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Ghostbusters Remake

Friday, September 5th, 2008
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Columbia calls up new ‘Ghostbusters’
Eisenberg, Stupnitsky to write reunion film
By MICHAEL FLEMING

The studio has set “The Office” co-exec producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write a script for a film designed to bring back together the original cast of Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson.

Studio would not comment on the development and has been mum on recent rumors that there was interest in making another installment of the franchise.

The scribes just wrote “Year One,” a comedy that was directed by Ramis. Ramis with Aykroyd wrote the first two installments of the films. Ivan Reitman directed both the 1984 original and the sequel that was released in 1989. The close proximity between the writers and original Ghostbuster Ramis is evidence that the ghost chasers have sparked to the idea of returning.

“Ghostbusters” was Columbia’s highest grossing film ever, until it was beaten by “Men in Black” and then “Spider-Man.” An attempt to make a third installment of the franchise was stymied in the dealmaking stage. Sources said so much gross was pledged to the participants that it was next to impossible for the studio to make any money on a third installment.

No deals will be made with the original cast until the script is ready, but the gross percentage will certainly be an issue. Sony has a standing policy not to allow more than 25% of first dollar gross out the door.

The scribes, who are Emmy- nominated for their work on “The Office,” just set up another picture at Columbia, selling their spec script “Bad Teacher” to the studio for Jimmy Miller to produce.

http://www.variety.com/…91624.html

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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry – The Art of Painful Situation Humor

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I just finished watching the latest Happy Madison production, ‘I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry.’  Its a funny comedy about to New York Firefighters that pretend to be gay, get married to protect one of the partners children’s benefits.

The reason is a little flimsy, but the film is funny as it walks through one stereotype after another dropping the audience into one ludicrously funny and painful situation after another.

Jessica Biel Provided a Little Gay Relief for the hetero’s that need a chick Fix

As a whole, the movie was not a funny movie, but paradoxically I laughed all the way through it.  All of those painful situations were burst out loud funny, but never really seemed to pull the movie together despite some great acting from most of the cast.

I think almost every primary and supporting character in the movie each had one or more terrific scenes that on their own were stand out performance, but something about the movie just couldn’t quite seem to pull it together for me, and maybe in an artsy fartsy way, that was the point. 

The concept wasn’t supposed to be able to hold itself together in the movie, as a hearing loomed to prove that they weren’t gay and in doing so, it kind of proved that the movie couldn’t hold itself together and in doing so the movie held itself together.

Damn, I’m so humoristically confused after that movie, that I’m going to have to sit down and watch Eddie Murphy Raw a couple times, while reading George Carlin books.

Note to self, apparently exfoliation acne treatments are gay, who knew.  Apparently also a great deal of some of my favorite music is gay also.  (well I guess I knew that all along)  :)