It’s not really always sunny in Philadelphia, where Kevin Smith’s having even bigger problems around the release of his upcoming film Zack and Miri Make a Sandwich. Out of respect for the delicate sensibilities of readers in Philiadelphia, who, according to their deputy mayor, are not sufficiently mature to acknowledge the existance of the word “Porno” in public, I will therefore edit every appearance of said term in this article to read something much more innocuous.
The worst part about this is that I’m not joking. After facing recent problems with the poster, Kevin Smith had it altered so that the actors were represented by STICK FIGURES. This wasn’t a sufficient change for Philadelphia, who told the Associated Press that the posters would not be permitted for public exhibition because they contain that dread word.
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Apparently David Zucker’s career just ain’t what it used to be, because recent release An American Carol got its collective ass handed to it over the weekend by, of all things, Beverly Hills Chihuahua. While having an operating budget of around about twenty million bucks, it’s so far brought in just over a fifth of that, which puts it in about Dane Cook territory in terms of movies.
And naturally, the conservatives who were behind this bitter and mean-spirited little corker (no one likes Michael Moore much, but must we really watch his analogue get slapped on a toilet? At LEAST Team America: World Police had him strap explosives to his chest!) are convinced that their movie failed NOT because everyone hates Republicans right now, or because the current sitting President is about twenty-odd days away from being the WORST IN HISTORY, or even because the current Republican presidential ticket is made up of a walking corpse and a marginal sociopath, but rather because evil pimply teenage DEMOCRAT nerd theatre workers deliberately orchestrated and conducted a conspiracy designed to damage the returns.
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No, really. Beneath my contempt. If my contempt were here, then Tyler Perry would be somewhere around the bottom of the page. Seriously.
Oh, sure, I never liked Tyler Perry’s work very much–struck me as yet another black guy who saw Eddie Murphy in “The Nutty Professor”, said “hey, I can dress like a woman too!” and came up with Madea. Real original, guy. But now I’ve got a whole new reason to dislike Tyler Perry.
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Well, folks, stick a fork in O.J. Simpson–the man is done. Convicted of a laundry list of crimes stemming from an incident last year today, with sentencing to follow in a couple months, in which Simpson led an armed band of men into a rented hotel suite in an attempt to “get his stuff back” from a couple of sports memorabilia dealers.
It’s nice to not have to say ALLEGEDLY any more.
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Okay, look. Sometimes, just sometimes, it’s possible to take a genius move too far by BEATING IT INTO THE GROUND, and Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming new film with the even bigger mouthful of a name than previously reported, Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt, is doing just that.
I think we’ll all just wind up calling it “Bruno” like we did with “Borat“.
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Oh man, you’ve got to love those characters in the Screen Actors Guild. A bigger bunch of screwballs and morons I have not seen since the last Three Stooges film festival. Coming off one of the most miserable days in the financial markets EVER, in which the Dow saw its biggest one-day point loss EVER and media stocks took a pasting that makes Vietnam look like a schoolyard scuffle, the Screen Actors Guild issued an open letter demanding the resumption of negotiations.
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The scariest movie of the upcoming October Halloween season does NOT have a number after the title or the word blood involved, and that’s amazing. Yes, this is prime time for horror flicks–this is horror’s Christmas, baby–and it’s amazing, but more and more it looks like Disney’s going to have the current frontrunner.
With WHAT? You’re probably asking, staring at your monitor with something like horror etched onto your features. What could DISNEY possibly bring to October that’s scarier than Saw V?
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Recently, Bill Murray showed up unexpectedly at Fantastic Fest, where some enterprising videojournalist asked about Ghostbusters 3. Murray had quite a few thoughts on the subject.
I think the wounds from Ghostbusters 2 have healed. And supposedly they have hired two guys from The Office to write a script. So that could work. I think that’s a good idea to get a fresh look at… I always liked the characters. The characters are fun. And we did have a lot of fun making the movie. The first one was really a lot of fun to make. And I think the first 45 minutes of Ghostbusters is about as fun as a movie gets.
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It’s become almost painfully clear what Sacha Baron Cohen’s next movie is. Having managed to drive Borat into the ground with a series of lawsuits that made it all but impossible for him to ever pull that same joke twice, is instead planning to switch to fashion critic alter ego Bruno. The title which will manage to be an even bigger mouthful than Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, is slated to be Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male.
In fact, while trying to promote this movie, Sasha Baron Cohen was actually arrested at Milan after evading security and making his way onto the catwalk during an actual fashion show where he showed an outfit of fabrics and accessories held together by Velcro. It’s not surprising the film of the incident can be found on YouTube and other websites giving Sacha Baron Cohen an easy burst of publicity for his upcoming film.
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Is it possible to make so many lousy movies, so many flops at the box office, that you lose your mind? Liz’s eye-opening perspective on Herr Doktor Uwe Boll certainly suggests that that’s possible, but now we’ve got one more chunk of data, courtesy of Hollywood Life.net:
Dane Cook was evicted from his Hollywood apartment last month, but he is back in court fighting to stay put because he believes the ghosts that live in his house inspire him. According to court papers he claims, “I know that the presence of those that have lived there before me affects me deeply and provides me with inspiration.” “In the same way that writers can get writer’s block, comedians can really easily run out of ideas and ’stories’; I am extremely frightened that this will happen to me if I am forced to move out of my apartment.” “I’ve seen it happen to other comics, that something interferes with their connection to their creative muse, and it’s destroyed careers.”
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