There’s an open discussion about nostalgia happening now where participants either decry our reliance on it based on Buzzfeed Gif-sticles and co-opting major studios, or vaunt a highly personalized flavor of hazy memories by looking uncritically at the past. Then there’s Punk’s Dead: Slc Punk! 2, an attempt at opening the wounds of the 90s cult classic and rooting around inside. Like the mohawked engine that could, the production has taken a successful crowdfunding campaign (no doubt fueled in part by nostalgia) and converted money into moving images — some of which director James Merendino saw fit to share with us. The second coolest image is from the concert scene where now-older characters reconnect. Merendino used the IndieGoGo money to bring Screeching Weasel and anyone who donated at least $10 to the cause together for a show that scored over 1,200 participants. The coolest image, as you’ll see below, is the grave of a beloved friend. That...
- 7/8/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Slc Punk sequel is called Slc Punk 2: Punk's Dead. But guess who's not dead anymore? Heroin Bob! Yup, despite overdosing in the 1998 cult classic, this Slc Punk anti-hero is back, and he brought the family with him. Updated: Matthew Lillard has just Tweeted the following, dashing the hopes of Slc Punk fans everywhere: I'm officially not involved with Slc Punk sequel. I know, I think it's weird too. But... There you go. Good luck to all involved.— matthew lillard (@MatthewLillard) May 8, 2014 So, that's that. From earlier: The Wrap reports Slc Punk writer-director James Merendino will shoot Slc Punk 2: Punk's Dead this summer in Salt Lake City. And fans of the original can get in on the action, as Merendino is allowing 2,000 fans to be extras in a major concert scene featuring headliners Screeching Weasel and the Dwarves. This sequence will be funded through Indiegogo and shot ...
- 5/9/2014
- cinemablend.com
This summer, the Slc Punk sequel Punk’s Dead is planning a big party. After a successful crowdfunding campaign to give their production a bit more scale, they’re putting on a huge concert with Screeching Weasel headlining in a scene designed to bring the grown-up characters of the original film back together again. It’s going to be loud in Salt Lake City on June 20th. They’ve also got their younger punks lined up. Devon Sawa, Michael Goorjian, Adam Pascal and James Duval are returning for the sequel, and now they’ve got Ben Schnetzer (The Book Thief) as Heroine Bob’s son, plus rapper Machine Gun Kelly, Hannah Marks (The Amazing Spider-Man) and Sarah Clarke (The Signal) on board. According to the production, they also have two surprise cameos in store. Unfortunately, Matthew Lillard’s name doesn’t seem to appear in the official roster anymore, and Clarke is playing Trish — the role originated...
- 5/7/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
An in-the-works Screeching Weasel documentary has been shelved because producers are done dealing with Ben Weasel. According to the staff at Midway Pictures, What We Hate is no longer in production, purely because of the controversial lead singer. In a post on Facebook, producers wrote that Weasel demanded final cut of the movie, even though he had previously agreed to let Midway make “an honest, thorough documentary.” The filmmakers say that ever since Weasel punched a woman at last year’s SXSW festival, he’s “been a nightmare,” and they’re “no longer allowed to speak with him directly.” Producers ...
- 9/17/2012
- avclub.com
Move comes as a result of injuries, police confrontations at several overcrowded free shows.
By Gil Kaufman
The Strokes' Julian Casablancas performs at a free event at SXSW on Thurdsay
Photo: Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images
A series of unfortunate incidents at last week's South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, has organizers considering a limit on free events in the future.
Free afternoon shows have been a staple of the annual music gathering in Austin for years, drawing huge crowds that line up hours ahead of time for a chance to see a buzz band or a major act in an intimate setting.
One of the scariest incidents occurred at a showcase at 1 a.m. on Saturday night, when fans standing behind a fence behind the Beauty Bar began pushing on the barrier during a surprise show by reunited act Death From Above 1979. Bassist Jesse Keeler warned the excited onlookers...
By Gil Kaufman
The Strokes' Julian Casablancas performs at a free event at SXSW on Thurdsay
Photo: Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images
A series of unfortunate incidents at last week's South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, has organizers considering a limit on free events in the future.
Free afternoon shows have been a staple of the annual music gathering in Austin for years, drawing huge crowds that line up hours ahead of time for a chance to see a buzz band or a major act in an intimate setting.
One of the scariest incidents occurred at a showcase at 1 a.m. on Saturday night, when fans standing behind a fence behind the Beauty Bar began pushing on the barrier during a surprise show by reunited act Death From Above 1979. Bassist Jesse Keeler warned the excited onlookers...
- 3/21/2011
- MTV Music News
Rightly heralded over its 25 years as one of the great pop-punk bands, Screeching Weasel has wrung a handful of classic albums out of an existence marred by frequent lineup changes and breakups, legal fights, and the vicissitudes of mercurial frontman Ben Weasel. The only constants have been Weasel and guitarist John Jughead, but First World Manifesto—Screeching Weasel’s first album since 2000’s forgettable Teen Punks In Heat—finds Weasel without Jughead for the first time. He and frequent Screeching Weasel guitarist/bassist Dan Vapid are quick to note that Jughead never wrote any music, so his absence ...
- 3/15/2011
- avclub.com
With This Addiction, the seventh full-length by Chicago pop-punk stalwart Alkaline Trio, frontman Matt Skiba and crew have decided to inflict that hoariest of clichés—the “return to roots” album—upon the world. It’s a damn good thing they nailed it. Many bands use such a move as a desperate ploy to reestablish themselves after falling prey to the excesses of success, but This Addiction feels less like backpedaling and more like homecoming. Drawing on a rich tradition of Chicago pop-punk stretching back to Pegboy and Screeching Weasel, This Addiction is a chiseled, go-for-broke disc with a modicum ...
- 2/23/2010
- avclub.com
Oh, Megan Fox… What’s it like to be every boy and young man’s muse for sexual inspiration? She lives up to that expectation in the new “scamedy” (my new word for scary movies that are comedic whether they mean to be or not) Jennifer’s Body.
Jennifer (Megan Fox) is the hottest girl in Devil’s Kettle, a small town out in the middle of nowhere. She can’t go anywhere or do anything without her best friend since the sandbox Needy (Amanda Seyfried), a quiet, nerdy girl who is in awe of her super salty (pretty) Bff. (Just an Fyi, teen slang is All Over this movie!) When Jennifer drags Needy to a local dive bar to see some new band that she found on Myspace, all hell breaks loose. The bar is burned down, turning their night from seedy entertainment pursuit to the fleeing of a fiery deathtrap.
Jennifer (Megan Fox) is the hottest girl in Devil’s Kettle, a small town out in the middle of nowhere. She can’t go anywhere or do anything without her best friend since the sandbox Needy (Amanda Seyfried), a quiet, nerdy girl who is in awe of her super salty (pretty) Bff. (Just an Fyi, teen slang is All Over this movie!) When Jennifer drags Needy to a local dive bar to see some new band that she found on Myspace, all hell breaks loose. The bar is burned down, turning their night from seedy entertainment pursuit to the fleeing of a fiery deathtrap.
- 9/18/2009
- by Melissa
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Jennifer’s Body soundtrack. If some laboratory boffin types were to put their egg-shaped noggins together and come up with the precise scientific formula for a successful teen movie then their working model might just look something like the forthcoming Jennifer’s Body. Because the cocktail of elements on show in the new offering from the writer/director team-up of Juno scripter Diablo Cody and Girlfight lenser Karyn Kusama seems carefully calculated to seduce as much adolescent audience coin as possible - their film promising spooky diabolism, darkly comic high school satire, a smattering of gore, a dash of rock ’n’ roll, a hot actress (Amanda Seyfried) donning specs in a bid to pass off as an empathetically geeky point of audience identification, and pin-up du jour Megan Fox going for a spot of skinny-dipping. Yet when it comes to the soundtrack, the commercial leanings of Jennifer’s Body...
- 9/10/2009
- by Paul Martin
- Movie-moron.com
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