Quickhits: Quaid Sues Over Brokeback, Street Fight to Ironweed, Jackson to Penguins
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The last roundup for the week:- Randy Quaid has been terribly mistreated by the folks behind Brokeback Mountain. He appeared for about $14 out of the goodness of his heart, because the film's makers told him that the movie was gonna be tiny, and they had no money to spend. Quaid's response, basically, is "LIARS!" He feels the movie was willfully misrepresented, and is suing for the $10 million his brilliance deserves.
- Street Fight, Marshall Curry's Oscar-nominated documentary about 2002's nasty race for governor in Newark, NJ, has been picked up for distribution by Ironweed Films. As we've discussed here earlier, Ironweed is a socially-minded online DVD club that "aims to be an outlet for indie pics that never make it beyond the festival circuit"; members are sent a new DVD each month "with a theme such as globalization, human rights and civil liberties." The bummer, of course, it that those of us who are NOT Ironweed members are now going to have a hard time seeing the movie.
- Because he clearly needed a black
guy with chops, Bob Saget has hired Samuel L. Jackson to provide the voice-over for Farce of the Penguins, the target of which I trust
you'll be able to guess. The film, which Saget wrote and is directing, details the adventures of one male penguin
"on a 70-mile trek with hedonistic buddies obsessed with getting laid." In addition to Jackson and Saget
himself, the film's vocal talents will include John Stamos and Dave Coulier (Ah, Full
House humor), Jason Alexander, Harvey Fierstein, Whoopi Goldberg, Gilbert Gottfried, Norm Macdonald, and Jon
Lovitz. I admit it: I'm giggling a little bit already.
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3-24-2006 @ 9:56PM
Marshall Curry said...
If you are a member of Ironweed (which is a great organization), I hope you'll enjoy Street Fight. If you aren't, don't worry, you can also buy it at http://www.marshallcurry.com, and we'll be doing a deal with a traditional distributor very soon.
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3-25-2006 @ 10:51PM
dwood said...
So why did you put BOB SAGETS picture up for Randy Quaid?
Kill the intern!
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3-26-2006 @ 8:04PM
Adam Werbach said...
I want to second Marshall's comments -- Street Fight is available in a special limited edition in April through Ironweed, but can also be found at Marshall's site. We're hosting house parties across the country in the last week of April to screen the film -- check it out at http://www.ironweedfilms.com/community
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