Miramax is having such a tough year they decided to remake one of their classics by mashing it up with another property:
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Being deep in the renovations, you may have noticed the lack of fresh enjoyable content. And, like in mid-June, don’t worry, it’s coming.
Meanwhile, here’s a collection of the most interesting articles from the past few days.
As you may know, yesterday was The Twilight Zone’s 50th anniversary. On October 2, 1959, CBS broadcast the first Zone episode, written by Rod Serling himself.
For this occasion, The New York Times’ Dave Itzkoff wrote a piece about the classic anthology series over here.
There is also this great interview with Sterling dating back before the premiere of the show.
Another anniversary is The Blair Witch Project‘s, which this year celebrates its 10-year mark.
Jeff Otto over at Bloody Disgusting has an article on how the movie revolutionized marketing by introducing the now-called viral component into the mix.
Can you believe it’s been ten years since THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT took the world by storm? Remember the build-up? Those mysterious posters months before release making everyone think it was a documentary? “In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary… A year later their footage was found,” read the eerie teaser.
Two big news stories these last couple of weeks have been Dick Cook’s eviction from the Disney Corp. and David Letterman’s admission of his sexual relationships with a few of his staffers.
Following Cook’s ousting, Peter Bart from Variety asked a simple question:
There were rants in the media last week that Bob Iger, the Disney CEO, had not been sufficiently respectful in terminating his venerable studio chairman, Dick Cook.
I can understand this position, except for one issue: Is there really such a thing as a “respectful termination”?
As for Letterman, Verne Gay exposes eight dangers that may face Letterman now that he’s publicly admitted about his sex stories.
And in case you were wondering about My Little Pony’s villain, Overthinking It has posted its own in-depth analysis of why The Smooze is one of the greatest villains ever.
Just as Yom Kippur ends, I find out someone has posted the following comment regarding my “Fringe is unoriginal” post:
If you honestly think that your stupid post will steer people away from watching Fringe, YOU ARE SADLY MISTAKEN! Grow up, asshole!
Okay, my cover has been blown: I’m an immature asshole.
Indeed, I’m really bitter about being rejected from the Fringe writing staff so I decided to write a two-parter out of pure spite.
That’s basically the same reason why Jon Stewart decided to bash CNBC. The network had rejected him the year prior from being their new spokesperson.
I acknowledge that Sliders and the Kromaggs are pure inventions of mine that I retroactively created after seeing the Fringe Season Two premiere.
I went back in time impersonating both Tracy Tormé and David Peckinpah, and later went on to get that “parallel universe show” made, with all the while in the back of my mind this vague idea that, a decade later, I would post on some semi-obscure blog how this awkwardly-named series Fringe looks so much like a poor man’s Sliders.
So, yeah, I agree with you that I’m an asshole for showing the many ways something pretending to “revolutionize a genre” or be “original” actually is not.
Secondly, I also admit that I was angling for people to stop watching Fringe altogether after reading my post.
Not to be an egomaniac on top of being an asshole, but it’s pretty obvious everyone follows my advices.
If we take a look at what happened in the past year:
– The Middleman ended its second season with ground-breaking ratings;
– Stephen Colbert was named president both in the Marvel universe and our actual universe;
– The Jay Leno Show got taken off the air a week before it premiered;
– The MacGruber movie was never made;
– And, just recently, Flight of the Conchords and Breaking Bad won Emmys for being the best shows in their categories.
Though, for the record, I wasn’t asking anyone to stop watching Fringe. I was merely pointing out the awkward similitude the show has with another science-fiction series dating back to the mid-90s.
Mea culpa.