Movie News

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

JOHN LANDIS HOLDS FORTH

Now that the Wright Stuff Film Festival is over, CHUD will only have updates about it once a day. But seriously, folks, I know that we’ve talked about this a lot but it’s been a pretty incredible experience on a lot of levels, and maybe one of the best things about it is that people … Continue reading

GAME GETS A HERO

Milo Ventimiglia, perhaps best known for being sexually assaulted by a certain webmaster at a Comic Con 2007 party, has joined Gerard Butler in Game, a futuristic action movie about a man trapped inside a Massively Multiplayer Online Game. Ventimiglia is also known as one of the stars of Heroes, a television show that heaps … Continue reading

HOBBIT HAPPENIN’

It was looking bleak there for a moment, but, deep down, did anyone really think The Hobbit would get made without Peter Jackson’s creative input? As for whether he’ll direct… But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The big news today is that New Line and Jackson have "settled all litigation relating to the Lord … Continue reading

THE APATOW BACKLASH HAS BEGUN

You can’t knock Judd Apatow for a lack of self-awareness: his latest video on Funny or Die is a little bit of self-mockery about viral marketing… that happens to be viral marketing for Walk Hard, opening this weekend. Well played, Apatow! In the clip Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd and Craig Robinson (from the … Continue reading

THE SCHUMACHER INSIDE ME?

Jim Thompson is one of the great American writers of the 20th century, and his tough, masculine prose and dark, cynical stories are ideal for movie adaptations, which is probably why Hollywood keeps coming back to his books. For the last couple of years The Killer Inside Me, one of his finest and most disturbing … Continue reading

MEET WALL-E, THE LONELY ROBOT

A few months ago at Comic-Con, Pixar panel attendees got to see most of a reel of Wall-E (I’ve already raved about it) and evidently most of that footage was recently run in Austin during Butt Numnb-A-Thon. If either of those venues proved too far to travel, MySpace is your new friend; that’s where the … Continue reading

300 BC

I was sort of shocked to see people on our message boards complaining that the trailer for Roland Emmerich’s 10,000 BC featured characters speaking English. What a weird thing to nitpick about a movie that is obviously trying to be a big, dumb spectacle. I must have missed the memo when documentary realism became the … Continue reading

TRAVOLTA COMES OUT

Page Six is reporting that John Travolta, molester of crippled old men, has been ‘let go’ from the long in development, long troubled film version of the TV soap Dallas, where he was set to play JR Ewing. The site claims that the role has now been passed on to one of Hollywood’s most overexposed … Continue reading

DOLLAR DOLLAR BILL Y’ALL

Dave Gibbons, the man who created Watchmen with Alan Moore, has made a visit to the film adaptation’s Vancouver set and likes what he sees. And how could he not – he came to visit on a pretty damn good day, when they were filming the one and only meeting of nascent supergroup The Crimebusters*. … Continue reading