In the latest addition to comic book based movies the film adaptation of DC’s Justice League comic book series could begin casting as early as next week. Warner Brothers is apparently fast-tracking the movie and rumors are flying that it could be made as a motion-capture CG-animation movie. Considering that this movie will feature several superheroes, it makes sense to use the computer-generation medium. That way you can hire just about any actor, voice-record them and synch it with the CG.
So with that in mind, let’s have a little fantasy casting call. Who would you cast in the voice roles of the various super heroes like Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, etc.? Leave your casting suggestions in the comments section.
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Eric Poulton, a self-described “art nerd, a computer geek, and a grammar dork” has created a series of art pieces taking elements of the Star Wars universe and recreating them in an artistic steampunk style. It’s a very unique interpretation and I hope he continues with it.
A tip o’ the cap to Boing Boing for the heads up on this coolness.
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Peter Boyle passed away yesterday in New York City at age 71 and had been suffering from multiple myeloma and heart disease. Obviously he is best known for his long-running character of Frank Barrone on the television series “Everybody Loves Raymond” and playing the monster in the movie “Young Frankenstein.” One of his movie roles that I particularly enjoyed was that of attorney Carl Lazlo in the movie “Where The Buffalo Roam.” That movie starred Bill Murray as Hunter S. Thompson and even though Murray captured the spirit and essence of Thompson and was quite funny, Boyle pretty much stole the movie due to his acting chops in the scenes he shared with Murray. Another lesser known movie worth checking out is “Joe” where Boyle plays Joe Curran, a factory worker who hates hippies, blacks and anyone who he sees as “different.” His character in the movie is dark and brooding but Boyle gives the character great depth. It’s definitely worth searching for at your local movie rental store. He also appeared in one of my favorite X-Files episodes, “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” in which he played Clyde Bruckman, a reluctant psychic whose flashes of future events inevitably revolve around an individual’s demise. FBI agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) enlists Bruckman’s help in finding a killer known as “the Puppet,” another man with psychic powers. This episode is highlighted by Boyle’s sad performance as a man who can’t escape his visions of death. Boyle won an Emmy in 1996 for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of Clyde Bruckman.
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I have a confession to make. I absolutely hate the movie “A Christmas Story.” Hate may be too nice of a word for my feelings. Maybe loath. Despise. Maybe there isn’t a word strong enough to adequately describe my feelings for this movie that I feel is putrid. I honestly can’t understand why so many people love it. To me all the characters are completely annoying and frankly, in my “movieland” I’d have Hannibal Lechter drop by for a visit to take ‘em all out. And not to a Chinese dinner, either. Frankly, I find the kid (played by Peter Billingsly) to be a whiny, snot-nosed little brat who desperately needs to be beaten half to death at school. And the father, played by Darren McGavin whose body of work I have always appreciated, seems to have taught the boy all the finer aspects of being a pain in the butt. I just want to shoot Ralphie out of a cannon…straight into a brick wall. Even Melinda Dillon as the mom was mind-numbingly annoying. As actors, they all did fine jobs. It’s just all the main characters annoyed me so much, I just wish they would all drop dead on the screen. The one time I managed to watch the movie from beginning to end, I think my blood pressure almost caused me to stroke out. Plus the parts that weren’t annoying to me we so sickenly sweet, I thought I’d lapse into a diabetic coma.
Am I utterly alone in my feelings for this movie? Is this movie so universally loved that even Saddam Hussein, Usama Bin Laden and Kim Jong Il are counted as fans? Or are there others out there who want the Parker family blasted off the face of the movieland earth within the first ten minutes? Speak up, folks. Let me know.
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This model of the Starship Enterprise used in the pilot and title sequences of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” sold for $576,000 at auction.
Wow! At Rockefeller Center, Christie’s auction house auctioned off hundreds of Star Trek props from television and movies. The originally thought the auction would bring in about three million dollars. They were wrong. They underestimated the passion of Trek fans, especially rich Trek fans. The total haul was in excess of seven million dollars.
A couple of items of note that exceeded Christie’s estimates were a 2-foot Borg cube model and a captain’s chair from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. The Borg model was expected to sell for $1,500 at most, but one bidder decided it was worth $96,000. The captain’s chair, used by Patrick Stewart as ST:TNG’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard, was expected to bring in $9,000. It’s final auction price? $52,000.
The auction divided the memorabilia into 1000 lots running the gamut from phaser props, miniature ship models, costumes, special effects masks and prosthetics and a whole host of items all of which were released from CBS Paramount Television Studios’ archives and vaults. The auction is one of several events being held to commemorate the 40th anniversary of “Star Trek,” which boasts some of the world’s most devoted fans.
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Recently my wife and I picked up a couple of used DVD’s at a local video rental establishment which happened to be having a “buy 3, get one free” sale. Something to thin out the inventory. One of the DVD’s purchased was an indie documentary entitled “Ringers: Lord Of The Fans” which is about fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works especially the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. If you are a fan of Tolkien’s works and have a thin skin, then perhaps you really don’t want to see this DVD since it does, at times, present some of the more…unusual…side of Tolkien fandom throughout its history. Probably one of the funniest points in the DVD is the video of Leonard Nimoy singing “The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins” from a 1960’s replacement TV series on ABC called “Malibu U.” However the majority of the documentary is a well told tale of how the trilogy came to be and how it affected multiple generations through books, music, television and movies. Many of the stars of “The Lord Of The Rings” movie are interviewed and LOTR co-star Dominic Monaghan not only narrates but provides interview material as well. Other notables interviewed include Geddy Lee of Rush, Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, David Carradine, director Peter Jackson as well as many diehard fans affectionately called “Ringers.”
A couple of stories about myself being a Tolkien fan:
First, when I was 12 years old, we moved from the Mississippi Delta 111 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee to rural southern Mississippi. The school I attended in the Delta emphasized reading to a huge degree and since I grew up with my parents and both sets of grandparents always encouraging me to read, I was reading well ahead of my age. I started the eighth grade at a new school in rural southern Mississippi and found out early on that reading wasn’t as big of a thing as it was in my former school. One of the first assignments our English teacher had for us was for us to pick out any book we wished to read (approved by her of course) and write a report about it by the end of the week. I assumed at that time that most everyone would be picking what I considered “normal” books for our age group to read. For example, I was thinking along the lines of “Robin Hood” or “Black Beauty” or “White Fang,” all of which I had read multiple times years earlier. However I was surprised to witness all of my classmates bringing in the thinnest, large-type books they could find. Mostly what I considered kindergarten stuff. “Dick & Jane Go To Summer School” crap. So when it came my turn to present my choice, I walk up to my teacher’s desk with my already well-worn and well-read Lord of the Rings trilogy. “Which one do you want to read?” she asked me, already somewhat surprised at my choice. “All three books,” was my nonchalant reply. After all, I had read them all before on several occassions. She was pretty much taken aback and at that moment I had unintentionally become a “teacher’s pet” of sorts because I actually liked to read! In my five years at that school, it became commonplace to see me reading books at just about every opportunity I had, even on the bus for away games. I was an odd combination of a jock AND a nerd. Go figure.
Second story. When I was a junior in college, I found out through my girlfriend at the time (she’s my wife now) the English Department held an annual book collection contest with two divisions: undergraduate and graduate. I entered both in my junior and senior years and became the first and as far as I know only person to win the undergrad division two years in a row. One of those wins came with my personal J.R.R. Tolkien collection which I had started collecting when I was a little crumb-cruncher. Now you have to understand, this was well before the internet and ebay and also confined to limited trips to a handful of places from my home in rural Mississippi. I was unable to travel abroad to exotic locales to discover a rare signed copy of The Hobbit or anything like that. Rather, I took advantage of summer trips to visit relatives in Florida to scope out the local used book shops. Or weekend trips to New Orleans to explore the cool book shops there. Plus I would keep my eye out in stores I knew about on our weekend daytrips to places like Mobile, Jackson and Meridian. It was through those long years of constant searching that I amassed a huge collection of Tolkien memorabilia. And this is what I entered into that university-sponsored book collecting contest. And won. It wasn’t just the collection that you had to present. If it was only that, then I wouldn’t have won. In both years, there were people with more impressive collections with pieces rarer than anything I had. For example, one person had a very impressive collection of Sherlock Holmes books and memorabilia which I knew was better than mine. However each contestant goes through a rather lengthy and detailed interview with a panel of professors. My knowledge of J.R.R. Tolkien, his works and my collection in general plus my passion for Tolkien outweighed all others in the contest, undergraduate or graduate. So although in regards to history, my two-year winning streak isn’t even a blip on the radar, it’s one of the few proud moments I have in my life.
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Hollywood lacks imagination. Big shock there. And as further proof of that, it was announced that there will be a big screen remake of the 70’s TV series “Welcome Back Kotter” with that genius comic actor Ice Cube in the title role.
Ice Cube?
Yup.
Who’s getting the tax write-off for this bomb-to-be?
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I’ve always believed that he was extremely brilliant but I’m now beginning to believe Ben Stein is a freakin’ super-genius:
The idea that it is brave to stand up for gays in Hollywood, to stand up against Joe McCarthy in Hollywood (fifty years after his death), to say that rich white people are bad, that oil companies are evil — this is nonsense. All of these are mainstream ideas in Hollywood, always have been, always will be. For the people who made movies denouncing Big Oil, worshiping gays, mocking the rich to think of themselves as brave — this is pathetic, childish narcissism.
The brave guy in Hollywood will be the one who says that this is a fabulously great country where we treat gays, blacks, and everyone else as equal. The courageous writer in Hollywood will be the one who says the oil companies do their best in a very hostile world to bring us energy cheaply and efficiently and with a minimum of corruption. The producer who really has guts will be the one who says that Wall Street, despite its flaws, has done the best job of democratizing wealth ever in the history of mankind.
No doubt the men and women who came to the Oscars in gowns that cost more than an Army Sergeant makes in a year, in limousines with champagne in the back seat, think they are working class heroes to attack America — which has made it all possible for them. They are not. They would be heroes if they said that Moslem extremists are the worst threat to human decency since Hitler and Stalin. But someone might yell at them or even attack them with a knife if they said that, so they never will.
Read the whole article here.
Beneath that mild mannered bookish exterior lies a mind that’s absolutely scary in its genius. Outstanding!
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Conservatives have been claiming the obvious for years, George Clooney, self-appointed spokesperson and expert for all things liberal, admitted being out of touch with mainstream American and proud of it. Looking back on his Hollyweird life, it’s no big shock there.
Okay, boys and girls, now that George has taken that first big step of admission can we move on to more important things than “Clueless Clooney”?
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1) “Brokeback Mountain” - gay cowboy flick with a liberal message - didn’t do well at the box office
2) “Capote” - liberal message movie about overrated gay author - didn’t do well at the box office
3) “Crash” - liberal message movie about racial stereotypes - didn’t do well at the box office
4) “Good Night, and Good Luck” - movie about Edward R. Murrow who would have not wanted the movie to be made and probably would have hated how poorly he was portrayed - oh, and another liberal message movie - also didn’t do well at the box office
5) “Munich” - Spielberg’s lame attempt to play both sides against each other in regards to the 1972 Munich games and the Israeli athletes who were murdered by terrorists - a feable attempt at a liberal message movie - and didn’t do well at the box office
So who won?
No one really cares although the Hollyweird types would make you believe the world revolves around movies like these. Just goes to show how out of touch they are with the majority of Americans not to mention reality. And the MSM loves to coddle the Hollyweird types fawning over every word uttered by the nincompoops as if what they say will solve all the world’s problems. Frankly the Academy Awards long deteriorated into a manic excercise in self-absorbtion and patting each other on their collective backs ignoring the fact that less and less people actually give a rat’s butt each year. It means little to nothing in the world of movies in the 21st century and means squat in the grand scheme of things. But again, if you buy into the MSM’s coverage, everything revolves around Hollyweird and little ol’ Oscar. Pathetic.
It ain’t about what the real best movie was anymore.
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It was announced recently that Mariah Carey has been signed to play a waitress who teams with her two brothers to search for their estranged father in an effort to help the youngest brother, who has leukaemia in the upcoming movie “Tennessee”.
Anyone remember the movie “Glitter”? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Let me remind you by citing some reviews when “Glitter” was released:
This is the worst performance by a pop star in a dramatic role since Madonna suited up for “Shanghai Surprise.” — New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
It touches on universal themes of love, friendship, and family. Suffice to say it falls dreadfully short. — Boston Globe (Joan Anderman)
We don’t have much space to tell you about Glitter, so we’ll be blunt. This star vehicle for singer Mariah Carey is primarily a showcase for her breasts. — Washington Post (Megan Rosenfeld)
Glitter deserves yet another title: “A Star Is Dull.” As phony a vehicle as one could possibly concoct for a wannabe movie star, pic carries Mariah Carey into a swamp of gloppy melodrama. — Variety (Robert Koehler)
Yup, wannabe movie star Mariah Carey. Emphasis on wannabe.
I particularly like this review:
Assure Patient, who has paranoid delusions about Jennifer Lopez being molded into the new M______ C_____, to rest easy because Lopez has never made a film as bad as Glitter. — Austin Chronicle (Steve Davis)
A review that slams Carey, Lopez then Carey again. Nice form, Steve.
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I finally saw the online trailer for the Jack Black movie “Nacho Libre.” Mmmmmm……No.
Nothing I saw in that trailer convinces me to shell out $8 per ticket to see it in the theater. I’ll wait until I can rent the DVD or see it on PPV.
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Don Knotts, one of America’s more beloved comic actors, passed away Friday evening at age 81 due to pulmonary and respiratory complications originating from lung cancer at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, California. He was obviously best known at Deputy Barney Fife in the Andy Griffith Show. Co-star and close friend, Andy Griffith visited Don Knotts in the hospital shortly before he died. Knotts also had a film career, appearing in family-friendly films such as “The Incredible Mr. Limpet”, “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” and “The Apple Dumpling Gang.”
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It was announced earlier today on Darren McGavin’s official website that the actor passed away. He was 83. He had a long movie career but was probably best known as the never-say-quit reporter Carl Kolchak in the TV show “The Night Stalker” and the vitriolic, yet buffoonish, father in the movie “A Christmas Story.” Part of the announcement read:
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Darren McGavin at approximately 7:10 A.M. Pacific time today, Saturday 25, 2006. Darren was just three months short of his 84th birthday.
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