Amy Winehouse returned to performing live for the first time in a while after a long hiatus struggling with her personal life. She’s looking very happy in this video, looking much better and having fun again. Great to see she’s improving her life. Keep it up Amy. Go back to the studio again to record a new album, please! This is a great performance here and Amy sung really good, better than I ever heard of her before. Come back to the music business Amy, I miss you as we all do!
Kev
Roisin Murphy is above, Lady Gaga below. Look at the sunglasses. Notice the similarities? Almost an exact close match. Roisin is an electronica pop star from Ireland. She says she’s been ripped off by Lady Gaga.
More on it here:
I’m actually with Roisin that Lady Gaga ripped her off. Just another reason to hate Lady Gaga.
Kev
The new horror film, “Shutter Island” that was directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo Dicaprio has been pushed back to a later date. It was originally scheduled for releas Oct. 2nd, but Paramount pushed it for Feb. 19th of 2010. The studio did this ’cause they were having economic problems.
Variety Reports:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007586.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
It’s a good move because with the Michael Jackson, “This is It” movie being released that month, MJ will destroy all movies released in Oct. for box offices anyways.
I actually want to see “Shutter Island”, it looks good.
Kev
Megan Fox will host the first new episode of SNL’s Season Premiere on Sept. 26th.
Will I tune in? I hate SNL now, but I’ll tune in just for her alone.
More on it here:
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/08/21/megan-fox-saturday-night-live-premiere-host/
Kev
On August 25th, which is this coming Tuesday will mark the 70th Anniversary of Victor Fleming’s famous movie, “The Wizard of Oz” based on the children’s novel by, L. Frank Baum.
It is one of the greatest family films ever made, in my opinion, I’ve always loved it.
Kev
Many people complain about hollywood remakes. I agree that some of them can be really bad and stupid, but now now people, not all hollywood remakes are bad, there are actually some very good ones out there. I’ve always said that remakes don’t really bother me at all ’cause it’s typical that hollywood wants an updated version of an older movie with today’s technology that we didn’t have back in those days.
Here are 10 remakes that I can think of that are really good.
Kev
Warner Bros. studios has closed a deal to remake the 1981 fantasy film, “Excalibur” which tells the story of the famous King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The original is where movie stars like Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart and Gabriel Byrne were first known as actors.
Bryan Singer, is set to produce the new version of “Excalibur”, and he also could possibly direct the film as well. Singer is also set to direct the remake of “Battlestar Galactica”. The article also says that Bryan Singer’s next directed film will be titled, “Jack the Giant Killer”.
Variety Reports:
http://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2009/08/singer-stick-sword-into-excalibur-redo.html
Hmmmmmm…well looks like this will be a return for Patrick Stewart for the big screen ’cause I can definitely see him reprising his awesome role of King Leondegrance. Maybe Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne will also rejoin?
“Excalibur” was a really great movie though, the original.
They’re gonna bring back Patrick Stewart for the remake, I’ll betcha. It’ll be nice to see Patrick back on the big screen, he hasn’t been on the big screen since “X-Men 3: The Last Stand” released back in 2006. Over the years of his hiatus from Hollywood, he’s been doing Broadway theatre plays.
Kev
As expected, a lot of movie fans are shitting on this movie. Some fans are saying this movie looks cheesy, cartoonish, too much CGI, etc. blah blah blah…
Well, yeah, of course it has to be full of CGI and of course it’s supposed to look a bit cartoonish. It’s a sci fi adventure. How do you supposed to make all that stuff look realistic? YOU CAN’T.
The story of Avatar reminds me of the works of other sci fi greats such as Isaac Asimov and L. Ron Hubbard.
To those who think the film looks cheesy or silly, like a CGI fest, it gets me thinking you’re not that big on sci-fi that much. It’s like, you don’t know much about the sci fi genre. Well, I love the sci fi genre, it’s one of my favorite genres to pay attention to, other than action and horror.
Believe it or not, Jimmy Cameron has been working on this film since 1995. 1995 was the year when he first wrote the script. It took him years to make this movie as it was very difficult and hard work to mix live action and CGI both together.
Although, Jimmy wrote the script to “Avatar” in the early 90’s, he waited until later until the right technology was invented for the right fit and look of this film. Now the right technology finally came out, he figured it was time to get it done.
It took 14 years for Jimmy to make this film, just like it took many years for Tarantino to make “Inglorious Basterds”.
We’re all entitled to our own opinions when it comes to movies, but show Jimmy some respect after years of long and hard work making this film. Don’t bash the film before seeing the movie, it’s silly, see it first, and then make your opinion.
I think the film looks wonderful. Jimmy has been experimenting with live action and CGI for a long time…movies like “The Abyss” and “Terminator 2: Judgement Day”.
In sci fi stories, they are supposed to be weird and cheesy. Like in “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” for example. Many sci fi stories and films are cheesy and goofy, but you know what? It’s just a fictional story! I find sci fi to be the most creative writing and original storytelling than any other genre out there.
Jimmy Cameron’s “Avatar” is an original story that he created. It’s not a remake, not an adaptation of a novel and it’s not even a sequel of another movie. It’s completely original. People complain about those things. So Cameron, finally brings us “Avatar” after 14 years in the making, yet people are still complaining about Hollywood. What gives, hypocrites?
I don’t know what movie fans want anymore.
I personally think, the only reason people are shitting on “Avatar” ’cause Jimmy is the director of that overrated film, “Titanic”. If Jimmy never made “Titanic”, I’m sure everybody would treat “Avatar” with respect.
Kev
So far, here’s my Ipod playlist. It’s pretty short for now, but I plan on adding and buying more songs from Itunes in the future. Plus, I’ll be adding certain favorite songs from my CD collection.
My Ipod playlist so far:
I’ll be adding much more songs to this thing all the time. It won’t just be national music, there’ll be a mix of local and unsigned bands as well.
Not a bad playlist so far.
Kev
After hearing about James Cameron’s new sci fi adventure flick “Avatar” for years now, I wasn’t so sure about it at first. Now the trailer is here, the film looks fantastic. I will definitely see this in Dec. and now I’m sold to this movie. This movie looks very impressive. Can’t wait to see it now!
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/
Kev
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