Wax On, F*ck Off with Ralph Macchio
So really you’d totally pay to go and see this movie right? Or an Entourage-type TV series?
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Marc A. Price
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Marc A. Price
YouTube – MORTAL KOMBAT
Not real footage from a new movie but a concept of how Fame director Kevin Tancharoen might to Mortal Kombat if he were let loose on it. OMFG it looks pretty fantastic. Michael Jai White hams it up a wee bit but when you think that it was filmed over the course of 2 days I think you’ll agree it looks pretty stunning. More details here http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/10/full-details-on-kevin-tancharoens-mortal-kombat-rebirth/
[From YouTube - MORTAL KOMBAT]
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Marc A. Price
Man Dies After Watching Avatar
This story about a man that died after going to see Avatar. According to the original story the man’s doctor blames James Cameron’s movie for triggering the stroke. The fact that the poor fellow had a long history of hypertension seems to further buried in the story. I’m even more afraid of going to see this film now.
A 42-year-old Taiwanese man died of a stroke, which his doctor claims was likely triggered by “over-excitement” from watching James Cameron’s Avatar in 3D. According to News.com.au, the man began to feel sick during a screening earlier this month and was taken to hospital.
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Marc A. Price
Recycle
Never mind… I can’t be bothered to write anything original so I’m just going to “reimagine” someone else’s article
This just in: he’s probably the only one.John Travolta is excited about possibly starring in a remake of the classic ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ with buddy Tom Cruise. “Someone came up with a good idea – it was a remake of ‘Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid’ – and there was a rumor that we were gonna do that, and I said to Tom, ‘It’s not a terrible rumor, it’s not a bad idea,’” the ‘Grease’ star said.
The original is one of those untouchable movies, in my opinion. But maybe…MAYBE…ten years ago or so they coulda pulled it off. Now? Who wants to see chubby Travolta in his hairpiece running around in tight Western clothes? And also…
Sigh. I don’t have the energy anymore. Fuck it, let’s just remake everything OK? No more original movies. Cancel the “Star Trek” sequel. Start at the top, with the “Chaplin” movies, and end with the last official 2009 release, whatever that is. If you can’t beat ‘em, join them.
Source: Popeater
[From Travolta Thinks 'Butch Cassidy Remake' Is A Good Idea]
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Marc A. Price
More pics from REIGN OF DEATH
Super cool Noel Clarke keeps on posting about his mystery project Reign of Death. It looks really cool. I wish that I knew more about it. It looks like a noirish steam-punk detective story. If anyone has any ideas what it might be then drop me a line. I really like this shot of Noel running.
[From REIGN OF DEATH EXCLUSIVE 3... Me doing a Usain to... Well won... on Twitpic]
there is another one of him looking broody here http://twitpic.com/dbjcq
Listening to: Assassing (Alternate Mix) [1998 Remaster] from the album “Fugazi (Special Edition)” by Marillion -
Marc A. Price
Superman co-creator’s family given rights
This story has been going on a while but the verdict is the interesting part. Warner Bros. hand has just been forced on whether they make a new Superman movie or not . According to this new ruling they will lose the rights to the character completely in 2013 as they will revert back to the creators’ families. Siegel and Schuster were quite famously shafted by DC for the rights to the iconic superhero back in the day. There is more of this at the Variety page linked below. Frankly I’d like a different studio to have a bash at the Superman franchise. What do you think?
Warner Bros. and DC Comics have lost a little more control over the Man of Steel. In an ongoing Federal court battle over Superman, Judge Stephen Larson ruled Wednesday that the family of the superhero’s co-creator, Jerry Siegel, has “successfully recaptured” rights to additional works, including the first two weeks of the daily Superman newspaper comic-strips, as well as portions of early Action Comics and Superman comic-books.
The ruling is based on the court’s finding that these were not “works-made-for-hire” under the Copyright Act.
This means the Siegels — repped by Marc Toberoff of Toberoff & Associates — now control depictions of Superman’s origins from the planet Krypton, his parents Jor-El and Lora, Superman as the infant Kal-El, the launching of the infant Superman into space by his parents as Krypton explodes and his landing on Earth in a fiery crash.
The first Superman story was published in 1938 in Action Comics No. 1. For $130, Jerry Siegel and co-creator Joel Schuster signed a release in favor of DC’s predecessor, Detective Comics, and a 1974 court decision ruled they signed away their copyrights forever. [From Superman co-creator's family given rights - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety]
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Marc A. Price
More from Reign of Death
I know absolutely nothing about this production but the couple of things that I have seen have definitely got me interested. Noel Clark keeps posting bits and bobs on Twitter, below is the latest cool image.
REIGN OF DEATH: EXCLUSIVE PEEP. Here is a still from Reign as… on Twitpic.
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Marc A. Price
Don’t You Forget About Me
Some sad news came in today that legendary film director John Hughes died while out walking. I was such a huge fan of the Breakfast Club as a young ‘un. So much so that I named a club night that I used to run after that very movie. We actually used to serve cornflakes along with über cool indie music that no one had ever heard of.This man brought us Molly Ringwald for chrissakes. For that alone we should be forever in his debt. Furthermore, as a result of one of his movies the Psychedelic Furs got the exposure that they deserved. (OK he didn’t direct that one but he wrote it.)
On the downside he did have something to do with Simple Minds becoming a global phenomenon but the world soon came to its collective senses.
The fact that he hadn’t made a movie for over 15 years makes no difference, he was a director of his time and will be sadly missed.
TMZ is reporting director John Hughes suffered a heart attack while taking a morning walk during a trip to New York City with family. Hughes is best known for writing and/or directing some of our favorite films from the 1980’s – National Lampoon’s Vacation, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, European Vacation, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Christmas Vacation, and Home Alone. Hughes dropped out of filmmaking in 1991. via Breaking: John Hughes Has Passed Away | /Film.
EDIT: I like this obituary from the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/aug/07/john-hughes-life-clips
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Marc A. Price
Steven Spielberg to Next Direct Harvey
Hollywood is emotionally, morally, spiritually and creatively bankrupt. Make a fucking original film for the sake of fucking fuck.
Steven Spielberg will direct as his next film a contemporary adaptation of Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize winning play “Harvey,” a co-production between Twentieth Century Fox and DreamWorks Studios. The announcement was made today by Fox Chairmen Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman and DreamWorks partners Stacey Snider and Spielberg.
Harvey is the first screenplay by the best-selling novelist Jonathan Tropper.
The film will be produced by Spielberg and Don Gregory, with Elizabeth Gabler and Carla Hacken overseeing the project for Fox 2000, which acquired the rights to the original play in 2008.
“I am very happy to be working again with my friend Tom Rothman who shepherded us through ‘Minority Report,’ and with Elizabeth and Carla, who I’m looking forward to… [From Steven Spielberg to Next Direct Harvey]
Listening to: Some Kind of Kindness from the album “The Golden Hour” by Firewater
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Marc A. Price
Doghouse
Continuing with the Noel Clarke lovefest, I saw this trailer for a new comedy horror with the the man himself. It looks pretty silly in the vein of Shawn of the Dead.
Official website:http://www.doghousethemovie.com/
Doghouse – Trailer 2
Geüpload door dreadcentral – Bekijk featured video’s en gehele TV shows.Listening to: Teenage FBI from the album “Human Amusements at Hourly Rates: The Best of Guided by Voices” by Guided by Voices