All Hail the Weinsteins!

Remember a few weeks ago when I ruined my husband's birthday by announcing the remake of The Crow, possibly starring Bradley Cooper? Maybe he'll take me back and love me again with this news:

The Weinstein Brothers (i.e. the guys who used to be Miramax) are suing Relativity Media to stop the production from happening. Basically, the Weinsteins are claiming that they own all the worldwide rights to The Crow, and so Relativity needs to stop. Relativity has fired back saying, basically, that the Weinsteins are thugs and are trying to intimidate and they have no right to shut the project down. Basically, it's gonna get ugly. And Harvey's already in a lot of legal battles - with Michael Moore among others. I do rather enjoy the claim that Harvey was too busy eating M&Ms off the floor to pay attention to another film though.

Anyway, my point is this: no remake of The Crow. Not for awhile anyway. We can all breathe a sigh of relief for the moment. (Babe, can I come home now?)

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In Which My Husband Will Have Kittens

I'm gonna have to break my husband's heart today, which is a shame since it's his birthday.

Not only is Relativity Media looking to remake the 1990s cult classic film, The Crow, they're apparently in talks with Bradley Cooper to star as the lead. Yes, you read that right, Bradley Cooper would replace Brandon Lee. Now I, like a lot of women and gay men, think that Bradley is smoking hot. I'm not against seeing him supersized and shirtless on a big screen. I'm really, really not. But as Eric Draven? Really? Also, do we really need to remake this? I mean, there have been what, 4 movies and a TV series and the original comic book series.

Meh.

Incidentally, I didn't even know that this sequel existed and it looks ridiculously bad and now I want to watch it. I mean, Edward Furlong, Tara Reid, and David Boreanaz supported by Emmanuel Chriqui and Danny Trejo?! God I hope that's on Netflix Instant on a night when I'm home alone with alcohol.