First Look: Notorious

Here is the movie of 2009, the Story of Biggie Smalls - Notorious ...I can't wait to see this film...it should be great!!!

S.O.S.! Everyone in the theater is singing along to 'Mamma Mia!'

Julie Walters, Meryl Streep and Christine Baranski in Universal Pictures' Mamma Mia! - 2008

Pop Machine just attended a Friday matinee of "Mamma Mia! The Sing-Along Edition," and here are five things we learned:

1. Belting out Abba songs in a theater with 15 other people may make you feel like a lone (howling) wolf. Did they not dig my falsetto on "Money Money Money"?

2. Most Abba songs are not keyed to male singers. Join in on "The Winner Takes It All" at your own risk.

3. For many folks, "Sing-Along" means "Mouth-Along" or--once Pop Machine got the hand-slapping party going during "Dancing Queen"--"Clap-Along."

4. Theaters should crank the volume higher than the AMC River East had it, if only to provide cover for the Pierce Brosnan or Julie Walters sound-alikes among us.

5. A bigger (nighttime) crowd and beverage service would help. A lot.

Sing-along versions of old musicals (“Mary Poppins,” “The Sound of Music,” “White Christmas”) have become popular draws at theaters such as the Music Box—which has “Sing-Along Little Mermaid” running Friday through Sept. 1­—but now Universal is taking a chance on a new one.

Yes, “Mamma Mia! The Sing-Along Edition” will open Aug. 29 nationwide, including at nine Chicago-area theaters (among them River East, Webster Place and Cantera), all for the regular admission price. The lyrics will appear on the screen, and you can croon along to those catchy Abba songs.

As a bonus, the dude bellowing in the row behind you probably won’t sound any worse than Pierce Brosnan.

P.S. If you go, please tell us about your sing-along "Mamma Mia!" experience.

Test Your Vocal Skills

Honey Honey

Lay All Your Love On Me

Mamma Mia


The Winner Takes It All

Dancing Queen

Even the Director HATES It!

New film Babylon A.D. sounds like it's dead in the water.

Here's what the film's OWN DIRECTOR, Matthieu Kassovitz, has to say about the Vin Diesel picture and the studio releasing it, Fox:

"I'm very unhappy with the film… I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn't respected. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible experience. I should have chosen a studio that has guts. Fox was just trying to get a PG-13 movie. I'm ready to go to war against them, but I can't because they don't give a shit."

The studio apparently fought the director every step of the way on budget and in the editing room, chopping fifteen minutes out of the film that he felt was key to making it all make sense.

If you do see it and hate it, you can't say you weren't warned!

[Image via WENN.]

Hollywood Beefing

It's war!

Horror novelist Clive Barker is very unhappy with Hollywood studio Lionsgate.

According to the novelist, the studio effed over a film remake of one of his books so the studio's president Joe Drake could pump up his own ego films.

Yikes! That's some claim!

The Midnight Meat Train, the flick inspired by the Barker book of the same name, was pushed from a release of May 16th to August 1st and was only released at 102 second-run and dollar theaters across the land.

Ouch!

Despite the super limited release, several screenings were viewed by sold-out audiences.

Barker says:

He is “very proud that the movie is surviving the nonsense. People are getting to see the movie. It’s sort of starting to have a cult life.” He’s less positive in his feelings for Drake, calling him “small-minded” and a “nobody.”

“There’s room for everything. You don’t have to sh– on somebody else’s work to advance your own material..director Ryuhei Kitamura “made a f—ing great movie, and the politics that are being visited upon it have nothing to do with the movie at all. This is all about ego, and though I mourn the fact that ‘Midnight Meat Train’ was never given its chance in theaters, it’s a beautifully stylish, scary movie, and it isn’t going anywhere. People will find it, and whether they find it in midnight shows or they find it on DVD, they’ll find it, and in the end the Joe Drakes of the world will disappear.”

A spokesperson for Lionsgate declined to comment.

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First Look: Fast and the Furious 4

If you went to see Death Race this weekend, you might have seen this new trailer, but everyone can see it now! Universal Pictures has just unleashed the first trailer for the upcoming Fast and Furious film, which is set to hit the redline in theaters on June 5, 2009. Click below for your first look at Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster reprising their roles from the first movie.

Brian (Paul Walker) is freed from prison (the authorities found out that he let Dominic played by Vin Diesel go at the end of the first film) to help the feds stop a heroin importer known as Braga. With the help of an informant named James Park, Brian - and ultimately Dominic Toretto - wins a place on the criminal's team, where he - and his flashy Nissan plan to catch the man red-handed.

Fast and Furious will open on June 5, 2009.

Fast & Furious

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Teaser for The Princess and the Frog

Peep this teaser for “The Princess and the Frog.” It’s Disney/Pixar’s first motion picture featuring a Black heroine. On the real, we didn’t expect much from that warped mega-corp, but when that freakin’ minstrel fire-fly popped up with the scraggly grill, our suspicions were confirmed. F**k Disney.

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