Diary of the Dead disappoints… by being too good. How’s that for a weird critique? If Land of the Dead was George Romero’s post-9/11/Iraq War zombie movie, Diary is his flat out 9/11 film. It’s back to the night of the living dead, except it’s taking place today. The world is obviously a very different … Continue reading
Last year I sat down in front of a camera and swore like a sailor with Tourrete’s – even going so far as to call respected film critic Leonard Maltin a twatmuffin. The fruits of that session were woven into a documentary called Heckler, about the relationship between comedians and their audiences and filmmakers and … Continue reading
Just in case the news that Simon Pegg has been cast as Scotty in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek wasn’t weird enough for you today, now we hear that John Cho – the guy from Harold and Kumar! – has been cast as Sulu. One of the Tremor Brothers from Smokin’ Aces as Kirk. Sylar from … Continue reading
This afternoon Sony had a group of journalists come by the Burt Lancaster Theater on the studio lot to see about twenty minutes of footage from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and do a Q&A with producer Judd Apatow, director Jake Kasdan and star John C Reilly. Reilly was on his lunch break from … Continue reading
There are some of you reading this who are old enough to drink but not old enough to remember a time when the name Tobe Hooper would bring excitement to fans. In reality his 85/86 trio of Lifeforce, Invaders From Mars and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 are not a beacon of quality, but at the … Continue reading
I still have not heard back from Daniel Alter about yesterday’s Xavier Gens-getting-kicked-from-Hitman story, which is odd. But IGN did talk to somebody who agreed that Nicholas De Toth has been brought in as an editor, but denied that he had been ordered to cut a bloodless version of the movie. "The film still has … Continue reading
When I was visiting the set of The Golden Compass, I sat down for lunch with producer Mark Ordesky and talked about the His Dark Materials series as a trilogy (Compass is the first book in the series by Philip Pullman). The first and third books would obviously work as movies, I said, but the … Continue reading
There’s a lot of cool stuff that happens in LA: premieres, parties, random celeb sightings (I saw you at Morton’s Steakhouse last night, Jessica Simpson!). But this Saturday one of the coolest things I could possibly imagine is taking place in Hollywood: a 3D screening of Friday the 13th Part 3 3D. It’s part of … Continue reading
Remember the I Am Legend teaser poster, with Will Smith walking away from a whole bunch of GIANT WORDS? Some time has passed. The words are smaller, and now he has a gun and a dog. And now he’s on the one sheet, not just the teaser. As far as I can tell, someone at … Continue reading
Quick quiz: When is President’s Day? Yeah, I don’t know either. February or something, right? But the marketing team behind Doug Liman’s new film, Jumper, have decided to brand the movie as "Coming President’s Day Weekend!" Best of luck with that. The trailer is… interesting. I’ve heard tales of a troubled shoot on this one, … Continue reading