I fucking love Bob Ross. If you lived in the Midwest and had PBS, he was a Saturday morning WTF moment of sublime pleasure. He would put you right back to sleep no matter how many bowls of Cocoa Puffs you had slurped down.

I've also heard rumors (via Kotaku, I think) that they want to develop a Bob Ross game for the Wii, where you actually paint the happy little trees with him. I would buy that so fucking fast my wrist would break.

In related news, Binky has signed with CAA.

I knew things were going to slide once they did "A Year Without a Santa Claus" with Delta Burke & John Goodman.

@Ascender:
Agreed with every word ('cept replace "Midwest" with "Ontario").

Take note Defamer eds, the 'sacred cows' list is now
- Cloris Leachman
- Helen Mirren
- Bob Ross

To be sold as a boxed set, with 3 Hour Original Video Fireplace...just in time for your own personal Saturnalia!

Can't they make a movie about that Boylton greeting card that's all "Hippo Birdie Two Ewe"?

Finally -- a holiday movie that goes with your sofa.

Is this going to be some sort of softcore porn where Thomas Kincaide smears some of his DNA all over the cottage?

I'm holding out for the Keane/Munch mash-up.

For the record, Clive Barker beat Kinkade to the punch a few years ago. He sold his fantasy franchise Abarat to Disney for $8 million based solely on his paintings.

Barker's movie probably won't have as much Christmas spirit, though.

So all that "working your way to the top" stuff ends with just pointing at things and making movies out of them?

I hope that cottage is full of zombies.

But where's the "meet cute??"

P.S. - I concur with my commenter colleagues above, leave Bob Ross alone!

Yay, Pandas!

"The Christmas Cottage Of The Dead"

Bob Ross is also good for stays at Grandma's house in the middle of fucking Nebraska, where the only channel she HAS is PBS.

i have seen hell and it's numbered, hazy and available at the mall.

I saw this movie last year - it's called "The Holiday."

Tim Allen to star?

This will make "The Last Mimzy" look intelligent!
Can't wait till Nikki Finke hears about this mess!

I am filled with glee at the atrociousness of this concept. It's great when you don't even have to see the film to laugh hysterically.

i wonder who will star in the film version of the "love is..." cartoons?

Ho Ho No.

(sorry)

yuk

Kincade may be the least talented person in art. This film, maybe one of the worst ideas of all-time, unless the filmmakers plan on having Jean Michel-Basquait come in and sodomize Kincaid, then graffiti all sorts of funny sayings like "Rtist" and "E-d-ott" all over his naked backside.

I'd like to see a charming holiday movie about all the gallery franchisees who sued Kinkade after he screwed them financially. It would be like "It's a Wonderful Life," only backwards.

TedSez,

I posit that my post already includes your proposition.

Is this where the Geico Cavemen will live?

This is from a March 2006 L.A. Times article:

In sworn testimony and interviews, they recount incidents in which an allegedly drunken Kinkade heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a former employee's wife who came to his aid when he fell off a barstool, and palmed a startled woman's breasts at a signing party in South Bend, Ind.

And then there is Kinkade's proclivity for "ritual territory marking," as he called it, which allegedly manifested itself in the late 1990s outside the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.

"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade's company, in an interview.
...

I think there was also an incident where he called the cops because he was drunk in an alley and lost a briefcase full of cash.

I just saw the little snowy house get ushered past the velvet rope at Hyde. Lindsay is PISSED.

...and I just heard that TMZ will soon have footage on their website of Brandon Davis screaming "Firetrap!", much to the delight of Paris. Grow up, kids.

Christmas Cottage of the Dead

If this film really will be autobiographical, and all of what Landru quoted is true, then it will undoubtedly be the Best. Film. Known. TO MAN.