This just in: My favorite line in Planet Terror, and possibly in Grindhouseentire is “Give him all the guns.” I like to apply it to when people are awesome, like a grade school teacher handing out gold stars. Currently, the winner of my “Give them all the guns” prize is: Remixers Classixx. I hate sending people to Myspace, but here’s their page, and I especially recommend their takes on Psychic City and Lisztomania.
Finally, Avatar faces some bad news. With the DGA and PGA going with The Hurt Locker, James Cameron’s sci-fi spectacle is no longer the front runner, and doesn’t seem to have the Viagra behind it to take it home. It is still possible that Inglourious Basterds could win as the actors (considered the largest branch of the Academy) went for it with the SAG awards, and that could divide up something and it’s possible Avatar could sneak in, but if the PGA and DGA went Hurt Locker, then the word is out and the academy is down for it. I don’t know who looked hotter at the DGAs: Kathryn Bigelow or Christina Hendricks. So not even joking. Anyway, if James Cameron is sad he won’t add to his Oscar collection, because he was hoping to – I don’t know – make a foot stool with them, or some sort of pinwheel, well, he’ll have to go back to the drawing board. And then he can comfort himself with the knowledge that he directed the first film to do more than $2 Billion dollars worldwide – a milestone it passed this weekend – and should be passing Titanic‘s domestic gross by, what? At this point it could be Wednesday. It all depends where the actuals shake out. It should also be the #1 picture next weekend, which means eventually I’m going to run out of things to say about the film. But $700, $750, and $800 Million are not out of the question. I thought Edge of Darkness might be the first wing clipper of this phenom, but it looks like it will be Percy Jackson, Valentine’s Day and The Wolfman that finally take it down. From the top spot. It’s going to play strong until March 5, and even then, who’s to say.
As for Mel Gibson and his sugar tits, the movie underperformed my expectations, but I think this is partly because the movie is supposedly awful and kind of insane, but not in a good way. I hear it ends well in a perfectly over the top fashion, but this is not enough to get the Taken heat. I don’t think it is a strike against Gibson qua actor, and Gibson still gets to direct what he wants, I think it’s more disappointing for the fans looking for some kick ass Mel Gibson. Instead it’s a January release for a reason. I do like the artwork, even if it’s a tad… simplistic? On the nose? Warner Brothers is looking at a $50 Million maximum unless something miraculous happens next weekend. Book of Eli is at $75, the question is if it can limp another $25 Million. My guess is it probably just gets there, just because by the end of next weekend it should be in the mid $80’s, and my guess is that Edge drops faster.
When in Rome looks like a piece of shit, but it opened big than I thought. Counter-programming gave it a little more of a push than I expected, though the end game won’t be great as there’s a date movie next weekend and then there’s Valentine’s Day the weekend after. Disney might be able to get it $40 Million or more, but then the question is how much anyone got paid. This could have been done on the cheap, so there’s that. Still, I don’t think there’s any winners here, though if Disney thought they had something, they were wrong. I was going to say “if Disney thought they had something, they wouldn’t release it in January” but this is actually a good time for Kate Hudson films. Side note: It’s weird how there’s star gossip and LA gossip about stars. Is it globally known that Harrison Ford is rumored to be a huge pothead? I don’t know if I heard that as much before I moved here. And then you hear stories about what a terrible actress Kate Hudson is, etc. Since I live in LA, I have no idea if this is gossip about famous people everywhere or actual insidery dirt. Frankly I don’t care, but it’s around and trafficked in.
The Tooth Fairy didn’t absolutely die, but it’s still done, and Legion is also done, even if they are still in theaters. At the end of the day The Tooth Fairy will probably make more money, but Legion was cheaper. Box Office Mojo finally has a production budget on The Lovely Bones, and it’s listed at $65 Million. I often say that the whole numbers racket is bullshit, and it is, to some extent, no one often knows how much is really made when all is said and done, and definitely no one knows what shit cost. I will say this, The Lovely Bones having a listed budget of $65 Million is one of the more bullshit things I’ve seen lately. An effects-driven film that sat on a shelf for a year, and had an emergency last minute recasting? Sure. I guess it’s a face-saver in light of a piss-poor domestic gross. Sherlock Holmes gets to $200, maybe next weekend, and Alvin 2 gets to the same gross as its predecessor.
Next weekend we’ll have faced the Oscar Nominees, but five pictures are obvious: The Hurt Locker, Avatar, Inglourious Basterds, Precious and Up in the Air.
ZOMBIELAND directed by. Ruben
Fleischer
Sony Pictures
Special Features
·Exclusive
to the Blu-ray: “Beyond the Graveyard” Behind the Scenes Picture-in-Picture
Track
·Commentary
with Actors Woody Harrelson & Jesse Eisenberg, Director Ruben Fleischer,
Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick
·Go
Behind-the-Scenes with “In Search of Zombieland”
·“Zombieland
is Your Land” – The zombification of the United States
·Deleted
Scenes
·Visual
Effects Progression Scenes
·movieIQ
·Theatrical
Promo Trailers
·PS3
Wallpaper
Zombieland made me realize how much Bill
Murray can improve any movie. Well, Garfield doesn’t count. How
about that Emma Stone? I love the young hot-ass redheads of the American
cinema. If that wasn’t enough, you had one of the better opening credits
sequences of 2009. Anything that can make respect Metallica after a decade of
hate has to count for something. For those people that don’t give a damn about
anything I said, pick it up on Tuesday.
DR. WHO: THE COMPLETE
SPECIALS
c. David Tennant, David Morrissey, Michelle Ryan, Lindsay Duncan, Bernard
Cribbins
Special Features
·Documentaries
·Introductions
·Featurettes
·Commentaries
Dr. Who – The
Complete Specials is
the collected last hurrah for the greatest Dr. Who known to man. There’s
something that the BBC should know. Tennant made fans out of people who
normally wouldn’t have bothered with this series. Through Tennant’s work, I’ve
actually gone back and watched every other Doctor I had missed. That’s when I
realized that most of the Tom Baker stuff works much better when you baked.
Daleks are still cool when you’re flying normal. Oh well, pick it up. They
replaced Tennant with some kid that looks like Tintin.
PLANET HULK
c. Kevin Michael Richardson, Mark Hildreth, Rick D. Wasserman, Liam O’Brien,
Marc Worden
Special Features
Commentaries
Motion Comics
Thor: Tales of Asgard preview
Music Videos
Featurettes
Planet Hulk is another in a long line of
compromised Marvel animated adaptations. They take material that hasn’t really
been adapted well and try to force it to fit a runtime. Certain characters are
missing and key plot elements are missing. If that’s not enough, you have to
take a year’s worth of material and stomach it down in a 90 minute stretch. The
younger Chewers will dig on it, but it will only make the Jeff Albertsons of
the world lament their existence.
BATMAN: BRAVE AND THE BOLD
VOLUME 3
c. Diedrich Bader, John DiMaggio and a cast of several
Special Features
Nothing
The Brave and the
Bold is one of
the best cartoons on American Television. Playing in a manner similar to the
Silver Age Batman, the show gives kids a chance to escape the shadow of the
1986 darkening of the four panel world. Plus, it gives Aquaman a chance to come
across as a real character. Nobody finds a douchebag on a seahorse to be cool.
Not even the seahorse community. Four episodes are included, but one wonders
when the full season is going to get announced. Step up, Warner Brothers.
INSTANT
VIEW/ON-DEMAND/HULU/GOOGLE VIDEO SHUT-IN CINEMA
For the
premiere Instant View sub-section, I’ve decided to cobble together the best of
what you might’ve missed at the video store. If you have any legit suggestions
to share, post them in the Talkback below.
Below, I’ve included some decent documentaries that have made their way to
Netflix/Hulu. Give them a viewing and let me know what you thought.
Whether or not this becomes a mix and match of the latest cool instant view
material is up to the readers. I’ve toyed with doing basic list updates, giving
you guys a chance to pick a film to show others. Hell, just keep it legal and
I’m open to whatever you find. Also, if you just want to bitch about the shitty
video quality of the Starz flicks on Netflix Instant View…that works too. It’s Alive (1974)
Click the link to watch it over at Netflix Instant View
(membership required)
The Free Option via HULU
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
with some commercial interruption
The Complete First Season of SPORTS
NIGHT in 4-DVD box set — available nationwide on March 30, 2010
From award-winning creator Aaron Sorkin who
brough us The West Wing and Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, comes Sports
Night,an innovative half-hour program about a witty dream team from a fictional cable sports network who close
ranks in daily battle against cranky network executives, unforeseen technical
mishaps, unpredictable athletes and personal quagmires to put “Sports Night”
on the air live
every night.
Combining the storytelling talents of Sorkin and Thomas
Schlamme and unforgettable performances by Josh Charles (In Treatment), Robert Guillaume (Benson), Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives),
Peter Krause (Dirty Sexy Money), Sabrina Lloyd (Sliders) and
Joshua Malina (The West Wing), Sports Night’s first season
defined a new style and raised the bar for all television programs to follow.
Sports Night
debuted on ABC on September 22, 1998 and received an extraordinary reception
from television critics and fans alike. Brimming with wry wit and high-brow
humor, Sports Night is not a program about sports. The showprovides
an all-access pass to the inner workings of a high pressure cable newsroom and
sheds lights on those dedicated news anchors and crew who ultimately push
personal conflicts aside to bring their audience the best sports program
offered on television – sometimes against considerable personal odds.
Set primarily in the New York City studios, Sport Night
is a uniquely behind-the-scene look at a cable sports news show of the same
name that focuses on the professional and personal lives of the people who push
and pull and do everything they can to make that evening’s show go on the
air. It’s not always that easy. Josh Charles as Dan Raydell and
Peter Krause as Casey McCall, two “Sports Night” anchormen in their
early thirties lucky enough to have turned their lifelong passion – sports –
into lucrative careers, Felicity Huffman as the quick witted, ball-busting
producer Dana Whitaker, whose passion for sports is match-for-match as
passionate as Dan and Casey’s, Robert Guillaume as the cable show’s executive
producer, Sabrina Lloyd as a young twenty something associate producer and
Joshua Malina as a brilliant, though somewhat nerdish associate producer Jeremy
Goodwin.
Special
Features:
The
Show
Interviews
with creator Aaron Sorkin, director Thomas Schlamme and members of the cast and
crew reveal the story of Sports Night from inception to cancellation to
legacy.
Face-Off
ESPN’s SportsCenter vs. CSC’s Sports Night
The
real-life counterparts to Sports Night’s fictional team tell us what the
show got right. Featuring SportsCenter anchors Josh Elliot and Jay Harris,
Senior Coordinating Producers Glenn Jacobs and Michael Schiffman, Associate
Producer Elizabeth Sosbee and Researcher David Rose.
Season
One Gag Reel
Five
Commentaries With Creators, Cast and Crew
THE CRITERION COMPLETION PROJECT (170 out of 500)
The Chewer Nation has been having fun with the little monthly challenges I’ve
thrown down. I’ve got a new one that just might take us through the end of
2009. What I want us all to do is to review The Criterion Collection. But, there’s a catch. The number of words you can use will be determined by the
spine number.
Adam Air Bud: Golden Receiver (Special Edition With Sport Whistle Necklace) All Star Comedy Jam: Live From South Beach Amelia As It Is In Heaven Batman: The Brave And The Bold, Vol. 3 Beverly Hills 90210: The Ninth Season Biophage Black White + Gray (Arthouse Films 005) Cannibal Suburbia Chelsea On The Rocks Comedy Rehab Doc Martin: Series Three Doctor Who: The Waters Of Mars Doctor Who: The End Of Time, Pts. 1 & 2 Doctor Who: The Complete Specials Dragon Ball: Season Three Dynasty: The Fourth Season, Vol. 2 Dynasty: The Fourth Season, Vols. 1 & 2 (2-Pack) The Evelyn Waugh Collection G.I. Joe A Real American Hero: Season 1.3 Hitler’s Bodyguard The House Of The Devil Let God Be The Judge London Betty Love Happens The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Complete Sixth Season Maybe God Is Ill A Mind To Kill: Series One Mister Ed: The Complete Season Season More Than A Game Mr. Right Murder, She Wrote: The Complete Eleventh Season Nana: Uncut Box Set, Vol. 3 New York, I Love You Ong-Bak 2: The Beginning (One-Disc Standard Edition) Ong-Bak 2: The Beginning (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition) Password: The Best Of – The CBS Years 1961-1967 Planet Hulk (One-Disc Standard Edition) Planet Hulk (Two-Disc Special Edition) Rica Trilogy Scruff: The New Season Sensored She-Wolf Of London: The Complete Series Skull Man: Complete Collection TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Marx Brothers Tom And Jerry’s Greatest Chases, Vol. 4 Training Rules Triangle 2 Dudes And A Dream UFC 106: Ortiz Vs Griffin Universal Soldier: Regeneration The Vanished Empire Wanda Sykes: I’ma Be Me War Eagle, Arkansas Whatever She Wants The Wolf Man (Universal Legacy Series Special Edition) Wolverine And The X-Men: Fate Of The Future Zane’s Sex Chronicles Zombieland
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Amelia An American In Paris (Warner Academy Awards Series) Animal Planet: The Arid Heart The Babysitters Bonnie And Clyde (Standard Packaging) Casablanca (Warner Academy Awards Series) Chelsea On The Rocks Doctor Who: The Waters Of Mars Doctor Who: The End Of Time, Pts. 1 & 2 Doctor Who: The Complete Specials The Fallen Ones Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Gangs Of New York (Miramax Award-Winning Collection) Gigi (Warner Academy Awards Series) The Girl Next Door The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration The Godfather Part II: The Coppola Restoration He Was A Quiet Man Hellboy Animated: Sword Of Storms/Blood And Iron The Last King Of Scotland The Lost Love Happens The Man From Earth Million Dollar Baby (Warner Academy Awards Series) The Music Man Mystic River New York, I Love You Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior Ong-Bak 2: The Beginning Planet Hulk Sensored Spiral Triangle 2 Dudes And A Dream Unforgiven (Warner Academy Awards Series) Universal Soldier: Regeneration Virgin Territory Walk The Line War Eagle, Arkansas Zombieland
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I’ve probably written a variation of this thought a hundred times now, but it doesn’t get any less true: the brilliant thing about what the Duplass Brothers do in their movies is that they take conceits that could, in other hands, be big bombastic silly comedies and turn them into real movies with real human characters at the core.Cyrusstar John C Reilly was already in a big studio version of this movie; it was calledStep-Brothersand it had him as a manchild who refused to grow up. But where Adam McKay went for goofy, the Duplass Brothers go for humanity, and more than a surprising amount of sweetness.
Reilly plays John, a man still stunned and laid low by his divorce from Catherine Keener seven years before. John lives in a filthy house and spends all day jerking off to internet porn (and likely leaving nasty messages on the CHUD comments section), until his ex forces him to go to a party, where he meets the woman of his dreams. Marisa Tomei is Molly, a beautiful woman who finds John’s pathetic state touching and who, rather than laugh at him as he drunkenly tries to turn a hipster party into a dance party, joins in and gets everybody else dancing. She’s attracted to the vulnerability and maybe even his immaturity.
The relationship starts strong, but Molly has a secret; her grown son, Cyrus, still lives at home with her. And their relationship is very… strange. Rather than wait for Molly to get out of the shower, Cyrus joins her. And as John begins hanging around more he starts to suspect that Cyrus’ seemingly nice exterior is hiding a nasty plan to break his mother up with her newest beau, her first in decades.
The comedy in this is obvious. The Duplass Brothers almost never go for it. The movie’s very funny, but not set piece funny or big joke funny.Cyrusis the kind of movie where a well-placed ‘Fuck you’ is a major laugh line. The humor comes from simple moments between the characters, and both John C. Reilly and Jonah Hill, playing Cyrus, play their parts with a restraint they don’t usually exhibit in the Apatowverse. And it’s incredibly refreshing and real; you laugh throughout the runtime ofCyrusbut also are able to keep touch with these people as real characters.
What’s perhaps most surprising aboutCyrusis how human and sweet it is. It would be very easy to turn Cyrus into a monster for jokes and then offer him a standard, boring third act change of heart, perhaps after the escalating war between John and Cyrus reaches ridiculous heights. Instead the Duplass Brothers (and their actors, who improv the movie in standard mumblecore style) give everybody an inner life right from the start, and the movie isn’t about John and Cyrus topping each other with absurdity but finding common ground in the end.
I know, that doesn’t sound funny. I swear to god it is. The competition between John and Cyrus is filled with hilarious moments, and this is definitely not a touchy feely film. It’s possible that the film is a touch too gentle for some audiences, who will be disappointed by the lack of scatological humor or sight gags or slapstick, but people who are looking for a funny movie with some excellent performances (easily the best work Jonah Hill has ever done, and the work closest to revealing himself in a big way on screen), will find a lot to love withCyrus.
Does the world feel like a brighter place nowadays? There could be a simple reason for that- Pee Wee Herman’s back in our lives, and completely up to date with modern gadgets thanks to his pal Steve Jobs.
While Paul Reubens is currently acting in the Pee-wee Herman Stage Show revival in LA (please, please come to NYC), he’s also started up a Funny or Die account. His first upload comes with a bunch of old friends. Now if they could just get that long talked-about The Pee-wee Herman Story film going…
Chris Evans and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are in a movie with the hot as hell Zoe Saldana that’s based on a a graphic novel called The Losers.
Did the deal that Chris Evans made with Satan to get work as an actor have some sort of fine print about comic book roles . . .
When I was about eleven I got Raiders of the Lost Ark on VHS and watched it over and over again until it broke. I would always watch the credits at the end and it made me laugh because there was a dude on the crew whose last name was FLICK but I had a small TV so it was hard to read and looked like FUCK.
What does that have to do with Chris Evans in THE LOSERS? Nothing, but I lost interest in writing about a new Chris Evans movie about two paragraphs ago.
I figured in addition to the large List of Dumb
columns that run a couple of times a month it’d be good to give folks a
daily dose, since there’s absolutely no shortage of dumb shit out there
in the world. Help keep this thing going by sending your DUMBS to me
through THIS LINK.
Also, please spread the word through your Tweets and Facebook and
MySpace updates. Though CHUD.com’s not for everyone, stuff like this is!
01/29 – “Shuriken buy your product!”
Photo by Carl Kampmeyer.
They never tell you the fine print.
Ninja – $0.00 Daily Ninja Biscuits – $14.00 Ninja Toilet Paper – $4.00 Ninja Leash – $4.29 Ninja Insurance – $16,000/year Ninja Sharpener – $3.00 Ninja To – $649.99 Silly Two-Toed Ninja Shoes – $49.99 and last but not least…
Inevitable Legal Battle for When Ninja Kills Bus Driver – $400,000.00
Not sure what it is about red band trailers. Just seeing that color slapped in front of a movie preview makes you want to see it even if you’ve never even heard of the film. It’s like you’re almost being naughty or something. Anyway, Comingsoon.net has the new crimson band of Cyttorak clip for the comedy, She’s Out Of My League, starring Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve and directed by Jim Field Smith.
The film centers around an unlikely hero – an average joe named Kirk, (Jay Baruchel) who works at an airport as a Transportation Security Administration officer and has very few goals in life, other than trying to get back together with his evil ex-girlfriend Marnie. Then he meets a smart, sexy, charming young woman called Molly (Alice Eve) – and, contrary to all expectations, starts dating her. His initial excitement turns to panic, as his own insecurities and the advice of family and friends threaten to ruin the relationship.*
I’ve heard very little about the film, but this looks like it could be pretty funny. I just hope we haven’t seen all the film highlights in this highlight. She’s Out Of My League premiere’s March 12th.
Just a quick mention that ShockTillYouDrop has recently landed a gaggle of clips from the upcoming Benecio Del Toro / Anthony Hopkins The Wolfman remake. Also starring Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving, the Joe Johnston film updates the classic 1941 tale. The Wolfman premieres on Feb. 12th.
Okay, so the Conan / Leno / NBC lat night thing has played itself out…finally. Just a nasty bit of business on that thing the whole way around. Everybody’s got their opinions and there’s ample blame to be spread around any way we see fit. And some of those who are seeing it almost exclusively one way are TV media and marketing execs. THR.com’s James Hibberd has an article on his Live Feed that gives the results of how 129 media exec types who were recently interviewed by MediaPost saw how things should have gone:
Asked who was most responsible for the talk-show debacle, which saw the network publicly humiliated by [Conan] O’Brien and gleefully ripped by competitors, 94% of respondents to the Round2 survey blamed NBC’s management, compared to about 5% for [Jay] Leno and 1% for O’Brien … 58% of the MediaLife poll respondents agreed on one point: “It was a spectacle like I’ve never seen before, proving just how poorly managed the company is. They should have never allowed O’Brien and Leno to let it play out like that on television.”
A majority of respondents also said they thought NBC made the wrong decision: 47% would have kept O’Brien, versus 41% for Leno. Twelve percent said NBC should have kept both, if possible, by backing down after O’Brien voiced his objection … Moreover, 44% of respondents said they believe the controversy will hurt NBC’s late-night advertising, compared to 37% who believed it would have no effect. Nineteen percent said they thought the controversy would actually help, as in “any publicity is good publicity.”
On another front of the late night issue, while Alex recently told us that Conan is going to be doing some business with NBC regarding a pilot, he still has his options open, although Fox remains the biggest rumor. But another possibility (i.e. not really), is Spike, which has decided to get in on the pre-midnight action by announcing their own planned late night show. The man network is developing with Deadliest Catch exec producer Thom Beers a “weekly half-hour series that will be a
combination of talk and comedy with a focus on “manformation for
the true guys’ guy” and will have two hosts
Yesterday I devoted my afternoon to viewing the Red Riding trilogy at a press event. The acclaimed trilogy really was meant to see in one massive run like this. While all three films (1974, 1980, and 1983) were done by different directors with very different styles, the scripts were all written by Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tideland) and the same characters and actors appear in all of them. This is an epic tale spanning a decade, and you’ll have to devote some serious time to get the full experience.
IFC has just released these trailers for each installment.
As we told you a week ago, these films will play together at IFC starting on February 5th, and it’s really the the only way to see Red Riding. Things brought up in the first film aren’t resolved to the end of the third, and incidental characters become major ones in subsequent films. If you’re not paying rapt attention to the screen you might easily get confused with all the names being thrown around.
As for the quality, it’s nothing earthshattering but they’re quite fascinating and entertaining. Those looking for the dark serial killer films as suggested in the marketing should look somewhere else- these are more stories of corruption and what happens when good people try to butt heads against a greater force.
Devin nails the first in his review here but each concurrent film sadly declines in quality. But it is quite the experience to see them together, although there are many other series that work better when seen back-to-back (Lord of the Rings, Pusher, Phantasm, just to name a few.)
One weird note that may hopefully not affect your screening- our print of Red Riding 1974 was subtitled. Not too sure why this was the case as it’s in English! I suppose some Americans clearly haven’t seen enough British cinema and can’t figure out the Yorkshire acccent, but all it did was make for a distraction.
Regardless, these are very beautiful (especially 1983, which was shot on the glorious Red) and thoughtful films, ones you’ll discuss with your friends for weeks.
Not sure what it is about red band trailers. Just seeing that color slapped in front of a movie preview makes you want to see it even if you’ve never even heard of the film. It’s like you’re almost being naughty or something. Anyway, 
Just a quick mention that ShockTillYouDrop has recently landed a gaggle of clips from the upcoming Benecio Del Toro / Anthony Hopkins 
