Having recently discussed what comic or superhero movie we (and by we I mean us...you and me and him and her) would like to see QT add to his list of creations we now get (straight from the horses mouth no less) the info that our man was offered a shot at putting together Green Lantern a while back. You can check out this little nugget over at Comicvine.com.

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Tonight is the 2nd Annual Quentin Tarantino Burlesque Film Festival.

A burlesque show inspired by the genius that is Quentin Tarantino.

Guns, blood, vampires, serial killers, tassels, bible quotes, nurses, swords, school girls, snakes, pussy, theft, great music and a cheeseburger royale!

Coming off a sold out show on July 20th, it's your last chance to see it this year! Only the Monday Night Tease!, LA's longest running weekly burlesque show, dares to top the talent of Mr Tarentino by mocking him in a burlesque tribute. Providing 18 performers covering 10 films, the show provides numbers inspired by iconic films like Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, and even pays homage to Reservoir Dogs with a Ms Blond led bloodbath of near nakedness.

Advance tickets $20 available here

Where:
3 Clubs
1123 Vine St.
(Vine at Santa Monica)
Los Angeles, CA 90038

When:
Monday July 27th, 2009
Bar Opens: 8pm
Seating Starts: 9:30pm
Show Starts: 10pm
Cover charge: $25 at door, if available

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Need some holiday music? Try the Tarantino Death Mix. The price is good.

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QT got to announce the nominees for the Golden Globes Best Drama category.

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As much as most of you hated the idea of the Kill Buljo parody, I'm sure you'll be equally thrilled to hear that Weinstein Co has bought the US rights to the film. Probably not coming to theaters - it'll be a straight to DVD release.

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The DVD for Election was released this past week. This is a Tartan Asia Extreme release that features a quote from Quentin on the front cover calling it:

The Best Film Of The Year

I haven't seen anything beyond the trailer (see video after the jump), but it looks interesting.

... continue reading this entry

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Film Junk is giving away a Planet Terror DVD, and you don't even have to work hard to get entered.

...all you have to do is send us the title of an actual grindhouse movie, or make up a title of your own.

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The wait is over for Inglorious Bastards, its gone straight to DVD! Just kidding.

This is the DVD to the film that provides some inspiration for the upcoming Tarantino film. This is obviously where the title comes from, but the actual story line is not the same. [via TwitchFilm]

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The Shaw Brothers King Boxer (Five Fingers Of Death) has been released on DVD, and it features a commentary track from Quentin.

Blog Critics has a detailed review if you are interested.

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Movies.com has launched its annual readers poll of the best movie-related stuff ever. Go vote up Quentin's stuff.

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If Quentin is still serious about making Inglorious Bastards his next film, he may want to get moving on the project ASAP. It looks like Joel Silver and Zak Penn are going to be re-making The Dirty Dozen.

Inglorious Bastards isn't the same film, but its similar enough that it could cause box office troubles if they both get released near the same time. And given the box office problems that GRINDHOUSE had, taking that risk might not be such a hot idea.

So Quentin, get moving!

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If you liked the idea of the Tarantinotes, but were disappointed because they were based in the UK, then you'll love the Tarantinos NYC.

They are a cover band that plays nothing but songs from Tarantino's films - and they are based in New York. Also check out their MySpace page.

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Just an FYI, the Tarantino Archives (tarantino.info) has experience some serious database problems that has taken them offline until they can be fixed. They've set up a temporary blog at tarantinoarchives.blogspot.com to keep folks informed as to their status. Here's hoping they are up and running again soon.

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Everyone's favorite Tarantino-themed band, the Tarantinotes are going to be playing at the Bad Taste Bears Tarantino Event on March 31st.

The event is to celebrate the launch of Killed Bill. There are only 4,000 of the yellow being created, and only 700 of the pictured limited edition black version. There is also going to be a great looking Tarantino sketch book available that I'd love to get my hands on.

Check out the event website for all the details.

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Some Regal Theatres in CA are doing flash-back screenings that include Pulp Fiction & Reservoir Dogs. Rare opportunity to see them on the big screen again if you live close.

Its Tarantino Week over at The Flux. They are reviewing Tarantino movies all week long. They've already got reviews up for Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction - neither of which got very good marks. Go give 'em some hell!

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Fangoria has a short interview with Quentin up (with a great photo of QT in character from Planet Terror).

Surprisingly though, the topic isn't GRINDHOUSE, but rather Evil Dead, Halloween and Friday the 13th. He was approached to at least discuss doing an Evil Dead remake (he's not), and you probably remember the Friday the 13th rumors from 2005.

But I had never heard that he nearly had a hand in making Halloween 6.

"That was weird," Tarantino recalls. "It was one of those things where Scottie was bringing me along and I was the one who put two and two together and come up with at least the first couple of scenes."

The filmmaker recognized that it would be up to him to pick up from the end of HALLOWEEN 5, where Michael Myers is freed from jail by the now-infamous man in black. "I thought hands-f**kin'-down the best part of HALLOWEEN II was the first 15 minutes, when Michael is trying to get out of suburbia. It was very BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN: The monster is now stuck in the village and the scenes are of everyone he bumps into until he gets the f**k out. Well, that's what Michael does in part two. He's going through the backyards and going in through houses and someone's kitchen and killing everyone along the way. That shit was magnificent; then when it got to the hospital, it totally fell apart.

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Tarantino is going to be on Iconoclasts on the Sundance Channel tonight (Nov 10) with Fiona Apple. There's already a bit of a clip up on You Tube of the episode.

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Jet Li talks about whats different when Tarantino makes a kung-fu film, vs. someone from the Far East.

Q: More western directors like Quentin Tarantino are doing Chinese martial arts films. What is the difference between a martial arts film directed by a Westerner and someone from China?

A: Quentin Tarantino is in love with Asian movies and martial arts movies. He’s a specialist, a genius, he knows a lot of things but even in movies made in the States, the director may be from the States but the choreographer or action director is still Asian. It’s just a different angle to see the same thing.

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The Tarantinotes are going to be playing at Tarantino's Divine Intervention on the 28th of this month. Check out their site for more info, or here. If you are in the UK, you should go check it out - looks like a fun event.

Previously: Tarantinotes

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Chinese commercial with Kill Bill as the backdrop, though its not about Kill Bill per se. [thanks Henry]

Jules Winfield as a junior hockey coach [thanks Publis]

Just because you look like The Gimp doesn't mean you play like The Gimp.

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Quentin is auctioning a Pulp Fiction poster signed by himself and John Travolta at Clothes Off Our Back. All proceeds go to the Milo Gladstein Foundation for Bloom's Syndrome. QT is involved because the young son of Richard Gladstein - one of the Pulp Fiction producers - has the disorder.

More info on Bloom's Syndrome at Wikipedia.

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Vivica A. Fox, who played Vernita Green in Kill Bill, has signed on to be in the next Dancing With The Stars.

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What YouTube is really for - a crude remake of Reservoir Dogs in old school Mortal Kombat style.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

And then we've got Dick Fiction, wherein Dick Cheney takes the part of Vincent Vega.

And finally, Spacehopper Dogs, again a different spin of Reservoir Dogs. They got off to a bad start by giving 2 different guys the Mr. Blue nickname.

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This site made my whole day: Tarantinotes.

They are a cover band that plays nothing but songs from Tarantino's films. And they do it while in costume as characters from Tarantino's films.

The site has three audio clips and loads of pictures of the band on stage. If I wasn't already married, these guys would definately be at the top of my list for the reception.

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Brokeback Fiction - what would have happened if Tarantino had been allowed to direct Brokeback Mountain.

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The Independent has an article about Italian B-movie director Fernando Di Leo - who happens to be an early influence for Quentin Tarantino.

Di Leo's films are B movies par excellence: garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters, told with plenty of attitude. There is an intensity and formal ingenuity here that you rarely find in more prestigious (and expensive) pictures.

Only a couple of Di Leo's films are available from Amazon, including: Slaughter Hotel and Mister Scarface (w/ Jack Palance).

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I just wanted to give a big post-holiday thanks to all our current sponsors:

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There is a video up over at the Clerks 2 website of Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez talking about the film right after they screened it with Kevin Smith.

Thanks to Desk and Johnny for sending this in.

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Wish me luck boys, I'm playing in the Online Poker Blogger Championship Sunday.

UPDATE: There were 1400+ players and I ended up finishing around 150th. I didn't see the exact number because I was a bit steamed after going all in with KK and being up against AA. Oh well.

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Michael Madsen recorded a literacy public service announcement with Deejay Ra earlier this month. Madsen is apparently going to do some additional educational promo stuff with the recent release of his book: The Complete Poetic Works of Michael Madsen, Vol. I: 1995-2005.

Recording an exclusive high school and campus radio PSA in addition to planning new educational-themed initiatives for his latest poetry collection and audiobook, Madsen now joins fellow Tarantino alumni Robert Forster and American literary legend Elmore Leonard as a supporter of Juneja's 'Hip-Hop Literacy' campaign, encouraging movie and music themed books to students uninterested in reading as alternative literacy developing methods in the midst of entertainment media's strongest digital age. [photo by Bob Gundu]

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Our sister site, NotAnExit.net, is giving away 5 signed copies of Lunar Park.

Lunar Park is Bret Easton Ellis' next novel - it gets released next Tuesday. And if you haven't heard of it till now, here is everything there is to know about Lunar Park.

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It has taken me way longer than I expected, but over the next week we are going to launch the new look for the site - it is quite different from what you see now. I'll be posting a preview screenshot of the site this evening for the interested.

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Some pics from the Land of The Dead premiere. Tarantino was there along with Robert Rodriguez and George Romero.

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Just a heads up for some of the new DVDs released on Tuesday, May 17th.

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If you happen to be in or around Philadelphia on April 1st, you might want to stop by the Philadelphia International House and see the Sword Masters Kamui, who appeared in Kill Bill. [thanks to John for the tip]

Japanese sword masters Kamui, who choreographed and appeared in fight sequences in the hit movie Kill Bill, take to the International House stage to demonstrate traditional sword fighting techniques. Members of the audience will have the opportunity to try out some of Kamui's moves during this interactive presentation.

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I've had to remove the forum due to continued security breaches on the server. Both the script I was using (PHPBB) and PHP itself were recently discovered to have major security flaws and my entire server (13 websites) was trashed by a hacker because of it (twice within the last month). I had backups of everything so haven't lost any data, but I'm not willing to continue to run the risk of having the server compromised for the convenience of the forum. So, until I can find a solution that doesn't threaten the rest of the content located on this server, I'm killing the forum.

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Couple of odd items for you today:

First Quentin is going to be making an appearance in a Russian TV show that revolves around some people stealing one of his movies.

Also, 'The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi' and 'Sonatine' has been released as a double DVD set with a prologue & epilogue by Tarantino himself for the 'Sonatine' disc.

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