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Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP
Father Geek here posting Elston's review of the past Hollywood week for those of you who may have missed a few items. Its a little shorter than is usual because the ol' tinseltown work week was cut short itself by the 4th holiday. Anyway, here's Mr. Gunn (No, not Jim Brown) and...
The WEEKLY RECAP...
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
* Fox 2000 has purchased the Danish film KLATRETOSEN (CATCH THAT GIRL) to
remake as an English-language pic for Mad Chance to produce. The heist
family film was directed project by Hans Fabian Wullenweber.
* Artisan Entertainment has grabbed the thriller script THE LOST from
writers Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie about a psychiatrist who is asked to
re-evaluate a patient he diagnosed years ago as having a multiple
personality disorder only to learn that there are other forces at work.
David S. Goyer will produce.
* Martin Henderson and Jamie Pressly will join Ice Cube in Warner Bros.
Pictures' TORQUE for director Joseph Kahn. It's about a lifelong biker who
finds himself framed for the murder of a man, who happens to be the brother
of the leader of one of the most powerful and feared biker gangs in the
country. Jay Hernandez, Matt Schulze and Adam Scott also star.
* Ed Harris and Giovanni Ribisi have joined the ensemble pic MASKED &
ANONYMOUS, starring Bob Dylan, for Intermedia Films and Spitfire Pictures.
Shooting wraps July 17.
* Walt Disney Co. has snapped up the feature film rights to the novel SWEET
HUSH by Deborah Smith. It's about the widowed female head of an Appalachian
apple-growing empire who is pitted against the White House when her son
comes home from Harvard after having secretly married the president's
daughter.
* Intermedia Films bought Howard M. Gould's comedy pitch about sexual
harassment in academia. Mirage Enterprises banner will produce with Chuck
Weinstock.
* Marlon Wayans will star in the martial-arts parody KUNG FU THEATER for
DreamWorks about a comic book artist who, parked in front of his TV, finds
himself magically transported into a martial arts film. Music video veteran
Nick Quested will make his feature directing debut on the project.
* David Zucker is in talks to direct Rob Schneider in HARV THE BARBARIAN for
DreamWorks Pictures, Winchester Films and Wind Dancer Films. Production
begins Oct. 1 from a script by Carmen Finestra and Jack Handey. It's
described as a Monty Python-esque tale of a simple barbarian who finds
himself on a voyage of self-discovery.
* Felicia Henderson (Showtime's "Soul Food") will write, direct and produce
PAPA WAS for Fox Searchlight. Boris Kodjoe will star. The story centers
two men in their 20s and how their lifelong friendship begins to deteriorate
when one of them, who works as a high-priced gigolo, falls in love for the
first time.
* Donald Sutherland is in talks and Seth Green is set to join the cast of
Paramount Pictures' THE ITALIAN JOB for director F. Gary Gray and DeLine
Pictures. Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Charlize Theron, Franky G. and Mos
Def also star.
* Laurence Fishburne is in final negotiations to star opposite Clint
Eastwood in MYSTIC RIVER playing the partner of a cop investigating a murder
that links three old friends. Eastwood produces and directs from an
adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel by Brian Helgeland.
* Producer Casey Silver will produce an untitled dark comedy from
writer/helmer Austin Chick (XX/XY). It's about a recently fired online exec
who takes revenge on his ex-boss.
* Fox 2000 picked up the rights to the Danish teen-adventure flick CATCH
THAT GIRL about a girl and two boys forced to pull a bank heist in order to
save the girl's father.
* Dylan Baker (CHANGING LANES, upcoming THE ROAD TO PERDITION) joins the
cast of Chris Rock's HEAD OF STATE for DreamWorks. Rock, Bernie Mac, Tamala
Jones and Lynn Whitfield star.
* Charlotte Church will make her acting debut in the musical comedy I'LL BE
THERE for Morgan Creek Prods. and director Craig Ferguson. Shooting begins
this week for a March release. It's about a former '80s pop star whose
downward spiral stops when he finds out he has a teenage daughter who was
the result of a weekend love affair. Jemma Redgrave, Ralph Brown, Ian
McNeice, Stephan Noonan, Joss Ackland and Imelda Staunton round out the
cast. Ferguson co-wrote the screenplay with Phillip McGrade.
* David Siegel and Scott McGehee (THE DEEP END) will direct CRISIS IN THE
HOT ZONE for 20th Century Fox, based on the book by Richard Preston. It's
set in 1989 and centers on the real-life outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus
in a Washington animal test lab and the subsequent efforts of a secret
government force to contain it. Eric Jandresen wrote the screenplay.
* Spencer Breslin (DISNEY'S THE KID) will star opposite Mike Myers and
Dakota Fanning in Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures' DR. SEUSS' THE CAT
IN THE HAT. Production begins in the fall with Bo Welch directing. Alec
Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer wrote the script.
* Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Alex Burns, Geoffrey Arend, Michael Goldstrom, Angela
Goethals and Ginnifer Goodwin, Kurt Fuller, Josh Pais and Joseph Siravo will
star in PORN N' CHICKEN, based on the true story of an underground club that
gathers weekly to eat fried chicken and watch porn. Shooting begins this
summer in New York.
GUNN SHOTS
(NOT from the trades)
* Kino International has acquired North American distribution rights to
AYURVEDA: THE ART OF BEING, a documentary on the history, practice and
success of a medical system based "on the integration of the body, mind,
senses and spirit." The film premieres July 17th at the Cinema Village in
New York, and it will expand nationally thereafter.
* Charlotte Lewis and Jon Jacobs will star in HEY DJ about a Miami DJ who
gets involved with three women at once. Migel Delgado is directing from a
script by James Ricardo.
* The folks at Bloodshot Pictures are unraveling a mystery on July 27.
Visit Their Cool Site for more information
on Noirdance.
* Award winning commercial director Robert B. Martin Jr.'s mockumentary HIP,
EDGY, SEXY, COOL and Dave West's comedic short PUDDLEJUMPER will top off
DancesWithFilms' first night. The festival will run July 12th-18th, at
Laemmles's Santa Monica 4-Plex.
* Visit The Film Journal , an an online film publication
dedicated to the discussion and promotion of world and independent cinema,
for an alternative to your everyday film writing.
* National Geographic invites visitors on board K-19 to experience its
dramatic adventure and discover the legacy of K-19 and other periled
submarines online at This Location. Check it out July
19.
* Http://www.7mpictures.com is a web site that posts new short films,
commercials, and movie trailers weekly. Check back every week to see the
cool and innovative films from 7M Pictures.
* For information on the HD EXPO, an event hosting the latest in HD tools
ranging from production to post production, visit Their Site.
* Visit This Site for a re-designed, all-new portal to the
StewdioMedia Family of web sites, including Stew's new sci-fi movie
franchise THE NEXT RACE and the hot new comic book series THE CHANNELERS!
* Http://www.10p.TV today unveiled the soundtrack to the upcoming animation
short, SHIT HAPPENS, which is slated for release in August. The flick is a
bizarre tale of Geeks, Girls and Guns, and features comic artwork by Nigel
Lowry (THE JOCK) and a soundtrack written by ex Bennett front man Jason
Applin.
Until next week...
Elston Gunn
elston gunn@hotmail.com
elston gunn@hotmail.com
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Yale has the real life porn and chicken club, or they did a year or so ago. As I understand it they ran into some trouble for using college equipment improperly, and are now persona non grata witht the administration. Incidentally, the yale club was a COMPLETE rip-off of Dartmouth's Beer And Cinemax Society.
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people performing porn is interesting. people making porn is also interesting. People eating chicken and watching porn is not. Unless they perform porn while watching the porn... or eating the chicken. maye they'll make porn WITH the chicken. Brings a new sense to the phrase 'eating chicken'.
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I'm glad to hear that the Hot Zone is out of development hell. The book is amazing. I've always felt that it would make great source material for a picture. Years ago, Robert Redford flirted with the idea of helming an adaption (that would have been sweet). However, that rather horrible Dustin Hoffman flick made it to the big screen first. Outbreak is a dud. It turns the ebola virus into an Indiana Jones-esqe romp. What was the worst moment of that movie? The helicopter chase; Rene Russo's incredible recovery after being stricken with the same disease that wiped out half of a fucking town; Donald Sutherland - so many bad memories. Anyway, that crapfest forced the Redford offering to go into turnaround. I hope the Hot Zone revival becomes a reality.
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Sounds like an Anka Radakovich story from her book (the title escapes me right now.) She described going to a middle America sex club, where, at the end of it, fat, nude, hairy midwesterners sat eating greasy chicken and pulling pubic hair out of their teeth. Heaven.
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I believe the plot of the Porn n' Chicken movie involves the forming of the club, its growth to mini-cult status & the ensuing outcry. I have a few friends working on this one. Perhaps I can get something out of them. Also, Rob Schneider & Jack Handey are funny mf's, but there would have to be some serious sh-- going on there to be better than Terry Jones & Tim Robbins. "Monty Python-esque," indeed.
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Last week someone here suggested an animated/ claymation Groo film. THAT actually sounds like a good idea.
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...the Twisted Spoke hosts Smut'n'Eggs every Saturday at Midnight--they start serving brunch at the bar while showing porn. I don't know if the same dude is still hosting it, but he was a weird guy in his 40's or 50's who was a porn historian who would actually type up a synopsis of the two movies to be shown each week, complete with production details and stories about the performers. There's also Exit, where I'm a regular, which shows porn on the monitors at some point at least five nights a week (they're open 365 til 4 AM, Saturdays til 5). No fried chicken, though--just pickled eggs and pigs' feet. There's also Little Jim's, a gay bar, which shows gay porn all the time (ick--not my style, I think it's probably better left to gay guys). I'm sure there are more, but my point is, it's not a big deal. Now a movie about those college kids who were FILMING porn on campus, THAT'S a story with potential right there. There's a lot going on when you have 19-year-olds at Ivy League schools who don't have the good goddamn sense not to spread on camera for video and the interweb. That's a clear sign today's youth are totally twisto. God bless the stupid little bastards.
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Yet another WKK1978 Hollywood News Update!----Upon apparently canning the planned BATMAN: YEAR ONE movie, WB has decided to reconceive the project as "the world
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...leave the comedy to buzz, OK?
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...you do realize this is all in good fun, right? I'm not trying to cause trouble for Buzz, I'm just kidding around.
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He should be sodomized by a guy named Bubba.
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dude, when i was reading your post, i swear to God, Rupert Pupkin's voice was in my head reading word for word your post. creepy...
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Leslie Mann, Gretchen Mol and Julia Ormond? You never see them in anything anymore.
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Great book, but will anyone care at this point?
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Wasn't that the same plot as the movie from a few months back featuring some no-talent white dude whose name I can't recall but who never should have been in movies in the first place fighting with a cow?
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I'm damn excited for the Ayurveda movie! No really.
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Is he the guy who does the voice-over for all the thatrical trailers? Oh, and Buzz, if you're reading this, my "top this" line was a gag. I'm just toyin' with ya. No hard feelings?
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I read the book. There's no seventy-something detective character. The detective is one of the three characters reunited after twenty years (the others are the victim's father and the prime suspect. If the detective is anyone else, then the entire balance of the story is thrown off. It would be a damn shame if such a great book (and potentially great film) fizzled into another TRUE CRIME or ABSOLUTE POWER just because Clint can't keep from dragging his ass in front of the camera for old times sake.
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First, we get the PowerPuff Girls movie, and now Porn and Chicken are headed for the big scre----
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WHO DO YOU LOVE? - based on the new Archie comic ULTIMATE BETTY & VERONICA. The story follows the Riverdale gang and Betty and Veronica's battles over Archie's affections.
FIRST RULE OF CHICKEN 'N PORN CLUB - an underground club devoted to greasy food, hot
girl-on-girl action and general anarchy wreaks havoc in an Eastern city.
IN A WORLD (... WHERE YOU CAN SUPERSIZE FOR 39 CENTS) - a work voice-over artist
struggles to find his place in the world after being downsized and having his wife leave him.
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Robert DeNiro's pathological, Jerry Lewis-obsessed mama's boy character from Martin Scorsese's underrated media satire "King of Comedy." All of us can probably relate to him. Mr. Movie-Trailer Voice is a bunch of people, but the guy you hear most often is Don LaFontaine.
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Originated at Yale. Since H'wood is overrun with snot-nosed, navel-gazing, solipsistic Elis who form the true power base behind Ovitz's alleged "gay mafia," it's no surprise that this is being made into a movie, whether or not it has a decent story, or indeed any story worth telling at all.
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Mentioning Rob Schneider and Monty Python in the same breath is just plain blasphemi. The nerve I say. Schneider would be lucky if he was compared to a corn on the toe of the least funniest Python member. I guess that would be Terry Gilliam. Hey, Terry, you got any corns that we could compare this guy to? By the way, I quote TG as being the least funniest member because he had very few speaking parts and appeared in very little if any Python skits while they were in their prime, except for the animation bits. TG is master of animation, and now, of direction.
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...it tastes better. Laetitia, didn't know you were another Chicagoan--there's a lot of us around here.
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