Michael Jackson's hometown is planning a birthday tribute to the singer. The late "Thriller" hitmaker, who died of acute Propofol intoxication at his home in Los Angeles on June 25, 2009, will be honored with a special "This Is It" birthday party outside his childhood home in Gary, Indiana on Saturday, August 28, the day before what should have been his 52nd birthday.
"The passing of our favorite son, Michael Jackson, is still fresh in our hearts," Gary Mayor Rudy Clay said. "A year later, on the day before his birthday, we honor his memory as a great and giving person and as the world's greatest entertainer." Michael's father, Joe Jackson, will attend a cake cutting ceremony at the tribute, which will also feature a group "Thriller" dance.
As well as the birthday celebrations, a separate four-day MJFanvention begins in the town on Thursday, August 26. The main attraction at the fan event...
"The passing of our favorite son, Michael Jackson, is still fresh in our hearts," Gary Mayor Rudy Clay said. "A year later, on the day before his birthday, we honor his memory as a great and giving person and as the world's greatest entertainer." Michael's father, Joe Jackson, will attend a cake cutting ceremony at the tribute, which will also feature a group "Thriller" dance.
As well as the birthday celebrations, a separate four-day MJFanvention begins in the town on Thursday, August 26. The main attraction at the fan event...
- 8/26/2010
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Friday, Oct. 24
Determined once again to leave no deserving target unspoofed, Dimension Film's wildly successful Scary Movie franchise is back in business.
With the Wayans brothers having packed it in after the reviled Scary Movie 2, it made perfect sense to recruit David Zucker, the man responsible for those three wacky Naked Gun movies and, with brother Jerry and Jim Abrahams responsible for that highly revered granddaddy of all spoofers, namely 1980's Airplane!
The result is a kinder, gentler brand of parody (as evidenced by the series' first non-R rating) and, for a while there, Zucker and his former writing partner Pat Proft, along with Craig Mazin, look to have tapped into some of that old ZAZ magic.
That is, until it becomes apparent that the same three or four gags are endlessly recycled throughout, and after awhile, yet another crippling blow to the crotch somehow loses its impact.
Still -- though the final take won't come anywhere close to the $157 million scared up by the first installment -- given that PG-13 rating, Scary Movie 3 should have no trouble pulling in sizable young audiences while there's probably still enough of the gross-out element to appeal to fans of the purely puerile.
Morphing the plot lines of The Ring, Signs and that scary 8 Mile, with bits of The Matrix Reloaded and The Others thrown in for good measure, "SM3" kicks off with an amusing prologue in which Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy send up the start of The Ring while having fun with their very blonde images.
Meanwhile a TV reporter (Anna Faris), who has her hands full covering an alien invasion at a farm belonging to Charlie Sheen, stumbles upon a killer videotape that has already claimed the life of her prescient son's (Drew Mikuska)'s schoolteacher (Regina Hall) while striking up a relationship with a white wannabe rap star (Simon Rex) who dreams of having a dream.
In the course of her investigation, she meets up with the Oracle, aka Aunt ShaNeequa (Queen Latifah), Orpheus (Eddie Griffin) and the Architect (George Carlin), and along the way the likes of Denise Richards (in a sick but funny flashback sequence with real-life husband Sheen), Camryn Manheim, Anthony Anderson, Jeremy Piven, D.L. Hughley, Macy Gray, Ja Rule, Master P, Redman, Method Man and the Coors Twins join in the shenanigans.
There are some true moments of inspiration to be found here, including a restaging of the "rap-off" sequence from 8 Mile, which turns out to be judged by none other than American Idol sourpuss Simon Cowell.
Then there's also that goof on The Others, in which Sheen takes the white veil off his oddly acting daughter only to find a shrieking Michael Jackson (Edward Moss), which would have been funnier had it not already been shown a hundred times in all those TV clips.
But by the time Leslie Nielsen is trotted out to reprise his old Naked Gun shtick in the guise of a befuddled U.S. president, the slapsticky formula has long passed its comic expiration date and Scary Movie 3 ends up committing the spoof genre's worst crime: becoming a tired parody of itself.
Scary Movie 3
Dimension Films
Dimension Films presents a Brad Grey Pictures production
Credits:
Director: David Zucker
Screenwriters: Craig Mazin and Pat Proft
Based on characters created by Shawn Wayans & Marlon Wayans & Buddy Johnson & Phil Beauman and Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
Producer: Robert K. Weiss
Executive producers: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Andrew Rona, Brad Weston
Director of photography: Mark Irwin
Production designer: William Elliot
Editors: Malcolm Campbell, Jon Poll
Costume designer: Carol Ramsey
Music: James L. Venable
Cast:
Mahalik: Anthony Anderson
Cindy Campbell: Anna Faris
President Harris: Leslie Nielsen
Trooper Champlin: Camryn Manheim
George: Simon Rex
The Architect: George Carlin
The Oracle: Queen Latifah
Orpheus: Eddie Griffin
Annie: Denise Richards
Brenda Weeks: Regina Hall
Tom: Charlie Sheen
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Friday, Oct. 24
Determined once again to leave no deserving target unspoofed, Dimension Film's wildly successful Scary Movie franchise is back in business.
With the Wayans brothers having packed it in after the reviled Scary Movie 2, it made perfect sense to recruit David Zucker, the man responsible for those three wacky Naked Gun movies and, with brother Jerry and Jim Abrahams responsible for that highly revered granddaddy of all spoofers, namely 1980's Airplane!
The result is a kinder, gentler brand of parody (as evidenced by the series' first non-R rating) and, for a while there, Zucker and his former writing partner Pat Proft, along with Craig Mazin, look to have tapped into some of that old ZAZ magic.
That is, until it becomes apparent that the same three or four gags are endlessly recycled throughout, and after awhile, yet another crippling blow to the crotch somehow loses its impact.
Still -- though the final take won't come anywhere close to the $157 million scared up by the first installment -- given that PG-13 rating, Scary Movie 3 should have no trouble pulling in sizable young audiences while there's probably still enough of the gross-out element to appeal to fans of the purely puerile.
Morphing the plot lines of The Ring, Signs and that scary 8 Mile, with bits of The Matrix Reloaded and The Others thrown in for good measure, "SM3" kicks off with an amusing prologue in which Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy send up the start of The Ring while having fun with their very blonde images.
Meanwhile a TV reporter (Anna Faris), who has her hands full covering an alien invasion at a farm belonging to Charlie Sheen, stumbles upon a killer videotape that has already claimed the life of her prescient son's (Drew Mikuska)'s schoolteacher (Regina Hall) while striking up a relationship with a white wannabe rap star (Simon Rex) who dreams of having a dream.
In the course of her investigation, she meets up with the Oracle, aka Aunt ShaNeequa (Queen Latifah), Orpheus (Eddie Griffin) and the Architect (George Carlin), and along the way the likes of Denise Richards (in a sick but funny flashback sequence with real-life husband Sheen), Camryn Manheim, Anthony Anderson, Jeremy Piven, D.L. Hughley, Macy Gray, Ja Rule, Master P, Redman, Method Man and the Coors Twins join in the shenanigans.
There are some true moments of inspiration to be found here, including a restaging of the "rap-off" sequence from 8 Mile, which turns out to be judged by none other than American Idol sourpuss Simon Cowell.
Then there's also that goof on The Others, in which Sheen takes the white veil off his oddly acting daughter only to find a shrieking Michael Jackson (Edward Moss), which would have been funnier had it not already been shown a hundred times in all those TV clips.
But by the time Leslie Nielsen is trotted out to reprise his old Naked Gun shtick in the guise of a befuddled U.S. president, the slapsticky formula has long passed its comic expiration date and Scary Movie 3 ends up committing the spoof genre's worst crime: becoming a tired parody of itself.
Scary Movie 3
Dimension Films
Dimension Films presents a Brad Grey Pictures production
Credits:
Director: David Zucker
Screenwriters: Craig Mazin and Pat Proft
Based on characters created by Shawn Wayans & Marlon Wayans & Buddy Johnson & Phil Beauman and Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
Producer: Robert K. Weiss
Executive producers: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Andrew Rona, Brad Weston
Director of photography: Mark Irwin
Production designer: William Elliot
Editors: Malcolm Campbell, Jon Poll
Costume designer: Carol Ramsey
Music: James L. Venable
Cast:
Mahalik: Anthony Anderson
Cindy Campbell: Anna Faris
President Harris: Leslie Nielsen
Trooper Champlin: Camryn Manheim
George: Simon Rex
The Architect: George Carlin
The Oracle: Queen Latifah
Orpheus: Eddie Griffin
Annie: Denise Richards
Brenda Weeks: Regina Hall
Tom: Charlie Sheen
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 11/4/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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