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Filed under: Drama, From Page to Screen The conventional wisdom regarding Sean Penn's justly acclaimed rendering of Into the Wild is that the film is "faithful" to the Jon Krakauer book. This is utterly cracked, and the misconception is illustrative of my staunch "books are not movies" philosophy. Not only is Into the Wild not "faithful" to the book, but it couldn't possibly have been faithful and remain a narrative film. Sure, it dutifully replicates what Krakauer was able to discover about Chris McCandless' adventure - most of the supporting characters, destinations and events are here, and some lines of dialogue are lifted from Krakauer's account. If that's all it takes for a movie to be "faithful," then I guess it's faithful. But that ignores the fact that the book and the film were trying to accomplish fundamentally different things, and went about it in fundamentally different ways. Krakauer's book - which, by the way, is a national treasure - is first journalistic, and then philosophical. The author did painstaking research to piece together the details of McCandless' journey and death from interviews, personal observations, and Chris's own writings. What emerged probably wasn't what Krakauer, who obviously sympathizes and identifies with his hero, would have preferred: the picture of McCandless his sources paint is that of a young man who is bright and curious, but also inconsiderate, arrogant, and often downright unpleasant. (The letter he wrote to "Ron Franz," Hal Holbrook's character in the film, haranguing the octogenarian to sell his possessions and go on the road, is painful to read.)Continue reading From Page to Screen: 'Into the Wild' Permalink | Email this | Comments

Ulises and Dustin review Speed Racer and Flight of the Concords. Synopsis: After the success of the films in the Matrix series, the Wachowski Brothers return to the director's chair with this adaptation of the classic cartoon. INTO THE WILD's Emile Hirsch jumps into the Mach 5 car as Speed Racer, while John Goodman and Susan Sarandon play his parents. Christina Ricci costars as Speed's girlfriend Trixie, and Matthew Fox (LOST) is Racer X, his biggest competitor.

Ulises and Dustin review Speed Racer and Flight of the Concords. Synopsis: After the success of the films in the Matrix series, the Wachowski Brothers return to the director's chair with this adaptation of the classic cartoon. INTO THE WILD's Emile Hirsch jumps into the Mach 5 car as Speed Racer, while John Goodman and Susan Sarandon play his parents. Christina Ricci costars as Speed's girlfriend Trixie, and Matthew Fox (LOST) is Racer X, his biggest competitor.

Speed Racer is the first major casuality of the summer boxoffice season. The $200 million dollar kiddie action movie opened on May 9th and suffered from lackluster movie reviews and horrible boxoffice. Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie a low overall rating of 35% and a review that said the movie was overloaded with headache-inducing effects, without a coherent script. We guess that Warner Bros. easily lost $400+ million dollars after P At the NY premiere we spoke to producer Joel Silver who expressed his excitement about working with the duo formerly known as the Wachowski brothers. Andy and Larry Wachowski directed the successful Matrix series. Cinematical reported that Larry Wachowski underwent a sex change operation and is now known as Lana Wachowski and was not going to speak to the press about his/her transformation until after the release of Speed Racer. On top of that, sources say that Andy Wachowski would do all the press for the film as well for fear that the whole sex change thing could potentially harm the family-friendly film. source Speed Racer producer Joel Silver told us that he was producing more movies for the Wachowski's to helm. We just wonder how these projects are going to pan out after Speed Racer was such a global boxoffice bomb. Andy and Larry Wachowski were plucked from obscurity by veteran film producer Joel Silver after their low budget independent film Bound. It seems that the main complaint everyone had with Speed Racer is that the movie skewed too young with it's PG rating. The movie also didn't have a plot and relied too heavily on green screen CGI special effects. Hopefully, the studios will realize that people are making a choice about what they should spend their money on for entertainment. Watch the 7 minute preview of Speed Racer below if you're brave. We've gotta warn you that the first 7 minutes include more than 2 flashbacks and really suck. SATURDAY NOON UPDATE: I'm just receiving reports that Speed Racer also isn't doing well overseas where it opened day and date Friday in 30+ territories. Says a marketing and distribution source for another studio: It is a disaster in the worst way. It was No. 6 in the UK and No. 9 in Germany and the numbers are horrific. Only Latin America showed signs of life -- but it was barely a pulse. I haven't seen any official international figures from Warner Bros yet. But the film was supposed to do better overseas where anime is a bigger draw than in the U.S. Despite a wide release into 3,606 theaters, the anime actioner starring Emile Hirsh opened Friday with only $6.1 million (and some studios said it was merely $5.7M). Even if today's kiddie matinees generate some of the usual high-octane and the movie moves up a notch to second place, it still won't move Speed Racer out of the slow lane or approach Warner Bros' own expectations of a mid-$30s million debut (and that was down from a hoped-for $40 mil a few days before...). The alarming fact is this film will struggle to even make $20 million for the weekend. At an estimated cost of at least $140 million (some sources put the final budget as high as $185 million), this family fare is yet another case of a studio letting talent run amok: the Wachowski siblings delivered a long, loud, and lousy movie. (The Industry scuttlebutt is that Warner Bros Pictures Group prez Jeff Robinov, a one-time agent, gave way too much power to his former clients. Of course, the success of their Matrix franchise justified a certain degree of autonomy.) The film's biggest handicap is its 2 hour, 15 minute, running time, bucking the current trend of kid movies clocking in at a mercifully short 90 to 100 minutes. And then there are the bad reviews: only 27% positive among the cream of the crop of Rotten Tomatoes film critics. In addition, the pic should have been aged up : it plays too young and limits its audience by appealing mostly to little boys. According to the Parents and Kids premium tracking, Speed Racer was first choice among parents and boys aged 7 through 11. Unfortunately, the Warner Bros film will get creamed by the competition from the Disney/Walden blockbuster Narnia 2 opening next weekend. source

May 9: With a summer movie line-up filled with the likes of Indy, Iron Man and Batman, good ol’ Arthouse Adam listed "Standard Operating Procedure," Errol Morris’ documentary on the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs, as his most anticipated summer film. This week the boys decide which was more gut-wrenching: "Standard Op’s" vivid depictions of the Abu Ghraib atrocities, or being subjected to the Wachowski brothers big-screen adaptation of "Speed Racer," starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, and a monkey. Plus, tying in with the infamous evidence at the center of "Standard Operation Procedure," the guys offer up their Top 5 Photography Movies with help from Filmspotting friend and professional photographer Anthony Behar. Go Fimspotters Go! Also on the show: Listener Feedback, Massacre Theatre, music by Chuck Prophet and the Filmspotting '70s Sci-Fi Marathon continues with a discussion of "The Andromeda Strain," the 1971 alien-microbe-from-outer-space classic based on Michael Crichton’s best-selling novel. Filmspotting is presented by SpoutBlog and the FilmCouch podcast. Find out why The New York Times says, "SpoutBlog's got it all," at blog.spout.com. ...And by TLAVideo.com. Buy DVDs online at the Filmspotting store! CONTEST Congrats to our 'Recast Ghostbusters Contest' winners -- frozenhamster and minerwerks. Next up... Filmspotting and Spout.com invite you to take your best shot at recasting '80s classic "The Breakfast Club" for a chance to win some great American Apparel swag. A 2nd place winner will get "Speed Racer the Next Generation: The Beginning" on DVD. Filmspotting #209 :24-12:28 - Review: "Standard Operating Procedure" 12:29-17:10- - Review: "Speed Racer" Music: Chuck Prophet, "Let's Do Something Wrong" 17:33-20:34 - Poll Questions 20:35-29:35 - Listener Feedback (Iron Man) Music: Chuck Prophet, "Maked Ray" 30:20-33:52 - Massacre Theatre (Winner: Julian Cornell) 33:53-43:19 - '70s Sci-Fi #2: "The Andromeda Strain" Music: Chuck Prophet, "Talkin' New Kingdom" 43:45-47:16 - New DVDs, Contest, Donations 47:17-1:01:23 - Top 5: Photography Movies 1:01:18-1:03:56 - Close/Next Show/Outtake NOTES/CORRECTIONS - Our apologies to those who downloaded the version with the repetitive ending. We have to do two different versions of the sign-off ("For Filmspotting..."), one for Chicago Public Radio.

?Into the Wild? actor talks about his role as the anime racing hero Speed Racer.

Sure to be one of this summer's biggest blockbusters, "Speed Racer" hits theaters soon, and Access decided to play a little trivia game with the cast to test their skills. You'll be surprised which star hits the finish line first.

Author: icPlaces Added: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:19:32 -0800 Duration: 88The story begins with Speed Racer who is a young man with natural racing instincts whose goal is to win The Crucible, a cross-country car racing rally that took the life of his older brother, Rex Racer. Speed is loyal to the family business, run by his parents Pops and Mom. Pops designed Speed's car, the Mach 5. The owner of Royalton Industries makes Speed a lucrative offer, Speed rejects the offer, angering the owner. Speed also uncovers a secret that top corporate interests, including Royalton, are fixing races and cheating to gain profit. With the offer to Speed denied, Royalton wants to ensure that Speed will not win races. Speed finds support from his parents and his girlfriend Trixie and enters The Crucible in a partnership with his one-time rival, Racer X, seeking to rescue his family's business and the racing sport itself.

Filed under: Fandom, Movie Marketing, Polls While I'm personally much more excited about Iron Man and Indy 4, there's certainly been lots of buzzing amongst the internet bees about the Wachowski's adaptation of Speed Racer. In case you haven't seen the millions of trailers, the film looks ... well, it looks pretty damn trippy. Like they took the old cartoon and dosed it up with acid. It looks visually intense, with lots of brought, swirly colors, speedy-fast cars, and fairly simplistic dialog. Jeff Wells over at Hollywood Elsewhere put up a post noting that the tracking for Speed Racer looks a bit concerning, with not as many people as the studio might like saying they plan to see it opening weekend. As commenters on Hollywood Elsewhere have noted, Speed Racer's target demographic looks to be A) fanboys who will pay to see anything about the cartoon they loved in their youth, especially if it's made with groovy CGI and shiny, pretty colors; and B) four-year-old boys. I can't really see a lot of chicks begging their boyfriends to see Speed Racer on date night, though there may be more than a few guys bargaining and sitting through Baby Mama or Made of Honor in exchange for a Speed Racer date. Cinematical's James Rocchi caught Speed Racer last night at a sneak screening. I caught him on his cell at the Speed Racer junket this morning to ask his initial impressions of the film; here's what he had to say about it: "It's pure, pop family fun, a bold, bright kids' movie that's visually exciting and keeps the tone right." James noted that his overall impression of the film was "generally very favorable -- as a kids' movie." If any Cinematical readers have been to a preview screening of Speed Racer, let us know what you think of how the full movie plays. And the rest of you movie fans -- does Speed Racer look hot, or not? And are you planning to see it in the theater? View PollPermalink | Email this | Comments

We discuss the latest casting news including Carlos Benard's return to 24, Cynthia Watros going back to Lost, Molly Shannon on Pushing Daisies and Charisma Carpenter on Big Shots. Also, we have Emmys after-party gossip and in-depth discussions of this week's TV, including The Hills, Gossip Girl, Damages, Mad Men and Kid Nation. We also tease the return of House and the new CBS drama Moonlight, and preview the films The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Into the Wild, The Jane Austen Book Club, Good Luck Chuck and The Last Winter