Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Milli Vanilli to be made into a movie!
A decorated film-maker is taking on the story of shamed German pop duo Milli Vanilli.
The band, featuring Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, was a huge hit after being formed in 1988, but had a dramatic fall from favour after it was discovered the pair lip-synched to the voices of The Numarks, a group which included executive Kevil Liles of Def Jam Records.
They were forced to hand back a Grammy award they won in 1990 for Best New Artist, faced several lawsuits, and a campign to refund consumers.
An album featuring their real voices flopped, and their downfall was followed by Pilatus' descent into personal problems, including drug abuse. He died, apparently as a result of a alcohol and drug overdose, on the eve of a promotional tour for a comeback album, in 1998.
Fab has continued to work as a recording artist and DJ.
Now, German director Florian Gallenberger is set to take on a big screen biopic about the pair, reports Allhiphop.com.
Gallenberger, a former actor and philosophy student, won an Academy Award in 2001 in the Best Live Action Short Film category for his short film Quiero Ser (I want to be...), which was set in Mexico.
He has directed two features: Shadows of Time, an epic about India made in the Benglai language, and John Rabe, about a German businessman who created a Safety Zone in Nanking which saved 200,000 Chinese people during the second World War. The film won 4 German Academy Awards, including best film.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Mr Men set for big screen
It's raining Men ... Roger Hargreaves's Mr Men characters have already been a hit with readers in 28 countries worldwide.
Mr Men: The Movie looks set to arrive on the big screen. Twentieth Century Fox's planned adaptation of British author Roger Hargreaves's much-loved children's books is being put together by the studio's animation department, which may preclude the kind of live-action/CGI mix that has seen fans of Yogi Bear, Garfield and Alvin and the Chipmunks wailing into their popcorn.
But Mr Tickle, Mr Greedy and Mr Nosey may still be rendered in pixels rather than Hargreaves's traditional hand-drawn techniques: Fox Animation is best known for films such as the Ice Age series and Horton Hears a Who!, all of which are heavily CGI-based.
Hargreaves, who died in 1988, wrote 43 Mr Men books, with five more being completed by his son Adam. The Hollywood Reporter's story about the film version does not mention whether the Little Miss characters will also be included. That accompanying series began in 1981 and ended up extending to 42 characters, including Little Miss Chatterbox and Little Miss Scary.
More than 100m books based on Hargreaves's characters have been sold worldwide in 28 countries, so the adaptation already has a global audience. The stories have been adapted into four animated television series, most recently airing in the UK on Channel 5 in 2008 and 2009.
Monday, February 7, 2011
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