Can't Buy Me Link
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 4:16PM The Movie Scene weighs in on the twitter vitriol for Pixar's Lava
NYT on famed movie producer Jerry Weintraub (1937-2015)
Film Stage Penélope Cruz returns (finally) in Spanish drama Ma Ma about a teacher with breast cancer - I'd expect fall festivals
AV Club impressive mashup of Ant-Man trailer as 50s weird science type movie, complete with Vincent Price narration
/Film in very against-type casting news, Michael Fassbender will play The Big Lebowski's "Dude" in one of Jason Reitman's live-read events
Pajiba Your first look at Pedro Pascal in Netflix's new drama Narcos -- will it be Netflix's next big hit?
Kenneth in the (212) Seems that Amanda Peterson of the 80s youth hits Explorers and Can't Buy Me Love has died at only 43. No cause of death yet
Playbill this sounds like a bad idea: Ian Fleming's James Bond aiming for a stage musical adaptation in 2017 or 2018
i09 every Justic League hero in one montage - yes, Batman v. Superman is trying to boost excitement via Comic Con -- including many so lame they'll surely never make the big screen
Comics Alliance Guardians of the Galaxy promos its new animated series with poster, etcetera
Playbill have you heard this awful 'what are audiences coming to?' story? Some guy tried to charge his phone in on the stage (in a fake electrical socket) at the hit comedy Hand to God
Magic Mike XXL keeping the interwebs talking...
Peter Labuza on 35mm "whiteness" and filming black blodies in Magic Mike XXL
Pajiba unanswered questions about Mike's furniture career. You know, the important stuff
Salon on XXL's dedication to a thematic taboo: Failure
Cosmopolitan has Disney princes reimagined as strippers -- hasn't this erotic Disney trend reached its sell by date yet? I mean the craze started, what, 11 years ago or something
Showtune to Go
In addition to Magic Mike being in the pop culture air lately, during channel flipping this week I caught Hugh Jackman's filmed stage show of Oklahoma! again and remembered how much I loved Patrick Wilson in it on Broadway and began wondering why he doesn't do musicals anymore? To be frank, I don't understand his career choices at all but he should definitely do another stage musical. It's a no brainer. So let's combine the two threads with a Tony clip of Patrick Wilson's stripper musical based on the 1997 Best Picture nominee which predated Magic Mike by a lot. (Lots of fun star cameos in this Tony clip including some we've lost -- Anne Bancroft. *sniffle*)
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Michael Fassbender as... the Dude? TAKE MY FUCKING MONEY!!!!
The article on Magic Mike's cinematography makes me want to see it theatrically.
So, 106 members in that montage. But, who are the core? The ones you could easily justify creating a first core movie of? Here's my take, with casting if they wanted to go there.
Superman (? Superman's a weird beast and I'm not sure anyone's up to the task enough to assign someone based on prior experience.)
Batman (Jake Gyllenhaal)
Wonder Woman (Gina Carano)
Barry Allen (Josh Hutcherson)
Hal Jordan (Nathan Fillion) (I don't disagree with the consensus that they should have always gone with him the first time. If they managed to start shooting before Castle went to series, we'd lose that shows boring repetitive normalcy.)
Aquaman (Dwayne Johnson) (I want Brave and the Bold Aquaman more than anything, and I decided to cast accordingly.)
Martian Manhunter (Andy Serkis)
Green Arrow (Ryan Gosling)
Black Canary (Charlize Theron)
DC's Captain Marvel (Colin Hanks) (If you don't get the gag in that casting, you don't watch a lot of comedies.)
Guy Gardner (Michael Fassbender)
Booster Gold (Armie Hammer)
Blue Beetle III (Unknown. Why this over Ted Kord? Honestly, because I think the dynamic is a little more interesting.)
Wally West (Ezra Miller, why not)
Power Girl (Also ?. Or does anyone else know a 5'10-6' actress who's also convincingly Kryptonian strong AND good with a bawdy sense of humour?)
Oracle (Emma Stone)
Plastic Man (Ben Affleck)
Hawkgirl (Linda Cardellini) (She's kind of supposed to be short and she's more a weapon user than a hand to hand brawler. Boom.)
John Stewart (Idris Elba)
Cyborg (Donald Glover)
There: A nice 20 suggestions for Warner Bros.
Aww The Full Monty musical is so much fun. Saw it twice on Broadway the month before it closed. Fuzzy memories.
Team Patrick Wilson! I've been wondering too about why he hasn't been in musicals for years!
Very sad about Amanda Peterson´s death. She was one of my first film crushes and yes, I remember "Can´t buy me love" really fondly. I remember going to IMDB, a couple of years ago, wondering if she was still active as an actress. Beautiful lady.
Yes to all the criticism of "Lava." At first, I thought it was a short from the early '90s that Pixar dug up and decided to put in front of a new film. (Wouldn't be the first time Pixar has done that.) My biggest complaint is that the story, heteronormative or otherwise, is just so unimaginative. It's the same basic story as "The Blue Umbrella" and a dozen other short films I can think of, stretching all the way back to Disney's "Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet" in the 1940s. Inanimate objects fall in love and eventually end up together. Yawn.
James Bond? A musical?? Hasn't enough damage been done with "Spider-man: Turn Off The Dark"?
the hilarious woman introducing 'the full monty' number is the late great kathleen freeman aka phoebe dinsmore, lina lamont's diction coach in singin' in the rain
"round tones, miss lamont, round tones"
Those Magic Mike/Disney mashups bewitch, bother, and bewilder me.
And that horrible Broadway audience story makes me want to put Patti LuPine as the security staff on every production!
I love Fassy but he says YES to everything (except me)
So that's the problem people have with Lava? Interesting. And while the article makes some valid points, I thought the problem would be more about how the woman is just created and exists to make the man happy, with no personality or agency of her own.
My favorite movie of the year so far is Bruno Dumont's L'IL QUINQUIN, a brilliant black comedy about the bumbling detectives and towns people of a remote French town trying to solve a series of mysterious, possibly unsolvable murders. It's on Netflix now. Don't be put off by the 3 hour runtime - it's the fastest three hours you'll ever spend, and if that still sounds too daunting, the project originated as a French TV series and is broken up into easy to watch 40 minute episodes. Also, Nick Davis would totally have my back on this recommendation, if that helps anyone.
My other favorites from this year (in rough order of preference): Inside Out, Timbuktu, Jauja, Salt of the Earth, Mad Max, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Saint Laurent, Blackhat and What We Do in the Shadows.