Kevin MacDonald must be getting an ulcer. His follow-up to The Last King of Scotland, State of Play, has been anything but smooth sailing even before a frame of film is shot. The script got rewritten a number of times, going between writers all the way up to the strike. Then star Brad Pitt, unhappy … Continue reading
Now that the Wright Stuff Film Festival is over, CHUD will only have updates about it once a day. But seriously, folks, I know that we’ve talked about this a lot but it’s been a pretty incredible experience on a lot of levels, and maybe one of the best things about it is that people … Continue reading
AAARGH! The one place that the strike is really hitting me, as an entertainment consumer, is in how Lost‘s fourth season* – already a shortened 16 episodes – has been truncated down to just eight hours. And it’s not like the eight hours were planned as a stand alone half or anything; the show’s plan … Continue reading
Milo Ventimiglia, perhaps best known for being sexually assaulted by a certain webmaster at a Comic Con 2007 party, has joined Gerard Butler in Game, a futuristic action movie about a man trapped inside a Massively Multiplayer Online Game. Ventimiglia is also known as one of the stars of Heroes, a television show that heaps … Continue reading
You can’t knock Judd Apatow for a lack of self-awareness: his latest video on Funny or Die is a little bit of self-mockery about viral marketing… that happens to be viral marketing for Walk Hard, opening this weekend. Well played, Apatow! In the clip Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd and Craig Robinson (from the … Continue reading
Jim Thompson is one of the great American writers of the 20th century, and his tough, masculine prose and dark, cynical stories are ideal for movie adaptations, which is probably why Hollywood keeps coming back to his books. For the last couple of years The Killer Inside Me, one of his finest and most disturbing … Continue reading
I was sort of shocked to see people on our message boards complaining that the trailer for Roland Emmerich’s 10,000 BC featured characters speaking English. What a weird thing to nitpick about a movie that is obviously trying to be a big, dumb spectacle. I must have missed the memo when documentary realism became the … Continue reading
Page Six is reporting that John Travolta, molester of crippled old men, has been ‘let go’ from the long in development, long troubled film version of the TV soap Dallas, where he was set to play JR Ewing. The site claims that the role has now been passed on to one of Hollywood’s most overexposed … Continue reading
Dave Gibbons, the man who created Watchmen with Alan Moore, has made a visit to the film adaptation’s Vancouver set and likes what he sees. And how could he not – he came to visit on a pretty damn good day, when they were filming the one and only meeting of nascent supergroup The Crimebusters*. … Continue reading
Empire Online has confirmed that the new Bond girl will be actress Gemma Arterton, who played a naughty schoolgirl in the UK’s St. Trinian’s. Arterton is different from previous Bond girl Eva Green in two ways: no one in the US has ever heard of her, and only her gynecologist and lovers have seen her … Continue reading