http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117969442.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 Screen Gems has teamed with Maxim magazine to set up the pitch "Virginity Rocks," with Melissa Carter ("Talk of the Town") to pen the script. Story revolves around a gorgeous transfer student who clings to her virginity and gets all the promiscuous girls in school to abstain from sex; in response, the popular guys ask the school stud to try to bed the poster girl and ending her "virginity rocks" campaign. Pic will be released as "Maxim's Virginity Rocks," and it's the third that has been set up with a division of the mag designed for randy lads. Screen Gems also has set with Maxim "Fired Up," a comedy Will Gluck is writing and will direct, about two horny guys who attend a cheerleading camp, and "Mardi Gras," a comedy written by Josh Heald about three college seniors who try to sow their wild oats in New Orleans. The Maxim arrangement was orchestrated by Clint Culpepper and Scott Strauss of Screen Gems with Peter Jaysen, who runs Moving Pictures DPI, a TV and film production company that is a division of Dennis Publishing, which publishes Maxim, Stuff and Blender. Jaysen, who is based in Los Angeles, will be a producer on all three films. Moving Pictures is producing "Mardi Gras" with Beacon and Terra Firma, and is producing "Fired Up" with Gross Entertainment. Cinematical had a GREAT line to characterize this: I love the fact that there's actually a target audience for a film like this -- it's called "guys who have never heard of p*rnography."
Basically, all this means is National Lampoon's will have some competition for their direct-to-video releases of teen comedies chock full of T 'n A.
speaking of Maxim now i know that Bourne Ultimatum is going to rock regardless, but how the hell are Maxim reviewers have credibility to even be mentioned as a quote on their advertisement on the radio? Then again I thought it was awesome that JoBlo.com got quoted when Joe Dirt was being advertised on Comedy Central.
maybe he was searching for the word "p*rn" and the article came up because the last word of the article had the word "p*rn"
Hasn't this Taming of the Shrew bit been done 8 million ways including that teen flick starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles.
Cinematical.com is in my RSS feeds and it was posted there. Of course, so is Fleshbot, but...what were we talking about again?
Maxim's smart to rip off Shakespeare. I know if I ever make a movie, it'll be a rip-off of Shakespeare, the Bible, or some persona from the Third Reich. Or all three. Given the premises of the movies, they could conceivably be done well. Just no one expects it because the name Maxim is attached to it.
