The Point – February 13th, 2009
It’s Friday the 13th and by mere coincidence, a movie relaunch of the same name hits theaters today. We spend some time comforting one of Jason’s nicer victims, then talk with David Uslan about his line up of projects that include a Bob Layton/David Michelinie movie. And did you know that Jonah Hex now has an on screen villain or that you can see the BSG spin off, CAPRICA, in just a few weeks? 
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Hello, it's Mike Raub and welcome to The Point where all parts of pop culture come together. Friday the 13th, the movie is back and we get to comfort one of Jason's victims. A Bob Layton movie? There's something to be scared by. There's another British TV import you don't want to miss and you might get to see Capricas
sooner than you think. It's Friday the 13th, 2009 and we get to The Point right now. This is The Point, The Point radio, get The Point radio. In a move of coincidental marketing, today marks the relaunch of the Friday the 13th movie franchise and since the beginning back in the 80s not too much has changed.
Same bad guy, same summer camp, just a retelling of that original story. Annemariko Olivia was one of the unfortunate visitors to Crystal Lake in the film to make her role work took a lot of the way of special effects makeup. I had four hours of prosthetics. Derek Mirren, who plays Jason, is the only other person I think in the movie that has
much prosthetic work. Of course he had to do it every day. I did it once but mine took four hours and it was amazing. Now a lot of actresses like to take something away from every role they portray. In Annemariko's case it turned out to be a reoccurring nightmare here.
Can I just say that Derek Mirren is the scariest man I've ever met since Jason and the funniest man I've ever met which is really confusing. I've never been so scared in my life and even knowing him as a funny comedian and knowing him as a person and a friend and then you have to get scared of him. Ooh it's Derek and it costs two.
That man I swear to god I do not trust him with the machete at four o'clock in the morning in the woods alone there is something way way freaky scary which gave me and I blamed him for it, nightmares for three weeks after we filmed that he was slowly chopping my arm off. All in all Annemariko said she had fun especially when it came to meeting her own bloody fate all of which she did in just one take.
Honestly he's such an amazing stunt person too because we had one take to do a scene that was really pivotal for my experience with Jason I should say. So action starts you know and I've got like a little pre I've got to start my scene. I'm like you know getting scared and hearing noises around okay and I'm thinking to myself how am I going to be scared and you know I'm so tired and then I'm like oh my god I forgot to count.
Oh my god Annemariko you've got to count so you're supposed to step forward if I sit too far back he's going to chop me into the machete if I sit too far forward he's not going to be able to grab me and then I'm going to be dragged oh my god what's the count when is he going to come in? I don't even know am I going to hear him come in or is he going to grab me and then all of a sudden I hear this machete slicing and I was like and I turn around and there's Jason there's no Derek
there's Jason and all the childhood Jason freaky deaky do's come up and I'm like yeah! Friday the 13th which by the way also features Amanda Righetti from the Mendless TV series opens in theaters today what a coincidence. It's Friday February 13th 2009 here's what we're talking about in pop culture today. Well later on tonight another episode of Battlestar Galactica and one more step closer
to the end of that series. Don't feel too bad though Caprica the new spin-off series set to debut next year in 2010 and here's a little treat for you. The first two hour movie of Caprica will be available to you to see a full year before it actually airs on the Sci-Fi channel. You can get it as a DVD and a digital download in just a few weeks on April 21st. Looks like it'll be Jonah Hex versus Quentin Turnbull or more importantly Josh Brolin versus
John Malkovich. Malkovich is signed on to be the bad guy in the movie playing Quentin Turnbull a character that first appeared all the way back in 1974 in Weird Western Tales number 22 if you're keeping track. Variety also reports that Malkovich is both a co-financier and a co-producer of the Jonah Hex movie. Getting ready to get slimed the 22nd annual Kids Choice Awards have been announced by Nickelodeon. Nominees Beyond Miley Cyrus who picked up about a zillion of them include her favorite movie The Dark Knight
and Iron Man and you can vote online if you're a kid starting March the 2nd at nick.com. The show premieres Saturday the 28th of March at 8 o'clock on Nickelodeon. Is it just me or does it seem there's not that many comics selling completely out in 2009? Well there's another one to add to the list, Agents of Atlas. It shipped about a week or so ago from Marvel. Now it is sold out with a second printing variant that includes a new cover featuring some of the interior artwork.
That'll be in comic stores later on this month. Check with your retailer to make sure you get one. In a world where magazines and even their distributors are going out of business faster than you can keep up, here's some good news. Goodman Games is premiering Level Up, a new 4th edition magazine with the first issue arriving in stores in April. It is considered to be the first official 4th edition RPG magazine including character options, new monsters, adventures, gameplay advice and a lot more. It runs about 32 pages and will be available in stores at a really nice price, $1.99, or get it online as a PDF file for just $4 an issue.
Preparing tonight to them with repeats over the next few days, the Cartoon Network has a new two-part episode of Star Wars the Clone Wars. It's two-parter featuring the voice of special guest star Michael York, by the way who plays Dr. Nouveau Vindy. Cartoon Network also wants more of this series. They've added a second season already set for next fall. Season 1 ends with a finale on March 20th and don't forget their encore presentations all through the spring and the summer with back-to-back episodes on TNT. Just in time for Hearts and Flowers weekend, the WB.com is unveiling a list of Valentine's themed programming.
They're a nice thing to watch if you're on a limited budget and can't really afford a movie. They're romantic episodes from all their TV shows including Friends, Smallville, Buffy, Everwood and Veronica Mars. And they're also premiering the first five episodes of Pushing Daisies this week, all online at the WB.com. Just to add to the excitement in the theaters, on the weekend of March the 6th, the Paramount has added a brand new Star Trek trailer to the premiere of Watchmen that weekend. By the way, this will also be available online in HD starting on the 9th of March and Star Trek the movie. The new one opens up on May the 8th.
USA Network has broken the bank and done an unprecedented deal giving that cable network exclusive television premiere rights to a lot of the Universal movies for this year, a lot of which you haven't even seen yet. Some of the titles include Duplicity with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, Fast and Furious, the new one with Vin Diesel, State of Play, Public Enemies, Funny People with Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen and a lot more. Total cost to do this? About $200 million. And if you're a fan of that network's Red Hot series Burn Notice, you may want to play Covert Ops 2.0. It's an interactive online game based on this series and it's a follow up to last season's Covert Ops 1.0. If you're a fan of the show, it's all pretty self-explanatory. You become a spy and get to participate in various challenges and intrigues.
And BBC America has a new musical theater reality series that you might enjoy because it features John Barraman, you know Captain Jack from the series Torchwood. It's called Any Dream Will Do with 11 90-minute episodes that involve the search for a new male talent to play Joseph in a revival of Joseph and the amazing technical dreamcoat. The series premieres on BBC America on March 29th and it's followed by a one-hour special called The Making of Me featuring of course John Barraman. I'm launching a three-part cop show from Britain called Moses Jones. I don't think it's being aired yet in the United States and the final installment airs in the UK this Monday.
I was attracted to it because it co-stars Emmon Walker. He played the Black Nationals prisoner in the brutal TV series Oz as well as Helen Wolfe in the movie Cadillac Records. It co-stars Matt Smith, the incoming lead in Doctor Who, and I thought it would be amusing to give a new kid a look. What I got was a hard look at the Ugandan community in England, a world filled with desperate refugees, many undocumented, trying to eke out a living any way they can. Strangers in a class-based society, they formed their own community the way many immigrants did in the past by living beyond the fringes of the law. When a street person from this community is murdered, the police assign the detective of Ugandan extraction to the case. It's one of those you-people situations.
This guy is Moses Jones, played by Sean Parks in a complicated role. His partner is Dr. Eleven, Matt Smith. What I got was a hard look at the world. What I got was a hard look at the world. The show is unique, densely packed, and breathtaking in its world view and performance. If you fall across it uncut, I think you'll find it very interesting. Oh, and how's the new Doctor? Good. Inocuous. Weird hair. Very David Tennant-like. This is Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mind. On my gold. On the point. The Point. Radio.
The first one was our new feature film called Free Mind that I'm doing with Bob Layton and David Michelini that David Nutters is producing. The second was a great comic book TV show that we just announced called Kindergoth. And the third was this relationship with Jan and Creative Impulse Entertainment. And we have spotlighted a couple of creatives properties that we're going to be going out with. Two in particular that I just want to mention are Justice for Hire and Fasha Preta.
Two very special, very original comic books that we see as feature films. They have great appeal both domestically and internationally and we are very excited about this partnership. You heard it right, a Bob Layton movie. We had to hear more about this. Well, it is a wonderful property. I've known Bob Layton my whole life. We almost consider ourselves family. My favorite comic books of all time were the His Valiant comics when he was chief editor over at Valiant.
And when I actually branched off from my father's company, under which my dad produced all the Batman films, Constantine, and I was head of development for his company. When I came over to where I am now, Bob was one of the few people that I wanted to get in bed with right away. I wanted to start working with. Free Mind was their number one comic book under the Future Comic Book Publishing Company. That Bob started with David Micaline. It is a wonderful comic book. And we've attached David Nutter to direct. David Nutter is an Emmy Award winning director, a band of brothers.
The upcoming Pacific with Spielberg and Tom Hanks, Smallville, X-Files, Dark Angel. I mean, you name it, he's an absolute amazing director. This is going to be his first big budget feature film. And I am pleased to announce that we just attached, or in final negotiations to attach Dante Harper to write. And Dante is not only a phenomenal writer, but he's also writing the upcoming black hole for David Fincher and Disney and is a fantastic writer. And we are pleased to have him on board.
We'll talk more with David and the guys from Justice for Hire as well, just in a few days right here on The Point. The Point Radio. The Point Time Machine. Today is Friday the 13th of 2009. Let's go back a bit to the start of the last decade of the 20th century. The 19th century. The 19th century.
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