Monday, November 16, 2009

Page 2

The Men Who Stare A Goatse

Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn't make the front page of /Film. After the jump we've included 55 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It's like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness.

The Men Who Stare at Goatse. [tdw]

/Film is the 46th most retweeted news source on Twitter, and the the #1 retweeted movie related news source according to Tweetmeme's new leaderboard section.

The Carrie Musical is getting cast: Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will play the gym teacher Ms. Garder, while Tony nominees Marin Mazzie will portray Margaret White, Jennifer Damiano will play Sue, and American Idol finalist Diana DeGarmo will play Chris! [playbill]

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ThinkGeek has put the Star Wars Tauntaun Sleeping Bag up for preorder, set to ship on November 30th 2009. But the actual LucasFilm produced product doesn't look nearly as cool as the original April Fools Day concept.

Roland Emmerich talks to Rotten Tomatoes about his five favorite films.

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Jeff Stahler shows us the difference between 1969 and 2009.

Vice lists the top ten most dubious films released in the Criterion Collection.

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are now hiring. [tdw]

Watch out a featurette for the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks HBO miniseries The Pacific.

Prolific TV comedy writer David Lloyd (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Cheers, Taxi, Frasier) has died. [finke]

FirstShowing has a great interview with Richard Kelly where they talk spoilers for Kelly's new movie The Box.

DenofGeek lists 19 movies that can be watched again and again and again.

Rotten Tomatoes counts down ten movies that changed (the end of) the world.

James Cameron tells Playboy that he really had no interest in making a movie about the Titanic: ""I made Titanic because I wanted to dive to a shipwreck, not because I particularly wanted to make the movie…Titanic was about 'f*ck you' money." [cinematical]

The Shining Anime

If The Shining was an Anime, it would look something like this wonderful art created by Katie Williamson. [patches]

More Actors on Twitter: Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH), Verne Troyer (@VerneTroyer), Olivia Wilde (@oliviawilde)

USA Network has renewed its contract with World Wrestling Entertainment through the fall of 2014. [livefeed]

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Bloody Disgusting has two new stills from Hammer Films' The Resident, which stars Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Christopher Lee and Lee Pace.

James Cameron is to receive the Lucky Brand™ Modern Master Award at the Santa Barbara fest. [incontention]

Howl's Moving Castle LEGO

Someone built Howl's Moving Castle using LEGO. [boingboing]

Urban Dictionary has added Junophobia, an irrational fear of teenagers who incorporate more than 10% of Diablo Cody's slang into their lexicon.  [joblo]

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My Fetus Totally Looks Like The Emperor (via TotallyLooksLike.com).

IndieWire lists the decade's worst Oscar snubs.

ScriptShadow has a screenplay review of Nathan Parker's adaptation of Irish noir writer Ken Bruen's

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