai Surprise

Life After MacGruber and SNL: Catching up with Will Forte

Last year at this time, Will Forte had just wrapped his eighth season on Saturday Night Live and completed an exhausting round of promotion for MacGruber — the film based on Forte’s popular SNL character. Within a month, beleaguered by bad box office, MacGruber was entirely out of theaters. Then, in August, came the surprise announcement that Forte had decided not to return for his ninth season of Saturday Night Live .

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Hong Kong’s Blockbuster 3-D Smut Coming to America

The soft-core smash Sex and Zen 3-D: Extreme Ecstasy — a/k/a “the world’s first 3-D erotic film” that trumped even Avatar ‘s opening-day box-office record in Hong Kong — has an appointment with the States. U.S. distributor China Lion announced the acquisition today; the deal was brokered at this year’s Cannes market. “It is just like [being a] voyeur near someone’s bed,” said one producer, greasing the skids for the eventual theatrical landing. A release date is forthcoming, as are S&Z ‘s viewers, presumably. [ China Lion ]

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Good Idea/Bad Idea? Dimension and Miramax Making Another Amityville Horror

Horror remakes and sequels are a dime a dozen, but low-budget flicks like Paranormal Activity have boosted interest in making yet more moneymakers, no matter how redundant they sound on paper. Enter The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes , a new “found footage” sequel to the classic horror pic that will shoot this summer for a January 2012 release. What say you, Movieliners? Will this familiar concept be drawn thin or reinvigorated by the whole “found footage” shtick?

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How to Not Quite Succeed in Cannes Business Despite Really Trying: An Illustrated Guide

A Cannes-style queue has a curious shape. It’s not really a line at all, but more of a funnel — you can stay at the end for ages, while unassumingly pushy types creep forward from the sides in a barely discernible kind of Brownian movement. The festival staff — no-nonsense guys in matching taupe suits, notorious for being cranky — try to stem the pushing from the front, but have no control over how it happens from the back. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, or at least about 20, here’s a visual aid:

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CANNES REVIEW: The Dardenne Brothers Break From Formula with Le Gamin au Vélo

If you’ve seen even a modest number of European art-house films in your lifetime, you’re familiar with the following formula: Act I, child with problems (emotional problems, family problems, what have you) is introduced. Act II, said confused, troubled child gets into big trouble by seeking out the wrong kind of father figure, committing a misdeed in a fit of frustration, or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time; luckily, a kind someone comes to the rescue, offering the troubled child some respite and a dim ray of hope. Will it last forever? Do you even need to ask?

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CANNES REVIEW: The Dardenne Brothers Break From Formula with Le Gamin au Vélo

Watch The Original Lame Ending To Election

1999’s Election is probably Reese Witherspoon’s very best role. As laser-eyed grade-grubber Tracy Flick who had her sights set on becoming the school body president, Witherspoon was equal parts venomous and hilarious– nothing would stop Flick’s bloodthirsty rise to the top. And its bleakly funny ending, though a bit of a bummer, rang true to the mordant black humor that runs through the rest of Election . But now the original ending (that’s evidently true to the source novel) has surfaced and we see that the audience narrowly missed a coda that’s all hugs and accepted apologies and other bits of bland porridge. Check it out below! [ Vulture ]

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Take A First Look At Cameron Diaz & Colin Firth In Gambit

Could the upcoming Gambit be the most talent-stuffed movie since Inception ? Written by the Coen Brothers, starring Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman and Colin Firth and co-starring Stanley Tucci and Cloris Leachman, it’s like the Expendables for the NPR set. Firth stars as an art curator who plans to con England’s wealthiest man (Rickman) into buying a fake Monet with the help of Diaz as a Texas rodeo queen. Sounds awesome, so it’s a pity the first picture looks like Diaz and Firth are posing for their Senior Superlatives yearbook photo (Most Uncomfortable, perhaps?) Take a look!

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Tarantino Wants Will Smith for Spaghetti Western Django Unchained

Some might argue that one trip to the wild, wild West was enough for Will Smith. Quentin Tarantino is, it seems, not one of those people. According to a report which you should take with a generous heaping of salt, QT wants Smith for the lead in Django Unchained , his buzzed-about next film which may co-star Christoph Waltz and Sam Jackson. Cue the Stevie Wonder riff!

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