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Del Boy And His Only Fools And Horses Go Stateside

February 22nd, 2012 By Kris Silver

The Brits was on the telly last night, as you may have noticed. A celebration of all the best musical talent that Britain, well? the Brit school, has to offer. American?s just wouldn't get it, if it were up to them they?d just take the essence of our poncey awards bash, throw in some no name to front it and rename it the Grammys or something.

Because that's just what America does, isn't it? Look at what the World is doing, buy it up, butcher it to high heaven and stick on a laughter track they found down the back of the Married With Children sofa.

So it will come as no surprise that, now that pilot season is fast approaching Stateside, some of our favourite British shows are getting a very American kick in the jacobs.

Kristen Stewart To Star In Live Action Akira – Start Complaining Now

November 16th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Have you heard about the live action version of Akira that’s going to hit the cinema screens? Isn’t that the most wonderful news you’ve ever heard? It’s not like the original was perfect or anything stupid like that.

There’s even better news! Supreme dullard Kristen Stewart has been offered a role in the Akira adaptation too! Ain’t that grand?

Yes. We live in a world where someone who has played a major part in the Twilight movies and they still get job offers, despite the fact they are so crashingly tedious that air stagnates around their head every time they slowly bat a dry eyelid. However, all is not lost. We have just the role for Kristen, should she land the Akira gig.

Patrick Swayze’s Widow Does ‘Dirty’ Pose With His Wax Dummy

October 21st, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Many saw the funny side of Patrick Swayze’s death because he played a ghost in a film. Those same people probably didn’t care much for Dirty Dancing, so thought they’d troll everyone who looked upset.

Much like those hooting at those wailing over pictures of Colonel Gaddafi at the moment. Basically, death brings out the comedian in everyone. LONG LIVE GALLOWS HUMOUR!

With that, have you seen Lisa Niemi? She’s Swayze’s widow. Grief can do weird things to a person and she’s been photographed doing something rather unsettling with a Patrick Swayze dummy.

Fans Of Scarface Will Be Thrilled To Learn It’s Being Remade!

September 22nd, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Have you seen Scarface? No. Then why on Earth are you reading this? Are you that bored? If you have, and love it, there’s some news on the horizon that’s going to thrill the cocaine out of your cartel!

Apparently, there’s going to be a new version of the movie! How great is that? The old one was pretty lousy in fairness and Al Pacino can’t act for toffee.

The producers of this newbie are saying that this production isn’t intended to be a remake or sequel of the 1983 film… but they’re lying because, when it comes to promoting it, that’s exactly what it’ll be and, you know damn well that’s how it was successfully pitched to balding ponytailed execs in linen suits.

Lea Michele Obvious In Dirty Dancing Remake… Justin Bieber To Take Lead?

August 11th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Remember us telling you the mindcrushing news that Dirty Dancing was about to be remade? Well, Glee’s Lea Michele is strongly rumoured to be lined up for the part of ‘Baby’, as made famous by Jennifer Grey.

She’s a pretty obvious choice when you think about it, what with her being incredibly wholesome, and thereby, able to portray the saccharine blossoming of sexuality with some berk with a haircut.

Of course, Michele is about to leave Glee because half the cast will have to graduate (don’t write off a Fame-esque spin-off yet though) so she’ll have the time to play the awfully named Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman. But who will play Patrick Swayze’s character, Johnny Castle?

Baby About To Be Not Put In The Corner Again In Dreadful Dirty Dancing Remake

August 9th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

They, had, the time of their lives and they owed it all to lonely women, rapt with their nine bars of Galaxy. That’s right. We’re talking about Dirty Dancing which starred Baby Houseman and Johnny Castle as a pair of dancing things.

The original film was endured by the world over 20 years ago, prompting morons to reenact the lifting scene at their awful, awful weddings.

And now it’s coming back in a remake which will no doubt irritate everyone who think that there’s nothing wrong with the one that already exists, provoking them to say “You can’t replace the Swayze!” Hopefully, this redux will have robots in it.

Seth MacFarlane Set To Completely Sully Memory Of The Flintstones

May 17th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Family Guy may well be one of the most dismal programmes ever aired on a television anywhere on Earth, but that didn’t stop Seth MacFarlane scraping the barrel even further with the miserable American Dad and further still with the joy-vacuum of The Cleveland Show.

Quite an impressive feat you might think. How on Earth is it possible to make something more grating and unfunny as Family Guy?

Well, unbelievably, he’s going to top all of that when he takes over, revamps and utterly sullies one of the greatest animated series in television – The Flintstones. And you thought that the live action flick with John Goodman was bad!

New Bladerunner Movies Announced (Will Tom Hardy Take Lead?)

March 3rd, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Hey nerd baskets! Get this! You’re gonna love this! You know Blade Runner? That sic-fi film you weally weally weally love? Some people are going to tinker with it. Feel free to say “is nothing sacred anymore?”

Ridley Scott’s bleak look at some typically horrible future (why are no films set in the future kinda cool?*) is about to have a whole new set of digits, prodding and poking it and fizzing with excitement about filming in 3D and ‘better’ CGI, when really, the original’s clunky effects only added to the menace of it all.

Aaaanyway, more than thirty years on, the film is about to become a franchise seeing spin-offs on television and new movies.

Tim Burton To Remake Hunchback of Notre Dame (Johnny Depp And Helena Bonham Carter Clear Their Diaries)

March 1st, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Tim Burton! He’s kooky isn’t he? He’s probably got stuffed animals in his house! And rugs that smell like goths. And loads of hairspray for his sticky-up haircut. And Helena Bonham Carter. He’s got one of them.

Sadly for our Tim, he looks like a hybrid of ukulele loving Tiny Tim and Tim Curry. Isn’t that weird. Tim looks like a cross between two other Tims. We’d crowbar Timothy Dalton, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Tim Westwood in as well, if we could be remotely bothered.

Anyway, Burton is going to team-up with non-Tim, Josh Brolin, to make a new version of ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’. Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp are probably going to be in it too because they’re in every pissing film Burton ever made. Ever. Ever ever ever ever.

Hollywood Remake The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo And People Get Cross While Others Just Wait For Daniel Craig To Get His Kit Off

October 14th, 2010 By hecklerspray staff

The first pictures emerged this week of Daniel Craig filming the opening scenes of the movie adaptation of Stieg Larsson?s book, ?The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?. Despite the fact that there is already a movie version of the book (the first in Larsson?s best-selling Millennium trilogy) by Swedish director Niels Arden Oplev with an all-Swedish cast, Hollywood have decided to come along and give it some jazz hands and add a star turn, making it into one of the most highly anticipated films of 2011, because, well, that's what Hollywood does, innit?

Some fans of the books are a little bit upset about this new remake, fearing that it will not stay true to the original work, many saying it's unnecessary to make a film about a book that's already been made into a film about a book, with concerns that an all-star Hollywood cast will somehow dilute the power behind the story, blah blah blah, moan, moan, moan etc.