B Movie News reports that Fred Olen Ray is directing Recoil which will feature snakes on a submarine. It’s not a sequel, just another movie riffing on the same underlying concept, but maybe it can help show the value of the genre:

One of my first thoughts after watching it was “I wonder what that would have been like if Fred Olen Ray had directed it”. Well I guess I’m going find out. But instead of a plane it will be on a submarine and instead of Samuel L Jackson it will have Luke Perry. Shooting started this morning. It will feature Luke Perry, Cynthia Gibb, Bill Stevens, Sam Scarpa and Louis Mandylor.

I’m still rooting for Bears on a Submarine or maybe Wolves on a Submarine, but I’ll take what I can get.

Birds in a house.  These things just write themselves.

A car crash in the East St. Louis led yesterday to a reptile roundup. Police in Fairview Heights, Ill., said a car clipped one house then crashed into the basement of a neighboring home occupied by a snake breeder.

The accident broke open several of the home’s glass cages, freeing their slithery contents.

Police said none of the 10 escaped snakes was venomous, and it appears they’ve all been rounded up.

The car’s driver was treated for minor cuts and scrapes…

And, presumably, terror.

Thanks Lorelei.

Sad news from the entertainment world today — New Line Cinema, producer of Snakes on a Plane, is no more.

The company has been folded into Warner Brothers and Bob Shaye, brother of Snakes on a Plane star Lin Shaye, has stepped down as co-Chairman.

New Line will maintain its own identity and will continue to produce, market, and distribute movies. But New Line will now do so as part of Warner Bros. and will probably be a much smaller operation than in the past. Time Warner hopes that operating New Line as a unit of Warner Bros. will allow New Line to focus on the creative side of movie-making, while reducing costs and taking advantage of Warner Bros.’ distribution system.

This is a sad day both on a personal level, and on an industry level. Personally I have gotten to know a number of people at New Line who have been tremendously enthusiastic and supportive and who I’d like to see weather this storm. I have no idea what’s in any of their futures, but I wish them all well.

Throughout the Snakes on a Plane process, I always asserted that New Line Cinema, as a corporation, was handling themselves very well. I thanked them frequently for being more progressive on new media issues than Paramount, Universal or Fox. On one notable occasion I came to them when a fan felt that New Line had appropriated one of the fan’s merchandising ideas and, within hours, the issue was resolved with the fan being fully compensated. New Line understood the value of their fans and the importance of taking care of them. The movie industry as a whole could learn a lot from how New Line carried itself with respect to fan relations. I just hope that this merger with Warner Brothers doesn’t crush their fan-friendly, independent spirit.

I can only wonder what impact this might have on the future of Snakes on a Plane. Warner Brothers, any ideas?

Good luck New Line and New Line people, I wish you well.

I previously discussed that Epic Movie was going to contain a Snakes on a Plane parody sequence (here and here).  The video of that sequence has finally made it online — watch it.

From Final Curtain by R.T. Jordan, page 2:

“All I know is the new Sondheim musical is apparently so depressing it’s actually scaring away the Broadway tourist trade. They need a fun and familiar placeholder at the Palace Theatre until Snakes on a Plane: The Musical opens in February. The producers are looking at Mame.”

Am I the only one who thinks this isn’t a terrible idea?

Thanks Seth.

This is probably the norm on Vietnam Airlines:

Vietnam has seized more than a ton of ratsnakes found aboard a Vietnam Airlines flight from Bangkok, the second time in about a month such snakes were found in air cargo to Vietnam, state media said on Friday.

Those pesky snakes go in for all sorts of public transportation, don’t they?

It seems like it happens every few days now, but we’ve had more real snakes on real planes:

A man was stopped at Cairo’s airport just moments before he boarded a Saudi Arabia-bound plane with carry-on bags filled with live snakes, as well as a few baby crocodiles and chameleons.

ESPN’s Page 2’s Bill Simmons is, unsurprisingly, a big fan of Snakes on a Plane:

Note: Speaking [of] predictions, if “Snakes” doesn’t have one of the most magical runs in cable history, I’ll be shocked. So much to love, including Sam Jackson showing off a Barry Bonds-sized noggin, Juliana Marguiles with an “I never should have left ‘ER’ ” look on her face, Tim Riggins from “Friday Night Lights” joining the Mile High Club, Kenan Thompson successfully landing the plane because of his experience landing planes in video games and, yes, snakes eating people on a plane. I’ve watched this movie three times in 10 days, and I might go for No. 4 tonight.

I’m giving a presentation at an upcoming London-based marketing conference (about which I’m terrified, but don’t tell them that) about blog marketing. To go along with my presentation, I’ve cobbled together a little video that compiles a some of the photos, videos and songs that I’ve featured on this site. I’ve put it up on YouTube for anybody’s amusement. Anyone who’s actually supposed to ATTEND the conference, shouldn’t watch the video… it would ruin the surprise. Enjoy:

I had to make this video while offline, so if I didn’t include a good piece of material, it’s probably because I didn’t have it stored on my own personal computer. Sorry about that. If I get a chance, I’ll come back and include links to the sources of the songs and videos… but it can’t happen tonight.

Apparently Snakes on a Blog was mentioned on this podcast by the BBC.  Anyone want to listen and give me a recap?  (Podcasts aren’t really my thing.)

I have better technology at my disposal at FanTent and I’ve posted the video of the Snakes on a Plane silhouette from the 2007 Academy Awards there.  Enjoy.

Anybody get a screen capture of the Snakes on a Plane silhouette at the Oscars tonight? I’ll try to get the video online tomorrow, but if anyone has it now, let me know.

UPDATE: Jackie Huba of Church of the Customer to the rescue:

And WireImage with one more:

Cross-posted at FanTent.

During the summer I did an interview (on camera no less!) with Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba (of Church of the Customer) for a book they were working on called Citizen Marketers. Well, it’s out.

They sent me a copy and I’ve been slowly working in through it (it’s pretty good, I’ve just had other activities on my plate) and it talks about me and Snakes on a Plane quite a bit. Here’s some quick images:

You can pick it up at Amazon.

The afore mentioned Epic Movie, which features a parody of Snakes on a Plane, gets an extraordinarily harsh review from the San Francisco Chronicle featuring this comment about Snakes:

The movie even indulges in a parody of “Snakes on a Plane.” That movie is already ridiculous. It can’t be made more ridiculous.

Touche (there should be an accent there, I know).

While Snakes on a Plane was nominated for no Oscars OR Razzies, it did win two GAG awards:

• Worst Special Effects
• Cinematic Tragedy of 2006 (Snakes on a plane didn’t make any money)
  

Snakes on a Plane was nominated for worst poster and best teaser poster at the Internet Movie Poster awards.  It lost both categories.

I know what you were thinking, you were thinking from the moment you first heard about Snakes on a Plane that it was going to be a contender for the Razzies.  Deep down in your heart you knew it was a possibility. Well, the list was announced today and Snakes on a Plane didn’t earn one nomination.  Congratulations!

Snakes on a Plane’s DVD premiered at number 1 for DVD sales last week:

“Snakes,” which grossed only $34 million in theaters despite a much-ballyhooed Internet marketing campaign, debuted at No. 1 on Nielsen VideoScan’s First Alert sales chart, nudging last week’s chart topper — “Jackass Number Two” — to second place.

It didn’t do quite as well as a rental option:

On Home Media Magazine’s rental chart, “Snakes” bowed at No. 5 with estimated first-week rental revenue of $4.9 million, one spot and $50,000 ahead of “Covenant.” “Little Miss Sunshine” bounced back to the No. 1 spot after three weeks in stores, bumping “The Devil Wears Prada” to No. 2.