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15 articles from 2009
Top Ten Tuesday: Classic Stories That Should Not Be Adapted Again
3 November 2009 10:17 AM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
While the idea of ceasing the overall usage of adapting stories, classic or otherwise, into feature films is laughable, there are those stories that just should not be touched again. Whether they have been done so many times that it seems trivial to adapt onto the silver screen or an adaptation has come along that so definitely captures the essence of the story, there are those classic stories that should simply be left alone. Certainly, there are those stories that we will have left off this list, and some of you may think some of these classic stories deserve another go in the feature film realm. For now, and in honor of Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of A Christmas Carol, we give you our 10 classic stories that should Not be adapted ever again.
10. Macbeth
Adapted Roughly 35 Times
MacBeth is perhaps one of the best Shakespeare stories and also one of the most difficult to adapt successfully, »
- Movie Geeks
Spamalot National Tour Bids Farewell and Good 'Knight' in Costa Mesa, 10/18
13 October 2009 1:58 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
The legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and their quest for the Holy Grail will be told for the last time Sunday, October 18th, 2009 in Costa Mesa. Monty Python's Spamalot, the 2005 Tony Award winner for Best Musical will end its reign on the road.
Produced by Boyett Ostar Productions and directed by Mike Nichols, Monty Python's Spamalot features a book by Eric Idle, music and lyrics by the Grammy Award-winning team of Eric Idle and John Du Prez and choreography by Casey Nicholaw. Spamalot is based on the screenplay of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" by Monty Python creators Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
When Monty Python's Spamalot closes, the national touring production will have:
Played a total of 1,435 performances, 183 weeks in 101 cities.
Been seen by 2.5 million people and grossed $170,586,675
Used over 1,840 coconuts, supplied by the Coconut King in Florida. »
Ask the Flying Monkey! (October 12, 2009)
11 October 2009 8:19 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Have a question about gay male entertainment? Send it to aftereltonflyingmonkey@yahoo.com! (Please include your city and state and/or country.)
Q: Can you please help us get more details on Luke Macfarlane's involvement in a Canadian movie Iron Road? He plays a straight guy who falls in love with a woman who was disguised as a boy and has a total nude scene which is gorgeous and sexy. -- Bclee
A: Who is this, the publicist for Iron Road? You’re a smart one. By getting me to publish your email on AfterElton.com, you should sell at least a few thousand extra copies of the movie.
Charlotte Sullivan and Luke Macfarlane in Iron Road
Iron Road, a $10 million Canada/Chinese production, tells the sad story of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and of the many Chinese workers who were tricked into slavery and lost »
- Brent Hartinger
Paul W.S. Anderson to Ride with Musketeers?
1 September 2009 9:45 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Paul W. S. Anderson will bring his very modern sensibilities to The Three Musketeers, a new version of the 1844 Alexandre Dumas novel.
Anderson, whose previous films include Resident Evil, Alien vs. Predator and Death Race, will be writing the screenplay with Andrew Davies, who is known for more character-driven fare. Apparently, the two have known each other since Anderson attended the University of Warwick in England, where Davies was serving as a tutor.
Empire reports the new film will have a contemporary feel, but plans are to retain the period setting. "We are definitely modernizing The Three Musketeers without compromising the fun of shooting a period piece," said Anderson. "But in our film, corsets and feathered hats don’t take center stage. Our version is rich in eye-popping action, romance and adventure."
Anderson’s movies are known for special effects and electronic music, not so much for romance, which is another reason Davies, »
10 Most Unforgettable Peter Weir Movies
26 August 2009 7:55 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Peter Weir's comprehensive profile at Senses of Cinema begins with:
Peter Weir helped to define the rebirth of Australian cinema, while addressing some of the most pressing concerns of the nation in the 1970s and 1980s. His intriguing images of Australia, evocative and transcendent, made an impact in the international art house scene, eager for compelling visions of geo-political areas and cultures overlooked by mainstream cinema. After achieving international recognition as an emblematic Australian filmmaker, Weir made his transition to Hollywood while maintaining a sense of experimentation and artistic exploration . . .[ read more ]
I have to say, Peter Weir's films are so diverse, it's hard to pinpoint exactly his focus as a filmmaker. That is, if he has any intention to focus on certain themes. He has done such an impressive list of movies in many genres - dramatic mystery-thrillers (Picnic at Hanging Rock), comedy-romance (Green Card), action-adventure (Master and Commander »
10 Most Unforgettable Peter Weir Movies
26 August 2009 7:55 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Peter Weir's comprehensive profile at Senses of Cinema begins with:
Peter Weir helped to define the rebirth of Australian cinema, while addressing some of the most pressing concerns of the nation in the 1970s and 1980s. His intriguing images of Australia, evocative and transcendent, made an impact in the international art house scene, eager for compelling visions of geo-political areas and cultures overlooked by mainstream cinema. After achieving international recognition as an emblematic Australian filmmaker, Weir made his transition to Hollywood while maintaining a sense of experimentation and artistic exploration . . .[ read more ]
I have to say, Peter Weir's films are so diverse, it's hard to pinpoint exactly his focus as a filmmaker. That is, if he has any intention to focus on certain themes. He has done such an impressive list of movies in many genres - dramatic mystery-thrillers (Picnic at Hanging Rock), comedy-romance (Green Card), action-adventure (Master and Commander »
10 Most Unforgettable Peter Weir Movies
26 August 2009 7:55 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Peter Weir's comprehensive profile at Senses of Cinema begins with:
Peter Weir helped to define the rebirth of Australian cinema, while addressing some of the most pressing concerns of the nation in the 1970s and 1980s. His intriguing images of Australia, evocative and transcendent, made an impact in the international art house scene, eager for compelling visions of geo-political areas and cultures overlooked by mainstream cinema. After achieving international recognition as an emblematic Australian filmmaker, Weir made his transition to Hollywood while maintaining a sense of experimentation and artistic exploration . . .[ read more ]
I have to say, Peter Weir's films are so diverse, it's hard to pinpoint exactly his focus as a filmmaker. That is, if he has any intention to focus on certain themes. He has done such an impressive list of movies in many genres - dramatic mystery-thrillers (Picnic at Hanging Rock), comedy-romance (Green Card), action-adventure (Master and Commander »
10 Most Unforgettable Peter Weir Movies
26 August 2009 7:55 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Peter Weir's comprehensive profile at Senses of Cinema begins with:
Peter Weir helped to define the rebirth of Australian cinema, while addressing some of the most pressing concerns of the nation in the 1970s and 1980s. His intriguing images of Australia, evocative and transcendent, made an impact in the international art house scene, eager for compelling visions of geo-political areas and cultures overlooked by mainstream cinema. After achieving international recognition as an emblematic Australian filmmaker, Weir made his transition to Hollywood while maintaining a sense of experimentation and artistic exploration . . .[ read more ]
I have to say, Peter Weir's films are so diverse, it's hard to pinpoint exactly his focus as a filmmaker. That is, if he has any intention to focus on certain themes. He has done such an impressive list of movies in many genres - dramatic mystery-thrillers (Picnic at Hanging Rock), comedy-romance (Green Card), action-adventure (Master and Commander »
New On DVD This Week
14 July 2009 8:30 AM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Here’s a list of some of the new DVD and Blu-ray releases this week. Plus, some old favorites (and not so favorites) coming out this week on Blu-Ray.
Movies:
For All Mankind: Criterion Collection ~ Jim Lovell, Kenneth Mattingly, Russell Schweickart, and Eugene Cernan (Blu-ray)
The Color of Magic ~ David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, and Jeremy Irons (DVD)
The Towering Inferno ~ Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Richard Chamberlain (Blu-ray)
The Haunting in Connecticut (Unrated Special Edition) ~ Kyle Gallner, Elias Koteas and Virginia Madsen (DVD and Blu-ray)
The Edge of Love ~ Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys, and Simon Armstrong (DVD and Blu-ray)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon / Curse of the Golden Flower / House of Flying Daggers Trilogy ~ Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, and Chow Yun-Fat (Blu-ray)
Horsemen ~ Dennis Quaid, Ziyi Zhang, Lou Taylor Pucci, and Clifton Collins Jr. (DVD)
Van Wilder: Freshman Year – Unrated ~ Linden Ashby, Kurt Fuller, »
- Joe Gillis
Win The Towering Inferno on Blu-ray
7 July 2009 9:18 AM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Before Die Hard or Roland Emmerich there was The Towering Inferno, one of the original large scale disaster epics coming to Blu-ray Disc in high definition for the first time on July 14. Five copies of The Towering Inferno with Steve McQueen and Paul Newman are up for grabs in this daily entry contest. Send in the completed entry form below for a chance at winning one. Then, if you choose, return any or every day to enter again and increase the odds of winning with each additional entry. One tiny spark becomes a night of blazing suspense in director Irwin Allen's (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) three-time Oscar winning masterpiece of suspense, The Towering Inferno, debuting July 14 on Bd from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. There's no way out and no way down for Steve McQueen (The Magnificent Seven), Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid »
Review: "Land of the Lost" funnier (and gayer) than it probably should be
4 June 2009 9:53 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Will Ferrell, Danny McBride and Cha-Ka
You may have read our exclusive interview with Land of the Lost star Wesley Eure (he played Will on the beloved camp explosion that was the original series) in which he comes out as a gay man ("officially") and dishes the dirt on his relationship with Richard Chamberlain and much more.
While Eure doesn't make an appearance in the big-budget action-movie adaptation of the show (his scene didn't make the final cut), the movie still has a pretty gay sensibility to it. Believe it or not, "gay showtunes", interspecial same-sex threesomes, Sleestak lovin', and Will Ferrell's continuing bucking of the fratboy homophobe mantle help make Land of the Lost a pleasing enough summer diversion for both gay fans of the show and newcomers to the man-cave.
First off, I know I'm going to take a serious drubbing for saying that this movie isn't a disaster, »
- brian
Exclusive! Wesley Eure of TV's "Land of the Lost" Comes Out
3 June 2009 10:01 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
For many gay and bisexual men of a certain age, the first inkling that they weren’t like other boys came on Saturday mornings from 1974 to 1976, in the form of a television show called The Land of the Lost. The show, about a father and his two children who were stranded in a mysterious land of dinosaurs, also featured vicious, but curiously slow-moving reptilian humanoids called Sleestak. Now the classic kids’ program by Sid and Marty Krofft, the producers of H.R. Pufnstuf and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, has even been made into a feature film starring Will Ferrell, opening this Friday.
But it wasn’t just the gloriously campy-even-at-the-time nature of the show itself that appealed to gay boys. It was also the fact that it featured the role of Will, the Marshall’s handsome teenage son, played by an actor billed only as “Wesley,” but whose full name is Wesley Eure. »
- dennis
Richard Chamberlain Wears King Arthur's Crown In Spamalot
16 February 2009 6:01 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Richard Chamberlain will wear the crown of King Arthur when he takes the Atlanta stage March 17 - 22 in Monty Python's Spamalot at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, presented by the new Atlanta Broadway Series. Chamberlain became a household name overnight in 1961 when he played the title role of Dr. Kildare, a part he played for five years. Over the last two decades, Chamberlain has starred in six of the most acclaimed mini-series: "Shogun," "Wallenberg," "The Thornbirds," "The Bourne Identity," "Dreamwest," and "Centennial." "Shogun" earned Chamberlain a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor, as well as an Emmy nomination. He received another Golden Globe Award, Emmy nomination, and a People's Choice Award for his work in "The Thornbirds." »
Seven Scores: Michael J. Lewis - Theatre of Blood
3 February 2009 12:27 AM, PST | Daily Film Music Blog | See recent Daily Film Music Blog news »
In Theatre of Blood, Vincent Price plays Edward Lionheart, a Shakesperean actor who isn't celebrated the way he is supposed to be (at least according to him). After being denied an important award in his career, Lionheart decided to kill himself, at least this is what everybody thinks. When a mysterious serial killer starts murdering the theatre critics who slammed him, the police has to find out the truth about Lionheart and corned him before he stages his unique vision of King Lear . The picture is filled with grisly baroque revenge set pieces, each one of them modeled on a famous Shakespeare play. Think Se7en with more theatricality and a unique tone which balances between being a comedy and a horror.
The music for this picture is a most unique achievement as it has to convert the horror-like ideas into a hilarious macabre comedy. Thankfully Vincent Price's delicious performance helps this task, »
Seven Scores: Michael J. Lewis - The Madwoman of Chaillot
26 January 2009 11:55 PM, PST | Daily Film Music Blog | See recent Daily Film Music Blog news »
Welcome to the first special thematic week of the blog. It's quite hard to organize one of these things properly, but I'll try to do one at least every month. To get the jist of what I have in mind, a thematic week focuses on one particular composer or theme for 1/4 of a month. While selecting the titles for the "seven scores" specials, I'll try to feature both well-known and obscure titles from the subject of the special week.
This weeks' featured guest is composer Michael J. Lewis, who was born in Wales in 1939 and scored almost three dozen films from 1969 onwards. During the upcoming week, you'll be able to read Michael's thoughts about seven of his scores from his career. Most people might know Michael's music through his The Passage score without even realizing it. The track entitled "Apassionata" from that score is now known as the music played »
2009 | 2008 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001
15 articles from 2009
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