First Pics of Three Stooges

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=77999

Fixed that for more accuracy.

I wish nothing but utter failure and humiliation on this movie.

From what little interview clips I've seen with the Farley brothers about this abomination, failure seems guaranteed.

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I agree mostly with this, except the "past successes" part. Yes, "The Three Stooges" was successful and has become ingrained in American pop-culture. However, the actors were shafted royally and made very, very little money from their work. They were grossly underpaid, even after their films became popular, and they received zero residuals from their work being played later on TV. This was actually quite common up into the 1970s; the actors on Gilligan's Island saw very little money from the decades that the show was in syndication, for example. So while the quality wasn't all that great, I don't begrudge the Stooges trying to make at least a little bit of scratch later in life, from the characters they made so popular.

Sointenly.

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Granted, I'm not entirely wanting to see this myself, but I'll hold judgement until I see a trailer.

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As far as I know, the Farrely Brothers specifically said it is NOT going to be a biopic, but a couple of shorts set in the present time.

When TV introduced the Stooges to a new generation and their popularity soared, they began appearing more on talk shows doing skits, as well as tours and their big screen movies. They were paid better as I recall and I think they also got their lawyers to help renegotiate the residuals part of their contract with Columbia since it was signed in an era when TV didn't exist. Been awhile since I read up on that part. Also by this point they had incorporated into C3 productions and retained trademark to their images, etc, for memorabilia, etc.

The Stooges cartoon was pretty bad, but the live skits they did before and after the episodes were still pretty funny and you can Netflix rent DVD's that contain those skits, sadly not remastered. Also there are DVD's on Netflix that contain their TV show appearances doing some skits with Curly Joe DeRita and other "lost" footage of them. Worth looking at if you are a Stooge fan. Kook's Tour, their last project due to Larry having a stroke was okay but the copy I saw was a bit worn out so I'd need to see a better copy of it.

As to Gilligan's Island, from Dawn Wells entry on IMDB:

"It has long been stated that the entire cast of Gilligan's Island never received residuals beyond the first four reruns of each episode. This was true for the entire cast except Dawn Wells. When the show was picked up by CBS and Dawn was cast to replace Nancy McCarthy, she was married to her agent at the time. In her original contract she was to be paid $1200 per week plus the residual contract the 6 other castaways received. Her husband/agent said that should the show become successful Dawn would not benefit from receiving such a limited residual option. Believing the show would flop, the CBS executives humored Dawn and her husband and put a clause in her contract giving her long-term residuals should the show ever syndicate. As a result from that clause Dawn has made literally millions of dollars as the years have gone by from syndication of Gilligan's Island. This was never public knowledge. Dawn and series creator Sherwood Schwartz are the only individuals to profit long-term from the series."

So if true, basically Dawn Wells caught a lucky financial break similar to how Lucas retained all merchandising rights to Star Wars.

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She deserved it- Mary Ann's short shorts were the best part of the show.

Because it's on wikipedia, it must be true.

No, this is not a biopic. This is an abomination that the Farrellys are going to fill with poop and fart jokes (because, you know, The Three Stooges were all about poop and fart jokes).

There was an excellent (albeit too short) biopic that Mel Gibson produced a few years ago. Michael Chiklis portrayed Curly. They got a few of the details wrong here and there, but overall it gave an idea as to who the Stooges were, how they rose to fame, fell when the studio stopped making short subjects, and got shafted by the studios when their popularity soared again in the TV era.

That biopic was quite entertaining. I enjoyed it. It is one of those movies that shows up on Sunday afternoons when there isn't much on television.

I believe VG posted the Wikipedia link and the initial quote to validate her belief that the this film was gonna be a biopic. Which is proven wrong further in the first paragraph of that section, quoted below:

"The Farrellys, who have wanted to make this film since 1996, have said that they were not going to do a biopic or remake, but instead new Three Stooges episodes set in the present day. The plot of the episodes is said to be an adventure that revolves around the Stooges characters.[30]"

As to the Biopic mentioned, I agree it was actually good.

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That was a good biopic movie, although the Ted Healy era was glossed over a bit. Shemp left the Healy act, yes; but it was only Shemp and not all three. Curly then joined and Moe Larry and Curly worked a bit more with Ted Healy until all three agreed to ditch him. My memories of Ted Healy are a bit dusty but as I recall he and Moe were friends from childhood, but Ted was notorious for not paying them properly and was also both a drunk and a mean drunk as well.

The text at the end of the biopic did state that they became one of the best paid acts after TV revived their popularity, and they were supposedly paid well for the movies they did. Also when they would do appearances on TV, since Curly Joe DeRita was the closest they ever got to copying Curly, they were able to revive a some of the Curly material and jokes, especially the "MAHA...AHA!" routine. They also did some TV commercials for assorted products, check youtube and also Netflix for any DVD about any Lost Stooge footage or treasures.

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Chiklis was so good in the role, I still have trouble remembering that it was indeed him in the role. Damn good movie.

P.S. Three Stooges Biopic @ Hulu