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Death Comes For Shrek: The Musical
4:27AM Richard Rushfield | Some goodbyes go on for a very long time. But the day does come when the train pulls out of the station. Live singing Shrek, memory-erased Eliza Dushku and Michael Jackson, it’s time to take your seats. More »
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Shrek 4 Audio Booth Secrets Are The First Casualties Of Hollywood’s War On Twitter
3:11AM Richard Rushfield | Last week, we reported that Hollywood has begun taking steps to wipe out the first outbreak of free-speech showbiz has seen since the Hays Code, eradicating the threat of stars communicating directly and banally to the public via Twitter. More »
MSNBC Psychics Attribute Record Profits To Next ‘Shrek’ Film
8:10AM STV | MSNBC reports today that based on adjusted ticket prices, the record-breaking summer Hollywood just enjoyed at the box office in fact hosted 5 percent fewer moviegoers than 2007. Even The Dark Knight was subject to a particularly troubling reality check, with the as-yet-unproduced Shrek 4 surpassing its unprecedented money-making prowess. Now that is phenomenal. Next up: Watch Iron Man 3 shatter Harry Potter’s impossible dream in 2009. [MSNBC] More »
Trade Roundup: Rupert Murdoch Not Going To Let The Strike Ruin His Xmas Party Plans
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | · Tom Cruise’s career as a studio mogul is off to an inauspicious start, as poor box office results for Lions for Lambs suggest he hasn’t quite cultivated the hitmaking instincts MGM believed he had when they handed him United Artists. Next up: Tom tries to kill Hitler! [Variety] · Cameron Diaz’s Christmas wish is granted as Shrek the Halls puts up “socko” (translation: huge) Nielsens Wednesday night, ensuring that future generations of children will be spending the holidays with their favourite Santa-ogre. [Variety] More »
Studios Already Shredding Hundred Dollar Bills For Use As “Summer Of Prosperity” Parade Confetti
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | We’re nothing if not suckers for a nice feel-good story, especially when it’s accompanied by a fun chart where Spider-Man scales a pillar representing the obscene amounts of money some of our favourite movie studios are making: With four different films crossing the $US300 million mark, Hollywood is enjoying its Best Summer Ever, a period of prosperity that is erasing all memory of that nasty, alleged “Slump” of 2005, when executives were forced to answer all kinds of rude questions about why their shitty product wasn’t selling. During this new Golden Age of Very Profitable Threequels, they instead get to crow about how smart they are in the pages of Variety: “It’s proved that when you offer people great stories that also deliver state-of-the-art effects and stunts, they want to go out and experience it together. It becomes an event,” said DreamWorks CEO/co-chair Stacey Snider, whose studio and Paramount turned out “Transformers.” More »
The Hunt For America’s Best Singing Ogre Begins
6:41AM Defamer Hollywood | Clear your calendars, underemployed, musical-loving actors of Los Angeles, for you’ve been officially notified that the cattle-call that could deliver you the kind of Broadway superstardom you’ve always dreamed of is at hand. Next Wednesday, thousands upon thousands of singing-ogre hopefuls, their voices coloured with the frustration of scores of commercial callbacks that never came, will descend upon Burbank, trying to demonstrate they can belt out rock lyrics through an impenetrable faux-Scottish accent. Please note that the producers have taken special care to invite performers “of all cultural backgrounds” to audition for both leading roles – the words “urban edge,” “hip hop,” and “R&B” are just fun little lawyer-approved suggestions about what they’re looking for in their perfect Donkey. Open Call Audition in Los Angeles Jume 20th [iwanttobeshrek.com] More »
‘Shrek’ Is Furthering The Tranny Agenda, Says Conservative Blog
8:03AM Defamer Hollywood | The Illinois Review blog (the “crossroads of the conservative community”) posted a review of Shrek the Third that, despite acknowledging a positive, “pro-life” ending, still gave it a thumbs down. Their reasoning: They felt that the mannish character of Doris the Ugly Stepsister, voiced by CNN’s trusted talk icon Larry King, is the byproduct of the Hollywood propaganda machine aimed at luring America’s youth towards the evils of transgenderism: Shrek’s not the problem. It’s the awkward inclusion of a transvestite and the uselessness of the character himself (herself?) in the story that is troubling. Right in the midst of a warm “traditional family” setting, the film writers place a man dressed as a woman in with Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White (the good gals). The crossdressing character simply doesn’t make sense, except as a ploy to desensitize children and parents to transgenders. More »
‘Pirates’ Sets Records, Sort Of, Even Though Records Are Silly And Who’s Counting Anyway?
6:32AM Defamer Hollywood | As you settle back into your ergonomic seat after a well-deserved long weekend, contemplating how a Tuesday morning could feel more hopeless than any Monday ever did, consider stirring some box office numbers into your coffee instead of that heaping teaspoon of rat poison. You’ll thank us if you do. 1. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End – $US115 million Per God and Disney’s projections, audiences gobbled up the final installment to summer 2007’s Trilogy of Substandard Threequels to Movie Franchises That Have Long Since Squandered Their Creative Capital, netting Captain Jack Sparrow and the gang a (Four-Day) Memorial Weekend box office record to call their own. Even so, Buena Vista VP Chris LeRoy doesn’t “like to put too much emphasis on what the opening weekend means,” particularly because this opening weekend means his movie was outperformed by Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, and even its own predecessor, Dead Man’s Chest. Still, interest in the adventures of an eyeliner-addicted pirate still grappling with his sexuality well into middle-age appears to be showing no signs of waning, and so a fourth installment, Pirates of the Caribbean: Ghosts of Jack Sparrow’s Pre-Sellout Career, could very well sail into cineplexes by summer 2008. More »
