The videogame adaptation is climbing back to the top of studio lists, with recent weeks seeing popular properties like Halo, Hitman and Alice hacking their way through development hell. And let’s not forget Uwe Boll’s upcoming Bloodrayne, which we all know will totally ROCK. So who’s next? Fugitive undercover cop Max Payne, that’s who. He’s … Continue reading
REVIEWED THIS WEEK:– House of M #1 & 2– Adventures of Superman #640 & 641– Dream Police #1– Catwoman #44– Deadworld #1– Captain America #7– Neverwhere #1– Robin #139 At Two Issues Deep, “House of M” is Full of Sound and Fury By Russell Paulette The big event comic seems a blessing and a curse—the … Continue reading
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Batman Begins $26,700,000 $121,600,000 2 2 Bewitched $20,200,000 $20,200,000 1 3 Mr. and Mrs. Smith $16,700,000 $125,400,000 3 4 Herbie: Fully Loaded $12,700,000 $17,800,000 1 5 Land of the Dead $10,200,000 $10,200,000 1 6 Madagascar $7,300,000 $160,000,000 5 7 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the … Continue reading
Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company has been frantically whipping the horses on the remake wagon since their first major financial successes (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror), and The Hitcher is next on the money trail. The original 1986 flick, which made C. Thomas Howell the household name it is today, revolved around a man … Continue reading
Roving ex-army cop Jack Reacher (how come tough guys are never named Stanley or Purvis?) has settled at Paramount, who snapped up the rights to his latest adventure. The studio has grabbed Lee Child’s latest Reacher novel One Shot, which finds the long-running thriller series’ reticent hard-hitting hero investigating a former Gulf War sniper accused … Continue reading
Ridley Scott seems to be taking a page from the playbook of fellow Alien movie helmer James Cameron and submerging himself for a new film. Scott will dip into the depths for an adaptation of the bestselling true subaquatic adventure tale Shadow Divers, about a pair of divers who discovered a sunken WWII German U-Boat … Continue reading
After trudging for years through the Dimension quagmire, the adaptation of EA’s bizarro vidgame Alice will finally head back through the looking glass and into the camera lens. The flick is now set up at Universal (which is becoming quite a habitat for low-to-mid budget genre flicks) with Texas Chainsaw Massacre helmer Marcus Nispel using … Continue reading
REVIEWED THIS WEEK:– Hellboy: The Island #1– Spider-Man: House of M #1– The Black Diamond #1– Firestorm #14– The Nail TPB– G.I. Joe #0– Action Philosophers All-Sex Special #1– Vimanarama #1-3 First Look: After a Long Absence, “Hellboy” Creator Mike Mignola Returns to the Beast From Whenst He Came By Sean Fahey I was a … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: SonyMSRP: $24.99RATED: PG-13RUNNING TIME: 91 min.SPECIAL FEATURES:• Commentary tracks• Deleted scenes• Featurette• Music video The Humans Sara Foster (The Big Bounce, some magazines), Devon Aoki (2 Fast 2 Furious, Sin City), Meagan Good (Biker Boyz, House Party 4), Jill Ritchie (Kid Rock’s sister), Jordana Brewster (The Faculty, The Fast … Continue reading
Now that Mission: Impossible 3 looks like it’s actually going to get made this time after several catastrophic nosedives, the production is closing up casting with thundering thesp Laurence “Don’t Even Think About Calling Me Larry” Fishburne. Fishburne (overlooked as the canny criminal in Assault on Precinct 13) will play a mentor to superspy Tom … Continue reading