Saturday, July 26, 2008

Giving Props: That Sex Book

It seems that the fictitious book -- Love Letters of Great Men -- that was a key plot device in this summer's Sex and the City movie will now become a reality. The new tome, which will collect the letters read in the film by Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw to Chris Noth's Mr. Big, will go on sale August 15.

Click here to pre-orderit from Amazon.com.

Up With Pixar

So what's next for Pixar after the critical and financial success of WALL-E? Well, things are looking Up.

The computer animation giant was at Comic-Con today to preview their next feature (directed by Monsters, Inc.'s Pete Doctor) and it sounds like they have another winner on their hands.

Click here for a charming sneak peek of the film, in theaters May 29, 2009.

I Wanna Be a Cowboy

Yippee-ki-yay! Today is National Cowboy Day, and to celebrate, Entertainment Weekly is counting down the top cowpokes in pop culture history, including a very familiar pair (pictured above) and a certain village person. Yee-hah!

That Galaxy Far, Far Away Will Now Be Really, Really Close

Leave it to George Lucas to figure out a way to get Star Wars fans to pay to see his movies all over again ... again. Plans are underway to re-release not one, not two, but all six Star Wars movies using state-of-the-art 3-D technology. So now moviegoers will get to experience the thrill of dodging light sabres, laser beams and Jabba the Hut drool sometime in the future, as no exact schedule has been set at this time.

Lucas had mentioned his intentions for this 3-D bonanza at least three years ago, where the plan was to re-release one movie a year. I have to imagine that interest would die down about half way through that scenario though. I remember when the much-ballyhooed "special editions" of the original trilogy came out back in 1997 and everyone was pretty much over it by the time Return of the Jedi (I refuse to call it Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi) came out.