I never watched Alexandra Pelosi’s campaign documentary, Journeys with George, but if Steven Zaillian thinks it’s the political world’s equivalent of The Devil Wears Prada, maybe I’ll track it down. Or maybe I’ll just wait for Zaillian and his recently formed production company, Film Rites, to get their fictionalized feature adaptation into theaters. The documentary … Continue reading
The frantic spectacle that is the casting of George Miller’s Justice League of America is beginning to resemble a hobo on a shopping spree at a 99-cent store. Forced to lower their sights after B-lister Jessica Biel spurned their Wonder Woman offer (she’s too busy trying to be the next Julia Roberts without the $100 … Continue reading
I don’t normally take phone calls at 7:50 AM on a Saturday (not even, no, especially not from my mom), but I will always make an exception for Sir Ridley Scott. He could call me at 7:50 AM every Saturday for the next three years, and I don’t think I’d complain. He might get awfully … Continue reading
It’s hard to get excited over the official theatrical trailer for Rambo what with that excessively gory teaser from last May still fresh in ol’ noggin. Factor in a smattering of lame dialogue and a complete lack of Jerry Goldsmith-ian cues, and I’m not sure I care about this movie anymore. Compare the above (which … Continue reading
Ah, it’s nice to see Jet Li is enjoying his retirement from martial arts films. Technically, I guess The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is more of a "Rob Cohen product" than a "martial arts film"; it’s surely less physically taxing than, say, Fist of Legend, Hero or Fearless. It’s just dispiriting to watch … Continue reading
There will be a clearer, sharper theatrical trailer for I Am Legend posted shortly (and we’ll link that here, too), but for those of you who can’t wait to see the vampires/cannibals/bitey things in action… would you settle for a dog running on a treadmill??? We do get a few glimpses of the bloodsucking beasties … Continue reading
Dear morons who watched all three seasons of Hope and Faith: you’re suddenly, if briefly, useful. Megan Fox, the tattooed temptress of Michael Bay’s Transformers, has just been cast as the lead in Diablo Cody’s follow-up to Juno, Jennifer’s Body, and, given the limited range of emotions – i.e. "fear" and "fuck me" – displayed … Continue reading
There was never any question that Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio would re-team for a fourth collaboration; what’s surprising, though, is that it’s not called The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt or The Wolf of Wall Street. And while no one was expecting the duo to come together for an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island, … Continue reading
When I paid my first visit to Sony Imageworks’ Culver City campus four years ago, it was difficult to get a handle on where the company was headed. Ostensibly, I was there to interview the legendary John Dykstra* (who had just received an Academy Award nomination for his visual effects work on Spider-Man – along … Continue reading
For those who felt the twenty-six-year-old Ryan Gosling was questionable casting as the father in the film version of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, it could be that Peter Jackson just agreed with you: according to Variety, Gosling is out, and Mark Wahlberg is in as the anguished, self-destructive Jack Salmon. Ah, "creative differences". I … Continue reading