Howard Stern is revisiting "Rock 'n' Roll High School."

The shockjock is producing, along with Larry Levinson, a remake of the 1979 film. Alex Winter, best known for playing alongside Keanu Reeves in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," has been hired to script it. Pic was about a group of rebellious students who, with the help of punk rock band the Ramones, thwarted a repressive, rock-music-hating principal.

Stern, while busy hosting and programming two daily channels on Sirius Satellite Radio, is now partnered on two films with Levinson.They also are working on a remake of the raunchy Bob Clark-directed 1982 comedy "Porky's" that could start production in the fall. Stern got involved because he was a fan of both pics.

While Winter still acts, he spends most of his time as a writer and director. He has directed numerous musicvideos and commercials, created segments for Jimmy Kimmel's latenight show and helmed "Ben 10: Race Against Time" for the Cartoon Network. Winter also scripted a feature about Napster and its creator, Shawn Fanning, for MTV Films. "I've now done so much stuff in musicvideos, and the Napster movie, that the chance to bridge music and comedy was something that intrigued me," Winter said. "This movie seemed so ripe for a remake."

Development is being funded by Levinson's Stonewerks Motion Picture Group, whose Dan Gross will also be involved as a producer.

On July 11 the L.A. Times reported that MGM is developing a straight-to-DVD revisiting of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Unfortunately this movie will NOTstar Alex Winter or Keanu Reeves and it will NOT be written by the original film writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson. The article states that an outline for the film has been submitted by Gabe Grifoni and Suzanne Francis, who co-wrote the yet-to-be-released 2007 film Wieners.

I'm not sure if this revisiting will be a sequel, remake or complete spin-off. But what I do know is that this is just another way for the studio to earn an extra buck by using another 80's cult classic for a straight-to-DVD release.

Read the L.A. Times article here

Saul of the Mole Men is a live action show created by Craig Lewis, writer on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The series first aired February 11, 2007 on Adult Swim. Adult Swim is the adult-oriented television programming block on Cartoon Network in the United States, featuring absurdist and often ribald comedy in contrast to the tamer daytime Cartoon Network.

The series is described as "an ultra-patriotic Land of the Lost set in the center of the Earth," and is directed by Tom Stern and stars Josh Gardner as an idiot geologist stuck in the middle of the earth with mole man creatures. Josh Gardner is known for his previous collaboration with Tom Stern on Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust.

Tim Burns provided the music for the show and
Alex is doing the voice of King Mole Man

Click here for the official site.

In episode 13 of the forensic investigation series 'Bones' Alex had a guest appearance as Monte Gold Internet Kingpin, aspiring Hugh Hefner and head honcho of a website called ‘Hotty Student Body’. Yeah... Monte is quite a character. A real bad guy. Monte tours the country on a bus to hustle college girls and try to make them pull off their shirts after a few drinks. When the body of a young student is found - raped, murdered and fed to an alligator - Monte is (of course) the prime suspect.

It’s been a long while since we’ve last seen Alex as an actor. And it was fun to watch him play a real bad to the bone pimp (or should I say ‘entrepreneur’?) like Monte. Hopefully this part in ‘Bones’ will lead to more acting in the future.

The episode of BONES with Alex in it, will air on the 7th of February.

The episode is titled : "The Girl in the Gator" and this is the description: after Booth's gun is taken away because he maliciously shot a clown ornament on an ice cream truck, Brennan must go to Florida alone to investigate the death of a college student whose body is found inside an alligator (.. what an awful way to kick the bucket).

Cast: Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance Brennan; David Boreanaz as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth; TJ Thyne as Dr. Jack Hodgins; Michaela Conlin as Angela Montenegro; Eric Millegan as Zack Addy; Tamara Taylor as Dr. Camille “Cam” Saroyan.

Guest Cast: Stephen Fry (Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder) as Dr. Gordon Wyatt; Eddie McClintock as FBI Agent Tim Sullivan; Alex Winter as Monte Gold; Eamonn Roche as Lloyd; Eric Jungmann as Eddie; John Lacy as Bill Dowd; French Stewart as Isaac Horn; Jami Miller as Judy Dowd; Kelly Kruger as Abigail Sims; John Maynard as Ice Cream Truck Driver; John Eric Bentley as Park Ranger; Emeka Nnadi as Alan Simmons.

For all the foreigners amongst us (including moi), here's the official website for the show: http://www.fox.com/bones/

They do play episodes online as well so you might be able to watch it online after it airs!

We're strange people us Europeans .... we talk funny, have unusual eating habits and we can appreciate a good football match. But other than that we're exactly the same as the Americans. Another revealing fact is that we watch the same TV series. The Fox hit series BONES for example (starring David Boreanaz) is quite popular over here. According to the IMDb Alex recently made a guest appearance on this series. It will be great to see him act again and I'll definitely be on the lookout for the episode with Alex, as undoubtedly most of his fans will be.

Swicherz are interchangeable 3-D stickers which you can stick anywhere. Wanna decorate your snowboard, skateboard or surfboard with Bill S. Preston, Esquire, Ted "Theodore" Logan or Rufus? Here's your chance to win some swicherz for free. There's a contest up on the Bill & Ted website. You can enter the contest by clicking here. Winners will be chosen at random on February 25, 2006.

Anchor Bay Entertainment gave Fango the exclusive scoop on the final details of its FREAKED two-DVD special edition (now set to street July 12), along with the dual-layer cover art. Alex Winter and Tom Stern’s outrageous monster comedy will be presented in 1.85:1, 16x9-enhanced widescreen (Fango got an advance peek at the transfer, which looks great), with Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround audio.

The first disc will contain the following extras:

MGM Home Entertainment has announced the Bill & Ted Collection which includes both Bill and Ted's movies, plus a radically cool bonus disc. The set will be available to own from the 12th July this year, and should retail at around $39.96. The bonus disc will include:

• an Original Bill & Ted: In Conversation with Chris & Ed feature,
• The Most Triumphant Making-Of documentary,
• an Interview With Guitarist Steve Vai,
• an Air Guitar Tutorial with Bjorn Toroque and The Rockness Monster,
• The Hysterical Personages of Bill & Ted (in 3 Minutes or Less) and
• another feature entiteld One Sweet and Sour Chinese Adventure To Go.
  Completing the package will be Bill and Ted's Excellent Comic Book and lastly, some radio spots.
  
  You can pre-order the set from Amazon.com by clicking here

On June 14 we can all finally watch and enjoy Freaked on DVD.
Apparently the petition Alex and Tom put up a little while back was a success and helped to convince Fox to give this movie a proper DVD release.

What worked once might work twice, so Alex and Tom are now trying the same to get MTV to release The Idiot Box on DVD. The Idiot Box was a series of shows they made for MTV in the early 90's. The show is still immensely popular amongst the fans and many of them still have fond memories of the characters on this show like, Eddie the Flying Gimp, Willard Shreck, Rain Man II Electric Boogaloo, the loveable Huggins Family and Lock Jaw (to name a few).

Please take a moment to sign the petition at the link below, and help giving the elusive Box a proper and well deserved DVD release. It's a shame MTV didn't release this show on video or DVD any sooner. God should have dropped his mighty anvil on their heads a long time ago.

Thanks
Nicolette

Paramount and MTV Films have hired Alex Winter to pen "Napster :
The Shawn Fanning Bio Project"

MTV originally developed the project about the Napster founder as a TV movie in 2002 but decided only last year to take the story to the bigscreen. In 1999 Fanning created Napster in his dorm room at Northeastern University in Boston as a way for collegians to swap music files on the Internet.

He dropped out of school to launch Napster as an online business, prompting lawsuits from the Recording Industry Assn. of America. Fanning's company filed for bankruptcy in 2002. He recently launched Snocap in hopes of making peer-to-peer networks legitimate.

Anchor Bay Entertainment has announced that, as part of its recent deal with Fox for that studio to distribute its product, it will be bringing a number of Fox pictures to DVD. A number of genre titles are among the group, most notably the great creature comedy Freaked. In an interview with Fangoria Magazine Anchor Bay's Micheal Felsher states: “We’ve already spoken with Alex Winter, and he definitely will be involved, we’re going to make this a big special edition. It should be out in early summer of 2005, and will have audio commentary, interviews, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes footage - whatever’s available. We have every intention of using the version with the extra scenes (not seen in Fox’s domestic theatrical and VHS/laserdisc cut), which just came out in England.”

This calls for a celebration I'd say...... Macaroons for everybody!

To read the Esplatter article click here
To read the Fangoria Magazine article click here