Uh huh... I'll be on the lookout for that... Yeah... No, really... Donnie Darko writer/director Richard Kelly and his producing partner Sean McKittrick have signed on to executive produce an original, yet-to-be-titled show for the AMC cable network that Kelly describes as “The Sopranos… with vampires.” This is not to be confused with Howard Chaykin’s comic book series “Bite Club”, which is also described as “The Sopranos with vampires.”
This Just In... In the face of the big Don Imus controversy this week comes word that director Oliver Stone, noted bastion of political correctness, dropped the N-word while drunk and talking to the screenwriter of New Jack City in 1991.
Funny Film Titles: Names That Go On In Word Order Unusual and Spelling Out Things To Harder Make It On Writers to Say Something or Nothing The Aqua Teen Hunger Force is the latest TV show to get its own feature film (and it certainly won’t be the last LINK TO SIMPSONS). Not content to let Sacha Baron Cohen’s film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan reign supreme in the category of “Most Unwieldy Title”, the creators of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis named the big-screen adaptation of their show: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. Maiellaro and Willis took the unwieldy nature of their film one step farther than did Cohen. While Borat’s tagline was “High Five!” or “Very Nice” depending on which poster you saw, the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie’s tagline is, deep breath, “From the 1st Assistant Director of the 2nd Unit of Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth and the Production Assistant of the video ‘Know Your Fryer’.”
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What happens when you take the three iconic, original film posters of South Park, Star Wars, and Army of Darkness, and essentially combine them together? You get the poster for The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie