Zack Snyder knows how this game works. He’s high up on lists right now based on the success of 300, but Watchmen could change things really fast, either for the better or worse. So he’s already got a couple projects lined up for after Watchmen: Army of the Dead and Sucker Punch, both of which … Continue reading
Typically if someone told me that two of their favorite movies were Death Race 2000 and The Long Good Friday, I’d flip the jive hand, yell ‘right on, brother!’ and then buy them a shot of Crown. When the person elaborated that they’d ideally profess admiration for those two movies by remaking them, I’d probably … Continue reading
Be careful what you wish for. Many of us fervently hoped Warner Brothers would bring The Assassination of Jesse James into a wide release through October. And now… Yesterday afternoon I got an email from our Atlanta WB rep saying that Warner Brothers would be releasing the film in Atlanta…this Friday. Such a short lead … Continue reading
The lineage of parent-child cinema collaborations is as variable as my commitment to the rent payment each month. Sometimes you get Ladd and Dern in Wild At Heart; other times you get Coppola and Coppola on The Godfather III, or for that matter on Dracula. Which one will it be when Michel Gondry co-directs an … Continue reading
Hollywood, if Nick’s Sleestak article wasn’t enough to convince you that there are some things not worth going ahead with, I’m going to send along the results of a survey recently conducted at a sixth-grade class (the Thundercats’ prime demo) in my hometown. Kids were asked what they thought about a Thundercats movie. The responses: … Continue reading
In the last four years, the work of Thai filmmaker Pen-ek Ratanaruang has grown more alienated and interior. The trend began with his career-high Last Life In The Universe, which built a love story in spite of language and cultural barriers. The follow-up and companion piece of sorts, Invisible Waves, tore the love story apart … Continue reading
I have no good reason why I didn’t post this when I glimpsed it on Film Ick the other day, but there’s some serious news to report on Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus — notably that it’s actually happening, or at least is in pre-production. Gilliam knows that’s a slight stretch from a … Continue reading
That’s right. Routh’s days of hanging out near the employee entrances of bakeries and butchers, where he’s reportedly engaged in mano-a-mano duels for nightly scraps (though never in the WB-owned Superman suit) are over, at least for the few weeks it’ll take to shoot the film Dead Of Night. Dead is the adaptation of the … Continue reading
Oliver Stone is one for one in the biopic duel, though he might call Alexander a pyrrhic victory. He’s stepping up to the line again, this time as producer of an alternate flick about Pablo Escobar. His film, Escobar, will be directed by Antoine Fuqua, based on the book Mi Hermano Pablo written by Escobar’s … Continue reading
Fletcher Munson: [sunnily, on homecoming] Generic greeting! Mrs. Munson: [warmly] Generic greeting returned! Fletcher Munson: Imminent sustenance. Mrs. Munson: Overly dramatic statement regarding upcoming meal. Fletcher Munson: Oooh! False reaction indicating hunger and excitement! That’s Steven Soderbergh’s brilliant dialogue from Schizopolis, but it could very easily be the stuff of EverQuest, Sony’s hopeful franchise-in-waiting, based … Continue reading