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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1740 on: January 20, 2011, 08:29:01 PM »
Weird-ass Idea of the Month: Eastwood to direct Beyonce in a remake of A Star is Born. Er... WHAT??

http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/01/20/star-is-born-remake-clint-eastwood-beyonce/
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1741 on: January 20, 2011, 09:36:43 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on January 20, 2011, 08:29:01 PM
Weird-ass Idea of the Month: Eastwood to direct Beyonce in a remake of A Star is Born. Er... WHAT??

http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/01/20/star-is-born-remake-clint-eastwood-beyonce/

Wish Hollywood would get over this trend toward remaking every hit movie from the past 50 years (not to mention television shows, although that seems to be declining a little). HAVE AN ORIGINAL IDEA FOR A CHANGE. You will be lauded as a new and important talent rather than dubbed a revisionist hack.

Btw, Mike: Not sure what your latest avatar is, as it's pixilated and pretty much illegible.
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1742 on: January 20, 2011, 11:17:16 PM »
Quote from: urth on January 20, 2011, 09:36:43 PM
Quote from: RGMike on January 20, 2011, 08:29:01 PM
Weird-ass Idea of the Month: Eastwood to direct Beyonce in a remake of A Star is Born. Er... WHAT??

http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/01/20/star-is-born-remake-clint-eastwood-beyonce/

Wish Hollywood would get over this trend toward remaking every hit movie from the past 50 years (not to mention television shows, although that seems to be declining a little). HAVE AN ORIGINAL IDEA FOR A CHANGE. You will be lauded as a new and important talent rather than dubbed a revisionist hack.


It's an awful, awful idea.
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1743 on: January 21, 2011, 07:23:49 AM »
Quote from: princessofcairo on January 20, 2011, 11:17:16 PM
Quote from: urth on January 20, 2011, 09:36:43 PM
Quote from: RGMike on January 20, 2011, 08:29:01 PM
Weird-ass Idea of the Month: Eastwood to direct Beyonce in a remake of A Star is Born. Er... WHAT??

http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/01/20/star-is-born-remake-clint-eastwood-beyonce/

Wish Hollywood would get over this trend toward remaking every hit movie from the past 50 years (not to mention television shows, although that seems to be declining a little). HAVE AN ORIGINAL IDEA FOR A CHANGE. You will be lauded as a new and important talent rather than dubbed a revisionist hack.


It's an awful, awful idea.

I can see it working, *IF*  it's set in the jazz world (something Clint knows a lot about -- maybe even a period piece?) and not in some current pop/hip-hop setting, which would just lead to embarrassment.  Beyonce was actually pretty good (IMHO) in Cadillac Records as Etta James.
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1744 on: January 24, 2011, 03:49:45 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on January 21, 2011, 07:23:49 AM

Beyonce was actually pretty good (IMHO) in Cadillac Records as Etta James.

Yes, IYHO. :) I couldn't take her seriously.
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1745 on: January 25, 2011, 08:51:27 AM »
WTF, Academy? Christopher Nolan is denied a Best Director nod -- again.
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1746 on: January 26, 2011, 12:46:20 PM »
It's a hard knock life with Willow Smith starring in a remake of Annie produced by...Jay-Z of all people.  Something to avoid.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/01/jay-z_production_company.html?mid=facebook_nymag
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1747 on: January 26, 2011, 12:57:19 PM »
Quote from: sundaygal on January 26, 2011, 12:46:20 PM
It's a hard knock life with Willow Smith starring in a remake of Annie produced by...Jay-Z of all people.  Something to avoid.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/01/jay-z_production_company.html?mid=facebook_nymag

will she wear the red curly wig?  I loved this comment:

"What's next? Jennifer Hudson as Fanny Brice in the remake of Funny Girl?"
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1748 on: January 26, 2011, 02:30:05 PM »
Quote of the Day, from a posting on a film blog I frequent:

"He's so obscure, he doesn't even have a Wikipedia page yet"
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1749 on: January 27, 2011, 11:08:04 AM »
Roger Ebert's latest swipe at 3-D:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/01/post_4.html
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1750 on: January 27, 2011, 06:07:58 PM »
Open casting call in SF this weekend (Jan 29-30) for extras for new Steven Soderbergh film Contagion, starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Bryan Cranston, Elliott Gould:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/culture/detail?entry_id=81876

Filming starts Feb 9, release set for this Oct.  More in IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1751 on: January 28, 2011, 07:58:10 AM »
The Secret Of Steve McQueen's Bullitt Chase Scene

http://jalopnik.com/5744523/the-real-story-of-the-chase-scene-in-bullitt
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1752 on: January 31, 2011, 08:52:50 AM »
A jam-packed movie weekend, caught up with the last of the Oscar nominees I hadn't yet seen: Biutiful with the great Javier Bardem; Another Year, the lovely British drama, and the very weird Dogtooth, one of the Foreign Film nominees (from Greece) which is quite wonderfully bizarre. Also, on PPV, Night Catches Us a little indie drama set in 1976 about a former Black Panther (Anthony Mackie) who retuns to his old 'hood after being on the lam for a few years. Really outstanding. 
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1753 on: January 31, 2011, 01:49:13 PM »
True Grit vs. True Grit:

http://vimeo.com/19373173
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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1754 on: February 02, 2011, 08:12:36 AM »
a docu about the heyday of the legendary club The Troubador in LA -- currently playing in NYC but will turn up on PBS in March:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/movies/02troub.html?ref=movies
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