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There's a lot going on out there in the world of Current.com, so let's take a quick look at some of the recent blog posts from our online producer team:
Current Movies
Over on the Current Movies blog, John Lichman offers up news that Nic Cage has decided to bow out of Green Hornet, and takes a look at the new teaser trailer from Up in the Air. Here's a snippet:
Nicholas Cage leaves The Green Hornet because clearly he's a serious actor. And his soul is still dancing. [Heat Vision]
The teaser for Up in the Air is perfectly fine and the best thing you'll watch today. So, there. [/film]
Check out the full post and watch the Up in the Air trailer over on the current_movies blog.
Current Music
Have you ever wanted to make a music video? Who knows, you could be the next David Fincher, or Spike Jonze, right? Well, here's your chance. Current Music has teamed up with Common, and he's basically letting the Current.com community make the video for his song, "Make my day."
So, you wanna make a music video? Head over to the current_music blog, Shana has all of the details.
Current Green
Leah Lamb offered up a guest blog post from our Sustainable Agriculture group leader, JanForGore. She gives us the details on Biopiracy in the age of climate change and food shortages. Here's a snip:
Biopiracy is the patenting of indigenous bio-diversity related knowledge. For purposes of this writing, the patenting of natural traits found in plants, which is now described as epidemic. While the rewarding of patents should be based on inventiveness and original creativity, it has become a license for corporations to steal such indigenous traits endemic to nature already naturally cultivated by indigenous farmers for centuries. This is done to make fast cash and to take advantage of the climate crisis and food shortages which ironically are also exacerbated through monoculture industrial methods of what I like to call ‘strip farming.’ Such methods have stripped soil nutrients and carbon essential for sustainability of the land and our climate balance.
Check out the full post on the current_green blog.
Current Comedy
Last but not least, current_comedy blog maestro, Josh Heller, went to Burning Man last week and it changed his life (as anyone reading his pseudo-tweets from Black Rock City could tell). The playa spoke, and Josh listened. Now he returns to us a new man, with a new avatar. Take a look.There's a lot going on out there in the world of Current.com, so let's take... more
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Current.com user Joey_Vee (nee Joey Vosevich) had a theory when he submitted his review of Surrogates to The Rotten Tomatoes Show. And now, we're slowly becoming convinced that the entire reasoning behind the Bruce Willis Robot Movie was to inspire us to stay home and re-watch old episodes of Mad.
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-John Lichman
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OMFG IT IS THE OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR JAMES CAMERONS AVETAR AND IT IS SO GOOD THAT YOU SHOULD STAND IN LINE TO GET FREE TICKETS FOR IT.
THIS IS A ROTTEN TOMATOES SHOW EXCLUSIVE [found thanks to Topless Robot.]
ENJOY.
The Trailer for AVATARR.
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lol.
-John Lichman
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Over on Current.com/Movies, we're looking to see how John Hughes impacted your life. Drop by and leave us a webcam or a comment.
-John Lichman
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In the this episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, hosts Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox lead ensemble reviews of The Ugly Truth, G-Force, and Orphan, they hit Comic-Con and Brett finds out where The River Runs Through It in Vermont. Ellen looks at The Top 5 Worst Vampire Powers, we've got a new Trailer Time and there's also a peek at this weekend's new releases--Thirst, In The Loop and Funny People--which you can leave a webcam review for us to use on next week's show!
In other Important News:
Ridley Scott will direct the Alien prequel, despite saying he wouldn't and Carl Rinsch would. [Current]
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested with his family in Tehran at a peaceful protest yesterday; he has been released today according to reports. [Washington TV]
-John Lichman
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Oh, Wes Anderson, you can do no wrong in my eyes--well, aside from The Life Aquatic. But here we find Anderson's Fox is just as enjoyable, cutesy and fun as one would expect it to be. The animation style perfectly fits a weird mix of family and Anderson's dialog.
But man, that whistle/clicking noise is addictive to do.
[Yahoo! Trailers]
-John Lichman
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Oh man, Thursday is shaping up to be so awesome. First, David Hudson's The Daily returns on The Auteurs! Then there's a trailer for the Coen Brothers' new film, A Serious Man. And finally, we're going drinking with the Url-bots at Shakey's today! On with Thursday!
David Hudson's The Daily returns on The Auteur's Notebook. [The Auteurs]
The Coen Brothers' A Serious Man can has trailer. [Current]
Jennifer Aniston is in a movie about "Pumas," which is a play on Cougars but uses a different term. Makes sense. [Current]
Russell Crowe will star in a film directed by Paul Haggis. Anyone care? No? Great. [Variety]
Was a Kick Ass test screening canceled because it got sold? Who knows! Rumor away... [Collider]
-John Lichman[collegehumor 1918042]
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It's the middle of the week and we're off to Comic-Con on Friday. Because who skips work on Thursday? But before all that, Sam Raimi is making a World of Warcraft movie, there's a new editor at Cahiers du Cinéma and GREAT NEWS. COMIC-CON IS COMING. TOMORROW*.
Sam Raimi is working on a World of Warcraft film just to spite Evil Dead 4 believers. [Current]
Stéphane Delorme is the new editor of Cahiers du Cinéma. And 95 percent of you don't know what that is. [NYT]
San Diego Comic-Con begins. No link. Google.
Tim Burton promises that his Dark Shadows adaptation will start shooting next year.Which made my Mom happy. [MTV Movies Blog]
OMFG SETH ROGEN IS GOING TO SHOW A CAR THAT WILL BE USED IN A MOVIE TONIGHT AT COMIC-CON. [Collider]
Here are some vague thoughts from a Marvel Studios employee about a Captain America movie. [Splash Page]
Our friends at Urlesque and Moviefone give us their Harry Potter thoughts. Then it gets real. [Urlesque]
-John Lichman
*this entire line is stolen from Tim the Enchanter and Weltall at Manga Pulse/Anime Pulse. Go listen to Manga Pulse.
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In the this episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, hosts Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox lead ensemble reviews of Brüno, Cherí, and I Love You, Beth Cooper; Brett tries to watch all five previous Harry Potter movies and Ellen learns Romantic Stalking by watching the movies.
There's also a Haiku Review for Public Enemies, we delve into a filmmaker's Bag of Tricks for the Dolly Zoom and see a Stormtrooper hit his head. Repeatedly.
Then we take a peek at this weekend's release (and also our webcam callouts for next week's show) involving Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, (500) Days of Summer and Homecoming. Hoo ray, Friday!
-John Lichman
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Thursday means that tonight has a brand new episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show at 10:30, but there's also a lot of changes over at Current, Willem DaFoe signs onto Mars and Brüno won't play the Ukraine. So let's get into it!
Notice anything new about the Movies page? We're making Groups now! Watch the intro video here and my own contribution. [Current]
Willem DaFoe will play Tars Tarkas, who is a Martian who can fight and is known for making love. Like DaFoe. [Variety]
Brüno is banned in the Ukraine for being "immoral." Hah. [Current]
How will the Straw Dogs remake pan out? Well, "WITH A BIG OLD BOX OF RAPE." [Collider]
Shockingly, Darren Aronofsky's Robocop probably won't happen. [THR]
FilmBuff launches today. Which means I can hopefully and finally see Tha Carter. [Twitter]
-John Lichman
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Making pointless lists is a staple of a majority of film blogs. In fact, after reading Defamer's list of Pool Movies that Ruined A Generation's Greatest Directors one is begged to ask the question: "Just what in the hell is the point of this pointless list?"
For some reason, the entire directorial talent pool of the 1990s can be summed up from the works of Quentin Tarantino (who is the article's basis with his GQ Interview), David Fincher, Ang Lee, Curtis Hanson, Jonathan Demme and Steven Soderbergh. But as our new-as-of-yesterday writer tells us, it is their "Pool Movie" that defines them. While waxing poetic on his retirement-at-60 wish, Tarantino said:
"Like what Sam Fuller did the last twenty years of his life. That looked pretty groovy to me. And when I'm sitting there in my retrospective, I don't want to have to watch the movie I made to pay for my pool."
This is the plan of an elderly Tarantino, who will phase into the critical mind-set once he's done directing and writing, one assumes. But even then, he's already made a "pool movie" (hello Grindhouse.) But NatashaVC prefaces this with a frightening question:
If you remember all that then you certainly remember the sense of betrayal you felt when you heard something, like, say Robert Rodriguez was directing Spy Kids 2? What happened to these guys?!
Betrayal? Wait, Robert Rodriguez has always directed hackney genre crap. His first film was about a Marachi* who then got a gun! It was called El Marichi* and then got remade into the same film! But now it's too late and so let's take a look at how this list should have been done.
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David Fincher: Director of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Zodiac, Fight Club, Se7en, The Game, Alien 3
Natasha's and Our Pool Movie: Panic Room
Total Domestic Gross: $96,397,334
Estimated Cost: $48 Million
Tomatometer: 77 Percent
Let's start with the most peculiar statement, which happens to be Natasha's lede: "Fincher was a decorative filmmaker with a pretty morbid vision." Wes Anderson, maybe, fits the bill for decorative, focusing on an abundance of detail and flash in his stills. Fincher is grim and more concerned with how people interact than whether his sets are accurate. This can not be the case with Zodiac, since the amount of CGI that went into recreating San Francisco is incredible. Now for Panic Room: what's the problem with this? He's mediocre as a filmmaker? Are you high on shitty corn flakes from the 1990s?
Button, as a friend corrects me, was in production long before Zodiac came out. But I'm not sure how else to defend or explain this since the brunt of Natasha's argument is because Jodie Foster does a lot of movies, Fincher is bad? And lowered himself to doing genre? Again, not entirely sure about the point here.
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Jonathan Demme: Director of Cousin Bobby, Philadelphia, The Complex Sessions, Murder Incorporated, Beloved, The Truth About Charlie, Rachel Getting Married
Natasha's Pool Movie: The Truth About Charlie
Our Pool Movie: The Manchurian Candidate remake.
Total Domestic Gross: $65,955,630
Estimated Cost: $80 Million
Tomatometer: 82 percent
Sure, "Silence of the Lambs was a game changer for all psychological thrillers about wang-tucking serial killers" and "But then Demme dropped the Whalberg bomb with The Truth About Charlie. That is an awful movie! And Demme has not made anything not-awful since!" Yet the remake of Charlie could hardly be considered a pool movie. It barely made $5 million and was filled with Demme-friends and acquaintances, making it more of a holiday featuring cameras than something to re-finance his house. But his remake of Candidate? Fantastic!
Filled with fun so dumb, even Natasha could enjoy it! It even did horrible in the box office, so it makes a better choice than hers.
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Curtis Hanson: Director of The River Wild, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, L.A. Confidential, Wonder Boys, Lucky You, In Her Shoes
Natasha's Pool Movie: Lucky You
Our Pool Movie: 8 Mile
Total Domestic Gross: $116,750,901
Estimated Budget: $41 million
Tomatometer: 74 percent
Sure, Natasha's choice was Lucky You and that was made to finance something. And then she quotes Rex Reed.
I'm not even sure why. In fact, if anything 8 Mile, financed entirely by Eminem in an attempt to give his career another shot in the arm, is more of a vanity project than anything else Hanson did. And this guy made Losin' It.
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Steven Soderbergh: sex, lies and videotape; Gray's Anatomy, Out of Sight, The Limey, Solaris, Traffic, The Good German Che Part One & Part Two
Natasha's Pool Movie: The Good German
Our Pool Movie: Oceans 11, 12, 13
Total Domestic Gross(es):$183,417,150, $125,544,280 , $117,154,724
Estimated Budget(s) : $85 million, $110 million, n/a
Tomatometer(s): 80 percent, 56 percent, 70 percent
No one saw The Good German. It was an attempt by Soderbergh to create a classic film and an experiment in making a period thriller using period techniques. In no way would it ever pay for anyone's pool. But the Ocean's Trilogy? Now there is a cash cow ripe for the making--so much that the filming of the second film was treated by all involved as a vacation rather than a movie shoot.
Also, Natasha, his name is Steven. Not Steve.
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Ang Lee: Director of Eat Drink Man Woman, Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Chosen, Brokeback Mountain; Lust, Caution
Natasha's and Our Pool Movie: Hulk
Total Domestic Gross: $132,177,234
Estimated Budget: $137 million
Tomatometer: 61 percent
We can't really argue against this choice, but we can argue that Natasha's genius: "Just when we were starting to believe that you were as good as your as all those Oscars said you were, you go and make The Hulk." Now to be fair, it was just called Hulk. And also, as good as your as all those Oscars makes no sense.
But at the time, this was Lee's biggest movie and his first real shove into the commercial mainstream. It's even playing at Lincoln Center's retro for him, which describes the film as "After the success of Crouching Tiger, Lee surprised many Hollywood insiders by taking over a CGI-heavy, action free-for-all. The result, however, was not Sam Raimi’s comic book movie. Scientist Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) is hit by an experimental ray gun that transforms him into an indestructible green monster, inspiring fear (and a few entrepreneurial ideas) in both his military and corporate underwriters and the creepy janitor who seems to know a lot about Banner’s work."
But to truly appreciate what a horrible job Natasha did, check out Karina Longworth's epic take-down at Spout.
-John Lichman
*edit: Jen Yamato points out to me I misspelt Mariachi. Twice. Awesome.
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Routinely on the Internet, people comment on articles. Sometimes, they may even know how to write a sentence or two. Maybe they can even use "teh HTMLZ" and know how to run a script or two. Other times, it involves basic ettique and knowing how to use your website.
On the Movies page at Current, I like to think that we completely outline what we want submitted there. From my little bio:
[B]reaking movie news, interviews with the industry, trends in film, new trailers and film-related conversation. but just because you have a moving set of pictures, or a gaggle of gossip shots, doesn’t mean it’s right for us.
One assumes that speaks for itself. And if it doesn't fit with the format I want for the Channel, then I merely untag your article. It is that simple. So what's good? Details about the God of War movie, Natalie Portman starring in Thor, or even the 10 Deadliest Creatures in Movies. What we don't want are things that just have moving pictures, no matter how blunt your definition of "Movies" is.
What isn't applicable is something like this submission from a user that features a video presentation from a speaker. Now this is relevant for News and lord knows what else. But it isn't relevant to Movies and attempting to argue that with the following comment is why this is a GREAT MOMENT IN INTERNET COMMENTING from User IAmFree:
jlichman..actually a movie is motion picture..nothing more nothing less...just because you have your limited scope on doesnt [sic] change the fact..does the content have pictures in motion along with audio?yes adding a movie tag is not inappropriate at all...btw its just a tag man..stop abusing your little current powers douche..thanks
Remember everyone, people who use your website know more about it than you do. Also, don't abuse your little current powers douche or else something bad will happen.
-John Lichman
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It's Wednesday, which means humpday--which is fitting since we're reviewing Humpday on The Rotten Tomatoes Show next Thursday! The mind boggles.
Production I.G. confirms that someone has the rights for a live-action adaptation of Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade. Which is funny, since Mamoru Oshii already made three live-action films set in that universe. [Current]
Tobey Maguire continues his "indie"dom with The Details. [Variety]
Roger Ebert responds to critics of his Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen review, proves he is still better than us for a reason. [Chicago Sun-Times]
Pre-Sales for the new Harry Potter beat Transformers with magic, british wit and money. [THR]
Braveheart scribe Randall Wallace will tackle a Captain Nemo remake. [THR]
Jason Bellamy and Ed Howard discuss Errol Morris. [THND]
There may be ANOTHER Mortal Kombat movie. [FirstShowing]
There are a lot of mistakes in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. A lot. [Current]
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We've been slacking! Sorry! Why don't you check out the best Christopher Walken impersonations as our peace offering?
But here're three things we really dug off The Movies Channel today!
10 Dirty Secrets of Independent Film submitted by Pericles_Lewnes
To be fair, we're more surprised it isn't:
1. Cast Zooey Deschanel
2. through 8. ???
10. Profit.
Pixar's Next Three Films to be Sequels? submitted by Psythor
Sequels are a sure thing, so it doesn't surprise me that much. But Pixar usually runs with one franchise and let's the rest be original. Then again, when was the last time I thought about Toy Story?
Who Would You Recast For The A-Team submitted by Mr_Costello
Well, since Hannibal and Face are basicaly sold. I'll say:
B.A. Baracus: Mm. Who to say without appearing racist? Uh...make him CGI and voiced by Mr. T?
Howlin' Mad Murdock: Ryan Reynolds.
-John Lichman
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The New York Observer has fired film critic Andrew Sarris, yet kept the cankerous old racist, Rex Reed. [WWD]
Shia LeBouf may not be in an adaption of Y: The Last Man. We are lukewarm. [Current]
The 10 Dirty Secrets of Independent Cinema! Shockingly, #1 isn't "Sell Plasma." [Current]
SAG signs a deal. We still can't make heads or tails about the whole thing. Leave that to Nikki Finke. [Current]
Simon Cowell may be trying to buy the rights to remake Saturday Night Fever, but the source is like quoting your crazy aunt. [Current via The Sun]
Seriously. We love this trailer for the hopefully-not-fake-Madoff trailer. [Movieline]
-John Lichman
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Josh sent us this video asking if we were familiar with it. I have no idea.
The Hangover beat out Up for the Box Office! Color us surprised. [Variety]
A photograph of David Carradine's body was leaked to a Thai tabloid. Ugh. [Current]
James Cameron is now an executive producer on Heavy Metal. Which means we'll see it in a decade or three. [Current]
Two actors who were once in Brokeback Mountain will return for another movie. [Current]
3D TV is comin' at ya! [The Wrap]
Nick Dawson remembers David Carradine. [FilminFocus]
-John Lichman[youtube Hml9SXcDiTA]
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Our video honoring the Master of Quips, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is valid once again with Today's Important News...
A Remake of Total Recall will follow Phillip K. Dick's story more closely. Will likely lose the tri-breasted prostitute. [Current]
Yet another piece of James Cameron's Avatar is revealed. Still no word on the actual film. [Current]
JoBlo got a pic of Josh Brolin as the scarred Western DC Comics character Jonah Hex. He's not in a corset, though. [JoBlo]
The District 9 viral marketing has hit LA bus benches. [Current]
Bruno invades Marie Claire's cover, thus blurring marketing and media further. [Current]
New Marketing Logos for Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Avengers and Scott Pilgrim. With DATES. [MTV Splash page 1 and 2]
Stretch Armstrong is being developed by a man whose face is made of silicone. Coincidence or not? [Variety]
-John Lichman[current 90088566]
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Today, my favorite stories over at Current.com/Movies including news of another 3D remake, edible James Bond and proof that the Bruno "mishap" from last night's MTV Movie Awards was a well-timed scam. Even if it was repeated.
Lionsgate Sings 'Happy Birthday' in 3-D submitted by Vistapoint
Trailer to the original on top. We say meh, but Lionsgate seemingly needs a hit despite a profit decrease.
Licence to Chill: Ice Lolly Shaped like Daniel Craig submitted by Burukku16
and finally--
"Yes, the Bruno/Eminem incident was staged." via John Merriman's Twitter
Sure, this wasn't on Current.com, but that's because you guys have to clip something cool when you see it. I saw it, I tweeted and still nothing. Even Current Comedy got on it!
So yes, it was a bit conjured up by one of the writers, Scott Aukerman, and we think we'd like to see more from him. Especially the Paul Rudd thing. The winter clothes bit was awesome.
Anyway, that's today! See you tomorrow!
-John Lichman
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It's the end of the week and this weekend looks like it'll be awesome. So without further ado, here's what we liked off Current.com/Movies today:
Top 20 Modern Anime, Part 1 submitted by DeliatheArtist
Our U.S. Politics Channel Curator takes a break from silly things like news and focuses on the important stuff: Japanese Kids' Shows and their influence on us! But check out his first five. We're sure it'll get more interesting as the debates start.
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Top Ten Movie Montages submitted by brad2000
We're suckers for montages, too.
Alien Remake? More like PREQUEL submitted by moi
After yesterday's horror that there was an Alien remake in the works, Collider confirmed that it's in fact a remake when they grabbed Tony Scott outside of a junket for The Taking of Pelham 123. It'll be directed, however, by Carl Rinsch. Go figure.
-John Lichman[collegehumor 1911773]
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There could be an Anchorman sequel. [Current via /film]
There could be more film adaptations of John Steinbeck. [Current via THR]
These could be the definitive list of films you must see out of Cannes. [Current via indieWire]
Seth Rogen provides a voice for Paul. [Variety]
Castlevania is no more! We hope. [AICN via Bloody-Disgusting]
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