You know that Prince of Persia movie that’s been simmering at Disney for month after month? Well, Disney’s Oren Aviv and Jerry Bruckheimer have offered the directing gig to Mike Newell, the man who is currently awating critical savagery for his Love In The Time Of Cholera. Newell has met with Disney and the ‘Heimer … Continue reading
Matt Gerald looks like a cop, and in the photo to the right he looks like a cop who’s one chromosome away from being an Alaskan vampire. Consequently he’s usually cast as a law-giving type: in the upcoming Choke; in Terminator 3, S.W.A.T, Tigerland, etc. (OK, he was a military officer in Tigerland. Close enough.) … Continue reading
This is more non-news than anything else, but if you want me to start inventing excuses to run quotes from Michael Bay I can do so, right after I finish this bottle of Basil Haydens. Evidently Bay thinks they gave too much away to the web, and therefore to Transfans*, while making the first Transformers … Continue reading
JJ Abrams’ new Star Trek flick which, like Devin I’d really like to see work, continues to experience the WTF casting malady. The latest symptom has Winona Ryder cast as mother to Zachary Quinto’s Spock. What do you say to that? That she’s a scene-stealer? I try to come up with a decent joke and … Continue reading
Somewhere in any top ten list of ‘important’ authors from the past fifty years resides Don DeLillo. Composer of novels that are somewhere between those of Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth, his books tell the story of the 20th and 21st centuries in a unique, if occasionally long-winded fashion. As dense as his work is, … Continue reading
I can’t say I dig everything he’s been doing, but Mark Wahlberg is on a hell of a roll. Fresh from The Departed he had Shooter and We Own The Night, and he’s already jumped to The Lovely Bones and, um, Shyamalan’s The Happening. Now there’s a new addition to his burgeoning slate: Max Payne, … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: DisneyMSRP: $29.99RATED: GRUNNING TIME: 111 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Fine Food & Film: A Conversation Between Brad Bird and Thomas Keller • Deleted Scenes• Two shorts: Lifted and Your Friend The Rat The Pitch "Hi, I’m Brad Bird, and I can make a fantastic movie out of anything!" The Humans Patton … Continue reading
So what’s up with the publicity still of the Des Moines Priapsis Players community production of Heat? Actually, it’s one of four stills of the Pacino / De Niro team-up Righteous Kill, a movie that’s only about a decade too late. Empire Online has the exclusive pics, one of which demonstrates that, yes, you can … Continue reading
Just as Alex is writing about friends of CHUD putting their own spin on Edgar Allen Poe stories over at Creature Corner comes word of a new cinematic spin to the classic The Tell-Tale Heart. Josh Lucas will be the headliner in Tell-Tale, as “a single father whose recently transplanted heart leads him on a … Continue reading
Unless you’re Barbara Gordon, a comeback has to happen one step at a time. For Michelle Pfeiffer Stardust was a primo first step, but Personal Effects might not be the ideal next one – her co-star would be Ashton Kutcher, who’s been in stasis since The Guardian was a non-starter. Based on the story Mansion … Continue reading