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I 'heard about the Morgans' and I have some new ideas for Hugh Grant...
19 December 2009 7:00 AM, PST
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As an unashamed rom-com fan, I ignored the reviews and went to see Did You Hear About the Morgans? (horrible title!) on Friday – and let’s just say I had my fill of watered-down City Slickers jokes within the first half hour.
But moving on to the positives -- for starters, Elisabeth Moss (our beloved Peggy from Mad Men) showed off a sleek modern style and a deliciously bitchy attitude as the assistant to Sarah Jessica Parker's annoying character. And also, Hugh Grant was pretty lovable and had a few good lines that had me laughing two or three times.
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- Wendy Mitchell
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Spike Jones and the City Slickers brought back on DVD, Dec.12th
5 December 2009 3:00 PM, PST
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M&C Holiday Web Thump for curious budget conscious consumers: The Best of Spike Jones is brought back from the past, a new DVD set to be released on December 12. .Spike Jones was a hilarious innovator. With a starter.s pistol,assorted screams and a band of crazy musicians, Spike was the Mozart of Mayhem.. - Billy Crystal Spike's comedic genius was light years ahead of his time, directly influencing such iconoclasts as Frank Zappa, Ernie Kovacs, Dr. Demento, Weird Al Yancovic, George Carlin and Billy Crystal. Preceding parodies on YouTube, iconic comedic bandleader Spike Jones and the City Slickers were the original .Bad Boys of Music.. Their legacy comes to DVD in The Best of
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- April MacIntyre
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Marc Shaiman appointed Oscar music director
25 November 2009 2:57 AM, PST
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Film composer Marc Shaiman has been appointed the music director for next year’s Academy Awards gala. The composer of scores such as The Addams Family, Hairspray, City Slickers, Patch Adams and An American President, already served as the musical director for the 2004 show and has also written a number of hilarious musical medleys for the show in recent years. The 2010 Academy Awards take place on March 7. In
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- Mikael Carlsson
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A Conversation with Danielle Harris
17 October 2009 2:29 PM, PDT
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Danielle Harris, star of four films in the Halloween franchise, as well as pictures like The Last Boyscout, City Slickers, Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, and the television series Roseanne was kind enough to sit down with me at the 2009 Spooky Empire convention in Orlando, Florida to talk about her career. The interview was filmed live, but due to surrounding noise I have transcribed the conversation below.
Ja/Fangoria: First of all, can I say how nervous I am that we are making a film with John Landis sitting right over there?
Danielle Harris: (laughs)
Ja: We're here at the Spooky Empire convention in Orlando, Florida, and how has it been going for you so far?
Dh: It's been good! It's been really busy.
Ja: Have you met any creeps so far?
Dh: Not really at this show, only a handful. (laughs)
Ja: You actually lived here in Florida,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Jason Anders)
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Trinity Of Terrors Guest Profile: Robert Kurtzman
7 October 2009 12:33 AM, PDT
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Writer, Director, and Special FX legend Robert Kurtzman will be attending the inaugural Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors, to be held October 30 through November 1 at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas! Kurtzman will be onhand to discuss his work on the Jennifer Lynch-directed Hisss, his latest directorial effort Deadly Impact (formerly To Live And Die) starring Sean Patrick Flanery and Joe Pantoliano, and the latest FX projects from his Precinct 13 Creature Corps.
Tickets for our massive Halloween Weekend are now available online through http://www.trinityofterrors.com and through Vegas.com. You may also order tickets from Vegas.com by phone - 1-888-las-vegas (527-8342) 24 hours a day.
For more than two decades Robert Kurtzman has been an icon in the world of special make-up,creature effects, and genre filmmaking.
His award winning, photorealistic effects work can be seen inhundreds of movies including Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, franchises and television series.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Staff)
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New Trailer: Dwayne Johnson in ‘The Tooth Fairy’
5 October 2009 8:15 AM, PDT
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has had quite an interesting career in a pretty short amount of time. He’s covered just about all of the prerequisites that his Action Movie forefathers set for him: Sci-Fi franchise, art-house picture, buddy movie, and family film. Those accolades took stars like Schwartzenegger and Stallone 15 years to accomplish, and Johnson has managed to do them in 5. He’s now coming off of the success of Race to Witch Mountain and The Game Plan for another family-friendly film in The Tooth Fairy.
In the film, Johnson plays tough guy Derek Thompson, known to his friends as “The Tooth Fairy” due to his aggressive sportsmanship on the hockey rink. Thompson is kind of an S.O.B. to fans, friends, and even his kid, until things get turned around and he is sentenced to serve as an actual tooth fairy.
The cast is pretty heavy, throwing in names
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- Matt Raub
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Weezer Announce New Album, Parenthetical Single
13 August 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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Yet-untitled LP will drop October 27, while '(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To' hits radio this month.
By James Montgomery
Weezer's Rivers Cuomo
Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images
Weezer fans, rejoice. On October 27, the geek-rock gods will return with their seventh studio album, a yet-untitled affair that sees the band partying hard and getting parenthetical.
That's because, following in the grand grammatical style of classics like Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", Weezer have announced that the first single from the album is called "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To," and it's shipping to radio August 25.
That's all according to a series of posts on Weezer.com, and the band promises that more information about the new album — title, track list, color, whether Rivers Cuomo will look like Bruno Kirby in
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Ferrell and Dobkin Bail in Neighborhood Watch… Nothing to See Here
3 August 2009 11:45 PM, PDT
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The day has finally arrived. We got a scoop from the Orlando Sentinel.
Will Ferrell and David Dobkin, director of Wedding Crashers and the ill-fated Fred Claus, have bailed on the no-longer-starring-Will-Ferrell vehicle Neighborhood Watch. The film was ditched by these Hollywood comedy darlings, because Dobkin's most recent script revisions couldn't get past the apparently schizophrenic deciders over at Fox.
Meh, whatever. Neighborhood Watch sounds like a sloppy combination of City Slickers, The Burbs, Hot Fuzz, and that wierd sewer monster Scully-and-Mulder-pose-as-a-Stepford-couple episode of "X Files", anyway. We'll see how and if this puppy turns out. We'll see.
Is that you looking at me through my curtains, or what?
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- Bethany Perryman
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Sdcc '09: Danny DeVito's Blood Factory
22 July 2009 3:25 AM, PDT
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On Friday night at 9:30pm, Danny DeVito will visit Comic-Con to present a special presentation regarding his new website devoted to sinister short films - The Blood Factory.
Below you'll find the full details on the panel, along with a description of the project, and an explosive video from DeVito himself!
From the Blood Factory Manifesto:
"At The Blood Factory, the predators are our heroes, and we love them because of their vile natures and evil ways. But our love doesn’t end there. We extend it to you, our fans: we vow to feed your ravenous addiction to horror movies with heaping plates of blood and guts, drizzled with adrenalin-pumped sweat from slaughtered human prey. And for dessert, we may even carve up a corpse or two. So, friends, welcome to The Blood Factory!
Welcome to the killings!"
At San Diego Comic-Con:
9:30-10:30pm The Blood
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Sdcc '09: Friday Horror
19 July 2009 2:01 AM, PDT
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The 2009 Edition of Comic-Con gets underway this week at the San Diego Convention Center, promising the biggest pop-culture event of the year.
Fangoria will be there reporting on the action live from the show floor, with constant updates on all the genre panels, announcements, and more - bringing all the latest Sdcc '09 Horror News direct to you right here on Fangoria.com
For those of you planning to attend the 100% Sold-out show, here's a look at what to expect for genre programming on Friday, July 24th, 2009.
10:00-12:30 Warner Bros.— Join WB for a look at their much anticipated slate of upcoming genre films, including Where The Wild Things Are, The Book of Eli, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Box, Jonah Hex, and Sherlock Holmes. Hall H
10:30-11:30 Coraline — Visionary director and screenwriter Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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San Diego Comic Con 2009 - Frightening Friday Schedule
10 July 2009 12:27 PM, PDT
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Take a look at Friday's schedule for this year's San Diego Comic-Con; it's a solid genre lineup so far, with more on the way!
Friday – July 24
10:00-12:30 - Warner Bros. — Join WB for a look at their much anticipated slate of upcoming genre films, including Where The Wild Things Are, The Book of Eli, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Box, Jonah Hex, and Sherlock Holmes. Hall H
10:30-11:30 - Coraline - Visionary director and screenwriter Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman discuss the making of the Laika/Focus Features 2009 breakout animated hit film Coraline. In celebration of Universal Studio's Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD release of the critically acclaimed stop-motion film, Selick and Gaiman will be joined by lead animator and Laika CEO/president Travis Knight, producer Bill Mechanic (CEO of Pandemonium and producer of Dark Water and The New
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- Masked Slasher
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20 Years of Summer Movies, A Love/Hate Relationship
7 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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With the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the 2009 summer movie season has begun. A cursory glance at the upcoming slate of summer releases looks pretty weak this year, but I’m not here to look ahead. Instead, I noticed that we’ve reached the twenty-year anniversary of the “true” summer movie age. Sure, Jaws and Star Wars were the godfathers of the movement, and the close-following summers since that time often saw two or three big releases looking to cash in on the popcorn-munching crowd, but it was 1989 when the summer movie calendar started to become bloated. The large number of crowd-pleasing titles (and bevy of sequels) included the following: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Ghostbusters II, License to Kill, Star Trek V, Lethal Weapon 2, The Abyss, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and, to a lesser extent, The Karate Kid: Part III. So on the Platinum Anniversary of the summer flick phenomenon,
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- Matt Medlock
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James Bond in Cowboy Boots? Believe It.
24 April 2009 10:01 PM, PDT
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While John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and Clint Eastwood are virtually synonymous with six-shooters and spurs, the Western also lured some more surprising faces into the frontier. If you've seen more than a few Westerns, you shouldn't be too surprised: The genre has always relied on counter-intuitive casting. The typically feeble actors of Westerns comedies (see the cast of City Slickers) lent credence to their fish-out-of-water scenarios, while pegging lovable
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James Bond in Cowboy Boots? Believe It.
24 April 2009 10:01 PM, PDT
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While John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and Clint Eastwood are virtually synonymous with six-shooters and spurs, the Western also lured some more surprising faces into the frontier. If you've seen more than a few Westerns, you shouldn't be too surprised: The genre has always relied on counter-intuitive casting. The typically feeble actors of Westerns comedies (see the cast of City Slickers) lent credence to their fish-out-of-water scenarios, while pegging lovable
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Dead Alive: Bringing Popular Characters Back to Life in Sequels
16 April 2009 7:59 AM, PDT
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Fans of the gleefully excessive Jason Statham action film "Crank" know that it concluded with an impressively ballsy ending: Statham's Chev Chelios gets his revenge but -- Spoiler Alert! -- falls out of a helicopter in the process. In "Crank"'s final shot, he falls into a car, bounces on to the pavement, twitches and... dies.
It was certainly a surprise -- a pleasant surprise, but a surprise nonetheless -- when the IFC.com staff first got word of a sequel, this week's "Crank: High Voltage." Statham was pretty clearly not alive at the end of that first movie, but, as the sequel's poster puts it: "He Was Dead... But He Got Better."
Chelios is not the first. Hollywood has a long history of bringing back popular dead characters in sequels. Here's a look at five commonly used techniques:
"He's My Twin!"
Jack Palance in "City Slickers II: The Legend
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- Matt Singer
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Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal Singing in Damn Yankees
27 February 2009 5:58 AM, PST
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Haven't we had enough remake news this week already?! New Line Cinema has greenlit a remake of Damn Yankees, the sports-themed musical that first hit Broadway in 1955 and movie theaters later in 1958. Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal are both set to star in this contemporary version, with Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, the writers behind A League of Their Own and City Slickers, currently working the script, as well as Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the duo behind Hairspray, both producing. With an impressive line-up like that, I don't think we have anything to complain about, even if it is yet another remake.
The original Damn Yankees was a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s, where a happily married middle-aged man decides to make a "Faustian bargain" with the devil in order to help out his team, the New York Yankees. He's transformed into slugger
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- Alex Billington
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Carrey and Gyllenhaal Team for Damn Yankees
26 February 2009 11:05 PM, PST
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Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal have signed on to star in Damn Yankees, a contemporized film transfer of the classic musical that New Line Cinema is developing.
Damn Yankees, which bowed on Broadway in 1955 and won seven Tony Awards, focuses on Joe Boyd, a happily married middle-aged man whose devotion to a hapless pro baseball team prompts him to make a Faustian bargain with the devil to help the team. He's transformed into slugger Joe Hardy, in exchange for Boyd's soul.
Boyd can break the deal, but the deadline occurs during the World Series. For good measure, the devil engages Lola, a gorgeous lost soul, to seduce the slugger and seal his fate. According to the trades, the plan is for Carrey to play the devil, and Gyllenhaal to play Boyd. It will be the first musical for each.
The film is being produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron,
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- James Cook
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