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Speaking of Broadway - FAME remake trailer hits...

Published at:  Apr 02, 2009 3:39:06 PM CDT

Hey folks, Harry here... with a needless remake trailer. You know - I'm far more excited about the STEP IT UP 3D news, than a remake of FAME - especially when the remake's music is as flat sounding as this. It definitely looks like a handsome production, but there's nothing in the trailer that actually generates any real interest for me to see this film. Now XANADU remake? Put me all over that shit. That's awesome with honey, caramel and THC!




Click here to revisit FAME




Ok - Now you see that trailer isn't about anything - and certainly not about FAME... whereas this trailer... This trailer really and truly sells the concept, the power of trying to pursue FAME by a really great director. Here ya go...










As for remaking it - why can't it star Kristen Bell?










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  • Apr 02, 2009 3:38:39 PM CDT

    Another movie that didn't pay Harry to whore for it.

    by juansanchez

    Come on, Hollywood - Harry gotta eat!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 3:40:52 PM CDT

    America does not deserve a Xanadu remake

    by chrth

    It hasn't earned such greatness.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 3:46:43 PM CDT

    ok

    by bacci40

    so they made an updated, glosier movie with better looking kids to appeal to those that love disney and high school musical....who cares

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  • Apr 02, 2009 3:48:00 PM CDT

    American Idol: The Movie

    by cenobite

    dear god... who cares.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 3:48:15 PM CDT

    Sooo cool!

    by dingbatty

    Wait, what?! Who the fuck cares about FAME? Bell's midriff was cool.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 3:52:35 PM CDT

    Fame stole The Empire Strikes Back's Oscar for Original Score

    by mr_incredible

    Therefore, I shall hate it and thus its remake forever. That Oscar belonged to John Williams. John Williams knows it, the dude who won the Oscar knows it, hell, the whole world knows it. Empire deserved that Oscar based on The Imperial March alone. Definitely one of the Academy's biggest all-time fuck-ups.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 4:04:32 PM CDT

    Kids in the Hall - Nobody did this better

    by nobody_touches_buddy_revell

  • Apr 02, 2009 4:05:21 PM CDT

    I remember liking the original...

    by the eskimo

    ...when I was a kid, but I don't remember anything about it, and have no interest in the remake. Xanadu would be fucking awesome though. Any real word on that, or is Haryy just making shit up again.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 4:12:01 PM CDT

    Fame? Again?

    by mcvamp

    The ideas keep on coming! Coming soon, an all-star cast in "TWITTER: THE MOVIE." A Xanadu remake would probably star Miley Cyrus. Don't know if the world is ready for that.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 4:15:50 PM CDT

    Kristen Bell

    by himbo

    Can't do it because she has crow's feet and apparently cannot sing or dance terribly well (based on the embed). As for a reason to remake? It stars the lovely young dancer Kherington Payne. Reason enough.
    Again Harry, you owe a pound of flesh for your Center Stage review from years back. You at least owe to this movie not to harsh until you've viewed.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 4:20:08 PM CDT

    They took the catchy

    by belasco_house

    out of a catchy pop song. Or haunting anthem, as Doogie called it.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 4:22:23 PM CDT

    I miss old NY

    by kikuchiyoboy

  • Apr 02, 2009 4:25:24 PM CDT

    Unnecessary

    by bcfreeb

    I've said it all. Let the talkbacks cease. Can't we move on to talking about movies that actually have some potential? I'm sad that Watchmen is out already...could have speculated about that one endlessly :( http://tinyurl.com/dddkeo

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  • Apr 02, 2009 4:41:11 PM CDT

    So they took a pop muscial

    by erichaislar

    and made it ever more Poppy. Ugg i hate pop music today. No soul at all.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 4:53:48 PM CDT

    For me to poop on.

    by snizitch

  • Apr 02, 2009 5:02:14 PM CDT

    Tre Jolie, Coco

    by coolhanddave

    I'm seeing a PG rating and a complete disemboweling of the themes of exploitation, drugs, and rape.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:06:04 PM CDT

    Harry-

    by playkins

    That trailer "sells the concept" because it's done with narrative, like ALL old trailers- "Meet CHRISTA.... she a good girl, just doing the right thing." BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH.

    We know what FAME is about. Who needs it explained? I personally find the 80s trailer boring as fuck.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:11:20 PM CDT

    KRISTEN BELL

    by kobaal

    can't sing. That was terrible.

    As for Fame, it can't be worse than RENT, what a horrible boring pretentious disaster that was... ("everybody has AIDS!").

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  • Maybe it's been awhile since I saw it, but I don't remember any of that in the original. Am I wrong?

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:17:30 PM CDT

    Reviews!

    by laraz

    Hey fellow nerd and film buffs, if you want reviews for the latest and best in film head over to my blog and check it out..my url is www.myspace.com/martinjunior84 i hope you all enjoy and if you guys have a myspace account add me!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:17:32 PM CDT

    Reviews!

    by laraz

    Hey fellow nerd and film buffs, if you want reviews for the latest and best in film head over to my blog and check it out..my url is www.myspace.com/martinjunior84 i hope you all enjoy and if you guys have a myspace account add me!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:17:33 PM CDT

    Reviews!

    by laraz

    Hey fellow nerd and film buffs, if you want reviews for the latest and best in film head over to my blog and check it out..my url is www.myspace.com/martinjunior84 i hope you all enjoy and if you guys have a myspace account add me!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:17:33 PM CDT

    Reviews!

    by laraz

    Hey fellow nerd and film buffs, if you want reviews for the latest and best in film head over to my blog and check it out..my url is www.myspace.com/martinjunior84 i hope you all enjoy and if you guys have a myspace account add me!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:17:34 PM CDT

    Reviews!

    by laraz

    Hey fellow nerd and film buffs, if you want reviews for the latest and best in film head over to my blog and check it out..my url is www.myspace.com/martinjunior84 i hope you all enjoy and if you guys have a myspace account add me!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:17:34 PM CDT

    Reviews!

    by laraz

    Hey fellow nerd and film buffs, if you want reviews for the latest and best in film head over to my blog and check it out..my url is www.myspace.com/martinjunior84 i hope you all enjoy and if you guys have a myspace account add me!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:17:36 PM CDT

    Reviews!

    by laraz

    Hey fellow nerd and film buffs, if you want reviews for the latest and best in film head over to my blog and check it out..my url is www.myspace.com/martinjunior84 i hope you all enjoy and if you guys have a myspace account add me!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:17:37 PM CDT

    Reviews!

    by laraz

    Hey fellow nerd and film buffs, if you want reviews for the latest and best in film head over to my blog and check it out..my url is www.myspace.com/martinjunior84 i hope you all enjoy and if you guys have a myspace account add me!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:17:37 PM CDT

    Reviews!

    by laraz

    Hey fellow nerd and film buffs, if you want reviews for the latest and best in film head over to my blog and check it out..my url is www.myspace.com/martinjunior84 i hope you all enjoy and if you guys have a myspace account add me!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:17:37 PM CDT

    Reviews!

    by laraz

    Hey fellow nerd and film buffs, if you want reviews for the latest and best in film head over to my blog and check it out..my url is www.myspace.com/martinjunior84 i hope you all enjoy and if you guys have a myspace account add me!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:17:39 PM CDT

    Reviews!

    by laraz

    Hey fellow nerd and film buffs, if you want reviews for the latest and best in film head over to my blog and check it out..my url is www.myspace.com/martinjunior84 i hope you all enjoy and if you guys have a myspace account add me!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:17:40 PM CDT

    Reviews!

    by laraz

    Hey fellow nerd and film buffs, if you want reviews for the latest and best in film head over to my blog and check it out..my url is www.myspace.com/martinjunior84 i hope you all enjoy and if you guys have a myspace account add me!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:19:44 PM CDT

    Reviews!

    by pennsy

    STFU, spammer.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:40:53 PM CDT

    Hey laraz...

    by harold-sherbort

    Go fuck yourself.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:48:14 PM CDT

    I am with Harry on this one..

    by topfivevideo

    This new one looks like shit. Why remake a movie like "Fame" when the original is more relevent and potent than anything they can produce today. The first movie meant something, this new one is an excuse for "pretty" people to prance around and dance.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:51:26 PM CDT

    wow laraz

    by eats_sandwich_gets_laid.

    you seem to have an adequate grip on how to get people to avoid your site.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 5:56:25 PM CDT

    laraz...

    by jimmy rabbitte

    nobody cares. get bent.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 6:14:02 PM CDT

    Always the lovable geek with the video camera

    by zeegloo

  • Apr 02, 2009 8:46:15 PM CDT

    Fuck Fame.

    by unclemeat

    Who cares?

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  • Apr 02, 2009 8:58:35 PM CDT

    I was?

    by laraz

    Going the over exposure route which works in some situations. Maybe I will have to re-think my campaign, but at least I am not being an asshole to anyone like alot of people on here are. Anyway go on and hate!

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  • Apr 02, 2009 9:43:45 PM CDT

    ONLY WAY

    by thekgb01

    I will see this is for someone to post a workprint. ala Wolverine..and even then wont see it...lol

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  • Apr 02, 2009 10:31:23 PM CDT

    That trailer makes the remake look small.

    by royston lodge

    The trailer for the original makes the movie look big, with big stories and big performances. The remake's trailer makes it look small.
    If Hollywood HAD to make a Fame-esque movie for the 21st century, I would have preferred one that takes place at a high school for tech and computer nerds. That woulda been something different.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 11:09:04 PM CDT

    Xanadu? Two words: Baz Luhrmann.

    by reportabuse

    Otherwise, pure meh-scosity.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 11:10:20 PM CDT

    Wasn't there a so-so Fame series in the '80s?

    by reportabuse

    I seem to vaguely recall something of that nature but it may one of those implanted Cylon memories for all I know.

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  • Apr 02, 2009 11:12:30 PM CDT

    *glares at Kobaal*

    by pennsy

    Kristen Bell was on Broadway before she hit it big, and she read recently for the Winona Ryder role in the proposed musical of 'Heathers'. http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/03/heathers-musica.html

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  • Apr 02, 2009 11:13:20 PM CDT

    And I do have a MySpace page, still.

    by pennsy

    http://tinyurl.com/c32n5k

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  • Apr 03, 2009 12:15:17 AM CDT

    At least it's not a movie that I give a fuck about.

    by bonecrushersmith

    As far as remakes/reboots/refucks go, I could give three shits if they making a fucking trilogy of Fame re-who-gives-a-shits. Make 12 of them, just stay the fuckity-fuck away from EXPLORERS.

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  • Apr 03, 2009 1:38:53 AM CDT

    FAME?

    by lanalangsucks

  • Apr 03, 2009 1:49:14 AM CDT

    Step Up 3D?

    by deanbarry

    A friend of a friend of mine has been cast in the lead...Sharni Vinson...one to watch. She'll be great in 3d...growl!

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  • Apr 03, 2009 2:20:45 AM CDT

    This remake wont work because...

    by wowsah156

    1: The original fame was incredibly gritty. New York was still cming throug the last recession. and this showed in the movie.
    2: All the actors had a realness and deepness that most hollyweird casting agents would discard. All the kids seen their for the remake are all middle class American Idol gimps who havebnt sruggled.

    3: The music: The music in the orignal Fame was proper musicianship nad the movie showed the work and graft that the students had to put into that music. The remake is gling to be full of jiggy gangsta rap and crappy Mary J Bilge wubbish.

    The only way to make the Fame remake work is to show how vacuous and empty modern celebrity is in a ironic fashion. But we all know that wont happen.

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  • Apr 03, 2009 2:48:13 AM CDT

    BRUNO red-band trailer is up

    by benbraddock

    I just saw it over at DARK HORIZONS

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  • Apr 03, 2009 7:55:04 AM CDT

    What's the fuckin' deal....

    by cagliostro

    with every hipster douchebag loving Xanadu? I swear, even when you know they never saw the piece of shit they claim love for it. Friggin' sheeple, geez.

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  • Apr 03, 2009 10:27:56 AM CDT

    hipster douchebag Xanadu

    by himbo

    Excellent turn of phrase Cagliostro. I love me some Gene Kelly, but Xanadu is unwatchable. Next these jackasses will DEMAND a remake of "Can't Stop the MUSIC" with cameos for Bruce Jenner, Valerie Perrine, and all the surviving Village People.

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  • Apr 03, 2009 11:33:11 AM CDT

    Mmmm, Kristen Bell . . .

    by sammy jankis

    I'd like to slap a scalding hot piece of pizza down on that belly.

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  • Apr 03, 2009 11:37:25 AM CDT

    wowsah156

    by screwbini

    I don't give a crap about the movie, but why the barb at Mary J. Blige? She's a fantastic R&B singer and she has nothing to do with this flick. Leave out the gratutitous hate, will you?!!!!

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  • Apr 03, 2009 2:41:55 PM CDT

    I agree with by wowsah156. This looks bad

    by scytherius

    The original was gritty. This will be a slick production like HS Musical 15. The original was about the people and their lives. This will be about American Idolesque performances. Might not, but sure looks like it will suck.

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