There are few places as secretive and deceptive as the accounting offices of Hollywood studios. Just ask Art Buchwald, who won a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, claiming that they stole the idea for Coming to America from him. That wasn’t the part that really turned heads, though; in the penalty phase of the trial the … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Total Gross Weeks in Release 1 Borat $26,375,000 $26,375,000 1 2 Santa Clause 3 $20,000,000 $20,000,000 1 3 Flushed Away $19,100,000 $19,100,000 1 4 Saw III $15,500,000 $60,077,000 2 5 The Departed $8,000,000 $102,282,000 5 6 The Prestige $7,784,000 $39,414,000 3 7 Flags of our Fathers $4,500,000 $26,631,000 3 8 Man … Continue reading
Coming Soon has posted the official synopsis for Wanted, the movie based on Mark Millar’s recent comic book mini-series. Readers of the original book may note some… interesting changes in the concept here: Based upon Mark Millar’s explosive graphic novel series and helmed by the stunning visualist director Timur Bekmambetov–creator of the most successful Russian … Continue reading
This week has seen Cannibal Holocaust come up more often than even that time I went to the Cannibal Holocaust convention. First Bloody Disgusting reported that CH director Ruggero Deodato was making a cameo appearance in Eli Roth’s Hostel: Part 2. Then we relayed to you Ryan “Rotten” Turek’s look at Welcome to the Jungle, … Continue reading
A couple of days ago I told you that Ruggero Deodato, infamous director of Cannibal Holocaust, was making a cameo in Eli Roth’s Hostel: Part 2. Now comes word that Deodato’s film has essentially been remade… by Jonathan “Punisher” Hensleigh and Gale Anne Hurd. What a weird coincidence. Ryan “Rotten” Turek over at Fangoria reports … Continue reading
A good critic should react to a movie, not to the movie’s poster or trailer or Fox’s seeming desire to burn the freshness out of the movie months before it’s even released. It’s that last one that has given me some trouble with Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. … Continue reading
I want to make Roy Frumkes the patron saint of CHUD.com; I don’t think there’s anyone in the film world whose sensibility is more in line with ours. Roy wrote and produced the splattery classic Street Trash, about bums that drink a tainted wine that causes them to melt and explode – a movie that … Continue reading
One of the most surprising things about 50 Cent’s movie Get Rich or Die Tryin’ was how utterly terribly Fiddy was as an actor. Sometimes I would stare at the screen in wonder and amazement at how bad he was – it was like Fiddy was a one dimensional being let loose in a three … Continue reading
After just one week of filming, the remake of Revenge of the Nerds has shut down. No, it’s not because everyone involved came to their senses; rather, the movie’s biggest location – Emory College in Atlanta – got the jitters over the film’s raunchy content and pulled out of their deal with Fox Atomic. The … Continue reading
The Hughes Brothers have been in director jail* since 2002’s From Hell was so fucking terrible. Just completely fucking awful. But now they’re coming back, and it’s with a project that a number of directors have been eyeing – a big screen version of the David Carradine TV show Kung Fu. The script is being … Continue reading