Archive for June 18th, 2009

You can call it the Shrek effect: Updating and fracturing fairy tales as metaphors for modern life.

Well, MGM has tapped Mike Mitchell (Shrek Forever After) to direct its live-action fantasy Once Upon a Time, which does for Fairyland what Desperate Housewives did for suburbia.

HUNTINGTON BEACH �" Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing �" a movie. From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film.

South Park, The Office, The Simpsons and more take it to the man.