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Movie news and trailers.
Sick of the shitastic bombs by Seltzer and Friedberg? Yeah, these guys are, too, and this film is their form of retaliation.
Videos (including a trailer) are available here.
Australia judge rules Simpsons pr0n featuring Bart and Lisa count as child pornography.
If we were to say Bart and Lisa were “born” in 1989 when their show first went on the air (so not even counting the Tracey Ullman years), that would make them legal age, wouldn’t it?
BEFORE THE ECLIPSE ah ha ha ha
Albright:
Dragonball Evolution trailerBEFORE THE ECLIPSE ah ha ha ha
“Seven mystics banded together to create the Dragonballs.”
I see.
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li trailer
HAY GUISE, let’s do a movie about one of Street Fighter’s most traditional and distinctive characters! And to play her, we’ll get a woman who doesn’t look Chinese (or even Asian of any sort), and dress her nothing like her, and put her hair into a ponytail instead of her distinctive twin buns. It’s not like any fans of the game will notice or anything!
Albright:
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li trailerHAY GUISE, let’s do a movie about one of Street Fighter’s most traditional and distinctive characters! And to play her, we’ll get a woman who doesn’t look Chinese (or even Asian of any sort), and dress her nothing like her, and put her hair into a ponytail instead of her distinctive twin buns. It’s not like any fans of the game will notice or anything!
So in short, Kill Bill volume 1.5.
Albright:
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li trailerHAY GUISE, let’s do a movie about one of Street Fighter’s most traditional and distinctive characters! And to play her, we’ll get a woman who doesn’t look Chinese (or even Asian of any sort), and dress her nothing like her, and put her hair into a ponytail instead of her distinctive twin buns. It’s not like any fans of the game will notice or anything!
My Asian-dar led me to suspect she was at least part Asian, and further research turns up that she’s in fact part Chinese. At this point in time, I’m more or less resigned to the fact that Hollywood will invariably fail at casting Asian actors and actresses, and for whatever reason most people will not know the difference. Hence why I always was confused by Lucy Liu, who is a rather ugly Chinese actress who somehow was regarded as attractive here in the US.
She was big before Ally McBeal, I think. And I don’t think she’s hawt, but she’s not ugly either. At least she’s managed to land a few roles outside of the dragon lady and/or kunoichi typecast.
Jericho, so maybe she’s partly Chinese; you still had to look it up. Part of the thing about Street Fighter was that the characters were somewhat stereotypes of their respective nations - E Honda, the sumo wrestler; Guile, the blonde soldier in fatigues; Zangief, the burly muscleman - so Chun-li looked almost comically Chinese, with her cheongsam and hair buns. But in this movie, she’s wearing some black get-up and a ponytail. She looks more like Lara Croft than Chun-li.
Heh, I thought the Phone Sex Pranks: Early 90s Slang video linked to from that page was funnier. (NSFW audio…)
Ponyo to Open on 800 U.S. Screens, Blood on at Least 11
Ponyo to get Miyazaki’s biggest U.S. opening; Blood to open on July 10
Frank Marshall, one of the producers for the North American release of Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film Ponyo, has revealed on his personal Twitter account that the film “will be opening on 800 screens in August, by far the biggest opening for a Miyazaki film….” He had previously revealed that the American Ponyo trailer will premiere during the July 4th weekend. The film itself will open on August 14 after advance screenings in Los Angeles and Berkeley, California.
Samuel Goldwyn Films revealed 11 of the theaters where Chris Nohan’s live-action film adaptation of Production I.G’s Blood: The Last Vampire anime will open on July 10. The film will play in the American cities of Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, Cambridge, Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
