Okay, so the headline is a tad misleading. Though The Hollywood Reporter is ballyhooing producer Morris S. Levy’s prepping of a fully authorized Rocky Marciano biopic, it’s still possible that Spike Lee could get his Joe Louis film up and shooting before the Brockton Blockbuster project even has a director. But considering Spike’s penchant for … Continue reading →
Man, a couple of days ago I had a great headline: Xzibit-Files. See, Xzibit is going to be in X-Files 2, and there’s that X in common between them and… well, anyway, I got distracted and didn’t run the story. But now I’ve run the gag! Speaking of X-Files 2, filming has begun and spy … Continue reading →
Say what you will about Sundance no longer being a showcase for small, indie films (and I have!), this year they’re premiering Hell Ride, a motorcycle gang movie written and directed by Larry Bishop, star of C.H.O.M.P.S. How can you complain about that? Shock Til You Drop has the first pictures from the Quentin Tarantino-produced … Continue reading →
The first five minutes of Aliens vs Predator – Requiem has shown up online and it has shocked the hell out of me… by not being terrible. The movie seems to waste no time getting started, and the first five minutes are veritably packed with action. It has a man getting his arm melted off … Continue reading →
Fox is doing some big reshuffling of their 2009 schedule, moving James Cameron’s superduper expensive Avatar from May to December to give the filmmaker and his FX pals at Weta more time in post and to work out the details of the groundbreaking new 3D techniques, as well as giving time for more theaters to … Continue reading →
Real talk: To how many projects can one man be attached? Even a man as big, giving and energetic as Guillermo del Toro? It seems like every week adds another movie to his list; the guy’s calendar must be booked through 2017. The latest film to supposedly attract GDT’s interest as a director is Haters, … Continue reading →
If the title Knowing sounds familiar, it’s because it was nearly Richard Kelly’s follow-up to Donnie Darko. I wonder if he thinks about that much. I just hope he wasn’t planning on circling back to it, because it’s now a go-picture for Alex Proyas and Nicolas Cage. Based on an idea and a heavily rewritten … Continue reading →
This year’s Butt-Numb-A-Thon seemed to have a modestly lackluster line-up*, but something really interesting happened during one of the premieres: the audience obviously and strongly turned against the movie. The film in question is The Poughkeepsie Tapes, a mockumentary about a serial killer that has been making the rounds of film festivals for the last … Continue reading →
I hate being in a position where I have to eat my words, but I’ll chow down like Herzog on leather when it’s called for. After dismissing Tim Burton as a hamster on a treadmill for the past decade, Sweeney Todd has forced me to admit that he’s got energy left to burn. His work … Continue reading →
What’s this? A Paul Rudd/Jason Segel vehicle not produced by Judd Apatow? Is that even possible? Just as Seth Rogen can leave the fold to co-star in a Kevin Smith movie, Rudd and Segel are evidently free to work with other people sans fear of punitive spanking from The Apatow. Actually, Rudd already does plenty … Continue reading →