Nitpicks & Rumors - Nov/Dec

Nitpicks

Nothing at present time.

Rumors

Movies

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Columbia Pictures has acquired feature film rights to Judith Viorst's best-selling 1972 children's classic "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day." Viorst went on to write "Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday" and "Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move."
Smurfs Trillogy & Mighty Ducks 4
Producer Jordan Kerner (“Charlotte’s Web”, “George of the Jungle 2”) has noted the Smurfs will be in 3-D/CG (like Shrek). Kerner says he has been researching the popular 80s cartoon extensively. “Having seen all 234 episodes of the show, numerous times, Herb Ratner and I have been working really hard at looking where all the holes were in the episodes - ya’know, like all of a sudden another woman appears, it’s not just smurfette – and what we’ve done is we’ve plugged all those holes in a trilogy of three movies, and we reveal things as we go along.” Gargamel’s back-story is going to be fully examined in the film trilogy. We’ll learn “[more] about Gargamel and Smurf Soup and how all that began and what really goes on in that castle. What his backstory really was. There’s an all-powerful wizard… there’s all sorts of things that get revealed as we go along”.
Kerner also produced the “Mighty Ducks” film series and said he has had discussions about a fourth film. The plotline for “The Mighty Ducks 4” will have a lot to do with today’s generation preferring to stay inside and play video games or search the internet rather than get out there and play a sport.
Starship Troopers 3
Sony is about push the greenlight on “Starship Troopers 3." Who knows why, and I don't need to say anymore.

Television/Music

Nothing at present time.

Books

Eric Schlosser
Eric Schlosser (Who wrote Fast Food Nation) is writing a new book. a book about America's rising prison population. He explained, "When I was a kid there were 200,000 people behind bars. Now there are 2.2 million. It's just amazing how the system developed. I don't have a title yet but the subtitle is How the Land of the Free Became a Nation Behind Bars. But this isn't a simplistic book, I've met some people that shouldn't be living near anyone, but that's a small subset. What's amazing is how many mentally ill, poor, illiterate people are behind bars. It's also two-thirds Black and Latino."

Games

Nothing at present time.