Jonathan, Devin from CHUD here. You might remember exchanging a couple of emails when Ryan Rotten saw your film Welcome to the Jungle at the American Film Market last year and said it was a remake of Cannibal Holocaust. You seemed like a nice guy, and I was really looking forward to your film. I’m … Continue reading →
The basic concept behind Michel Gondry’s new film, Be Kind Rewind, is a touch of genius – when Jack Black accidentally erases all the videotapes at the video store where he and Mos Def work, they have to rerecord all the movies, but featuring themselves. Apparently in the film this process is Sweding, and the … Continue reading →
The Dark Knight was filmed in IMAX, and the IMAX website has put together a little featurette about director Christopher Nolan using the format to make his Batsequel. The featurette is mostly about how psyched everybody is to be using IMAX (did you know that it’s a big process? As in large in size? I … Continue reading →
There’s finally reason to get almost tepidly excited about Paramount’s screen version of Scott Smith’s The Ruins: he’s revealed to USA Today that the novel’s malevolent foliage won’t be making like John Moschitta. The conceit of talking vines didn’t collapse my suspension of belief on the page; I mean, I figured if I was able … Continue reading →
The big news about the Wachowski Bros’ adaptation of Speed Racer was originally that they were shooting the film in such a way that everything in the frame would be in focus, just like how everything in a cartoon is in focus. I was under the impression that this would require heavy duty camera skill … Continue reading →
I want to program a ‘Brad Pitt dropped out of a movie’ macro on my computer*. The guy seems to always be pulling out of projects, from Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain to Almost Famous to The Departed, and now he’s added another to the list of ‘Could Have Been**’ movies: State of Play. This was … Continue reading →
Remember all the speculation and excitement about the title for the JJ Abrams-produced monster movie codenamed ‘Cloverfield‘ or ‘1-18-08‘? And remember when we found out the title was… exactly what we’d been calling it for months and months? The new poster for that movie is just like that – it’s a poster we’ve already seen, … Continue reading →
Happy Thanksgiving, or as Canadians call it, Thursday.THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR:-We’ve got a movie from the Coen Brothers and a movie from Todd Haynes hitting theaters! Both are great, and both are worth seeing as soon as you can get to them.-Los Angeles has a 70mm print of Lawrence of Arabia at the Egyptian … Continue reading →