Promoting his latest book, “Shootin’ the Sh*t With Kevin Smith” and an upcoming 15-city tour, writer/director Kevin Smith has announced plans to conduct a 24 hour online Q&A on Twitter for an uninterrupted 24 hours on Labor Day (Monday, September 7th). Not only that, but someone actually issued a press release to announce the publicity stunt, and Smith provided this hilarious quote:
“This is not news at all. In fact, it’s kinda stupid. But I wanna see if I can do it. I’ve been training for this my whole life, simply by being a lazy fat-ass who’d rather stare at a screen than better himself with a brisk constitutional. Someone asked what my training regiment is gonna be, and I told them I’ve already stockpiled lots of Count Chocula.”
Yes, that’s a quote from the actual press release. Read the full press release after the jump.
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There isn’t a lot of news coming out today, so I thought I’d post this brief update. Production has wrapped on Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Final Slate: August 28th, 2009 at 21:40pm est). There are a couple more last day photos on Wright’s photoblog.
Also, Wright, the filmmaker behind Spaced, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, is now on Twitter. Follow him now at Twitter.com/edgarwright.
This week on twitter a new internet meme has popped up called the First Draft Movies game. Basically everyone and anyone contributes by tweeting a famous or iconic movie line, as it could have appeared in the first draft of a screenplay (before a clever rewrite transformed it into the awesome line we know and love). Everyone tags their contributions with the hashtag #1stdraftmovies (or #firstdraftmovies), which has now become a trending topic on the microblogging service .
I’m unable to trace the roots back to the person who started this as the twitter search only allows 100 pages of results, all of which are full of 1stdraftmovielines. I can tell you that over 1,500 lines have been contributed to the meme in the last 13 hours alone. (Update: William Goss informs me that it began as #1stdraftmovielines, which also has over 1,500 contributions in the last 14 hours)
Here are some examples from some people you know:
diablocody “What you just overheard was a total misunderstanding. Allow me to explain myself immediately.”
MiramaxFilms: “Tahoe, Baby. Tahoe” :-)
slashfilm “Next Saturday night, we’re sending you back to the 1985!”
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It took being called out by Hairspray director Adam Shankman to remind me that I really need to do a massive update to the Directors, Screenwriters and Actors on Twitter list that I created in March, but haven’t updated since April. We’ve added over 50 new names to the list, brining the grand total to over 175 people.
Directors:
Judd Apatow - 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People
Eric Appel - FunnyorDie director: Gobstopper, Bacon’d!
Darren Lynn Bousman - Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Repo! The Genetic Opera
David Bruckner - The Signal
Wes Craven - Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream
Cherien Dabis - Amreeka
Fred Durst - The Education of Charlie Banks, The Longshots
Dan Eckman - Mystery Team
Jon Favreau - Iron Man, Made, Zathura, Elf
Paul Feig - Freaks & Geeks, Unaccompanied Minors, I Am David
Ruben Fleischer - Zombieland
Ari Gold - The Adventures of Power
James Gunn - Slither
Jon Hurwitz - Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Malcolm Ingram - Small Town Gay Bar
Nicholas Jasenovec - Paper Heart
Rian Johnson - Brick, The Brothers Bloom
Duncan Jones - Moon
Lloyd Kaufman - The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nukem High, Tromeo and Juliet, Poultrygeist
Richard Kelly - Donnie Darko, Southland Tales
Todd Lincoln - Hack/Slash
Robert Luketic - Monster in Law, Legally Blonde, 21
David Lynch - Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr., Eraserhead, Dune
Joe Lynch - Wrong Turn 2
Jason Matzner - Dreamland
Adam McKay - Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, SNL
Errol Morris - The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line
Greg Mottola - The Daytrippers, Superbad, Adventureland
Kyle Newman - Fanboys
Jason Reitman - Thank You For Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air
Mark Romanek - One Hour Photo
Adam Shankman - Hairspray, The Wedding Planner, Bringing Down The House, Cheaper By The Dozen 2, Bedtime Stories
David Silverman - The Simpsons Movie
Kevin Smith - Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jersey Girl, Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Andrew Stanton - Finding Nemo, WALL-E, John Carter of Mars
Ondi Timoner - DiG!, We Live in Public
Lee Unkrich - Toy Story 3, co-director of Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc, Toy Story 2
David Wain - Role Models, The Ten, Wet Hot American Summer, The State
Toby Wilkins - Splinter and The Grudge 3
Rob Zombie - House of 1,000 Corpses, Halloween, Halloween II, Devil’s Rejects
Screenwriters and Actors after the jump.
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This summer, /Film considered traveling to the set of Piranha 3-D. Witnessing unlikely co-stars Richard Dreyfuss, Christopher Lloyd, Adam Scott, and completely naked bimbos battling (or getting devoured by) killer fish at the command of horror director Alex Aja is what the season is all about, no? Alas, it wasn’t meant be to be. The STD-insurance alone in the spring break hotspot of Lake Havasu, Arizona—where the film is shooting and set—is friggin’ outrageous. After informing us that we were not worthy, Piranha 3-D co-star and Human Giant comedian, Paul Scheer, offered up lots of funny, obscene and insane deets about next March’s horror flick. He also sent over this exclusive photo of his morally bankrupt character.
At times, our conversation went off the record into darker territory—a la shark viscera spilling onto a pier—but much is said below about a production that aspires to be the goriest and craziest 3-D movie ever. Paul discussed his role (it required method-acting and method-oogling), the precise amount of blood (a shit ton), Lake Havasu memories, and why Richard Dreyfuss’s sage character will seem, erm, pretty damn familiar. Chomp, chomp, chomp…
Hunter Stephenson: So Paul, I assume you wanted to do a broad family film and then you were offered Piranha 3-D. It was a matter of good timing, serendipitous.
Paul Scheer: [laughs] Yeah, well, I was trying to get Imagine That Too off the ground, where I become Eddie Murphy’s brother, and have my own adventure with my daughter. It was actually crazy, because when I first heard about this movie, it was like, “Elizabeth Shue is in Piranha 3-D, she’s awesome!” And then, you know, the title sounds cool and it sounds campy…
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Sony Pictures, the international distributor of Terminator Salvation, today has announced the launch of a Terminator Salvation alternative reality viral game on Twitter. According to the press release, the social networking game brings together “members of the human resistance” who will communicate with each other through Twitter and “turn to the community for help in decoding intercepted Skynet transmissions.”
“Players earn points through timely assistance in decoding these messages and, with these points, rise in rank within the Resistance Army. Players must constantly be on guard against the machines, which periodically and randomly choose a number of players and penalize them a percentage of their points. A companion blog augments the information within Twitter and hosts a leader board for the game.”
It could just be me, but I’m not really interested in playing a video game on the popular microblogging service. But you have to give Sony credit for attempting to enter new territory with their alternative reality game for the film. Read the full press release after the jump.
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Is it okay to Twitter during a movie? Is it okay to twitter during a movie if the other 40 people sitting around you are also tweeting?
Last night, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel and Scott Aukerman gathered at the Burbank AMC Theater with 30 random Twitter users recruited off the internet to live tweet the midnight screening of Crank 2: High Voltage. The idea was to bring a group of random people together and provide funny live commentary during a fun, yet no-thinking-required, action flick.
A fun social networking movie event eventually degraded into an anger-filled shouting match. But strangely enough, no one in the theater itself was upset about cell phone usage. It was the people at home on Twitter who were outraged.
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Crank 2: High Voltage was not screened for the press, much like the first film. So I decided to do a round up of all the fast and dirty reactions from the moviegoers that caught the midnight showing of the Neveldine/Taylor sequel. So far the consensus is that if you loved the first film, you’ll probably enjoy the second one. If you disliked the first film, you’ll probably hate the sequel.
danhacker: ‘Crank 2′ was absurd, insane, brilliant and altogether fantastic. It’s exactly what I would want from a ‘Crank‘ sequel.
WTValdes: just saw Crank 2! Just as insanely ridiculous and hilarious as the first one.
StevePhoenix: Crank 2 is good. Ridiculous, over the top and funny, but if you want a film where you don’t need to think much, this is the one for you
Tuck30: Man I thought the first crank movie was bad. The second one is even worse glad I didn’t pay
More after the jump.
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When Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, one critic live blogged his review from his cell phone in an attempt to be first. Thankfully this form of reviewing hasn’t really caught on (although, I do recall that one of the video blogs live blogging the new Street Fighter movie). The guys from Human Giant are now trying to take this idea to the next possible level… make it interactive.
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Just to update the story we posted a couple days ago , Michael Bay has NOT joined twitter. The REAL Bay posted a message on the online message board of his official website stating that he “will never have a Twitter account”.
“Twitter. Never. What a waste of time,” wrote Bay.
The confusion began when MichaelBay.com, the official site of the film director added a link directing fans to the director’s twitter account. I contacted Bay’s official webmaster, who “confirmed” that the account was legit. Who knows exactly where the lines got crossed, but it turns out the account is not real.
