In 1968, Dick Van Dyke followed up the success of Mary Poppins by playing the leading man in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It was another family favorite that is still loved today. So you would think the movie studio would leave it alone. They are not.
Variety is reporting that Amazon MGM Studios and James Bond backers Eon Productions are in the early stages of remaking the classic.
Why is it important to mention James Bond? Ian Fleming, who authored the James Bond books, also wrote the novel that the film is based on.
I am assuming that Eon Productions is nowhere near finding a Daniel Craig replacement to play Bond, so they need the money, and they think this is their answer. Do you think it is?
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead has been a cult favorite since 1991. So you would think since it’s only been a third of the century since it came out that the movie studios would leave it alone. Well, you are wrong.
We are getting a reimagination of the film on April 12th. And it looks like such a stinker that it smells worse than the babysitter’s corpse.
Seventeen-year-old Tanya Crandell (Simone Joy Jones) can’t wait to spend the summer living it up with her friends in Spain before heading to Howard University in the fall. But when her mom (Ms. Pat) decides to head to a much-needed wellness retreat in Thailand, Tanya is forced to stay home with her three siblings instead. Following the unexpected death of their elderly babysitter (June Squibb), Tanya gets a job working for the confident and ambitious Rose (Nicole Richie). Juggling work, family, and a complicated romance, Tanya faces the responsibility of adulthood at the cost of her summer of freedom.
If you thought that the Bewitched movie with Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman was the worst thing to ever happen to the series, you might want to sit down.
Deadline is reporting that Sony is thinking about resurrecting Samatha Stevens and one of the Darrins.
I hope it stays in the development stage because you know they will make it all dark and depressing, like what The CW did to so many classics.
Elizabeth Banks is hot off of Cocaine Bear, so she thinks she can do anything. Anything like a remake of the 1985’s Girls Just Want to Have Fun, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The original film is about military brat Sarah Jessica Parker who secretly auditions with Helen Hunt, her best friend from Catholic school to be on a dancing show like Dance Fever. She gets paired up with bad boy Lee Montgomery. He has the support of his best friend, Jonathan Silverman and his sister, Shannen Doherty. They are going to do everything in their power to get on the show, but they are going to hit a lot of roadblocks before they get to the finale.
It was the perfect teen movie. And even though it holds up, today’s generation wouldn’t get it. Unless they change the dance show to be on something like So You Think You Can Dance. But that is not the same feel.
If you have never seen it, then you should watch it on Tubi for free. It is just a lot of fun! And don’t we all want to have fun?
Banks did something original. Why can’t she keep doing that instead of making something that has already been done?
Back in the ’70s, Starsky & Hutch was the biggest cop duo on television. And now there are reports that Fox wants to reboot the show with two women.
Well, when David Soul, who played Kenneth Richard Hutchinson in the original series, heard about it, he had some thoughts about that.
“Every article mentions the ‘original’ actors by name,” Soul wrote. “So why not just reboot Paul and me—as a couple of old farts solving piddly-ass crimes at the assisted living facility where we would now live? Who can do Starsky and Hutch better than him and me?”
He’s not wrong. I would watch the two 79-year-olds doing that. There is a lot of sketchy stuff that goes on at assisted living facilities, so imagine the fun they could have!
Maybe they can investigate who greenlit the Starsky & Hutch movie with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson because that film was a crime.
