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in FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY news:

‘Thriller’ Musical in the Works

For months, theatergoers have clamored for new blood on Broadway, and now they’re going to get it. The Nederlander Organization said in a statement that it had acquired the rights to produce a musical based on the Michael Jackson album “Thriller” and its groundbreaking video, in which the King of Pop transforms into a werewolf while he’s on a date. The production will feature songs from the “Thriller” album as well as Mr. Jackson’s record “Off the Wall.” Mr. Jackson is expected to participate in the musical’s creation. In a statement, James L. Nederlander, the president of the Nederlander Organization, said, “I love the idea of making ‘Thriller’ a musical. Girl meets boy, they fall in love, boy has big secret, now what…” A creative team for “Thriller the Musical” was not announced.

New York Times blog

i don't even know

this is my favorite thing ever (right now).



Lip Dub IUT SRC Rouen 2008
by arcanes-prod

This elaborate, cool, and totally charming lip dub video of "Thriller" made by French community college students is just about the happiest thing on the internet this week. If you don't crack a smile, you're weird:

If nothing else at least you get to listen to Thriller. Who doesn't like that?

Via VideoGum Via Best Week Ever.....

No one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike

remember how it's the 25th anniversary of 'Thriller'? (you should remember because i talked about it in December.)

well, the LA Times printed some fun facts about the album. get educated.

some hightlights:

The song "Thriller" was originally titled "Starlight."

Real gang members were brought it to be extras in the "Beat It" video.

Today's Randomness

>I just read on Pitchfork that today is the 25th anniversary of Micheal Jackson's Thriller album. Happy Birthday! Well done?! Congratulations? Yay!
This news makes me feel old because I totally remember my parents playing this album when I was a wee lass and the monster noises from the song "Thriller" scared the shit out of me, but everything was all better when "Beat It" came on right after it was over. I did love the cute picture on the inside of the record! Michael in his white suit and the cute little tiger. Both singer and tiger so young and innocent.

>Also there is finally news on the Juno soundtrack. Sadly, the physical CD isn't out 'til January but the digital edition is coming out one week from today.

>Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová AKA The Swell Season from the movie Once are coming to ReelzChannel today so Mary Anne can interview them. So exciting. Hopefully I will get to be in the room for their mini performance.

>Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are doing the Super Bowl Halftime show. I like it.

>Be Kind Rewind is premiering at Sundance. Sweet.

>I ate at this new thai restaurant Nakkara on Beverly (at Spaulding) the other night. It was so yummy. Everyone should go there. The staff was as delightful as the food and decor.

>Is it wrong that one of my most favoritest things during the holiday season are extended store hours? I love this! Target open until 11pm is so heavenly.

Top 10

my co-workers and i are in a fierce top 10 list marathon.

see it all started with "my top 10 favorite actors."
This was David's idea and we were all intrigued.
We've gone from top 10 favorite songs to favorite directors to top 10 actresses who (we think) will win an Oscar....and on and on and on.

Right now it's music videos.
Here was my (very edited) list:
Clearly I don't get the concept of "top 10"

Michel Gondry directed
The White Stripes – The Denial Twist
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2aDHdcLwvh4
The White Stripes – Fell in Love With A Girl
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XRDi67G0Siw&feature=related
The White Stripes – The Hardest Button to Button
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gLESpHrtvxs
The White Stripes – Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EfjEOjzckII
Kylie Minogue – Come into My World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0WELwAYgWc
The Chemical Brothers – Let Forever Be
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hmpxsk3dHaA
Cibo Matto – Sugar Water
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DlR1NijJxV4
Lucas – Lucas With the Lid Off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5HOsnq_2j4
(all shot in one take dude!)
Beck – Cellphone’s Dead
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zL-lKik2cD0


Spike Jonze directed
The Beastie Boys – Sabatoge
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-sbqIyeed4g
The Breeders – Cannonball
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7AsId-qVIb4
The Pharcyde – Drop
http://youtube.com/watch?v=co3qMdkucM0
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Y Control
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YTL0YqRhxj0
Fatboy Slim- Praise you
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4ULVQOneeZE
Fatboy Slim – Weapon of Choice
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs&feature=related
Bjork – It’s Oh So Quiet
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g8Z1MpcyqQU


Jonathan Dayton / Valerie Faris directed
The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsZYqaSc4cU
The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
http://youtube.com/watch?v=E2snP7rGP6g


Paul Thomas Anderson directed
Fiona Apple – Fast As You Can
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRyvi_sZ_Sg&feature=related
Fiona Apple – Limp
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WWpIzDhVn8k
Fiona Apple – Paper Bag
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9Kkg1IkGJ0Y&feature=related
Fiona Apple – Across the Universe
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8gLWTtlMwo4&feature=related

Radiohead videos
Just (best video ever. Must read subtitles)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=R5X7HKxpiQA
directed by Jamie Thraves

Street Spirit (Fade Out)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BrZTNhW44-o
directed by Jonathan Glazer

Karma Police
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BrZTNhW44-o
directed by Jonathan Glazer


The Rapture – WooHoo Alright Yeah!
Directed by: Ben Dickinson
http://youtube.com/watch?v=d0bzmjZQYno

Justice – D.A.N.C.E
Directed by Jonas & Francois
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fo_QVq2lGMs

LCD Soundsystem – Tribulations
Directed by Dougal Wilson (very Gondry-esque)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58YvRWmz7-o

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Mary Jane’s Last Dance
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WdTYcnUBADw


Fiona Apple – Not About Love (featuring the best comedian ever, Zach Galifianakis)
Directed by Michael Blieden
http://youtube.com/watch?v=krTE0AJkqj4

Mark Romanek directed
Nine Inch Nails – Closer
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QWncI51ggH8
Janet Jackson ft. Q-Tip – Got ‘til It’s Gone
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Os_imtOLrns


Chris Cunninham directed
Madonna – Frozen
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9xtYEX9KDwY
Portishead – Only You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PnNrtUTwa4
(filmed underwater)


Michael Jackson – Thriller
Directed by John Landis
(pretty much any MJ video ever)

The Chemical Brothers ft. K-Os - Get Yourself High
Directed by Joseph Kahn
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b-VijzcWVUA

The Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up
Directed by Jonas Akerlund
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VNrhmbc0y_8

Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
Directed by Jonas Odell
http://youtube.com/watch?v=x_9GR9kdZ3o



SUPERSEXY VIDEOS
Chris Isaac – Wicked Game
Directed by Herb Ritts
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XXmlJQN5Pm8

Prince – Gett Off
Directed by Randee St. Nicholas

Janet Jackson – If
Directed by Dominic Sena
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8Gq7pW_LvZc

Madonna – Justify My Love
Directed by Jean Baptise Mondino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfw4XCBB-lw

Madonna ft. Massive Attack – I Want You
Directed by Earle Sebastian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b0rBhy971I

Blindness

the 1st teaser for Fernando Meirelles' Blindness is here!
the official web-site has a link.

i am so fascinated with this movie. maybe i am going to buy the book and read it.

2 of my favorite people are in it, julianne moore and mark ruffalo.

The Constant Gardener director Fernando Meirelles joins forces with Canadian writer/director/actor Don McKellar to bring Portuguese Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago's 1995 novel concerning an epidemic of blindness that pushes society to the breaking point after sweeping through a modern metropolis to the big screen in this large scale philosophical thriller.

Sounds good right?

music video to movie

i saw this on JoBlo.com and thought "Agreed"

Music videos have always been an underappreciated artform. MTV, which launched the medium into the mainstream, doesn't even play them anymore. But I've always been a big fan of music videos and always felt like I was watching a tiny, little movie. Considering some music video directors have gone on to great things in cinema (Spike Jonze, David Fincher, et. al.), that's not surprising.
Considering we've had TV series, video games, comics, musicals, toys and board games all adapted for movies, why not music videos? OK that probably wouldn't work but here are 10 music videos that should have been movies. I tried to avoid the obvious like "November Rain," "Thriller" and "Sabotage" and go with some out of the box choices.

Click the above link the see the videos.

p.s. Radiohead's "Just" is one of the greatest things to ever happen to anyone ever.

happy birthday Quincy Jones.

(that's the same picture they used on that episode of Arrested Development.)

he is kind of a big deal.

Quincy Jones -- In a musical career that has spanned six decades, Quincy Jones has distinguished himself as a bandleader, a solo artist, a sideman, a songwriter, a producer, an arranger, a film composer, and a record label executive. He is the artist with the single greatest number of Grammy nominations, with a total of 79 nominations and 27 awards, and has also received an Emmy Award, seven Oscar nominations, and the 1995 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Albums produced/arranged

1955 Social Call, Betty Carter
1959 Vaughan and Violins, Sarah Vaughan
1960 Under Paris Skies, Andy Williams
1961 Genius+Soul=Jazz, Ray Charles
1961 If You Go, Peggy Lee
1962 Blues Cross Country, Peggy Lee
1962 You're Mine You, Sarah Vaughan
1963 Ella and Basie!, Ella Fitzgerald
1964 It Might as Well Be Swing, Frank Sinatra
1965 Our Shining Hour, Sammy Davis, Jr.
1966 Sinatra at the Sands, Frank Sinatra
1970 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Soundtrack
1979 Off the Wall, Michael Jackson
1982 Thriller, Michael Jackson
1984 L.A. Is My Lady, Frank Sinatra
1987 Bad, Michael Jackson
1991 Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux, Miles Davis

Olivia Newton-John

the title of this post might scare you, but it makes me want to type for hours.

let me explain....life sucks. sometimes the only thing that can remedy this (for me at least) is some music. blasting sweet tunage in the car is therapy i can afford and therapy that works.

this morning, tired, upset and with serious stress knots in my shoulders i was driving to work and like i do every morning i hooked up my ipod on shuffle.

lucious jackson's "nervous breakthrough" was a good start. that song just makes me want to roller skate. and then came Olivia. not just any Olivia. not Grease-era Olivia.....dirty Olivia. After she earned her Sandra Dee rep, after her Oscar nomination and performance of "Hopelessly Devoted To You, after Xanadu.

I'm talking about Physical. The 1981 album that my parents had and I remember singing to. Just like the Thriller, I remember unfolding the record to reveal a picture like it were a magazine spread. She was all in white workout gear, sassy headband included. I had to have a headband like that too. Of course back then I had no clue that the title track was basically lil' innocent Olivia turning into super-skankish Olivia. Sort of like when people first heard Genie in a Bottle except that Aguilera never had an Oscar nomination and was always sort of slutty.

Let's sample some lyrics:

There's nothing left to talk about

Unless it's horizontally

whoa dude! she means business!

Physical, despite it's sexytime theme was a huge hit. People were total prudes back then! Don't get me started on the video. It's pure magic. Just watch it.

I'm sure you'll understand my point of view

We know each other mentally

You gotta know that you're bringin' out

The animal in me

good idea jeans

Casting Clive Owen in a movie is always a step in the right direction.


Production Weekly has twittered that Clive Owen is set to star in the action thriller "Protection." There are no details on the plot, but we're guessing that Owen will have to protect somebody or something or both.

The film will be directed by Patrick Alessandrin, the mastermind behind "District 13: Ultimatum," which if you don't remember, was the sequel to the original movie based on an internet sensation that lasted all of five seconds. The script is by Brandon Noonan who has no credits to his name as yet, though at one point years ago he had a writing deal in place with DreamWorks and a potential project with Neil LaBute that never came together.

Owen's post-"Sin City" action film resume is spotty at best. "The International" and "Shoot 'Em Up" were abysmal and our hopes for this project aren't very high. Owen has the potential to be a pretty slick and cool lead actor for action films, but he has yet to find the right script to do it with. We aren't hopeful that this is one that will turn things around.


via The Playlist

Joel McHale, moviestar

McHale, Bakula in Soderbergh's 'Informant'

(FROM HOLLYWOOD REPORTER) – Joel McHale, host of E!'s The Soup, and Scott Bakula have joined Matt Damon in Steven Soderbergh's darkly comic thriller The Informant. The story, based on New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald's 2000 best-selling book The Informant: A True Story, is about a corporate giant brought to justice by one of its employees. Damon plays Mark Whitacre, who worked for agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland, and who leaked details of a price-fixing scam that ultimately resulted in a $100 million fine for the company. Bakula and McHale (who is in final negotiations) will play FBI agents working with Whitacre to stop the scam. Although the subject matter is serious, Soderbergh is expected to give it a darkly comedic spin. As such, in addition to McHale, the director has tapped several other actors with comedic roles on their resume, including Mike O'Malley (CBS' Yes, Dear), Andrew Daly (Semi-Pro), Adam Paul (Starz's Hollywood Residential), and Melanie Lynskey (CBS' Two and a Half Men). McHale has earned a cult following on the E! series that launched Greg Kinnear's career. (Hollywood Reporter)