Posts Tagged mel brooks

Der Untergang

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January 7th, 2009

It was a warm spring morning in 2005.  It was the type of morning that you could actually see dew on your lilly.  Am I the only one who found that funny?  Anyways I was laying on the couch doing some hardcore channel surfing when all the sudden I see a movie called Downfall getting ready to start.  I scroll over to more info and get the synopsis on the movie.  I think it went something like this:  Set in the last days of Nazi Germany during WWII, Hitler and his top officials are forced into a secret underground bunker.  As the Russians and Allied forces push into Berlin, we get ...

Zombie Fans Rejoice!: World War Z Movie Starting to Take Shape

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December 2nd, 2008

After slating the brilliant J. Michael Straczynski (of Babylon 5, Silver Surfer, AND Forbidden Planet remake...awesome) to pen the screen play earlier this year, fan's of the Max Brooks (son of Mel Brooks and the late Anne Bancroft) zombie infused novel, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, now have their director:  Paramount Pictures, according to SciFi.com's Sci Fi Wire, has announced Marc Forster of recent Quantum of Solace to head the flick. The novel is told from the perspective of Max Brooks, who is a United Nations Postwar Commission representative delegated to document the events that occurred after the war ...

The Original Star Wars Spoof

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November 21st, 2008

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We have seen them all, Star Wars Gangster Rap, The Star Wars Kid, Star Wars Cops, Chad Vader, The Empire Brokeback and the list goes on and on.  Obviously there was only one feature film that actually spoofed Star Wars and it was created by Mel Brooks back in 1987.  This spectacular and hilarious movie was Spaceballs, but this is still not the movie that I am referring to.  Released in 1977 shortly after the 1977 release of Episode IV, it was created by independent film maker Ernie Fosselius on a budget of only $8,000. Here is a little quick fact about the film; it grossed over a million dollars which is still considered to be one of the highest grossing independent ...