Well remember that story we posted a few days ago about the location of Springfield not being known? Well the competition has been completed and a new home for the famous yellow family has been found, the new place is Springfield, Vermont.
Well that is good that it has finally been announced, I bet the people in the small Vermont town are happy about that. They were a late entry and beat out all the other competitors with 14% of all votes, with there closest competition having 13%, close call.
The town has roughly 9,300 people and managed to rally the townspeople through local media and mass email (need I say fucking spammers!). They will get the yellow carpet and the voices and everything at there humble little town. Here is some more information on the winning entry
The winning entry took two days to film with help from the Vermont Film Commission. It begins much like the opening sequence of the TV show, with the familiar theme song playing as Vermont’s Homer chases a giant doughnut (actually an inner tube designed by a local graphic artist) through the town, causing mayhem wherever he goes. The townspeople chase after him until they are beckoned into the movie theater, where they sit down for the premiere of The Simpsons Movie.
Well sounds all fine and dandy. I did find a good little article on the location of the yellow people, if you have the time, I suggest you head on over and have a read of it, the article is located here
Well a new Bond book is about to hit the stores. The author is a British man who goes by the name Sebastian Faulks. The book was authorized by the estate of Ian Fleming and it going to most likely hit the stores in 2008, which does mark 100 years since the birth of Fleming.
The novel which goes by the name Devil May Care. It is set during the Cold War and Faulks tries his hardest to mesh a lot of his writing with the style of Fleming. The book spans 2 continents and is going to be published by Penguin UK. Faulks had this to say about the book
I tried to isolate the essential and the most enjoyable aspects of the books. Then I took that pattern and added characters and a story of my own with as much speed and as many twists as I thought the reader could bear. I developed a prose that is about 80 per cent Fleming. I didn’t go the final distance for fear of straying into pastiche, but I strictly observed his rules of chapter and sentence construction. My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming’s own books, where the story is everything.
At the present moment in time the film rights have not been sold, but EON is most likely to pick up the rights as they made a name for themselves in producing and getting the Bond films out there. I did enjoy Casino Royale so hopefully this one is good as well
Well someone has been getting some mad traffic lately thanks to a lot of people picking up the sites for the mysterious Cloverfield trailer by JJ Abrams. The Ethan Haas sites that is, they are not even connected with the movie, damn bastards why didn’t I think of that? I could have gotten a few thousands readers through that.
The 1-18-08.com we showed does in fact belong to the people at Paramount, in fact a new picture was added to the website which seems to be the guy who the party was about in the trailer we posted. The website is also in all flashy now and you can move the pics 
whheeeee!
Regarding the online stuff you posted: yeah, we’re doing some fun stuff on the web. But, obviously, if the movie doesn’t kick some massive ASS, who gives a rat’s about what’s online? So as you can imagine, we’re focusing mostly on THAT. For what it’s worth, the only site of ours that people have even FOUND is the 1-18-08.com site. The others (like the Ethan Haas sites) have nothing to do with us.
That is the quote taking from AICN which backups the statement about the sites. Some people are so inquisitive, just picking up that site is pure genius. I would never have typed in 1-18-08 and then added .com into my browser, just sounds stupid.
Till the next Cloverfield news item, I bid you fare well!
Yup the headline is right my young friends. Jim Carrey (Bruce Almight, Ace Ventura, The Mask) has agreed to play the part of Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens childrens book adaptation, A Christmas Carol.
Carrey will also be playing the roles of the 3 ghosts that haunt Scrooge. So the 3 roles that are set up for Carrey in A Christmas Carol are as follow: Ebenezer Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. What else is there? Tiny Tim? Will he be playing that as well?
Robert Zemeckis (Ghostship, House of Wax, Matchstick Men) is going to be directing the script which he wrote. Aas well as writing the script, directing the movie Zemeckis will be producing it as well. Although not alone, he will have the help of Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey.
The movie is set to be shot in complete computer graphics much like the Polar Express was shot in for Tom Hanks. Only thing is, this is Jim Carrey we are talking about? He doesn’t need any CGI to make it look better, I guess we will find out when the film comes.
Carrey is chockerblocked with acting engagements. His current priority is Ripley’s Believe It or Not! which chronicles the story of Robert Ripley’s quest for the inhuman people in society. Paramount are really trying to fit Tim Burton in around the post-production of Sweeney Todd.
After that Carrey has the role of a gay prison escapee in the movie I Love You Phillip Morris. He has also signed on to take on the rold of a nursemaid of his sick wife and her family in Me Time. And last but certainly not least Sober Buddies
Well our friends over at ComingSoon.net have released a schedule of what is going on at your friendly ComicCon. Looks to be a jampacked 4 days with many a things going on. Personally I would love to go to a ComicCon would be great fun, so to mark the occasion I am gonna be posting some of the things I would go see if I was going
Alright, to start off the convention I would head down the the 1:30 – 3:30 Paramount Pictures little section and have a look at the soon to be released films from them. Supposedly they are getting a preview of Iron Man together which would be great to have a little peek at. Not much else that tickes my fancy for Thursday, only others things I would stay for and have a peek at would be the World Premiere! Superman Doomsday at 8:30 – 10:30 and the Spotlight on George Romero which is at 4:45 – 5:45.
Ok onto Friday, I would like to go to the Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1 which is at 10:30 – 11:30 on the Friday. Only reason would be to ask them how many months it takes to create those short films at the start of every Pixar film. I would also like to hit up the preview of Shoot ‘Em Up which is between 2:15 and 3:00.
Saturday appears to be the day for me. The Simpsons are going to have a preview of there film at the ComicCon which would be a blast (get to see barts dick! would be exhilarating) that starts at 10:45 and finishes dead on noon. Now me being a loyal heroes fan I would have to hit up the Heroes slot which starts at 12:45 and goes to 2. It includes a Q & A and also a preview clip on Volume II, that would be pretty intense.
Now to cap things off on the Sunday I would hit the Pathology bench which is at 12:45 – 1:45, purely because it is from the writers / producers of Crank and I wanna know about what is going on with Crank 2? How will it start? What will it be about? So much to know, so many questions
Well that would be a jampacked session right there. I really need to save up some money for the flight don’t I? Lazy bastard I am. Anyway, if you are heading down to the ComicCon and you wanna see the schedule, head on over here to have a read.