ANCHORMAN Exhibit to Open at DC’s Newseum – Big 6 Morning Report
Anchorman was once a simple cult comedy. Now, with a blockbuster sequel on the way, Anchorman is big enough to make history. Sort of. The Newseum in Washington, D.C., will pay tribute to the most important broadcast journalist of the 21st (and 20th) century with an exhibit dedicated to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. The exhibit will feature footage, props and costumes from the 2004 comedy, including Ron Burgundy’s jazz flute. Anchorman 2 opens in December. (AICN) Steven Soderbergh has long stated that his Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, which premiered on HBO last week, was “too gay” for Hollywood. When Hollywood execs told Mother Jones writer Asawin Suebsaeng that Soderbergh was lying, the director fired back, naming names and dropping bombs. Check out his interview on MJ for all the details. (Mother Jones) Mark Wahlberg is entering the Oscar race as Universal moves the...
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WIZARD OF OZ To Get An IMAX 3D Re-Release – Big 6 Morning Report
Warner Bros. classic fantasy musical (and my favorite movie) The Wizard of Oz is about to go where Jurassic Park and Titanic have gone before: Into the third dimension! As part of the studio’s 90th Anniversary celebration, Warner will re-release the picture in 3D for one week only in September. The re-release serves as a lead in to the release of a 75th Anniversary edition of The Wizard of Oz on Bluray 3D, Bluray, DVD and Ultraviolet, which hits stores on Oct. 1. (USA Today) Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy just keeps getting more and more interesting. Days after announcing that Glenn Close has joined the outside-of-the-box comic project, the James Gunn-directed comic book adaptation has added Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro. Could he be playing Rocket Raccoon? (Badass Digest) Speaking of Marvel, director Bryan Singer tweeted this picture (above) of Nixon’s Oval Office from X-Men: Days of Future Past. (Twitter) Is...
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David Chase’s SOPRANOS Named Best Written TV Series of All Time – Big 6 Morning Report
The Writers Guild of America announced its 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time, and David Chase’s Mob drama The Sopranos topped the list, followed by Seinfeld and The Twilight Zone. The truly best written, acted, directed and just all around greatest series, The Wire, made the list at No. 9. (WGA) Forest Whitaker is going for Oscar number 2. He’s in talks to star as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Paul Greengrass‘s long gestating passion project Memphis. (The Wrap) Fast & Furious 6 topped the box office for a second weekend in a row, trailed by newcomers Now You See Me and Will Smith’s epic flop After Earth. (BOMojo) NBC has made its second good decision in as many working days. First they renewed Hannibal for another season. Now Community creator Dan Harmon is coming back for season five of the show after being fired prior to season 4. (The...
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Bryan Fuller’s HANNIBAL Renewed for Second Season – Big 6 Morning Report
Bryan Fuller‘s spectacular psychological thriller Hannibal has been saved! After weeks in limbo, NBC officially picked up the series for a 13-episode second season. Fuller’s shows, as you may know, don’t have a great history of staying on the air. But with an iconic character at the center of this series, it’s hard to imagine NBC wanting to pass… even with the low ratings. (Variety) Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel is only one part, albeit a very large one, of the 75th anniversary of Superman. Now Warner Bros. has released the logo for the celebration. That’s definitely a silhouette of the New 52 Supes, by the way. (Deadline) As if one Alice in Wonderland movie wasn’t enough, Disney is turning the billion-dollar Burton movie into a full on franchise. And they’ve hired Muppets director James Bobin to helm the sequel. (The Wrap) Johnny Depp doesn’t want...
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BIG 6: The SpongeBob effect, Tyler Perry is so money, more
SpongeBob Found to Impair Preschoolers’ Thinking Now, I’m no developmental psychologist, but several things about the conclusion being drawn here leap out at me. First, this was a group of four-year-olds, who are not the target audience for SpongeBob, and with good reason — the humor in SpongeBob is largely based in irony and sarcasm, two concepts that few kids under the age of six are likely to grasp. Read the full Wired article The Highest-Paid Men In Entertainment That would be the multi-talented Tyler Perry. If his face is not instantly recognizable that’s because in his movies he often appears dressed in drag as Madea, the wide-hipped, argumentative, no-nonsense character who has starred in six of Perry’s movies. Madea has also shown up in one of Perry’s TV shows, House of Payne. Read the Forbes article Back in action: the fall...
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BIG 6: Emotional superheroes, Creative Emmys, RIP Cliff, more
Superheroes Have Feelings, Too – Why Hollywood Should Show Them After all, Batman can’t walk around Gotham beating up bankers just on principal. So how do our heroes fit into this world of moralistic grey? Easy, they don’t. Maybe that is why the new slew of Hollywood superhero films have left us feeling, well, not so super. It’s as if we have become desensitized to the violence and gore washing over us, so maybe the only avenue left to explore is toward the within. Read the full The Wrap post The Creative Arts Emmys: The Hard Work Of Television Gets Its Due Honestly, the more cinematic television becomes, the more it competes with film, the more important these people are. Television was, for quite a while, largely very cheap-looking. There were always exceptions, of course — there was often a...
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