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Barack Obama, Fanboy

12 November 2008 6:59 PM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

President-elect Barack Obama is apparently closer to our audience than any of his predecessors.  According to “The 50 Facts You Might Not Know” in the London Telegraph, the following information has emerged:

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics

• He has read every Harry Potter book

• His favorite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker

• He uses an Apple Mac laptop

• His favorite fictional television programs are M*A*S*H and The Wire

So the question is this: does he prefer Barry Windsor-Smith or John Buscmea’s depiction of the Cimmerian?

Robert Greenberger

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Douglas To Be Honoured For Producer Work

4 November 2008 4:22 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Michael Douglas will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Producers Guild of America (PGA) for his work behind the camera.

Douglas will receive the award, named after Gone With The Wind producer David O. Selznick, at the annual ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles on 24 January.

The actor, best known for his starring roles in Wall Street and Fatal Attraction, is an acclaimed movie producer - winning the Best Picture Oscar for his role at the helm of 1975's One Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest.

In a statement, Douglas says he feels "privileged to be so honoured by my producing peers".

The PGA announced they had decided to present Douglas with the award for his "important statements about our life and times".

Previous producers who have received the award include Italian moviemaker Dino De Laurentiis and Spider-Man producer Laura Ziskin, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

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Fox Takes 'Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'

28 October 2008 5:32 PM, PDT | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

At long last, the 1968 written The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test from Tom Wolfe is heading to film. Fox Searchlight has picked up the rights for the novel, with director Gus Van Sant and writer Dustin Lance Black attached to the project. Richard Gladstein and his Film Colony banner will produce.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a drug-addled new journalism epic in the vein of Hunter S. Thompson. The novel follows the hallucinogenic exploits of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters, proponents of psychedelic drugs, as they drive across the country. Their vehicle of choice is a DayGlo painted school bus named "Furthur." Some prominent figures featured in the novel include The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and Timothy Leary. Sadly, the Kool-Aid man does not play a prominent role.

Gus Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black recently

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Josh Wigler

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Michael Douglas To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

6 October 2008 9:16 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Hollywood star Michael Douglas is to be honoured with the American Film Institute (AFI)'s lifetime achievement award next summer - 18 years after his actor father Kirk Douglas was presented with the same accolade.

The Traffic star will pick up the prize for his work as a producer at a ceremony in Los Angeles in June - and he is delighted to be following in his father's footprints. Douglas Sr. received the honour in 1991.

Michael says, "I am honoured and overwhelmed to be included in such a prestigious group of film-makers.

"I am particularly moved to be following my father 18 years later."

The 64-year-old is best known for his work behind the camera for 1975's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which starred Jack Nicholson. The film went on to win five Academy Awards the following year, with producer Douglas picking up the Oscar for Best Picture.

And AFI chairman Howard Stringer insists Douglas is the "rightful heir to the throne of the royal family of American film".

He adds, "Though he is most beloved as one of the great leading men of the movies, Michael is also a most accomplished film producer and, ultimately, an artist whose films have been elevated in the pantheon of American film."

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The candidates' favorite movies

11 September 2008 10:59 AM, PDT | From blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news

Everybody is making lists of the questions the candidates should be asked during the debates. My question would be: What's your favorite movie? As my faithful readers all know, the answer to that question says a lot about the person answering. It could be used as a screening device on a blind date. Among other things, it tells you whether the person has actually seen a lot of movies, and I persist in believing that cinematic taste is as important as taste in literature, music, art, or other things requiring taste (including food and politics). I know the answers of the most recent Presidents: "High Noon" (Clinton) and "Field of Dreams" (Bush). What might this year's candidates say? A Google search suggests their answers, (alphabetically):

Joe Biden on Facebook: Didn't reply on Facebook. Google search yields nothing.

John McCain on Facebook: "Viva Zapata," "Letters From Iwo Jima," "Some Like It Hot.

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Brad Dourif to Provide the Voice for Chucky ... Again

6 September 2008 12:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Filed under: Horror, Casting, Universal, Remakes and Sequels

It would be nice if Brad Dourif's legacy could be his Oscar-nominated performance as Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but it's far more likely that people will most remember him as the voice of Chucky, the killer doll from the Child's Play movies. So far, Dourif has lent his voice to the doll in five installments, and he's heading for a sixth. According to Bloody-Disgusting.com, who got it straight from the mouth of Child's Play creator Don Mancini, the remake/reboot of the 1988 original (which Scott first told us about a year ago) will feature a slightly redesigned Chucky, but the character will still have the voice of Dourif. The actor will also return in person to re-play serial killer Charles Lee Ray (aka "the Lake Shore Strangler"), who transfers his soul into the plastic body of a "Good Guys" doll.

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Christopher Campbell

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I Served The King Of England

28 August 2008 1:03 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Along with early Milos Forman films like Loves Of A Blonde and The Firemen's Ball, Jiří Menzel's 1966 feature Closely Watched Trains, which won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, ushered in the Czech new wave, a brief but potent movement characterized by a mix of dark comedy, political tartness, and underlying humanism. When the Soviets all but extinguished the new wave in the late '60s, many directors (including Forman, who went on to make One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus) fled to the West, but Menzel stuck around and made only a couple more movies—1969's long-banned Larks On A String (which didn't surface until 1990) and 1985's Oscar-nominated My Sweet Little Village. They never got much recognition abroad. Forty years after his breakthrough, Menzel has returned with I Served The King Of England, and it's like he never left. A ribald black comedy about the...

Scott Tobias

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On DVD Today: July 15, 2008

15 July 2008 12:39 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

DVD Links: Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest There isn't a whole lot to say about One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest that hasn't already been said. You can look back at just about every single Jack Nicholson performance and find reason to call one or the other his best. Cuckoo's Nest is without a doubt one of his best. Warner didn't send me a review copy of this film so I can't tell you how the transfer looks, how it sounds or what the special features are like, but knowing them it's going to be impressive. Very rarely am I ever not impressed by a Warner special edition release and I highly doubt they would mess this one up. I still remember the first time I watched this movie and there is one line that gets me still to this day, "Hit me,

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Brad Brevet

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Heath's Last Role

12 July 2008 10:35 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

"Let's put a smile on that face!"

From the moment Heath Ledger's Joker hissed those words in one of the first trailers for "The Dark Knight" - Warner Bros. has been taunting us with them for a year now - the world's been waiting for answers.

Just how revolutionary is Heath's Joker? Could this performance possibly measure up to the hype? (Could anyone's?) And how will the shadow of his untimely drug-overdose death affect how we see him on-screen, all murder and mayhem?

Well, the moment has finally come - the film's out Friday.

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By SARA STEWART

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Production Wraps On James Felix McKenney's Satan Hates You!

3 July 2008 8:46 AM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Glass Eye Pix and MonsterPants Movies are proud to announce that principal photography was completed in New York City on Tuesday for Satan Hates You, written and directed by James Felix McKenney.

The film's cast is led by Don Wood (TV's Colonial House, In A Fix) and Christine Spencer (Automatons) and also includes Angus Scrimm (Phantasm, TV's Alias), Reggie Bannister (Phantasm, Bubba Ho-tep), Michael Berryman (One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest, The Hills Have Eyes), Debbie Rochon (Tromeo And Juliet, Terror Firmer) and Producer Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Brave One) with appearances by Pauley Perrette (TV's NCIS, Almost Famous) and author Max Brooks (World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide).

The film is inspired by Christian "scare" cinema of the 1950's - 70's and tells the story of two troubled individuals (Wood and Spencer) who find themselves on the fast track to losing their immortal souls.

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10 articles from 2008

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