MetaChat REGISTER   ||   LOGIN   ||   IMAGES ARE OFF   ||   RECENT COMMENTS




artphoto by splunge
artphoto by TheophileEscargot
artphoto by Kronos_to_Earth
artphoto by ethylene

Home

About

Search

Archives

Mecha Wiki

Metachat Eye

Emcee

IRC Channels

IRC FAQ


 RSS


Comment Feed:

RSS

10 March 2007

Movie to be based on a Thomas Kinkade painting. Can Hollywood sink any lower?
Well, shit, Pixar better start work on CGI film based on thos dogs playing poker, man.
posted by jonmc 10 March | 18:59
I'd watch that. Several times.
posted by cmonkey 10 March | 19:02
Hollywood can always sink a little lower.

And so too can the real estate industry.
posted by mudpuppie 10 March | 19:03
Please, don't egg them on.
posted by tommasz 10 March | 19:09
I'd watch that. Several times.

Dude, let's write a script and get disgustingly rich.
posted by jonmc 10 March | 19:13
i thought the same thing when i read a couple of years ago that mtv films had bought the rights to avril lavigne's "sk8er boi" song for possible development.

that's pretty low.
posted by syntax 10 March | 19:13
hey, syntax, don't forget that Jeannie C. Riley's "Harper Valley PTA" spawned both a movie and a TV series (and two seuqel songs and an nice soul cover version, but I digress), but that song was far better than Avril's.
posted by jonmc 10 March | 19:24
Movie to be based on a Thomas Kinkade painting. Can Hollywood sink any lower?

No.

Wait, yes--Hollywood can always sink lower, and Hell is potentially bottomless.
posted by shane 10 March | 19:27
Dude, let's write a script and get disgustingly rich.

Hmm. You thinkin Canine Mafia crime drama, or heartwarming scamps gambling while the humans are away?
posted by cmonkey 10 March | 19:49
Combo platter. They have poker parties when the humans are away, but they're under seige by the Feline Mafia, so they're forced to fight crime. It'd help if we could work a classic rock chestnut in there somehow. I'm thinking "Natural Born Woman" by Humble Pie for some reason.
posted by jonmc 10 March | 19:56
I'm thinking "O RLY? The Movie!" a CGI animated tale of two owls in search of a Tootsie Pop.

Or "Caturday Night Fever" (starring Ceiling Cat, Monorail Cat and Saunter Cat).

Or "Huge Manatee", an animal disaster movie.

Or Steven Spielberg Presents the carefully-edited PG-13 "Goatse The Movie" in which the title character is a WWII hero who hides an entire Jewish family...

Or just paste together the last 5 years of Worth 1000 Photoshop Contests into a MegaMontage. Nah, too artsy.
posted by wendell 10 March | 20:00
Do one of those multiple-trailer launches, with each one pitching it to a slightly different crowd--the kiddie trailer includes most of the action and every single fart joke, and has 'Atomic Dog' as a soundtrack (or maybe a Snoop song); the romcom trailer emphasizes the Lady and the Tramp parody scene, the fratboy/stoner trailer uses the word 'bitch' a lot. Zach Braff as Lucky (Labrador), Beyonce as Princess (poodle), Sam Elliott as Tex (basset) and featuring Samuel L. Jackson as T-Bone (bulldog).

I think it might be time to get an agent, and a lawyer.
posted by box 10 March | 20:00
It might also be time to get drunk.
posted by box 10 March | 20:03
box, you are a genius. And I get a cut since it was my idea.
posted by jonmc 10 March | 20:04
Shit, Ten Miles To A Garage would make a pretty great sequel, with New Years Eve in Dogsville being the perfect holiday tear-jerker.
posted by cmonkey 10 March | 20:21
Woof!
posted by mischief 10 March | 20:52
I'm so not watching this movie.
It seems boring.
posted by CitrusFreak12 10 March | 21:14
I'm not much on Kinkade's work myself, but I will observe that people who do like it, like it a lot. There is something comforting to many about idealized scenes, and the late 19th and 20th Centuries saw tremendous amounts of "chromos" sold throughout America. Kinkade may not be much of an artist, but he's a hell of a marketer, and he's sold an astounding ~$4 billion worth of stuff, even if a large part of that is just the Thomas Kinkade name on dreck made and designed by others.

I'm thinkin' this movie is a lock to do $50 million in theatrical release, and 5x that on licensing and DVD.
posted by paulsc 10 March | 21:23
Wait, yes--Hollywood can always sink lower, and Hell is potentially bottomless.

Heh. Speaking as someone who knows people in The Biz here, I've heard tales that would make the devil step back and go, "okay, people, let's not go into overkill here."
posted by scody 10 March | 21:58
Kinkade gives schmaltz a bad name.
posted by deborah 10 March | 22:55
Windows and daylight savings time: || Attention Wilco fans

HOME  ||   REGISTER  ||   LOGIN