It’s not a surprising or even noteworthy fact that I have quite the ego, and in regards to Oscar prognostication, that ego tends to be crushed for a short while. I can try to disparage some Oscar bloggers like the drama queen I tend to be (and occasionally get called out on it), but I admire the work they do, because while sometimes they are wrong in the most obvious of ways, most of the time they see what most of us wouldn’t have if they did not bring it to our attention. With the announcement that Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech won top honors at Toronto, I finally paid attention to the fact that The Brothers Weinstein are distributing the flick. And as soon as I thought I was out, they (the golden guy) pulled me back in. In an epiphany of sorts, the key word for this Oscar season and possibly every one afterwards is equity.
Now, allow me to contradict the eventual point I’m trying to make and attribute last year’s happenings as a matter of coincidence. In 2007, Paramount Vantage and Miramax got two films into the field of five with No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. The year before that, Warner Brothers saw The Departed and Letters from Iwo Jima up for the top prize. But usually, the number of big studios out there make the distribution of awards seem pretty equitable. In a field of ten, where duplicates would be twice as likely, there were none.
I’m posting this only so it’s easy to stream from the site to the Wii. Not going to bother downloading or burning anything. Yay, using my website for my use only.
Postavant has an iPhone 4 of its own, and our Apple Hipster Douchebag correspondent Conner Owen tested it out. Here it is, no use to beat around the bush about the results. Next, we’ll see if it really only takes a drop from 3.5 feet to break the damn piece of shit.
I rewatched the first two films the last few days. Twilight is as bad as ever; a completely inept film in every way that only shows promise in the way of the Cullen family, who are made intriguing by the brief performances present. New Moon makes a mockery of the material and plays as a self-aware joke, and for that, it is entertaining, but too bad to be good. Eclipse doesn’t fit with either film or the books that spawned them. Yep.
There’s nothing I can really add here since I haven’t read the novel, though I sure as hell plan to. This just sounds too bad for words, but the people at Media Matters For America are always rather clever. Their exclusive look at Glenn Beck’s fiction novel, which may very well live on in infamy or as some sort of warped classic a la Atlas Shrugged, is after the jump.
I say this only because Keith Olbermann’s interview with Senate nominee Alvin Greene is a classic of epic proportion. I present: Wax On, Fuck Off, a story about Ralph Macchio’s attempt to become a Hollywood hardass in the wake of The (not actually) Karate Kid remake. And also, one of the better takes on a Lady Gaga video I’ve seen. Then again, I have a bias on the latter. UPDATE: Also, the trailer for Studio Ghibli’s The Borrower Arrietty, a 13 year old saying “cunt” on the Today Show, and the Toy Story 3 Google commercial. All after the jump. Gosh, this was a perfect day for videos.
Paramount Famous, the production company behind classic flicks like Van Wilder: Freshmen Year and Wrong Turn At Tahoe, is doing open casting calls in Atlanta for Mean Girls 2, directed by TV veteran Melanie Mayron. Synopsis and casting details if any readers from Atlanta want to be involved in this abortion.
The seven minute short you can see in the article below is explained by Kevin Tancharoen (director of Fame [2009]) in his interview with Collider, as well as a tweet from Jeri Ryan, who played Sonya in the short. In summary, it’s a pitch to WB by Tancharoen, made for $7500 largely on volunteer work and favors, and he really wants to make a MK reboot. His head seems to be in the right place, which is all I really ask for out of this film. I don’t care if video game movies are bad, as the problem that I and most others have had with the genre is that they’ve been made by people who don’t care about the material. That is why the movies ultimately suffer; not because the material is weak, even if it is. Tancharoen’s words and more after the jump.
