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John Hughes Top Ten Films ~ From ‘Sixteen Candles’ to ‘Vacation’

48 minutes ago | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »

Part of MovieSet’s Remembering John Hughes special series Top Ten John Hughes Film

Everyone loves at least one John Hughes movie! It’s a fact I looked it up. With John Hughes you can pretty much re-arrange his classic films in any order because fans celebrate his entire catalog.

I happen to love almost every John Hughes movie (he wrote the story for Drillbit Taylor… Seth you could have saved this couldn’t you?) Anyway, let us celebrate ten films from Mr. Hughes that no matter what time they’re on, or at what point in the film we enter upon, we will watch (again) till the end.

10) Sixteen Candles

Before you ask, yes, you can borrow my underpants.

9) Weird Science

It’s 2009 and there still isn’t an app for making a babe-servant?! Damn it!

8) Some Kind of Wonderful

There might be some middle ground between empty handed and diamond earrings worth exploring? »

- Blaine Jeffery

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“DVD Viewpoint” Review of ‘Don’t you Forget About Me’ - John Hughes Documentary

13 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »

Part of MovieSet’s Remembering John Hughes special series

“DVD Viewpoint” Review of ‘Don’t You Forget About Me’ By Bradley Carver

for MovieSet.com

Rarely have any movies touched base with who teenagers really are as the movies directed by John Hughes. They capture the innocent spirit that has been lost in the films of today. ‘Don’t You Forget About Me’ is a documentary by a group of inspiring young directors that pays homage to John hughes, and attempts to figure out why John Hughes faded from the spotlight.

The documentary focuses on John’s major, and most memorable works which includes, ‘The Breakfast Club’, ‘Sixteen Candles’, ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’, ‘Pretty In Pink’, and ‘Weird Science’.

Director John Hughes

The group of directors travel a great distance in hope of finding The man who, perhaps unknowingly, has impacted so many lives with his movies. Along their »

- bradleycarver

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Legendary Storyteller for a Generation - John Hughes not forgotten

12 November 2009 1:41 PM, PST | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »

Part of MovieSet’s Remembering John Hughes special series

By Kl Hedberg

for MovieSet.com

Filming began in 2006. On August 6th of this year, my generation and those that have followed, lost a legendary storyteller. John Hughes sudden death at 59 was like losing a family member for many of us who saw his films as a mirror of our teenage years. I grew up in Evanston, Illinois, the setting for many Hughes films. I can remember fellow classmates trying to be extras when he posted open calls for his films. The excitement of Hollywood coming to the Midwest was more than we could bear. When the films were then released in theatres, we would try to spot our friends or classmates in the scenes. There really wasn’t a need to seek anyone out in particular as each character was our classmate or friend. We saw ourselves in each cast member. »

- Dave

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Gleeful Moment of Glee: A Rainbow Jam Session!

15 October 2009 6:02 AM, PDT | People.com - TV Watch | See recent People.com - TV Watch news »

The way Sue Sylvester sees it, and don't forget to cup your hand to form a 'C', dividing the glee club is the way to conquer it. Trying to create a racial split, Sue even plays her own minority card, claiming on "Sue's Corner" that she is one sixteenth Comanche! But who would ever believe glee could be so easily relieved? Though Glee's plot points are getting nuttier (a compromised ob-gyn? a Sixteen Candles-esque ploy for panties?), the number of musical numbers are on the rise, and although many are whimsical and fun, nothing came close to the exuberance the 12 clubbers shared when they jammed on Nelly's "Ride With Me." No, it mustn't be the money -- must be the fun! -- Cynthia Wang Tell us: What was your favorite moment of Glee? »

- StyleWatch

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Next 'Vacation' Movie to Focus on Rusty Griswold

7 October 2009 8:30 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Warner Bros. is passing the torch of its "National Lampoon's Vacation" franchise to subsidiary New Line Cinema, which is appropriate since the series itself is making a similar generational transition. According to The Hollywood Reporter, following four installments focused on Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) and family during different vacations -- plus one spin-off involving a holiday taken by the motley clan of Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) -- the franchise has been inherited by Clark's son Rusty, who now has a family of his own.

Rusty Griswold has been played by four different actors throughout the series' run. Anthony Michael Hall was the first to play the son, appropriate since the original film was scripted and based on a short story by the late John Hughes, who went on to turn the kid into a star with roles in "Sixteen Candles," "Weird Science" and "The Breakfast Club."

Hughes also wrote the first two sequels, »

- Christopher Campbell

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Diablo Cody brings her '90s teen talk to 'Sweet Valley High'

24 September 2009 11:25 AM, PDT | Denver Movies Examiner | See recent Denver Movies Examiner news »

Oscar-winning scribe Diablo Cody will write and produce a movie version of Sweet Valley High.

The Sweet Valley book series, which revolves on identical twins with, like, so different personalities, was created in 1983 by Francine Pascal and continued through a series of spooooky ghostwriters.

A bad TV series based on the books ran for 88 episodes from 1994 to 1997 on Fox and Upn.

Cody, whose latest work on Jennifer’s Body was less than desirable, caught a lot of flak for her annoying writing which is filled with pop-culture references and countless jokes about women’s hygiene products.

Do you think you’re writing will hold up over the next few decades?

“I like when I watch an old movie and they make a reference to something random,” the stripper-turned-Juno scribe told IFC. “Like, when you’re watching Sixteen Candles, and they talk about her dream gift is a pink Trans-Am. »

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Oscar-winning scribe Diablo Cody to write and produce a movie version of ‘Sweet Valley High’

23 September 2009 7:05 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

Oscar-winning scribe Diablo Cody will write and produce a movie version of Sweet Valley High.

The Sweet Valley book series, which revolves on identical twins with, like, so different personalities, was created in 1983 by Francine Pascal and continued through a series of spooooky ghostwriters.

A bad TV series based on the books ran for 88 episodes from 1994 to 1997 on Fox and Upn.

Cody, whose latest work on Jennifer’s Body was less than desirable, caught a lot of flak for her annoying writing which is filled with pop-culture references and countless jokes about women’s hygiene products.

Do you think you’re writing will hold up over the next few decades?

“I like when I watch an old movie and they make a reference to something random,” the stripper-turned-Juno scribe told IFC. “Like, when you’re watching Sixteen Candles, and they talk about her dream gift is a pink Trans-Am. »

- Erik Buckman

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Cody 'not worried about being outdated'

20 September 2009 2:56 PM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Diablo Cody has insisted that she is not worried that her signature style of writing will be perceived as being outdated in years to come. The Jennifer's Body screenwriter has said that she finds random references in older films to be "beautiful" and reminiscent of the times. Cody told IFC: "No. I like when I watch an old movie and they make a reference to something random. Like, when you're watching Sixteen Candles, and they talk about [how] her dream gift is a pink Trans-Am. It puts the movie in a specific place, and it's kind of beautiful." The 31-year-old Oscar (more) »

- By Marcell Minaya

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Ceaseless deaths of the famous mark summer `09

18 September 2009 5:57 PM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »

We had been told to expect the deaths of the famous to come in threes, not in the dozens.But all through the summer of 2009 came a ceaseless and somber drumbeat, as idols of all walks of life passed away. From Walter Cronkite to Sen. Ted Kennedy, the nonstop loss of luminaries continued almost as if a seasonal occurrence . as much a part of summer as hot dogs and humidity.If a filmmaker were trying to capture the summer of 2009, Michael Jackson news would be playing in the background. Many thought coverage of Jackson's death was too much; a Pew Research Center poll released in July found that 64 percent of those surveyed thought the media blitz was overdone (though none could top MTV Japan, which designated an entire week of mourning for Jackson).But news outlets went heavy on coverage for the many others who passed. Collectively, it made the constant commemorating hard to escape, »

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Diablo Cody's "Body" Language

17 September 2009 8:12 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Nobody, not even Diablo Cody (née Brook Busey) herself, could have predicted that this former blogger with a short-lived stripping hobby (the basis for her 2006 memoir "Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper") would end up winning an Academy Award for her very first screenplay, 2007's "Juno." Known for her snappy dialogue and pop-cultural quips (i.e. "That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, Homeskillet."), Cody has become one of the most recognizable screenwriters working today, in part because of her colorful past and spunky personality. Expanding into television, she's already at work on a second season of Showtime's "United States of Tara," a dramedy series she developed with Steven Spielberg.

Opening this weekend is Cody's second feature as screenwriter, "Jennifer's Body." What's perhaps most surprising is that she's getting more above-the-title attention than either the film's director, Karyn Kusama ("Girlfight") or rising starlet Megan Fox. »

- Aaron Hillis

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Cool Stuff: Jay Ryan’s John Hughes Posters

16 September 2009 10:25 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

If you follow the Alamo Drafthouse's Mondo Tees shop on Twitter (@MondoNews) you might have seen a mention recently that the shop would be selling some John Hughes posters. Now they're in and on sale to internet shoppers as of now. Jay Ryan has created two images, one for The Breakfast Club and one for Sixteen Candles. Each poster is 20" x 26, signed and numbered by Ryan for $30. The Sixteen Candles poster is in an edition of 225, the Breakfast Club image is in an edition of 230. And if you liked the Aaron Horkey poster for Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man I posted on Monday, Mondo has a few of those, too. The edition is slightly different than the one that sold out immediately on Monday, and is slightly cheaper, too: $110 instead of $145. (Edit: that one went fast. Within two hours the Dead Man posters were ... »

- Russ Fischer

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Remembering Elvis and Anabelle: Blake Lively's Real Breakthrough

9 September 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »

This week The Cold Case remembers Elvis & Anabelle, the 2007 indie that links Gossip Girl, the Weinsteins and Edgar Allen Poe.

If Prince Charming brought Sleeping Beauty back from her deathly slumber in the media-saturated 21st century, then he'd be plastered across the tabloids as a necrophiliac perv while she'd be hounded by Oprah for a tell-all interview. And that's precisely what happens in 2007's Elvis & Anabelle, a dark and dreamy slice of Southern gothic romance that's not too far removed from our previous Cold Case, Lawn Dogs.

Playing like a cross between Six Feet Under and Sixteen Candles, writer-director Will Geiger's indie pairs Max Minghella's mortician Elvis with Blake Lively's bulimic beauty queen Anabelle. When she snuffs it at the very moment she's crowned Miss Texas Rose, her body winds up on the slab of his family's funeral home, which he's had to run singlehandedly since his »

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Labor Day TV Marathons (and the movies you'll watch again...and again)

6 September 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Whether you're looking to stay on the sofa or you need to know what channels to avoid so you don't end up there on Monday, here's our cheat sheet of notable Labor Day TV marathons. Because we know certain movies can be as sure a thing as, say, 19 hours of The Golden Girls, 18 hours of Dirty Jobs, and 15 hours of NCIS, we've included a bonus list of films to watch/not watch. TV Marathons, Monday, Sept. 7: A&E: Criminal Minds (8 a.m. to 8 p.m.) ABC Family: Secret Life of the American Teenager (11 a.m. to 9 p.m.) Animal Planet: Whale Wars (11 a.m. to 10 p.m.) BBC America: Torchwood: Children of the Earth (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) Bet: The Game (9 a.m. to 11 p.m.) Bravo: The Real Housewives of Atlanta (10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) and Top Chef: Las Vegas (3:30 p. »

- Mandi Bierly

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Miramax Blows Out All '32 Candles'

27 August 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- The John Hughes' legacy lives on. After fan appreciation week since his death, Miramax Films is putting a project together that seems to takes its cues from Sixteen Candles. The Variety blurb tells us that author Ernessa Carter had her novel 32 Candles optioned by the indie unit.  This is a fairy tale about an ugly duckling from a Mississippi town who escapes to Los Angeles. The novel's central character reinvents herself as a beautiful lounge singer and runs into her high school crush; unaware of her true identity, he finds himself as in love with her as she once was with him. Carter is a blogger at www.fierceandnerdy.com and apparently comes across as a Hughes-Molly Ringwald fan - she apparently penned another book called "Molly Ringwald Ending." ... »

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Sixteen Candles Por Vida: Still Remembering John Hughes

24 August 2009 8:58 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

Lots of news to report: Tom Daschle is a lobbyist, there's weed killer in our tap water, cold summertime soups look delicious and difficult to make, and John Hughes is still missed. Damian Kolody, an independent filmmaker in New York, on why some people were really affected by his death: Who am I? Where do I belong? These are the fundamental questions of youth on the quest for discovering their identity. In adolescence, there were some of us that just didn't seem to belong to any of the group identities that were available to us. Or perhaps the idea of faking behavior and taste to find approval from peers was a less than palatable option. Or more likely, the groups didn't want to include us. Conversations about us were sure to involve the words, weird, strange, and different. In any case... »

- Andrea Chalupa

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Boos! and Whoop-doos!: The Power of F*@# in a PG-13 World

21 August 2009 12:30 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Fuck? Whoop-doo!

The fabulous "fuck" word. A pair of glistening titties. A subplot about spoiled underpants. Gratuitous underage alcohol consumption. Granny bashing. And a horny Asian co-op student that rubs his dick on a seven-foot tall beast of a woman. All in a PG rated movie. What? How did this happen? The year was 1984, and John Hughes got away with murder. His film Sixteen Candles came just before Mola Ram graciously ripped the heart out of an extra on the set of Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom. Moments before Steven Spielberg preformed this one malicious act on the filmgoing youth of America, our PG rated films used to be a lot meaner. Sexier. Funnier. Right on the edge of being R rated. Now, most PG-13 films won't touch the material found in those early PG rated affairs. You need look no further than the original The Bad News Bears »

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Free Flick Fridays: My So-Called Life

14 August 2009 1:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »

My So-Called Life Created by Winnie Holzman (1994) Without Molly Ringwald as John Hughes' confused, realistic, awkward teenage muse in Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink, we wouldn't have Angela Chase, the over-thinking, constantly questioning lead embodied by Claire Danes in the short-lived TV series My So-Called Life. The two girls even share constant pouts and fire-engine red hair, even if Chase hit the Manic Panic dye in the pilot episode since her hair was holding her back... My So-Called Life is simply one of the best shows about teenagers ever (alongside the late, great Freaks and Geeks), and what made it so wonderful was that it was sensitive, well-observed, and strikingly ordinary. It follows a 15-year-old girl, Angela Chase (a luminous Danes in the role that made her a star), in her sophomore year, in a suburban town outside Philadelphia (the time period? very plaid-and-grunge 90s »

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John Hughes remembered: Stars from 'Bueller,' 'Pretty in Pink,' and more pay tribute

13 August 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Before Generation X even had a name, John Hughes gave it a voice. For these kids of the Reagan era, the movies he wrote and directed in his ’80s heyday — Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off — captured how it felt to be a teenager with an accuracy and sensitivity so uncanny, it often felt as though he’d jimmied the lock on your private diary. He only directed eight films, yet Hughes’ additional string of hits as a writer and producer, culminating in the juggernaut Home Alone franchise, established him as a dominant force in comedy — and then, at the height of his power, he dropped out of sight, becoming Hollywood’s answer to J.D. Salinger. Even in his absence, Hughes’ knack for translating the humor and heartache of adolescence to the screen would continue to resonate with teens and leave a lasting mark on the movie business, »

- Josh Rottenberg

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John Hughes Remembered: Lea Thompson (Amanda from 'Some Kind of Wonderful')

13 August 2009 2:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Lea Thompson: It's so sad. John, what a talent! The thing I remember about him as an artist was how much he invested in his characters. These people lived and breathed. He knew all his characters so well. That's a really special gift. Most screenwriters that I've worked with didn't have so much invested in their characters. I remember that when I was shooting a scene in Some Kind of Wonderful, he came to visit, and he said, "Can I look in your bag?" I had my, you know, my prop bag. And he looked in my bag, and I was so happy that I had stuff in there. It wasn't just like paper. Because he was interested in if you had worked on your character enough that you actually knew what they would carry in their bag. They weren't just teen movies to him. They were people. They »

- EW staff

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John Hughes Remembered: Kelly Lynch (Grey from 'Curly Sue')

13 August 2009 2:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Kelly Lynch: John Hughes was sort of our J.D. Salinger, in a way. He was very much mysterious and yet very accessible. For my age group, those '80s movies -  Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller – were huge. Not only were the films about people my age that I could actually relate to, they were very moving, and very kind of real and hysterically funny. He wrote all these misfit kids, and yet every one of them is adorable and you love them, from the biggest geek to the cool girl in school. He didn't do it with a hammer. It was delicate and lovely. I worked with Jim Belushi, and Jim kind of had his armor up and was protecting himself. So during Jim's really poignant monologue, John started playing a CD of embarrassing sound effects: toilets flushing, a horn honking, people farting. John wanted Jim »

- EW staff

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