PETA has written a letter to Speed Racer producer Joel Silver saying that they’ve heard reports of animal abuse on the set of the Wachowski-directed adaptation of a crummy cartoon. "We are in receipt of information that may upset you," PETA wrote. "We’ve received several troubling complaints from people who have been on the ‘Speed … Continue reading
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has turned down Oliver Stone’s request to make a documentary about him. Seems that Stone, despite being a popular whipping boy for idiot conservatives in America, is still too Satanic for our Persian enemies-in-waiting. Says the LA Times: "It is true that [Stone] is known as a dissident in the U.S., … Continue reading
Last week I ran a piece about unemployed Superman Brandon Routh being very, very eager to get back in the cape and tights… and also star in a Justice League movie. Some readers took exception to that, possibly members of the Twinks4Routh club. They felt it was mean-spirited of me to poke fun at the … Continue reading
I can’t imagine this counts as good news: Rob Zombie and the cast and crew of the Halloween remake have gone back and done seven days of reshoots, during which they shot a new ending and six new death scenes. According to Bloody-Disgusting.com the deaths and ending are more gruesome than before, and really push … Continue reading
It’s always been obvious that the Will Smith superhero movie Tonight, He Comes would get a new name – that title is just fucking awful. But who would have guessed that the film would actually get a title that was even worse? The movie, a softened version of a script about a hard-drinking superhero who … Continue reading
With Transformers Michael Bay has come very close to giving us the great summer blockbuster of this decade; while it never fully comes together as the ass-kicking, brain-annihilating joy we wanted, it does manage to stand head and shoulders over the rest of the stunted crop of Summer 07. Transformers is probably the Rosetta Stone … Continue reading
Frighteningly omnipresent celebrity gossip website TMZ.com has snapped some pictures of Benicio Del Toro as he prepares to play Larry Talbot, aka The Wolf Man, in the upcoming remake of the Universal monster classic, and either Benicio is going Method on us and finding out what it’s like to get all hairy, or Larry’s gonna … Continue reading
While the Wachowski’s version of Speed Racer is already doing laps in Berlin, new faces keep getting added to the cast. The latest: Richard Roundtree, known to a generation of moviegoers as Shaft, the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks. A less lucky generation knows him as the old dead … Continue reading
For most actors the dilemma about taking a superhero franchise role is whether or not that part will typecast them forever. Brandon Routh, meanwhile, is just worried about get cast – the guy’s career has been suspiciously quiet ever since Superman Returns came out. It’s been a year since that movie was released and he’s … Continue reading
Yesterday I saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at the Warner Bros screening room in midtown Manhattan. It was the first ever New York screening, at 2 in the afternoon, and it was the day after school let out for the summer, so the screening room was packed with kids (all very … Continue reading