Remember what we said about that 24 hours news network? LOL. There’s tons of news to tell but we keep puttin’ off ’til the next hour!
HazzardNet Survives Server Crash
Obviously the crashing of the server has put us a bit behind the 8-ball so please bear with us as we continue to get our bearings. Many of you have asked how did we crash the server. Hey, when ya got three Coltranes running this place, what’d you expect?
For those of you out there who aren’t as computer savvy and are wondering just exactly what the crashing of the server entailed, we thought we’d provide you with a visual representation….
KHEE!! It should be noted however, that we were back up and running within 24 hours and again we thank y’all for your patience and understanding while we applied the duct tape and chicken wire.
Awright, now on to the news! And we got a lot, y’all better pull up a chair for all this…
MTV to Film Special in Covington
First, a heads up to Dukes fans in the Covington, Georgia area!! MTV will be in town this weekend to film a special for the Dukes premier. There will be a lot of special events (all free we’re told) at the square in Covington starting around 11am. On Sunday at Oxford College (starting at 11am) MTV is re-creating the General’s jump at Oxford as made famous in the first episode of the Dukes and forever used in the opening credits.
MTV also will apparently be holding a special Dukes movie screening the week of July 18th. We have not independently confirmed this yet and have no futher details such as location, date or time. But we’ll keep you posted!
Simpson’s Video Stirs….Controversy!!
Meanwhile, Jessica Simpson’s video for “These Boots are Made for Walking” is still hot and is now causing a bit of a controversy (beyond the opening of the General’s door…although that was controversy enough!). The IMDB reports that the Resistance, an American Christian group, is calling her video “slutty” and is demanding that she reshoot a cleaner version. The group feels that where Simpson’s father is a Baptist pastor, Simpson is a Christian role model and should not have to reduce herself to being a “singing stripper.”
If you still haven’t seen what all the fuss is about, the video is currently amongst the “featured” list of videos at MTV.com and can be found on AOL and Yahoo.
“Boots” Debuts on Billboard Hot 100
Bilboard reports today that the song itself has debuted on the Hot 100 chart at #33. This is highest debut Simpson has made so far in her career. (HNet Editorial: The highest?! That’s it?!?)
The song will be featured on the soundtrack album for the movie. The soundtrack is scheduled to be released on July 19th and features the following songs:
1) Uncle Jesse Tells A Joke
2) These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ – Jessica Simpson
3) One Way Out – The Allman Brothers Band
4) Pride And Joy – Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
5) Call Me the Breeze – Lynyrd Skynyrd
6) The South’s Gonna Do It Again – The Charlie Daniels Band
7) Flirtin’ With Disaster – Molly Hatchet
8) Hillbilly Shoes – Montgomery Gentry
9) Black Betty – Ram Jam
10) Soul City – Southern Culture on the Skids
11) Change My Mind – The Blueskins
12) Burn It Off – Blues Explosion
13) Funk #49 – The James Gang
14) Good Ol’ Boys – Willie Nelson
15) Uncle Jesse Tells Another Joke
We have no idea what the Uncle Jesse Tells A Joke bits are but if they turn out to be dirty jokes we’re gonna just scream. Otherwise, the soundtrack looks pretty decent. About.com, however, said that the soundtrack would feature Waylon Jennings but I don’t see anything with Waylon in that listing (unless they’re counting his writing credit for Good Ol’ Boys).
Besides Simpson’s video causing controversy we found out a week or so ago that WB dished out some big bucks in a settlement of a breach of copyright lawsuit filed by the original producer of the 1974 film “Moonrunners.” AOL news reported back on June 30th…
Warner Bros. to pay 17.5 million dollars in ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ settlement
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Hollywood’s Warner Bros. studios will pay 17.5 million dollars to settle a breach of copyright lawsuit that threatened to block the release of its “Dukes of Hazzard” movie, reports said. The 11th-hour agreement by the movie powerhouse to fork out the huge sum to film producer Robert Clark came after a judge barred the studio from releasing its 55-million-dollar movie on August 13 unless the case was settled, industry publications said.
Under an injunction issued last week by US federal Judge Gary Allen Feess, all copies of Warner’s new movie would have been impounded pending the settlement of the case, according to Daily Variety.
“Plaintiffs have shown a likelihood that they will be able to prove at trial that they have an ownership interest in ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ film,” Feess wrote, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The settlement of at least 17.5 million exceeds what the studio spent on the salaries of actors in the high-anticipated summer movie that stars Johnny Knoxville, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds and Willie Nelson.
The hit 1979 television series focused on the law-defying adventures of southern US country folk in a fast car.
Now if y’all do the math, an assuming an even split, that means that the four stars listed received about 4 million bucks to do this movie. We’re in the wrong freakin’ line of work.
Clark had claimed that Warners had infringed on the copyright of his obscure 1974 film “Moonrunners,” which became the basis of the hit Warner television series, “The Dukes of Hazzard,” which led to the upcoming feature.