Last week I headed to Los Angeles to cover the Over the Hedge press junket. Garry Shandling stars in that film as Vern the Turtle, and he showed up for the roundtables, seeming incredibly uncomfortable. At the end of the interview his yellow felt tip pen exploded in his pants. Later I got my starfucker … Continue reading
Last week I headed to Los Angeles to cover the Over the Hedge press junket. Garry Shandling stars in that film as Vern the Turtle, and he showed up for the roundtables, seeming incredibly uncomfortable. At the end of the interview his yellow felt tip pen exploded in his pants. Later I got my starfucker … Continue reading
What the hell is up with Feast, the last movie to be made on Project Greenlight? I asked director John Gulager that question when I met him at the Slither premiere afterparty in Los Angeles a couple of months back. He wasn’t sure, and he wasn’t all that optimistic about the film getting a release. … Continue reading
Michael Bay’s Transformers is folding up its arms and tucking its head into its chest as it transforms from vaporfilm into a real live pre-production. Confirming rumors, Jon Voight tells SciFi Wire that he’s going to be appearing in the film, playing the Secretary of State. "Well, of course, this one is going to have … Continue reading
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is one of my most anticipated films this year. The teaser trailer is out now, and it tells me that I’m right to be excited. The teaser emphasizes a melancholy bleakness that I find most interesting in Westerns, and it doesn’t include any action at … Continue reading
Michael Bay’s Transformers is folding up its arms and tucking its head into its chest as it transforms from vaporfilm into a real live pre-production. Confirming rumors, Jon Voight tells SciFi Wire that he’s going to be appearing in the film, playing the Secretary of State. "Well, of course, this one is going to have … Continue reading
If there’s one thing that Sean Penn should learn from Paul Greengrass’ United 93, it’s to avoid recognizable faces in his adaptation of Into the Wild. The book, by John Krakauer, is a surprisingly gripping – and even more shockingly, emotionally engaging – true story about a young man who went to live on his … Continue reading
Paul Greengrass was the last person I spoke to on the very long United 93 press day, and I guess that’s fitting. It’s been a long journey, coming from Watchmen to what is turning out to be the most critically acclaimed film of 2006 (and an Oscar frontrunner? It’s going to be interesting to watch … Continue reading
Somehow it seems like cars and excellent internet short films go hand in hand. First it was BMW with their The Hire, and now it’s Pirelli Tires. And Pirelli isn’t screwing around – their first internet short, The Call, stars John Malkovich as the Vatican’s most powerful exorcist and Naomi Campbell as a dangerous and … Continue reading
I’m sorry about making Kristin Chenoweth cry. It wasn’t on purpose, I swear. I mean, I knew that asking her about John Spencer, her recently deceased co-star on The West Wing, might be emotional, but I didn’t expect the choking back of tears. Sorry! She’s so bubbly otherwise, too. Chenoweth is a tiny woman with … Continue reading