I can’t imagine this counts as good news: Rob Zombie and the cast and crew of the Halloween remake have gone back and done seven days of reshoots, during which they shot a new ending and six new death scenes. According to Bloody-Disgusting.com the deaths and ending are more gruesome than before, and really push … Continue reading
When I first experienced the cinema of Edward Yang (at New York City’s cramped Cinema Village) in late 2000, I had no idea I was also witnessing its culmination. How could I? Yang’s works were rarely screened in the United States and never properly distributed; he was an unknown quantity to anyone outside of the … Continue reading
It’s always been obvious that the Will Smith superhero movie Tonight, He Comes would get a new name – that title is just fucking awful. But who would have guessed that the film would actually get a title that was even worse? The movie, a softened version of a script about a hard-drinking superhero who … Continue reading
With Transformers Michael Bay has come very close to giving us the great summer blockbuster of this decade; while it never fully comes together as the ass-kicking, brain-annihilating joy we wanted, it does manage to stand head and shoulders over the rest of the stunted crop of Summer 07. Transformers is probably the Rosetta Stone … Continue reading
Frighteningly omnipresent celebrity gossip website TMZ.com has snapped some pictures of Benicio Del Toro as he prepares to play Larry Talbot, aka The Wolf Man, in the upcoming remake of the Universal monster classic, and either Benicio is going Method on us and finding out what it’s like to get all hairy, or Larry’s gonna … Continue reading
While the Wachowski’s version of Speed Racer is already doing laps in Berlin, new faces keep getting added to the cast. The latest: Richard Roundtree, known to a generation of moviegoers as Shaft, the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks. A less lucky generation knows him as the old dead … Continue reading
Some interesting news on the homebrew front this morning. According to posters at PSP Updates (via EvilAvatar) the two most recent firmware updates for Sony’s handheld have included code that seems intended to allow launching ISO files from a memory stick. Though this has been a possibility in Dark_Alex’s custom firmware for a while now, … Continue reading
What are you feelings on Michael Bay? Is he our greatest living orchestrator of vehicular pandemonium, a merely proficient action filmmaker or the Great Satan of Hollywood? Whatever you believe, I can guarantee you this: Michael Bay doesn’t give a shit. The more time I’ve spent around Bay, the more I’ve realized that he lives … Continue reading
Film product Weekend Gross product Per product Total Product gross 1 Ratatouille $47,227,000 $11,986 $47,227,000 2 Die Hard in Name Only $33,150,000 $9,727 $48,178,000 3 Evan Almighty $15,089,000 (-51.6%) $4,149 $60,625,000 4 1408 $10,610,000 (-48.5%) $3,882 $40,389,000 5 Fantastic Four: Rise of Mediocrity $9,000,000 (-55.0%) $2,628 $114,800,000 6 Knocked Up $7,418,000 (-32.4%) $2,769 $122,407,000 7 … Continue reading