Hollywood Ink: Last Airbender to Receive Fake 3-D Treatment
· I'm in a horrible mood this morning, so forgive me for simply telling this morning's trade news like it is: Paramount is converting M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender to 3-D because the mass public doesn't care how shitty their movies look or how much their tickets cost, and Shyamalan will take a crappy, fake 3-D treatment of anything he makes because it boosts his generous back-end net and that's all that matters. I was actually looking forward to this. Oh well! [Deadline]
Nepotism, exploitation, cynicism, disappointment and more as Hollywood Ink continues after the jump.
· Max "Son of Jeremy" Irons will co-star in Catherine Hardwicke's The Girl With the Red Riding Hood. "Are young actors taking over the big screen?" asks Mike Fleming at Deadline. What? [Deadline]
· Greta Gerwig will move on from her superb mainstream debut Greenberg to co-star as Natalie Portman's BFF in the Ivan Reitman comedy formerly known as Friends With Benefits. Gerwig's purpose: To alert Portman to signs that Ashton Kutcher might want to stick his dick in her but not really have a romantic relationship. Please. Pass the Klonopin. [Variety]
· Disney wants to make a sequel to Monsters Inc. Is it me or was the first one, like, perfect the way it was? Don't do it, Pixar. What about Wall-E? People love that overrated little heap of crap and his sexy, flying betrothed; give them a franchise. Maybe they have a little chirping, cooing robot family now? We can argue about Best Picture qualifications all over again. Those were the days. [THR]
· On an up-note, Judy Greer and Susan Sarandon are joining Jason Segel and Ed Helms in the cast of the Duplass Brothers' stoner comedy Jeff Who Lives at Home. [Variety]
Comments
Well, you know, you can always see it in 2D.
That's not the point. It shouldn't be fake, money-grubbing, cynical, ugly 3-D in the first place.
Spicy! (and dead on)
Calling Wall-E an "overrated little heap of crap" is telling it like it is?
Sorry, wrong.
If you want a sequel to Wall-E, just go into a Mac store and hum some show tunes while lecturing others on throwing away their recycled Starbucks cups.
Hey, S.T....did you snipe about about "Clash" being fakery 3D as well? If you did, snipe on brother. If not, hesh up! Oh yeah, and you calling Wall-E an "overrated little heap of crap" hurt my heart, you big brute. Go eat a Snickers, you'll feel better.
Bless your heart, S.T. Wall-E is extremely overrated.