Ask FlickChick Movies affected by the writers strike dubbed performances whats that movie and more movie questions answeredQuestion I was wondering what major films slated for this year were cancelled or delayed because of the writers strike -- John Wao FlickChick Although TV shows were hit most badly because their schedules are so tight movies didnt escape unscathed The biggest films delayed by the strike include Angels Demons Ron Howards Da Vinci Code follow up with Tom Hanks reprising the role of symbologist Robert Langdon was the first film to fold Its now due to star shooting this summer and has a May 2009 release date Justice League of America George Millers superhero picture looks as though its dead in the water cast members DJ Cotrona Superman Armie Hammer Batman Anton Yelchin Wally WestThe Flash Santiago Cabrera Aquaman Zoe Kazan Iris Megan Gale Wonder Woman Teresa Palmer Talia al Ghul and Common Gree
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Ask FlickChick Top Five Guilty Movie Pleasures and MoreQuestion I like challenging thought-provoking movies as much as the next guy but I also love pure unadulterated cheese real Mystery Science Theater 3000-quality junk My biggest guilty pleasure is Ed Wood movies Do you have any guilty pleasures or are you strictly into quality movies EliFlickChick Oh I have a soft spot for junk I also have a rant about guilty pleasures indulge me please that goes something like this The fact that you love Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 doesnt inherently make you stupid or invalidate your love for Citizen Kane 1941 so stand by your low-brow passionsThere Now here are my top five really trashy movie faves in ascending order 5 Barbarella 1968What it is a sexadelic adaptation of the erotic comic series about a beautiful space tart Jane Fonda sorry astronavigatrex and her adventures across the universeWhats so bad Tacky ta
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Robert Rodriguez has signed on to direct a new film adaptation of the sci-fi comic-book series Barbarella, previously committed to celluloid by Jane Fonda circa 1968.... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will make its international premiere June 28 in Japan. Why there? "No special reason," a studio rep tells Reuters.... To benefit The Adrienne Shelly Foundation, CharityFolks.org is hosting an auction of Waitress memorabilia, including aprons designed by the likes of Keri Russell, Cheryl Hines, Scarlett Johansson and Tori Spelling.
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Per Variety, Brendan Fraser has finally signed on the dotted line for The Mummy 3, but leading lady Rachel Weisz took a big, fat pass. The follow-up, penned by Smallville's Miles Millar and Al Gough, features Jet Li as the baddie.... Producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis are out to reinvent Barbarella as "a free, modern gal who survives in a futuristic world through her intelligence, fighting skills and sexuality." Hate to say it, but Lindsay Lo just found a franchise (intelligence can always be faked).... Forest Whitaker has joined The Great Debaters, a fact-based drama directed by and featuring Denzel Washington as a small-town college debate-team coach.
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Question: Are there any plans to remake Barbarella or to make a big-screen Dr. Who movie? I think both would fare very well with today's renewed surge of sci-fi films.
Answer: Maybe, maybe not. I'm not sure that Barbarella's (1968) cheese-and-tease formula is viable in today's feature-film market, although it might work on TV — I mean, what is Cleopatra 2525 if not a variation on that theme? Based on the naughty French comic series by Jean-Claude Forest, Barbarella chronicles the racy adventures of a scantily clad 41st-century adventuress (Jane Fonda) and her encounters with counterrevolutionary David Hemmings, killer dolls, blind alien angel John Phillip Law and nefar
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