The Simpsons Movie Trailer is 70% FAKE
Think you know what The Simpsons Movie is about? Think again. Simpsons Writer/Director/Producer James L Brooks claims that 70% of the theatrical trailer is not even in the finished film:
“It started out as people wanting to know what it was about, and then we were having fun with it, putting out false story lines. We’ve revealed more with each successive trailer. We’ll continue to do that,” Brooks told EW. “We saw a trailer the other day, and somebody said 70 percent of the things in it — based on where we were eight weeks ago — are no longer in the movie, because we keep on fooling around.”
Brooks also revealed that “there are 94 speaking parts [so far]. And our animals don’t speak,” and “at least one [new character]. If you count nonhuman, two.” The Simpsons Movie hits theaters on July 27th 2007.
Ghost Rider 2 Announced
The NY Post caused havoc earlier this week, claiming that Sony would not be holding early press screenings for Ghost Rider. No press screenings usually means that the studio lacks confidence in the finished film. Sony slamed back claiming the film will get screened to critics nationwide, late Thursday night. But that doesn’t give critics much time to spread the good (or bad) word about the film, does it? I haven’t seen the flick yet, but my people tell me it’s not good.
So it came as a huge surprise that producer Avi Arad announced development on a sequel. Is this for REEL, or is it a deflective PR move?
Arad revealed the news at a press-event for the film on Friday. The Marvel producer seemed confident that Nicolas Cage would return as Johnny Blaze. Director Mark Steven Johnson stood by his side during the announcement, so one must assume that he would be brought back as well.
Production on Ghost Rider was pushed back to make way for better computer animation technology. Now that the technology for the FX is in place, Ghost Rider 2 could be streamlined for a 2009 release (our estimate). But for some reason I think this sequel announcement is to combat the bad press from the NY Post blog post. It creates hype, gives people the false sense that the film is so great that a sequel is already in development. But if the film flops, I’m sure the project will fall into development hell. So from my viewpoint, it’s more of a premptive PR announcement.
Ghost Rider hits theaters on February 16th 2007.
Marisa Coughlan Biography
Blonde Marisa Coughlan started her acting career with guest appearances on television programs lending her sad-eyed innocent looks to episodes of “The Magnificent Seven”, “High Society”, “Diagnosis: Murder” (all CBS), “Weird Science” (syndicated) and “Step by Step” (ABC). She also had featured turns in “Fist of the North Star” (1996) and the telefilms “Our Son, the Matchmaker” (CBS, 1996) and “Sleepwalker Killing: From the Files of ‘Unsolved Mysteries’” (NBC, 1997). Coughlan made her television series regular debut playing a graduate student in the short-lived Kevin Williamson’s drama “Wasteland” (ABC, 1999), a “Dawson’s Creek” for the older set, chronicling the exploits of a group of twentysomethings in New York. Starring opposite already recognizable names Brad Rowe, Rebecca Gayheart and Eddie Mills, Coughlan would reach her largest audience to date on this Miramax/Williamson production.
1999 would prove to be Coughlan’s breakthrough year, starring alongside Katie Holmes in Williamson’s directorial feature “Teaching Mrs. Tingle”, a much-awaited black comedy. She cemented her “one to watch” status with a featured role in the ensemble of the college campus set psychothriller “Gossip” (2000). After appearing in a pair of poorly performing comedies in 2001 (”Freddie Got Fingered” and “Super Troopers”), Coughlan again returned to more independent-minded features when she appeared in 2002’s “Pumpkin” with Christina Ricci, Hank Harris and Dominique Swain.
- Born:
on 03/17/73 in Minneapolis, Minnesota - Job Titles:
Actor
Education
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Milestones
- 1993 While still in high school, landed role in “Untamed Heart”; part cut from finished film
- 1995 Guest starred on an episode of “Step by Step” (ABC)
- 1996 Appeared in the sci-fi adventure “Fist of the North Star”
- 1996 Featured in an episode of the short-lived CBS sitcom “High Society”
- 1996 Played the younger version of Ann Jillian’s character in the CBS telepic “Our Son, the Matchmaker”
- 1997 Had a featured role in the NBC mystery “Sleepwalker Killing: From the Files of ‘Unsolved Mysteries’”
- 1999 Made film debut in Kevin Williamson’s “Teaching Mrs. Tingle”
- 1999 Starred in Kevin Williamson’s drama series “Wasteland”, chronicling twentysomethings in New York; ABC made a 13-episode commitment
- 2000 Featured in the ensemble cast of the psychodrama “Gossip”
- 2001 Appeared in gross-out comedies “Super Troopers” and “Freddy Got Fingered”
- 2002 Played the sorority sister of Christina Ricci’s character in the Francis Ford Coppola produced comedy “Pumpkin”
- 2004 Appeared in the film “”Broken Lizard’s Club Dread”
Christopher Nolan Remembers Heath Ledger
Over the past week or so there have been many people expressing their sadness about Heath Ledger’s passing. Nicole Kidman, John Travolta and Mary Kate Olsen have all released statements regarding Heath’s Death. Jack Nicholson told everyone that he had ‘warned him’ and Daniel Day Lewis nearly shed a few tears on TV, even though he said he had never met Ledger. So imagine knowing Heath well, and having to see him every single day for the next few months. That is what Christopher Nolan has to do as he is editing The Dark Knight. Rather than releasing a statement that says the usual, he had written an great article on Heath.
When you get into the edit suite after shooting a movie, you feel a responsibility to an actor who has trusted you, and Heath gave us everything. As we started my cut, I would wonder about each take we chose, each trim we made. I would visualize the screening where we’d have to show him the finished film—sitting three or four rows behind him, watching the movements of his head for clues to what he was thinking about what we’d done with all that he’d given us. Now that screening will never be real. I see him every day in my edit suite. I study his face, his voice. And I miss him terribly.
You can read the whole article here.