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Saturday, Nov 21, 2009
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Deep Inside Hollywood |
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| Deep Inside Hollywood | ||
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Clooney Is The Fantastic Mr. Fox What's the connection between the Coen Brothers' dark, violent No Country for Old Men and the upcoming animated family feature The Fantastic Mr. Fox? Besides Coen collaborator George Clooney in the starring voice role, that would be Gay super-producer Scott Rudin, the man whose recent Oscar acceptance speech included a loving thank-you to his partner (which was then strangely excised from the Academy's official transcript). Rudin tends to go where the hits are, and this Wes Anderson-directed, Clooney and Cate Blanchett-voiced feature, about a quick-witted fox and three unpleasant farmers trying to do him in, looks like a sure-fire holiday hit. And in this instance, "holiday" means Christmas of 2009. But not to worry, Clooney has Burn After Reading (the next one from the Coens) arriving during the interim. Like Strangers With Candy, But for Kids Until he crossed over to the PG-13 Law and Order SVU, Chris Meloni was most notorious for Gay sex scenes and full-frontal nudity on Oz. And now Meloni is set to become even more family-friendly. He'll star in Gym Teacher: The Movie for Nickelodeon as a down-on-his-luck coach vying for the Gym Teacher of the Year award and finding an especially uncoordinated student standing in his way. But this broad family comedy won't be another High School Musical. That's because some people from a much stranger high school environment - Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris from Strangers with Candy - are involved, too. Dinello, who played Gay art teacher Mr. Jellineck on the bizarre sitcom, is directing. Meanwhile, Sedaris will star as the school's principal, who has an obsessive crush on Meloni's character. The movie airs this August. Indie Film Will Pull Karen Black Last year, up-and-coming filmmaker Cam Archer made a small splash with his quietly beautiful, experimental first feature Wild Tigers I Have Known, about a young boy struggling with his emerging Queer sexuality. And even without a traditional plot, the film turned heads. Now Archer is back, and this time with a view toward a (slightly) more mainstream audience. Pull, a dark drama about a woman with a compulsive need to pull out her own hair one strand at a time (sounds like Todd Haynes' Safe, but creepier), will star not only the legendary Karen Black (Nashville) but also musician Rickie Lee Jones. No word yet on when the movie will be ready for an audience, but if Archer's first feature is any indication, it will be one that audiences won't soon forget. A Metal Wedding for Simon Callow American audiences remember him best as the joyfully Gay heart attack victim who put the "funeral" in Four Weddings and a Funeral. But now Gay Brit character actor Simon Callow gets his own wedding, even if it is something of an odd one. He's starring in the recently wrapped Chemical Wedding, about a shy professor who manages to bring legendary occult figure Aleister Crowley back to life. And if that plot weren't oddball enough, there's the film's lineage: it was co-written by Bruce Dickinson, a name metal fans will know as the leader of the hugely successful rockers Iron Maiden. The sure-to-be-destined-for-cult-status film is due for release later this year. No word yet on whether or not Iron Maiden's songs will hog the soundtrack spotlight. Romeo San Vicente prefers Metallica, Judas Priest, and W.A.S.P. to Iron Maiden. He can be reached care of this publication or at DeepInsideHollywood@qsyndicate.com. |
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