There’s a rumor going around about Pixar’s upcoming slate – could the animation studio be putting out two sequels in a row? According to a Pixar blog*, Cars 2 will be released the year after Toy Story 3. This could possibly push John Carter of Mars back another year, to 2012. According to the site, … Continue reading
Now that Michael Moore has gone after the nation’s health with his excellent (and bi-partisanally acclaimed) Sicko, he’s going after our nation’s mental health: his next film might be about crazy gay-hating Christians. “I think it’s a very ripe subject for someone like me to make a movie about. Simply because we are not there … Continue reading
Bill Maher teaming up with Larry Charles (most recently the director of Borat, among many other funny things) for a documentary about world religion is great news for those of us who are not afraid to THINK about faith and God, and not just accept the knee-jerk inane teachings of our parents. The fact that … Continue reading
When my parents split up my dad left behind a treasure trove of LPs and books. Going through them all proved to be incredibly influential on my development and my life choices; one of the books that really changed me on a serious and deep level was The Tales of Hoffman, a book that presented … Continue reading
You probably know how much I love Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, so it should come as no surprise that I am psyched to hear that there’s some chatter of a sequel happening. Obviously the movie, which was Anchor Bay’s first theatrical release, didn’t burn up the box office, but I’m hearing … Continue reading
You may have noticed that I’ve been more or less absent from the site for the last couple of days. That’s because I’ve been balls-deep in my California move; now I’m coming at you from a laptop in a coffee shop in Long Beach, getting ready for the next phase, which is actually going to … Continue reading
Michael Regina, the guy behind the RorschachsJournal and TheVeidtMethod websites, contacted me in response to my editorials about his sites. In the interest of fairness, here is his letter, unedited and without comment. An open letter to Devin Faraci concerning ‘THE DEVIN’S ADVOCATE: THE VIRAL MARKETING IS MUTATING’ (http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=10986) posted July 10th, 2007.Being the authentic … Continue reading
The problem with making a movie out of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; in the fifth installment of her seven part series, it seems that JK Rowling lost control of her own narrative. The book is stuffed with filler, and while it’s the … Continue reading
For a certain segment of the web population, viral marketing puzzle campaigns are a blast. The kids today like to solve the puzzles and find the ancillary sites and to put the pieces together. For me, that’s an awful lot of work to have something advertised to me, but I can see where it would … Continue reading
This morning Comic Con revealed the full line-up of events, and one of the movies being presented by Warner Bros is Watchmen. Zack Snyder will be on hand, and will most likely be making some casting announcements… and one of them will be Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan. A very reliable source tells me that … Continue reading