By The Huffington Post News Editors
What’s with today, today? Monday, April 8, is Rex Manning Day, a holiday created to commemorate the film “Empire Records.”
The one-crazy-day comedy — which focuses on a ragtag group of record store employees, the tyranny of chain stores and the power of Gin Blossoms and The Flying Lizards — was released in October of 1995, making this the 17th Rex Manning Day in recorded history. But we mustn’t dwell on numbers like that. No, not today. Not on Rex Manning Day.
To celebrate this year’s Rex Manning Day, HuffPost Entertainment has decided to shock you (shock you, shock you) with some deviant behavior: an imagined 2013 version of “Empire Records,” featuring some of today’s brightest stars. As the success of “Evil Dead” taught Hollywood last weekend, even cult classics deserve remakes. Don’t worry: We’ll say no more, mon amour, and get to the fake casting:
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