Comments on: Let’s Get Musical: Jim Carrey And Jake Gyllenhaal Sing ‘Damn Yankees’

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:37:00 +0000

a baby named jesus: sounds great, email me.

By: A Baby Named Jesus

A Baby Named Jesus — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:35:00 +0000

This film sounds absolutely stupid. I have no interest whatsoever in seeing it, snob or no snob...

As far as "Brothers" goes, i've read you write a couple times about the film being in "limbo" or some such.

It isn't.

The film tested EXTREMELY well with test audiences. So much so that producer Mike DeLuca and director Jim Sheridan thought the film was Oscar worthy.

The film was first supposed to be released on December 3rd, but neither Gyllenhaal nor Portman were available for the marketing of it. Jake especially was still filming the $150 million+ Disney film Prince of Persia and absolutely couldn't break away from that to do a two or three week promotion tour.

Thus, DeLuca decided to hold off on releasing it for that reason. The film is done, and has been done since December, and is now rumored to be premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Then Toronto in September. Then wide release in late September or early October.

The producers want to go for Oscars. That's it. That's the story here.

The film will be released by MGM in the US, by Alliance in England, Canada and Australia. I'm not sure who is releasing it elsewhere.

Everything is good.

Apparently Jake and Natalie are really good in this, according to those early test screenings, getting perfect, or near perfect, scores. Very strong chemistry between the two apparently. Tobey got a bit of a mixed reaction. I guess he didn't do psycho well enough, or maybe it was just the nature of his character.

Either way, I think this film may surprise people. The only thing that may hurt it is the fact that it's pretty much a straight remake from the original Danish version. There are very few differences from the first film. Critics may cry, "redundancy."

Although I'm sure they're very glad right now they stuck with the Afghanistan war and didn't make it about Iraq --- as they were originally going to.

This is one instance where the writers strike helped a film about to go into production in the fall/winter of 2007.

There just wasn't an opportunity to mess it up.

By: stephen

stephen — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:00:00 +0000

A lot of the first Addams Family movie was taken from the comic…it could have been good, it just had a retarded plot.

By: Chadams

Chadams — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:16:00 +0000

Isn’t it a shame to realize that Hugh Jackman’s overeager proclamation that “The Musical is back!!!!” at the Oscars is coming true?

And The Addams Family could be cool if it’s taken more from the original comic strips instead of the show or movies. Hell, even the show’s got some kitsch that could be mined just right. That said, it’ll probably be awful. Who am I kidding?

By: Flosh

Flosh — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:06:00 +0000

Carrey and Gyllenhaal ought to be fine, but unless they find someone great to play Lola (and off the top of my head I can’t think of anyone who could be Gwen Verdon’s equal) the rest won’t mean a thing.

By: SoulFinger

SoulFinger — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:49:00 +0000

No you didn't say you don't know "correction" you've never seen the 1958 warner brothers classic staring Ray Walston, as the "The Devil" - Gwen Verdon as the seductress "Lola" and Tab Hunter as "Joe hardy".

Ray defined the Devil perfectly, I only wish I had seen the stage play, you've got to rent a copy to judge if a remake will be as good as the original. And if I my suggest the following two films:

(1) The Bad Seed - the child is buck wild and Leroy is a trip

(2) Lord Of The Flies 1963 version, get the Criterion DVD you'll thank me.

oh and one last film that just came to mind, also on Criterion DVD

"The Wages of Fear - Criterion Collection (1955)"

Sit back and enjoy what film making today strives to be, as it once was, memorable