Hollywood Hotline - Week of April 25, 2025
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Howdy Hotliners,
Hope y’all had a great Easter Sunday last weekend! For my 4/20 Celebration I screened THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988) and FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (1998), which would make a great high-concept controversial comedy/road movie if you combined the two premises: Jesus of Nazareth & Judas, high on drugs, travel to the Mint Baptism 400 to spread the Gosepl. All hell breaks loose. They trash one inn, just to ride a donkey across town to trash another inn, they pick up a young artist, Mary Magdalene, who paints portraits of Pontius Pilate, this shit writes itself! You don’t even need ChatGPT!
TOP STORY:
From SNL to a Hitman in Acting School to The Jonestown Massacre, Yeah That Tracks
“A series about the Rev. Jim Jones, the charismatic cult leader behind the 1978 mass-murder suicide at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project (aka Jonestown) in the Guyanese jungle, is in development at HBO, Deadline has confirmed. The project hails from Bill Hader, who also is being eyed to potentially star, and Daniel Zelman.”
Sounds hilarious! Sign me up.
Without further ado, let’s check the Hotline:
FUTURE FILMS:
Don’t Worry Darling, I got THE INVITE
“Olivia Wilde will direct THE INVITE, a provocative date night comedy inspired by the Spanish film SENTIMENTAL (1981), and she’s rounded up an all-star cast. Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, and Edward Norton will appear in the film, along with Wilde herself. Cesc Gay directed the original film, which was adapted by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. According to the official synopsis, THE INVITE is about “a couple [who] invites the neighbors over, igniting an evening full of unexpected twists and turns, revealing deeply repressed emotions and unexplored sexuality.”
“While plot details are unknown, sources say …MARRIAGE has edgy undertones similar to BLINK TWICE (2024) that made that film work, and helped inform the [studio Sony] execs’ decision to tap Kravitz as director.”
“Edgy” you say? Hmmm…color me curiouser!
Michael Bay Directing Sydney Sweeny in Videogame Movie We All Played as Kids in the Arcade
Because why not? Sigh.
Jon M. Chu also Directing Sydeny Sweeny in Videogame Movie No One Played as Kids in the Arcade
Because money! Big sigh.
Tom Hanks Making Boomer Dad Sequel for All Boomer Dads
Hey. A man’s gotta have a hobby, right?
Oh God, Ethan Coen is Making Another Movie Without His Brother Joel! God Help Us!
I really wasn’t a fan of DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS (2024). A movie so weightless that like a spit bubble it floated down to the ground popping before it reached it.
Oh God, Nicolas Winding Refn is Making Another Movie Without His Muse Ryan Gosling! God Help Us!
I really wasn’t a fan of THE NEON DEMON (2016) or ONLY GOD FORGIVES (2013). Movies so pretentious that like spit bubbles drooled down to the ground collecting in a puddle called le cinema.
URBAN LEGEND Reboot in the Works
Honestly? This is the perfect concept/franchise to reboot because the original film was false advertising and fucking sucked!
TRENDY TV:
Could you imagine Daniel Day-Lewis working for Netflix?
Jon Hamm Hamming It Up in AMERICAN HOSTAGE
“Based on a podcast.The eight-episode season, based on a true story, is set in 1970s Indianapolis. Hamm will play Fred Heckman, a beloved radio reporter who finds himself in the middle of a life-and-death situation when a man named Tony Kiritsis takes a hostage and then demands airtime on Heckman’s show.”
I love ham on rye.
Legacy Father With Nepobaby Son Making STAR WARS Series Together, Awwww
“No details on the project are being revealed. This marks father-and-son’s first formal project together.”
Wish my dad was a successful showrunner!
TANGY THEATER:
Biggest Play of All Time About to Open, PADDINGTON
Eat your hearts out Broadway actors, Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, and George Clooney!
COMING SOON:
WEAPONS - Great teaser by the BARBARIAN director
PREDATOR:BADLANDS - Low-key kinda wish Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek were in this
THE TOXIC AVENGER - This looks toxic
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER - Not to be confused with I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997) or I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1998) or I’LL ALWAYS KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (2006)
SIRENS - Everyone chasing that WHITE LOTUS train
HEADS OF STATE - Not to be confused HEAD OF STATE (2003)
MOUNTAINHEAD - What if SUCCESSION but with four techbros?
PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF - No better eulogy for a recently lost National Treasure (Paul Rubens 1952-2023)
I grew up watching PEE-WEE’S PLAYHOUSE and PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE. That along with MAD Magazine and THE SIMPSONS and REN & STIMPY really programmed by brain in childhood making me the informed adult I am today!
Until next week, Hotliners! Thanks for calling in.
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