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Memorial day is a time to reflect on Us conquests and failures – in film
25 May 2012 10:06 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hollywood goes for blockbuster returns on Memorial Day, but how do the Us-centric hyper-macho films perform overseas?
Memorial Day is fast approaching, so naturally one's thoughts turn to the Fallen, and to the shared sacrifice of European and American continents as they united in common cause against the spectre of global tyranny. But that's enough about the reviews for Battleship.
"A preposterously lunkheaded salute to American naval machismo" snorted Tim Robey in The Daily Telegraph. "It seems that the Us Navy is as much committed to the production of this film as is the toy company" opined Le Monde's Thomas Sotinel. As news of the hostile European reception spread, American critics equipped their reviews with a pre-emptive Euro-snob missile defense shield. "That the movie didn't exactly receive hosannas in Europe should surprise absolutely no one. This is a Super-American movie," bristled Jeff Simon of Buffalo News. "It would be like »
- Tom Shone
Vuguru’s ‘Little Women Big Cars’ Big on AOL, 2.4M Views in Two Weeks
18 May 2012 1:33 PM, PDT | Tubefilter.com | See recent Tubefilter News news »
After Michael Eisner made his pitch to online video advertisers at the AOL Digital Content NewFront in New York City, the newly promoted CEO of his multi-platform independent studio Vuguru took the stage. Larry Tanz addressed the audience of advertisers, brand representatives, and reporters before showing off a pair of online originals he noted would soon debut on On AOL, the internet portal’s shiny new video destination. One of those originals was Little Women Big Cars, a Vuguru original series directed by Melanie Mayron, created by Sherry Coben (Kate & Allie), and starring an ensemble cast headlined by Amy Yasbeck (Wings, Hot in Cleveland), Kristy Swanson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Psych), Romy Rosemont (Glee), Julie Warner (Crash, Nip/Tuck), Ed Begley Jr. (Portlandia, The New Adventures of Old Christine) and Antonio Sabato Jr. (Melrose Place, The Bold and the Beautiful). It’s about four moms navigating the comedy, drama, and associated gossip of PTA meetings, »
- Joshua Cohen
Why Can’t Disney Find a Studio Chief?
11 May 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Things have been wild and, well, Woola at Walt Disney Studios this year. The ebullience felt over last weekend’s $200 million opening of The Avengers was tempered by the fact that the studio had to take a $200 million loss on March’s John Carter. Such a spectacular failure didn’t just highlight how dependent Disney has become on outside brands like Marvel, it also cost the studio chairman, Rich Ross, his job late last month. But lost in all the media speculation and Hollywood chatter about who might replace the recently defenestrated chairman is a larger question that must be on the minds of potential candidates: What does “Disney” mean in 2012?It is a brand that, almost since its founding in 1923, has become synonymous with family. But since he took over from Michael Eisner in 2005, Disney’s CEO Bob Iger has been busy spending billions of dollars to acquire costly »
- Claude Brodesser-Akner
Michael Eisner: Getting Back Into The Game?
3 May 2012 12:38 PM, PDT | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Former Walt Disney chairman and CEO Michael Eisner is planning a comeback and is currently looking to raise $800 million for a new production company, CNBC anchor/reporter David Faber said on the cable channel Wednesday, citing people who have been approached about investing. Eisner’s fund-raising effort is being led by JP Morgan, which is looking to raise $400 million from investors and $40 million from lenders. Faber said that the company plans to produce four to five films annually and two to three scripted TV series. Since handing over the reins of Disney to Robert Iger in 2005, Eisner has launched a company called Tornante that, according to its own website, has made relatively small investments in or agreed to advise five online companies, but Eisner has not taken a direct hand in movie or TV production. Faber reported that Eisner is expected to invest $20 million of his own funds in the new company. »
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Michael Eisner Seeking $800M To Start TV/Film Company – CNBC
2 May 2012 12:00 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
CNBC’S David Faber is reporting that the fundraising effort by 70-year-old Michael Eisner, the former chairman/CEO of Walt Disney, kicked off last week and is being led by Jp Morgan. He wants to raise $800 million for a new film and television production company, says Faber quoting people who have been approached about investing. What’s sought is $400 million in equity in a private placement and place $400 million in debt financing. The Eisner led production company hopes to make four to five films a year and produce two to three scripted television shows, CNBC says according to people approached to invest. Faber says Eisner is expected to invest $20 million of his own funds in the new production company. Presently dabbling in Internet content through Tornante and the occasional television program, Eisner is unquestionably a shrewd and successful businessman. But, Faber, analyzes: Despite that track record, Jp Morgan could have »
- NIKKI FINKE
Michael Eisner Seeking $800M To Start TV/Film Company – CNBC
2 May 2012 12:00 PM, PDT | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news »
CNBC’S David Faber is reporting that the fundraising effort by 70-year-old Michael Eisner, the former chairman/CEO of Walt Disney, kicked off last week and is being led by Jp Morgan. He wants to raise $800 million for a new film and television production company, says Faber quoting people who have been approached about investing. What’s sought is $400 million in equity in a private placement and place $400 million in debt financing. The Eisner led production company hopes to make four to five films a year and produce two to three scripted television shows, CNBC says according to people approached to invest. Faber says Eisner is expected to invest $20 million of his own funds in the new production company. Presently dabbling in Internet content through Tornante and the occasional television program, Eisner is unquestionably a shrewd and successful businessman. But, Faber, analyzes: Despite that track record, Jp Morgan could have »
- NIKKI FINKE
Michael Eisner’s Pitch to Online Video Advertisers
25 April 2012 5:25 AM, PDT | Tubefilter.com | See recent Tubefilter News news »
One of the highlights of AOL’s Digital Content NewFront came after AOL CEO Tim Armstrong introduced a short clip highlighting some of the best major motion pictures and television programming of all time (like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Beverly Hills Cop, Cheers, Family Ties, and more), which in turn introduced one of the individuals instrumental in making all of those major motion picture and television programs come to fruition, Michael Eisner. The former-ceo of Disney and founder of new media studio Vuguru (which is behind such online video productions as Prom Queen, The All-For-Nots, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, The Booth at the End, the soon-to-launch-on-aol Little Women Big Cars and Fetching, and more) gave the audience a very abridged version of his career in show business before giving the audience a very brief education in the current state of entertainment. Eisner explained that while New York »
- Joshua Cohen
The Hunger Games: Far Ahead of Twilight
25 March 2012 7:56 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games movie The Hunger Games: Behind Tobey Maguire / Kirsten Dunst's Spider-man, Christopher Nolan / Christian Bale's The Dark Knight If estimates are accurate, The Hunger Games has already become Lionsgate's biggest box-office hit ever. By Sunday evening it'll have surpassed Michael Moore's Palme d'Or winner Fahrenheit 9/11, the current Lionsgate champ — thanks to Disney's Michael Eisner, who refused to release the anti-George W. Bush/Iraq War film. Moore's political documentary cumed at $119.19 million in 2004 (or about $152 million today). The Hunger Games is also the biggest March blockbuster ever, far surpassing (in both box-office receipts and ticket sales) Tim Burton / Johnny Depp / Mia Wasikowska's Alice in Wonderland's $116.1 million. In fact, it's the biggest non-summer opening ever, ahead of New Moon and Breaking Dawn Part 1. It's also officially the biggest opening for a non-sequel ever, though as pointed out above, Spider-Man sold more »
- Zac Gille
The Hunger Games Box Office: Average #4 Official
24 March 2012 4:29 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
The Hunger Games: Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne The Hunger Games Box Office: Behind Christopher Nolan / Christian Bale's The Dark Knight, Tobey Maguire / Kirsten Dunst's Spider-man 3 The Hunger Games averaged $16,497 at 4,137 locations. Without taking inflation into account, that's the fourth-highest opening-day per-theater average ever, behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (which had the added advantage of 3D surcharges), New Moon, and Breaking Dawn 1. Even while ignoring IMAX surcharges, if inflation is taken into account The Hunger Games falls behind a handful of other titles, such as The Dark Knight ($15,384; $17,014 today) and George Lucas / Ewan McGregor / Natalie Portman's Revenge of the Sith ($13,661 in 2005; $16,912 today), which opened at 3,661 locations. Distributed by Lionsgate, The Hunger Games will surely become the studio's biggest box-office hit ever — possibly by Sunday evening. Michael Moore's Palme d'Or winner Fahrenheit 9/11 is the current Lionsgate champ — thanks to Disney's Michael Eisner, »
- Zac Gille
A New Garbage Pail Kids Movie on the Way
13 March 2012 2:59 PM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Want to know Michael Eisner's new plan for a box office hit? The former CEO of Disney plans to make a movie based on disgusting collectible cards that were popular 25 years ago. How can his plan go wrong?
According to Deadline, Eisner's Tornante Company is developing a feature-length movie based on the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards. Created by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman, the Topps trading cards featured images of Cabbage Patch Kid faces on otherwise horribly disfigured children. The cards were extremely popular with kids in the mid-1980s, and a creepy feature, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, was made in 1987; it made a whopping $1.5 Million in Us theaters. Apparently, the time seems ripe for a Garbage Pail Kids reboot, with collections of cards currently selling for literally dozens of dollars on eBay.
It seems that Eisner, who owns Topps, is hoping the movie will create a new generation of Gpk lovers. »
- Mandy McAdoo
Michael Eisner Will Help Bring Garbage Pail Kids Back to the Cinemas
13 March 2012 5:51 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
If this is a dream, you’d better not wake my ass up. Word around the proverbial water cooler is that Michael Eisner’s The Tornante Company will produce a big-screen adaptation of the popular 80′s trading cards, a feature that will be directed by “Roof Sex” mastermind Pes. That’s right — Pes. What, exactly, is a Pes? I’m not entirely sure what he is, but you might want to take a look at his short films if you like weird, bite-sized animated flicks. They’re actually pretty spiffy. Pes will be working from a script penned by Michael Vukadinovich. Anyway, most kids these days probably have no idea what a Garbage Pail Kid is. The trading cards first appeared way back in the year that was 1985, a parody of the insanely popular Cabbage Patch Kids toys that were all the rage with little girls at the time. I »
- Todd Rigney
New Garbage Pail Kids movie in development
13 March 2012 1:59 AM, PDT | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
The Garbage Pail Kids franchise is set to be given a new lease of life, with former Disney bigwig Michael Eisner’s The Tornante Company set to produce and finance another movie adaptation. The Garbage Pail Kids initially featured on a set of Topps chewing gum cards back in the '80s. A host of grotesquely deformed cartoon children, they were usually given pun-tastic names based on their own specific afflictions. Always an unlikely property for a movie adaptation, the cards were brought to life on the big screen in 1987 in The Garbage...
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- George Wales
"Garbage Pail Kids" Cards Become Film
12 March 2012 7:27 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
The Tornante Company is set to finance and produce a feature film adaptation of the Topps trading cards series "Garbage Pail Kids" reports Deadline.
The card series began in 1985 as a parody of the Cabbage Patch Kids and became popular enough to be banned in a lot of schools. Acclaimed short film helmet 'Pes' ("Fresh Guacamole," "Western Spaghetti) will direct from a script by Michael Vukadinovich.
The film's producer, Michael Eisner, bought Topps in 2007 and this marks his first feature spinoff project with the company. Toby Ascher is also producing. »
- Garth Franklin
New Garbage Pail Kids Movie in the Works
12 March 2012 4:40 PM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
Michael Eisner, the former CEO of The Walt Disney Company, is financing and producing the development of a feature film based on "Garbage Pail Kids," the trading card line published by Topps. Eisner bought the card company in 2007. The new movie will be directed by Pes, an award-winning creator of many popular shorts. His latest is "Fresh Guacamole," which you can watch below. "Garbage Pale Kids" will be written by Michael Vukadinovich, whose "The Three Misfortunes of Geppetto" made the Black List, which is a list of the best unproduced scripts. Hatched in 1985 by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman, the "Garbage Pail Kids" launched as an irreverent parody of the "Cabbage Patch Kids." The cards became wildly popular, mostly for being banned by many schools. There was also a feature film done in 1987. It grossed only $1.5 million and has a 0% fresh rating on RottenTomatoes. "Fresh Guacamole" by Pes: »
8 'Garbage Pail Kids' That Must Be Featured in the Recently-Announced Movie
12 March 2012 4:24 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
First, let's get this out of the way: Yup, they're actually making another Garbage Pail Kids movie ... in 2012. Not even in 2012 -- this sucker probably won't come out until 2013 or 2014, but just the fact that they're resurrecting this 1980s Cabbage Patch Kids novelty parody item almost 30 years later (and after the first 1987 live-action (!) version tanked) goes to show that the idea factory may be running a tad low on ideas. Michael Eisner's company will finance the feature film, which we imagine will be animated this time around (though there's no official word on that), with popular shorts filmmaker Pes (yup, that's his name) directing and Michael Vukadinovich writing the script. Here's Pes' latest short, for those...
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- Erik Davis
When There's No More Room in Hell a New Garbage Pail Kids Movie Will Walk the Earth
12 March 2012 4:21 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The only comfort I take from the news that former Disney chief Michael Eisner’s production company is planning a new big screen version of the popular gross-out Eighties trading cards The Garbage Pail Kids is that it cannot possibly be worse than 1987's live-action abomination.
We all know that one of the current memes in Hollywood is “if it was popular in the 80’s, we have to revive it for the big screen”, but a movie based on a line of trading cards that haven’t been popular for a quarter of a century that already spawned one of the worst movies in the history of cinema?
Deadline Hollywood stunned the world today breaking the exclusive news that Michael Eisner’s The Tornante Company will finance and develop a new feature film based on the controversial 1985 Garbage Pail Kids trading cards that were brought to life by Pulitzer Prize-winning »
- Foywonder
Garbage Pail Kids Movie in the works
12 March 2012 3:41 PM, PDT | www.themoviebit.com | See recent TheMovieBit news »
If you go back in time to the late 80’s there was an absolutely brutal movie called The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, based on, what no doubt some of you collected, the stickers and the gum. Now, and if you’re waiting on something to send you over the edge, this is it. Another Garbage Pail Kids movie is currently in development, funded and produced by The Tornante Company, which is owned by Michael Eisner. Obviously Eisner and co see a market for this drivel and no doubt the movie will come with a whole host of merchandising including stickers and that god awful chewing gum. Somethings are better off left alone, and in my book, this is it!
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- noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
Garbage Pail Kids to become a movie... again
12 March 2012 3:17 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Topps’ Garbage Pail Kids—the Art Spiegelman-created trading card series that gave an entire generation of children nicknames they then funneled into still-simmering, scattershot rage—will get another chance at a movie adaptation, because you have heard of it. Deadline reports that Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company will produce a film to be written by Michael Vukadinovich (of the recently acquired Three Misfortunes Of Geppetto) and directed by the enigmatically named Pes, whose short films like Western Spaghetti, Game Over, and Fresh Guacamole have all become web hits. While that’s certainly some unique talent to put behind a film »
Garbage Pail Kids Movie in Development!
12 March 2012 3:12 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Former Disney chief Michael Eisner is teaming with short film director Pes for a new feature revolving around the Garbage Pail Kids.
Michael Eisner will produce through his The Tornante Company, which purchased the trading card company Topps back in 2007. Topps first put out the Garbage Pail Kids trading card stickers in 1985, which spoofed the popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. The cards spawned the 1987 live-action feature The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
Pes will direct from a screenplay by Michael Vukadinovich. Both Pes and Michael Vukadinovich hatched the original story together. No production schedule was given.
Pes has directed short films such as Western Spaghetti, Roof Sex, and The Animation Show 4. You can take a look at his latest short, Fresh Guacamole below, which was featured on Showtime's Short Stories.
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- MovieWeb
New Garbage Pail Kids Movie in the Works
12 March 2012 3:09 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Just when you thought that Hollywood's obsession with '80s nostalgia couldn't get any worse, well... someone goes and decides to make a new movie based on the the Garbage Pail Kids. As you may know, Garbage Pail Kids were a series of collectible trading cards produced in the '80s that parodied the wildly popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. They were the brainchild of Art Spiegelman and had pun-oriented names like Up Chuck, Fartin' Martin and Potty Scotty, accompanied by grotesque and sometimes controversial imagery. They were so popular that they eventually spawned a feature film, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, which is still hailed to this day as one of the worst movies ever made. Now Michael Eisner's The Tornante Company is setting up a brand new Garbage Pail Kids movie. It seems unlikely that it will be a direct remake, but it is possible that it »
- Sean
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