Alicia Silverstone to Reunite with Clueless Director Amy Heckerling on Vamps
February 11th, 2010 | 
Author: orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com)
Screen Daily is reporting that Alicia Silverstone will reunite with Clueless director Amy Heckerling on her latest project, a vampire romantic comedy, entitled Vamps. Apparently, it will “be a modern-day tale of two young female vampires living the good life in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize their immortality.”
Sounds like a vampire-themed version of Gossip Girls. Lets hope this isn’t just a last minute attempt to capitalize on the Twilight craze. But honestly, who better than Heckerling, who has been responsible for some of the better teen films of the 80’s and 90’s, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless and European Vacation. She has only released two films in the last decade, 2000’s teen comedy Loser and the 2007 romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman. Silverstone will play one of the female vamps, alongside Krysten Ritter (Confessions of a Shopaholic, Veronica Mars, Breaking Bad). Production is set to begin in April.
Sharktopus is real! And Roger Corman is making it!
February 10th, 2010 | Author: SCI FI Wire Staff Syfy original movie—until now.
Because here comes … Sharktopus!
It’s Time To Start the Music for ‘The Greatest Muppet Movie of All Time’
February 10th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Cole Abaius
If you’re like me, you love hyperbole. You love calling things the greatest hat in the world, the greatest bowl of chili in the world, the greatest grandma in the world (love you grandma!).
If you’re like me, you also love the Muppets so much that you named your high school gang “Electric Mayhem.”
So, it’s clear that I’m excited about The Greatest Muppet Movie of All Time even though changing the title from The Cheapest sets the bar really high. Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller proved themselves as a terrific pair during Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Segel has always had a certain Muppet-quality to him in the first place.
Apparently, The Playlist has a “friend” who got a chance to read the script and goes into fairly familiar detail about it. If you’re into that sort of thing go check it out.
On the non-spoilerly side, it looks like the story will focus on the Muppet gang reuniting and coming out of show business retirement to save the original studio that birthed their iconic show. I assume it’ll be like Punch and Judy meet A Prairie Home Companion on mescaline.
With musical numbers.
And hopefully a Rec Center will be saved, too.
It’s a fairly simple premise which works best – a quick adventure that goes awry. The Muppets do their best work when unhampered by anything too complicated, and I love the idea of them getting the gang back together since, that will sort of mirror the hiatus they’ve had from the big screen since 2005 with The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz – or if you go all the way back to their last good movie, 1999’s Muppets From Space.
Which hopefully means we’ll get a Jeffrey Tambor cameo for this forthcoming flick.
What do you think?
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My Movie Crush: Michael Treanor in ‘3 Ninjas’
February 8th, 2010 | Author: Jen Yamato
Sometime in the early ’90s, my young adolescent existence went from nerdy and tomboyish to boy-crazy, nerdy and tomboyish. Once it happened, I started noticing cute boys everywhere and I found that my girl friends did, too. We would have sleepovers and hang outs and talk for hours about the objects of our obsessions, pick which ones were our favorites (making sure to choose diplomatically, in case two girls picked the Justins and nobody picked the Lances), and replay particularly swoon-worthy scenes in our heads (i.e. “Remember that time Jonathan pretended to be a girl to get on the soccer team!?”). Only these boys weren’t the cootie-carrying classmates we went to school with; they were the dreamy, pretty, charismatic nice boys the likes of which could only be found in fantasy land. These were our movie crushes.
To kick-off this new column celebrating our collective childhood movie crushes, I’m taking it back to the first onscreen boy that ever made my heart beat with (innocent!) romantic palpitations. (Check out Jessica Barnes’ Michael Biehn post for a much more respectably nerdy first crush.) The year was 1992, his name was Michael Treanor, and he was one of the young stars of a major motion picture that had girls the world over swooning while simultaneously asking their parents to sign up for karate lessons: 3 Ninjas.
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February 7th, 2010 | Author: Neil Miller
Instead of watching more movies or writing about movies I’ve seen recently (I do have a From Paris with Love review coming soon, though), I watched the Super Bowl this evening. And besides being happy for the New Orleans Saints and their underdog win, I was also pretty pleased with the commercials. These expensive advertisements have become just as popular as the game itself. There were beavers playing the violin, Danica Patrick getting a massage (hot) and even a strange pro-life thing starring Tim Tebow’s mom. But there were also spots for movies — and we cover those.
So in order to keep the site feeling fresh, I’ve decided to put together a little list of the Super Bowl commercials — all of the ones for movies, and some that are about other things. Either way, they were all pretty good. See for yourself below.
The Last Airbender: The Kid’s Got Moves
We showed you this clip last week, but it bears repeating. Little Noah Ringer is about to unleash the fury of element-bending upon us in perhaps the coolest thing M. Night Shyamalan has ever done. Period. Will there be a big twist at the end? I don’t know, but there will be ass-kicking.
Robin Hood: Badass Outlaw
Lights, camera, rock music. Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood is going to be Gladiator in the forest. Russell Crowe looks intense, the action looks intense and we expect there to be blood! Will you be entertained?
The Wolfman: The Moon is Out
If you’re like me, then you probably can’t wait for Friday…
Alice in Wonderland: That Pig Joke Never Gets Old
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland looks like a weird movie, similar to every other Tim Burton movie. But with a good cast (Depp, Bohnam Carter, etc) and a story that lends to a wild vision, this should be a lot of fun.
Prince of Persia: Find That Knife!
Disney unleashes a fast-paced look at the Jake Gyllenhaal led film. Still looks like it will be on a grand scale, and it might actually be good. However.. Jake Gyllenhaal?
Coke – Hard Time (Featuring The Simpsons)
This very mopey portrait of a recession-effected Mr. Burns isn’t exactly the most energetic or funny commercial, but I’m including it because Millhouse comes in and steals the show right at the end. Tell me that’s not funny. Go ahead, do it.
Snickers: You’re Playing Like Betty White Out There
It isn’t enough to have Betty White hilariously playing pickup football and making off-handed references to sleeping with some dude’s girlfriend, but Abe Vigoda? He’s alive!
KIA: What Happens in the Sorrento
This KIA commercial is maximum cuteness, committed to video. It features Muno from Yo Gabba Gabba, which the kids will appreciate, and creativity and energy for us adults. Not bad.
Google: Parisian Love
It really isn’t fair that a company like Google, one of the biggest and most powerful corporate entities on the planet, is so damn charming. I mean really, is it possible to hate Google after seeing this commercial? Did anyone hate Google prior to seeing this commercial?
What was your favorite Super Bowl ad?
