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Martin Lawrence Will Take a 'College Road Trip'
Filed under: Comedy », Casting », Disney », Family Films »
Martin Lawrence is teaming with ex-Cosby gal Raven-Symone for Walt Disney Pictures' College Road Trip. Have a feeling the critics won't be Raven about this one! The story centers on "a young woman with ambitious public-defender dreams who goes on a road trip to visit potential universities with her father, an overprotective cop." Sigh. The movie is set to start shooting in late June or early July in the northeast. Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio wrote the most recent draft (I mentioned them last week as writers on the new CGI Horton Hears A Who movie), Roger Kumble is directing. Kumble has a pretty spotty record, he did the trash classic Cruel Intentions, the horrible "girls can be dirty too" comedy The Sweetest Thing, and the moderately amusing Just Friends with Ryan Reynolds. Lawrence is hot right now, currently in theaters with Wild Hogs, and as we told you last week, he is also in production on The Better Man.Though it hasn't started filming and I know nothing more about the project than you do, let me tell you what the trailer will consist of: Funky bass line begins. We see Martin Lawrence in a police uniform busting a perp. Narration: Jack Doogan is the toughest cop in Manhattan. He's dealt with some of the most devious criminal minds around. But none of them compare... Sound of needle scraping across a record. ...With his daughter! We see Raven leaving the house in a revealing outfit. Martin spits out his coffee, and asks her where she's going. She says "Work." He says "Where you workin,' Scores?" Road trip begins. Lots of scenes of Martin and Raven arguing in the car. Maybe they hit an animal in a comical fashion. At the colleges, lots of guys whistle and make catcalls at Raven. This makes Martin angry. His anger makes Raven embarassed. Music changes and we realize these two really love each other. Close on big joke involving Martin getting hit in the testicles. Box office gross: $100 million.
On a side note, according to imdb Raven-Symone is now going simply by "Raven." So if she shows up gently rapping at your chamber door, you'll know why.
Nevermore: Roger Corman and His Edgar Allen Poe Films
Filed under: Horror », Mystery & Suspense », Newsstand », Quentin Tarantino », Robert Rodriguez »
Roger Corman is well-known for being a director and producer of over 300 low-budget films, many of them in the horror category. He is probably most famous for his adaptations of nine different Edgar Allen Poe stories. Between 1960 and 1964, Corman directed House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, Tales of Terror, The Raven, The Terror, The Haunted Palace, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Tomb of Ligeia. Seven of these films also starred the late, great Vincent Price, and established both Corman and Price in the genre.Even more impressive is the fact that he churned out five other films during those four years. He's a movie-making machine, folks. Even today Corman continues to produce tons of "schlock" films, and is king of that genre even though he has only directed two films since 1971. He was an enormous influence on directors like Quentin Tarantino, who thrived on the many "Roger Corman presents" films that came out while he was growing up. Tarantino even has his own line of "Quentin Tarantino presents" films, and the upcoming Grind House owes part of its lineage to Corman's own Death Race 2000.
The Drkrm Gallery in Los Angeles hosts a special exhibition celebrating Corman's Edgar Allen Poe films, and will be open October 21st through November 18th. As a fan of bad puns, I had to use the tagline from Drkrm's page about the event: "We pay tribute to them, the legendary Roger Corman and the late Vincent Price with this exhibition of their greatest work together, the likes of which we will see ... NEVERMORE!"
[Thanks John]
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