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.
It’s top 10 week around the website. All (or at least some) of the movie and DVD writers put together their top 10 lists for 2007. They agree in the sense that they all contain movies, but not in much else. We couldn’t even get on the same page with our number one film; everyone picked something different (Sicko, The Bourne Ultimatum, Black Snake Moan, Amazing Grace, and No Country for Old Men.) For all our top 10 lists, go here. Just remember, the best movie of the year is the one you liked the most. Unless it was Shrek the Third, then you’re an idiot.
SATURDAY
J.J. Abrams employee loves J.J. Abrams new film.
Drunk super-hero looks very cool.
Have you heard of Matt Reeves? I hadn’t, but apparently he’s directing the next J.J. Abrams produced movie, Cloverfield. One of the perks he got for that gig was getting to see the teaser trailer for Star Trek before regular schmoes like us. He thinks it’s GREAT. The fact that Abrams signs his checks should not be considered relevant. Rafe thinks Hancock looks great, too. Well, not all of Hancock, but he’s pretty excited by the poster. I kept looking to see if there were naked chicks or something in it, but it’s the wool cap that floats Rafe’s boat.
SUNDAY
Cross-dresser goes where no man has gone before.
Cloverfield is no Godzilla.
I don’t get movies where a man dresses up like a grandmother. Why not just get a grandmother to do it? Tyler Perry has made a career out of doing it, but he’s trying to branch out it seems. He will be in that Star Trek movie everyone around here love/hates. No, he won’t be playing Uhura’s grandmother. Another movie people around here love/hate is Cloverfield. Oh, wait, actually people more hate/hate that one. Rafe rants about his belief that the monster won’t even be seen in this monster movie. He makes a good case.
MONDAY
Our top 10 is better than your top 10.
Why doesn’t anyone want Cox?
Josh was the first one to get his top ten movies of the year list out. He claims it is the only “right” list out there. Since he only has four of my top ten movies on his list, he can’t have the “right” list, but it’s a noble effort. Maybe next year. Neither of us put Walk Hard in our top ten and it looks like you didn’t either. Mostly because you didn’t see it. It was kind of a bomb, which is too bad. It’s not a great movie, but poor Judd Apatow is down to his last few million.
TUESDAY
We love us them sequels…yee hah.
Didn’t they call this movie Back to the Future the last time it came out?
Last year we brought you more than 3,000 news items. I wrote like 20 of them myself. None of them showed up on our top ten list of most viewed news stories. Oh well, maybe this year. I can start by writing more items about The Time Traveler’s Wife. Nothing says “hot story” like a chick-flick about a love that lasts throughout time.
We give away something we don’t own.
What the hell is wrong with you people.
We have a contest where you can win a movie prop. Sure, it’s a shitty movie and the prop is a sword that won’t even kill anyone, probably, but you can have it for free! Own a piece of movie history before we send it to the Smithsonian and they put it next to Fonzie’s jacket. It’s free to enter. Of course, it’s not free to enter the movie theaters these days. You wants to play, you gots to pay. Boy, did you. You paid more to see movies this year than anyone has ever paid, with box offices raking in 5% more than last year. Considering the number of awful movies out this year, that does not speak well of us. .
THURSDAY
Next time, send the money to ME!
Your brother’s bound and gagged, and they’ve chained him to a chair…
Alan Moore is sorta crazy. He’s giving away the money that he got for letting them adapt The Watchmen and says he won’t see the movie. The not seeing the movie part is fine, but he GAVE AWAY THE MONEY. That’s taking altruism a little far, Alan. Will Smith won’t have any such problem when he joins the cast Stephen Spielberg’s movie about the Chicago 7. I love movies based on Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young songs. Can they make one based on “Love the One Your With” next?
FRIDAY
Theoretical Marvel movie better than actual DC movie.
Insert your own Brett Ratner slam here.
The Justice League of America has turned people from excited to discouraged. The casting is iffy and it’s beginning to sound like a super powered episode of The OC. Marvel seems to have the right idea by saying that there team-up group, The Avengers, won’t get a movie unless all the solo movie people are involved. The DC solo movies are in a state of flux, since Bryan Singer is sounding less and less like he will follow-up Superman Returns. That’s fine, he’s not the only one who can do it, but just, for the love of Buddha, don’t call Brett Ratner.
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
