SHIP OF FOOLS
I’ve been trying to keep tabs on all the April Fools movie stories that have been floating around today…
There was Pixar telling us that they were being acquired by Disney and Brad Bird was going to helm John Carter of Mars, Film Ick claiming that Disney would re-release all their classics in 3D, and on Hollywood Elsewhere, Jeffrey Wells suggesting that John Carney‘s Once would have have the copy line “If you can’t get laid after seeing Once with someone you’re after, you can’t get laid”, and that there would be a sequel to the film. (Twice?!)
Then Dark Horizons caught a lot of people out with the hilarious idea that Al Pacino and Robert De Niro would heat up a sequel to The Departed, and IESB were just being silly by saying they had a review of J.J. Abrams‘s script for Star Trek 11 – but then sent us to a constantly reloading blank page!
But surely the most ridiculous assertion was the one made by Lou Lumenick at the New York Post who said that for next week’s box office numbers,
tracking suggests the hard-R Grindhouse will come in at a strong No. 2 behind the PG-rated Ice Cube comedy sequel Are We Done Yet? which opens Wednesday to get a jump on school holiday Thursday and Friday. Mr. Cube’s film, which has a laugh-packed trailer, has a total awareness score of 63 percent, compared with 44 percent for Grindhouse.
“Mr. Cube”??!! “Laugh-packed trailer”??!! And Grindhouse coming in second best??!! Please tell me Lumenick is pulling our leg!
