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.
I’m less in tune with the movie news world this week than usual. I’m never really in tune, truth be told; but this week it is just more so. So if you think my blended stories below don’t capture the flavor of the past week very well….you’re probably right. Nice work!
SATURDAY
Sigourney Weaver talks about things she does.
Another movie I will never see has a trailer I didn’t watch.
I just went to see Vantage Point yesterday and thought Sigourney Weaver was somewhat underused. That’s not surprising, since everyone was underused in that movie. It didn’t really develop any characters. Weaver does a nice job, though, as usual. She talks about that movie and some others, including that James Cameron thing. Sigourney isn’t involved in the Sex and the City movie. I’m not involved either. In fact, I’m so not involved I thought it was called Sex IN the City. Seriously.
SUNDAY
Some awards show was held.
The people have spoken and decided that Oscar didn’t screw up too badly.
A small organization called the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave out a few awards on Sunday and we had a running blog, a chat room, and a lot of people still pissed because Black Snake Moan wasn’t nominated. The expected winners won and the expected losers lost. The biggest news was that the television director thought the most important performer in “Falling Slowly” was the conductor and not the people who wrote the song and were singing it, too. Idiot. On Monday, many of you said the awards were not a travesty or anything. All in all, a nice evening that everyone will forget by next year.
MONDAY
The Edwards Brothers rip me a new one and also screw up my name.
Proving that even major motion picture writers and directors care about what I say about them, Cory and Todd Edwards (the co-writers and co-directors of Hoodwinked) took umbrage at my saying that that I sorta liked their movie. Well, actually, the umbrage they took was that I pointed out others didn’t like it so much. They called me “snarky” which is true and grudgingly noted that I might be a “nice guy,” which is not true. They also spelled my name wrong, which I think makes us even. So, I call truce if they are amenable. Save me a seat for Hoodwinked 2. Just keep the Wolf doing the Fletch-thing guys, I love that.
TUESDAY
Arrested Development movie not developing fast enough.
Scott loves Shakespeare.
I’m one of the few people who loves Arrested Development but doesn’t care much if they make a movie. It would be nice, but I’d rather see the TV show back in some form. I think the whole concept will lose something on the big screen. Will Arnett doesn’t care what I think, though, and says they are in talks to bring the Bluth family back. Scott Gwinn is silent on an Arrested Development movie, but was loud on the point that Shakespeare in Love wasn’t one of the biggest Oscar mistakes of all time, as we noted in our CB Top 5. A lot of his support seems to be that Saving Private Ryan made you cry and that Shakespeare in Love won other awards. I don’t follow that logic, but I liked the movie, too.
The not-so-last starfighter.
I never saw The Last Starfighter. I always thought it was sort of Tron Jr.. If you did see it and liked it and are hoping for a sequel, Wednesday was your lucky day. We broke the news that one is in the works. Grab your….uh….joystick and get ready to battle video game aliens! A movie that is sure to gross more than The Last Starfighter and its sequel is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Long Movie Title or whatever it’s called. Since Steven Spielberg knows everyone is coming no matter what, he’s told theaters the film will only be released in 35mm prints, not digitally. People who think everything was better in the “good old days” are dancing for joy. .
THURSDAY
Book no guy would read turned into movie some guys will see.
Somebody please stop Will Ferrell
Have you read the book, “The Other Boleyn Girl”? You’re obviously a chick, then. The author, Phillippa Gregory, is a woman who writes popular historical fiction for other women to read and for men to not read. She was interviewed Thursday about a movie that about her book that some guys may watch because it has two superhot chicks in it. I don’t think that comes up in the interview. Something that did come up on Thursday is my lunch after seeing the Step Brother trailer. Will Ferrell has to take a break from movies. A three-year court mandated break. Seriously, this is getting embarrassing.
FRIDAY
Iron Man gets Lost
Modern day warrior mean, mean stride, today’s Tom Sawyer, mean, mean pride.
If you were watching Lost last week (and now realize that this will be referred to as the “comeback season,”) you saw a new trailer for Iron Man. It looks very cool. I try to remind myself that trailers for most superhero movies look cool. Heck, the trailer for Underdog looked kinda cool. I’m going to go out on a limb, though, and say Iron Man will be better than Underdog. I don’t know how good Five-Year Engagement is going to be, but it does have Jason Segel as the star. I think his most shining moment was drumming along, badly, to “Tom Sawyer” in Freaks and Geeks. He’ll have to go a long way to top that, dry ice and all.
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.
