One of the scenes you’ll probably never see in the CHUD.com movie involved a couple of minor characters hunting for the autographs of famous — and not-so famous — monsters. The next best thing might be Nick Redfern’s novel Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monster, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil … Continue reading
Thirty seconds after I wrote an oblique Tom Waits joke into an article about The Return, I hit on another news item that actually features the guy. Expect a lot more Waits jokes in the future if they’ll always conjure up new film appearances by my favorite voice. Waits is among the cast members of … Continue reading
All those 20-something women with The Notebook listed as their favorite movie on MySpace may soon have a new top tearjerker. Rachel McAdams has signed on to The Return alongside Tim Robbins and Michael Pena, working under Illusionist director Neil Burger. Burger’s script, with Dirk Wittenborn, is nicely topical: three soldiers returning from the war … Continue reading
What did I say earlier today about Monday news? Here’s more casting non-news we might as well talk about before someone starts claiming it as gospel: Zach Snyder likes Gerard Butler a lot and wouldn’t mind him being in Watchmen, but the actor hasn’t had any discussions about the project, much less read or signed … Continue reading
For a while, at least, Joel Silver isn’t going to be able to show his face in public without answering questions about Wonder Woman. With Joss Whedon off the project due to creative differences and a new spec script in hand by unknown writers Matthew Jennison and Brent Strickland, the DC fanbase wants to know … Continue reading
I’ve got a lot of respect for the working actor — it takes massive dedication to show up for bit parts, commercials and godawful corporate/industrial projects day in and day out. Hundreds and hundreds of unheralded folks make their living fleshing out the stuff we watch on TV and in the theater. And sometimes, all … Continue reading
The best thing about Monday morning is the flood of Oh Don Piano! news coming out of the weekend junkets. And though this might look like an attention-getting Monday morning fake, it’s probably going to happen. IESB is reporting that at the junket for Shooter, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura was talking up G.I. Joe, which … Continue reading
The original: Scanners.The remake director: Darren Lynn Bousman.The remake writer: David Goyer.The exploding head: mine. I should just leave it at that. What else is there to say when Dimension hires the Saw III and IV director to helm another movie, regardless of what it is? Giving the project the benefit of the doubt, however, … Continue reading
Danny Boyle has always needed to make a sci-fi picture, if only because he uses Brian Eno’s sountrack to For All Mankind more thoughoughly than even that film’s director did. Watching the latest clip and trailer for Sunshine, Boyle’s apparently massive excursion into space, I’m more curious than ever to see what’s come of his … Continue reading
Doug Jones is a guy you should know by name, if not by voice. After appearing in Blade 2, Guillermo del Toro tapped him to play Abe Sapien in Hellboy. More recently Jones brought to life both Pan and the Pale Man in Pan’s Labyrinth. He’s pretty much wrapped his role as the Silver Surfer … Continue reading