After his previous off Broadway production and a flirtation with rock on his 'Rock Reflections of a Superhero' album, Spidey is heading for the boards again!
SPIDER-MAN MUSICAL SEEKS BROADWAY STAGE
2007-09-27 13:38:33
Broadway director JULIE TAYMOR is hunting for a New York theatre big enough to house the SPIDER-MAN musical she is creating with U2 rockers BONO and THE EDGE. Lion King creator Taymor has written a book and is due to direct the spectacular stage show, with the music provided by the rock superduo. The project is now moving so quickly, the trio are already looking for the right space to house the musical version of the comic creation. Taymore tells the New York Daily News.
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New Comic-Book Films
Oh dear...these sound dodgy to say the least!
Maybe the best comic-book fans can wish for is that 'Justice League' at least won't be a total embarrassment?
Comic book casting : Shazam and Wonder Woman
The web is buzzing with rumours that Jessica Biel will be playing Wonder Woman in the Justice League of America movie. Sites are all discussing whether or not Ms. Biel will be flying the invisible plane in the live action JLA movie that will be directed by George Miller.
In related comic-book movie news, The Rock is likely going to be starring in Shazam. But, will he be playing Shazam or Black Adam? Evidently, Mr. Johnson has been debating about this for some time now, and is asking his fans to help him decide. He is soliciting votes on the MTV Movies Blog, so have at it.
Shazam! to be broad-based, "inherently funny" superhero flick Hard at work on his draft of Shazam!, screenwriter John August provided a glimpse of what we can expect to see in the upcoming live-action Captain Marvel flick:
"The underlying premise is funny, so it's not just Spider-Man plus jokes," August revealed at last week's press day for his directorial debut The Nines. "There's something inherently funny about a 13-year-old boy who gets to become a big, sturdy superhero, and sort of what's a priority to him wouldn't be a priority to a normal person who gets those powers."
August promises that Shazam! will appeal to more than just adolescent boys and other people who like movies about adolescent boys. "The thirteen-year-olds who who are reflected in the movie will really love the movie, and I think other people will too. At this budget, it's gotta be one of those classic 'four quadrants,' where everybody and their brother goes to see it."
Shazam! is set for a release sometime next year.
Phil Spector Case...Mistrial
JUDGE RULES SPECTOR CASE A MISTRIAL
2007-09-26 23:56:25 -
The judge overseeing the PHIL SPECTOR murder case has declared a mistrial. Judge Larry Paul Fidler sent the members of the jury home on Wednesday (26Sep07) after hearing they were split ten to two after 12 days of deliberation and six ballots - and unable to break their deadlock. Spector was accused of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra, California mansion in 2003. The trial began in April (07) and featured 77 witnesses. Officials at the Los Angeles District Attorney's office state they will retry the record producer. (KL/WN/GES) WENN - BREAKING NEWS - 26 SEPTEMBER 2007
MARVEL MOVIE TRAILER "Iron Man"
KISS SUPERFAN TRIBUTE SONG
If you saw Gene Simmons Family Jewels on the Biography Channel, you may have heard of Bob Brunson the KISS super fan.
Well, he's such a fan that he's put together the first ever tribute song for a rock band! See below.
Also series 2 of Gene Simmons Family Jewels starts in the U.K. on the Biography Channel on Friday 14th September. Details:
The story of a marriage of two sensitive, articulate people, bound together by the strongest physical and emotional ties yet helpless in their inability to communicate.
Just watched this film, now I can't sleep because it's haunting me. I recommend it, just make sure you have plenty of chill out time before you need to sleep because it makes you think.
The Pumpkin Eater takes its title from the nursery rhyme: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater / Had a wife and couldn't keep her. / He put her in a pumpkin shell / And there he kept her very well." As this allusion suggests, one of the central concerns of the film is female entrapment - the experience of being kept 'in a shell'. The heroine, Jo, has all the ostensible trappings of a happy life: a handsome, successful husband, a beautiful house, an enviably affluent lifestyle, and battalions of healthy children. Yet she still comes to the conclusion that her life is "an empty place". She even suffers an emotional breakdown in the most unlikely of places - the luxurious Kensington department store, Harrods.
One could read the film as a proto-feminist protest against women's second-class status and limited opportunities, no matter which class they belong to. Certainly, Penelope Mortimer's original novel is animated by a sense of frustration and anger at patriarchal values: "A womb isn't all that important. It's only the seat of life... At school the word 'womb' used to make them snigger. Women aren't important." However, Harold Pinter's adaptation has the effect of making the film less about Jo (the novel had been written in the first person from her point of view) and more about the relationship between Jo and her husband Jake: it offers a complete portrait of a marriage from first meeting and initial romantic idyll through betrayals and bitter disputes to a tentative reconciliation between the estranged couple. As the director Jack Clayton put it, the film investigates "the infinitely simple idea of the difficulties in any married relationship while at the same time showing the tremendously strong relationship that grows almost inevitably."
The film's treatment of angst among the sophisticated metropolitan bourgeoisie lead to a comparison with the work of the director Michelangelo Antonioni, chronicler of Italy's idle (and anxious) rich. Indeed, one review of The Pumpkin Eater was entitled (sarcastically) 'Keeping Up with the Antonionis', unfairly implying that the British film was nothing but a superficial copy of the European art film, lacking its profundity. Looked at today, The Pumpkin Eater's achievement can be seen more clearly: a remarkably honest film about love, sex, marriage, infidelity, reproduction and parenthood made by a director, writer and group of actors all at the height of their powers.
Synopsis and review found online, if anyone knows writer/source please let me know because I've lost them! Apologies to all who deserve an apology.
