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 now officially almost Christmas. I bought my last few gifts this week. I also started getting gifts which is very cool. I haven’t gotten The Simpson’s Movie on DVD as a gift, yet. If you see my wife in the store or something, make sure you drop a hint. Thanks.
SATURDAY
In a shocking development, Peter Jackson movie will include a part for Andy Serkis.
Emmy Rossum tries the whole acting thing again.
Peanut butter and jelly. Peas and carrots. Crack-heads and crack. Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis. Some things just go together. Serkis will have a role in The Adventures of Tin Tin trilogy that Jackson and Steven Spielberg are going to begin shooting next year. The role hasn’t been announced, but hopefully it will be Serkis’ actual body in the movie, not some computer representation. Even though he is often just the motion capture stand-in, Serkis has been busier than Emily Rossum lately. She dropped out of sight for awhile, but now she’s back in a manga adaptation, Dragonball Z. Keep up the good career choices, Emmy, you’ll be on top in no time!
SUNDAY
The. Dark. Knight.
Stop Michael Vicking movie dogs!
There was a time when people thought casting Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight was a bad idea. The first real trailer for the movie is now available and those people look kinda stupid. He’s obviously going to be great. I’m buying in; hook, line, and sinker. Rafe is definitely not buying in to all this doggicide in movies recently. He’s sick of it and rants against it. One hopes that a few pretend dog lives will be spared, but I’m not optimistic.
MONDAY
Making sense of the senseless, Oscar-wise.
Katey Rich has been writing news for a couple of weeks now and she’s already covered more stories than I have in nine months. If that’s not enough, she’s writing a column on the Oscars and it’s not only longer than anything I write, but most of the words are spelled correctly. My writing just gets people irritated. I made the mistake of noting that the South may have enslaved a few of their fellow men in the past while talking about the Southeastern Film Critics Awards. One critic took umbrage and said I was an idiot. He also said I was delicious. He’s right on both counts.
TUESDAY
Daryl and the Mac guy do funny things.
Peter Jackson wants to make another billion dollars.
I love Craig Robinson from The Office. He is often the funniest thing on the show, and, unlike Creed, he hasn’t worn out his welcome. He made a funny skit/ad for Walk Hard with some other Judd Apatow posse members, including Apatow himself. Somebody put Paul Rudd and Craig Robinson together in one of those black guy and white guy are funny just for that reason movies. Peter Jackson is not so funny but he is rich and clearly wants to be richer. To that end, he is planning to be involved in the movie version of The Hobbit that New Line is dying to do so their company won’t go under. Later in the week we found out he wasn’t going to direct, but he’ll still be cashing some muy mucho checks.
Sweeny Todd won’t be the demon barber in the Midwest.
I never much liked Titanic. The sinking was cool but the story, acting, writing, and music were all either overly melodramatic or manipulative. I also wasn’t a teenage girl when it came out, so it wasn’t really being aimed at me. Many, many, many people loved it, obviously, including Katey and she writes about it on its tenth anniversary. Katey’s remembrances are worth reading, but get a load of the comments section. Not just the number of comments but the length of some of the responses. I’ve literally never seen anything like it. The people in the Midwest won’t have much chance of seeing anything like Sweeny Todd. A big regional theater chain isn’t going to carry it because the greedy studio bastards want too high a fee to show it. Or maybe the chain is being greedy for not paying it. Either way, it will be on DVD in a few months, so just hold your water.
THURSDAY
Goofy is back.
Jenna Fischer is the greatest person who ever lived.
I went to see the National Treasure sequel this morning. It was pretty ok. There was a Goofy cartoon before the movie and while I didn’t laugh my ass off, I did chuckle once or twice. In any case, it’s more entertainment for my $10, so I’ll take it. I’ll also take Jenna Fischer in any way she would like. Everyone’s slice of Christmas Pam is in Walk Hard and experiences the Dewey Cox first hand. She submitted to an interview with Katey Rich and told us that her character’s most important trait is her skin.
FRIDAY
Hellboy II trailer is on our line and in our hearts.
Sacha Baron Cohen is sometimes a real actor. Other times, he’s that funny but increasingly annoying Borat guy. Well, not anymore. Cohen says he’s done with Borat; no more naked wrestling or trying to get drunken frat boys to make racist statements. It’s all Shakespeare from here on out. Finally, the Hellboy II trailer is available online. This whole Hellboy sequel still mystifies me. Did the first movie make money? Was it popular and I just didn’t realize it? How is a sequel justified? Justified or not, they made it, so enjoy.
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.
