All that’s missing from this Variety story trumpeting Gianni Nunnari’s plans to remake The Wild Geese is the obligatory casting of Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones and a gang of other British toughs to fill out the roles originally occupied by Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris. And if you think "occupied" is a strange … Continue reading
I wish I had a way for you to see John Connolly talk and answer questions in person. He is an extremely charismatic and charming man, full of energy and stories. He talks like he writes and that makes meeting him all the more interesting. He clearly loves being a writer and connecting with his … Continue reading
Just give me a second. I don’t know about you, but if the studios suddenly scrapped all of their pre-strike plans and decided to make nothing but chick lit adaptations from now until June, I would probably throw out my back trying to gnaw on my own testicles. To be fair, this isn’t necessarily related … Continue reading
Let’s pretend that you’re Ridley Scott, just sitting around one day waiting for American Gangster to open. Wait, let’s be Brian Grazer instead. So much more fun. Anyway, you’re just minding your own business when Jay-Z walks in, drops an entirely new record in your lap. “See what you can do with this,” he says … Continue reading
Even though it’s been ten years since his last fiction film, James Cameron is still a commercial force to be reckoned with until proven otherwise. And while you think his forever-in-development 3-D opus, Avatar, is the film that’s going to demolish his bankability… well, just know that Jeffrey Katzenberg does not agree with you. At … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Home VideoMSRP: $37.99RATED: Not ratedRUNNING TIME: 903 minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: Commentary on three episodes Unaired scenes Devil’s Roadmap interactive featurettes Jared Padalecki’s original screen test Gag reel The Pitch Season 2 of ghosts, demons, creepy crawlies and other generally unpleasant and scary things. And no I don’t mean … Continue reading
"I make my films like you’re going to *die* if you miss the next minute." If there’s a finer encapsulation of the experience of watching an Oliver Stone film, I haven’t heard it. Love him or hate him (and no major American director has fewer in-betweens than perhaps Spike Lee), there is no denying the … Continue reading
Llewellyn Moss is in the sort of trouble you can’t even imagine. Out hunting one morning he comes across several shot-up pickups, a half-dozen stiffs and a case full of cash. Bales of heroin in one pickup leave no doubt that the cash is off-limits, just waiting to be reclaimed. Taking it seems so easy, … Continue reading
The Cormac McCarthy adaptation train is really rolling now. With the Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men one of the blazing highlights of recent film festivals (it topped the off the cuff Best Of lists of nearly everyone I talked to at Toronto last week, and will probably top mine as well) the reclusive … Continue reading