Sadly* I will not be going to Sundance this year, but if you are going, I can tell you one short film you must not miss. And if you’re not going, I can tell you where you can see this movie, which is sure to get serious buzz at the Festival, online. You may remember … Continue reading
Neil Burger, whose movie The Illusionist was a sleeper hit for the Yari Film Group this summer, has just sold the pitch for his next movie to Universal. This time there’s no magic (although if you ask me there wasn’t much magic to The Illusionist either. Burn!!!) – Burger’s new film is a contemporary drama … Continue reading
Has footage from a Ghostbusters video game popped up online? Many fans on the web hope so, but I’m sitting here with my fingers crossed, hoping that this nonsense is totally fake. You can see the footage, which has popped up on YouTube, in one place by clicking here. Apparently this is the work of … Continue reading
A mysterious scooper has given Robert Sanchez of IESB.net some information about the first couple of pages of the script for Star Trek XI*, which is being produced under the auspices of Mr. JJ Abrams, of Alias, Lost and Mission: Impossible 3 fame. IESB reports that while the first few pages of the script don’t … Continue reading
Sometimes I have ignored my better judgment and stood by the creators of ABC’s desert island drama, Lost. While the online fanbase bitched about slow-moving plots and endless mysteries, I have long believed that these guys had an idea of what they were doing and where they were going – and I also just didn’t … Continue reading
Scooper Brendan O’Neill sent us a link to this picture, which is apparently the first image from Alien vs Predator 2, and it’s a doozy. And by doozy I mean a complete piece of crap. There’s something about the rubbery Xenomorph suit that calls to mind the crummier Godzilla movies. The Predator looks good enough, … Continue reading
Coming Soon “caught up”* with Kevin Smith and talked to him about some of his upcoming projects, most of which will hopefully keep him in front of the camera and not behind it. The biggest thing he had to talk about was his five days of work on Live Free or Die Hard; the Jersey … Continue reading
Last week we told you about Johnny Depp’s production company and Warner Bros optioning the rights to an upcoming book about mortally irradiated Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Now Columbia Pictures and Michael Mann are getting in the act – they’re optioning a book called Death of a Dissident, which is being written by Alex Goldfarb … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago I ran an editorial about why I had quit monthly comics in 2006. Today DC Comics announced something that made my decision look positively prescient, and makes me wonder what kinds of dopes their reading audience is. Last year DC Comics had an “Infinite Crisis” – a big crossover miniseries … Continue reading
Tony Kerasotes*, owner of the Kerasotes Theater chain in the Midwest is not just apparently a racist – he also seems to be a racist who doesn’t own a calendar. How else do you explain banning a black film from his theaters on MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WEEKEND? I swear to God, it’s like this … Continue reading