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How is this not a headline from The Onion?  How soon can I move to Canada?

The Onion is Brilliant - Iron Man Trailer to Become a Full Feature Film

Everyone has blogged about this already, but I felt bad not having done so given how perfect it is.  This satirizes so many aspects of the movie and Internet community, I don't even know where to start...

Did you hear?  They're gonna make a movie based on that cool Iron Man trailer?  Wow, I sure hope those studio suits don't screw this up...

Wildly Popular 'Iron Man' Trailer To Be Adapted Into Full-Length Film

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Just a few links to enjoy:

• There may never, ever be a better movie poster than this:
• Film School in Three Lines or Less - Thank you McSweeney!
• Quote of the day from The New York Times, "Edward is very passionate. He is as passionate about the Hulk as we are." (For those unaccustomed to Hollywood speak, "very passionate" roughly translates to a seven on the "he’s a difficult person" scale.)"
• Random, but you have to listen to the Artie Lange meltdown on Howard Stern.  Take 30 minutes, and enjoy the insanity.

The Strangest Interview You'll Ever See

Craig Bierko was literally on a rerun of Sex and the City last night, including his naked ADD banjo playing, and yet this morning, I get this:

I don't have words...

If Saul Bass Did the Star Wars Titles

When genius happens, you have to acknowledge it.  Sit back and enjoy the perfect.

Sean Young is Classy

Who gets drunk and heckles Julian Schnabel at the DGAs?  Sean Young... that's who.

An extremely drunk Sean Young heckled Julian Schnabel the moment he walked on stage to accept his medallion.  She was quickly 86'd by security and tried to throw a punch at those ejecting her from the venue.  She really ruined Julian's moment and it was kind of sad.  He looked into the audience and said "Who said that?"  She blurted out something else unintelligible and then he said "Perhaps you'd like to finish my speech," said "thank you very much" and started to step away from the podium.  He came back, of course, but it seemed he was visibly pissed and upset by the interruption. 

New Top 5ives

One of my favorite RSS feeds, 5ives, has come back online recently, and today's entry just made me giggle...  Enjoy:

Five terrible fake Sylvester Stallone franchise revivals

1. Rambo V: Could You Repeat the Specials, Please?
2. Increasingly Less Over the Top
3. Tango & Cash II: Which One Am I Again?
4. F.I.S.T.U.L.A.
5. Rocky VII: Who Keeps Moving My Medicine?

Why Stars Hate Junkets: Reason #27

I'm surprised he wasn't even harsher with her.

I interviewed John Cusack way back during the junket for Serendipity, a movie I'm sure he wasn't thrilled about investigating the morale depths of, and I didn't want to come off as one of these idiot junket whores.  So we dug into basketball and Michael Jordan's impending comeback - John's a Chicago Bulls fan. 

Small tip: It actually helps to know something about the actor you're going to interview. 

Nope, I Don't Get a Cut For This - That Baby DVD

I'm going to do something now that I have yet to do in the 930 previous posts from Craig's MovieBlog.

I'm going to pimp a friend's product.

It has nothing to do with movies, but well, I've got these two kids, right?  And the crap that they listen to is scientifically proven to melt your brain... and all they do is ask for the same songs over and over again, so I'm screwed.  I am literally dumber now than I was before having children, and I blame the music.  I missed my shot at teaching them to like Dave Matthews and U2, so it's Radio Disney for me... forever.  (Why are Hannah Montana and Miley Ray Cyrus the same person?  I'm baffled...)

But my friend Rob over at www.thatbabydvd.com decided to do something about it.  Not only do I have RIDICULOUS respect for him for having the stones to leave corporate America behind and follow his passion, but he created an awesome CD and DVD that kids will actually like, and it's music that we adults know and appreciate (Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, 10,000 Maniacs, etc.)  You can see the song list here.  I'm telling you, if you have kids, and you don't laugh at the video for "Brass in Pocket," well, you're just dead inside.

Or, if you have friends with young children, please... think of them on a Saturday in the car, listening to The Wiggles over and over and over again... until the father decides to park his "Big Red Car," get out, and stab a Starbucks barista in the eye. 

Do everyone involved a favor, and grab a copy of That Baby DVD or CD for them.

Happy Holidays.

How Did I Miss This?

Mitt Romney's favorite novel is Battlefield Earth?  And he's running for President of the United States, right?  Just checking...

Here's what ESPN's Tuesday Morning Quarterback had to say about it:

This summer, Romney said his favorite novel is the Battlefield Earth series by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology. If you saw the really awful John Travolta movie Battlefield Earth and assumed it was another example of a movie not as good as the book -- actually, the movie was much better than the books, which number among the worst dreck ever to leave a printing plant.

How long before the main requirement for being President is that you "enjoy playing Deal or No Deal at home along with the contestants... just to see what would happen"?

Amazing Customer Service

While this has NOTHING to do with movies, I had to call this out and give massive props to Amazon.com.  It's a little long, but read it.  It's so worth it to see Amazon's response.

Just based on this alone (if it's true), I am now and forever an Amazon.com customer for life.

PS - I don't work for Amazon.

Look Who Else Has a Wide Stance

Hilarious.  Watch George Clooney congratulate Julia Roberts on some award...

Ellen Page and Ethan Hawke - Separated at Birth?

I happened to catch Reality Bites over the Thanksgiving Holiday (gosh I wish Winona didn't screw up her career...) so I guess the flick was fresh in my mind.

Then just now, I was watching the international trailer for Juno, and there's this one shot of Ellen Page (pictured below) where my screwed up brain said, "Whoa... she, she... she looks like Ethan Hawke from Reality Bites!"  So, I've been digging around the interwebs, and while I can't find a great picture to match where my head was, I found some that might be close.  Thoughts?  Am I completely nuts?!?

Take Ethan's hair from the first picture, and put it on the second picture where he's doing the eyebrows thing, and I think we've got ourselves another Ellen Page.  Maybe.  With facial hair.

Please note that I don't mean this as an insult to Ellen (or Ethan) in the slightest, and I cannot wait for Juno to come out.  Maybe it was even her tone of "Go Carol," that sounded like Ethan being a smart ass to Ben Stiller's character that triggered it for me.  Still, I think I'm onto something here... no idea what though.

The Oscar Movie

Over on The Lost Boy, I discovered a brilliant clip that you need to watch now.  It comes courtesy of The Soup, which I don't watch, but I have fallen deeply in love with its host Joel McHale after listening to him ad lib with Adam Corolla on the latter's morning radio show.

If you want to know how to get nominated for an Oscar, just watch:

Ask A Ninja Covers the WGA Strike

Movie Marketing Madness points to this amazing video from Ask A Ninja.  His perspective on this ongoing battle is quite refreshing:

"Plus Writer's Guild does not sound like a very intimidating foe!  The only other guilds I know, are the Lollipop Guild and World of Warcraft guild, and I don't think either one of those are gonna help you out in this situation."