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[cleolinda]

I'm way behind on the news, so here's a bit of a taste for tonight's update:

>> Orlando Bloom set pics from Kingdom of Heaven

>> Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth 2? (ETA: They want to call it The Golden Age, not literally Elizabeth 2.)

>> I hate the Polar Express trailer

>> Violet and Veruca cast for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

>> Gerard Butler for Beowulf and Grendel (Vladimir: "UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!")

>> Emma Watson reveals cuts to HP&POA. ETA: Corrected link.


In more local movie news, The Lovely Emily and I have bought our tickets to the 9:40 show Friday night, and I am seriously considering dragging along a notebook. We figure there's a better chance of kids being in bed at that point and the theater being easier to get into, because we lived to regret going to the 7 pm show of Two Towers at the Summit. The most popular theater in town. ON OPENING NIGHT.

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[lissybrand.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth 2?!?!
Have fun on Friday Night :p

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

>> Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth 2?

OMFG this is one of my most fave movies ever!I'll die if a sequel comes out!

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Is it bad a squeed about the Beowulf thing only becuase they mentioned Lambert?

[vampychick.livejournal.com]

...because we lived to regret going to the 7 pm show of Two Towers at the Summit...ON OPENING NIGHT.

Dude. What in the nine hells were you thinking?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure we were in a Viggo-induced hormone haze at that point. Yeah. Never again.

[sennical.livejournal.com]

Try having your second viewing of RotK ruined by an entire birthday party of forty fifth-grade boys. Gag.

[vampychick.livejournal.com]

My Harry Potter class (yes, you read that right; yes, I am in college) is going to the movie on opening night, but we're in Tuscaloosa. Not at the Summit. I can't even imagine. Well, I kind of can, but it's not pretty so I try not to dwell on it.

[risen-phoenix.livejournal.com]

The 'Two Tickets' saga is truly awe inspiring. ^__^ I'd give my left arm to have one ounce of your talent. No joke, I was hanging on every word, imagining the asst. manager with battle-weary eyes..

"Dammit, they're just kids..."

Brilliant, just brilliant. ^__^

[elpblonde.livejournal.com]

i HATE willy wonka and the chocolate factory. like, with a passion and a fiery, virulent hatred. to me, mr. wonka always looks and acts like some sort of creepy child molester. maybe mr. depp can change my mind. or maybe i'll be too busy ogling looking at him to care that he looks all "molester-y."

[queen-medb.livejournal.com]

A sequel to Elizabeth?!? You've just made my day. Seriously. (Well... the Orlando pictures didn't hurt either.)

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth 2? *happy sigh*
I am STILL waiting for someone to write me Elizabeth/me pwp fic. (not that I ever asked for it outloud, or anything.)

[raanve]

I don't know wether to anticipate or fear Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. On one hand, there's my love of all things Dahl (hells, I even kinda enjoyed Matilda), my love of Burton, and of course, there's Depp.

On the other hand, Burton's burned me a few times since Ed Wood (by far his best film) -- though I liked Big Fish -- and there's the fact that I really enjoy the 1971 film version, and love Wilder in it.

I don't know. Trepidation, I guess, is my buzzword on this one.

[boho-life.livejournal.com]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: CAN'T WAIT. Love Tim Burton's style---do you know if he's directing it, or if he's producing it?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I believe he's actually directing it.

[boho-life.livejournal.com]

That, I believe, is the most exciting news I've heard all day/

[gniko.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Orlando's gonna be.. -gasp- and archer? ;)

When you said Polar Express I some reason thought of the story where the grandpa misses this train many many years ago and then the train wrecks and everyone dies. He keeps the ticket and waits years and years for the train to come back, until it finally does and crashes through the house? yeah, that one.

"I have to go alone!" whispered the mother. I was watching quietly over my shoulder, and I'm telling you, I saw fear in her eyes. "I may not come back! Stay with your brother and whatever happens, get into that theater!"

Such drama! I remember I went to see the Two Towers at the 7.15p showing in the only theater in town it was showing at on the second night after it came out. Me and ten other people had bought our tickets a week earlier and camped out in the lot two hours before our showing, got our food early and filled the middle row with our group - one of which hadn't arrived cause she had to get off work and we left her the middle seat. This didn't sit well with this (we will pretend they were overweight, balding, missing most of their teeth, had severe acne and prolly were cousins. when in fact they were not, but it makes me feel better to see them that way, they kicked puppies too, constantly) couple.

They wanted "That seat, in the middle, you can't save that seat!"

Me, "Yes I can. I bought the ticket last wedenesday!"

Josh (one of the other nine there), "Go sit your fat ass somewhere else!"

I think that was what led to the next scene

Manager: You can't save seats. You either have to move elsewhere or leave the theater.

Jayme (my friend) wasn't having it: You can't force us to move, they showed up late to the theater, they should have to find seats of their own instead of taking ours!

Fat-ass balding man's wife/cousin/however: You can't save seats, it's not allowed!

Me: Where is it stated you can't save seats, did I not get the rulebook, is there some clause on the back of the ticket I didn't see? I don't see w--

Manager (being harried by the husband who's now screaming): You, stop talking. Either move or get out!

We all give him one last look like "what the fuck, we got these seats ages ago" and the idiot's feeling all puffed up now having won the middle seats of the fucking theater that we'd gotten fairly and deserved to sit in - The last one of us arrives in a timely fashion just as we, all 10, sit in mostly 1's and some pairs in the far back right corner.

The dumbass who took the seats calls his brother? over from the front, and then THEY SAVE SEATS for some woman with three kids!

I'm so glad to not live there anymore.

[k-joy.livejournal.com]

At your theatres u get to choose your seats??? Here when we buy tickets it has the seat number on it so there won't be any confusion....in fact everything was regular when we went to watch RotK

[gniko.livejournal.com]

Where's here? In Alaska and, so far, Seattle I've had open seating in every theater I've been to..

[k-joy.livejournal.com]

erm ah yes forgot to tell u - 'here' is Malta...and all our cinema's have seats assigned to each ticket

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Yay Beowulf! Wish they'd take a page from Mel Gibson and do the whole thing in Old English with subtitles. Yeah, that'll pack the seats. All the emotion of modern cinema with the expression of Old English. It'd be "From Justin to Kelly" in Mandarin as far as anyone could tell....

Snicker re: the Viggo effect. It's okay, you're only human.

Ah, Liz2. She's the Viggo for the rest of us.

And the Emma Watson link also links to the Beowulf story, but see above re: human. Many thanks for the entertainment and news about entertainment....

[naeelah.livejournal.com]

Woah, a sequel to Elizabeth? That's something I wasn't expecting. It had better be good! Elizabeth is one of my favorite movies. But since the same creative crew is involved, I think it will be safe to go ahead and get my hopes up... I'm curious if they'll try to work Joseph Fiennes in. Another movie all about him and Elizabeth would be redundant, but a movie without him... would be a movie without him! We loves our Joseph Fiennes. Especially in period garb.

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

Your TTT recap is wonderful. I'm laughing so hard I've got tears in my eyes. I didn't go on opening night - mostly 'cuz I was 300km from the theatre where I normally see movies, but I did catch the LOTR marathon the day/night before ROTK opened. We were at the theatre at 9am, the doors opened at 11:30am, they started the EE of Fellowship at 1:30pm, and we left the theatre at about 2am. But it was glorious. And yeah, I think the Viggo Effect was to blame for that one. 50 bucks for the ticket, gods know how much for snacks, and a theatre full of about 500 people, for 12 hours with breaks in between the movies. Glorious.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Wow. Damn funny Two Towers piece. It took me a minute to catch on to what was going on, but I've never been too swift. Hee!

[kotszok.livejournal.com]

More "I KEEL YOU WITH MY CHEESY FX!"? Wonder what Grendel is gonna look like. I read Beowulf (well, summary for now) for an exam on the 9th, Beowulf is actually a very interesting piece.

I was wondering tho... Beowulf proclaims Wiglaf his heir. how would Wiglaf prove he was proclaimed heir if there was no one there to witness it? I mean, people are just going to accept him as king because he waltzes in and goes "King Beowulf said it's my turn to be king!"? Hmmm... lol, but that's just very random. Beowulf was fun to read.

[kotszok.livejournal.com]

And of course I just read your Two Towers Summit Opening Night... Woah. Reads as well as any Thriller. Wow. It was so cool, I loved it. Just sitting there with my eyes wide open and heart pounding... LOL!!

[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

Thank you thank you for the new Orli pics.

because we lived to regret going to the 7 pm show of Two Towers at the Summit. The most popular theater in town. ON OPENING NIGHT.
.....
"Sir! Old Navy has come!"

TRISH, read their leader's name tag. "In times of old you stood beside us during the Day After Thanksgiving Sale," said TRISH soberly. "We will not let the Summit Carmike fall."

Heeheheeheeeheee!

[kyizi.livejournal.com]

Ooh, lots of links to browse through :D

Hey, am not a random crazy...well, maybe I am, but either way, azdaja_dafema said I should come take a look at your LJ, so I did ;)

*waves*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Awww--even if you were, random crazies are welcome. *waves*

[kyizi.livejournal.com]

LoL! That's good to know! ;) I may just pop in again sometime!

[shebit.livejournal.com]

Gosh, Orlando is barely recognisable in those KoH shots.

You are my source for interesting movie gossip. I thank you.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yay! Another satisfied customer. :)

[shebit.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I love the movies in 15 minutes, too. I think I commented on them all, but thought I'd say it again. How's the RotK in 15 coming along?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I have bits--coronation, Arwen seeing her son, Paths of the Dead--but I'll probably end up getting Harry Potter & POA up first--I probably need to watch the ROTK DVD again, and we all know how long *that* takes. :)

[shebit.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I'm being a martyrstrong and resisting the call of the RotK dvd. I collect the EEs, so I can't go and buy a TE now. I'll just have to wait until january and kidnap a friend who hasn't been so foolishstrong.