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 was busy again this week and rarely read anything, much less our news section. Still, when I looked back to put together this blended, I had a lot of options. Seemingly stuff kept happening, even when I wasn’t paying close attention. Lots of trailers, lots of irate X-Files fans, and lots of SXSW news and reviews, courtesy of our barely sober boss.
SATURDAY
Hey bud, let’s party!
No one wanted The Golden Compass to fail more than I did. After watching Eragon, the whole sword and sorcery movie is really getting on my nerves. It kinda failed here, but the rest of the world saved its bacon. Sorta like how it keeps boring soccer going. We might have to deal with a sequel after all. We’ll also have to deal with another Harold and Kumar movie. These guys are the Hope and Crosby on our generation. Ok, not really, but if American Pie can have 10 sequels, why not Harold, Kumar, and all their stoner jokes.
SUNDAY
Head south, then veer towards the direction where the sun goes down.
Despite the fact that everyone who saw it thinks its not so great, 10,000 B.C. was the biggest movie last weekend. We like our saber-toothed tigers big and toothy, I guess. We also like our top dogs at the South by Southwest Festival. That’s where Josh is reviewing movies, watching concerts, and drinking in bars. Not even in that order, really.
MONDAY
Sleeping with the boss.
It’s like a real movie, only pretend.
If you were lucky enough to get cast in one of Judd Apatow’s television shows or you are his wife, you can pretty much assure yourself of movie work for years to come. Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann, who both fit one of those two categories, will be the leads in Apatow’s next writer/director effort. The title and plot haven’t been released. The title and plot for Speed Racer have been released in some visually….interesting trailers. The trailers have a very love-it or hate-it style. I don’t love it.
TUESDAY
Pixar is going to take more of your money, very soon.
Singer to return to Superman.
Despite some close calls, Pixar has never made a bad movie. There were a couple that were “pretty good” rather than “great” or “outstanding,” but that’s it. So that means it doesn’t matter how good the Wall-E trailer is, and it’s good, we’re all still going to see it. We will also all probably see a Superman Returns movie directed by Bryan Singer. It’s not going to get made anytime soon, but when it does, Singer will probably be sitting in the director’s chair.
Half of deathly hallows is about all I can take in one sitting.
These guys creep me out.
Realizing that the boy wizard of a cash cow that is the biggest whop-de-do in the companies history is about to end, Warner Brothers is dragging it out a little longer. The final Harry Potter adaptation Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be two movies. The reason for this was purely artistic. You have to pay twice and Warner Brothers gets twice as much money from you. Very arty. Michael Pitt and Brady Corbett don’t get any of that Harry Potter style money, but they do have a new movie coming out. They play psychotic thrill killers or something. In real life, they are just regular guys who happen to play killers for fun and profit. .
THURSDAY
Kermit the Frog and Jason the Writer.
Movie we don’t care about tries like hell to get us to care.
Jason Segel may be the new Jim Henson. If you don’t know who Jason Segel is, pick up Freaks and Geeks on DVD or go to the theater and watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall. He’s the funny guy in those Judd Apatow created things. There are no funny guys in the whole X-Files fiasco. I can’t imagine why I would care about another movie from these guys. The whole show seems like some faint memory. Let’s keep it that way.
FRIDAY
Those damn studios screwed up my movie!
I guess to prove that he actually went to SXSW, Josh sat in Billy Bob Thornton’s press conference. He talked about how his movie would have been great but the studio screwed him over. He talked about how reality shows suck but are also great. He talked, a lot. Josh either brought a tape recorder or has some wicked ass shorthand skills. Speaking of ass, there is a Madagascar sequel on the horizon. I didn’t like the first movie, so I can’t think of why I should see this one. Still, it keeps Ben Stiller in the style to which he has become accustomed.
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.
