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Year: 2009
Director: Kyle Newman
Plot: A fanatical group of Star Wars devotees travel across the country on a mission to steal a print of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace from Skywalker Ranch and become the first fans to see the film in a rowdy, sci-fi flavored road comedy starring Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Dan Folger, Jay Baruchel, and Kristen Bell. Carrie Fisher, William Shatner, and Ray Park turn up for cameos in the one comedy that truly understands the fanboy mindset. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:03:47 GMTFanboys2009Kyle NewmanA fanatical group of <a href=/films/32762/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Star Wars</a> devotees travel across the country on a mission to steal a print of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace from Skywalker Ranch and become the first fans to see the film in a rowdy, sci-fi flavored road comedy starring <a href="/players/P___223224/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Sam Huntington</a>, Chris Marquette, Dan Folger, <a href="/players/P___297897/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jay Baruchel</a>, and <a href="/players/P___369786/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Kristen Bell</a>. <a href="/players/P____89886/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Carrie Fisher</a>, <a href="/players/P___111030/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>William Shatner</a>, and <a href="/players/P___270267/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ray Park</a> turn up for cameos in the one comedy that truly understands the fanboy mindset. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide19Tag Target (>10)5833http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s283704.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Fanboys/283704/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2009/2/5/40287.aspx Post By: Karina
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Body: If you’re a guy who lives in your parent’s basement, writes a movie blog, even vaguely resembles the Comic Book Store Guy’s tumescent mien, and have actually watched one of the Star Wars prequels in the last five years by choice, chances are you’ll probably enjoy Kyle Newman’s long-delayed (and for good reason) Fanboys… If you’re an adult, who refuses (or better yet forgets how) to quote episodes of The Simpsons, chances are you won’t. That’s 75 of the 165 words The Playlist devotes to reviewing Fanboys, in a post appropriately titled ‘Fanboys’… Whatever. It makes a certain kind of sense that *I* never bothered to see this film (although we did cover its Kevin Spacey-presented screening at Comic-Con last summer) and forgot it was even coming out this week. But I wonder if even the target audience alluded to in that pullquote is still desperate (if they ever were) to see this thing? After all the rigamarole with the Weinsteins and the cancer subplot, and literal years of chatter about it online, is it possible that Fanboys peaked long before it was released? Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:01:45 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog2/5/2009 6:01:45 PM If you’re a guy who lives in your parent’s basement, writes a movie blog, even vaguely resembles the Comic Book Store Guy’s tumescent mien, and have actually watched one of the Star Wars prequels in the last five years by choice, chances are you’ll probably enjoy Kyle Newman’s long-delayed (and for good reason) Fanboys… If you’re an adult, who refuses (or better yet forgets how) to quote episodes of The Simpsons, chances are you won’t. That’s 75 of the 165 words The Playlist devotes to reviewing Fanboys, in a post appropriately titled ‘Fanboys’… Whatever. It makes a certain kind of sense that *I* never bothered to see this film (although we did cover its Kevin Spacey-presented screening at Comic-Con last summer) and forgot it was even coming out this week. But I wonder if even the target audience alluded to in that pullquote is still desperate (if they ever were) to see this thing? After all the rigamarole with the Weinsteins and the cancer subplot, and literal years of chatter about it online, is it possible that Fanboys peaked long before it was released? Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2009/2/5/40286.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: If you’re a guy who lives in your parent’s basement, writes a movie blog, even vaguely resembles the Comic Book Store Guy’s tumescent mien, and have actually watched one of the Star Wars prequels in the last five years by choice, chances are you’ll probably enjoy Kyle Newman’s long-delayed (and for good reason) Fanboys… If you’re an adult, who refuses (or better yet forgets how) to quote episodes of The Simpsons, chances are you won’t. That’s 75 of the 165 words The Playlist devotes to reviewing Fanboys, in a post appropriately titled ‘Fanboys’… Whatever. It makes a certain kind of sense that *I* never bothered to see this film (although we did cover its Kevin Spacey-presented screening at Comic-Con last summer) and forgot it was even coming out this week. But I wonder if even the target audience alluded to in that pullquote is still desperate (if they ever were) to see this thing? After all the rigamarole with the Weinsteins and the cancer subplot, and literal years of chatter about it online, is it possible that Fanboys peaked long before it was released? Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:01:26 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com2/5/2009 6:01:26 PM If you’re a guy who lives in your parent’s basement, writes a movie blog, even vaguely resembles the Comic Book Store Guy’s tumescent mien, and have actually watched one of the Star Wars prequels in the last five years by choice, chances are you’ll probably enjoy Kyle Newman’s long-delayed (and for good reason) Fanboys… If you’re an adult, who refuses (or better yet forgets how) to quote episodes of The Simpsons, chances are you won’t. That’s 75 of the 165 words The Playlist devotes to reviewing Fanboys, in a post appropriately titled ‘Fanboys’… Whatever. It makes a certain kind of sense that *I* never bothered to see this film (although we did cover its Kevin Spacey-presented screening at Comic-Con last summer) and forgot it was even coming out this week. But I wonder if even the target audience alluded to in that pullquote is still desperate (if they ever were) to see this thing? After all the rigamarole with the Weinsteins and the cancer subplot, and literal years of chatter about it online, is it possible that Fanboys peaked long before it was released? Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/groups/Coming_Soon/New_Movies_2_6_CORALINE_PINK_PANTHER_2_and_I_M/216/40159/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: spout
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Post Date: 2/2/2009 3:15:25 PM
Body: 2/2 -- It's Groundhog Day! Well, the little bugger saw his shadow, so we're in for another six weeks of winter. But he also smelled his own breath, so we're in for some good movies before spring! Not surprisingly, the groundhog wouldn't just come out and say which movies are going to be good--but he did give some short, zen-like predictions. Check 'em out below. 1. Pink Panther 2 -- Watch the trailer. I think Steve Martin is one of the smartest and funniest comedians alive, but each of his new movies makes this a little harder to remember. Don't get me wrong, Pink Panther (2006) is decent slapstick with a handful of especially funny moments. If the sequel is any better, it'll be worth the price of admission. THE GROUNDHOG SAYS: "My dandruff is really quite edible." (That means the film may seem off-putting, but is actually pretty good.) 2. He's Just Not that Into You -- Watch the trailer. This looks less like a story than An Evening of Stars Getting Together and Not Getting Together. Have you seen the mash-up video Christian Bale Is Just Not That Into You? THE GROUNDHOG SAYS: "I quench my thirst with my own drool." (That means he's attracted to Jennifer Connelly, and laments that, alas, they can never be together. If you wanna have fun or just feel close to Ms. Conelly, Recast DARK CITY.) 3. Fanboys -- Watch the trailer. This movie started a brawl between the badasses of Star Wars and Star Trek. Vote for your favorite characters to help them survive the brawl. Fanboys has been hanging around since 2007, so I'm kind of wary. Nevertheless, it's full of good people (Jay Baruchel, Dan Fogler, and Kristin Bell in Princess Leia's golden bikini, yikes!) THE GROUNDHOG SAYS: "These darn saddle sores just won't heal!" (He's tired of all the delays, and hopes the film lives up to his expectations. It also means, would I please hand him my lip balm so he can give some relief to his rump?) 4. Coraline -- Watch the trailer. I've read the book by Neil Gaiman and it's pretty good, sort of Alice In Wonderland meets The Nightmare Before Christmas. Hey, that's what the trailer looks like, too! THE GROUNDHOG SAYS: "Does a Coal Monster poop diamonds?" (This must be some kind of stock phrase among groundhogs. Do any of you know what it means?) 5. Push -- Watch the trailer. The director of this thriller made Lucky Number Slevin, which was pretty good. On the other hand... THE GROUNDHOG SAYS: "I have blood in my stool." (This is far too vulgar to translate, and he knows better. I kick him lightly in the saddlesores and he scurries back into his hole.) ________________________________________________ NEW TO DVD 2/3 There are a bunch of Friday the 13th special editions coming out, some on Blu-ray. I was thinking about seeing the new Friday the 13th next Friday, but then my appetite for slasher films was ruined by the horrid My Bloody Valentine 3-D. 1. Zack and Miri Make a Porno -- Watch the trailer. Since it stars those two delightful cats--Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks--I'm surprised it bombed so bad in the theater. I haven't seen this yet; any opinions on whether it deserves a look? 2. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist -- Watch the trailer. Don't you just wanna pinch Michael Cera's cheeks? 3. Redbelt -- Watch the trailer. A good but flawed film from David Mamet about honor (and the lack thereof) among professional Tae Kwon Do competitors. I learned from this film that the only belt higher than blackbelt is redbelt...and if I'm not mistaken, there's only one Redbelt at a time. 4. Bottle Shock -- Watch the trailer. Starring Bill Pullman and the superb Alan Rickman, this comedy-drama's set in 1976, within the world of wine-making and wine-tasting. If you've ever been to a wine-tasting, you know there's plenty to make fun of there. The best comments I've ever heard at a wine-tasting. I'm not making these up: (1) It's a bit austere in the mid-nose. (2) Ooh, I'm almost sensing a bit of effervescence that isn't really there! 5. The Secret Life of Bees -- Watch the trailer. Wow, that Dakota Fanning is everywhere these days. Yesterday I saw Dakota down at the DMV, trying to get her driver's license. I'm like, "What do you need that for?" And she's like, "I'm not gonna drive! They're just photographing me! My agent made this deal so that my picture goes on every new photo ID in America." Just an FYI, if you're going to get a license or passport. 6. Assault on Precint 13 (re-release) -- This is one John Carpenter classic I haven't seen. Any opinions of it? 7. Being There (re-release) -- Watch the trailer. I'm a fan of Peter Sellers, but I haven't seen this one. By the way, we're giving it away. Find out how to win.
]]>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:15:25 GMTspoutComing Soon2/2/2009 3:15:25 PM2/2 -- It's Groundhog Day! Well, the little bugger saw his shadow, so we're in for another six weeks of winter. But he also smelled his own breath, so we're in for some good movies before spring! Not surprisingly, the groundhog wouldn't just come out and say which movies are going to be good--but he did give some short, zen-like predictions. Check 'em out below. 1. Pink Panther 2 -- Watch the trailer. I think Steve Martin is one of the smartest and funniest comedians alive, but each of his new movies makes this a little harder to remember. Don't get me wrong, Pink Panther (2006) is decent slapstick with a handful of especially funny moments. If the sequel is any better, it'll be worth the price of admission. THE GROUNDHOG SAYS: "My dandruff is really quite edible." (That means the film may seem off-putting, but is actually pretty good.) 2. He's Just Not that Into You -- Watch the trailer. This looks less like a story than An Evening of Stars Getting Together and Not Getting Together. Have you seen the mash-up video Christian Bale Is Just Not That Into You? THE GROUNDHOG SAYS: "I quench my thirst with my own drool." (That means he's attracted to Jennifer Connelly, and laments that, alas, they can never be together. If you wanna have fun or just feel close to Ms. Conelly, Recast DARK CITY.) 3. Fanboys -- Watch the trailer. This movie started a brawl between the badasses of Star Wars and Star Trek. Vote for your favorite characters to help them survive the brawl. Fanboys has been hanging around since 2007, so I'm kind of wary. Nevertheless, it's full of good people (Jay Baruchel, Dan Fogler, and Kristin Bell in Princess Leia's golden bikini, yikes!) THE GROUNDHOG SAYS: "These darn saddle sores just won't heal!" (He's tired of all the delays, and hopes the film lives up to his expectations. It also means, would I please hand him my lip balm so he can give some relief to his rump?) 4. Coraline -- Watch the trailer. I've read the book by Neil Gaiman and it's pretty good, sort of Alice In Wonderland meets The Nightmare Before Christmas. Hey, that's what the trailer looks like, too! THE GROUNDHOG SAYS: "Does a Coal Monster poop diamonds?" (This must be some kind of stock phrase among groundhogs. Do any of you know what it means?) 5. Push -- Watch the trailer. The director of this thriller made Lucky Number Slevin, which was pretty good. On the other hand... THE GROUNDHOG SAYS: "I have blood in my stool." (This is far too vulgar to translate, and he knows better. I kick him lightly in the saddlesores and he scurries back into his hole.) ________________________________________________ NEW TO DVD 2/3 There are a bunch of Friday the 13th special editions coming out, some on Blu-ray. I was thinking about seeing the new Friday the 13th next Friday, but then my appetite for slasher films was ruined by the horrid My Bloody Valentine 3-D. 1. Zack and Miri Make a Porno -- Watch the trailer. Since it stars those two delightful cats--Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks--I'm surprised it bombed so bad in the theater. I haven't seen this yet; any opinions on whether it deserves a look? 2. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist -- Watch the trailer. Don't you just wanna pinch Michael Cera's cheeks? 3. Redbelt -- Watch the trailer. A good but flawed film from David Mamet about honor (and the lack thereof) among professional Tae Kwon Do competitors. I learned from this film that the only belt higher than blackbelt is redbelt...and if I'm not mistaken, there's only one Redbelt at a time. 4. Bottle Shock -- Watch the trailer. Starring Bill Pullman and the superb Alan Rickman, this comedy-drama's set in 1976, within the world of wine-making and wine-tasting. If you've ever been to a wine-tasting, you know there's plenty to make fun of there. The best comments I've ever heard at a wine-tasting. I'm not making these up: (1) It's a bit austere in the mid-nose. (2) Ooh, I'm almost sensing a bit of effervescence that isn't really there! 5. The Secret Life of Bees -- Watch the trailer. Wow, that Dakota Fanning is everywhere these days. Yesterday I saw Dakota down at the DMV, trying to get her driver's license. I'm like, "What do you need that for?" And she's like, "I'm not gonna drive! They're just photographing me! My agent made this deal so that my picture goes on every new photo ID in America." Just an FYI, if you're going to get a license or passport. 6. Assault on Precint 13 (re-release) -- This is one John Carpenter classic I haven't seen. Any opinions of it? 7. Being There (re-release) -- Watch the trailer. I'm a fan of Peter Sellers, but I haven't seen this one. By the way, we're giving it away. Find out how to win. http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/10/20/36519.aspx Post By: Karina
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Body: Those who have spent the last three or four years following the parallel production nightmares of Fanboys and 5-25-77 would be excused for assuming that all films involving teenagers and early cuts of Star Wars films are cursed. The former, which Kevin reviewed at Comic-Con, should have been the nerd toast of summer 2007, but reshoots, reedits and a scuffle with the Weinsteins over the film’s pesky downer undercurrent mandated a number of shuffles down the calendar; it’s now tentatively scheduled to hit theaters at the end of next month. Geek excitement for 5-25-77 hit fever pitch when the film’s first trailer hit the web way back in January 2006 (and subsequently the won Golden Trailer for the best promo for a film that wasn’t actually released — yes, such an award exists). A rough cut screening (apparently, very rough) followed a year and a half later, and a year and a half after that, Patrick Read Johnson’s long MIA autobiographical epic, now simply called ‘77, had its official World Premiere this weekend at the Hamptons Film Festival, where it won a Heineken-sponsored indie auteur award. But don’t get too excited yet — it’s still not finished. In his introduction to ‘77’s Saturday afternoon screening in the Hamptons, Johnson thanked programmer David Nugent for requesting to show the film, despite the fact that it is “still in post-production.” Johnson and crew reportedly got an influx of polishing cash earlier this year, and let’s just say we hope that polish is still in the process of being applied. In its current state, ‘77 is a good 35 minutes too long, its special effects alternate between inspired and straight dodgy, the performances are brutally uneven, it ends three or four times and it’s so drowned in source cue music that a fair deal of the dialogue is simply unintelligible. It’s a mess. But it’s kind of a fascinating mess. Based on the filmmaker’s actual coming-of-age (which he discusses at length in this 2001 interview, when ‘77 was in the planning stages), John Francis Daley (the kid from Freaks and Geeks who kind of looks like Jon Heder, except attractive) stars as Pat, a sci-fi nerd in a teeny tiny Illinois town who, after having his world fundamentally changed by the appearance of the Star Baby at the end of 2001, goads his friends and siblings into starring in gonzo backyard sequels to that film, and Jaws (in a fake blood-filled swimming pool) and Planet of the Apes. Pat is deeply in love with cinema and maybe even talented, but without money for film school or access to a local film industry, he’s at an impasse. He tells his girlfriend Linda that he’s waiting for “alien relatives” to rescue him from rural Illinois and take him “back to a distant star system [called] Hollywood.” He gets his close encounter when his mother (Colleen Camp, in a part that Carrie Fisher reportedly turned down) arranges for him to fly out to Hollywood to meet with Herb Lightman, a failed filmmaker-turned-editor of American Cinematographer magazine. In LA for what seems like a day, under the wing of the cynical but still movie-obsessed Lightman (Austin Pendleton, in the film’s one truly solid performance), Pat stumbles into the prop shop for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, meets Steven Spielberg and special effects wizard Douglas Trumbell, and ends up seeing an early cut of the yet-to-be released Star Wars. It’s this last experience that really marks our young hero, and though the actor who plays George Lucas is mostly heard and not seen, Pat seems to find a kinship with the older filmmaker based on making fantasies real via the scrappiest means necessary (”Don’t tell anyone,” Lucas says. “We’re making this whole movie out of stuff you could find in your garage.”) Pat then goes back to his hometown and evangelizes on behalf of the upcoming space epic, via non-stop chatter and a t-shirt emblazoned with the film’s release date, 5-25-77. Until the film’s final half-hour, where it almost feels like Johnson is so exhausted that he gives up on trying to be inventive (or maybe he just ran out of editing time) ‘77 is refreshingly free of exposition, and sometimes startlingly structurally complex. Pat’s “real” life, the movies he makes, the movies he sees, his daydreams and his nightmares are woven together almost seamlessly, with the confidence that the ideal viewer will have the cinema vocabulary to get it. And though the films referenced are by now mostly classics, there’s a strain of cinephilic discourse running throughout that can actually be fairly high-minded, and yet it’s self-reflexive enough that nothing is ever purely pretentious. It was obvious, in the cut we were shown, where the effects are finished and where they aren’t; the finished stuff looks great, the unfinished stuff looks REALLY unfinished. But on the whole. the level of ambition — and the fact that Johnson is more often than not actually able to pull off what he’s trying to do — is enough to cover for the fact that most of the performances are amateurish. What it can’t cover for is the narrative’s spraw. There’s enough plot here for several episodes of CW-quality drama, and aside from the actual trip to Los Angeles, none of it feels like it’s operating at stakes higher than your average episode of teen-friendly TV. It seems smart to reserve further judgement until the film is finished, but one hopes that Johnson finds the distance he needs to whittle his passion project down to its core. Under the miasma of autobiography (which covers everything from young Pat’s car troubles to the loss of his virginity), it seems like within ‘77 there’s an earnest love letter, somehow both audience-friendly and totally formally experimental, to the birth of mass cinemania, the moment when sci-fi nerds in small towns around the world found the franchises that would make their obsessions seem more normal, that would make all these alien(ated) teenagers feel connected to one another through film. Johnson just needs to find it. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:00:58 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog10/20/2008 1:00:58 PMThose who have spent the last three or four years following the parallel production nightmares of Fanboys and 5-25-77 would be excused for assuming that all films involving teenagers and early cuts of Star Wars films are cursed. The former, which Kevin reviewed at Comic-Con, should have been the nerd toast of summer 2007, but reshoots, reedits and a scuffle with the Weinsteins over the film’s pesky downer undercurrent mandated a number of shuffles down the calendar; it’s now tentatively scheduled to hit theaters at the end of next month. Geek excitement for 5-25-77 hit fever pitch when the film’s first trailer hit the web way back in January 2006 (and subsequently the won Golden Trailer for the best promo for a film that wasn’t actually released — yes, such an award exists). A rough cut screening (apparently, very rough) followed a year and a half later, and a year and a half after that, Patrick Read Johnson’s long MIA autobiographical epic, now simply called ‘77, had its official World Premiere this weekend at the Hamptons Film Festival, where it won a Heineken-sponsored indie auteur award. But don’t get too excited yet — it’s still not finished. In his introduction to ‘77’s Saturday afternoon screening in the Hamptons, Johnson thanked programmer David Nugent for requesting to show the film, despite the fact that it is “still in post-production.” Johnson and crew reportedly got an influx of polishing cash earlier this year, and let’s just say we hope that polish is still in the process of being applied. In its current state, ‘77 is a good 35 minutes too long, its special effects alternate between inspired and straight dodgy, the performances are brutally uneven, it ends three or four times and it’s so drowned in source cue music that a fair deal of the dialogue is simply unintelligible. It’s a mess. But it’s kind of a fascinating mess. Based on the filmmaker’s actual coming-of-age (which he discusses at length in this 2001 interview, when ‘77 was in the planning stages), John Francis Daley (the kid from Freaks and Geeks who kind of looks like Jon Heder, except attractive) stars as Pat, a sci-fi nerd in a teeny tiny Illinois town who, after having his world fundamentally changed by the appearance of the Star Baby at the end of 2001, goads his friends and siblings into starring in gonzo backyard sequels to that film, and Jaws (in a fake blood-filled swimming pool) and Planet of the Apes. Pat is deeply in love with cinema and maybe even talented, but without money for film school or access to a local film industry, he’s at an impasse. He tells his girlfriend Linda that he’s waiting for “alien relatives” to rescue him from rural Illinois and take him “back to a distant star system [called] Hollywood.” He gets his close encounter when his mother (Colleen Camp, in a part that Carrie Fisher reportedly turned down) arranges for him to fly out to Hollywood to meet with Herb Lightman, a failed filmmaker-turned-editor of American Cinematographer magazine. In LA for what seems like a day, under the wing of the cynical but still movie-obsessed Lightman (Austin Pendleton, in the film’s one truly solid performance), Pat stumbles into the prop shop for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, meets Steven Spielberg and special effects wizard Douglas Trumbell, and ends up seeing an early cut of the yet-to-be released Star Wars. It’s this last experience that really marks our young hero, and though the actor who plays George Lucas is mostly heard and not seen, Pat seems to find a kinship with the older filmmaker based on making fantasies real via the scrappiest means necessary (”Don’t tell anyone,” Lucas says. “We’re making this whole movie out of stuff you could find in your garage.”) Pat then goes back to his hometown and evangelizes on behalf of the upcoming space epic, via non-stop chatter and a t-shirt emblazoned with the film’s release date, 5-25-77. Until the film’s final half-hour, where it almost feels like Johnson is so exhausted that he gives up on trying to be inventive (or maybe he just ran out of editing time) ‘77 is refreshingly free of exposition, and sometimes startlingly structurally complex. Pat’s “real” life, the movies he makes, the movies he sees, his daydreams and his nightmares are woven together almost seamlessly, with the confidence that the ideal viewer will have the cinema vocabulary to get it. And though the films referenced are by now mostly classics, there’s a strain of cinephilic discourse running throughout that can actually be fairly high-minded, and yet it’s self-reflexive enough that nothing is ever purely pretentious. It was obvious, in the cut we were shown, where the effects are finished and where they aren’t; the finished stuff looks great, the unfinished stuff looks REALLY unfinished. But on the whole. the level of ambition — and the fact that Johnson is more often than not actually able to pull off what he’s trying to do — is enough to cover for the fact that most of the performances are amateurish. What it can’t cover for is the narrative’s spraw. There’s enough plot here for several episodes of CW-quality drama, and aside from the actual trip to Los Angeles, none of it feels like it’s operating at stakes higher than your average episode of teen-friendly TV. It seems smart to reserve further judgement until the film is finished, but one hopes that Johnson finds the distance he needs to whittle his passion project down to its core. Under the miasma of autobiography (which covers everything from young Pat’s car troubles to the loss of his virginity), it seems like within ‘77 there’s an earnest love letter, somehow both audience-friendly and totally formally experimental, to the birth of mass cinemania, the moment when sci-fi nerds in small towns around the world found the franchises that would make their obsessions seem more normal, that would make all these alien(ated) teenagers feel connected to one another through film. Johnson just needs to find it. 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Body: Those who have spent the last three or four years following the parallel production nightmares of Fanboys and 5-25-77 would be excused for assuming that all films involving teenagers and early cuts of Star Wars films are cursed. The former, which Kevin reviewed at Comic-Con, should have been the nerd toast of summer 2007, but reshoots, reedits and a scuffle with the Weinsteins over the film’s pesky downer undercurrent mandated a number of shuffles down the calendar; it’s now tentatively scheduled to hit theaters at the end of next month. Geek excitement for 5-25-77 hit fever pitch when the film’s first trailer hit the web way back in January 2006 (and subsequently the won Golden Trailer for the best promo for a film that wasn’t actually released — yes, such an award exists). A rough cut screening (apparently, very rough) followed a year and a half later, and a year and a half after that, Patrick Read Johnson’s long MIA autobiographical epic, now simply called ‘77, had its official World Premiere this weekend at the Hamptons Film Festival, where it won a Heineken-sponsored indie auteur award. But don’t get too excited yet — it’s still not finished. In his introduction to ‘77’s Saturday afternoon screening in the Hamptons, Johnson thanked programmer David Nugent for requesting to show the film, despite the fact that it is “still in post-production.” Johnson and crew reportedly got an influx of polishing cash earlier this year, and let’s just say we hope that polish is still in the process of being applied. In its current state, ‘77 is a good 35 minutes too long, its special effects alternate between inspired and straight dodgy, the performances are brutally uneven, it ends three or four times and it’s so drowned in source cue music that a fair deal of the dialogue is simply unintelligible. It’s a mess. But it’s kind of a fascinating mess. Based on the filmmaker’s actual coming-of-age (which he discusses at length in this 2001 interview, when ‘77 was in the planning stages), John Francis Daley (the kid from Freaks and Geeks who kind of looks like Jon Heder, except attractive) stars as Pat, a sci-fi nerd in a teeny tiny Illinois town who, after having his world fundamentally changed by the appearance of the Star Baby at the end of 2001, goads his friends and siblings into starring in gonzo backyard sequels to that film, and Jaws (in a fake blood-filled swimming pool) and Planet of the Apes. Pat is deeply in love with cinema and maybe even talented, but without money for film school or access to a local film industry, he’s at an impasse. He tells his girlfriend Linda that he’s waiting for “alien relatives” to rescue him from rural Illinois and take him “back to a distant star system [called] Hollywood.” He gets his close encounter when his mother (Colleen Camp, in a part that Carrie Fisher reportedly turned down) arranges for him to fly out to Hollywood to meet with Herb Lightman, a failed filmmaker-turned-editor of American Cinematographer magazine. In LA for what seems like a day, under the wing of the cynical but still movie-obsessed Lightman (Austin Pendleton, in the film’s one truly solid performance), Pat stumbles into the prop shop for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, meets Steven Spielberg and special effects wizard Douglas Trumbell, and ends up seeing an early cut of the yet-to-be released Star Wars. It’s this last experience that really marks our young hero, and though the actor who plays George Lucas is mostly heard and not seen, Pat seems to find a kinship with the older filmmaker based on making fantasies real via the scrappiest means necessary (”Don’t tell anyone,” Lucas says. “We’re making this whole movie out of stuff you could find in your garage.”) Pat then goes back to his hometown and evangelizes on behalf of the upcoming space epic, via non-stop chatter and a t-shirt emblazoned with the film’s release date, 5-25-77. Until the film’s final half-hour, where it almost feels like Johnson is so exhausted that he gives up on trying to be inventive (or maybe he just ran out of editing time) ‘77 is refreshingly free of exposition, and sometimes startlingly structurally complex. Pat’s “real” life, the movies he makes, the movies he sees, his daydreams and his nightmares are woven together almost seamlessly, with the confidence that the ideal viewer will have the cinema vocabulary to get it. And though the films referenced are by now mostly classics, there’s a strain of cinephilic discourse running throughout that can actually be fairly high-minded, and yet it’s self-reflexive enough that nothing is ever purely pretentious. It was obvious, in the cut we were shown, where the effects are finished and where they aren’t; the finished stuff looks great, the unfinished stuff looks REALLY unfinished. But on the whole. the level of ambition — and the fact that Johnson is more often than not actually able to pull off what he’s trying to do — is enough to cover for the fact that most of the performances are amateurish. What it can’t cover for is the narrative’s spraw. There’s enough plot here for several episodes of CW-quality drama, and aside from the actual trip to Los Angeles, none of it feels like it’s operating at stakes higher than your average episode of teen-friendly TV. It seems smart to reserve further judgement until the film is finished, but one hopes that Johnson finds the distance he needs to whittle his passion project down to its core. Under the miasma of autobiography (which covers everything from young Pat’s car troubles to the loss of his virginity), it seems like within ‘77 there’s an earnest love letter, somehow both audience-friendly and totally formally experimental, to the birth of mass cinemania, the moment when sci-fi nerds in small towns around the world found the franchises that would make their obsessions seem more normal, that would make all these alien(ated) teenagers feel connected to one another through film. Johnson just needs to find it. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:00:48 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com10/20/2008 1:00:48 PMThose who have spent the last three or four years following the parallel production nightmares of Fanboys and 5-25-77 would be excused for assuming that all films involving teenagers and early cuts of Star Wars films are cursed. The former, which Kevin reviewed at Comic-Con, should have been the nerd toast of summer 2007, but reshoots, reedits and a scuffle with the Weinsteins over the film’s pesky downer undercurrent mandated a number of shuffles down the calendar; it’s now tentatively scheduled to hit theaters at the end of next month. Geek excitement for 5-25-77 hit fever pitch when the film’s first trailer hit the web way back in January 2006 (and subsequently the won Golden Trailer for the best promo for a film that wasn’t actually released — yes, such an award exists). A rough cut screening (apparently, very rough) followed a year and a half later, and a year and a half after that, Patrick Read Johnson’s long MIA autobiographical epic, now simply called ‘77, had its official World Premiere this weekend at the Hamptons Film Festival, where it won a Heineken-sponsored indie auteur award. But don’t get too excited yet — it’s still not finished. In his introduction to ‘77’s Saturday afternoon screening in the Hamptons, Johnson thanked programmer David Nugent for requesting to show the film, despite the fact that it is “still in post-production.” Johnson and crew reportedly got an influx of polishing cash earlier this year, and let’s just say we hope that polish is still in the process of being applied. In its current state, ‘77 is a good 35 minutes too long, its special effects alternate between inspired and straight dodgy, the performances are brutally uneven, it ends three or four times and it’s so drowned in source cue music that a fair deal of the dialogue is simply unintelligible. It’s a mess. But it’s kind of a fascinating mess. Based on the filmmaker’s actual coming-of-age (which he discusses at length in this 2001 interview, when ‘77 was in the planning stages), John Francis Daley (the kid from Freaks and Geeks who kind of looks like Jon Heder, except attractive) stars as Pat, a sci-fi nerd in a teeny tiny Illinois town who, after having his world fundamentally changed by the appearance of the Star Baby at the end of 2001, goads his friends and siblings into starring in gonzo backyard sequels to that film, and Jaws (in a fake blood-filled swimming pool) and Planet of the Apes. Pat is deeply in love with cinema and maybe even talented, but without money for film school or access to a local film industry, he’s at an impasse. He tells his girlfriend Linda that he’s waiting for “alien relatives” to rescue him from rural Illinois and take him “back to a distant star system [called] Hollywood.” He gets his close encounter when his mother (Colleen Camp, in a part that Carrie Fisher reportedly turned down) arranges for him to fly out to Hollywood to meet with Herb Lightman, a failed filmmaker-turned-editor of American Cinematographer magazine. In LA for what seems like a day, under the wing of the cynical but still movie-obsessed Lightman (Austin Pendleton, in the film’s one truly solid performance), Pat stumbles into the prop shop for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, meets Steven Spielberg and special effects wizard Douglas Trumbell, and ends up seeing an early cut of the yet-to-be released Star Wars. It’s this last experience that really marks our young hero, and though the actor who plays George Lucas is mostly heard and not seen, Pat seems to find a kinship with the older filmmaker based on making fantasies real via the scrappiest means necessary (”Don’t tell anyone,” Lucas says. “We’re making this whole movie out of stuff you could find in your garage.”) Pat then goes back to his hometown and evangelizes on behalf of the upcoming space epic, via non-stop chatter and a t-shirt emblazoned with the film’s release date, 5-25-77. Until the film’s final half-hour, where it almost feels like Johnson is so exhausted that he gives up on trying to be inventive (or maybe he just ran out of editing time) ‘77 is refreshingly free of exposition, and sometimes startlingly structurally complex. Pat’s “real” life, the movies he makes, the movies he sees, his daydreams and his nightmares are woven together almost seamlessly, with the confidence that the ideal viewer will have the cinema vocabulary to get it. And though the films referenced are by now mostly classics, there’s a strain of cinephilic discourse running throughout that can actually be fairly high-minded, and yet it’s self-reflexive enough that nothing is ever purely pretentious. It was obvious, in the cut we were shown, where the effects are finished and where they aren’t; the finished stuff looks great, the unfinished stuff looks REALLY unfinished. But on the whole. the level of ambition — and the fact that Johnson is more often than not actually able to pull off what he’s trying to do — is enough to cover for the fact that most of the performances are amateurish. What it can’t cover for is the narrative’s spraw. There’s enough plot here for several episodes of CW-quality drama, and aside from the actual trip to Los Angeles, none of it feels like it’s operating at stakes higher than your average episode of teen-friendly TV. It seems smart to reserve further judgement until the film is finished, but one hopes that Johnson finds the distance he needs to whittle his passion project down to its core. Under the miasma of autobiography (which covers everything from young Pat’s car troubles to the loss of his virginity), it seems like within ‘77 there’s an earnest love letter, somehow both audience-friendly and totally formally experimental, to the birth of mass cinemania, the moment when sci-fi nerds in small towns around the world found the franchises that would make their obsessions seem more normal, that would make all these alien(ated) teenagers feel connected to one another through film. Johnson just needs to find it. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/groups/Comic_Con/Movies_screening_at_Comic_Con_2008/611/31426/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: lopezdash
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Post Date: 6/19/2008 2:26:29 PM
Body: Although the final schedule is still not yet determined, IESB has a list of what to expect from each studio. Warner Bros. will be featuring RocknRolla, Ninja Assassin, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Terminator: Salvation, Watchmen and Friday the 13th. Christian Bale, Zack Snyder and the cast of Watchmen, Jared Padalecki are rumored. Paramount will have a Tropic Thunder screening. We have heard there might be something for G.I. Joe and Star Trek. No guests rumored. The Weinstein Company will showcase Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno and possibly premiere the highly anticipated film from Kyle Newman, Fanboys. Kevin Smith, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Kyle Newman and Jaime King are rumored. Lionsgate will only focus their attention on Frank Miller's The Spirit and maybe show a little from their upcoming reboot Punisher: War Zone. Frank Miller, Jaime King, Eva Mendes, Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson are rumored. 20th Century Fox will have a little something from the City of Ember, Mirrors and the Day the Earth Stood Still. No word if X-Men Origins: Wolverine will have any presence. Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, Amy Smart and Alexandre Aja rumored. Sony/Screen Gems will have Quarantine, Underworld 3: the Rise of the Lycans and we have been hearing rumors about a little something from the Quantum of Solace. Rhona Mitra, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen, Jennifer Carpenter, Chris Brown, Jay Hernandez rumored. Universal will have Death Race. There is a good possibility of having Land of the Lost and Rob Cohen's The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Jason Statham, Paul W.S. Anderson, Rob Cohen, Brendan Fraser, Danny McBride, Will Ferrell rumored. Summit will be bringing the cast of Twilight for a panel and autograph signing. Catherine Hardwicke, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Cam Gigandet, Rachelle LaFevre, Edi Gathegi, Taylor Lautner and author Stephenie Meyer confirmed. On the TV front NBC will be showcasing Heroes and Fear Itself. Plus, we are hearing Fox will be showing of a bit of J.J. Abrams’ Fringe. Complete cast of Heroes rumored. Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and J.J. Abrams rumored.
]]>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:26:29 GMTlopezdashComic-Con6/19/2008 2:26:29 PMAlthough the final schedule is still not yet determined, IESB has a list of what to expect from each studio. Warner Bros. will be featuring RocknRolla, Ninja Assassin, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Terminator: Salvation, Watchmen and Friday the 13th. Christian Bale, Zack Snyder and the cast of Watchmen, Jared Padalecki are rumored. Paramount will have a Tropic Thunder screening. We have heard there might be something for G.I. Joe and Star Trek. No guests rumored. The Weinstein Company will showcase Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno and possibly premiere the highly anticipated film from Kyle Newman, Fanboys. Kevin Smith, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Kyle Newman and Jaime King are rumored. Lionsgate will only focus their attention on Frank Miller's The Spirit and maybe show a little from their upcoming reboot Punisher: War Zone. Frank Miller, Jaime King, Eva Mendes, Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson are rumored. 20th Century Fox will have a little something from the City of Ember, Mirrors and the Day the Earth Stood Still. No word if X-Men Origins: Wolverine will have any presence. Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, Amy Smart and Alexandre Aja rumored. Sony/Screen Gems will have Quarantine, Underworld 3: the Rise of the Lycans and we have been hearing rumors about a little something from the Quantum of Solace. Rhona Mitra, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen, Jennifer Carpenter, Chris Brown, Jay Hernandez rumored. Universal will have Death Race. There is a good possibility of having Land of the Lost and Rob Cohen's The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Jason Statham, Paul W.S. Anderson, Rob Cohen, Brendan Fraser, Danny McBride, Will Ferrell rumored. Summit will be bringing the cast of Twilight for a panel and autograph signing. Catherine Hardwicke, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Cam Gigandet, Rachelle LaFevre, Edi Gathegi, Taylor Lautner and author Stephenie Meyer confirmed. On the TV front NBC will be showcasing Heroes and Fear Itself. Plus, we are hearing Fox will be showing of a bit of J.J. Abrams&rsquo; Fringe. Complete cast of Heroes rumored. Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and J.J. Abrams rumored. http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/3/26/26619.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 3/26/2008 12:01:04 PM
Body: Two of the biggest stories populating the movie blogs this week have to do with George Lucas. Well, the Fanboys controversy has less to do with the Star Wars director, but obviously he’s connected in some way. The other story has to do with Lucas’ statement that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is (gasp) just a movie. Here is the quote, from USA Today, that’s putting fear into the minds of movie geeks throughout the galaxy: “When you do a movie like this, a sequel that’s very, very anticipated, people anticipate ultimately that it’s going to be the Second Coming,” Lucas says. “And it’s not. It’s just a movie. Just like the other movies. You probably have fond memories of the other movies. But if you went back and looked at them, they might not hold up the same way your memory holds up.” Yes, he goes on to reference the reception of The Phantom Menace, which is obviously fair, but also a bit unbalanced. Certainly our disappointment with the Star Wars prequels had enough to do with their stand-alone quality (or lack thereof), in addition to but separate from them coming with such high expectations. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:01:04 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com3/26/2008 12:01:04 PMTwo of the biggest stories populating the movie blogs this week have to do with George Lucas. Well, the Fanboys controversy has less to do with the Star Wars director, but obviously he’s connected in some way. The other story has to do with Lucas’ statement that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is (gasp) just a movie. Here is the quote, from USA Today, that’s putting fear into the minds of movie geeks throughout the galaxy: “When you do a movie like this, a sequel that’s very, very anticipated, people anticipate ultimately that it’s going to be the Second Coming,” Lucas says. “And it’s not. It’s just a movie. Just like the other movies. You probably have fond memories of the other movies. But if you went back and looked at them, they might not hold up the same way your memory holds up.” Yes, he goes on to reference the reception of The Phantom Menace, which is obviously fair, but also a bit unbalanced. Certainly our disappointment with the Star Wars prequels had enough to do with their stand-alone quality (or lack thereof), in addition to but separate from them coming with such high expectations. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/3/25/26582.aspx Post By: Karina
Post To: Karina on SpoutBlog
Post Date: 3/25/2008 9:01:14 AM
Body: Get out your violins: Hollywood is depressed! Seems that an expected post-WGA strike production boom hasn’t happened, due to some mix of the shitty economy and impending SAG-strike anxiety. An anonymous lawyer quoted in this story describes the situation thusly: “There’s a huge amount of crankiness right now, and everybody — particularly agents — feels like they’re getting screwed.” The Weinstein Company, acquiescing to protests from Star Wars nerds, has announced they’ll release both the director’s version of Fanboys (which includes a subplot about cancer), and the studio’s cancer-free cut on DVD. The nerds have yet to release a statement, but Fanboys producer Keith Mann is not pleased. “This is more about avoiding picket lines at [Weinstein’s Superhero Movie, which opens this weekend] than it was about making a decision about the release of our movie,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. Killer Films and Moxie Films are joining forces to spin a feature out of Anthony DePalma’s book, The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert Matthews of the New York Times. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina
]]>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:01:14 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog3/25/2008 9:01:14 AM Get out your violins: Hollywood is depressed! Seems that an expected post-WGA strike production boom hasn’t happened, due to some mix of the shitty economy and impending SAG-strike anxiety. An anonymous lawyer quoted in this story describes the situation thusly: “There’s a huge amount of crankiness right now, and everybody — particularly agents — feels like they’re getting screwed.” The Weinstein Company, acquiescing to protests from Star Wars nerds, has announced they’ll release both the director’s version of Fanboys (which includes a subplot about cancer), and the studio’s cancer-free cut on DVD. The nerds have yet to release a statement, but Fanboys producer Keith Mann is not pleased. “This is more about avoiding picket lines at [Weinstein’s Superhero Movie, which opens this weekend] than it was about making a decision about the release of our movie,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. Killer Films and Moxie Films are joining forces to spin a feature out of Anthony DePalma’s book, The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert Matthews of the New York Times. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/3/25/26581.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
Post To: SpoutBlog on spout.com
Post Date: 3/25/2008 9:01:04 AM
Body: Get out your violins: Hollywood is depressed! Seems that an expected post-WGA strike production boom hasn’t happened, due to some mix of the shitty economy and impending SAG-strike anxiety. An anonymous lawyer quoted in this story describes the situation thusly: “There’s a huge amount of crankiness right now, and everybody — particularly agents — feels like they’re getting screwed.” The Weinstein Company, acquiescing to protests from Star Wars nerds, has announced they’ll release both the director’s version of Fanboys (which includes a subplot about cancer), and the studio’s cancer-free cut on DVD. The nerds have yet to release a statement, but Fanboys producer Keith Mann is not pleased. “This is more about avoiding picket lines at [Weinstein’s Superhero Movie, which opens this weekend] than it was about making a decision about the release of our movie,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. Killer Films and Moxie Films are joining forces to spin a feature out of Anthony DePalma’s book, The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert Matthews of the New York Times. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:01:04 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com3/25/2008 9:01:04 AM Get out your violins: Hollywood is depressed! Seems that an expected post-WGA strike production boom hasn’t happened, due to some mix of the shitty economy and impending SAG-strike anxiety. An anonymous lawyer quoted in this story describes the situation thusly: “There’s a huge amount of crankiness right now, and everybody — particularly agents — feels like they’re getting screwed.” The Weinstein Company, acquiescing to protests from Star Wars nerds, has announced they’ll release both the director’s version of Fanboys (which includes a subplot about cancer), and the studio’s cancer-free cut on DVD. The nerds have yet to release a statement, but Fanboys producer Keith Mann is not pleased. “This is more about avoiding picket lines at [Weinstein’s Superhero Movie, which opens this weekend] than it was about making a decision about the release of our movie,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. Killer Films and Moxie Films are joining forces to spin a feature out of Anthony DePalma’s book, The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert Matthews of the New York Times. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/3/20/26439.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
Post To: SpoutBlog on spout.com
Post Date: 3/20/2008 3:00:45 PM
Body: If I had a nickel for every time I heard a movie fan, blogger, filmmaker or anyone else complain about Harvey Weinstein, I’d be as rich as George Lucas. And speaking of Lucas’ money, the Star Wars creator ought to take some of his coin and throw it at ol’ “Harvey Scissorhands” — to purchase Fanboys, that is. Turns out Weinstein is once again guilty of taking a film into his own “hands”, as it were, according to Wired’s Underwire Blog. This time it’s with Kyle Newman’s Fanboys, which tells the story of some uber Star Wars fans who attempt to see The Phantom Menace before it’s official release date, because one of them is terminally ill with cancer and might not be around by then. Apparently, in the latest edit the boy’s illness is played down (notice how it isn’t mentioned in the trailer above either) and the overall tone of the film is more mocking towards Star Wars fans in general. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:00:45 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com3/20/2008 3:00:45 PM If I had a nickel for every time I heard a movie fan, blogger, filmmaker or anyone else complain about Harvey Weinstein, I’d be as rich as George Lucas. And speaking of Lucas’ money, the Star Wars creator ought to take some of his coin and throw it at ol’ “Harvey Scissorhands” — to purchase Fanboys, that is. Turns out Weinstein is once again guilty of taking a film into his own “hands”, as it were, according to Wired’s Underwire Blog. This time it’s with Kyle Newman’s Fanboys, which tells the story of some uber Star Wars fans who attempt to see The Phantom Menace before it’s official release date, because one of them is terminally ill with cancer and might not be around by then. Apparently, in the latest edit the boy’s illness is played down (notice how it isn’t mentioned in the trailer above either) and the overall tone of the film is more mocking towards Star Wars fans in general. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/friendship/MemberTagFilms.aspxfriendship
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