Mendes tackles a "Preacher"

Sam Mendez, director of such fantastic flicks like Road to Perdition, American Beauty, and Jarhead and who is currently finishing up Revolutionary Road starring Kate Winslet (his wife) and Leo DiCaprio, will helm Preacher for Sony, based on the DC/Vertigo comic book. 

From Variety:

"Created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, graphic novel focuses on the preacher of a Texas town, who is struggling to get by and is driven only by his strong moral sense. When the city is decimated by an otherworldly force, he embarks on a journey across the country to take on the evil."

The book ran from 95-00, and won numerous Eisner awards.

Hot Chick o' The Week #22

You know what I love? Dramatic television. I loved Beverly Hills 90210 when I was a kid, I've watched every episode of the show - care of SOAP net. I actually really like the new 90210 as well. 

The hot chicks, don't make it hard.

Jessica Stroup.

She plays Kelly's younger sister Erin "Silver" Silver. 

Joaquin Phoenix quits acting...

Joaquin Phoenix, best known as Johnny Cash in Walk The Line, has decided to walk away from acting in leu of his burdgeoning music career.

Wait...what?

Austin Nichols Interview...

Austin Nichols was on one of my favorite new shows last year John From Cincinnatti and actually had a guest spot on Friday Night Lights and will actually have a guest spot on One Tree Hill that's going to be an arc of 10 episodes. Check out the interview here.

EDIT:

Austin Nichol's first episode at movie producer interested in Luke's book, "Ravens" was fucking good. He plays a good potentially bad guy.

Hot Chick O' The Week #21

I love the show Life. It's a terrific show centered around Damien Lewis, who plays Detective Crewes, a cop who was wrongfully accused and set up, and spent a good deal of time in prison; when they realized he was wrongfully accused and set out to find out who framed him.

His partner is the extremely sexy Sarah Shahi, who was on Teachers and The L Word...She's the hot chick o' the week. 

Dexter kills ...more people...

Dexter is a pretty awesome show, I personally think it's one of the best on TV...so when it gets picked up for seasons 4...and 5. It's kind of makes the day happy.

READ ME!

Craig snubs a God.

Daniel Craig, the most recent and awesome portrayer of James Bond was offered the role of Thor in Kenneth Branagh's upcoming (2011) Thor movie. He declined, however, stating it would be too much of a power trip if he were to play Bond and Thor. 

I couldn't honestly see Daniel Craig playing Thor anyway. Thor is a crazy ass ripped mother fucker, who carrys a big hammer and shoots lightning bolts from the sky. Who could I see playing Thor? I don't even have a suggest for that.  

Now...a power trip? No one even knows who Thor is. Honestly, you go up to someone on the street and they think Thor is an animated dog movie. Bond is widely known, so I don't think you'd have a problem playing both...but once again, I don't concur. 

Knight Rider gets back nine...

Critically bashed NBC reboot Knight Rider is on the recieving end of a back nine order from NBC. Which means, it has been upped to a full season order. 

The show in all actuality, has been holding pretty strong at it's Wednesday time slot, and despite the reviews, it's not that bad of a show. 

I guess it's my guilty pleasure, I love it. It's so campy, and cheesy, and Val Kilmer voices KITT, how can it be bad. 

Hot Chick o' The Week #20

Friday Night Lights was/is the best show on Television. I loved the show and actually thought it was better than the movie of the same name. Minka Kelly stars on the show as Lyla Garrity, and she is ridiculously hot. 

Star Trek pic's flood the net...

As I've said, I'm very interested in seeing JJ Abrams' Star Trek re-do. Now pictures from the flick are flooding the intraweb...

SPOCK!

KIRK!

NERO!

THE BRIDGE!

THE CREW! 

There's also a picture of the USS Kelvin getting blown to shit, but...it's not lighting the world on fire or anything. 

Henson's hedge movie bets...

The Henson's, Brian and Lisa, who are the offspring of Muppet-mastermind Jim Henson, have nabbed the script The Happytime Murders which is written by Todd Berger and is:

Written by Todd Berger from a story by Dee Austin Robertson and Berger, the story takes place in a world where humans and puppets co-exist, with the puppets viewed as second-class citizens. When the puppet cast of an '80s children's TV show called "The Happytime Gang" begins to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet -- with a drinking problem, no less -- takes on the case.

Sounds pretty interesting. 

After 40 Years ...Rolling Stone shrinks.

RollingStone is one of my favorite magazines, I've had subscriptions to it that I've paid for, as well as subscriptions that I've gotten for free, but overall it's one of the greatest magazines to read for anything. There's sports in there, there's literature in there, movies, and obviously music. 

RS was founded in 1967 by editor Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph Gleason. It was always controversial - especially when it started it's political coverage with Hunter S. Thompson (who wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) and only changed it's format once in the 90's by trying to get to a younger audience. Sales rose, but it was slammed critically because it turned into a crappy magazine. It eventually went back to being it's mixture of politics, music, etc, but sales declined, however circulation rose. 

Anywho, RS is going to shrink itself to the size of a regular magazine. 

Gossip Girl gets an extra 2 episodes...

The ratings for the sophmore show Gossip Girl are in, and they're fucking enormous. CW has announced that it wants two more episodes of Gossip Girl for the season - which pretty much solidifies a season three (me thinks). The show is really good, and I guess you could say it's a chick show, but I know dudes who watch it. It's more than about chicks who socialize, it's about drugs, sex, and rock and roll, man. 

The show stars Chace Crawford, Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, and Penn Badgely. 

USA renews some shows...

Psych and Burn Notice return for the second halfs of their respective seasons (3rd and 2nd respectfully), but USA Network has decided to pick the shows up for a 4th and 3rd season; Notice getting a 3rd and Psych getting a 4th. 

These shows are two of my absolute favorite things to watch. Psych is downright hilarious - while Burn Notice borders on seriously comedic. If you didn't know I loved the shortlived USA show Touching Evil which starred Notice lead Jeffrey Donovan - so throw in Bruce Campbell and sexy Gabrielle Anwar and I'm hooked. 

On a lighter note, the peacock (NBC) has ordered for more scripts of Knight Rider and FOX has ordered two more scripts for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. 

Hot Chick O' The Week #19

Kate Beckinsale is hot, there's no question about it, she was hot in everything from Serendipity to Laurel Canyon and obviously hot in Underworld and Underworld II. 

She's got a movie called Nothing But the Truth coming out sometime in th near future and stars opposite Matt Dillion and Alan Alda. Regardless, she is one very hot chick.

Shyamalan to scribe "Unbreakable" sequel.

Unbreakable is a rather good movie, much like his first effort The Six Sense and third movie Signs, M. Night Shyamalan made the unbelievable believable. Unbreakable starred Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson - Willis as a guy who realizes that he's got a special ability after he is the sole surviver in a devastating train crash. 

The movie is really good, if you haven't seen it - you should - but anything after Signs for M. Night Shyamalan is pretty much Unwatchable if you will. 

The Village is a fucking joke. It's not the 1300's, it's the 2000 and those people are all batshit crazy insane. 

Lady in the Water - we GET it..

The Happening...I will not rant about this movie, as much as I really want too, because I've already done so.

M. Night Shyamalan is now making a live action The Last Airbender  movie? Granted, I do not know what this movie is about, but I know it's based on some animated TV show that Justin is obsessed with. 

M. Night Shyamalan is a ...good...story teller. His ideas, however sometimes illconcieved, are interesting and thought provoking. It makes you wonder if he says something like this:

"I want to write it right now, but I want to write it for the right reasons. I want a story to pop into my head that is organic and expressive of who I am. You know, these are all kind of journals of where I am emotionally, so it's kind of hard. I'm kind of trying to go back to the journal that existed in 1999 for me. But I know me: As soon as I give up on it is when the idea will come to me.”

That he's willing to ...go back and try and save his career off of a movie that no doubt got him critical acclaim. 

Slice gets KTFO

Kimbo Slice is famous for beating up Bums in a shipyard. That's what he's famous for...fifteen minutes of internet video fame. He was supposed to fight Ken Shamrock on Saturday Night Fights on CBS ...but Shamrock cut his eye during training and couldn't fight, so they had to find a replacement. Frank Shamrock was suggested, but CBS blocked it (he's their play-by-play guy, and he's also recovering from a broken arm. He would've also given up 45 pounds to Slice). 

So they got this guy...Seth "The Silverback" Petruzelli to fight Slice...and Slice gets knocked the fuck out in 14 seconds after 12 punches from Petruzelli who gave up 30 pounds to Slice in the fight. Petruzelli is 10-4 in all of his fights combined, but hadn't fought in almost a year.

The facade of Kimbo Slice is over. 

Hot Chick O' The Week #18

Ashley Tisdale is 22 years old, so when you say "Hey Perv, this chick is High School Musical 3,000!" or whatever, be aware that she's pretty hot and she's 22 years old, not 15.