Battle of the Easter Bunnies
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Hollywood isn't Hollywood without a competing project. We've had competing projects about asteroids, ants, and volcanoes and now? Now it's the Easter Bunny, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ignoring the fact that a lot of people don't celebrate Easter, two studios are racing to get bunny-themed projects into theaters. Sony Animation is going with Hip Hop, a mix of CGI and live-action that's being penned by Greg Ostrin and Michael Weiss. Sony's Easter Bunny gets tired of delivering eggs and chocolate with so little thanks, and decides to retire. He becomes a suburban family's pet, and turns their lives upside down. Given the title, I have to wonder if he will somehow become a "hip hop" star?
Meanwhile, Universal's shingle Illumination Entertainment has picked up I Hop as its debut live action film. Written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, this Easter flick borrows a page out of The Santa Clause (whose sequel Paul penned), where the Easter Bunny is hit by a slacker's car. Thankfully, animal death isn't as family friendly as killing Santa, so the Easter Bunny only suffers a broken leg. But he's unable to do his job, so the slacker must do it for him, and save Easter. (No egg hunts? No Cadbury chocolate? That's the collapse of civilization as we know it!)
In the meantime if you screenwriters hurry, you should get your your pre-Christian fertility cults scripts done and purchased in time for the next trend ... paganism!
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4-06-2009 @ 7:09PM
xenothaulus said...
We already had that. It was called "The Craft." :|
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4-08-2009 @ 11:05AM
Nicole said...
Good Afternoon everyone,
I saw the article about Easter and think it is great that so many people are busy making plans and getting excited about the forthcoming festivities. My sister is coming home from America for Easter, so everyone is looking forward to seeing her. Easter is one of those religious festivals that can turn out to be quite stressful, what with all the family over demanding attention, and having to cook lunch for everyone... the list goes on. I always find Easter greetings cards quite expensive, and I really don't like giving my hard earned cash to those big greetings card companies. So I may have found an alternative solution in the form of electronic greetings cards. Not only do they save paper, and stamps, but as long as you opt for a free site then the Easter e-Card is going to be free. I have done my research and have found a really lovely Free Easter e-Card site. I like this site as I found it so easy to use, which is great because I am not very confident with computers, also I liked the wide range of choice of cards they offer. There are loads of e-Card sites out there, so it maybe worth doing your own research in order to find the best one. Hope everyone has a great Easter whatever you decide to get up to.
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4-10-2009 @ 4:51AM
celestial elf said...
Taking Easter from Hollywood to Bollywood & Buddhism haha
The London Snowman {www.thelondonsnowman.co.uk} has sent an Easter message from The Taj Mahal where he is trying to ask Govinda Easter Bunny Jai Jai about The Buddha Sidney Arthur, and hopes to spend Easter singing with the YEasters {who are actually singing to Hare Rama, but The London Snowman think this is the Easter Bunny, ie a Hare}...
Look Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEz26-1zMi8
Happy Easter to all :}}
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