KING OF KONG helmer sells soul to highest bidder, directing Holiday Vaughn Com
Slamdance buzz movie KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS just hit theaters in super-limited release this past weekend, yet doc director Seth Gordon’s already spreading his cheeks like a Santa Monica Blvd. boy-hooker for any Hollywood mogul holding a dollar-sign emblazoned sack full of meth money, having signed on to direct the Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn holiday comedy FOUR CHRISTMASES.
Gordon’s KONG has been getting high praise since its Park City premiere earlier this year. Doc focuses on two 80’s videogame obsessed dorks and culminates in a Donkey Kong showdown at the revered Fun Spot in Weirs Beach, NH, where this humble writer’s blown more than his share of dudes quarters. Although I’m more of a Galaga man myself. I’ll fucking wreck you at Galaga, bitches. For realio.
This may be the quickest Hollywood sell-out on record. Hell, even Joe Berlinger had two award-winning docs under his belt before he hookered his way into BLAIR WITCH 2. I bet Morgan Spurlock’s shaking his jealous little fists right now, stuffing his face full of Del Taco macho burritos in preparation for SUPER SIZE ME 2: SURPRISE SURPRISE, EATING NOTHING BUT JUNK FOOD’S STILL BAD FOR YOU.
FOUR CHRISTMASES will be a New Line joint care of Spyglass, producered by Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum and Jonathan Glickman, with Fatface Vaughn and Monsterjaw Witherspoon also getting vanity credits. They might as well just call this movie REVENGE OF THE GIANT GUNTHEADS. If Vaughn and Witherspoon ever made a baby it’d look just like this:
Tags: King of Kong, Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon
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thank you for posting this about King of Kong. I drove by the theater on Santa Monica Blvd. where this is playing and was thinking there should be something on BOPsy about this movie.
Anyhow, I’ve seen it and I think its a pretty awesome documentary. But obviously they killed the marketing of it or maybe they are testing the waters with NO MARKETING spend in order to see if it has a shot during Oscar season to do something theatrically?
Aug 21st, 2007
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