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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

IRON MAN IS A POSER

Iron Man is starting to remind me of some girls on MySpace. No, I don’t mean that he’s covered in glitter and starts playing a Justin Timberlake song as soon as you open his profile. Sometimes you’ll find a cute broad and you’ll go through their pictures and you realize that they have the same … Continue reading

ALI G IN DA COFFIN

Sacha Baron Cohen, really just confirming what’s been suspected for a while, has talked up the deaths of Ali G and Borat to The Daily Telegraph. After nearly ten years on screen as Ali G, Choen says he’s never going to play he and Borat again. This can’t come as a surprise to anyone who … Continue reading

DELLAMORTE’S B.O. WRAP UP – 12/21/07

F.I.L.M. D.A.N.C.E Per S.C.R.E.E.N. D.I.V.O.R.C.E. 1 National Treasure: Book of Secrets $45,500,000 $11,873 $45,500,000 2 I Am Legend $34,225,000 (-55.7%) $9,454 $137,490,000 3 Alvin and the Chipmunks $29,000,000 (-34.5%) $8,288 $84,867,000 4 Charlie Wilson’s War $9,618,000 $3,735 $9,618,000 5 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street $9,350,000 $7,485 $9,350,000 6 P.S. I Love You … Continue reading

THE DEVIN’S ADVOCATE: BLURBED!

Fuckin’ Jake Rossen. For about two years I had been playing with the idea of doing a book about the tortured journey that Superman took from Superman IV to Superman Returns, and had even talked to some friends in publishing about it. Then I get an email from this Rossen guy asking me some questions … Continue reading

DELLAMORTE DOES BOX OFFICE – 12/21/07

Let’s make the magic happen. The magic… of Box Office BATTLE ROYALE – THIS WEEKENDNational Treasure: Book of Secrets – 3832 screens. Prelim report: Well, people liked it the last time… Positives: It’s a sequel to a surprisingly successful first film (final tally $173 million), and though Cage is coming off of Next, Ghost Rider … Continue reading

BERG CONTROLS THE SPICE!

In August we broke the story that a deal was close to happening to bring Dune back to the big screen. Our source said that there was a director attached who was a huge fan of the property; this set off a round of speculation, and many people began to say Peter Berg. Turns out … Continue reading

FOR NO GOOD REASON: 2007 BY THE MOMENTS

2007, the best year for cinema since Deepstar Six and Leviathan revolutionized the medium, is drawing to a close. Critics groups are dishing out awards, the Guilds are nominating their peers, the Hollywood Foreign Press is making seating arrangements, and individual critics are compiling top ten lists that will feature at least one or two … Continue reading

POKING AROUND THE RUINS

I have to be honest with you: I was disappointed when I visited the editing room of The Ruins. Not in the footage I saw, which was actually bordering on incredible, or what director Carter Smith said, which was just about everything right (the films he used as a point of comparison were Lifeboat and … Continue reading