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From the Sesame Street DVD “Elmo’s Animal Adventures” Click here: store.sesamestreet.org If you’re watching videos with your preschooler and would like to do so in a safe, child-friendly environment, please join us at www.sesamestreet.org Ricky Gervais sings Elmo a lullaby. Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world.

A studio cannot subsist on Saw sequels and Tyler Perry’s alone, no matter how hard they might try, Lionsgate has decided they’d better go ahead with a remake of Mary Harron’s cult classic, American Psycho.

The project is to be written and directed by Noble Jones, a second unit director on The Social Network who previously shot music videos for Mary J. Blige and Taylor Swift–whose music he may very well thoroughly analyze through his American Psycho protagonist’s monologues. See, while the Christian Bale-starring 2000 original (like the Bret Easton Ellis novel) placed Manhattan investment banker/serial killer Patrick Bateman in the 1980s–making the film as much a dark satire of Wall Street boom yuppy culture as it was a violent thriller–the plan for this new version is to set it in the present day, taking into account the obvious changes on Wall Street and advances in business card fabrication. Now Bateman will abruptly cut off conversations because he has to return some Netflix envelopes, presumably.

The remake will also apparently be even cheaper than its $ 7 million predecessor, as it’s being pitched as a “microbudget,” which would seem to imply production values along the lines of the usual films dubbed as “microbudget”: $ 2 million horror movies involving security cameras. So if nothing else, it should at least be interesting to see how the gruesome axe murders play when they’re only implied by a swinging chandelier and a knocked-over tripod.

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New season of Sesame Street premiering Monday Sept 26th 2011! New episodes weekday mornings on PBS! (Check local listings.) For more videos and games check out our new website at www.sesamestreet.org In this video different celebrities sing their A, B, C’s. Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world.

When Batman and the Dark Knight Rises crew came to Manhattan for two weeks of shooting, with them came the hope that they would visit and document Occupy Wall Street. That, of course, never happened; instead, they went to Trump Tower. Now, the OWS protesters have been evicted from Zuccotti Park, and it’s time for The Batman to answer for why he never showed up to save the day. Or maybe it’s time for The Matthew Modine to answer for that.

Speaking to IndieWire, the Cutthroat Island star explained the production’s change of plan, saying:

The wisdom of Christopher Nolan and his incredible team was that, while it seemed like a good idea to give [the protestors] an opportunity for work, to give them money, it would send a terrible message. At the end of the day, we’re making a movie. What’s happening down there is more important than that. To co-opt what’s happening there and around the country… we didn’t want to trivialize it. It was more important to respect what they’re doing than to do anything that could potentially trivialize the political situation downtown.

Trivialize? Clearly he has not seen the way Batman’s presence ignites the spirits of a rallying crowd:

Evict THAT, Bloomberg.

Takem From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org Versions by the Muppets In 1969, the first season of Sesame Street featured a sketch featuring two Muppet girls who are unsure of what to do, until they decide to sing a song, enter an unusual-looking version of the latter Muppet character Mahna Mahna (whose named was later changed to Bip Bippadotta, so as to differentiate him from the Mahna Mahna character on The Muppet Show) who begins singing “Mahna Mahna”, prompting the girls to join him.[3] In 1976, the first episode of The Muppet Show to be recorded (featuring Juliet Prowse), used “Mahna Mahna” as the first sketch. It was performed by Mahna Mahna and the Snowths, two creatures that resembled cows. As a result, the original Piero Umiliani recording finally became a hit in the UK (#8 in the UK charts in May 1977), where the Muppet Show soundtrack album featuring the Muppets’ version went to number one.[4] A snippet of the song “Lullaby of Birdland” is ‘hummed’ during one of the improvisational passages. The later Muppet TV series Muppets Tonight (19961998) revisited it in a sketch with Sandra Bullock where Kermit the Frog visits a doctor to complain about weird things that happen to him whenever he says the word phenomenon.

Lending some credibility to the ’80s television show remake movie genre–a genre that should neither be a genre nor associated with credibility–the R-rated trailer for 21 Jump Street has appeared on Facebook, and it looks like it could be alright in spite of its shared heritage with The A-Team (2010). Credit for that feat should likely be spread between directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller–who previously somehow adapted Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs into a pretty great film–and co-writers Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall, the latter of which also wrote the just-posted-about Project X. Bacall’s strange aptitude at writing high school party scenes in both X and 21 Jump Street should probably be investigated by Chris Hansen and crew, but in the meantime, let’s just watch Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill go undercover as unconvincing high schoolers in this trailer. Careful if you’re at work, because their mouths speak filth.

May this set the new bar for movies in which Channing Tatum dances with high schoolers.

- So, it turns out despite rumors otherwise, The Dark Knight Rises is not shooting at Occupy Wall Street protests. They’re shooting at Trump Tower, the opposite of that.

- Don’t worry: David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith have answered some questions about that Beetlejuice sequel they were discussing, and they assure us they will only be moving forward with it with Tim Burton’s blessing and Michael Keaton in the lead. Because David Katzenberg and the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies clearly respect the work of others too much to ever dishonor them in any way.

- Channing Tatum’s semi-autobiographical stripper film Magic Mike will open June 29–the same day as Channing Tatum’s G.I. Joe sequel. That is way too many abs for one weekend.

- Tonight and tonight only, for the cost of a single movie ticket, select theaters will show you ALL THREE Paranormal Activities. You also get a free small drink and popcorn with any purchase (seriously). Please, feel free to wear relevant shuffled-through flour or agitated chandelier costumes.

Metallica Enter Sandman on Piano! mhlo.co www.mahalo.com ”Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” the sequel to the 1987 drama movie ”Wall Street,” hits US theaters on September 24, 2010. Oliver Stone directed both films and actor Michael Douglas returns in Wall Street 2 as Gordon Gekko. Douglas’ portrayal of the ruthless corporate raider in the original Wall Street earned him a Best Actor Oscar. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps also stars Shia LaBeouf, Charlie Sheen, Carey Mulligan, Susan Sarandon and Josh Brolin. Reviews for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps began coming out several days before the movie’s release in theaters. Overall, reviews for the film were mixed or average. ”Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” garnered a 52 percent “Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes’ “Tomatometer.” The movie scored a 58 out of 100 on Metacritic.com. Some movie critics, including ”The Hollywood Reporter”’s Kirk Honeycutt, praised ”Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” for being “one of the better sequels in a long time.” Honeycutt says unlike ”Wall Street,” which introduced viewers to the world of high finance and trading, ”Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” “takes advantage of viewers’ newfound knowledge and cynicism” about the banking industry. For that, Honeycutt says, the movie is a “rare sequel” that “not only advances the story but also has something new to say.” ”Variety” critic Justin Chang praises director Oliver Stone, saying “After his attempts to branch out slightly with …
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