Too lazy to read all the wonderful news our insightful crew scours the globe to bring you every day? Too outmoded to have an MP3 player for the podcast? Shame on you all! However, being the generous lot we are, welcome to news:blended, your weekly guide to the most interesting stories reported on Cinema Blend over the last seven days.
This week we’ve got people at Sundance. You’d think that once a place starts letting our writers hang around, it’s probably over, but you’d be wrong. They are showing movies and doing deals and we are there to soak it all up. By “we” I mean someone besides me. I’m sitting here in my study writing this recap of the week’s news and not hobnobbing with the indie filmmaking crowd in the snow.
SATURDAY
This has a Snakes on a Plane smell about it.
I won’t be waiting….or watching.
I really feel like Fanboys will never be as good as everyone on the Net hopes it will be. If they ever see it, that is. Jamie King talked about it and said she was glad for both her husband and Internet nerds like you. Not glad enough to kiss you or anything so don’t get all worked up. You also shouldn’t get worked up about Franklyn, since it looks kinda ridiculous. I mean, all the goth makeup and top hats. That look is so 1874.
SUNDAY
Do NOT let him direct for the love of Vishnu.
It’s a dead man’s party…who could ask for more.
I liked Sin City just fine. It’s not a great movie, but it was sort of a cool living comic book. Mostly what made it good was that “co-director” Frank Miller didn’t get to be the actual director. Now there is word that Miller wrote a script for a sequel, which is great, as long as they don’t let him direct the thing. They don’t want Danny Elfman to direct anything, just write the music for movies like Terminator 4. He’ll do well, like he always does, but just remember, you’re not his slave.
MONDAY
It was very joyous when they attached the electrodes to his testicles.
Do these 95 voters really have their finger on the pulse of Hollywood?
A lot of critics, including me, had Slumdog Millionaire on their top 10 list for the year, and Josh Tyler thinks were idiots. He didn’t like it so much and found it cynical and exploitive. That’s a bad thing, I guess. It’s also a bad thing that 95 film journalists vote on the Golden Globes and we put any stock whatsoever in what they decide. Katey thinks the Golden Globes win helps solidify the aforementioned Slumdog as the frontrunner. Maybe, but I’m not sure the opinion of the guy covering Hollywood for the Greater Bangladesh Daily Reader is a good barometer of things to come.
TUESDAY
If this movie has dialogue from its main characters, it might be trouble.
Pay me my money down!
The director of Wall-E is planning to get away from the fantastical world of garbage robots of the future and dealing with someone a little more realistic. Namely, a man who has adventures on Mars with a giant green monster. I think that was the original plot of Citizen Kane. If they do need someone to play the guy on Mars, Samuel L. Jackson might be available. He was supposed to be tied up playing Nick Fury in a bunch of Marvel movies, but now not so much.
It’s a marvelous night for a Sundance.
Kirk gets the final revenge on Khan.
As noted earlier, we have people at the Sundance Film Festival. Shockingly, they want to see movies and aren’t just there to get drunk or gawk at the actors. It’s indie movie heaven and we’re the angel of light. Ricardo Montalban was a long time actor who will forever be known for that cheesy wig and cheesy dialogue in a Star Trek movie and welcoming people to Fantasy Island. That’s actually kinda sad. I prefer to think of him as the man who almost knocked off the queen until he was thwarted by Frank Drebin.
THURSDAY
Everyone decided they’d rather make millions than not.
He puts the bomb in Cherrybomb.
In a move that should have surprised no one but seems to be a big deal, Fox and Warner Brothers decided that they would release Watchmen in March, like originally scheduled. It seems the movie studios decided they would like to release a movie and make millions of dollars instead of not doing that thing. The movie studios also released pictures of Rupert Grint without his shirt and a bunch of 14 year old girls got very, very excited.
FRIDAY
They are watching movies and bringing you the goods.
He’s as big as Biggie…size wise anyway.
As if to prove that they are really there to see movies, our Sundance crew watched movies and wrote reviews on Friday. I’m sure these will be movies I see someday on DVD or maybe never, but I appreciate the effort. I also appreciate the effort of those who are trying to put out a movie about Biggie Smalls aka The Notorious B.I.G. aka Christopher. We got to interview the star, who is thinks he is god’s gift. Or has god’s gift. Or something.
That’s all for another week of news blending. It’s like what you get at Jamba Juice, but cheaper and not quite as healthy. If you liked it or didn’t, leave some feedback.
