If there is ever going to be a box office hit based on economic theory, it will be Freakonomics. Based on the bestselling tome by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, which utilizes Levitt’s economic expertise to illuminate "mysteries of everyday life", the film is shaping up as a sort of documentarian all-star effort. … Continue reading
A closely placed and highly trusted source has told me that there’s been some casting shake-ups on X-Men Origins: Wolverine. According to my source, Karl Urban had been in talks to play Creed – the guy who would become Sabretooth – but has fallen out. The production is now reaching out to Gerard Butler to … Continue reading
Mohammed is the most common name in the world! That’s one of the useful facts audiences learned from Superbad last summer. And next year, the newbie actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who might forever be known as McLovin, could conceiveably be playing a character named Mohammed — he’s been cast in the Judd Apatow production Year One, … Continue reading
Mark Wheaton is taking over the trades! Yesterday, we received word from The Hollywood Reporter that Samuel L. Jackson had become attached to the once and future Smilin’ Jack Ruby’s Unfinished Country, a South Africa-set hospital drama. Today, it’s Hilary Swank who’s gettin’ in the Wheaton business with an adaptation of John Marks’s Fangland. Actually, … Continue reading
Sometimes good news can come out of a strike, like the fact that Castlevania has been delayed. The live action adaptation of the truly heinous, dull and repetitive video game series was set to begin shooting in a couple of weeks but has been shelved due to someone feeling the script was in need of … Continue reading
With his planned next project, Shantaram, delayed by the strike, Johnny Depp has found something else to pass the time – he’ll star in a new Michael Mann film. The movie, Public Enemies, is about the great American crimewave of 1933-34, when larger than life hoods like John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy … Continue reading
I am LOLing right now. I keep looking at the new Speed Racer photos that USA Today has premiered and I keep LOLing as I wonder what the hell the Wachowski Bros are up to with this movie. Why is Emile Hirsch dressed like Tron? Is Speed Racer on one of the tracks from Super … Continue reading
An adults only trailer for Funny Games – Michael Haneke’s apparently shot for shot remake of his own 1997 film – has popped up online. And over the last couple of days the new poster for the movie, which you see to the right of this, also showed up. The poster is terrific, and is … Continue reading
My opinion on the National Board of Review changed when I interviewed Roy Frumkes, writer of the immortal classic Street Trash, and learned that he was a member. I went from thinking that the NBR was a pointless, starfucking group to thinking it was a pointless, starfucking group with at least one guy who finds … Continue reading
Devin’s been going on about how great the Wright Stuff mini-festival is, and with good reason. Edgar Wright has put together a fantastic collection of films to show at the New Beverly theater over a couple weeks. If I could, I’d be there for every single night. Devin recently wrote about his experience seeing The … Continue reading