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SOTD: Top Gun (1986) - April, 4, 1985 Revised Draft

posted on: May, 28 2008

PLOT SYNOPSIS: Maverick is a hot pilot. When he encounters a pair of MiGs over the Persian Gulf, his wingman is clearly outflown and freaks. On almost no fuel, Maverick is able to talk him back down to the Carrier. When his wingman turns in his wings, Maverick is moved up in the standings and sent to the Top Gun Naval Flying School. There he fights the attitudes of the other pilots and an old story of his father’s death in combat that killed others due to his father’s error. Maverick struggles to be the best pilot, stepping on the toes of his other students and in a different way to Charlie, a civilian instructor to whom he is strongly attracted.

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Let’s Make Our Own Harold and Kumar Adventure

posted on: May, 28 2008

The DVD release of Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay will allow viewers to choose their own adventure. Not much has been revealed yet, but the official press materials lists a special feature called “Dude, Change the Movie!” which will allow “you to select from new and alternate scenes to change the course of the film.” And you might be asking, how much extra footage could they have shot to make this interactive feature worth trying out? The answer is 27 Additional Scenes!?

Harold and Kumar hits store shelves on July 29th 2008.

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Evil Dead: The Musical

posted on: May, 28 2008

No, they’re not making any musical Evil Dead on Broadway. But someone had some free time to make spoof musical posters. So, check them out after the jump.

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SOTD: Toy Story (1995) - November 1995 Final Draft

posted on: May, 27 2008

PLOT SYNOPSIS: Toy Story is about the ’secret life of toys’ when people are not around. When Buzz Lightyear, a space-ranger, takes Woody’s place as Andy’s favorite toy, Woody doesn’t like the situation and gets into a fight with Buzz. Accidentaly Buzz falls out the window and Woody is accused by all the other toys of having killed him. He has to go out of the house to look for him so that they can both return to Andys room. But while on the outside they get into all kind of trouble while trying to get home.

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Sydney Pollack Dies at 73

posted on: May, 27 2008

Acclaimed director, producer, and actor Sydney Pollack has died of cancer. He was 73.

According to the AP, quoting Pollack’s agent Leslee Dart, Pollack died Monday afternoon (5/26/08) at his home in Pacific Palisades, surrounded by family and friends.

Though Sydney Pollack started out as an actor and acting coach and later ended his career doubling producer duties with cameo and supporting roles, it was as a director that Pollack will probably best be remembered. His films had the sheen of the Golden Era of Hollywood, even though most were made in the `70s and `80s. They also spanned genres and included The Way We Were (`73), Three Days of the Condor (`75), The Electric Horseman (`79), Tootsie (`82), culminating in what was arguably his greatest success, Out of Africa (`85).

Sydney Irwin Pollack was born on July 1, 1934, in Lafayette and raised in South Bend, Indiana. He developed a love of acting at South Bend High School and went straight to New York and the Neighborhood Playhouse School for Theater. There, Sanford Meisner took him under his wing, first as a student and then as his assistant. Pollack received favorable marks from his students, which included Robert Duvall and Rip Torn, and Claire Griswold, a former pupil whom Pollack married and remained married to for 50 years.

His time at the Neighborhood Playhouse was destined not to last as long and, under the encouragement of director John Frankenheimer and nudging from Burt Lancaster, Pollack began directing. He started out small, in television shows such as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Ben Casey.

He soon branched out into feature filmmaking. His first was The Slender Thread, starring Anne Bancroft and Sydney Poitier in a story about a desperate woman and the suicide hotline volunteer who attempts to keep her on the line while waiting for the police to find her.

The film fared poorly, both critically and financially, as, to a lesser extent, did Pollack’s second feature, 1966’s This Property Is Condemned, based upon a Tennessee Williams play (with a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola). It featured Natalie Wood as a girl desperate to break out of her small town who sets her sights and hopes on a traveling railroad official and company hatchet man, played by Robert Redford. Property was the start of a lifelong association and friendship with Redford; Pollack would direct Redford in seven films in total, including some of his most famous.

His first success came with the depression-era The Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, which followed the characters involved in a grueling dance marathon. It starred Jane Fonda and shattered her American image as a comely ingénue or a sex kitten and established her as a serious actress once and for all. She received her first Oscar nomination for the part.

Most actors benefited from appearing in a Pollack film. Twelve actors received Oscar nominations after being in one of his movies, including Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, and Dustin Hoffman. He was no stranger to the Academy himself. He was nominated three times for Best Director (Horses and Tootsie, winning for Out of Africa). Oddly enough, Redford never received a nomination for any of the multiply-lauded films in which he starred for Pollack.

Industry recognition was just part of his success. His films were also profitable at the box office. Hits included Horses, The Way We Were, Three Days of the Condor, The Electric Horseman and The Firm.

Out of Africa was where everything gelled. It had an enormous canvas, an epic scope, a glorious score, luscious cinematography and two superstars (Redford and Streep) in the leads. The film was nominated for 11 awards, picking up seven including Best Picture and Director.

He had misses too. Havana, Random Hearts and Sabrina were the rare examples of critical and commercial failures.

Producing became a passion for him after this string of misfires. Along with the late Anthony Minghella, who died earlier this year during a throat operation, Pollack created Mirage Enterprises. The shop produced The Fabulous Baker Boys, Sense and Sensibility, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain. But Mirage represented just a smattering of Pollack’s producing duties, which also included Searching for Bobby Fischer, The Quiet American, Michael Clayton and the HBO film, Recount.

In recent years Pollack also specialized in the role of the powerful corporate or societal patriarch, one willing to lay down the law or to teach the hard truths of life to the protagonist. He played variations of it in Eyes Wide Shut, Changing Lanes and Michael Clayton and created what can only be described as avuncular malevolence, inspiring fear and awe while exuding a tinge of mercy. It was the stature of Pollack in the industry itself and his commanding presence on and off the screen that lent the roles their gravitas. They sprang from the man himself.

Pollack is survived by his wife, Claire; two daughters, Rebecca and Rachel; his brother Bernie; and six grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his son, Steven, who died in 1993 in a plane crash in Santa Monica.

R.I.P.

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Back to the Future Sequel - NOT!

posted on: May, 27 2008

Not that anyone was expecting the answer to change, but Back to the Future co-writer and producer Bob Gale has again put sequel/remake rumors to rest.

“Let me answer one question before anyone asks it, which is, ‘Is there ever be a Back To The Future Part IV…No,” Gale told the crowd of the 5th Annual Celebration Exotic Car Festival. “We’ve all seen sometimes where they make one too many sequels and you say, ‘Maybe they shouldn’t have done that.’ I’m not going to name any names of movies, but you know what they are!”

Good news for true BTTF fans. I’m one of them and I’m ALL for it for NO SEQUEL!!!

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Movie Poster: Witchblade

posted on: May, 27 2008

First movie poster for upcoming comic adaptation of Top Cow’s Witchblade is here.

The story follows a specially chosen female who comes into possession of “a supernatural, sentient artifact with immense destructive and protective powers” called the Witchblade. The jewel-encrusted gauntlet gives the wearer extraordinary powers. The feature length theatrical live-action film will take a “more horror-based approach.”

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Inglorious Bastards… coming to Cannes in 2009?!?

posted on: May, 26 2008

French interviewers really know how to make an good interview. Just ask the right question. This time, on other side was Quentin Tarantino. You know him, from such a movies like Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and many more. Anyway, everybody’s waiting his new film project and here’s some exciting quote from QT, while he was answering tons of questions for french guys.

“Oh, yeah, no. The next movie I’m doing is my WWII movie Inglorious Bastards. I actually just finished the first draft of the script and when I go home I’ll be finishing it up…and if all goes well [pregnant pause] I will be here 2009 at Cannes with my war film INGLORIOUS BASTARDS!!! [applause].”

Believe it or not, this is OFFICIAL announcement from QT. Which means, year from now we’re gonna watch some bloody R-Rated QT War flick. I’m all for it.

What about you?

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First Photo: Sienna Miller as the Baroness

posted on: May, 26 2008

Paramount Pictures live action G.I. JOE film is currently shooting in Prague with Sienna Miller playing the Baroness.  And good guys from IESB.net have some SPY photos of Sienna in skin tight black leather carrying a gun. She’s HOT all the way.

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4-day Weekend Box Office, May 23-26

posted on: May, 26 2008

BURBANK, CALIFORNIA — ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ topped the box office this weekend with an estimated $126.0 million.

WEEKEND TOP 5 STUDIO ESTIMATES, MAY 23-26, 2008

Rank. Movie Title (Distributor)
Weekend Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Week #

1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Paramount)
$126.0 million | 4,260 | $151.1 million | 1

2. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Buena Vista)
$28.6 million | 3,929 | $96.7 million | 2

3. Iron Man (Paramount)
$25.7 million | 3,915 | $257.8 million | 4

4. What Happens in Vegas (Fox)
$11.2 million | 3,188 | $56.4 million | 3

5. Speed Racer (Warner Bros.)
$5.2 million | 3,112 | $37.4 million | 3

Source: Box Office Mojo (www.boxofficemojo.com)

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