Hello and welcome back! Wish I had something snappy and full of wit to write for my intro, but I'll be honest: I got nothing! So lets just dive in shall we?
-American Idol continued with a pretty good episode singing wise. Not as many HORRIBLE performers as Episode 1 but it still had its share of "Cant these people hear themselves??" moments. I think the shot of the night was seeing Paula Abdul almost spit out her water when that one guy said that he thinks he sounds like Brian McKnight. I'm sure most of these people know they cant sing, but they want to come out on TV and get their 15 min of fame. Heck, if William Hung got a record contract out his crappy performance, then maybe there's hope for them still. Oh and that Mary girl from episode 1 already has a nickname: "Scary" Mary. Look for her debut CD to drop soon. I'm only joking, but you never know...
-Whats with all these scary movies coming out in the next few weeks?? Usually horror movies are saved for the late summer/fall seasons as it gets closer to Halloween. I guess since "The Ring 2" comes out in the Spring, the studios felt they should get a jump on them and not have their movies compared to it. The Ring 2 had originally been slated to open last November right after Halloween, but the movie had to be re-shot and the story tightened up a bit before it could be released. Hopefully the delay leads to a better product.
-One movie that was affected by the delay of Ring 2 was "Scary Movie 4" The producers of that film had hoped to get more material from it to continue on their project. With all these horror movies coming out though, I suspect they will have a TON of material to work with. For now though, "Scary Movie 4" has been shelved in favor of a superhero movie spoof simply titled "Superhero". The same team that worked on Scary Movie 3 is working on this movie. Basically spoofing all the recent hero movies like Spiderman, Hulk (Yeah, like that movie needs any help being made fun of!), Daredevil, etc..No word on casting, but it sounds like a fun idea. We'll see what develops.
-Someone asked me what another example of a movie that underperformed in the theatre that was repackaged completely for its DVD release. I could write a whole column worth of these (and I may one of these days) but one recent example was the marketing for "The Girl Next Door". Try to stay with me here, cuz this is one movie with a identity crisis! When the first commercial for this movie came out it was promoted as a typical American Pie style teen sex movie. Then it was promoted as a romantic comedy with teen sex. Then it went back to being about teen sex. Then a love story about a guy who has met the girl of his dreams, but she has a secret. Then a inspirational movie about going after your dreams and that special girl. Then finally as a teen sex movie complete with Unrated Version. Now I'm not trying to say studios shouldnt try to re-market movies to try to make a profit, but this is out of hand. Dont believe me? Check out the new commercial for the DVD release of "Catwoman". They make it seem like some dark, gothy movie. Which of course it isnt it. I remember the first trailer for this movie was HORRIBLE. I'll never forget sitting in the theatre, watching this trailer and then as soon as it was over, the ENTIRE (NO JOKE) theatre was LAUGHING!! Thats how bad it was. It made the movie look like a joke, which it turned out to be.
-Notable Quote: "If these two got tired of having sex with each other, what hope is there for the rest of us??"-Tina Fey on SNL commenting on the breakup of Jennifer and Brad.
And we'll end it on that! See you next time!
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