Welcome to the March 25, 2015 edition of Outrage Watch, HitFix's (almost) daily rundown of all the things folks are peeved about in entertainment. Today's top story: do we have a new "Gamergate" on our hands? "The new Gamergate: Angry white men are trying to shut down diverse comics," reads the headline of a piece written by Salon's Matt Binder, who claims that "right-wing parasites, misogynist Men’s Rights activists, and opportunistic grifters" including Breitbart contributor Milo Yiannopoulos (many of whom, he alleges, probably don't even read comics) are taking aim at attempts to add more women and racial minorities to mainstream comics, most notably the woman Thor. "The fact that a woman playing Thor would cause such outrage, when even a frog is able to take up the title of Thor sans controversy, is absurd," Binder writes before citing numerous other examples of targeted attacks by the trolls in question. He...
- 3/25/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Assistant location manager Brianne Brozey, who was injured on the set of NCIS: Los Angeles in March 2011 — and was one of a handful of people Deadline found in the industry with enough courage to go on the record after the train accident that killed Sarah Jones — now has difficulty speaking after going through a life-threatening, five-hour surgery. It is her first of two major surgeries after being hurt almost four years ago by a falling steel grip head from a light…...
- 3/24/2015
- Deadline
Assistant location manager Brianne Brozey, who was injured on the set of NCIS: Los Angeles in March 2011 — and was one of a handful of people Deadline found in the industry with enough courage to go on the record after the train accident that killed Sarah Jones — now has difficulty speaking after going through a life-threatening, five-hour surgery. It is her first of two major surgeries after being hurt almost four years ago by a falling steel grip head from a light…...
- 3/24/2015
- Deadline TV
David Cross isn’t being sent out to sea without a life raft by the producers of Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, despite his statements in recent interviews in which he has described his experiences while filming the kiddie threequel as “miserable,” “unpleasant,” to downright “awful.” On Monday night, the comic urged Conan O’Brien’s audience not to see the film — which has grossed $112.4 million so far — and crudely disparaged an anonymous producer of the film with a bigoted remark, causing some insiders to speculate he was referring to Janice Karmen or Ross Bagdasarian Jr.
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- 1/12/2012
- by Aly Semigran
- EW - Inside Movies
If Alvin and the Chipmunks was, as I stated in 2007, "inevitable," then its $217 million domestic gross ($360 million worldwide) firmly established that a sequel (which I refuse to refer to by its "proper" name) was as unavoidable as catching rigor mortis from tap dancing in heavy traffic. In this second feature film, the three rodents of doom--Alvin (Justin Long), Simon (Matthew Gray Gubler), and Theodore (Jesse McCartney)--are back to trip the light fantastic upon our own rotting corpses. This time around, though, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. is not merely content to drag his father's creations into CGI hell, but also enlists the Chipettes (created by Janice Karman) to up the annoyance factor. Parents will be relieved to know that, in the sequel, nobody eats anyone else's poop, but there is a fetching dutch oven joke and plenty of butt references to feed those with bodily function fetishes. However, the undeniable "zip...
- 12/28/2009
- by Agent Bedhead
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