We knew there was a Charlie Sheen straight-to-dvd movie out there just waiting to be released!
You can’t keep Charlie Sheen down when it comes to his work on disc (as we pointed out here a few weeks back)! Sheen will be back on the DVD scene with the upcoming release of Guilty Hearts, a title that we hadn’t heard of before today.
Phase 4 will release Guilty Hearts on DVD on June 28 for the list price of $29.99.
Charlie Sheen and Anna Faris provide the commentary in Spelling Bee, one of the short films in Guilty Hearts.
Here’s the official synopsis of the film from the Phase 4 site: “Follow the lives of nine strangers living worlds apart as they look for love, happiness, success, and friendship against all odds. Carrying the burden of guilt, they must escape their pasts before they can move forward.”
Okay, from what we can gather,...
You can’t keep Charlie Sheen down when it comes to his work on disc (as we pointed out here a few weeks back)! Sheen will be back on the DVD scene with the upcoming release of Guilty Hearts, a title that we hadn’t heard of before today.
Phase 4 will release Guilty Hearts on DVD on June 28 for the list price of $29.99.
Charlie Sheen and Anna Faris provide the commentary in Spelling Bee, one of the short films in Guilty Hearts.
Here’s the official synopsis of the film from the Phase 4 site: “Follow the lives of nine strangers living worlds apart as they look for love, happiness, success, and friendship against all odds. Carrying the burden of guilt, they must escape their pasts before they can move forward.”
Okay, from what we can gather,...
- 3/31/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Opens
Friday, Oct. 24
Determined once again to leave no deserving target unspoofed, Dimension Film's wildly successful Scary Movie franchise is back in business.
With the Wayans brothers having packed it in after the reviled Scary Movie 2, it made perfect sense to recruit David Zucker, the man responsible for those three wacky Naked Gun movies and, with brother Jerry and Jim Abrahams responsible for that highly revered granddaddy of all spoofers, namely 1980's Airplane!
The result is a kinder, gentler brand of parody (as evidenced by the series' first non-R rating) and, for a while there, Zucker and his former writing partner Pat Proft, along with Craig Mazin, look to have tapped into some of that old ZAZ magic.
That is, until it becomes apparent that the same three or four gags are endlessly recycled throughout, and after awhile, yet another crippling blow to the crotch somehow loses its impact.
Still -- though the final take won't come anywhere close to the $157 million scared up by the first installment -- given that PG-13 rating, Scary Movie 3 should have no trouble pulling in sizable young audiences while there's probably still enough of the gross-out element to appeal to fans of the purely puerile.
Morphing the plot lines of The Ring, Signs and that scary 8 Mile, with bits of The Matrix Reloaded and The Others thrown in for good measure, "SM3" kicks off with an amusing prologue in which Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy send up the start of The Ring while having fun with their very blonde images.
Meanwhile a TV reporter (Anna Faris), who has her hands full covering an alien invasion at a farm belonging to Charlie Sheen, stumbles upon a killer videotape that has already claimed the life of her prescient son's (Drew Mikuska)'s schoolteacher (Regina Hall) while striking up a relationship with a white wannabe rap star (Simon Rex) who dreams of having a dream.
In the course of her investigation, she meets up with the Oracle, aka Aunt ShaNeequa (Queen Latifah), Orpheus (Eddie Griffin) and the Architect (George Carlin), and along the way the likes of Denise Richards (in a sick but funny flashback sequence with real-life husband Sheen), Camryn Manheim, Anthony Anderson, Jeremy Piven, D.L. Hughley, Macy Gray, Ja Rule, Master P, Redman, Method Man and the Coors Twins join in the shenanigans.
There are some true moments of inspiration to be found here, including a restaging of the "rap-off" sequence from 8 Mile, which turns out to be judged by none other than American Idol sourpuss Simon Cowell.
Then there's also that goof on The Others, in which Sheen takes the white veil off his oddly acting daughter only to find a shrieking Michael Jackson (Edward Moss), which would have been funnier had it not already been shown a hundred times in all those TV clips.
But by the time Leslie Nielsen is trotted out to reprise his old Naked Gun shtick in the guise of a befuddled U.S. president, the slapsticky formula has long passed its comic expiration date and Scary Movie 3 ends up committing the spoof genre's worst crime: becoming a tired parody of itself.
Scary Movie 3
Dimension Films
Dimension Films presents a Brad Grey Pictures production
Credits:
Director: David Zucker
Screenwriters: Craig Mazin and Pat Proft
Based on characters created by Shawn Wayans & Marlon Wayans & Buddy Johnson & Phil Beauman and Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
Producer: Robert K. Weiss
Executive producers: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Andrew Rona, Brad Weston
Director of photography: Mark Irwin
Production designer: William Elliot
Editors: Malcolm Campbell, Jon Poll
Costume designer: Carol Ramsey
Music: James L. Venable
Cast:
Mahalik: Anthony Anderson
Cindy Campbell: Anna Faris
President Harris: Leslie Nielsen
Trooper Champlin: Camryn Manheim
George: Simon Rex
The Architect: George Carlin
The Oracle: Queen Latifah
Orpheus: Eddie Griffin
Annie: Denise Richards
Brenda Weeks: Regina Hall
Tom: Charlie Sheen
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Friday, Oct. 24
Determined once again to leave no deserving target unspoofed, Dimension Film's wildly successful Scary Movie franchise is back in business.
With the Wayans brothers having packed it in after the reviled Scary Movie 2, it made perfect sense to recruit David Zucker, the man responsible for those three wacky Naked Gun movies and, with brother Jerry and Jim Abrahams responsible for that highly revered granddaddy of all spoofers, namely 1980's Airplane!
The result is a kinder, gentler brand of parody (as evidenced by the series' first non-R rating) and, for a while there, Zucker and his former writing partner Pat Proft, along with Craig Mazin, look to have tapped into some of that old ZAZ magic.
That is, until it becomes apparent that the same three or four gags are endlessly recycled throughout, and after awhile, yet another crippling blow to the crotch somehow loses its impact.
Still -- though the final take won't come anywhere close to the $157 million scared up by the first installment -- given that PG-13 rating, Scary Movie 3 should have no trouble pulling in sizable young audiences while there's probably still enough of the gross-out element to appeal to fans of the purely puerile.
Morphing the plot lines of The Ring, Signs and that scary 8 Mile, with bits of The Matrix Reloaded and The Others thrown in for good measure, "SM3" kicks off with an amusing prologue in which Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy send up the start of The Ring while having fun with their very blonde images.
Meanwhile a TV reporter (Anna Faris), who has her hands full covering an alien invasion at a farm belonging to Charlie Sheen, stumbles upon a killer videotape that has already claimed the life of her prescient son's (Drew Mikuska)'s schoolteacher (Regina Hall) while striking up a relationship with a white wannabe rap star (Simon Rex) who dreams of having a dream.
In the course of her investigation, she meets up with the Oracle, aka Aunt ShaNeequa (Queen Latifah), Orpheus (Eddie Griffin) and the Architect (George Carlin), and along the way the likes of Denise Richards (in a sick but funny flashback sequence with real-life husband Sheen), Camryn Manheim, Anthony Anderson, Jeremy Piven, D.L. Hughley, Macy Gray, Ja Rule, Master P, Redman, Method Man and the Coors Twins join in the shenanigans.
There are some true moments of inspiration to be found here, including a restaging of the "rap-off" sequence from 8 Mile, which turns out to be judged by none other than American Idol sourpuss Simon Cowell.
Then there's also that goof on The Others, in which Sheen takes the white veil off his oddly acting daughter only to find a shrieking Michael Jackson (Edward Moss), which would have been funnier had it not already been shown a hundred times in all those TV clips.
But by the time Leslie Nielsen is trotted out to reprise his old Naked Gun shtick in the guise of a befuddled U.S. president, the slapsticky formula has long passed its comic expiration date and Scary Movie 3 ends up committing the spoof genre's worst crime: becoming a tired parody of itself.
Scary Movie 3
Dimension Films
Dimension Films presents a Brad Grey Pictures production
Credits:
Director: David Zucker
Screenwriters: Craig Mazin and Pat Proft
Based on characters created by Shawn Wayans & Marlon Wayans & Buddy Johnson & Phil Beauman and Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
Producer: Robert K. Weiss
Executive producers: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Andrew Rona, Brad Weston
Director of photography: Mark Irwin
Production designer: William Elliot
Editors: Malcolm Campbell, Jon Poll
Costume designer: Carol Ramsey
Music: James L. Venable
Cast:
Mahalik: Anthony Anderson
Cindy Campbell: Anna Faris
President Harris: Leslie Nielsen
Trooper Champlin: Camryn Manheim
George: Simon Rex
The Architect: George Carlin
The Oracle: Queen Latifah
Orpheus: Eddie Griffin
Annie: Denise Richards
Brenda Weeks: Regina Hall
Tom: Charlie Sheen
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 11/4/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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