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Joined: Feb 24 2006 Posts: 2578

WTF? A blond girl with short hair and a black tank top in a horror film? That was TOTALLY my idea.

Okay, so, in other, more legitimate news, Lionsgate was forced to remove some OMGOFFENSIVE billboards promoting the movie. Expecting it to be pretty graphic, I was surprised when it was just this:

Discuss?

Posted: Mar 21 2007 03:40 pm

Kill Elisha Cuthbert? Noooooooo!

Posted: Mar 21 2007 03:57 pm

This post was deleted for being stupid. - The Super Moderators

As for the marketing, I need a real reason to see, not just torture and termination.

And there's Rebecca Klein who was recently found dead in the trunk of her car around here... There's immediately where my mind went when I saw that billboard.

Posted: Mar 21 2007 10:52 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Kill Elisha Cuthbert? Noooooooo!

She doesn't happen to be related to THE Cuthbert does she?

If so, I mourn the fool who kills her. I mean, his domains are law and retribution.

Posted: Mar 21 2007 11:13 pm

When I looked at the window quickly I thought the thread title said "Cattivo totally pissed me off". Upon doing a doubletake I was severely disappointed.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Don't worry, my total dickitude will satisfy your bloodlust soon enough.

Posted: Mar 22 2007 08:40 am

Hmm. Odd. My Scottish ancestor's clan name is Cuthbert.

Posted: Jun 26 2007 06:12 pm

I wonder what the director of Dungeons and Dragons is up to...

Quote:

LOS ANGELES, June 24 — For a while Wednesday night’s block party for “Transformers” was shaping up to be the hottest ticket in town. But that was before Courtney Solomon, planning a celebration of his own, called in the SuicideGirls.

Having already provoked parents, women’s groups and the ratings board with explicit ads for the coming torture movie “Captivity,” Mr. Solomon and his After Dark Films now intend to introduce the film, set for release July 13, with a party that may set a new standard for the politically incorrect.

For starters, Mr. Solomon has ordered up what he calls the three “most outlandish” SuicideGirls available from the punk porn service, even if they’re as frisky as the ones he is told once set a Portland, Ore., restaurant on fire. Some lucky fans will get to take the women as dates for party night, July 10, on two conditions: “People take the date at their own risk, and everybody on the Internet gets to watch.”

Cage fighting too is likely. Mr. Solomon’s planners are angling for Kimbo Slice, the bare-knuckle bruiser whose vicious backyard brawls are a Web favorite and who made his Mixed Martial Arts debut on Saturday.

But the warren of live torture rooms is a must. As Mr. Solomon envisions it, individuals in torture gear will wander through the West Hollywood club Privilege grabbing partygoers. All of which is a prelude to an undisclosed main event that, he warned last week over slices of pizza a few doors from his company’s new offices on the Sunset Strip, is “probably not legal.”

“The women’s groups definitely will love it,” Mr. Solomon hinted. “I call it my personal little tribute to them.”

Mr. Solomon, a fast-talking 35-year-old, and his genre-film company were barely noticed until outrage at the “Captivity” billboards — which chronicled a young woman’s torment, with frames titled “Abduction,” “Confinement,” “Torture,” “Termination” — led to a rare censure by the Motion Picture Association of America this spring.

When the association’s ratings board suspended its process for a month as a punitive measure, “Captivity” missed its May release date and was bumped to June 22. But Bob Weinstein and his Dimension Films wanted that date for their competing horror film “1408,” and he persuaded Mr. Solomon to swap for Friday, July 13. Mr. Solomon quickly called that Friday “Captivity Day.”

The idea behind Mr. Solomon’s planned party of course is to put “Captivity” back on the map, no small task given the scheduling hiccups and recent woes in the horror genre. Over the last few months a series of horror films have done poorly, culminating with the disappointing performance earlier this month by Lionsgate’s “Hostel: Part II.”

A spokesman for Lionsgate, which is co-releasing “Captivity,” declined to comment on the party plans. Mr. Solomon supervises his own promotions, though he is required to get Lionsgate’s approval for advertising under an arrangement that was tightened up after the “Captivity” debacle.

If horror is indeed lagging, part of the cure, Mr. Solomon said, is for the genre to get even scarier. To that end he persuaded the director of “Captivity,” Roland Joffé, the much-honored filmmaker behind “The Mission” and “The Killing Fields,” to undertake reshoots. These added explicit torture , including a so-called “milkshake” scene that involves body parts and a blender, to a picture that was largely psychological in its thrust when After Dark acquired the rights to it.

Mr. Joffé did not return a call last week. Mr. Solomon, a Toronto-born entrepreneur who acquired the rights to the game Dungeons & Dragons while working from his bedroom and wound up directing its film under the tutelage of the producer Joel Silver, casts his struggle with those who object to “Captivity” as a Larry Flynt-style fight against censorship and repression. Yet this promotional master of Hollywood’s dark side is waging the battle with typical outrageousness. The movie, which is rated R, will screen only once before its opening, at an expected showing for women’s groups in New York, at which he wants to engage in a town-hall-style debate with detractors.

“We would not be receptive,” said Meaghan Carey, deputy director of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women. “We’re not going to go protest so they can get press.”

The party meanwhile appears to break new ground even in a city that has seen its share of big nights. “I’ve been doing this for years, and haven’t had one like it,” said Maureen McGrath, vice president for sales for the SBE Restaurant Group, which owns Privilege. “Usually they want premieres to be squeaky clean. It sounds like they want this to be the antithesis of that.”

Mr. Solomon went one better in describing his plans, which are loosely intended to mimic the past doings at a once-notorious Moscow bar, the Hungry Duck. “If ‘Captivity’ is what it is, and we’re the bad boys, then ‘Captivity’ deserves a bad-boy party,” he said. “It deserves a nasty party.”

The primary audience, he said, will be fans, who can cycle through the club free in groups of 50, along with an expected army of Web-based video bloggers — the real opinion-makers when it comes to horror — who will start getting their invitations this week.

Oh, son of a mother fuc-

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/movies/25horr.html

Posted: Jun 26 2007 07:12 pm

I'm sorry, but I just do not think those SuicideGirls are that attractive. As for the movie itself, I know some people who'll probably go see it. I probably won't though.

Posted: Jun 26 2007 07:43 pm

They're attractive to emo kids. Rolling Eyes

Joined: Feb 24 2006 Posts: 2578

I've heard nothing but awful things about Captivity. And I hate Solomon.

MurdarMachene, you need to make a YTMND of Solomon's cries of "OHHHHHHHH! LOOK AT THE DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAGONS!!! *snort*" fron the D&D commentary track. Wink

Posted: Jun 26 2007 10:06 pm

Murdar doesn't do YTMNDs anymore.