It’s a tough year for Michelle Williams. First she and Heath Ledger break up (a break up that has shaken Brooklyn to its very core, by the way. The people of my beloved and erstwhile home were looking at Heath and Michelle to validate their long underdogged borough in the way only hot celebs can), … Continue reading
This weekend was the junket for The Golden Compass in London, England, and some internet types had a chance to talk to Best James Bond Ever, Daniel Craig, who plays Lord Asriel in that film. Of course questions turned to Bond 22, but besides a reassurance that the film is still happening despite the strike, … Continue reading
A couple of days ago Brad Pitt dropped out of State of Play, the movie that was to reteam him with Fight Club buddy Edward Norton. Based on a British miniseries, State of Play is about an investigative journalist (the character Pitt was to play) who is investigating a killing that leads to a fast … Continue reading
Jonathan, Devin from CHUD here. You might remember exchanging a couple of emails when Ryan Rotten saw your film Welcome to the Jungle at the American Film Market last year and said it was a remake of Cannibal Holocaust. You seemed like a nice guy, and I was really looking forward to your film. I’m … Continue reading
The basic concept behind Michel Gondry’s new film, Be Kind Rewind, is a touch of genius – when Jack Black accidentally erases all the videotapes at the video store where he and Mos Def work, they have to rerecord all the movies, but featuring themselves. Apparently in the film this process is Sweding, and the … Continue reading
The Dark Knight was filmed in IMAX, and the IMAX website has put together a little featurette about director Christopher Nolan using the format to make his Batsequel. The featurette is mostly about how psyched everybody is to be using IMAX (did you know that it’s a big process? As in large in size? I … Continue reading
The big news about the Wachowski Bros’ adaptation of Speed Racer was originally that they were shooting the film in such a way that everything in the frame would be in focus, just like how everything in a cartoon is in focus. I was under the impression that this would require heavy duty camera skill … Continue reading
I want to program a ‘Brad Pitt dropped out of a movie’ macro on my computer*. The guy seems to always be pulling out of projects, from Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain to Almost Famous to The Departed, and now he’s added another to the list of ‘Could Have Been**’ movies: State of Play. This was … Continue reading
Remember all the speculation and excitement about the title for the JJ Abrams-produced monster movie codenamed ‘Cloverfield‘ or ‘1-18-08‘? And remember when we found out the title was… exactly what we’d been calling it for months and months? The new poster for that movie is just like that – it’s a poster we’ve already seen, … Continue reading
I want to be friends with Todd Haynes. He’s incredibly smart and funny and very laid back and cool. He’s exactly the kind of guy you could spend hours with having a series of terrific, intellectual but also hilarious conversations. And he’s one of our most exciting and fearless filmmakers, taking cinema to the edge … Continue reading