Post by Stacey on Jul 26, 2007 9:49:05 GMT -5
Trades Predict Big Business for 'The Simpsons Movie'
-Hollywood's two top trade publications agree that The Simpsons Movie is likely to please fans of the series and become a huge success at the box office. Writing in today's (Wednesday) Daily Variety, Brian Lowry commented, "Put simply, if somebody had to make a Simpsons movie, this is pretty much what it should be -- clever, irreverent, satirical and outfitted with a larger-than-22-minutes plot." Lowry concluded, "The Simpsons Movie clearly represented a marketing challenge, and given the build-up, Fox appears to have been equal to that task. As for magnifying the series without losing its deeply ingrained charms, the producers have mostly passed that test as well, proving their 18-year-old child was ready to go out and face the big bad (theatrical) world." Writing in the Hollywood Reporter, Kirk Honeycutt predicted that the movie "should earn plenty of d'oh." Honeycutt observed that the producers are clearly "going for box office gold" by making a film "that hearkens back to the vintage years of the series." And that, he suggested, is how it should be. "While little has been gained in bringing the Simpsons to the screen, other than a bigger canvas requiring a much larger army of animators," he wrote, "it's still fun to enjoy the crew in this new setting."
Fast Time's 25th Anniversary!
-“When it comes to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of ‘Led Zeppelin 4.’”
Yes, this summer marks the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest teen films of all time, one that gave us this life-altering dating advice and a couple of dozen other nuggets about life as a Southern California teen circa 1982.
“Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” a movie that could’ve easily been tossed as a throwaway adolescent romp and nothing more, became a cinematic treasure.
-Hollywood's two top trade publications agree that The Simpsons Movie is likely to please fans of the series and become a huge success at the box office. Writing in today's (Wednesday) Daily Variety, Brian Lowry commented, "Put simply, if somebody had to make a Simpsons movie, this is pretty much what it should be -- clever, irreverent, satirical and outfitted with a larger-than-22-minutes plot." Lowry concluded, "The Simpsons Movie clearly represented a marketing challenge, and given the build-up, Fox appears to have been equal to that task. As for magnifying the series without losing its deeply ingrained charms, the producers have mostly passed that test as well, proving their 18-year-old child was ready to go out and face the big bad (theatrical) world." Writing in the Hollywood Reporter, Kirk Honeycutt predicted that the movie "should earn plenty of d'oh." Honeycutt observed that the producers are clearly "going for box office gold" by making a film "that hearkens back to the vintage years of the series." And that, he suggested, is how it should be. "While little has been gained in bringing the Simpsons to the screen, other than a bigger canvas requiring a much larger army of animators," he wrote, "it's still fun to enjoy the crew in this new setting."
Fast Time's 25th Anniversary!
-“When it comes to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of ‘Led Zeppelin 4.’”
Yes, this summer marks the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest teen films of all time, one that gave us this life-altering dating advice and a couple of dozen other nuggets about life as a Southern California teen circa 1982.
“Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” a movie that could’ve easily been tossed as a throwaway adolescent romp and nothing more, became a cinematic treasure.
-Movie news attained from IMDB.com and MSN.com