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Legendary Storyteller for a Generation - John Hughes not forgotten

3 hours ago | 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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Watch This: Movie Titles That Slip Into the Dialogue

5 November 2009 2:32 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Watch a lot of movies, and you'll get conditioned to look for that special moment when it all comes together and someone utters the words that also happen to make up the title of the movie. Sometimes it's inevitable -- if the film is titled after a character's name, or the flick's main theme, then it's going to make its way into the film. A lot. Other times, writers cleverly slip it in as that tongue-in-cheek addition for the audience's amusement.

Having a little fun with movie clips, Videogum has whipped up a mosaic of scenes where characters say the film of the movie in the film. From Katharine Hepburn's distinct voice stating: "Guess who's coming to dinner?" to Dances with Wolves, to things being "gone, baby ... gone" and Sharon Stone writing about "basic instincts," there's a good range of those little pithy and inevitable moments. Most of them are all-too-brief, »

- Monika Bartyzel

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Anthony Michael Hall: Coming to Community

1 November 2009 11:03 AM, PST | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »

Community has often, hilariously compared itself to The Breakfast Club.

Now, in an inspired bit of casting, one of the stars from that iconic film will guest star on the NBC sitcom.

TV Guide Magazine confirms that Anthony Michael Hall will appear on a the December 10 episode. His character will brawl with Joel McHale's Jeff Winger.

“We all freaked out when Hall’s casting was announced. I blushed profusely," said Alison Brie (Annie). "I couldn’t help but let him know that I’ve been a big fan. It’s funny, because Annie’s the nerdy character, and we referenced The Breakfast Club in the pilot and in episodes.

Over two decades ago, Hall also appeared with Community's Chevy Chase in the comedy Vacation. »

- matt@iscribelimited.com (M.L. House)

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Lost – The John Hughes Edition?

31 October 2009 6:05 PM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

Is Lost planning an homage to John Hughes?  The ever vigilant Ryan from TheTransmission passed on some details regarding a day of shooting that, among other things, suggested: Mario Van Pebbles onset as a guest director or producer; fan favorites Locke and Ben possibly taking on the role of substitute teachers; second stringers Alex Rousseau and Leslie Arzt; and, Ryan has exclusively revealed to us the identity of a certain William Atherton's character.  Anyway you slice the scoops, one thing is clear:  this episode of Lost is high-school centric.

Atherton's appearance on Lost was first revealed through some teasing tweets from Lost executive producer Carlton Cuse, and we now know he will be playing the part of Principal Reynolds.   Tell me this guy wasn't born to play a bad ass principal.  Arzt, as you will recall, was a junior high science teacher so it appears we will see him back in his role, »

- Jon Lachonis

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Interview with Andrew van den Houten

27 October 2009 11:37 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

In the past ten years MODERNCINÉ has been dedicated to making high-quality, groundbreaking and edgy horror films avoiding clichés and complacency in favor of original ideas and memorable performances. Founded by Andrew van den Houten during his college years, Andrew began producing and directing a number of award-winning short films including the 2005 multiple award winning Headspace, MODERNCINÉ's first full-length feature. Headspace began a winning streak for Van den Houten producing Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door and Home Movie (directed by Christopher Denham [1]) which  received favorable reviews at Montreal's [2] 2008 Fantasia Film Festival [3]. Recently Sound On Sight had a chance to catch up with Andrew and discuss his recent release, Offspring. 1- Offspring is your debut feature. Aside from the practical challenges, how was working on a feature different than a short, in terms of creative challenges? - I have made six features and Offspring was my fifth.  Working on »

- Ricky

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Bay’s Platinum Dunes Signs with Paramount

7 October 2009 7:02 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

Michael Bay’s production company, Platinum Dunes, has signed a first look deal with Paramount Pictures to bring more low-budget genre films to the studio.

Since its creation in 2001 by Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form, Platinum Dunes has primarily focused on horror remakes including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, and the upcoming redo of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

As an arm of Paramount, the company will continue to focus on what they’ve built their name on, like a new original project “The Butcherhouse Chronicles” being described as “The Breakfast Club in a haunted house.”  Though the new deal will allow them to expand to thrillers and action films as well.  It’ll be nice to see them try something new and hopefully it won’t shift to the bright idea of remaking classic thrillers instead.

The deal and its timing could mean Paramount and Platinum Dunes »

- Jeff Leins

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Whip It – Movie Review

7 October 2009 11:01 AM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »

Perhaps tied a little too closely to the generic plot arc of a sports film, Whip It nevertheless delivers a fun time and a long overdue worthwhile return to generational exploration. It is unfortunately macabre now to say that there is no John Hughes working in Hollywood today, but there hasn't been since the mid-80's, and while Drew Barrymore is not remotely John Hughes, Whip It is at least a cleverly-expressed attempt. Had we someone at the helm who could really pull at the small nuances and milk every scene for all it's worth (in the good way), this one would in all likelihood have been able to rock you to the core and shoot to instant classic status. Remember the first time you say The Breakfast Club, or Ferris Bueller's Day Off? That kind of potential is in here. As it stands, we only have a really good effort, »

- Marc Eastman

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Platinum Dunes Signs With Paramount for ‘Butcherhouse Chronicles’

7 October 2009 10:54 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

When informed people (like those over at Collider, who brought this to our attention) think Platinum Dunes, they recall the production company owned by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.  When I think Platinum Dunes, I imagine that Kanye West “Dancing in the Desert” music video.

But I digress.

Platinum Dunes has signed a first-look deal with Paramount, starting with their next film, The Butcherhouse Chronicles.  A first-look deal, for those who don’t know, is (very briefly) an agreement in which a Party A (Paramount) has the right to pick up a project before Party B (Dunes) can offer it to anyone else.

 

The Butcherhouse Chronicles is a thriller that follows teenagers into an allegedly haunted house.  Collider tells us the producers are calling it “The Breakfast Club in a haunted house” - although I swear that’s been the catchy pitch for 20 other movies in the last decade. »

- Scott Miller

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Paramount and Platinum Sign Producing Deal

7 October 2009 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »

In an article at Variety announcing that Paramount Pictures has signed a first-look producing deal with Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form's Platinum Dunes, the trade says which two projects are going to move forward first. The relationship between the two companies gets under way with previously-announced The Butcherhouse Chronicles , a thriller that is being written by Stephen Susco ( The Grudge ) and is being likened to The Breakfast Club in a haunted house. The producers have also come aboard the Paramount project Property of the State , a Howard Franklin-scripted thriller about a young white-collar criminal whose attempt to straighten out his life is imperiled by an obsessive and menacing parole officer. »

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Platinum Dunes Next Film Is The Butcherhouse Chronicles; Signs First Look Deal With Paramount

6 October 2009 9:38 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Platinum Dunes, the company owned by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form has signed a first-look deal with Paramount Pictures - whom Bay has worked with on the “Transformers” movies. Now it’s being reported that Platinum’s next film will be “The Butcherhouse Chronicles”, which is being described as “The Breakfast Club” in a haunted house. More details after the jump.

Since its inception, Platinum Dunes has predominantly been a production company that specializes in making genre pictures (typically horror) that have strong name recognition (typically remakes) and that are made at a relatively low cost. This system has brought decent financial success to Platinum Dunes with its “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Friday the 13th” releases, among others. Its newest addition to the remake canon “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” starring Academy Award-nominated actor Jackie Earle Haley as the horror heavy Freddie Krueger, looks to continue the streak. »

- Adam Charles

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Paramount Pictures Inks Producing Deal with Platinum Dunes

6 October 2009 7:35 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Paramount Pictures has inked a first-look producing deal with Platinum Dunes, the genre division run by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, according to Variety.

The Platinum Dunes deal puts him and his partners in position to be the go-to guys for low-budget fright fare.

"We offer a valuable service to the studio, especially with all this turmoil going on in the business right now, in that we do things cheaply, and we've had a lot of success with it," Bay said. "Through the first two 'Transformers' films, I've gotten to know the studio very well, and I've got a good rhythm with them. I'm excited about this."

The Paramount relationship gets under way with The Butcherhouse Chronicles, a thriller that is being scripted by Stephen Susco and is being likened to The Breakfast Club in a haunted house. The producers have also come aboard the Paramount project Property of the State, »

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Review: Live Forever? This “Fame” is Dead On Arrival

24 September 2009 7:37 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

Wow, what a pointless remake.

I’m sitting here wracking my brain, trying to understand what could have possibly motivated the folks who remade the 1980 movie Fame.

Any updating they did was purely superficial. On the contrary, the original was far grittier, just as inclusive (if not more so, as I’ll explain in a minute), and gave you a much better sense of the emotional cost to a life in the arts.

And if the point was just to eschew reality and make an entertaining fantasy version of a school for the arts – a sort of High School Musical for older teens -- well, the 1980s Fame series was far more entertaining than this current movie too.

The only possible motivation I can see is money. But as all the instructors at the school in the movie say again and again, art must be “truthful” and “authentic” or there »

- Brent Hartinger

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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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Community Season 1 Episode 1 (Premiere): Pilot

18 September 2009 10:17 AM, PDT | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »

“Community” marks the latest addition to NBC’s “Comedy Night Done Right” on Thursdays, finding a spot between The Office and Jay Leno in its series premiere Sept. 17. And while the premiere of Community shows some of the growing pains associated with any pilot – the necessity to introduce the key players, the overburdening of setting up the scenario with a script likely written long before the rest of the series – it also shows promise as an original, albeit traditional style, addition to the lineup. With “The Office” having cemented its mockumentary style, Jay Leno bringing the talk show to primetime, the coming-soon season of “30 Rock” surely renewing its self-referential, intelligent and eccentric vibe, Community’s sitcom feel isn’t a bad thing. Add to it an interesting mix of dated pop-culture references (Elisabeth Shue and "The Breakfast Club" were two hit hard in the pilot), dry-wit that takes to the »

- Bill Jones

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'Community' recap: Class is in session

18 September 2009 5:36 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Welcome, PopWatchers, to your first discussion section for the lecture that is NBC's Community. This is not the place to get a detailed summary of the show -- you either saw the lecture or you didn't. No, you keen devourers of all things pop-culture related, this is the place to expand upon Community. This is where we shall evaluate the show's best triumphs and worst missteps, as well as anything else you might consider relevant (shouting "First!" doesn't count). So let's go around the room and have everybody introduce themselves. Actually, I always despised that part of college discussion sections, so let's just begin... The first episode of Community didn't quite work for me, but that is often the case with comedy pilots. It's a nearly impossible task for a show to introduce 10 or so characters in 22 minutes and find its comedic rhythm. As a result, the premiere felt disjointed and rushed, »

- John Young

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Community: Series Premiere (Reviews)

17 September 2009 4:10 AM, PDT | PopMatters | See recent PopMatters news »

Before you can say "The Breakfast Club," Community begins challenging stereotypes while also arguing that community college is one of the great equalizers.

The funny thing about being smart is that you can get through most of life without having to do any work. -- Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) Community gets the obvious jokes out of the way early. Tracking out from a shot of an idyllic college campus full of busy-seeming students, the scene soon reveals that the bells tolling in the background are coming not from a ivy-covered tower off in the distance, but from a dodgy boom box operated by an incompetent dean fumbling his way through a Welcome Week speech. And so, within the first minutes of NBC's new… »

- By Daynah Burnett

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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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Preview of Community: Quotes Galore!

14 September 2009 8:55 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »

Yes, we're as excited as anyone with a sense of humor for this Thursday night's season premiere of The Office.

But we're equally psyched for the sitcom that debuts after Michael Scott and company, as Joel McHale and Chevy Chase led a hilarious cast in NBC's Community.

The show centers around a mismatched group of students that form a study group at Greenville Community College. If this sounds at all like The Breakfast Club, well, the show addresses that similiarity in an hysterial manner right off the bat.

To help viewers look forward to the new series, check out the following Community quotes, all of which will be uttered on the episode to come:

Pierce: Sexually harassing? That makes no sense to me. Why would I harass someone that turns me on? | permalink Jeff: There's a guy trying out for the track team that is older than the game of poker. »

- matt@iscribelimited.com (M.L. House)

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Eating Your Favorite Film in Brooklyn

13 September 2009 5:53 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

If you've ever craved cupcakes while watching your favorite movie or set out a themed feast for an afternoon with friends, or just happen to be in Brooklyn for today's Brooklyn Book Festival, you should meet Daniellan Louie. She got her start baking confections for her friends and family and, in 2006, she opened Ivy Bakery. Now she has a menu with over 300 items, which she makes from scratch herself, specializes in custom orders, and has a list of many impressive clients including Marvel Comics, Columbia Pictures, and the Tribeca Film Festival.

I first ran across mention of Ivy Bakery on Twitter when some friends were tweeting about Princess Bride-themed cupcakes. Since then, I have been following the bakery on Twitter for daily updates on what she is baking ( today's offerings include: "Red Velvet Cake with Vanilla Buttercream shaped like Kingdom of Hearts Key" ). I know that many people in fandom have dietary restrictions, »

- Jenifer Rosenberg

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At&T Entertainment: Just a Hulu retread? Totally.

11 September 2009 8:47 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Yesterday, At&T launched its new entertainment website -- which is super creatively named At&T Entertainment -- and it looks a lot like another similar website...Hulu! As of this morning, the site was pimping episodes of ABC's Grey's Anatomy, The CW's Vampire Diaries, MTV's The Real World: Cancun, NBC's Heroes, and CBS's The New Adventures of Old Christine. Funny thing is that when you click on several of these shows, they are fed to At&T Entertainment via...Hulu. How weird is that? Seems like more of a portal site than anything. At&T Entertainment's got movies, too. Many of them, like The Breakfast Club or A Modern Affair, are age-restricted, meaning you have to create an account to verify how old you are, but doing so is rather easy. However, some of the movie offerings are deceptive -- once you click on them you'll find they're »

- Tanner Stransky

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