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Saturday, December 07, 2002
Misty Mundae's website is offering some photos and posters of the Softcore Starlet's lastest offerings...http://www.mistymundae.com/mags/index.html for those who are interested.
www.halloweenmovies.com is pushing the upcoming release of Halloween: Resurrection (I wonder why?) on DVD and Video. The Special Edition DVD will offer audio commentary, ten or so deleted scenes, THREE alternate endings, and featurettes.
DVDfile interviewed Dean Cundy (one of the great cinematographers), go here for
it..
Lucky McKee may be unlucky in the movie poster department (the poster for his debut thriller MAY was rejected as too gruesome) has landed a new project...THE WOODS. Both Variety and Fangoria report that the movie is about an isolated girl's school deep in the woods that begins loosing students in the woods. Sounds like Evil Dead meets Suspiria to me. Maybe I'm cynical.
More as I find it.
–Chad H. "Chadzilla" Saxelid
posted by Christopher 7:25 AM | Comments
Friday, December 06, 2002
For the first time in about 2 weeks, I actually don’t have something of my own to hype. Oh well, more room for news. Good afternoon, Mr. & Mrs. Fanboy and all the geeks at sea…let’s go to press!
Let’s begin with a story guaranteed to horrify fanboys everywhere. The Daily Star newspaper reported earlier this week that, hot off the surprise success of 8 MILE, Eminem is being sought by Warner Brothers to play the young Bruce Wayne in the long delayed BATMAN: YEAR ONE motion picture. This is only a rumor. Please God let it remain that way! If that’s not strange enough, rumor also has it that Eminem will be performing during the Super Bowl half-time show. Getting back to comic books to film, we can now add SHAZAAM and RONIN to the list courtesy of New Line Cinema. Amazingly, Nic Cage’s name has not been attached to either project yet.
Seems Hollywood is getting a hard-on, pun intended, to make biopics of famous, deceased porn stars. In addition to the John Holmes’ bio movie starring Val Kilmer that is filming as we speak, Ain’t It Cool News reports that Angelina Jolie is in talks to play the late DEEP THROAT star Linda Lovelace in a bio film. Angelina Jolie playing a porn star? Considering some of the stories about Miss Jolie’s personal life, something tells me this role will not be a stretch.
The saga of SCARY MOVIE 3 has taken yet another noteworthy turn. With the Wayans Brothers out and AIRPLANE/NAKED GUN maven David Zucked in charge of SCARY MOVIE 3, Kevin Smith has now jumped aboard as a writer/producer. With Kevin Smith writing the script, I think it’s pretty safe to say that much of gross-out humor of the previous films will now be replaced with pop culture references galore and endless amounts of profanity. On the other hand, this has still got to be an improvement over the last two.
According to LoveHewitt.com, THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER will see the light of day after all since a distribution deal has reportedly been struck with Universal Pictures. Jennifer Love Hewitt plays Satan opposite Alec Baldwin’s Daniel Webster in this modern day retelling of classic story. I can’t imagine how a movie with Jennifer Love Hewitt playing the Lord of Darkness would have trouble getting financing, but thank God Universal has stepped up to give the world this fine piece of cinema.
Rob Schneider tells Moviehole that the title of his highly anticipated DEUCE BIGALOW sequel will probably be DEUCE BIGELOW, ELECTRIC GIGALO. I bet that gimmicky title will be about as humorous as the movie gets.
Despite the fact that the Sci-Fi Channel’s TREMORS: THE SERIES debuts in just over a month, Fangoria reports that a direct-to-video TREMORS 4 is set to go before the lens next month. Uh, why? What could they possibly do in a new movie that they aren’t going to do on the new TV series? As much as I like TREMORS, this is complete and utter overkill.
CROCODILE DUNDEE himself Paul Hogan has joined the cast of VAN HELSING to play a yet unnamed monster. More importantly, it appears as if the new Stephen Sommer’s movie will be 100% pro wrestler-free. They didn’t even cast “Rowdy” Roddy Piper as Renfield. Damn!
Updating stories I reported on previously, SNIPER 2 is set to debut on Cinemax at the end of the month and MTG News now reports that MAGIC: THE GATHERING big screen movie is not in the works nor has it ever been in the works. I look forward to the former and breathe a sigh of relief regarding the latter.
Finally, director Guillermo Del Toro did an interview with Fangoria where he spoken of one of his upcoming projects, a remake of the classic CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON. Quoting Del Toro:20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEANo guarantee the movie will be any good, or even get made for that matter, but I’ll give Mr. Del Toro credit for at least wanting to take things in a more fantastical direction as opposed to Stephen Sommer’s method of just making everything mentally retarded. Personally, if it does get made, I’ll certainly be there on opening night.
More news, views, and skews to come.
–Scott Foy
posted by Christopher 12:05 PM | Comments
Tuesday, December 03, 2002
MY NAME IS SCOTT FOY AND I PAID TO SEE EXTREME OPS!!!
But more on that in a moment! First, the news, what little there is.
Even though SPIDER-MAN 3 is still many years down the pike, Zentertainment reports, and bear in mind that this is an unsubstantiated rumor, that Marvel has already begun petitioning Sam Raimi to base the third installment in the franchise around Venom and Carnage. Casting suggestions already being bandied about include Vin Diesel or The Rock as Eddie Brock and Christian Bale as Cletus Kassady. But will Bruce Campbell being playing The Lizard? Take this whole news item with a grain of salt.
Zentertainment also reports that, despite the fact the original was both a critical and box office failure, Nintendo hopes to get a sequel to SUPER MARIO BROTHERS made. Nintendo hopes this sequel will be more faithful to the video games and forgo the darker elements that the first movie had. That of course would explain why they want to get Marilyn Manson to cameo in the movie as one of the Koopa cousins. I’m not kidding about that last part. That’s what is actually being reported. Believe it or not!
Jonathan Demme might be taking the director’s chair for the remake of THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE starring Denzel Washington. Perhaps Mr. Demme should stay away from remakes of classic movies considering the fiasco that was THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE.
Ted Turner is once again producing and flick about the Civil War. Entitled GODS & GENERALS, the epic is going to clock in at an interminable 3.5 hours. If that’s not long enough for you, USA Today reports that the special edition DVD, which has already been planned out even though the movie has yet to even be released, will feature a 6 hour extended cut of the movie. Never let it be said that Ted Turner is not the ultimate Civil War buff.
Love him or hate him, he’s coming to the big screen. I speak of SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS. A feature length version of the uber-popular Nickelodeon cartoon is in development as we speak. According to Dark Horizons, the plot will go a little something like this: After Patrick gets caught by a fisherman and taken to an aquarium in Florida, Spongebob and friends must embark on a quest to rescue him. They better hope it does better box office business than that POWERPUFF GIRLS movie.
Just when you think reality television can’t sink any lower our friends across the pond achieve the unthinkable. Are you ready for Celebrity Detox? Read for youself.
Finally, I hope everyone enjoyed reading The 20 Goofiest Movie Monsters of All Time as much as I did putting it together. It was fun to finally see it go online after much delay and then receiving feedback from many a reader. Looks like I might have to go back and take another look at OCTAMAN and the Turkey Monster from BLOOD FEAST from some of the feedback I’ve gotten.
However, even with the list and my latest column up at the NOWFF site and the MONSTURD review at Ain’t It Cool News and my news reporting right here, there’s still more of me to go around! Head over to Creature Corner and you can read my review of SHARK ATTACK 3: MEGALODON, which is an absolute must see for any bad movie lover. And then, as the header to today’s report states, I did something this weekend that very, very, very, very, very few people did. Yes, I actually paid to see EXTREME OPS. If you really don’t want to waste your time or money enduring the Golan-Globus level agony that is EXTREME OPS, surf on over to Ain’t It Cool News right now and check out my in-depth review of the film no one else on AICN dares to even speak of. AICN’s Moriarty has pretty much given me an open door to come back and review the latest craptacular Hollywood offerings whenever I feel like it, but if he thinks I’m going anywhere near THE HOT CHICK this weekend… Hey, even I have my limits! NOWFF, Badmovies.net, Creature Corner, Ain’t It Cool News, in the last 10 days it seems like I’m popping up everywhere, folks! As the my bio on this site states, I clearly have too much free time on my hands.
More news, views, and skews to come so stay tuned!
–Scott Foy
posted by Christopher 12:07 PM | Comments
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