I have a vague memory of “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.”  I was in elementary school when the teacher first read it in class.  I don’t remember the story per se, but more vividly the illustrations.  Of course when you’re in kindergarten or 1^st grade, you probably don’t care about the story, but are more captivated by the pictures.  How could you not be amazed by food falling from the sky as if it were rain and then eating it?  I would love the notion of eating already prepared food that fell right at my doorstep.  I couldn’t fathom how much money you would save by not going to the store to buy it.  Grocery stores would go out of business, but I’m sure gyms would thrive if crappy food, like donuts or pizza came raining down.  It certainly would solve the ongoing problem of world hunger. “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” was originally a children’s book in 1978. It was written by the husband and wife team of Ron and Judi Barrett, with Ron providing the illustrations and Judi being the author. The premise of the book is about a town named Chewandswallow (clever name) and their experience in odd weather that provides food three times a day.  Chewandswallow is later threatened when the food creates floods and forces the townspeople to relocate via bread boats. Once they find a new destination, they are regulated to buy food at the grocery store.  Produced by Sony Pictures Animations (Open Season, Surf’s Up), the 3D animated movie of the same name will be a loose adaptation of the book.

Are rained down burgers of the McDonalds variety or homemade?

Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader, Adventureland) is a struggling scientist who has yet to invent anything successful.  Growing up, most of his experiments are failures due to the lack of poor design or found to be worthless by other people. Despite little support from his dad, Tim Lockwood (James Caan, Thief), Flint never gives up on inventing. One day while fumbling with his computer, he discovers he can turn water into food. He then creates a machine capable of making rain turn into food. Thinking he is a hero, his machine suddenly goes awry and threatens the world with too much food. Flint must come up with a plan to stop it.

The movie will also co-star Anna Faris, Bruce Campbell, Andy Samberg, Mr. T and Benjamin Bratt. Phil Lord and Chris Miller direct Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and both also adapted the screenplay from the Barrett’s book.

All scientists are mad. Did you every have a sane science teacher?

Since it’s based off of a children’s book, this should be a big hit for younger audiences, especially since it will be a Real D 3D animated film.  The trailer for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs looks really charming and funny so I have a slight interest in seeing it.  Plus I have yet to see an animated movie in 3D to this point.

Dinner will be served September 18^th.

Sam Raimi says so. MTV Movies Blog caught up with the director at the SXSW Film Festival, which was screening his new film, Drag Me to Hell (peep the trailer here).

Apparently Bruce Campbell, who’d portrayed Ash is the Evil Dead trilogy kind of squashed rumors a while back.

“I think there should be an end to everything,” he responded when asked whether the character of Ash is worthy of more movies. “I mean, did anyone really want ‘Indiana Jones 4?? The answer is no. I’ve taken a poll in about seven theaters now. Of 300 people, three hands go up. You are bound to disappoint.”

So, thus became the reason for MTV begging the question to Mr. Raimi about if he wanted to return to the horror-comedy franchise.

His response: “I hope to, yes,” Raimi admitted. “Every time I say I would like to [revisit the films], people say, ‘where the hell is it!?!’ But I’m just glad people are still interested. But yes, I would really like to do [another ‘Evil Dead’ film]. I’ve just got a commitment to make ‘Spider-Man 4’ right now though.”

Not strong words, but words nonetheless.

Part fours are all the rage. Rambo 4 (Rambo), Indiana Jones 4 (Indiana Jonas and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Die Hard 4 (Live Free or Die Hard), Shrek 4 (Shrek Goes Fourth) is coming out next year and Spiderman 4 (Spiderman 4). When is Jurassic Park 4 going to make it onto the slate? I need some more dinos in my life. And NOT from the damn Night at the Museum movies. Anyway, for dinosaurs in our near future, check out this post. Back to the subject though, does anybody WANT a fourth Evil Dead movie?

Here’s the Michel Gondry-directed Evil Dead-homage music video for the Foo Fighters – “Everlong:”