By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (27)
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Posted by: MM at June 2, 2010 4:39 PM
OK, in retrospect, those don't ALL suck - the "no Hairspray sequel" is actually *good* news, and Jeff Zucker getting the boot is actually good news, but the former made me remember Hairspray with John Travolta-in-drag, and that's not good. And the latter reminded me that executives fail with style, $30-40 million worth of style, which pissed me off and raised my blood pressure.
Posted by: MM at June 2, 2010 4:47 PM
dude... Jack Black totally has "cankles"
Posted by: Tammers at June 2, 2010 4:53 PM
So, is Jack Black on another downswing with his weight or did the studio hire Mariah Carey's photshoppers for the poster?
Posted by: Robert at June 2, 2010 4:54 PM
Yay! Congratulations Dustin. We spelling-challenged people need to celebrate the small victories in life.
Posted by: androstarr at June 2, 2010 4:56 PM
Why don't they just write a hell of a mystery film about a young woman detective named Veronica Mars, but don't title the film Veronica Mars, make it so anyone can watch it but fans of the show will get more out of it. Is there no market for a detective film starring a hot, young star? Jesus, fuck.
Posted by: Noodles at June 2, 2010 4:57 PM
Noodles, I love your idea. Seriously, if they just don't title the movie "Veronica Mars," and they finally do some good advertising for the damn thing, they can probably make some sort of profit!
Clearly I really want this movie to happen. More than the Arrested Development movie. There, I said it.
On another note, that header pic makes me adore her even more =)
Posted by: gee. ay. at June 2, 2010 5:11 PM
Was that Tim Gunn in the "Smurfs" clip behind Gargamel?!? No, Tim, no!!
Posted by: janetfaust at June 2, 2010 5:19 PM
I AM SO EXCITED FOR THE SMURFS MOVIE. REALLY.
Also, noodles is a genius.
Posted by: esme at June 2, 2010 5:28 PM
per noodles suggestion, isn't that sort of what they tried to do with Serenity and Firefly? That didn't turn out so well financially, right?
Posted by: chad at June 2, 2010 5:48 PM
I appreciate the recognition. I guess that's kind of what they did with Serenity, and that actually did work for me, if not financially. My friend was a fan of the show and dragged me to it, and I went home and bought the DVDs. So it *can* work, but... it would require a real marketing push. Did Serenity get that?
Posted by: noodles at June 2, 2010 6:20 PM
What "Gulliver's Travels" movie? It's already that close? How many months could I have been spending in slightly irritable indifference?
Posted by: Jay at June 2, 2010 6:23 PM
And stop that Bell woman from looking at me.
Posted by: Jay at June 2, 2010 6:28 PM
I'm just so goddamn ANGRY that Veronica Mars isn't getting any love. But fucking RUSSELL BABY-EATER BRAND and JACK ONE-JOKE BLACK are all up in the movies all over the place. Fuck this fucking world.
Posted by: popejenn at June 2, 2010 7:26 PM
Well, shit. Not that I really ever thought that they'd actually do a VM movie, but for all the internet love the show gets, don't you think they could man up and make the frakking thing?? "There's not enough sales in the home video market...." I bought all three seasons, including TWO copies of season one, so I could lend it out. WHAT DO THEY WANT US TO DO TO SHOW OUR SUPPORT?? And P.S., the only reason this show EVER hit my radar was Matt Roush's support of it. They crapped all over it by never advertising it, putting it up against shows like "Lost" and "American Idol", and you never saw anyone except Kristen on the late night talk shows. (And Kristen, you should have done the scantily-clad photo shoot during the show's run, when it could have done some good among your target fanboy audience, and solidified your career, instead of blowing off Lost and choosing that abortion Heroes and those asinine rom-coms.)
Sorry. Back to your regularly scheduled Pajiba snark. I'll be quiet now. The medication is starting to kick in. I promise I won't speak of Veronica Mars ever again.
Posted by: Dudleys Mom at June 2, 2010 8:31 PM
To Dudley's Mom: AMEN SISTER!!!!
Posted by: Austin asking for trouble at June 2, 2010 10:39 PM
Little Kristin Bell
Talentless, unamusing.
You're her only fan
Posted by: Johnnyboy at June 2, 2010 10:41 PM
Skuh-weeee.
Posted by: Brian at June 2, 2010 10:57 PM
I never wanted to see what a Jack Black blowup doll looked like. Now I am trying to unsee it. Thank you, poster monkeys.
Posted by: Lauren at June 2, 2010 11:03 PM
I read an interview with Rob Thomas a couple weeks ago about how he was hoping Warner Brothers would let him take his VM movie to another company. I wish I could remember where exactly I found the interview, but he seemed hopeful that he could make a low-budget film elsewhere.
At this point I'm just hoping Party Down gets another season. And I look forward to seeing Kristen Bell in the next episode.
Posted by: Uda at June 3, 2010 12:42 AM
Oh, Kristen Bell...she's so great, but she really has been tanking her career, no? It's sort of sad that she blew off Lost because she didn't want to commit to being in Hawaii, and where did it get her?
Posted by: the essence of fanciness and class at June 3, 2010 12:54 AM
And I wonder how big part of the poor DVD sales of Veronica Mars is due to the poor availability of thereof. At least the situation with R2 is horrible, they are mostly unavailable, and if available they are way overpriced. I got 7 seasons of Buffy for about 100 euros, no way I'll pay 150 euros for 3 seasons of VM...
Posted by: Anonymous coward at June 3, 2010 4:22 AM
Kristen Bell needs tiny little projects with a lot of attention from a director to do well. I have a feeling she likes to over-think her roles and needs a director to talk her off the ledge. She's great in a limited role in the film Roman, directed by the indie horror actors best friend, Lucky McKee. She's really good in Reefer Madness, another low-profile, small cast, experiment till you get it right feature. Same goes for Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She's not a leading lady, and that's not a bad thing.
And I can't find the Veronica Mars DVDs anywhere. I'm just not comfortable ordering an entire series off the web when I see advertisements from brick and mortar stores telling me I can pick up the discs on sale only to be told they never got a shipment.
Posted by: Robert at June 3, 2010 8:19 AM
First Love, Last Rites is an Ian McEwan book I read for Cannonball!! they made a movie out of that??? Man that book made me angry...
Posted by: dene at June 3, 2010 11:45 AM
I don't know how many more times I need to wish for the VM movie to happen. I was hooked ever since the first episode I saw that I eventually made sure I bought all the dvds and the Neptune Noir. Even if I don't live in the USA I made sure I did my best to spread the LoVe.
@Robert I bought all of my 3 season of Veronica Mars at Amazon.com I took advantage of whenever amazon had a dvd sale so I could complete my collection and all arrived on time and to my doorstep. Maybe you can try there?
Posted by: Ayla at June 13, 2010 10:48 AM
I was surprised by Silver's answer about DVD sales - I was under the impression that they sold well and consistently --- they were ALWAYS 30-40 dollars at the brick and mortars after the show went off the air, and not heavily discounted online. That told me that they sold well, otherwise, they'd been 19.99.
I guess I was wrong. But there's a ton of TV DVDs out there that I have a feeling sell like crap because of how discounted they are as soon as they hit the shelves.
And, is Joel saying that there's not enough market for Veronica Mars, but there's a market for... any of those other crappy movies you posted about?
Wow.
Thanks for Gulliver's Travels. That really needs to be made again.
Posted by: Chad at June 28, 2010 2:08 AM
Next time I read through a blogs, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as much as this one. I'm talking about, I am aware it was eventually my choice to read, however I essentially thought you'll have something useful to express. Most I hear is mostly a bunch of whining about something you might fix if you werent too busy looking for consideration.
Posted by: Mac nick at January 23, 2011 12:09 PM
Pretty much all of those suck. (Save the Paul Rudd one.) Combined with the shittiness of my actual life over the last couple of days, I'm officially completely bummed. I hate you today, Dustin. (But I'll love you tomorrow.)
And don't even try to pull some "No Whining Wednesday" shit after a post like that. It may be Wednesday, but it's a wonky holiday week so it doesn't even count.