Archive for June 3rd, 2008
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
McG Takes To Blog About T4 Spoiler
There has been an update on the Terminator: Salvation blog, as expected with the sudden spread of what could have possibly been an uber-spoiler.
The post is mostly a smattering of cool plot hints and machine descriptions (really, read it), but – right before the post ends – McG writes:
By the way, there are only three people who know the ending.
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
New X-Files 2 Trailer
Yesterday, a Russian trailer for The X-Files: I Want To Believe hit the nets, and we ignored it because it was in Russian.
Luckily, that same trailer hit with English dialogue on the Fox Hong Kong site.
Check it out inside!
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
SuperMax Gets A Name Change
It’s a good day in the news for Justin Marks, the guy who wrote the upcoming movie adaptation of Voltron, and the guy who got a very positive review for his Masters of the Universe script just earlier today.
More specifically, SuperMax, the Green Arrow script he wrote for producer David Goyer (Batman Begins) has been given the title Green Arrow, meaning that the content of the movie itself is going to be a surprise to those who go in expecting just another Superhero movie…
Green Arrow, as it is now called, is about Oliver Queen already being the Green Arrow when he gets arrested within the first 15 minutes of the film and is sent to the SuperMax Penitentiary for Metahumans, where he becomes a marked man and is forced to escape with the help of the DC comics rouge gallery.
As in The Riddler, Joker and Lex Luthor show up, as well as a dozen other lesser-known DC villains.
We’re psyched that someone has joined Goyer in his superhero (ahem – metahuman) worldview. Goyer brought us Batman Begins based on the idea of grounding Batman back in the real world after Batman and Robin shot them into the atmosphere of the campy planet. Now, treating a superhero as something besides hero vs. villain for 90 minutes is another big step.
If Matt Damon really is on the short list for Green Arrow, someone needs to lock that shit down.
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Lohan Might Want That Lezbo Money Now
Yesterday, we told you that OK! Magazine was rumored to have offered Lindasy Lohan $1 million dollars in exchange for a cover where she came out as a lesbian-of-the-moment with her relationship with Samantha Ronson. That story included a denial from Lindasy’s rep, saying the actress had turned the offer down.
What the camp was NOT counting on was all of us picking up the story here amongst the interwebs. We’re guessing LiLo wasn’t expecting all of us to say: “Old news,” but we did and now, Linds is shaking in her leggings about headed to the poor-house…
From MSNBC:
According to a source close to the family, Lohan is afraid this news might jeopardize future exclusives, which is bad news because she needs the cash.
“She might not have wanted to do a cover before when it was actually news (that she’s dating Samantha Ronson), but she wants someone to do the story now, she needs the money,” said the source. “Of course a deal isn’t going to work now, after so many pictures of the two of them have already gone public.”
“She can’t believe Britney Spears got so much attention for ‘How I Met Your Mother’ and no one cared that (Lohan) was on ‘Ugly Betty.’ Even Jamie Lynn (Spears) has managed to steal the little-sister spotlight from Ali (Lohan) by timing the end of her pregnancy with the start of ‘Living Lohan.’ It’s not an auspicious season for the family.”
Oh NOW she wants to whore out her personal life for money. It all makes sense: take the high road until the offer gets astronomically high, then pull a Lance Bass “I’m Gay” cover (except Lindsay’s would read more like: “I’m Gay For Now”).
Cat’s out of the bag, Lohans. Where as we can do nothing but criticize the Spears’ as a family that raised two tragic little girls, we will continue to view the Lohans as little more than trash off Long Island that have are trying to play out of their league.
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Brief Absurdity: Geezers on SatC
If you don’t make an occasional stop at the YouTube channel for Reel Geezers, Marcia and Lorenzo, you should click check out their review of Sex and the City after the cut, and also check out the link we’ll provide to the rest of their videos.
Either way, they are old people that review movies, which is absurd in its own right. But, having them review Sex and the City seems to have the same results as us here at the B&U reviewing it.
Except that Vietnam stuff…
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Hope For Live Action Beavis And Butthead
We are some of those people who think that Mike Judge can’t do anything wrong. He can do things we only nod our heads in acknowledgment of, but they are far from bad.
We’re even into his cameos in Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Spy Kids, and – to a lesser degree - Frasier. He was Kenny’s voice in the South Park movie. We’re the type of people who know that.
So, it was with great pain that we didn’t report on the Mike Judge live-action Beavis and Butthead adaptation a few weeks ago, but now one of the actors he named is returning the buzz…
From MTV:
“For some reason, I used to hate the idea for years,” he said of a “Beavis & Butt-head” movie starring two living, breathing, heh-heh-heh-ing actors. “Now, I think maybe there’s something there.”
My first thought was to imagine Seann William Scott as Beavis, and although he might be getting a bit old, I can still imagine him pulling his t-shirt up over his head and calling upon “The Almighty Bunghole.” Judge agreed with the name but wanted Scott to play the other half of the duo, reasoning: “I guess Seann William Scott’s kinda got Butt-Head eyes.”
Judge also remembered that Johnny Depp once wanted to play Beavis – with Marlon Brando as Butt-Head!
Today, Capone over at AICN was ready to ask Seann William Scott if he head heard the rumors:
Capone: I read that yesterday on MTV movie blog, Mike Judge is thinking about creating a live-action Beavis and Butt-head movie. And he said that he envisioned you and Johnny Depp in those roles, with you presumably playing Butt-head. Had you heard about this?
SWS: Ah, man! You know what? I had an interview earlier, and somebody said that, and I thought they were joking. I have to say, to work with Mike Judge, I think that guy is really incredible.
OFFICE SPACE is a really solid comedy, but I don’t think Johnny Depp is going to want to work with me. [laughs] Not quite yet. But if Mike Judge asked me to work with Johnny Depp, I’d be all over that, even if it was Beavis and Butt-head. I haven’t seen “Beavis and Butt-head” in a long time, but that’s a pretty huge honor. What do you think about that?
Capone:I don’t know what I think about a live-action Beavis and Butt-head, but I like the casting choices. I wouldn’t count out Depp. If you’d told me five years ago, he would be the star of a live-action version of the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN ride and Disney, I would have done a spit-take in your face. Every once in a while, Depp will do something that you almost can’t believe he’s doing. I don’t think he’d outright dismiss the idea. He’d want to the script to be good. Beavis and Butt-head are iconic.
SWS:You never know. Like I said, I don’t think Johnny Depp would want to work with me, but who knows? That could be a really bizarre, funny film.
You know what this means: people are talking. And for us here at the B&U, it means that we have to keep this somewhere at the back of our minds to make it happen.
‘Cause it sounds awesome.
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Ben Stein, God Win Against Yoko
You might remember in April we let you know about a lawsuit between Yoko Ono ad the producers of Ben Stein’s intelligent design film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
The courts have decided and – kind of surprisingly – figured that the use of 15 seconds of the song in the film falls under the first amendment rights of Mr. Stein and the filmmakers.
We’re not kidding…
A New York federal judge denied Ono’s request to stop the producers of “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” from using the clip of John Lennon’s “Imagine” before the film goes into wide release.
The 15-second clip of the lyric, “Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion, too,” is protected by free speech because the filmmakers are making a point about evolution and intelligent design, the judge ruled.
It’s been awhile since we have written anything close to an academic account of something controversial. We’re not going to print a headline that says something like: “Abortion: Maybe the Men Should Handle This Issue.” But, if we did, how seriously would you take our argument if we were using lyrics from a John Lennon songs as an intellectual argument?
The ruling makes it seem like the song isn’t just used – as it so often is – for an ironic montage of photos, but as free speech expression.
Aren’t there books about this? You know, besides the Bible?