Tom was right.

[MartinVanB]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3idcbd8b2768e91159c69b10d8ad4ba21a

Daydream Nation: Forthcoming teen comedy directed by Michael Goldbach, starring "Heroes" cheerleader Hayden Panettiere and maybe Kieran Culkin, "the producers are hoping to reinvent the coming-of-age story for the 21st century, calling the film an intellectual comedy a la Juno and Election."

[God Stewart]

The Culkins do good work though. Kieran should hold the ship together just like in Igby Goes Down. <stealing Tom's stylie>Wait what's opposite of a floating ship? Oh right, a sinking ship.</stealing Tom's stylie>

He was great as Harry Potter's evil twin in the last movie though. I forgot the name of it— was it, Harry Goes Bananas?

[erika]

Huh, and named after a Sonic Youth album? For shame.

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Huh, and named after a Sonic Youth album? For shame.

But alas, teenagers of today are simply too young to catch that.

[dave from knoxville]

Huh, and named after a Sonic Youth album? For shame.

But alas, teenagers of today are simply too young to catch that.

Most teenagers of today are so ill-informed that they wouldn't catch the reference if it were called "Fall-Out Boy".

[erika]

And awwwwaaaaay we go!

Amanda Seyfried (Mean Girls, upcoming Mamma Mia!) will star opposite Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body, Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman's follow-up collaboration to Juno.

Karyn Kusama is directing the dark comedy-horror for Fox Atomic.

Cody's script centers on Jennifer (Fox), a cheerleader who is possessed by a demon and starts feeding off the boys in a Minnesota farming town. Her bookish best friend Needy (Seyfried) must take drastic measures to protect their town from the seductive teenager and her appetite for high school guys.

Reitman and his Hard C partner, Dan Dubiecki, as well as Mason Novick, are producing.

A March start date in Vancouver is planned.

Gross.

[samir]

the friend is called Needy?

How delightfully whimsical/quirky!

Now shoot me in the face.

[Chris L]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3idcbd8b2768e91159c69b10d8ad4ba21a

Daydream Nation: Forthcoming teen comedy directed by Michael Goldbach, starring "Heroes" cheerleader Hayden Panettiere and maybe Kieran Culkin, "the producers are hoping to reinvent the coming-of-age story for the 21st century, calling the film an intellectual comedy a la Juno and Election."

I'm going to guess (probably wrongly) that the median age of the filmmakers is only slightly less than that of Sonic Youth.

Cody's script centers on Jennifer (Fox), a cheerleader who is possessed by a demon and starts feeding off the boys in a Minnesota farming town. Her bookish best friend Needy (Seyfried) must take drastic measures to protect their town from the seductive teenager and her appetite for high school guys.

Wasn't Plunko going to be a cheerleader at one point?

[masterofsparks]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3idcbd8b2768e91159c69b10d8ad4ba21a

Daydream Nation: Forthcoming teen comedy directed by Michael Goldbach, starring "Heroes" cheerleader Hayden Panettiere and maybe Kieran Culkin, "the producers are hoping to reinvent the coming-of-age story for the 21st century, calling the film an intellectual comedy a la Juno and Election."

I'm going to guess (probably wrongly) that the median age of the filmmakers is only slightly less than that of Sonic Youth.

75?

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Huh, and named after a Sonic Youth album? For shame.

But alas, teenagers of today are simply too young to catch that.

Most teenagers of today are so ill-informed that they wouldn't catch the reference if it were called "Fall-Out Boy".

You have a point Dave.  I'd probably be giving my own age bracket too much credit if I assumed more than a handful could catch a Sonic Youth reference.  :/

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Cody's script centers on Jennifer (Fox), a cheerleader who is possessed by a demon and starts feeding off the boys in a Minnesota farming town. Her bookish best friend Needy (Seyfried) must take drastic measures to protect their town from the seductive teenager and her appetite for high school guys.

Nice to see that her work is maturing. 

Demonic possession??

Honestly, I grew up in a Minnesota farming town (see -> high school thread).  I say let her eat everyone.  haha

[Chris L]

Huh, and named after a Sonic Youth album? For shame.

But alas, teenagers of today are simply too young to catch that.

Most teenagers of today are so ill-informed that they wouldn't catch the reference if it were called "Fall-Out Boy".

You have a point Dave.  I'd probably be giving my own age bracket too much credit if I assumed more than a handful could catch a Sonic Youth reference.  :/

Judging by the number of kids at the last Sonic Youth show I went to, and due to the fact that they played that entire album a couple of times over the summer and have been successfully marketing themselves for 25 years, I would have to disagree.   

Also, who would have guessed that someone calling herself Diablo Cody would have an interest in shitty horror movies?  That just blindsided me. 

[Omar]

the friend is called Needy?

How delightfully whimsical/quirky!

Now shoot me in the face.

Here's a Jennifer's Body script review from last month:

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/exclusive-jennifer-s-body-story-details-3616

"Jennifer continues eating various classmates. No one believes Needy.
More witty banter ensues."

The title is obviously a reference to the Hole song of the same name.  I think Jason Bateman's band used to cover it when they opened for the Melvins.

[dave from knoxville]

I will conduct an experiment on my statistics classes if you want. Let's hand them a list of band names. Let's let 5 of the bands be real, including Sonic Youth, with the other 4 being well-known-among-music-nuts but unknown to the public (Comets on Fire? Built To Spill? Broken Social Scene? people like that) and let the other 5 be nonexistent but plausible as band names (Momentum Flux? Run Midget Run? Water On the Smoker?)

We then simply ask the "kids" to select whether they think the name is for a real band or not.

Anybody want to play? If so, suggest some real and fake band names that I could use.

I think maybe I am making myself a nuisance by posting too much. Just say the word and I will log off for a week.

[Pat K]

an intellectual comedy

Yeesh. This reminds me of when I was in film school, and every halfassed, non-creative, Fight Club-loving slacker that was the program would always pitch their terrible ideas as "psychological thrillers".  Now I feel like "intellectual comedy" is going to take its place in that same shitty pantheon.

Also, for Dave's very scientific-sounding study, I suggest The Oxford Collapse as a real band, and the Flaming Fisticuffs as a fake one.