This young boy meets his first gay couple at a swinging party. It takes a moment for his soft-eyes to process it, but it finally computes. “So that means you love each other.”
Don’t tell me this doesn’t look good. Brad Bird directs Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner in December’s Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol.
This is the first film I’ve seen branded as a “Tom Cruise / Bad Robot Production.” This opposed to a Cruise/Wagner Production (Wagner being Cruise’s ex-wife and [former?] producing partner Paula Wagner).
The entire IMF has been disavowed. Only Tom Cruise, the guy who made Lost, and a Pixar director can get to the bottom of it.
It’s finally here. After plenty of teaser trailers, we get our first real look at the new Muppet movie, titled simply The Muppets, written by and starring Jason Segel.
In the film, a throwback to the classic Muppets movies of old (The Muppet Movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Great Muppet Caper), Jim Henson Studios in Hollywood is transformed into a dilapidated and abandoned Muppet studio. The gang has disbanded, and it’s up to Jason Segel, Amy Adams, and a new Muppet called Walter to get them back together. /Film has a great, long interview with Segel in which he says of the film’s inception:
“That was something I wanted to do. The idea was born at the Jim Henson Studios. They designed the Sarah Marshall puppets. While I was there I asked if I could see a Kermit or a Miss Piggy and they said, “We don’t have them here anymore. We’ve sold them to Disney. Disney owns all the Kermit’s and Piggy’s.” That literally was the moment the idea was born, was that the Muppets weren’t at the Henson studios anymore. Then it grew from there.
Of course J.J. Abrams has a mystery box that he’s never opened. The writer/director did this TED Talk in 2007, and it’s an interesting peak into how he functions as a storyteller, director, and writer. Worth a watch, especially if you’re a fan or writer. Tangentially Related Posts:What’s It Take To Be Number Four?OMG! The [...]
In case you didn’t find our Disneyland home video informative enough, here’s a video about the making of the original Pirates of the Caribbean ride in the late 60′s, early 70′s.
It’s weird to think that a ride that seemed so revolutionary at the time is still somewhat awe-inspiring with only minor upgrades and changes.
What sort of changes have been made? Well I’m glad you asked…
It was an epic journey, one that would later inspire a long rumination on Walt Disney’s fabled Epcot City and the greatest EP of all time. Now, for the first time ever, released from the Disney Vault, our home video of the trip. Edited by Chelsea Smith. Music by Swimkids. Tangentially Related Posts:Making of [...]
“While you were making the Whole Ten Yards, were you ever worried that it would be too good?”
I had a dream about Bruce Willis, some years back. I had approached him to tell him that I was a big fan. But he began shouting. Telling me to leave him alone. That he didn’t want to be bothered.
“Oh, okay.” I started walking away.
After a moment, he called after me. “Hey, wait. That’s it? You’re just going to leave me alone?”
“Well yeah, I never meant to bother you…”
That was enough for Bruce. He invited me to pal around with him for the better part of a day.
While I may never realize my dream of getting to hang out with Bruce, this Between Two Ferns is a good substitute. Just listening to him babble incoherently about the 80′s is enough to keep me happy until death.
This kid doesn’t like a strange woman taking away his bacon! From a 2009 episode of Wife Swap. If this kid had someone coaching him, they did a hell of a good job. Is it sad that I feel refreshed because this young boy doesn’t cuss or swear during this? Perhaps he was restraining himself, [...]
FIRE SALE The Heated Forest… is on fire. Watch our first original video, made to celebrate our grand reopening and the launch of Astral Answers. Produced by Trees Like Me.
