All your dreams are finally coming true, girls. A full-length, major motion picture featuring your favorite hero on a wonderful adventure. Probably. "Barbie has to destroy the All-Spark by shoving it into Ken's mouth after a drawn-out shape-shifting battle on... CONTINUE READING HOLLYWOOD IS DEVELOPING A BARBIE MOVIE, LADIES!»
Posted on September 24, 2009 in
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Tags: Barbie | Children | Girls | Movie Adaptations | Toys
Personally, I've never read Sweet Valley High (SURPRISE!), but I assume that it is full of garbage neologisms and self-indulgent teen-speak. And if not, it is now. Something something hamburger phone.... CONTINUE READING DIABLO CODY'S MIND TO ADAPT SWEET VALLEY HIGH»
Posted on September 23, 2009 in
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Tags: Diablo Cody | Movie Adaptations | Sweet Valley High | Teenagers
Hollywood is hard at work on adapting Baywatch for the big screen, which only begs the question: Baywatch hasn't been adapted for the big screen yet? I guess I only assumed that they would have adapted Baywatch for the big... CONTINUE READING WAIT, THERE HASN'T BEEN A BAYWATCH MOVIE YET?»
Posted on July 7, 2009 in
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Tags: Baywatch | David Hasselhoff | Movie Adaptations | Pamela Anderson
Oh jeez. One time, when I was in college (that's right, COLLEGE) I went to see John Waters talk about his career and answer audience questions. At one point, someone asked him a question about Edith Massey, who played Edie... CONTINUE READING VIEW-MASTER: THE MOVIE: FULL THROTTLE»
Posted on July 7, 2009 in
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Tags: Hollywood | Movie Adaptations | View-Master
They're making a movie adaptation of the classic Atari videogame Asteroids? I don't even have the energy or heart to look up how many "what, was Pong already taken" jokes have been made in the on-line blogopolis today, because I'm... CONTINUE READING EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK AT A SCENE FROM ASTEROIDS: THE VIDEOGAME: THE MOVIE»
Posted on July 2, 2009 in
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Tags: Asteroids | Movie Adaptations
Unless this is literally a shot-for-shot remake of the Bourne Ultimatum with a candy cane sweater CGI'ed onto Matt Damon's torso, ugh. From Variety: [Universal] and Chris Meledandri's family film unit [Illumination Entertainment] have acquired screen rights to turn the... CONTINUE READING WHERE'S WALDO?: THE MOVIE IS A TERRIBLE IDEA»
Posted on June 2, 2009 in
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Tags: Books | Children | Movie Adaptations | Where's Waldo
Woof. We can sit here and make fun of Hollywood's terrible ideas all day, and we do. It's like they're a Disaster Factory with retarded foremen manning the money burning furnaces, and an extraordinarily high incident of on-site injuries (brain... CONTINUE READING MALCOLM GLADWELL'S BLINK VYING FOR LEGENDARY WMOAT STATUS»
Posted on May 13, 2009 in
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Tags: Al Pacino | Blink | Leonardo DiCaprio | Malcolm Gladwell | Movie Adaptations | Stephen Gaghan
Well, here's a movie they're making. From Variety (via FilmDrunk): Danny DeVito is set to direct "Crazy Eddie," a pic based on the life of consumer electronics king Eddie Antar. Antar was a pioneer in discount consumer electronics, and Crazy... CONTINUE READING THE ULTIMATE ARGUMENT SETTLER: 8 LOCAL COMMERCIALS THAT SHOULD BE TURNED INTO MOVIES»
Posted on March 11, 2009 in , ,
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lindsay: as you know, I'm sick to death of the subject of the AD movie lindsay: and would rather never mention it lindsay: but this is just the first time I've really disagreed with you in a while gabe: how... CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: IS THERE ANY HOPE FOR THE ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT MOVIE?»
Posted on February 27, 2009 in
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Tags: Arrested Development | Movie Adaptations | Weezer
