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Friday, May 02, 2003
SCHLOCKTOBERFEST 2003: SCHLOCK & AWE
It is with great pleasure that I announce the advent of what I hope will become an annual event for lovers of schlock cinema. On Saturday, October 18, 2003, SCHLOCKTOBERFEST 2003: SCHLOCK & AWE will unleash fourteen hours of b-movie badness upon the Adult Education Center on the USM-Long Beach Campus in Long Beach, Mississippi. Don’t let the name fool you. The Adult Education Center is actually the college’s brand new theater and those of you who have attended NOWFF in the past will be happy to know that this auditorium has something that’s guaranteed to put a smile on your faces – cushioned seats! But rest assured you will be in for quite an education! The carnage will begin at noon and continue until approximately 2 a.m.
The final movie of the night will begin at sometime around midnight and it will be billed as “The Midnight Mystery Movie” as the title of this particular film will not be announced in advance. Be forewarned: All movies shown will have been hand selected by yours truly and I will also be serving as your master of ceremonies so you will be at my mercy the entire time. Muwahahaha! The fest will also carry on a worthwhile NOWFF tradition, as it too will be a fundraiser for a local charity. Matters involving the fest got delayed over the past month for a variety of reasons so more details aren’t available at this time but expect a brand new website within the next two weeks that will feature much more information about the fest including pricing and such. It will also become the new home of my personal columns/reviews. So stay tuned to Badmovies.net for more details in the very near future. And I hope to see you at SCHLOCKTOBERFEST 2003: SCHLOCK & AWE this October!
-Scott Foy
posted by Christopher 11:01 AM | Comments
Thursday, May 01, 2003
FoyWonder's News Roundup for May 1, 2003
Good afternoon, Mr. & Mrs. Fanboy and all the geeks at sea…let’s go to press!
More details on GODZILLA X MOTHRA X MECHAGODZILLA: TOKYO S.O.S. have surfaced courtesy of Monsterzero. The new film is a direct sequel to last year’s GODZILLA X MECHAGODZILLA is said to explain more of the reasoning behind the use of Godzilla's DNA in creating the new Mechagodzilla and this may lead to a Godzilla clone. It’s already being talked about that this is part two in a trilogy that will culminate in next year’s 50th anniversary film that may very well be GODZILLA X GODZILLA. But getting back to this one, there may actually be a fourth monster in the movie. Mothra appeared in GXMG via a flashback, as did Gaira, the green gargantua from WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS, leading some to believe that it may turn up in the movie as well. GMM is scheduled to open this December in Japan. Production begins in June. Hopefully next year’s 50th anniversary movie, whatever it may be, won’t be done in such a rushed manner.
As reported by Henshin Online’s August Ragone, "An authorized, but small-budget featurette entitled GAMERA 4 just had its first public screening in Japan, recently. In the film, a more angular Gamera battles "Albino Gyaos." Kadokawa-Daiei is seriously considering releasing the short film to DVD. The film even features Yukijiro Hotaru reprising his monster-worn character!" I hope so because I definitely want to see it.
Dude, where’s my talking car? The industry website 4Filmmakers.com reports that Ashton Kutcher is set to star in the big screen version of the campy 80s action-adventure series KNIGHT RIDER. David Hasselhoff will be an executive producer for the movie and is also involved with a new TV version of the show. Guess we get to look forward to plenty of KNIGHT RIDER in the near future. Maybe next the can bring back STREET HAWK and cast Seann William Scott in the lead.
The Yeti is on his way back to the big screen. Unfortunately, it won’t be kickboxing Jean Claude Van Damme in the never-gonna happen ABOMINABLE. According to Variety, the tandem of TREMORS producer Gale Anne Hurd and Ilya Salkind, who co-produced the Christopher Reeve SUPERMAN movies, will make THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN in which the title monster will . . . Actually, we don’t know anything about the plot yet. In fact, there probably isn’t even a plot yet. The movie will be about the Yeti and will be set in the Himalayas. I’ll cross my fingers and hope they bring in Jean Claude Van Damme to kickbox it.
Speaking of the Muscles from Brussels, he may be donning tights for a big screen adaptation of SWAN LAKE. No, seriously. The English National Ballet and the FX team that has worked on the HARRY POTTER movies are teaming up to produce a movie version of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet set to film next spring. Van Damme could be kicking up his heels alongside Ewan MacGregor, Glenn Close, and Jane Seymour assuming the filmmakers get their way.
Time for some comic book movie news: Its being reported by Ain’t It Cool News that CHARLIE’S ANGELS director McG is once again in talks to direct Warner Brother’s seemingly-cursed SUPERMAN movie. At this point, I think WB needs to just chalk this movie up as a lost cause. Also, have you seen the first pic of Thomas Jane as THE PUNISHER that’s popped up online at sites like AICN, CHUD, and Superhero Hype? I think Harry Knowles said it best, “he looks like he's a lead-paint drinking Punisher fan told he has to move out.” Finally, Coming Soon reports that DADDY DAY CARE director Steve Carr has taken over the directing chair for Marvel Comic’s IRON FIST movie that may or may not star Ray “Darth Maul” Park. After sitting through BULLETPROOF MONK, an IRON FIST movie sounds especially unappealing to me.
The fourth installment in THE CROW franchise is about ready to roll. THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER, as has been previously reported, will star Edward Furlong as the new Crow who returns from the dead to battle a satanic biker gang. The villains will be played by David “I couldn't pick a decent movie role if my life depended on it!” Boreanaz and Tera “This generation’s Tammy Faye!” Reid. Also hopping on board to cash a quick paycheck will be Dennis Hopper. No word yet on whether this one will actually get a theatrical release of go straight-to-video like the last one did.
Charlie Chan is returning to the big screen and the classic Chinese/Hawaiian sleuth will be getting a sex change to boot. Lucy Liu will play the Charlie Chan’s granddaughter in a new big screen modernization. I’m assuming this means Lucy Liu will be playing a woman named Charlie Chan. She just can’t get away from the name Charlie for some reason.
FilmForce confirms that Dreamworks will not be making a live-action G.I. JOE movie but that doesn’t mean it isn’t going to happen. Supposedly another studio has struck a deal with Hasbro for a film but which studio it is hasn’t been announced as of yet.
Maybe they should call it THE MAST & THE SCURVIEST? The Hollywood Reports reports that FAST & THE FURIOUS co-star Paul Walker will star in an untitled action flick set in the Philippines, casting Walker as the courageous yet reckless leader of a drug interdiction squad battling drug runners and modern-day pirates. Ah, Paul Walker, the other Casper Van Dien.
Variety reports that Ben Stiller has signed on to star in a comedy whose very premise assures that it will either by hysterical or atrocious depending on how it plays out. Entitled UNDERDOGS, it concerns small gym threatened with demise unless it can defeat a behemoth fitness center in a dodgeball competition. I’ve been thinking for some time that we’ve been overdue for a dodgeball movie. Heck, I think Vince McMahon should have developed the Xtreme Dodgeball League instead of the failed XFL. Vince Vaughn and Stiller’s real life wife, Christine Taylor, are also in negotiations to co-star.
Could MEG actually get make it’s way to the big screen after all? The author of the much maligned and long been trapped in development hell megalodon shark novel, Steve Alten, told TV Guide Online that interest in a movie version of the book has heated up once again or so he says. The reason why is mind blowing! Quoting Alten, "But recently some developments have been spurred on, because it seems that teens love MEG—so much so that high-school teachers were using the book as part of their curriculum. I didn't know this until English teachers started e-mailing me that the book was a huge hit in their classes." Yeah, screw Shakespeare, Hemingway, and Mark Twain; let’s teach our kids literature using that giant shark book!
Finally this week we have a bad movie alert. This Saturday night on the Sci-Fi Channel is the premiere of an alien invasion movie based around crop circles. No, it’s not SIGNS. Its called SILENT WARNINGS and it comes to us from the folks at Nu Image who have given us such quality entertainment as the OCTOPUS, CROCODILE, and SPIDERS films. Adding to quality is the cast including Billy Zane and Stephen Baldwin. Also this Monday night on NBC comes BEHIND THE CAMERAS: THREE’S COMPANY, THE UNAUTHORIZED STORY. Actually, I think they should replace the word “unauthorized” with the word “unwanted.”
–Scott Foy
posted by Christopher 9:40 AM | Comments
Wednesday, April 30, 2003
R.I.P. Andrea King
Reader Joe Littrell passes on this article about the death of character actress Andrea King, who appeared in such b-classics as Red Planet Mars, I Was a Shoplifter, Outlaw Queen, and Blackenstein. Ms. King was 84.
posted by Christopher 7:31 AM | Comments
Monday, April 28, 2003
New Godzilla movie announced
Monster Zero reports:
A trailer appeared last week in Japanese theaters for the next Godzilla film, tentatively titled: GODZILLA-MOTHRA-MECHAGODZILLA: TOKYO S.O.S. GMM will be a direct sequel to last year's Godzilla X MechaGodzilla (the first such sequel in the Millennium film series) but now with Mothra thrown into the mix.
posted by Christopher 7:01 AM | Comments
Evil Dead the Musical and Zombie Professor
Reader Joe Littrell forwards these two articles, sure to be of interest to others here:
The New Millennium Theatre Company presents Evil Dead the Musical at the Boxer Rebellion Theater in Chicago, Illinois.
A Herald Mail Online profile of Peter Dendle, college professor and authority on zombie movies.
Thanks Joe!
posted by Christopher 7:00 AM | Comments
Chadzilla's News Roundup for April 28, 2003
Now that his thriller King of the Ants is wrapped and in post-production, Stuart Gordon is shopping around his next movie. An adaptation of Jack (Off Season) Ketchum's brutal thriller Ladies' Night. Like the book, the movie will take place in a 24-hour period. The story? A chemical spill in New York City causes all women to become sexually aroused before become incredibly violent and attacking and killing all the men in the city. Gordon hopes to shop his script (which he called "the most horrific I have worked on") around and shoot on location in New York later this year. So says the Fangoria website. Doubt this will ever get made, but it makes me want to read the book.
Fangoria also has a small conversation with Identity screenwriter Michael Cooney, known to bad movie fans as the writer/director of the killer snowman movie Jack Frost. Cooney claims to want to do a larger budgeted and straight forward thriller about the icy killer in an attempt to 'get it right'.
David Koepp revealed to IGN FilmForce that his next project is at Columbia and is an adaptation of Stephen King's Secret Window, Secret Garden (from the Four Past Midnight anthology). The thriller concerns a writer (Johnny Depp) terrorized by a redneck (John Turturro) who accuses him of plagiarism.
posted by Christopher 6:54 AM | Comments
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