Last year we heard that Ron Howard was going to tackle the story of Cortez and the conquest of the Aztecs in The Serpent and the Eagle, to be written by Brian Helgeland. I don’t know if that’s still happening, but if it is, we have a Dueling Cortez Movie Race on our hands – … Continue reading
Poor Baz Luhrmann can’t catch a break these days. He was competing with Oliver Stone to get an Alexander the Great project off the ground, and when Stone’s stunk, it sank Baz’s take on the subject. That was a number of years just wasted for the director. Now he’s gotten his act together to get … Continue reading
This may not be news to you, but it was news to me. Then again, I just write the TV news here, so why would I be up to date with what’s happening on the boob tube? At any rate, the Sundance Channel is going to premiere City of Men tonight at 9; it’s the … Continue reading
Samuel L Jackson continues to indiscriminately sign on to projects, the latest being an adaptation of Stephen King’s short story 1408, itself an adaptation of a section of his book The Shining. Jackson seems to just sign whatever contract is on the top of his pile these days, and he’s working harder than a man … Continue reading
I was hoping that after Mr. & Mrs. Smith Doug Liman would return to making smaller movies. He hasn’t, but it seems like he’s meeting me halfway – the most famous person currently on board his next project, Jumper, is Jamie “Gone after the second act of King Kong” Bell. The movie is a sci-fi … Continue reading
Thanks to the Sci-Fi Channel we have five sets of Ghost Hunters Season One on DVD to give away – and each winner gets a Sci-Fi Channel t-shirt as well, just the thing you can wear when you want to make sure no icky girls hit on you. How do you win this prize? Answer … Continue reading
When I was a kid I really wanted to become a parapsychologist. I was fascinated by ghosts and UFOs and cryptids, and read everything I could on these subjects. I soon discovered that there’s really no money in that field, though, so I went on to a lucrative career in writing for the internet. Sci-Fi’s … Continue reading
Maybe we should change this site’s name to Cinematic Happenings Under David Dobkin. That’s right, this is the second news story in a row featuring the director of The Wedding Crashers – earlier tonight I brought you what I’m pretty sure is the scoop that Dobkin is directing an adaptation of the horror-comedy comic RIPD … Continue reading
This weekend I had a chance to talk with Phil Hay, the writer of Aeon Flux, coming to DVD this month. The interview is an interesting one, I think, because we talked about what didn’t work with the film, and what happened to the movie between Karyn Kusama’s director’s cut and the final version that … Continue reading
This weekend I had a chance to talk with Phil Hay, the writer of Aeon Flux, coming to DVD this month. The interview is an interesting one, I think, because we talked about what didn’t work with the film, and what happened to the movie between Karyn Kusama’s director’s cut and the final version that … Continue reading