It’s apparent that Guy Ritchie created a wildly, raucous movie about Sherlock Holmes. The mix of suspense, laughter and craziness makes this movie a gem for the holiday season. Jude Law and Robert Downey, Jr. play brilliantly off each other — a true kinship has formed.
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It’s the Berenstain Bears.
Seriously, you remember this stuff? If you were a child of the eighties like me, you might even remember that they’ve been in cartoon form since way back then, and apparently have had other versions since. In fact, I’ve got YouTube of the original Berenstain Bears theme below.
Welcome back to the EIGHTIES. Represent.
But anyway, someone–and here I’m referring to Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy–has apparently had the bright idea to take these childhood icons and turn them into a movie. And somehow, a little part of me died inside when it remembered what Hollywood did to the Chipmunks.
There’s no word as yet on release dates, but somehow, this sounds like another grandiosely bland attempt on Hollywood’s part to wring a few fast bucks out of our childhood by gunning for name recognition indiscriminately and hoping for the best.
The newest Sherlock Holmes poster for the Internet is brilliantly crafted. The poster shows all the characters in the background involved in the movie with Dr. Watson (Jude Law) and Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) in the foreground.
Excitement is brewing because the word coming from Warner Bros. is that Guy Ritchie has created a pearl of a movie for everyone to enjoy and be entertained. Sure it’s a re-imaging of a tale told many times, but this time the tale is told with flair and guts.
Nothing could be better than teaming Law and Downey. If you don’t think so yet, we’ll find out on Christmas Day.
Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are talking with Joel and Ethan Coen to hitch a ride with Jeff Bridges in True Grit. A remake or redesign or re-imaging of the iconic 1969 Western tale that Paramount Pictures plans to start production next March for late 2010 release.
Bridges will play U.S. marshal Rooster Cogburn with Damon talking about playing the lawman (played by Glen Campbell in the original) who teams up with Cogburn and a 14-year old girl to track her father’s killer into hostile Indian territory.
Brolin is talking about playing the killer. Jeff Corey played the killer in the original, and Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper also played outlaws.
Coen brothers haven’t cast the young girl yet.
Well, this is a cataclysm waiting to happen, now isn’t it? Seems that someone’s decided it might be a good idea to take a news story about some pirates in Somalia and make it a movie.
Meanwhile I’m out here clutching my head because from the feel of it my brain is trying desperately to escape my skull and hop a bus to go somewhere where they’ve never even HEARD of movies. Maybe some underground bunker somewhere where it can hole up with some Chaucer.
So Billy Ray–and in case you were thinking Cyrus, no, but wouldn’t it have been hilarious if it had been?–is writing up a script based on next April’s memoirs of Richard Phillips, a ship captain rescued from Somalian pirates. Billy Ray is actually responsible for writing State of Play, which we covered here some months ago, and if the Somalian pirates movie turns out anywhere near as good, we should actually be in for a bit of a treat for a change.
Of course, the down side is that Billy Ray also wrote Flightplan and Suspect Zero, so there’s a better than fair chance this is going to suck.
On October 31, Nordstrom and Summit Entertainment invite Twilight fans to take advantage of a special opportunity to meet select cast members of The Twilight Saga: New Moon at select Nordstrom stores. The cast appearances are being held to celebrate the highly-anticipated November 20 release of the second movie in Summit’s Twilight film saga. Nordstrom launched an exclusive clothing and jewelry collection inspired by the mood and spirit of the film in early October.
Customers can visit nordstrom.com/newmoon for more details about how to acquire VIP access on Saturday, October 31, at 8:00 a.m., to be one of 75 customers to meet the cast.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon cast members will visit the following Nordstrom stores:
November 5- Topanga (Canoga Park, CA)**
November 8- Park Meadows (Lone Tree, CO)*
November 9- Natick Collection (Natick, MA)*
November 10- The Galleria (Houston, TX)*
November 11- Mall of America (Bloomington, MN)*
November 11- Cherry Hill Mall (Philadelphia, PA)*
November 11- Stonestown Galleria (San Francisco, CA)*
November 12- Perimeter Mall (Atlanta, GA)
November 12- Southcenter (Tukwila, WA)*
November 13- Aventura Mall (Aventura, FL)
November 13- Scottsdale Fashion Square (Phoenix, AZ)*
November 14- Fashion Place (Murray, UT)*
* These malls will also host a talent question and answer forum in the mall which will be open to the public.
** 125 customer VIP packets will be available for the Topanga event only. The mall will not host a talent question and answer forum.
Select Nordstrom stores will also offer customers advanced movie screening passes as gifts with purchase (see nordstrom.com/newmoon for participating stores and details), and will host in-store styling parties on November 14 and 15. Customers can visit nordstrom.com/newmoon to learn what events are taking place at their nearest Nordstrom store and sign-up for email alerts.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon directed by Chris Weitz and starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner will be released November 20, 2009. In the film, the romance between mortal and vampire soars to a new level as Bella Swan (Stewart) delves deeper into the mysteries of the supernatural world she yearns to become part of–only to find herself in greater peril than ever before. Following Edward Cullen’s (Pattinson) departure from Forks, Wash., and Bella discovers his image comes to her whenever she puts herself in jeopardy. In time Bella’s frozen heart is gradually thawed by her budding relationship with Jacob Black (Lautner) who has a supernatural secret of his own.