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 gone last week. Well, I wasn’t gone; I just wasn’t able to put out a news:blended. Actually, I was able, I just didn’t. Most of you didn’t even notice, but now I’m back and better than ever. Or at least moderately better than nothing.
SATURDAY
Hell, the fall will prob’ly kill ya….
Paul Newman died and we wrote a little article about it on Saturday. It’s a sad thing, although you can’t say the guy didn’t lead a full life. Actor, entrepreneur, philanthropist are just a few of his accomplishments. We asked you to leave some memories after the story, and almost no one did, but at least buy some of his lemonade this week.
SUNDAY
Start spreading the news.
My 8th favorite superhero might get a movie!
If there is a film festival out there, we are covering it. That’s a bald face lie, of course, but we are covering as many as we can, including the New York Film Festival. Katey Rich is out there watching movies, interviewing celebrities, and hobnobbing with the hobnobbables. She even writes about what she finds out so you can feel like you are there with her. If you are both there, you won’t be here reading about a Green Lantern movie. It sounds like it may happen and unless you are made of yellowness, it will capture you in 2009 or 2010. If you are made of yellowness, you probably have malaria and it’s doubtful you care much about a Green Lantern movie anyway.
MONDAY
Break out that Black Sabbath song yet again.
How can we lose, this is the guy who made Peter’s Friends!
Marvel heard that we were talking about DC characters on Sunday and decided to throw a bunch of stories about their bad boys on Monday. They told us Iron Man 3 will get made at some point in the future. Hopefully it will be after Iron Man 2, since that’s how these things work unless you’re in the Traveling Wilburys. Then they said that Kenneth Branagh is in negotiations to direct Thor. That increases my interest in Thor by at least 15 points. My new interest level is….15.
TUESDAY
George Michael Bluth gets rid of the seaward.
Kirsten Dunst will get dangled off something yet again.
People are constantly either agreeing to be in movies or not agreeing to be in them. It’s always either one or the other. Michael Cera says he doesn’t want to be in an Arrested Development movie and Kirsten Dunst says she does want to be in Spider-Man 4. Wouldn’t it be funny if Cera did play George Michael Bluth on the big screen and Dunst was done as Mary Jane? Well, it wouldn’t be that funny, but it would it wouldn’t be unfunny either, and that’s something.
I’ll stand over here while you scream incoherently.
Oscar mania strikes a little early this year.
As usually happens when we put up a story about Twilight, like we did Wednesday, the fans filled the comments section. This time they wanted to let us know that we were fools. That is hardly up for debate. The one non-fool among us is Katey. She is back to doing Oscar predictions. She did this with scary accuracy last year, so pay close attention. .
THURSDAY
Thanks for your stupid comment, stupido.
The cute funny kind of bear, not the murderous eating machine.
We’ve decided that it’s not enough for you to write comments after our news stories and reviews; we want to mock you for it. So now Josh is pulling out all of the interesting comments people have left and is making fun of them. Sure, it’s a cheap move and if you disagree with it, write something in the comments section. I’m sure we’ll all be commenting about a live action Yogi Bear movie. Most of our comments will be along the lines of “boy, does this thing suck.” Don’t worry though, folks, they are using Alvin and the Chipmunks as a guide.
FRIDAY
They were originally called The Amazings, but they got even better.
Wasn’t one of these guys supposed to be a woman by now?
It’s not like The Incredibles is current news, but I love it so who cares. Certainly not you, since you stopped reading this thing 20 minutes ago, right? I love looking at all the art from that movie and unless you are some sort of terrorist crazy-guy, you do too. Speaking of crazy guys, the Wachowski Brothers ran into Roger Ebert and they talked movies. Then Roger wrote about it and then we wrote about Roger writing about it. Voila, they have completed all their press responsibilities for the next decade.
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.
