As the 2007 WGA strike enters its third week, the studios are still losing the PR war; now, they’re losing movies. Though Mira Nair’s Shantaram (starring Johnny Depp) and Rob Marshall’s Nine (a big-screen rendition of the popular Broadway musical) may be acceptable (and presumably temporary) losses, their postponement comes right on the heels of … Continue reading →
On Thursday when that turducken is being passed around your dinner table, take a quiet moment to thank Tony Todd for a truly great announcement from Hollywood: David R Ellis is returning to the Final Destination series. You’ll recall that Ellis was the man behind Final Destination 2, not only the best film in the … Continue reading →
The first casting for GI Joe has been announced and I have to admit that I don’t fully get it. According to Variety, Sienna Miller has been cast as ‘the female lead,’ a character they describe as ‘a raven-haired baroness and sexy femme fatale skilled in espionage.’ A baroness? Or The Baroness? But how on … Continue reading →
One of the big questions about Tim Burton’s adaptation of Sondheim’s musical Sweeney Todd has been how Johnny Depp would hold up as a singer. We’ve seen the guy acting in all kinds of roles with all kinds of accents, but can he sing? To make things dicier, the rebellious thesp opted not to take … Continue reading →
As much crap as I have given JJ Abrams about his bizarre casting choices on Star Trek XI, I must extend congratulations when he gets some casting right. But why is it that the only time he’s worthy of praise is when he’s casting the small roles? The latest good choice is Ben Cross, whose … Continue reading →
A couple of weeks ago Moviehole brought us the news that Zack Snyder had gotten Warner Bros to cough up the dough to allow him to shoot the Tales of the Black Freighter segments from Watchmen. This pirate comic within a comic are not integral to the main plot of Watchmen, but rather comment on … Continue reading →
I can’t believe I’m sourcing an article from Fox News, but when the Google Alert goes off, you’ve got to heed the call. So, wincing, I read this tidbit about new Bond casting. It’s still more rumor than anything else — I’ve got too much built-in suspicion to buy wholesale into a story that Fox411 … Continue reading →
When last we checked in on the Harvey Milk biopic race, it appeared that Gus Van Sant was hugging the inside track with his then untitled-and-unfunded project based on a screenplay by Dustin Lance Black (best known as a staff writer for HBO’s Big Love). Well, now that script has a title (Milk), producers (Dan … Continue reading →
Ricky Gervais earned enormous cred with The Office and packed away a bit of additional investment with Extras, but to say he’s been squandering it in features is a gross understatement. A Night At The Museum and For Your Consideration do nothing for his resume, though no one would have predicted the latter as an … Continue reading →
David Twohy was one of the reasons I started The List of Dumb on the site, because it baffles me that the intelligent and quite imaginative filmmaker isn’t near the top of the lists for films that are big and need a savvy helmer who isn’t a pile of mammal shit. Yeah, many of his … Continue reading →