Friday, August 18, 2006

Pepperpot: August 18th, the most 18thiest day ever.

Haley Joel Osment, 18, faces up to six months in jail if convicted on the charges that arose after a car crash in suburban Los Angeles on July 20.

Keeping in the long time Hollywood tradition of former child stars falling from grace, which I've dubbed Pulling a Corey, actor Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense, Forest Gump) is facing charges of drunk driving and possession of pot as a result of a car accident last month. This must be what happens when Mel Gibson is your scout troop leader.

Get these mother#$&%ing critics off my mother#$&%ing plane!

This is the weekend when Snakes on a Plane finally debuts. While we have to wait and see what the results of all the months of internet hype has any affect on box office numbers, critics will have to wait even longer to see the movie. The studio denied critics the opportunity to screen the movie, which means there are no reciews available opening day. Seems like a bonehead move, as I think most critics would have gone with the spirit of the movie and looked at is as a "good" bad movie, and at heart most movie critics are film geeks, like the ones who have been hyping the movie for months.

Wolverine vs. Superman

X-Men 3 was a below-par sequel that did big box office. Superman Returns wasn't the outright blockbuster Warner Brothers Studio hoped for. The Hollywood Reporter has an in-depth analysis of the fates of both films and how they affect the future developments for their respective studios. Bryan Singer, who directed the first two X-Men films (the good ones) and did Superman Returns said he is perfectly willing to do another X-Men film to "fix" the franchise.

BTW The sequel to Hellboy, one of my favourite comic book movies of the past few years, is still up in the air. The first one did decent business but the sequel hasn't been greenlit said the director of the first film Guillermo del Toro, despite a script being written.

And your fun timewaster of the day: The Stephen Colbert "On Notice Board" Generator.

2 comments:

Reel Fanatic said...

It does look for a bonehead movie for SoaP on the surface, but I think it will work .. by announcing so early they weren't gonna bother with critics, it was just a big middle finger that seems to fit the spirit of the whole movie

Jason Carlin said...

I've been doing the transit commute lately, usually on the GO Train, but I am amazed at what people do on the subway system. Last week I rode into work and this woman next to me was eating the most offensive smelling breakfast: smelled like onion bagel and lox. Today I was on the subway and felt something roll against my feet. I assumed it was a pop can or water bottle. Nope: someone's leftover and picked clean cob of corn.

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