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Muppet Movie for Adults. Trade Roughage 10/15/08
SpoutBlog —
Not that adults can’t already appreciate Muppet movies enough as they are, but The Jim Henson Co. has a new film in the works that will primarily be for grown-ups. Described as being a little Avenue Q mixed with a little L.A. Confidential and Pulp Fiction, the movie will be set in a world where humans and puppets co-exist (umm, like any other Muppet movie, uh huh), in which the latter are considered second-class citizens (still kind of like any other Muppet movie) and become victim to a series of murders (ok, there’s the adult part). Titled The Happyland Murders, this seemingly ...
Billy Ray Rigs An Election
Cinema Blend News —
... Ray Rigs An Election Remember the movie Election with Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon? It was about how a teacher tried to rig a school election because a student he hated was going to win. It even featured Hunter from The Office in his first role! Well, dirty tricks like that dont just occur in school elections; sometimes grown-up elections include people trying to do things to screw the other candidate. Thats how we end up with movies like How to Rig an Election . Variety reports the movie, which will probably begin filming next year, is based on a book of ...
Fox Searchlight ready to ‘Rig an Election’
The Screening Log —
Billy Ray is set to direct “How to Rig an Election,” a project he wrote and sold to Fox Searchlight, according to Variety. The trade says the flick traces GOP operative Allen Raymond’s downfall following a campaign to jam phone lines at Democratic Party headquarters in an effort to swing a 2002 Senate election in New Hampshire. Fox also acquired Raymond’s memoir “How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative,” hoping to start production on the film next year. Variety offers more details about Raymond’s tricks: “Raymond enlisted a telemarketer vendor to dump so many automated ...
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/Film —
Bloody Disgusting has new photos from SAW V.
FirstShowing has a new poster for Frank Miller’s The Spirit.
Amy Adams is in talks to star in Leap Year, a comedy about “an uptight woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on leap day, Feb. 29, following an Irish tradition in which women propose to men on that day and the man has to say yes.” [THR]
Tolkien Enterprises reclaimed a bunch of domain names that used the word “Hobbit”. [theonering]
Those of you who see Max Payne this weekend should stay until after the credits. Apparently ...
