Back Seat Producers

Movie executives at Paramount Pictures honored their promise to preview Mike Myers’ new film The Love Guru for concerned Hindu leaders in Los Angeles in an effort to ally fears of prejudice and stereotyping. But the screening has only served to bolster the religious opposition to the film, which Zed and his followers insist is [...]

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This week we have a special guest with us. While Tony #2 is off apparently visiting the early 70’s (See comments from the last episode), we’ve got a “real” doctor joining us to talk about one of his favorite films from the 80’s.

Also a couple of announcements about the quotes at the [...]

 

 BSP Episode 065: The Goonies: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (351)

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As may of the comments have indicated about episode 64, Adam and Tony #2 weren’t really prepared for the discussion of the movies.
Friend of the show, Phil Hicks (Red Earth Saga) has challenged Tony Mast to a battle of movie trivia to reclaim the honor lost by Tony #2 and Adam.
There will be [...]

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Hollywood legend Stan Winston, the Oscar-winning special-effects maestro responsible for bringing the dinosaurs of Jurrasic Park and other iconic movie creatures to life, has died. He was 62. 
According to a representative from Stan Winston Studio, Winston died at his home in Malibu surrounded by family on Sunday evening after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma.
Working with such [...]

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Friday, June 20
Get Smart: PG-13. When the headquarters of the super secret U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief, played by Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine), has no choice but to promote his over-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, played by Steve Carell (The 40 Year Old Virgin), who has always dreamt of [...]

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#1 The Incredible Hulk from Universal debuts at #1 bringing in $54.5 million. The Incredible Hulk showed in 3505 theaters. Budget was roughly $150 million.
#2 Kung Fu Panda drops to #2 spot bringing in $34.3 million, down 43%. Gross so far is $117,998,000. Kung Fu Panda showed in 4,136 theaters, thats up 22 theaters over last weekend. Budget was roughly $130 million.
#3 The Happening [...]

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In January of last year it was announced that Pixar and Disney would  be taking over the rights to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic sci-fi series John Carter of Mars for the big screen. In October of last year, Pixar confirmed that they’re planning on three John Carter of Mars films, the first arriving sometime before 2012. [...]

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Scientist Bruce Banner found his cellular structure changed from exposure to Gamma radiation to a point that when he finds himself pushed to a certain anger or excitement becomes the rampaging monster known as the Hulk. Now on the run in South America, his trail is discovered again by the U.S. military, led [...]

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Across the eastern seaboard a strange phenomena is occurring, people are becoming disoriented, stopping dead in their tracks and then have the overcoming urge to kill themselves. This first starts in large populated areas and then moves on to smaller areas of population. It’s first believed to be some sort of terrorist attack but [...]

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Tony #2 and Adam prove to Tony how deep and broad their knowledge of movies from the 80s is.
Note: This shouldn’t imply that these movies are the best, just movies that bring back fond memories.
A complete list of films will follow.
New Segment:
Booster Seat Producers: Kung Fu Panda
Next week:
The Goonies (with a special guest host)

 

 BSP Episode 064: Geek Movies from the Eighties: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (413)

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The $80 million film The Battle of Red Cliff is the most expensive Asian movie ever and it has been forced to stop production after a stuntman was killed and six people injured in an accident on set, Variety reported Tuesday. The movie by John Woo is adapted from China’s classic novel Romance of the Three [...]

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Tuesday, June 10
Otis: Unrated. A half dozen teenage girls have disappeared, discovered a month later murdered and mutilated. When a new victim, 16 year old Riley Lawson, finds herself trapped and tortured in a basement prison by the psychopath Otis (Bostin Christopher), she resolves to do whatever she has to in order to stay alive. [...]

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#1 Kung Fu Panda the Dreamworks animated feature starring Jack Black debuts in the #1 spot bringing in a cool $60 million. Kung Fu Panda showed in 4114 theaters. Budget was roughly $130 million.
#2 You Don’t Mess with the Zohan debuts in the #2 position this weekend bringing in $40 million. Zohan showed in 3462 [...]

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Farmington Hills, MI (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 4, 2008 — Love movies? Looking for the next movie to watch but tired of the same old movie sites? Then you’ll love MovieRetriever.com, a new web site that combines the attitude of VideoHound’s Golden Movie Retriever, the definitive guide to movies on DVD and VHS, with the latest community features, [...]

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Ann Hornaday, staff writer for the Washington Post, lambasted Dario Argento’s Mother of Tears: The Third Mother and Sturart Gordon’s Stuck saying that she “didn’t get” either one and further calling the movies “sheer torture” to watch.
Of Mother of Tears (the third in a series by Argento) she said “I don’t get why, in Mother of [...]

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