I Am Link

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--- Gonna Bust - The rumor that Bridesmaids director Paul Feig could be taking over the Ghostbusters reboot and turning the Ghostbusters into the She-Ghostbusters brought out all kinds of trolls over the weekend - unfortunately for the world (or at least the internet) trolls now get paid to write columns for Deadline. I'm not linking to their gross articles, nor am I going to give them any benefit of the doubt that their nonsense was tongue-in-cheek; it was just dumb and fratty and you guys look like clowns, quit being clowns, nobody but your fellow clowns appreciates it. Meanwhile in the land of the thoughtful the thought of Feig handing a proton pack to Melissa McCarthy's reason to squeal, as I see it. There was a rumor ages and ages ago that Anna Faris could be a Ghostbuster - I say it's time to reignite that; we need to get her off that terrible sitcom, and now that her hubby's a movie-star I'd say we're ripe for a full-on Faris re-assault.

--- Eva Away - Reporting on release date shifts is usually the most boring thing to report on ever, especially when we're talking about movies that are well over a year away, but since I was just talking about Tim Burton's reunion with my beloved Eva Green recently I figure I should note that it's been bumped from July 2015 to March of 2016, because he hasn't started filming it yet and he'll be super-busy with Big Eyes stuff this Fall. (Speaking of Big Eyes, here are the first pair of pictures from that.)

--- Freaky Happening - Apparently that long-gestating movie about the making of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and the strange partnership between Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert is picking up steam because Will Ferrell is interested in playing Meyer now. I wouldn't be surprised if this movie gets made, it's got everything Hollywood likes - boobs, boobs, more boobs, drugs, boobs. Deadline makes the suggestion that Jonah Hill could play Ebert though and good lord I think I'll freak out (in a bad way) if that happens.

--- Second Siggy - I haven't watched this yet but it sounds fun so I'll do so over lunch - here's a behind-the-scenes video from the set of James Cameron's Aliens (thanks Mac) with footage of Sigourney presumably doing her Ripley thing, and so on. I hope they make time for Jonesy.

--- Jake Free - There's no reason for you to do so but I sat though this entire trailer for something called Jarhead 2: Field of Fire (which has nothing to do with anybody from the original film) just to check and make sure that I wasn't missing a cameo from Jake Gyllenhaal's little Santa Claus thong - no worries, it never shows. But it will here, because I'm not an asshole - you bring up Jarhead, you show the thong. It's a rule.

--- Murder Party - If you feel like you haven't had proof lately that the producers with the series' rights are still strangling the life out of the Friday the 13th franchise for no good reason, head on over here and see a couple of new quotes from them proving they are even dumber than you thought they were. How they can time and again prove they have so little sense about how easy it oughta be to make a Friday the 13th movie is really astounding.

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