From Sue Storm, Fantastic Four’s Invisible Woman to The Eye’s blind heroine, Jessica Alba has come full circle. So when Lionsgate invited CHUD to visit the set last Saturday to meet the ingénue, I went to see what’s what. The Eye is a retelling of 2002’s Pang Brothers’ Gin gwai – the same siblings who … Continue reading
This past week, Oprah Winfrey made some history with her book club. For the first time ever she picked a book that involved post-apocalyptic cannibalism, specifically Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. McCarthy’s a great writer – one of America’s best, without question – but The Road is a change of pace for the man known best … Continue reading
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the last time he directed a movie actually worth watching, Sydney Pollack has signed on to helm Recount, a narrative movie about the 2000 presidential elections and the Florida recount. You could make the argument that 9/11 was the defining moment of this new millennium so far, but I … Continue reading
Rod Lurie has a film on the CHUD Essentials list (Deterrence). Now he’s remaking a movie that could have been a contender (oh snap, pun intended) for that list – Straw Dogs. And he’s remaking it for the House that Shitty Movies Built: Screen Gems. I have to admit I don’t understand the point of … Continue reading
The video of David O. Russell flipping out on Lily Tomlin on the set of I <3 Huckabees is pretty amazing footage. Anybody who has been following Russell’s career (as I have; I think he’s one of our great modern directors) has heard stories about how ‘difficult’ the guy can be; ie, how he got … Continue reading
I like Mark Wahlberg a lot. And that’s really saying something, because I was a little indie rock snob at the peak of his Funky Bunch days, and the disdain my type felt for his type was hard to overcome. But Mark did overcome them, I was even rooting for him at the Oscars this … Continue reading
Doing interviews for Blades of Glory, I got to come about as close as I will ever get to fulfilling my dream of meeting Woody Allen by getting a chance to meet Will Ferrell, who stared in Melinda and Melinda. I also had the chance to meet with Jon Heder, who I have seen on … Continue reading
So I missed the unveiling of the cover of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Let me make that up to you with a fucking BARRAGE of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix images, now flooding my inbox from my good friends at Warner Bros. These images will be appearing in the new … Continue reading
In an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Mia Farrow and her son, Ronan (the Accuser), made some very strong statements about Steven Spielberg and his involvement in the 2008 Olympics, to be held in China. "Is Mr. Spielberg, who in 1994 founded the Shoah Foundation to record the testimony of survivors of the Holocaust, … Continue reading
No project in years has divided me like You Don’t Mess With the Zohan (the last one to get me this confused was Debbie Does ‘Em All – how could she possibly do them all and within the running time? But yet that is such a great concept! God, even now I find I am … Continue reading