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The Weinsteins unite with Miramax for sequels sequels sequels!

December 18, 2013By

Will Hunting

Phase One of Sequelpocalypse begins!

And more sequels! The sequels, they burn! The Weinstein Company has united with Miramax for a 20 year long deal that will allow the Weinsteins to access the entire Miramax library and create all sorts of sequels, remakes, television series, and stage shows based on the properties. This unexpected development means we’re suddenly going to get a bunch of sequels to twenty year old films, television remakes, and other assorted random things. It’s a great time to be someone like me, who celebrates awful cultural developments!

The new venture will get off the ground quickly with sequels to the Best Picture Oscar winner Shakespeare In Love and Rounders, and they will develop series transfers of Good Will Hunting and Flirting With Disaster. They will also shepherd a development library that includes The Alibi, a comedy scripted by Stephen Colbert about a service that cleans up messes and creates cover stories for cheating spouses, and The Ninth Life Of Louis Drax, a script that was being developed by the late Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack.

Never underestimate how much some people like having lots of money! What exactly would Shakespeare In Love 2 give us? Is Shakespeare going to be in more love? Will Shakespeare In Love be combined into the world of Anonymous for an insane Shakespeare film filled with triple conspiracies and triple love? Will someone give Gwyneth Paltrow the dump truck full of money and expensive home decor that will be needed to lure her back?

Rounders, however, is a cult film that guys my age all have in their DVD collections, except me, because I don’t really care about Rounders one way or the other. Not that I’m too cool for Texas Hold ’em intrigue, but that I just don’t find Rounders interesting. But a sequel will find an audience as long as they don’t spend too much money on it.

The Good Will Hunting tv series I can’t be good unless it’s done in the style of the Good Will Hunting parody in that Jay and Silent Bob movie. But who knows, television is the new place to go for good character driven content. Surprises may happen.

One thing I hope does happen is more Clerks cartoon shows, as Kevin Smith has hinted in the past. That is the one and only thing I really care enough about to write in a paragraph about how it’s the only thing I care about. I care just that much! Cares.

Miramax has so many films in its library there is so much potential, I’m just excited!

“It’s like unlocking a kingdom full of gold, which Tom describes as diamonds,” said Harvey Weinstein

It’s DIAMOND GOLD!

via Deadline

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Get marooned again as Gilligan's Island casts away to remake land!

December 17, 2013By

Everyone’s favorite television series about people stuck on an island (suck it, Lost!) is back again for the…let’s see…fourth time in movie form! We all remember the 1960s television series, because it was rerun forever and that’s how 99% of us saw all the episodes over and over again. As you are probably aware, the castaways did finally get off the island, long after the show was canceled after two seasons (not for ratings, but because of scheduling conflicts!) with the made for tv movie Rescue from Gilligan’s Island. It ended, of course, with the castaways being trapped once again. Two more tv movies followed – The Castaways on Gilligan’s Island (which was also a proposed pilot for a revised series) and The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island, which featured the greatest basketball game in the history of film (until Space Jam!) The actors would appear in various skits and things, but even with a reality show version of the original series, there was no real revival.

Until now.

Warner Bros. has decided to bring Gilligan’s Island back, in movie form! As a vehicle for Josh Gad. You know, the famous Josh Gad. He was in Book of Mormon, which I know thanks to reading the handy dandy Deadline article everyone is sourcing this movie news from! As a sign of quality, Warners doesn’t even bother to say which part Josh Gad will be playing. I would have though Gilligan, but Gad is tubby and that’s leading speculation that he will be the Skipper, though I can’t see Skipper being the star of Gilligan‘s Island. Josh Gad will write along with Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez.

I do hope this does lead to what we all want to see on the big screen:

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Lizzie Borden Took An Ax to trailer town!

December 16, 2013By


We are getting ever closer to seeing Christina Ricci go all lumberjack on her parents with Lizzie Borden Took An Ax on Lifetime! It’s choppin’ time!

The nursery rhyme “Lizzie Borden took an ax…and gave her mother forty whacks…when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one” has been folklore for generations. But, in fact, it was Lizzie Borden — one of the most legendary figures in American history — who first whetted the public’s voracious interest in scandalous crimes in the 1800s with her own gruesome story involving the brutal murder of her parents. Starring Golden Globe® and Emmy® Award nominee Christina Ricci (Monster), Golden Globe® Nominee Billy Campbell (The Killing) and Screen Actors Guild Award® winner Clea DuVall (Argo), the Lifetime Original Movie Lizzie Borden Took An Ax premieres January 25, 2014, at 8pm ET/PT.

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Descendants – Disney villain offspring go High School Muscial!

December 13, 2013By

Disney Villains

“What Time Is It?” Villain Time, suckers!


Disney Channel original movies have become far more bigger spectacles in the wake of High School Musical, with several becoming highly promoted events. Descendants looks like it may top everything that comes before it, because it combines the Princess Franchise with the good clean teens having good clean fun franchises. Actually, the Disney Villains also have their own franchise. It’s a tornado of ideas that could come together into something mystical and magical. Or it could just be offensively boring and dumb. But I have hope, that there will be less winks and nods and awful jokes, and more of a central storyline that just happens to star all these kids of famous evil beings. Largely because Kenny Ortega will be directing, and I don’t think he’d just churn out boring crap.

In a present day idyllic kingdom, the benevolent teenaged son of the King and Queen (Beast and Belle from Disney’s iconic Beauty and the Beast) is poised to take the throne. His first proclamation: offer a chance at redemption to the trouble-making offspring of Cruella De Vil, Maleficent, the Evil Queen and Jafar who have been imprisoned on a forbidden island with all the other villains, sidekicks, evil step-mothers and step-sisters. These villainous descendants (Carlos, Mal, Evvie and Jay, respectively) are allowed into the kingdom to attend prep school alongside the offspring of iconic Disney heroes including Fairy Godmother, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and Mulan. However, the evil teens face a dilemma. Should they follow in their nefarious parents’ footsteps and help all the villains regain power or embrace their innate goodness and save the kingdom?

Kenny Ortega, the Emmy Award-winning director and choreographer of Disney’s record-setting High School Musical TV movies and feature film, returns to Disney Channel to direct Descendants.

For those of you keeping track of the film franchises: Belle and Beast have a son, and Fairy Godmother, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and Mulan also have unnamed children. The focus of the film seems to be on the villain offspring, as they actually have names in the press release: Carlos De Vil is the son of Cruella De Vil, Mal is the offspring of Maleficent, Evvie is the daughter of the Evil Queen from Snow White, and Jay is the child of Jafar. So far no one has been cast yet, but imagine diverse mall kids with California tans. Will they all go straight, or go evil? There are just enough villains for each to score a hero/ine boy/girlfriend, though there will be one hero/ine left over! Unless someone dates the parrot offspring of Iago!

The important question is will Angelina Jolie cameo as Maleficent???

via D23

Lord of the Crumbs Sesame Street Cookie Monster
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Lord of the Crumbs has Sesame Street rule them all!

December 10, 2013By

It’s time for more Sesame Street fun with their latest parody video, which knocks that darn Lord of the Rings down a few pegs! In Lord of the Crumbs, Cookie Monster is a monster named Gobble, and he must recreate the recipe for cookies using his memory! The video will teach you how to have patience, to use mnemonic devices to remember things, and that Mt. Doom was really just an oven. Like I always knew!

Legend speaks of a dessert unimaginably sweet and delicious, and when it was destroyed all that remained was the dessert’s powerful recipe. It remained in the hands of a monster named Gobble for a long time, but when it disappeared, all cookies on Monster Earth disappeared along with it. It is up to Cookie Monster to use his memory and remember the recipe in order to bake the cookies in the fires of Mount Crumb.

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