Neil Gaiman wants you to know that he was not bullshitting you at Comic Con when he talked up Robert Zemeckis’ CGI version of Beowulf, which he co-wrote with Roger Avary. This is not the movie that advertising may have led you to believe it is, and I am happy to tell you that Gaiman’s … Continue reading
Yesterday was the big brouhaha about Rob Zombie directing a remake of 1980s C-movie C.H.U.D., from whence the very name of this site comes. I told you how some people in the world of horror news poo-poo’ed the concept, but then Johnny Butane claimed to confirm it, saying he had spoken to Rob himself. Well, … Continue reading
Last night I was hobnobbing with the elite of the horror movie news scene at the premiere party for P2 (I didn’t go to the movie, I just ate their food and drank their rum. And watched Wes Bentley and Rachel Nichols totally take off together), and someone told me that Billboard had announced that … Continue reading
Lately we have been less interested in doing roundtables here at CHUD. The idea of sharing the exact same content with a dozen other outlets and having to deal with plenty of crummy questions just doesn’t seem worth it, in the long run. But of course there are always exceptions, and one of the big … Continue reading
The trailer for Valkyrie, the Tom Cruise in a Nazi uniform and eyepatch movie, has debuted at Yahoo! movies. It’s one of those trailers that gives the whole movie away, but I guess there’s no harm in that, since anybody with a brain knows the plan to kill Hitler failed. There are three things I … Continue reading
Looking at the cast list of Star Trek XI I see that the only person who I find really exciting is Eric Bana as the bad guy. If the rest of the bridge crew had been better cast I might have been psyched about Simon Pegg as Scotty, but he’s surrounded by third rate actors … Continue reading
Guillermo del Toro has added another item to his already heaping plate of future projects. He’ll be writing, directing and producing a movie version of an obscure British TV series, The Champions, for United Artists. The Champions ran for 30 episodes from 1968 to 1969, and it was about a secret UN trio called Nemesis … Continue reading
Frank Langella is making the rounds promoting his latest movie, Starting Out in the Evening, and as will happen when you place anyone in a room with a bunch of internet writers, he’s spilling on his next projects*, including The Box and Frost/Nixon, but what I’m interested in is what he had to say about … Continue reading
Do you want to be in Star Trek XI? Are you skinny? That’s the only hard and fast requirement for being an extra in the film, although being super ugly while being skinny is helpful. A casting call has gone out for the film, and it’s looking like they need a bunch of aliens and … Continue reading
I don’t think anyone got that up in arms about a remake of 3:10 to Yuma because the original wasn’t a hardcore classic (although any movie ages enough and someone will argue for its inclusion in the canon). You can’t say that about High Noon, a movie that is considered one of the best mainstream … Continue reading