OMG PEOPLE ARE ALREADY STARTING TO EMAIL ME ABOUT THE JACOB THING

[cleolinda]

Breaking news: Taylor Lautner Locked In For 'New Moon.' And those of us on Team Sparkle Motion rub our hands with a low, evil laugh. Meanwhile: Who Should Play Leah Clearwater In ‘New Moon’? An MTV Staffer Weighs In (rumor: Vanessa Hudgens to Join 'Twilight' Cast?); Twilight DVD Date, Art (large enough to frighten children). Also, take your pick: two, two, two overpriced Twilight conventions! AH AH AH! And finally, Something Awful does Twilight.

Moar linkspam!

A different take on the LJ layoffs.

Christmas Essay Was Not His, Author Admits; Readers Rally Around Neale Donald Walsch After Plagiarism Accusations. I particularly enjoy the reader quoted as saying, "Now that you have graciously given credit where credit is due, I can imagine a possibility that Ms. Chand might even be flattered by an author of your stature finding in her work such quality that it moved him to breed further life into it."

1) What?

2) BREATHE. Not "breed," BREATHE.

3) What?

Final 'Pushing Daisies' episodes not airing?

Joss Whedon speaks candidly about Dollhouse and has a message for haters.

Entertainment Weekly Lives.

Mosaic Portrait Artist Uses Pop Icons As Muses.

Revised Unauthorized Lexicon Set to Hit Shelves.

2009 Writers Guild Awards Nominations Announced.

Field Narrows to 7 for 2008 Makeup Oscar.

Images: Check This Out: Poster for Morgan Freeman's 'The Code'; Another First Look: Dito Montiel's 'Fighting' with Channing Tatum; Check This Out: Early Futuristic Judge Dredd Concept Art; Zombie Strippers (2008).

Trailers and clips: Must Watch: Intense Trailer for 'The Hurt Locker'; Exclusive: New 'Defiance' Clip; Must Watch: Broken Lizard's 'Slammin' Salmon' Trailer; Official US Trailer for 'Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li'; The star of 'The Unborn' gets spooked in our exclusive video; 'Objectified' Trailer is Sleek Yet Functional; Get Your First Look At ‘Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience’!

trailer_spot: G-Force, My Life in Ruins, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, Disgrace, Watchmen.

Watchmen Release Date Decision on Jan. 20; Watchmen Video Journal: The Minutemen.

‘Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince’ Tones Down, Gets PG Rating. BOOOOOOOOOOO. (ETA: Something else to consider: 'Prince Caspian' also got a PG, and it was "wall-to-wall violence.")

Meanwhile: Bill Nighy Still Waiting For David Yates’ ‘Harry Potter’ Casting Call. SCRIMGEOUR! SCRIMGEOUR!

Mickey Rourke Joining Iron Man 2 as Crimson Dynamo! And Sam Rockwell! (nice bit of grammatical weirdness there, guys); With Addition Of 'Iron Man 2,' Mickey Rourke Now In Everything. Which, in turn, refers to...

Mickey Rourke and Every Other Action Star Considered 'Expendable'; Wherein We Muster Cautious Optimism For Sylvester Stallone's Next Film.

David Fincher Disavows 'Benjamin Button' Shooter: "Thank God it isn’t Philadelphia. Some dude got shot for talking on his cell phone. I don’t advocate that."

Confirmed: Arcade Fire Scoring Richard Kelly's 'The Box.'

Lena Headey Makes Her Directing Debut With 'Kill Drug.'

2 Captain Kirks & 2 Darth Vaders Voicing 'Quantum Quest.'

McG Takes A Dive, Will Direct ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo.’

Sex and the City Sequel: Green Light. Which Vivienne Westwood wants to write, by the way.

'Rammer Jammer' book optioned by film company.

Disney to Include DVDs with Blu-ray Releases. THANK YOU.

Disney Casts Lead in Insanely Overbudgeted 'Tron' Sequel. That would be Garrett Hedlund. (Remember? Patroclus?)

(Insert "cousins" joke here.)

(Insert joke about cousins inserting things here.)

Josh Brolin Says New ‘Jonah Hex’ Director Jimmy Hayward Is ‘Amazing.’

Lion-O Voice Actor Comments On ‘ThunderCats’ Fan Trailer, Status Of CGI ‘ThunderCats’ Movie.

James Mangold to Direct 'Juliet.'

Um... When Did Romeo and Juliet Have Babies?

Disco-Bots Are Just Using Lightsabers To Express Their Bouncy Rhythms.

Comments

Vanessa Hudgens?PLZ

[situveuxmoi.livejournal.com]

Ha. There is no way she should play her, especially since she's on the tiny side.

Why not an actual native american woman? Or at least a female who's at least 5'8 and not teeny-tiny like the rest of the girls in that movie...

Re: Vanessa Hudgens?PLZ

[leoprincess.livejournal.com]

Hollywood hiring authentic ethnic actors to play ethnic parts? In what universe?

[lunylucy.livejournal.com]

OH C'MON. JUST 3 EPISODES LEFT. MUST YOU HATE US SO MUCH, ABC? :(

[pointedulac.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. Why must they take away my weekly warm fuzzy? Just let it air! I'll still buy the DVDs, I promise. ARGH.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

I feel you should know that during that lj outage a few hours ago, I was frantically checking your twitter for updates. Since you were mum, I took that as a sign that everything would be okay.

Final 'Pushing Daisies' episodes not airing?

Fuck you, ABC! See if I watch Lost! See if I watch Lost without several comments about how much I hate you!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee! I didn't know anything about the outage--I was off having dinner, and it was over by the time I came back. Of course, I saw everyone freaking out then.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I'm personally glad douchey guy who can't act didn't get the role, though he TOTALLY would have brought the LULZ.

Meanwhile, poor Pushing Daisies. I never even watched the show and I feel bad for the screwed over fandom.

[glenvorian.livejournal.com]

PD fans need hugs. :(

[glenvorian.livejournal.com]

If the final PD episodes are not aired, I'm going to cut a bitch.

[krzychk12.livejournal.com]

my sentiments exactly.

[evilbearhunter.livejournal.com]

Joss Whedon speaks candidly about Dollhouse and has a message for haters.

Is it "to the left"?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

One can only hope.

[penmage.livejournal.com]

I love how the only positive thing they could find to put on the DVD box was "a full-blown pop culture phenomenon."

I work in publishing. I pull review quotes for book jackets all the time. When you use a quote that doesn't actually say anything nice about the book, it's because THERE'S NOTHING NICE TO QUOTE.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeeee. That, and how far down the food chain (particularly with movie reviews) they have to go to get something positive. So... I suppose they wouldn't really have wanted to quote me, for example, saying, "It was SO MUCH BETTER than the book that I am unable to say that it was bad."

[swsa.livejournal.com]

And those of us on Team Sparkle Motion rub our hands with a low, evil laugh.

Heee. Yeah, the real winner here? RPattz. Who just got even less competition. Or wait, I guess from his perspective that's losing. No one's going to distract the crazy fangirls for him now.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm sure the Team Jacob people will rally around Lautner even if he's not as beasty as they wanted. I know the Jacob fans were kind of split down the middle omg by the Lautner/Copon controversy, but I bet they'll pull together pretty quickly.

[cerulean-breeze.livejournal.com]

Vanessa Hudgens? Well that would certainly let her reinvent herself as an actress. We'd see what she had in her... So to the Do Not Wanters, I say, let's see her bring it.

[pop-tothepeople.livejournal.com]

New Moon does not need any more potential to suck :(
let her try this new thing that we call "actually acting" somewhere else... it's probably gonna be a while before she gets the hang of it anyway...

[queenfaithie.livejournal.com]

Ahhh! Ahhh! Dollhouse! Don't leave me before you have yet begun! You have so much potential to by amazing!

Vanessa Hudgens? REALLY? That seems like an...odd choice...

[prncssaurora.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear Taylor Lautner's staying around, but PG RATING FOR HBP? WHAT? I remember reading HBP and wondering with my sister about how they'd keep it down to a PG-13. Ugh. But so with you on Nighy=Scrimgeour.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! Inferi are BY DEFINITION PG-13, I'm sorry.

[maisontv.livejournal.com]

Kristen Stewart looks lost and confused on that DVD cover.

[poinsley.livejournal.com]

Final 'Pushing Daisies' episodes not airing?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

I was wondering why they were repeating "Scrubs" tonight.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Two Kirks, two Vaders and a Luke in one movie - made in conjunction with NASA? *GEEKSPLODES*

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

Fuck off, ABC. I've had it with your shit. If it weren't for Lost, I'd never tune into you again. And after that's over... buh-bye, assholes!

[more-dragoncelt.livejournal.com]

RIGHT ON.

[wildcatlizzie.livejournal.com]

Two disc special edition? Two discs of what? What could possibly be worth two discs?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think there's going to be a shitload of deleted scenes for sure, and the first disc will be taken up by the movie itself and the commentaries.

[oldfeatheryhat.livejournal.com]

David Hayman already confirmed to Potter fansite SnitchSeeker that the Battle of Hogwarts had been cut in order to “avoid repetition.” (From the HP -- PG rating link.)

Say what? Say what?!? They had damn well better be talking about the sixth book and not THE Battle of Hogwarts, or heads will roll. ...in a more metaphorical sense.

[maggie-qow.livejournal.com]

I've stayed fairly stalkery of the HBP news on Leaky Cauldron, and I don't think there's any fear of the Battle of Hogwarts being cut from DH: Part II. I HATE that they're cutting it from HBP, but I'm so annoyed at the rigmarole surrounding this movie that it's hardly shocking. As long as they get the Ron/Hermione/LavLav drama right, and I see some Harry/Ginny action, and Dumbledore is adequately dramatic, I will forgive. But if they cut the FREAKING CLIMAX of the entire series from the last movie, I'd be right there with you, rolling people's heads. I want to see all that stone getting smashed and desks marching at Prof. McG's orders, dammit!

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

Watchmen Release Date Decision on Jan. 20

*stocks up on liquor*

[madkestrel.livejournal.com]

So Walsch said, "... and then, somewhere along the way, internalized it as my own experience.”

Isn't that the same excuse Kaavya Viswanathan gave for plagiarizing Megan McCafferty's work? It's a very shiny word and all, but it still means stealing.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Yeah, ABC has been on notice with me for a while, since the double-whammy of making Life on Mars mediocre and then cancelling Pushing Daisies. I still want to watch Cupid when it comes, but if they screw around with airing the PD episodes, I won't watch it live and with ads like a good consumerist girl. SO THERE.

Also, on the one hand, I get why WB wants to make HBP a PG movie, but one the other hand...um, guys? How much longer do you think you can maintain that rating? You do realize the last book is even darker, right?

[berseker.livejournal.com]

Uh. Honestly, I thougnt the letter to Meyers was cheap. And I know people are analysing her through the books since forever, but this is starting to get really old... I don´t know. Maybe is because I worked with this type of thing before and I know it doesn´t work like that (actually, anyone who reads fanfiction knows that. Just because you write about rape it doesn´t mean you want to be raped. Or eaten by a sexy vampire. Or not eaten.) Plus, the idea of a husband getting defensive over a character makes me lol at him in my head. I know it wasn´t her husband, of course, but still makes me think the stupid one here is him.

ANYWAY, have you realize that everytime someone actually makes a good point about Twilight they always end up reccing you? Last one I saw was this (http://ferretbrain.com/articles/article-366).

[berseker.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

So many typos. Sorry 'bout that.

[pop-tothepeople.livejournal.com]

TAYLOR!!! I'M SO HAPPY!!! God, this is brilliant. 2009 is already looking good!

VANESSA HUDGENS NEEDS TO GET THE FUCK OUT.

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

I've never seen this Vanessa person in anything. She looks like another Miley Cyrus clone.

[bya-san.livejournal.com]

ABC just CROSSED. THE. LINE. And you know what? I'm not even going to watch LOST! But then again, I never even watched it in the first place, so...I'm not even going to begin to watch LOST!

[pop-tothepeople.livejournal.com]

ALSO! I lol'd at SMeyer going all "this was all my doing, people! Thank ME! MEEEE!" on her letter. Why doesn't she stfu already?

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

Something Awful= hilarity

I will say, though, I am still not sure where the whole undead cannot be seen in the light of day thing really started in pop culture. Dracula could be seen in the light of day. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu had the Vampire dying in the sun as a twist, and to keep Bram's Stoker's widow from suing. (which she did anyway) The Vampyre; by Polidori, which predates Stoker by many decades, has a daylight walking vamp, too... if memory serves me correctly.
Not a sparkle amongst them, though.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

From my research--full disclosure: I've been working on a Victorian steampunk vampire thing for about five years now--Nosferatu really was the first appearance of the sun-kills-vampires trope. You'd think it would show up earlier than that, but it really, really doesn't. (Dracula's seen in Piccadilly during the day; either "Christabel" and/or "Carmilla" also feature vampires in daylight, I can't remember which, and it was possibly both).

The thing is, I don't really feel like you can complain about someone's vampire mythology being "different," because--different from what? There are dozens of different vampire mythologies around the world, many of which directly contradict each other. So you can't really say that someone's got it "wrong." To me, the problem isn't that the Meyer vampires can go out in daylight and not die; it's that THEY SPARKLE.