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Like Michael Bay’s Head Needs To Be Any Bigger
ShoWest is a big annual convention put on by the Nielson Film Group, the people behind such industry rags as Film Journal International and The Hollywood Reporter. It’s a big fancy trade show for those in the cinema exhibition and distribution community: distributors, theater owners, and the like.
As we all know, one of the traits common to all in the movie business is the love of showering each other with awards. And ShoWest is definitely no exception, bestowing no less than eight awards each year. But based on the recipients, I’m not entirely sure how much prestige is attached to the awards, though I highly doubt they ever get turned down.
This year’s winner of the Vanguard Award for Excellence in Filmmaking is none other than director and professional dipshit Michael Bay. He is apparently …
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Tags: award, business, director, money, ShoWest, trade show
This Date In Movie History: March 17th
March 17th. It’s one of those nondescript days of the year that you think will never really amount to much. It’s just an extra day before March 18th. But on the contrary, the 17th is pretty sweet.
Birthdays:
Gary Sinise was born on this date in 1955 and it don’t matter what else he ever does, he’s never outliving that whole Lieutenant Dan thing.
1927 saw the birth of Rudy Ray Moore. If you don’t mind the language, I’d put up Dolemite as the most quotable movie ever.
Kurt Russell was born in 1951. If he can ever team up with John Carpenter again, I swear it’ll solve the world’s economic problems. Is there a person alive that WOULDN’T pay to see that?
When Rob Lowe was born in 1964, it wouldn’t surprise me to hear that he was hitting on nurses in the
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Tags: blaxploitation, death, director, history, release
The Happening aka The Crappening
Regardless of the warnings I received, I was bound and determined to see The Happening. There’s no way, I said, that it can be as bad as everyone says. They’re all jaded because of M. Night Shyamalan’s undying love of the twist ending, that’s all. I’ll see it and enjoy it, just like his under-appreciated The Village. The Lady in the Water, that was just an anomaly. Shyamalan’s cup of hubris had runneth over. Things could only get better.
After seeing The Crappening, I really wish I would have heeded those warnings. This has to be one of the worst movies I’ve seen by a director with as much talent as Shyamalan. It was bad bad bad. I’m not even sure where to begin.
The title The Happening sounds like a joke. Something so blunt and generic that you’d expect this to
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Tags: BAD, director, Horror, monster, trees
Public Domain Movie Of The Week: The Stranger
What do you get when an innovative, egomaniacal director who makes movies that don’t make any money sets out to prove to everyone that he can work within the Hollywood system? You get Orson Welles’ The Stranger. It’s generally regarded as Welles’ most conventional offering, but that doesn’t mean it’s just a run-of-the-mill thriller.
Welles plays Franz Kindler, a Nazi war criminal hiding out in a small Connecticut town. Rather than just lie low and keep to himself, Kindler works as a history teacher and is about to marry the daughter of a Supreme Court judge. UN war crimes investigator Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) scours the globe in search of Kindler, until finally releasing and following one of Kindler’s associates. An intense game of cat-and-mouse ensues as Kindler does all he can to conceal his identity.
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Tags: crime, director, Hollywood, identity, Orson Welles, studio, Thriller, War
Ridley Scott To Roll The Dice On Monopoly
It is with total WTF stunned puzzlement that I pass along that Scott is attached to direct a movie based on the Monopoly board game.
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Tags: adaptation, artist, board, director, game, money, Monopoly, precedent, studio
This Date In Movie History: November 2nd
November 2nd has been an interesting day in movie history.
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Tags: circus, debut, director, genocide, Halloween, history, murder, opening, release, Western
This Date In Movie History: October 8th
October 8th has historically been a pretty good day, at least as far as movies are concerned.
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Tags: award, career, character, debut, director, Directors, ending, history, money, Ninja, opening, release, scene, story, weekend
A New Hat For Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis will be finally be making his way behind the camera for Three Stories About Joan. A little blurb in the Shreveport Times spilled the beans, also stating the movie will star Willis, Owen Wilson and Kieran Culkin.
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Tags: academy award, actor, Bruce Willis, director, star, supernatural
David O. Tussle
Russell directed two of my favorite movies, Three Kings, the most under-appreciated movie of 1999, and Flirting with Disaster, which is absolutely hilarious. I’d heard that Russell and George Clooney didn’t get along on Three Kings, mostly due to Russell trying to break Clooney of his ER habits, namely walking into a room and not making eye contact with anyone.
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Tags: director, egos, emotions, performance, tussle, unique
Feeling The Burn
The early reports are in and it looks like Burn After Reading will be crowned King of the Weekend, raking in $19.4 million. That number sounds pretty decent, but I would have expected a heavily marketed comedy starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney and directed by the reigning Best Director winners would have done a little better. How much better? I don’t know.
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Tags: director, equation, formula, opening
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