Oh, Variety, you’ve done it again. Earlier this year you goinked my Zyzzyx Road story without giving me any credit, and eventually had to run a piece saying CHUD originated Zyzzyx Fever. Today you ran a piece about how Marc Rocco – whose last directorial gig was Murder in the First in 1995 – would … Continue reading
Dominic Sena rarely makes movies. It was seven years between Kalifornia, his first film, and Gone in Sixty Seconds.* It was only a year until his next movie – Swordfish – but the guy has been out of the game for the last six years. We were all happy, but we knew that Sena would … Continue reading
The Zodiac Killer case is one of America’s great murder mysteries. He terrorized San Francisco between 1968 and 1969, killing at least five people, and continued to taunt the authorities with letters for years to come. His letters contained cryptograms, and three of them remain unsolved to this day. The letter above is a scan, … Continue reading
In America we get all worked up about a school shooting that kills a kid or two. Compare that to the terrifying ordeal and death toll of the hostage crisis in a Russian school in September of 2004 – Muslim Chechen terrorists took over a school in the Russian town of Beslan, holding hostage 1200 … Continue reading
One of the all-time great documentaries about the making of a movie is also one of the least seen – Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. It’s filled with unflinching behind the scenes footage of the legendarily difficult Apocalypse Now shoot, and in many ways the documentary is as compelling as the actual film, and … Continue reading
In the fall we brought you the news that Joe Carnahan would be directing an adaptation of White Jazz, James Ellroy’s sequel to LA Confidential. Later it was announced that George Clooney would be starring as dirty cop Dave Klein, sending interest in the film through the roof. Carnahan has said that he would like … Continue reading
Last year Fox found major success with the MySpace screenings of Borat, which sent thousands of people out of theaters with the kind of killer buzz no ad campaign can create. Now they’re trying to get the same reaction from Reno 911!: Miami, the big screen version of the hit Comedy Central improv cop show. … Continue reading
Michael Caine was famously on the set of Jaws: The Revenge when he won his Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters. Helen Mirren will probably be in the Kodak Theater on Oscar night to collect her all but inevitable award for The Queen, but she was on set in England the day the nominations were … Continue reading
Yet another great comedic actor is joining the Judd Apatow Universe of Comedy Stars – Jenna Fischer, who plays receptionist Pam on the American version of The Office, has signed on to star alongside John C Reilly in the fake music biopic Walk Hard, which Apatow is writing with director Jake Kasdan. Fischer, who is … Continue reading