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Here are some pictures of the London “Alice in Wonderland” premiere. From top to bottom-Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter with Tim Burton and Avril Lavigne.
The geek world is abuzz today after news that Disney has purchased Marvel Entertainment, Inc., meaning that Spider-Man, Thor, Iron Man and many, many more are now more or less owned by Disney. In a sense.
The news is big but don’t expect to see Spider-Man having a cross-over with Wall-E anytime soon (though that might be kind of cool…). Disney has said that it doesn’t plan on tinkering with current movies or comics. What you’ll most likely see is more Marvel merchandising, more Marvel on Disney channels and, in the future, Marvel movies distributed by Disney. Also, new Marvel characters will be produced by the house built by Mickey. But still, I doubt they’ll dumb it down.
Marvel has been turning on the hits for years now, most notably Spider-Man. Perhaps one of the most exciting ideas about this purchase is that Pixar has said it would like to create a few movies based on Marvel characters. Personally, I think that would be a genius idea.
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The Yellow Submarine
Okay Hollywood, enough is enough. We understand that filming remakes it easy and almost always profitable but some things just need to be left alone.
Disney and Robert Zemeckis are attempting to remake The Yellow Submarine, the animated classic about The Beatles in a trippy world filled with crazy animated monsters and Blue Meanies. While not a bona fide masterpiece, the film is one of the biggest cult classics of all time. It’s also a perfect example of a time and a place in pop culture history. I’m skeptical to say the least.
The studio is planning to make the film into a big, profitable production. They want merchandise, 3D presentations, Broadway shows. And Zemeckis, who recently directed Beowulf and The Polar Express, wants to film the movie in CG, meaning all characters would look creepy and soulless. No word on the thoughts of Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr.
I think I speak for everyone when I say siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh.
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Miley Cyrus on pole
As I reported already, Miley Cyrus’ Teen Choice Awards stripper pole dance was inappropriate. I don’t mean to sound like a prude adult, but a 16 yr. old mega star shouldn’t set an example like this for elementary age kids. As we know, she is looked up to by younger kids. Half of her fans are probably still in training pants! I can just see little kids trying to dance around objects that resemble a pole. “Mommy look at me! I’m like Miley now!”
‘Amateur’ and ‘immature’ she is. I never want to come down on Miley because she is young, and young can mean ‘dumb’. Young people make mistakes and I can’t take this too, too seriously.
This performance that Miley put together for the 2009 Teen Choice Awards was apparently her BIG idea. Who is letting a 16 yr old have reign over a nationally syndicated teenage awards show? Where are the parents? Where are the adults?
Before the show, Miley told MTV news about what her performance means as an “artist”. Miley said she ‘wanted the whole thing to be a spoof on growing up in Tennessee’, adding that “it’s about my roots.”
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Raven
The lovely Raven Symone! Did she? Didn’t She? Disney kids are growing up so quick! Raven was great in Dr. Doolittle with Eddie Murphy. I was so surprised to learn that Ms. Symone might now be a first time mother.
Rumors are flying around the web (most notably here) that Raven gave birth to this little bundle of joy:
Raven's Baby
Awwww, she’s pretty cute huh? No one is officially saying anything but I’m sure Raven will talk about her new child whenever she’s ready. She’s a full-grown adult capable of making her own decisions and might want to wait before opening up about her personal life. Regardless, this news should be taken with a little grain of salt.
Apparently, the father is a Mr. Jussie Smollet, who I know absolutely nothing about. Word is that the couple is no longer together, which may be one reason for Raven’s decision to keep things private. Whatever their status is, they sure did make a cute baby.
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3 men and a random baby
The Warner Bros. comedy “The Hangover” took in another $33.4 million to remain the top box-office draw for a second-straight weekend, according to studio estimates.
This brings it’s total to $105.4 million after 10 days in theaters making it the summer’s first movie to finish at No. 1 for two weekends in a row.
Disney’s latest hit, the action comedy “Up,” came in a close second again with $30.5 million bringing it’s total gross to $187.2 million.
Debuting at No. 3 with $25 million was Sony’s action remake “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.”The thriller stars Denzel Washington as a dispatcher going toe to toe with John Travolta, a criminal mastermind of a subway hijacking.
Year One and The Proposal will put an end to all this repeat business, but it is slightly saddening to see Eddie Murphy’s “Imagine That” only bring in $5.7 million with a 6th place finish. Pluto Nash, Norbit, and now this major flop,I think it’s time for Eddie to go back to raunchy adult comedy. Delirious or Raw anyone?
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Nick Jonas or “Mr. President” his self proclaimed nickname, hit his Twitter up to congratulate the class of 2009.
“I’m happy to announce I have graduated! Class of 09! Congrats to everyone else who has also graduated this year! -Mr. President (Nick)”
Congratulations to Nick for being a 16 year old high school graduate, a multimillionaire in a world reknown pop group and retaining his chastity while rekindling your romance with Miley Cyrus.
Nick Jonas: a manchild of true integrity, self control, and superior wisdom. A word of advice Nick, never take nudie pics or tape yourself doing anything besides playing music, we can’ have any of these killing your progress. You are the Jonas that I vote most likely to succeed after the age of 21. I’m counting on you soldier.
The Hufington Post reports that Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins will star in “John Carter of Mars,” the adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book series that Andrew Stanton is directing for Disney.
The role of Carter was considered one of the “gets” for a young actor, and Disney has spent months meeting and testing a wide array of talented actors from Jon Hamm to Josh Duhamel during its search. Canadian-born Kitsch, began building buzz with his starring role on NBC’s “Friday Night Lights” then he booked the role of Gambit in “Wolverine.”
You know usually perfection doesn’t turn me on, but this guy was the most visually stimulating part of “Wolverine” even if that Louisiana accent he wore was a little poor. He reminds me of a present day Matt from the television show “7th Heaven”. I’m so ashamed that I watched that show for a year and change but Matt Camden was one hot preacher boy and that family was so zany with their easily solved problems and their raucous family pets.
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Jerry Bruckheimer is hard at work trying to get Pirates of the Caribbean 4 made as soon as possible. Mostly due to the fact that the other “Pirates” films grossed about 38 trillion dollars worldwide. That’s my own estimate. Johnny Depp is returning as Jack Sparrow, Geoffrey Rush, and director Gore Verbinski are also slated to return.
“Disney’s priority is to get Pirates made,” he says. “That’s a great franchise for them and for us too. Beloved, with a great character and Johnny’s really excited about coming back to Captain Jack.”
One can only hope they bring some fresher concepts into the next sequel because there’s only so much the audience can handle of 14 minute scenes of 50 Jack Sparrow clones talking clever gibberish to each other. Perhaps in the next film Sparrow can go on the run with Indiana Jones and they can find the crystal skull which turns out to belong to Walt Disney and along the way Jack Sparrow will find out he has 16 year old son who’s a real hooligan. Mutt Sparrows anyone?
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Mamma mia
Ay Dios Mio. The Jonas Brothers train is pulling forward to the next stop on the most disastrous publicity tour of 2009. After having their show moved to Sunday night, Joe dancing (poorly) to the Beyonce “Single Ladies” song , they have now brought their mother into the mix. The pop band who blazed up the charts and into the hearts of your kid sister are gracing the cover of the new issue of Good Housekeeping. Yikes. In the interview the Jonas mom, Denise, proceeds to speak about their sexual temptations and succeeds to speak on the behalf of her sons’ abstinence. Here’s an excerpt to illustrate my point.
The boys and their mom
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“They are men. They have desires. They have testosterone,” she says. “If they make a mistake, I’m not going to hate them.”
“I don’t think they are above or below being seduced,” she adds. “I would be foolish if I thought that. They are tested and tested, like every one of us. I pray for them.”
As for the purity rings Kevin, 21, Joe, 19, and Nick, 16, all wear, Denise says it was a private decision that’s gotten some unwanted attention.
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