The Disaster Artist on the Silver Screen

James Franco recently announced that his production company, Rabbit Bandini Productions, purchased the film rights to "The Disaster Artist,” a memoir about the making of the film, The Room (Wiseau, 2003).

If that sentence didn’t make any sense to you, let us clear a few things up. The Room is hands down the best worst movie ever made. It’s so bad, it’s good. It was written, produced, directed, and starred the disaster artist himself, Tommy Wiseau. Wiseau has been referred to as a “mysterious misfit” and is often compared to Ed Wood, director of infamous sci-fi flop Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959).

The Room is an incredible disasterpiece. Watch the trailer for “The Room” here. I challenge you to guess which actor is Tommy Wiseau. I’ll give you a hint: one of these things is not like the others...

The film’s supporting actor Greg Sestero and journalist Tom Bissel co-wrote a memoir about Sestero’s experiences on the set of The Room. The book is called “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room.” It was released last year from Simon & Schuster.

Greg "Oh, hai Mark" Sestero and Tommy Wiseau
playing catch just like they do in the movie

Visit the book’s website here :

http://www.thedisasterartistbook.com/

Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg of This is the End (2013) have already signed on as co-producers for the adaptation. Last month, Rogan confirmed that Franco will star as Tommy Wiseau. This is pretty exciting, especially after seeing Franco’s scene-stealing performance as the arms dealer “Alien” in Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012). Try to imagine Franco’s interpretation of this:

The adaptation is still in the development phase, so a projected release date has not yet been announced. Until then, we recommend watching the original source of inspiration. The Room is available for rent on DVD from Netflix or you can check it out at one of the Rocky Horror-esque screenings: http://www.theroommovie.com/screeningspop.html I suggest watching it with a few of your closest friends, while under the influence of something. My recommendation is currently illegal in 48 states, so if you’re a law abiding citizen over the age of 21, vodka will work just fine.

If we still haven't convinced you, here are some more great one-liners from Tommy:

Pacific Rim Sequel Announced

A sequel to the live action version of Rockin Sockem Robots has just been announced. Pacific Rim 2 is set for April 7th, 2017. Guillermo del Toro (Hell Boy, Pan's Labyrinth) is set to return to direct and write the sequel along with writer Zak Penn (The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk)

“The characters I love will return,” del Toro told BuzzFeed in an exclusive statement. “Raleigh, Mako, Newt, Gottlieb and who knows, maybe even Hannibal Chau – but we are taking them into a fresh territory that will display amazing sights and battles. The first film set the stage and now we’re ready to have a blast.”

An animated series and an add on to the Pacific Rim graphic novel are also in the works and should be released sometime before the film hits theaters.

Yo man, wrong movie.

You can check out the video announcement from del Toro below.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 REVIEW:

Hiccup and Toothless are back and better than ever in the second part of a planned trilogy of the films. The movie takes place five years after the events of the first film where the residents of Berk and dragons are coexisting peacefully, but trouble in paradise occurs after Hiccup, Jay Baruchel, (This is the End, Goon) is asked to take on the unwanted task of becoming the next chief of the tribe by his father and current Cheif Stoick, Gearld Butler (300, Olympus Has Fallen). Things become more complicated when Hiccup discovers that not only is his mother, Cate Blanchet (Lord of the Rings series) is still alive, but she is basically a dragon whisper. Oh, yeah and then there is also this guy named Drago, Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond) who has is eyes set on conquering the land with his dragon army. He's a real dick.

Not that Drago.

The film also stars America Ferrea as Hiccup's ass kicking girlfriend, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, Craig Ferguson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, and Kit Harrington trying to learn how to ride a dragon. (You know nothing Jon Snow.)

I'm not crying, you're crying!

Action packed and visually stunning, this film is even more emotionally powerful than the first. I heard quite a few cry/sniffs from the audience during a few scenes... and possibly from myself. New comer Cate Blanchet does an awesome job at portraying an accurate description of someone who has lived solo with dragons for 20 years only to then be reunited with her son. But the character that really steals the show is Toothless. All of your favorite scenes will involve him. He's like a cool loveable dog that just happens to be a fire breathing dragon.

WANT!

A third film is planned for a June 17th, 2016 release date even though the film is under performing at the box office compared to the first movie. No plot details have been released yet.

MANCHILD RATING: 4/5

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is now playing in theaters and you can see showtimes HERE.

Jersey Boys REVIEW:

Neither of Clint Eastwood’s last two films,  Hereafter (2010) and J. Edgar (2011), received much audience approval, so expectations weren't exactly high for his film adaptation of the Broadway show, Jersey Boys.

Clint, would you say that Hereafter was hokey and
disappointing despite its compelling premise?

It had a slow start but, like many of Eastwood’s films, it was an effective drama. The musical scenes were undeniably powerful. This is greatly due to the film’s leading man, John Lloyd Young, who also portrayed Frankie Valli on Broadway.

Keep your eyes peeled for Eastwood’s Hitchcock moment in the film.

3/5 Great music, great acting, could have been better, but still pretty good and a helluva lot better than Hereafter.

22 Jump Street REVIEW:

Jonah Hill proves an Oscar nomination (or two) doesn’t make him too cool for comedy as he returns  to Jump Street as “Schmidt” alongside Channing Tatum, aka “Jenko.”

Guess who's back!

The duo was joined by plenty of cameos and familiar faces from the first film. It was meta, self-mocking, and had scenes that were far too obvious in their parodying of buddy-cop films and rom-coms. Unfortunately, like all disappointing comedy sequels, the best scenes were featured in the theatrical trailer.

Nick Offerman, “Deputy Chief Hardy,” reveals one of the film’s plot lines, in its entirety, in the first ten minutes and the drug lord they’re hunting ends up being someone who should have been a suspect from the beginning. Stay for the credits, they were almost better than the actual movie.

3/5 Not as good as the first (surprise!) but still good for a few laughs.

We still can't get over the 

fact that this is our future Gambit...

Possible Lineup of Justice League Movies Leaked

News recently broke out of a leaked set list of films Warner Bros. had ready to schedule for their Justice League series. The first part of the series started off with 2013's Man of Steel. The rest is scheduled as follows:

1. MAY 6th, 2016: Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice
2. JULY 2016: Shazam
3. CHRISTMAS 2016: Sandman
4. MAY 2017: Justice League
5. JULY 2017: Wonder Woman
6. CHRISTMAS 2017: Flash/Green Lantern team-up
7. MAY 2018: Man of Steel 2

(Not a Court Drama as previously thought)

Batman V. Superman will be the main jumping off for the movie series to start introducing characters. Henry Cavill as Superman and Ben Affleck as Batman will be the main characters with Wonder Woman and Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) as Lex Luthor as minor/supporting characters.

This is NOT a confirmed list of films, but what definitely does seem likely is the Wonder Woman film happening sooner than later as Gal Gadot (Fast and Furious series) was already cast last year. Justice League coming out in May 2017 can really happen and I'm going to bet they start filming for it sometime in Spring/Summer 2015. If anything else, Comic-Con in July will surely bring us some answers and probably a confirmed scheduled with official casting... and possibly a turf war if both the panels of Avengers: Age of Ultron and Batman V. Superman are there.

(Don't fuck with his maritime laws)

Speaking of casting, on again/off again rumors of Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones) having been cast in a roll have come back with a vengeance as it is being reported that Khal Drogo himself will play Aquaman in both Batman V. Superman and the Justice League film. 

(Yes, Shaq as a Genie actually happened)

Shazam, not to be confused with the music app or Shaq's Kazaam, is about a boy who is granted powers by an ancient Wizard named Shazam, to transform him into a Superman like hero named Captain Marvel. Rumors long ago had Dwayne Johnson circling the roll, but nothing has come up recently.

The Sandman title is probably lost on a good deal of you. I myself had to look up who this guy is. Basically he's the lord of Dreams and goes by the name of Morpheus and is pretty dark. This film will be part of the same universe as the Justice League films but won't be a direct link to them. Kind of like how the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy film is not a direct link to the Avengers. The film looks to have Joseph Gordon-Levitt (INCEPTION, 50/50) star, write, and direct in the production.

And finally just to touch on the Flash/Green Lantern team up, NO Ryan Reynolds will NOT be returning as Green Lantern. That movie is separate and will have nothing to do with these films.

Amazing Spider-Man 3 Pushed Back

Bad news for you Spider-Man fans. The Amazing Spider-Man 3 is being pushed back from

(Ain't nobody got time for push backs)

June 10th, 2016 to sometime in 2017. Rumor is though that the Sinister Six film is going to be bumped up into the June 2016 date to help set up ASM3. 

For those of you that don't know, The Sinister Six are six of Spider-Man's enemies who decided "Hey, why don't we just team up on Spider-Man?" and that's exactly what they did. The members of the Sinister Six movie appear to be Green Goblin (Played by Dane DeHaan), Kraven the Hunter, Doctor Octopus, The Rhino (Played by Paul Giamatti), The Vulture, and possibly Mysterio. All of this has been hinted throughout The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and especially in the post credit images below.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is now playing in theaters and has a ManChild Approved rating of 4/5!

(From top left: Green Goblin, Vulture, Doc Ock, Kraven, Rhino, Mysterio)