The Happytime Murders
Thanks to the success of the Muppets movie, things have now shaken loose for the film The Happytime Murders, a puppet/human murder mystery movie that has been in development since 2008. The Happytime Murders are set in a world where puppets and people live together, but puppets are treated as second-class citizens.When the puppet cast of an 1980s kids TV show gets murdered one by one, a disgraced detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case.
Brian Henson will direct, and the script is written by Todd Berger and Dee Austin Robertson. And Katherine Heigl is going to be in it for some reason.
Categories: Movie News Tags: Brian Henson, Dee Austin Robertson, Katherine Heigl, The Happytime Murders, Todd Berger
Check out this AWFUL 3D Star Wars Episode 1 Trailer
For those of you who are lucky, you will be unaware that this trailer is narrated in the style of the Disney BLAM! If you aren’t lucky, then you clicked that link and are now wondering why there is a moron explaining everything happening during the cartoon and saying lame jokes. Apparently kids these days are wet cardboard box stupid or something.
At least check out this Disney BLAM! parody
Categories: Movie News Tags: Disney BLAM!, Episode 1, Star Wars
Adam Sandler is now the Lord of Candy Land
Remember back in the day when we were promised the Candy Land movie would be like Lord of the Rings, except everyone would probably get diabetes by the third film and be missing legs? Well, that dream is as dead as your dreams of becoming an astronaut, because now Adam Sandler will star in the Candy Land movie and co-write it with Robert Smigel. This is fallout of the collapse of the Universal/Hasbro deal, which also claimed the lives of the Clue movie among others. Stretch Armstrong jumped ship to Relativity Media, and now Sony snagged Candy Land. Will the Viewmaster movie find a place? What about the movie for Uno? Because we need an Uno movie. We need it to be like Lord of the Rings for card games…
This image came up when i searched for "Adam Sandler Eating Candy", so here it is
Categories: Movie News Tags: Adam Sandler, Candyland, Kevin Lima, Robert Smigel
Stretch Armstrong cannot die, extends release date to April 2014
Yes, that’s a terrible title pun. But regardless, the Stretch Armstrong film starring Taylor Lautner was dropped by Universal a short while back as Universal began pulling away from some of the Hasbro films (because Battleship is going to flop like 10,000 dolphins at Sea World!) But never fear, Relativity Media has come to save the day, and the now shirtless werewolf free Stretch Armstrong will be around to lose them money now!The Stretch Armstrong toys are probably more interesting than the movie. Besides our hero Stretch Armstrong, the original 1970s line had Stretch Monster and Stretch Octopus!
But when Stretch Armstrong was rebooted in the 1990s, he has a host of new villains! There was his evil brother Wretch Armstrong, the evil Vac-Man, and Stretch’s new canine companion Fetch Armstrong!
And let’s not forget this version, which sadly is not stingray-proof…
Categories: Movie News Tags: Hasbro, Relativity Media, Stretch Armstrong, Taylor Lautner, toys, Universal
The Muppets attack Fox News!
It’s a good day when a major media company gets into a war of words with some puppets, and that day is upon us as Fox News’s attacks that the Muppet movie has a liberal agenda against oil companies gets a succinct and direct assessment by Miss Piggy.
Categories: Movie News, Wingnut Web Tags: FoxNews, Muppets
Woody Woodpecker laughing his way to the big screen
Walter Lantz’s Woody Woodpecker will be hitting the big screen, in an updated “modernized” version of the character. Expect him to rap and ride a skateboard, Poochie style! Though it probably won’t be that bad. Maybe. Hopefully. Universal’s animation arm, Illumination, will be doing the animating (thus making it likely CGI.) They did the work on Despicable Me and The Lorax. John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky – two writers of Blades of Glory – are in talks to script. Hopefully this leads to a Chilly Willy film! The world needs more animated penguin films…
image via
Categories: Movie News Tags: Dave Krinsky, Illumination, John Altschuler, Woody Woodpecker
Zombie Ass Trailer
Noboru Iguchi’s Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead premiered at Fantastic Fest (review here), but here is a trailer for the rest of us!
The plot again:
We are going to flush you! The most crap-tastic zombie movie ever to emerge from the sewers of low-budget filmmaking is finally upon us, and it’s from the perverted mind of cinematic madman and legendary ass-fetishist Noboru Iguchi, creator of THE MACHINE GIRL, ROBO-GEISHA and KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR! Given free reign by a generous, independent producer to plumb the depths of his toilet-obsessed imagination, Iguchi has created a splatter comedy guaranteed to warm the bowels of those with the stomach for it. Wracked with guilt over the suicide of her sister Ai, who was tormented by high school bullies, pretty young karate student Megu accompanies a group of older friends on a camping trip into the woods: smart girl Aya, her druggie boyfriend Také, big-boobed model Maki, and nerdy Naoi. Things start to go badly when Maki finds a parasitical worm inside a fish they catch – and wolfs it down alive, in the hope that it’ll help keep her skinny! Soon after, and not so unexpectedly in situations like this, zombies show up and begin to complicate things further. After they’re attached by a crowd of poop-covered undead who emerge from an outhouse toilet, the group seeks refuge at the home of strange Dr. Tanaka and his daughter Sachi. But unbeknownst to them, Tanaka has been conducting experiments on the parasites—and the zombies!—and has another fate in mind for the five strangers from the city. What’s the connection between the parasites and the zombies? And can Megu’s karate alone help them escape, or will she have to rely on the liberating power of farts to save the day? Featuring special effects by FF 2009-2010 guest Yoshihiro Nishimura, and some truly jaw-dropping contributions from Iguchi’s genius subconscious (parasite anus-zombies?!?), ZOMBIE ASS is a heaping plate of bad taste that may go down rough but is guaranteed to come out smooth and regular.
Watch a trailer of something called “Zombie Ass” at work at your own discretion!
via Twitch
Categories: Movie News Tags: Asami, Asana Mamori, Demo Tanaka, Japan, Noboru Iguchi
