Check out the trailer for the new movie ROUGHRIDER!  This is awesome!

Remember my friend Rand Shuler, AKA Rando Calrissian (to my Sean Solo)?  This is my friend who got married in October and brought me down to MC and perform at the wedding in Austin, Texas. I got to party with pretty much everyone he worked on this movie with, including the film’s star/writer/producer/director Will Martin.

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Check out the trailer for the upcoming movie NOWHERE BOY, about John Lennon’s life as a teenager in Liverpool…

If you’re coming to this site, I’ll take it as a given that you know how important the Beatles are to me. When I heard that this movie was getting made, I didn’t really think much. I was just doing the ‘wait and see’ thing. Now that the trailer is up, I have to say I am very excited.

Much of the blogging about the movie seems to focus on the actors’ physical resemblance to their real life counterparts. Aaron Johnson and Thomas Sangster look nothing like John Lennon and Paul McCartney, but I actually think this is smart. It means that the movie is not being made by a Beatle fan who wants to give us a two-hour wank fest, and the performances are not going to be about mimicry or doing an impression. I think that it will end up having made the movie way easier to get absorbed into than if the leads had been look-alikes.

Judging only from the two minutes of the above trailer, I think this looks awesome. If you’re going to make a Beatles movie, you’ve got a choice to make as far as who it’s for. You’ve either got to make it for the generation who grew up listening to the Beatles, or you’ve got to make it for the younger generation who are the age that the Beatles where when these events took place. One of the things that excites me most about being a Beatles fan is how us younger fans continue to extract new layers of meaning from their art and their story, and reinvent and redefine their image. It looks like Sam Taylor Wood has made the John Lennon movie I would have made. Not a biopic, but a portrait of the artist living the great message of believing in yourself and following your dreams against all odds.

And most exciting of all is that if this movie is well received, it might just open the floodgates of a whole slew of Beatles movies over the next decade, telling their whole story in great detail.

EDIT: Did you catch that at the end?
John: “I’m off to Hamburg.”
Mimi: “And is this with the new group? Oh, what are they called again?”
John: “Do you care?”
Mimi: “They all sound the same to me.”

It sure is a great time to be a Beatles fan! But then again, when is it not?

What do you think of the trailer? Are you looking forward to seeing the movie?

This is a big week for movie trailers, as the San Diego Comic-Con is an increasingly vital part of the marketing campaign for Hollywood genre movies. That’s where the big studios go to debut the trailers for their big movies coming out the next year.

This year, the Alice in Wonderland trailer was getting a lot of attention after being leaked to the internet in the week leading up to Comic-Con. But Alice in Wonderland can officially sit down now that the Tron Legacy trailer is making the rounds on the web.

This looks amazing. Tron was definitely due for an update and this was really exciting news when they announced it last year. Disney had to get creative in the late 70s and early 80s when their animated features weren’t the draw that they once were, and Tron was one of the results of that era. Now history repeats (Yes Disney owns Pixar, but it is still a separate studio) and Tron Legeacy looks like a real passion project for people in the movie business who grew up as fans of the original. And to find out that Daft Punk is doing the score? That is exciting news.

And here is the official website, staged to look like a memorial page for the main character, Kevin Flynn, who went missing (into his computer) in the original. The potential here for an online marketing campaign along the lines of The Dark Knight or The Blair Witch Project is enormous.

Do you remember the original fondly? If you’re too young for it when it was in theatres, have you seen on video? Does it hold up? Do you think Tron Legacy looks like a worthy follow-up? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Speaking of it, which do you like better: Super Party as two words?  Or Superparty, all one word?  I am still undecided about how it’s going to look on the cover.

So anyways, I am totally surfing the web before I go have lunch and what do I see?

Holy shit, this looks awesome!

OK, gonna go eat.

You don’t have to tell me anything about it. I don’t need the title, the director, what it’s about, nothing. Just tell me that something new has come from the Pixar studio and that’s all I need. I’m there.

How do you like the poster?  Designed by award-winning poster designer Olaf Sihtricson from Finland.

The Rivalry is my first original scripted comedy since Sean Ward VS Billy Blackout in 2006. It is coming next week.  Story by Tim Daugulis and Sean Ward, written and directed by Sean Ward, produced by Tony Schittz for Schitty Productions.

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