Truly, Truly, Truly Outrageous! JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS Movie A Go!
Eighties ladies and gays everywhere received the news we’ve long waited to hear on Friday when Hasbro, Blumhouse Prods, Justin Beiber’s manager Scooter Braun and director Jon M. Chu announced that we’re finally… finally… getting a Jem and the Holograms movie. Hopefully Mr. Chu and company can capture the campy, kitschy spirit of the original show and apply it to the cartoon that inspired countless of drag queens. I honestly haven’t been this excited for a cartoon adaptation since Josie and the Pussycats got the big screen treatment. (For real. No sarcasm.) Though, I would be lying if I said I wanted to see Jem and the Holograms. I’m really in it for The Misfits, who were quite obviously the superior musical performers. It’s worth noting that Chu most recently directed an adaptation of every straight boy’s favorite 80s cartoon with G.I. Joe: Retaliation. But Chu also has Justin Beiber:...
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Will Johnny Depp Play Marvel’s Dr. Strange?
UPDATE: Deadline is reporting that Marvel reps are denying the rumor that Johnny Depp will play Dr. Strange. Smoke screen or real talk? We shall see. ORIGINAL: Marvel may still be in Phase 2, but if we’ve learned anything from the MCU, it’s that they plan ahead. Way ahead. And we’ve already heard that Dr. Strange may just be the anchor film for the Phase 3. So who you gonna call when you need a megastar to hold down the fort? If Marvel has it’s way, it may be Johnny Depp. The Latino Review is reporting a rumor (sigh) that Depp is now the frontrunner for the role of Strange in the upcoming film adaptation, which presumably hits theaters in 2016. And if you look at strange: And you look at Depp: Well, you know he fits the part like a...
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What Was The Last Movie Rented At Blockbuster? Let’s Just Say It’s Fitting
If you Blockbuster had to pick one movie rental to end the video store era, then they couldn’t have asked for a more poetic choice than the one made by a customer in Hawaii. The Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy This Is The End was the last movie to have to come back to Blockbuster as the chain begins closing its remaining its brick-and-mortar stores. I wonder if this guy “forgets” to bring the DVD back if they’ll even charge him a late-fee. The last BLOCKBUSTER rental 11/9 Hawaii 11PM @ThisIsTheEnd #BlockbusterMemories @Sethrogen @JamesFrancoTV @JonahHill http://t.co/RsXABlqfzL — Blockbuster (@blockbuster) November 11, 2013...
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THE HUNGER GAMES Theme Park In The Works, Which Makes Complete Sense
It’s a good thing The Hunger Games isn’t in part about the numbing affect of entertainment on the masses, entertainment used by the ruling class to oppress resistance and maintain its grip on power. Thank god it’s not about that at all. Because then a theme park, the most mind-numbing of all entertainment opiates, would seem to stand in the face of the work’s own message. On a conference call with analysts the other day, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer mentioned that the company had been approached for a Hunger Games theme park. And in a brilliant move, they’re actually working to make it happen. Hypocrisy aside, nothing says family fun like knowing that if you send your kids into the arena, only one of them is going to return. I’d recommend skipping your hotel and going straight to the park so...
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See The Animatronic Baby That Was Banished From TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN, PART II
I’ve never watched Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part II. In fact, I didn’t see a single movie in that franchise after that horrendous first film. But apparently, I missed out. I mean, any movie that would create a creepy, 60-pound animatronic baby that looks like it has the birth defects you’d see in the Peacock Boys’ offspring must have something going for it, right? The kid’s actual name is Renesmee, which is bizarre enough in itself. But the animatronic doll earned the name Chuckesmee because, well, just watch the video below. It’s too bad the animatronic infant was replaced by a CGI baby in the end because Chuckesmee would have taken the franchise to a whole new level of weird. Check it out: Source:...
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Lee Daniels Is Making A Gay Action Hero Movie With MAGIC MIKE’s Alex Pettyfer
Lee Daniels can pretty much do what he wants these days now that his The Butler has grossed over $100 million and is heading into the Oscar race with the wind at its back. But will notoriously timid studio execs get behind his latest idea, a gay action hero movie? Of course, we’re not supposed to know they’re gay, but Daniels, in an interview with Out magazine pretty much revealed everything about the movie that would have been surprising: According to Daniels, think of it as a gay “Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but the two good-looking guys as the action heroes.” The twist? “We don’t find out they’re gay until the end of the movie,” he explains. But it’s all about the journey, not the destination, folks. And if the journey is with Alex Pettyfer, who played a slave-driver in The...
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