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AmorRoark said:
Those 'commentators' or whatever fucking sucked. But that guy who put him in a lock is a fucking champ. Best part: "I have a cheeseburger & it tastes good". I want that guy as my friend. Just sitting there, alone, eating his burger, sober, making fun of this idiot, then taking matters only to control the idiot. Love it.
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Too bad it's staged.
 
^ :X lol. del toro will remain involved in the project - he will stay on to work as a screenwriter. Sir Peter Jackson says he will step into the breach and direct The Hobbit himself if it becomes the only way to ensure the US$150 million (NZ$219m) film is made after the sudden departure of director Guillermo del Toro. www.theonering.net make that happen mgm kthx.

one more random clip: kate hudson impersonates drew barrymore hilarious.
 
that's great news. :D:D:D:D

edit: oh wait... darkhorizons say different

What a difference a few days make. Last week quotes from filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro taken at the "Splice" junket earlier in May were published where MGM's continuing financial difficulties were cited as the major reason that the much anticipated film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" couldn't continue beyond the pre-production phase as yet.

Yet the "Pan's Labyrinth" director sounded upbeat that it was only a matter of time and was very proud of the nearly two years of work he had put into the project as director and co-writer. So, when he confirmed he was stepping down as director over the weekend, the ensuing response has been a large and understandable amount of shock and sadness.

In a statement given to TheOneRing.net, both Del Toro and Peter Jackson talk about former's departure from the big chair, the reasoning behind it, and his continued involvement in other capacities on the project.

Del Toro says "In light of ongoing delays in the setting of a start date for filming The Hobbit I am faced with the hardest decision of my life. After nearly two years of living, breathing and designing a world as rich as Tolkien's Middle Earth, I must, with great regret, take leave from helming these wonderful pictures. I remain grateful to Peter, Fran and Philippa Boyens, New Line and Warner Brothers and to all my crew in New Zealand. I've been privileged to work in one of the greatest countries on earth with some of the best people ever in our craft and my life will be forever changed. The blessings have been plenty, but the mounting pressures of conflicting schedules have overwhelmed the time slot originally allocated for the project. Both as a co-writer and as a director, I wlsh the production nothing but the very best of luck and I will be first in line to see the finished product. I remain an ally to it and its makers, present and future, and fully support a smooth transition to a new director".

Jackson added "We feel very sad to see Guillermo leave The Hobbit, but he has kept us fully in the loop and we understand how the protracted development time on these two films, due to reasons beyond anyone's control - has compromised his commitment to other long term projects. The bottom line is that Guillermo just didn't feel he could commit six years to living in New Zealand, exclusively making these films, when his original commitment was for three years. Guillermo is one of the most remarkable creative spirits I've ever encountered and it has been a complete joy working with him. Guillermo's strong vision is engrained into the scripts and designs of these two films, which are extremely fortunate to be blessed with his creative DNA".

Jackson went on to confirm Del Toro's certainly far from done with these movies - "Guillermo is co-writing the Hobbit screenplays with Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh and myself, and happily our writing partnership will continue for several more months, until the scripts are fine tuned and polished. New Line and Warner Bros will sit down with us this week, to ensure a smooth and uneventful transition, as we secure a new director for The Hobbit. We do not anticipate any delay or disruption to ongoing pre-production work".

Deadline added a little more to the story, namely dismissing the one rumor that was bound to immediately pop-up after the news was announced - that Jackson himself would step in as director. Jackson's manager Ken Kamins pretty clearly shoots down the possibility, saying "Peter has and has had obligations and commitments to other films that would make it impossible for him to direct 'The Hobbit 'at this time, even if it was offered, which it hasn't been." He also added Jackson had been quietly lining up another project which he was planning to direct while Del Toro was going to shoot "The Hobbit".
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http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/17372/guillermo-del-toro-off-the-hobbit-
 
^ the hobbit is playing with my emotions. never ending cycle of happy to sad, reading the above once again :(

today i finished watching the foreign language films that were nominated for an oscar this year. thoughts on the two i watched tonight...

The Secret in Their Eyes the winner, second biggest film in argentina. ok it was a damn good mystery, great acting, some hilarious lol moments and chilling revelations. imo tho the very ending was too cliche . also the places it was shot like court house, restaurants, rural area made argentina look like a beautiful country, im sure it is IRL. if u liked the film "atonement" which this reminded me of and a good mystery def give it a shot. with that being said, it still wasn't as good as the white ribbon which imo should have won, tho that just may be the haneke fanboy in me :\.

Ajami couldn't have picked a better time to watch this one as its extremely relevant to whats going on in israel/gaza/west bank. its co-written / co-directed by an arab israeli and jewish israeli set in an actual impoverished Christian-and-Muslim Palestinian neighborhood of the Tel Aviv - Jaffa metropolis, called Ajami. it has a few different story lines going on and some are shown twice from different perspectives which i thought was extremely well done to get its point across. we don't know the facts about every situation and our perceptions of situations are coloured by our own biases,yet we decide that we know enough about a situation to judge and are "neutral" enough to pass the "right" judgment, but our judgments are absolutely wrong and heavily biased. And that applies to how everyone outside of Israel/Gaza/West Bank judges that situation. also the fact that in the end many innocent lives are lost. (from imdb board) its so true watching the news from cnn to aljazeera and reading the threads about in ce&p

i recommend all the foreign language films nominated for an oscar this year. hmm what to watch next... =D
 
current tv addiction: Caprica
super ill futuristic world. sci-fi boooooooner. zoe is hella cute. i'll finish the last 3 eps tonight and get caught up. bowls packed n' ready woot. edit * just finished so dope lol.

soon to be tv addiction: bravo's work of art greatest idea bravo came up with imo. think project runway/ top chef but with artists! reality tv boooooner
and this guy as the tim gunn
NSFW:
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"My approach to art is purely phys-ee-cal," offers de Pury. "I normally know in the first split second if it's a great work or not." Oh sweet Jesus. Have you ever heard anything so deliciously pompous in your entire life? This guy is my new TV hero. But what is he doing on TV?

Some of the show's competitors seem to be wondering the same thing about themselves. "This is the first time my art's been out of the house, " says Erik Johnson, 30. "I just don't want to fall on my face."

Too late for that. Judith describes Erik's first piece as "high-school amateurish," and Mark Velasquez, 32, who has a day job as a fry cook, says, "That's what you make when you're a cool, angsty guy freshman year in college."
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ahem...

King Shot is an unrealized film by Alejandro Jodorowsky.The cast included Nick Nolte, Asia Argento, Marilyn Manson, Udo Kier, and Santiago Segura. The story was set in a casino in the desert and involved gangsters, the discovery of a man as big as King Kong, and Marilyn Manson as a 300 year old pope.

id literally sacrifice one my testicles for this to be made.

quotes worth quoting from jodorowsky interview.

Film industry has become the ally of the food industry. Films need to be simple because people go to the movies to digest what they’ve eaten just before. And you can’t scare them, otherwise they fart..

No, well… Actually, only one scene was shot after taking shrooms. And we messed up. We had to reach a holy place, the top of the pyramid. The actors and I decided to be as mystical as the place we were in. But I made a mistake, I did not force my cameraman to take magic mushrooms as well. He was sober. He saw us and laughed at us as you laugh at drunkards. He decided to put a distorting lens, to shoot us in a ridiculous, psychedelic way. It was a shitty effect on a beautiful, rare, and clean scene which you should not touch. So we climb the pyramid, guided by our supra-conscience.

“For you,” he said, “I can give you illumination in eight hours.”OK, I said, let’s go… We give him $17,000 and he comes to a luxurious hotel in Mexico. We chat, he takes out a small pack of orange powder and makes me drink it. I had just paid $17,000 for LSD!!! It was not working, so he took out Thai marijuana, and then.. I was seeing Picassos, Renoirs by the window, it looked like Walt Disney with colors everywhere. It lasted eight hours.

They bought Dune’s rights for like nothing. Frank Herbert told them they’re crazy, there’s no way you can put this on a screen. Meanwhile I was going to Paris and in the plane I started reading it. I realized it was impossible so I re-wrote the whole script. Orson Welles, Dali, David Carradine, Udo Kier, Gloria Swanson, Mick Jagger, and Leonard Cohen agreed to play in the film; Pink Floyd and Magma were supposed to do the soundtrack.
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F&T folks, i need help.

My boyfriend has never seen the skit from classic SNL with Billy Crystal and Martin Short. It takes place in WWII- they storm a house and the walkie-talkies are out. The only mode of communication is a phone on the second floor, but all the soldiers are hurt except Martin Short. Yet, Martin Short does not know how to climb stairs.

any help is appreciated. thanks guise.
 
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