Tales of the Plush Cthulhu
http://www.logicalcreativity.com/jon/plush/01.html
Remember The Bulgari Connection?
I have two Cthulhus I bought at a Con - she called them Cabbage Patch Cthulhus.
Some years ago, Jason Reitman, coming off a string of respected films (Up in the Air, Juno, Young Adult, etc.) directed a film called Labor Day. Anticipating an Oscar run, the movie was released in December for its obligatory one week run in LA County at the Arclight Hollywood.
I went to a showing and when I handed my ticket to the ticket taker, they handed me a pie pan! Not a cheap one, but a real full sized, stainless steel, nonstick pie pan suitable for baking!
It turns out that there is a pie making scene in the movie that is supposed to be (in the director’s mind) on par with the pottery scene in Ghost. Actually, its more of a creepy, Stockholm syndrome scene (perfectly in keeping with the wrong headed view of “romance” the whole film takes).
The film was a total bomb, there was no Oscar buzz, and it was buried in its January release. But I still have the pie pan.
OK it’s not a movie but apparently WWE(then the WWF) and their major competitor WCW offered cologne as an item to buy:
http://wrestlecrap.com/icfyt/someone-bought-this-wcw-nitro-and-wwf-attitude-colognes/
P.S. that website has a column devoted to weird pro wrestling momorabilia:
Decades before Oliver Stone made the movie JFK about the conspiracy theories behind the Kennedy assassination, director David Miller made Executive Action. It starred Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, and Will Geer, and a script by Dalton Trumbo.
When I went to se it in the theater, they gave me what looked and felt like a newspaper. Looking through it, I found all sorts of explanations, fully referenced, regarding things depicted on the screen. it was the first time that I attended a movie with footnotes .
It wasn’t the last time, though. When I went to see David Lynch’s film Dune in 1984, they handed out single sheets of 8.5" x 11" papers to everyone. They were printed on both sides with explanations for a lot of the terms used in the film. It’s as if they raided the Glossary at the back of Frank Herbert’s novel, taking the most salient items.
How about The Necronomnomnom, a Lovecraft-themed cookbook?
Enjoy such delectable treats as Gin and Miskatonic, The Muesli of Erich Zann, and The Custard Out of Space.
Anyone who’s been to Camp Castle Rock for scout camp knows how hot it gets there (no air conditioning anywhere), and how refreshing the chopped-ice-in-a-huge-blender is. All summer long you hear thirsty scouts begging for those icy red and blue swirls: "Please, I need another Smurf In A Blender!"
For Star Trek V, Kraft released a marshmallow dispenser like the one Spock used in the movie.
I am ordering six copies for Christmas gifts.
Star Wars Christmas decorations.
Tastes like chicken, only smurfier.
“Bram Stoker’s Dracula -
The novel of the film, by Fred Saberhagen & James V. Hart
Based on the screenplay by James V. Hart
from the Bram Stoker novel”
One wonders if anyone optioned this novelization for a film adaptation…
Lego is involved in some longer and more convoluted chains than that. You’ve got short movies based on a video game based on a toy based on a movie.
I have a Bram Stoker’s Dracula Pinball Machine.
I missed this one.
Hart, of course, wrote the screenplay. They undoubtedly got Fred Saberhagen because he wrote The Dracula Tapes (a novel telling the story from Dracula’s point of view), and The Holmes-Dracula File (not as good as Loren D. Estleman’s Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula: or The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count), and at least one other Dracula novel.
But, again, why come up with a novel at all? This film followed the novel more closely than any other version. Looks like a blatant money grab to me.
Oh, it gets worse. There are books and comic books based on the movies based on the video games based on the toys based on the movies. I think, and I’m totally serious about this, that there are also toys based on the movies based on the video games based on the toys based on the movies.
There’s also the fact the LEGO video games are owned by Warner Bros, but that didn’t stop them from making the Lego Marvel or Lego Avengers tie-in games.
To promote Ocean’s Twelve, someone thought it was a good idea to strap a $300,000 diamond to the nose of a Formula One car to run in an actual F1 race. Or rather, since an F1 team runs two cars and they were sponsoring the Team Jaguar, there were two such diamonds running around the track, one for each car. The race in question was naturally the Monaco GP. Of course, the inevitable happened.