Because some things you simply need to know. Here's the day's news in a quick digest form. Because we couldn't find a cake big enough where we could put all this in icing on the top of it.
Everything is being turned into a musical these days. Some of which don't even register a blip on the interest radar. However, Addams Family? It could either rock or suck, or perhaps worse, neither. However again, with Nathan Lane as Gomez and Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia when they do a reading of the musical in August, consider us...hopeful against our better judgement. The show is expected for 2009/2010 and apparently, on the same subject, Catch Me If You Can the musical has Lane attached to play the Tom Hanks role. If they put Broderick in the DiCaprio role, I will give them a dollar. And so will fifty billion other people. P.S. To see one Addams Family musical performance, make sure you check this out if you haven't already.
I was going to let you know about Oni Press and their deal to have print and web-based comics, called Men With Guns: Assassin and Ark, but I got completely sidetracked by the news that they're remaking Beverly Hills 90210 for CW? For fuck's sake.
Because some things you simply need to know. Here's the day's news in a quick digest form. Because tomorrow's news hasn't happened yet.
American Airlines is piloting, no pun intended, in-flight net access starting today on two flights, with plans to roll it out further in a few weeks. You can connect to American's site and their news headlines for free, but if you want to connect anywhere else, it's between $9.95 and $12.95 for the service. Personally, I would think they'd throw that in for free, since surfing the web is a welcome distraction from the living hell that is traveling anywhere these days. We won't beat them up too badly, partly because it's bad form to kick a crippled industry (that's not involved with music or movies) and partly because they aren't going to be filtering content. So you could come...here, for example. Where I'm liable to say a profane word at random. You've been warned.
Coldplay is getting a month-long dedicated channel on XM Radio called "30 Days of Coldplay." It's going to be a lot like the vampire comic book, except with an even unhappier ending.
Because some things you simply need to know. Here's the day's news in a quick digest form. Because a slow digest form would be just silly.
G.I. Joe is now G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, and there's a teaser poster starring Duke here. Trouble is...unless the poster said "Duke" and "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra," wouldn't this just look like Generic High-Tech Action Movie: Rise of Franchise? Blah, blah, blah, I know that the costumes A) don't always translate well to screen and 2) probably are about as combat-worthy as going into battle wearing a burlap sack, but can't we have something that calls back to the cartoon/toys/comic? Found via io9.
Have you been using iTunes to create weapons of mass destruction or run an iron lung or maintain a nuclear reactor or help airplanes land? Then cut that shit out.
Kung Fu Killer will see David Carradine and Daryl Hannah back on the screen together. Of course, it's the small screen, it's a miniseries, and it's on Spike, but um...beyond that, it sounds great. It hits this August and while Carradine will probably kick ass (if the production team can keep him sober--allegedly), no word on how much asskicking Hannah will provide, as she's playing a lounge singer and not a blonde sadistic cyclops.
Bollywood coming to save Hollywood? I'm good with that. At least every movie will be guaranteed to have beautiful women, musical numbers and at least one fight.
So Andrew Stanton is co-writing John Carter of Mars (with Mark Andrews), based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs book, A Princess of Mars. For those who are unfamiliar with the story, I assure you that John Carter and the Princess are not the same character (although that may have been the case in some previous drafts of the script, unconfirmed).
Slashfilm found out that it's unclear how it's going to be released, through Disney yes, but how under the Disney empire hasn't been figured out yet. Don't expect anything to happen on that until next year after the script is done. This makes sense, as the film wasn't on their through-2012 schedule we mentioned before. And it appears they're not certain if they're doing live action or animation or both.
Personally, I think it would be awesome if Pixar would start to do some more adult-oriented animation--more along the lines of what they were doing with The Incredibles. Of course, in this country we're a bit backward when it comes to thinking about animation as being for more than just kid-friendly entertainment. So.
Update: I just realized--that pyramid with the 420,000 square foot base mentioned in the article? It obviously would have been the home of the cast of Friends, had it been set in ancient Egypt.
Steve Jackson Games has announced that their pirate variation of a game that we play far too much of at the Technocave and its attached compound--Munchkin--has gone to the printer. Yes. Munchkin Booty will soon be ours.
Terror is quite possibly the best t-shirt I have seen this week. Why isn't it in black, dammit?
The director of Atlas Shrugged has been shunted from the project, so Cinematical reports. I'm in favor of this. Maybe the next director can jettison the screenwriter, in favor of somebody who's actually read the book--and understood it. In the interview I read with him, I got the feeling that Randall Wallace figured he could make up a new ending to the book, because surely no one's finished a book that size, right? Surely not... Found via Atlasphere.
Disney parks are being Dixarified. Don't panic, because the Pixar folks have been working closely on the projects. Okay, well, it is Disney. I suppose a little panic is warranted.
China has started altering the names of dishes served in their restaurants, knowing that Engrish pics on Flickr will explode during the Olympics if they don't take action. So if you wanted "Chicken Without Sexual Life," well, tough. Because it's only chicken with sexual life going forward. Or as it translates back into English, "steamed pullet."
Iron Man has crossed the $300M box office mark, and has more than $550M worldwide. Has anyone checked to see if this has helped sales of the comic book upon which the film is based? I would bet probably not, since movie Tony Stark isn't, you know, a ginormous prick.
Because some things you simply need to know. Here's the day's news in a quick digest form. Trust me, you lost nothing if somebody got cast in some film at 8am and you're finding out about it now.
The Catholic Church is putting together the criteria for what they think constitutes good cinema. From the report: "Priest Marco Fibbi, a spokesman for the Diocese of Rome, said Wednesday that the church was working on a set of guidelines that will determine whether a film contains the 'proper' religious sentiment." Meanwhile, the rest of the world is putting together criteria for what they think constitutes good religion. Top of the list? Not messing with altar boys.
