The next installment of HAROLD & KUMAR is... A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR CHRISTMAS Release date: November 5th 2010. (Source: Updated Warner Bros. Release Schedule)
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NBC Universal is prepping a Webisode spinoff to MONK. It will be called LITTLE MONK. The Storyline: Germ-phobic LITTLE MONK and his older brother super-slob, LITTLE AMBROSE, get a rep at their middle school for being good at crime-solving...
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Vanessa Redgrave has joined the cast of LETTERS TO JULIET. Gary Winick (Bride Wars) is directing the film. Here's the storyline: When a young American (Amanda Seyfried) travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. After answering one letter dated 1951, she inspires its author (Vanessa Redgrave) to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives unlike anything they ever imagined.
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Summit Entertainment has scheduled three movies for 2010: -Remember Me: February 12th 2010-Furry Vengeance: April 2nd 2010 -Letters to Juliet: May 14th 2010 Robert Pattinson + Valentine's Day = HUGE MONEY
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July 9th 2010. According to the latest updated release-schedule, 20th Century Fox has penciled in that specific date for Robert Rodriguez's PREDATORS. According to the schedule, Rodriguez is directing the film... Where does that leave Nerverackers???
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Mickey Rourke is one busy dude. He's attached to the remake of the Neil Jordan film MONA LISA. Rourke would reprise the role played by Bob Hoskins of an ex-con who's finding it difficult to make his way legitimately in the real world. He takes a job as a driver for high-class escort; a woman who lures him into certain danger. Eva Green (Casino Royale) will play the call girl. It's being written and directed by controversial director Larry Clark (Kids, Bully).
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Some details on Little Fockers, the highly anticipated final chapter in the Fockers trilogy... 5 year-old Henry and Ashley Fockers are the twin children of Greg and Pam (Ben Stiller and Teri Polo). Ashley, a tomboy, can be a little intimidating but she loves her brother. She likes to discover things, particularly if an adult doesn’t want her to know. While Henry is gentle and a bit overemotional. (Like his dad…) His best friend is a lizard, who he likes to emulate. Henry is a bit shy and reserved on the school playground, where he plays mostly alone. He does like to sing and dance.
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I’ve been able to find some intriguing details concerning the 8th season of 24.
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Once again, I'm on to a new writing project. If you read this with any regularity, you'll be forgiven for thinking you've heard this before. That's because I'm always starting new projects. It would not be unfair to call me a bit scatter brained. I do not think in straight lines. My brain leaps from subject to subject wildly and constantly. The upside is I get a lot of ideas. The downside is that finishing things becomes a problem. The way I deal with this is to make an attempt at any halfway decent idea I come up with. I simply never know which ones are going to turn into something good. But eventually ideas pile up enough in one area to finish something. That brings me to the latest project. It has no title and I'm kind of loathe to talk about it. But there is no doubt in my mind that this is one of the things that will get finished and turn into something good. There are simply to many ideas buzzing around it for once. A lot of times I have only one idea for a story and that just isn't enough to carry through to the end. This time the story has plenty of ideas. In fact, probably more than I need. Some stuff will get cut. Now what makes this stand out from my previous scripts is that I'm trying to write about someone fairly normal. All of my previous scripts center around oddball loners. That probably says something about me. This time my intention is to take a normal well adjusted family sort and dump her into a bizarre situation. So I have two main problems. One is write a normal person and make them interesting. In other words, without the crutch of quirks and mental illness. The other problem is write a convincing woman. Not being a woman, I'm not entirely familiar with how they think. So this requires a lot of thought, research and questioning women. That differs from my usual approach to characters, known as just wing it. It's coming along well. I'm about forty pages in, which isn't a lot, but there is tons of material in my head just waiting to be used. I could easily see a first draft approaching two hundred pages. Obviously I'll have to cut that down. Right now I just want to get the story down on paper and worry about being concise later.
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It's Tax Day. Yay. It's a day that brings joy to no one, unless you count those who enjoy spending taxpayer's money. And I don't. But what's of interest this time around are the protests scheduled for all over the country. That I definitely approve of. People taking to the streets to loudly protest the actions of the government? A-OK with me.
I do have few quibbles though. First off, these are largely being labeled as Tea Party protests, in reference to the famous protest by American colonists prior to the Revolutionary War. The original Boston Tea Party was colonists taking tea from a East India Company ship and chucking it overboard in protest of English taxation of tea which specifically favored that company over American tea. So that protest was about tax policy enacted without any concern or input from Americans that favored a foreign entity. So please explain to me what these new protests have to do with tea? Nothing. The name Tea Party is being used because it is famous, not because this current protest is analagous to the famed Tea Party.
You can certainly accuse me of being nitpicky with that complaint. But I think it is a relevant complaint because that original protest was very specific in what it protested and how. The act of raiding a ship and tossing the tea in the bay was specifically tied to the tax being protested. Buying up a bunch of tea bags (probably without sales tax) and throwing them in a river to protest government shenanigans in general is unfocused. I'm certainly okay with the act of protesting, I just think this one is a bit lamely conceived. And for once, the tea companies are probably very happy about all this.
The other complaint is that these modern tea parties ran into some problems with the law. In Washington D.C., they weren't allowed to dump the tea in the Potomac, because that is illegal. Other protests were stopped cold because they didn't have permits for their protests. The people who were behind the original Boston Tea Party would have ignored that and just dumped away. C'mon people. Grow a pair. The First Amendment protects your right to "peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Remember, it was written by the same sorts of people who first tossed tea to protest the actions of government. That's exactly why we have a First Amendment.
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