According to Steven Spielberg, you’ll be getting that Transformers sequel whether you like it or not, and you’ll be getting it real soon. During today’s meet-and-greet on the Universal lot, Spielberg revealed that not only will the story for the Transformers 2 screenplay be turned in next week, the film could very well go before … Continue reading
I just received a breathless phone call from Devin as he was leaving his half-day visit to the set of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (prick). Turns out he (and a select few online outlets) got to spend quite a bit of time chatting up Steven Spielberg. And it sounds like … Continue reading
When you tell me Doug Liman and John Hamburg are developing a project about "a private expedition to the moon and the race for lunar colonization", I’m not liable to get very excited. But when you add that their screenplay has been completely reconceived and rewritten by Mark Bowden, well, that’s something else entirely. While … Continue reading
It’s a bit early to consider this a "go" picture, but Terence Chang is talking about remaking The Killer again*, this time as a Korean-American hybrid set in Los Angeles’ bustling, hipster-infested K-Town . If this means lots of disaffected twentysomethings will get cut down in the crossfire, count me way the fuck in. Though … Continue reading
You probably haven’t been keeping track, but it’s taken Peter Sollett five years to secure financing for a follow-up to his terrific 2002 feature debut, Raising Victor Vargas. And If you haven’t seen Raising Victor Vargas, you’re missing out; it’s a beautifully rendered teenage romance that uses the Lower East Side of Manhattan as a, … Continue reading
Ten years ago, I walked out of Gillian Armstrong’s Oscar & Lucinda convinced of two things: 1) a massive glass cathedral floating down a river is as oppressive a visual metaphor as a crucified Jesuit tumbling over a waterfall, and 2) the lead actress cast opposite Ralph Fiennes would be one of her generation’s best. … Continue reading
Who the hell knows if Frank Miller’s adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit is going to be any good (actually, I might have an inkling if I ever get around to reading the script that’s been sitting on my living room table for the past week)? All that matters is this: Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, … Continue reading
It’s beginning to sound like The Goods: The Don Ready Story, a Used Cars-ish romp being produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay for Paramount Vantage, is essentially a reworking of August Blowout, a long-dead script that was partially cannibalized for Anchorman. Fine by me. Though the current version of the script is credited to … Continue reading
Happy "Trying Too Hard" Day! For a year or two, it looked like Simon West was going to give Michael Bay a run for Jerry Bruckheimer’s money as the modern day king of mindless action. But then he followed up the gleefully ludicrous Con Air with the plain old ludicrous The General’s Daughter and Lara … Continue reading
Imagi Animation Studios’ big screen rendition of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy couldn’t be more off my radar, but now that I’ve seen this splendid first image of the legendary character… I now know an Astro Boy movie is being made! And that Astro Boy will look like Astro Boy. And that there’s going to be … Continue reading