It took Clive Owen long enough, but it appears as if he’s finally a viable Hollywood movie star. Coming off a very impressive 2006 that found him co-toplining one box office smash, Spike Lee’s Inside Man, and outright starring in another steady b.o. performer, Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men, Owen has just booked the lead … Continue reading
There’s nothing worse for a genre filmmaker’s career than to attain geek deification with one’s first picture. While the initial adulation is wonderful, expectations set in as soon as the second movie is announced. Give ’em enough time, and they’ll start writing the next one themselves – either in their heads or as fan fiction … Continue reading
Title Weekend Gross Per Screen Gross to Date 1 Disturbia $23,025,000 $7,871 $23,025,000 2 Blades of Glory $14,065,000(-37.6%) $4,056 $90,195,000 3 Meet the Robinsons $12,103,000 (-27.6%) $3,737 $72,004,000 4 Perfect Stranger $11,500,000 $4,321 $11,500,000 5 Are We Done Yet? $9,200,000 (-35.5%) $3,197 $33,004,000 6 Pathfinder $4,800,000 $2,790 $4,800,000 7 Wild Hogs $4,639,000 (-30.2%) $1,909 $152,243,000 … Continue reading
I’m a little late with this one. I never meant to let you down like this. Things just got a little out of hand today, baby. What I got to do to make it up to you? The Crop: State of Play The Studio: Universal The Director: Kevin Macdonald The Producers: Andrew Hauptman, Tim Bevan … Continue reading
First off, I just want to commend Michael Fleming for kicking off his Variety article concerning the below with "Got Milk?". Goddamn, he’s good. If you’ve been following the career of Bryan Singer, you’ll know that the comic book adapting filmmaker has long been circling The Mayor of Castro Street, a project based on Randy … Continue reading
Are you seated? Well, can you get seated? I have some shocking news that may forever alter the way you prepare peas. Nikki Finke, the tough-as-nails Deadline Hollywood Daily editor who once punched her way through the steel hull of a trash barge with her bare fists just for the story, has received word from … Continue reading
Hey guys, I hope you week went well, and you filled out those tax forms and shit. Let’s see how wrong I am this week THE MOST INTERESTING FILM OF THE WEEK We are in the off-season. Though you can now release a film any time of the year and have a nine-figure hit, January, … Continue reading
The just-done-broke news that Rob Marshall will direct Nine, a live action rendition of Maury Yeston’s stage musical rendition of Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2, for The Weinstein Company is cause for both delight and concern. The delight comes in knowing that I’ll finally get to see an actual production of Nine, which swiped the 1982 … Continue reading
How did it take this long for Dino De Laurentiis to finance another romp in the space age boudoir with Barbarella? The character, a creation of French comic book artist Jean-Claude Forest, is a liberated gal who gallivants about the cosmos in various states of undress – in other words, the favorite pastime of such … Continue reading
Just as the now late Kurt Vonnegut’s works resisted cinematic interpretation, the novels of Philip Roth, and those of their contemporaries who thrived in the post-World War II era, have never been adequately transferred from prose to screen. This is probably because their writing tended to get lost in ideas rather than plotting; while one … Continue reading