After seeing I Am Legend I’m not sure I want Will Smith to be hunting anything but the monsters in Jada Pinkett’s past. But that’s not stopping him from guiding a flick called Monster Hunter for Sony. Starring Hitch co-criminal Kevin James, the flick is about a child psychologist able to see the monsters that … Continue reading →
Well, John Singleton is directing The A-Team movie. I know there are people out there who really like The A-Team, and while I don’t get that – even as a kid I found the show unbearably cheesy – I can accept it. The thing about the A-Team is that Singleton is such a perfect director … Continue reading →
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been talking with the folks at Warner Bros and G4 about doing something a little fun, and it’s coming to fruition tomorrow, live on television. G4 and CHUD will be premiering the trailer for 10,000 BC, with me presenting it live on Attack of the Show. I’m pretty … Continue reading →
The Crop: Year One The Studio: Columbia Pictures The Director: Harold Ramis The Writers: Harold Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg (based on a story by Ramis) The Cast: Jack Black, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Oliver Platt, David Cross, Vinnie Jones and Juno Temple The Premise: It’s an historical conflation of Biblical distortions! When two … Continue reading →
2007: The year that Chinese toymakers couldn’t do anything right*. First they’re poisoning children and probably ruining Christmas, then thanks to less than stringent security at Hasbro’s Chinese facility, they’re spoiling Iron Man, too. Don’t read the next paragraph or click the link if you really want to know no more about the film than … Continue reading →
When I revealed the title of Cloverfield and ran an early description of the trailer, I got a lot of attention from my friends at Paramount*. I also got a lot of attention from the people playing the ‘Alternate Reality Game’ for Cloverfield – ie, the poor dumb bastards spending more time going through clues … Continue reading →
The Wright Stuff film festival at LA’s New Beverly theater continues… to kick ass. Friday may have been my favorite of the series so far, as Shane Black showed up to talk about how much he hates The Last Boy Scout and how much Warner Bros hated Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Shane showed up about … Continue reading →
Frank Marshall, producer of the Indiana Jones films, dropped some story and character details to USA Today while flogging the teaser poster for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. If you’ve been following the movie here at CHUD most of this info will be old news, but it’s nice to get it … Continue reading →
Hold your nose. The Wayans Brothers (Keenan Ivory, Marlon and Shawn) have taken their signature brand of idiocy — the spoofish buffonery that spawned four Scary Movie films and over $420 million for Dimension — to Paramount, where they’ll, er, mount a similarly-minded flick in dubious honor of cop movies. There’s no title, and not … Continue reading →