Mamma Mia!, the McDonalds of stage musicals, is about a woman who doesn’t know who her father is and inviting three possible candidates to her wedding. It’s a family values thing, all set to the tune of multiple Abba songs. The show, which has grossed a billion dollars and then some, is being made into … Continue reading
Playbill.com broke the story earlier – there’s a Spider-Man musical in the offing, with Julie Taymor directing and music and lyrics by Bono and the Edge. I’ve been alive long enough to see stranger things, but not many (among them: Superman, Captain America and Batman musicals in various stages of development and performance. Taymor is … Continue reading
Fans who were excited about the return of the legendary John Woo/Chow Yun Fat team can go ahead and get unexcited: three days into shooting the expensive historical epic Red Cliff, Chow’s out. At 70 million dollars, Red Cliff is most expensive Chinese film ever, with the script clocking in at four hours (Asian markets … Continue reading
FilmJerk is one of the best places to get early info on movie releases, and site runner Ed Havens is usually completely and totally correct. So that means that I believe the running time he has listed for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End: 170 minutes. That’s just a hair under three hours. Some … Continue reading
I can believe that Benicio del Toro is a werewolf with very little prodding. Believing that Sir Anthony Hopkins is his dad will take a little more suspending of my disbelief. Might as well get started on that now – Hopkins tells Rotten Tomatoes that he’s lining up to play Benicio’s sire in the upcoming … Continue reading
As casting announcements have been made for Indiana Jones IV (including the final confirmation of the rumor that all CHUD readers knew to be true months ago – that Shia LaBeouf is in the movie, despite his repeated denials. Shia the Liar!), one name has been absent. There’s been no word of Jonathan Rhys-Davies coming … Continue reading
If you didn’t catch the trailer for Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween on Yahoo! the other day, it’s too late. The trailer has been taken down by order of the MPAA, who has declared it too violent. The trailer will now be reclassified as a ‘Yellow Tag’ trailer – it will be back online soon, … Continue reading
Last week everybody was talking about Grindhouse and why it failed. It was like THE hot topic of conversations amongst douchebags like myself who sit on the sidelines of Hollywood as well as the douchebags who are smack dab in the middle of it all. Many people pointed at the film’s gargantuan running time of … Continue reading
If you’re going to have to remake a movie (and following 300’s wild success, Warner Bros to remake Clash of the Titans), you can at least get a good writer on board. Like the guy who wrote Dreamcatcher, for instance. I kid Lawrence Kasdan, of course. While that film sent him into hiding for four … Continue reading
Marvel continues to surprise me with their movies – Iron Man has a completely killer cast that sells the whole film all on its own. Now they’ve announced the lead for Hulk 2, and it’s none other than The Best Actor of His Generation, Ed Norton playing Doctor Bruce Banner, belted by gamma rays. This … Continue reading