I visited the set of Screen Gems’ Prom Night last summer (coverage coming soon!), but, to be honest, a few hours spent watching a group of high school kids traipse into a ballroom wasn’t terribly indicative of how the PG-13 remake might turn out. The set was certainly running smoothly under Nelson McCormick’s direction, whose … Continue reading →
In every Indiana Jones movie, Indy comes up against some sort of vermin or creepy crawly: snakes, slimy bugs, rats. So what’s in store for him in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Ants, according to Lego. And possibly giant ones. Dennis Bruhn, who says he has one of the largest collection … Continue reading →
Paramount’s not showing the opening of Cloverfield to you, probably because that’s all boring get to know the characters stuff. Instead they’re showing the first five minutes of the monster’s attack on New York City, starting from a NY1 news report seen at a party going all the way to massive destruction in the streets. … Continue reading →
After retreating to the safety/sanity of creature effects sculpting in the wake of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Stephen Norrington is ready to try directing again. Really ready. Like Clash of the Titans remake ready. I don’t know what kind of budget Warner Brothers is thinking of lavishing on this project, but they must be … Continue reading →
Here’s the international teaser poster for The Dark Knight, which comes from Omelete. Is it just me or does Batman look like he’s been grounded and is whistfully looking out at the playground he’d rather be in?
If you’re not already familiar with the films of Pedro Almodovar, this is a good time to update your lame, anemic Netflix queue. The guy makes movies that are often amazing and always worth seeing and his stuff is all too frequently overlooked in the United States. Maybe his next movie will get more attention, … Continue reading →
There was recently an excellent fracas when IESB ran a story claiming that Star Trek XI‘s time travel plot would be using the Guardian – the donut shaped time portal from classic original Trek episode City on the Edge of Forever – as the mechanism to send some Romulans and Old Spock back to the … Continue reading →
It’s the latest thing in movie marketing: show the audience a big clip from the beginning of the movie. This obviously only works if the beginning of your movie is strong, and I think they’re fudging it anyway – the AVP-R clip was the first ten minutes crammed into five, and the new clip from … Continue reading →
You know Eva Cassidy, right? Singer…she died a few years back…cover over ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow"….anyone? No, me neither. In 1996 Cassidy, a performer from Washington, D.C., died from melanoma. She was 33, with a thin discography that included just one unreleased studio album. But critical praise was impressive and the posthumous collection Songbird eventually … Continue reading →
We’ve always known that animation is a great deal for movie actors, since they can knock off an entire feature in just a day or two. But getting a whole role down in twenty minutes seems like it might be a record. That’s what Jason Schwartzman claims to have done while making The Fantastic Mr. … Continue reading →