Posted on 12/14/2005 6:04:03 PM PST by IowaHawk
Tinseltown Looks to '06 Rebound
Los Angeles - As the box office closes on the US film industry's worst year since 1990, showbiz insiders are looking to a strong slate of 2006 releases to help the industry snap back from the financial doldrums.
"If we've learned anything this year, it's that the market is really hungry for more good, slow, imponderable stories and dim lighting," and industry analyst Tim Jarrard of the trade journal Hollywood Reporter. "The industry has listened, and I think the public will be pleased with the direction it will be taking in 2006."
Anticipated major theatrical releases from Hollywood include:
Incident at Amity: Steven Spielberg directs this cerebral remake of Jaws slated for summer release. Insiders say the 31-year update will feature "additional points of view" and "be less judgmental to sharks." Starring Willam H. Macy as the anti-shark fundamentalist, and Tom Hanks as the Great White.
Silenced Wood: George Clooney stars and directs in this drama about the climate of fear among ventriloquists during radio's notorious Charlie McCarthy era.
Hershey Highway: Based on the Tony Kushner play, a candy factory worker (Phillip Sousa Huffnagel) and Amish teen (Joaquin Seymour Gyllenhall) find forbidden pleasure in this poignant love tale set against the gritty backdrop of Pennsylvania's chocolate belt.
Me Billy: Based on the inspirational true story of a learning disabled man (Sean Penn) who rescues New Orleans from racist flood with a magical red cup.
Baby Doc: Jamie Foxx stars in this biopic about Haitian civil rights activist wrongly accused of despotism by LA police.
Reservoir Puppies: Director Quentin Tarantino teams with Pixar in this animated children's holiday tale about six lost whelps and a botched burglary. Starring the voices of Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, and Mike Meyers as Mister Pinky.
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Da-yum, you're good. As a "inbred flyover fundie hillbilly" myself, I sincerely hope that you will never "shut the f*ck up."
Congressman Billybob
Actually, what depresses me is that Iowahawk's "fake" examples of 2006 movies ain't much different than what you'll get with real 2006 movies. And you wonder why American moviegoers are shunning Hollywood in a big way.
Me Billy. LMAO.
Silenced Wood? - is that the sequel to Brokeback Mountain?
Oh man, my sides are aching. You are a modern-day TWAIN..!
I decided to start my own conservative studio producing action scifi action films for the conservatives out there :) Well I at least have started...Hollywod is dead if it doesn't start making pro-conservative films because without them they lose money. My first film is an animated Alternate history film about Nazis zombies if you don't like scifi films you will probably hate it. http://www.statutaarmorum.com/movies.htm
I'm looking forward to "They Shoot Tookies, Don't They".
Here's hoping Hollywierd slides from the doldrums to the tarpits. Can Hollywood be outsourced, Babs included, and be forced to work in say Kabul for a couple bucks an hour? Heck, when I was a kid, I only paid a nickel to see a movie. I can't see where they're worth any more now.
Just read this at http://iowahawk.typepad.com then hopped over to FR to make sure that it was posted here (it was).
As a huge fan of Lysol Phoenix I was heartened to see that he made the list. He really brings a "fresh" approach to his roles, I think, his acting is really like a breath of fresh air.
The Charlie McCarthy era is certainly worth another cinematic look, although I've heard from folks who've seen the movie, that Clooney's performance is a tad bit wooden. Good job, as always.
I hear that there has been some unrest in the upper midwest recently...
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