With Renny-Harlin craziness that is the hit and miss mostly miss lately, (The Excorcist: The Beginning, Mindhunters, The Covenant), Harlin’s pushing through his nine lives like they’re braided belts and the knots that dangle them (there’s no denying– you know you wore them). The guy rebounds flop after flop and still gets hired. There’s something … Continue reading
Before Poltergeist came out, kids in my elementary school would shut out the lights in the bathroom and turn around three times in front of the mirror droning, "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary." After the movie Poltergeist scared their pee out, kids ditched that silly tart and started shouting "Poltergeist! Poltergeist! Poltergeist!" to pretty … Continue reading
Loading up its animation docket as if it were going up against the likes of Dreamworks and Pixar, Sony is returning to the supernatural dwelling genre that spawned its Oscar nominated Monster House with Hotel Transylvania. As only the luck of classic monsters would have it, Frankenstein’s lovingly sewn monster-man, the Mummy, Dracula and Wolf … Continue reading
A few years ago, some South Pacific-cruising Tiger shark decided there wasn’t enough big screen shark carnage and did something about it. He promptly bit off professional surfer Bethany Hamilton’s arm as she paddled out to sea on her surfboard in Hawaii*. The chomping inspired a terribly titled book called Soul Surfer and thanks to … Continue reading
Continuing to aid in HDNet’s expansion beyond a love for boobies in Hi Def, HDNet Films has been expirementing with lower budget High Def filmmaking and has released a couple films (the experimental Steven Soderbergh multi media blast Bubble and the doc Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) over the last two years. The … Continue reading
Now that the whole New Line v. Peter Jackson v. New Line feud has exploded with a concussive blast that’s apparently flattened any modicum of goodwill between the parties (read Devin’s coverage here), the real speculation on who will direct The Hobbit and have it out before I celebrate my first grandchild’s birthday* can begin. … Continue reading
1408 sounds like a significant number. I tried coming up with some trivia for the lead in, but could only come up with boring stuff like a bill from Oregon Senator Gordon Smith, introduced "to strengthen data protection and safeguards, require data breach notification, and further prevent identity theft" (it’s still pending). It’s also the … Continue reading
Before Lionsgate releases Fido to go lurching its way to the general US public on June 15, movie lobby patrons will have this poster to whet their whistle. If blood-soaked picket fences and man-FUP can be counted as whistle whetters. In the tradition of Benji, Free Willy and Night of the Living Dead, Fido tells … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 Epic Movie $19,200,000 $19,200,000 1 2 Smokin’ Aces $14,262,000 $14,262,000 1 3 Night at the Museum $9,450,000 $216,738,000 6 4 Catch and Release $8,000,000 $8,000,000 1 5 Stomp the Yard $7,800,000 $50,653,000 3 6 Dreamgirls $6,618,000 $86,651,000 7 7 The Pursuit of Happyness $5,000,000 $152,947,000 … Continue reading
Remember when important films/filmmakers earned the right to have the directors name appear as part of the title? I.e- A Stanley Kubrik film. A Steven Spielberg film. A film by Martin Scorsese. Since when did silly pieces of ass-foolery like a Rush Hour sequel get the right to say A Brett Ratner film as if … Continue reading