Yeah, it’s manipulative. Yeah, J.J. Abrams and crew milked their fanboys a little too hard. Yeah, viral marketing has already gotten stale. Yeah, the film’s two months away and they still ain’t shown us jack shit. But I’m sold. The new teaser trailer for Cloverfield has finally eclipsed its shaky and hideous YouTube origins having … Continue reading →
Jonathan Mostow is about as high functioning a hack as there is working in Hollywood today; while his three major studio pictures – Breakdown, U-571 and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines – are completely anonymous, they’re just a tad more proficient in the execution than your random Hollywood programmer. Mostow has chops, and he … Continue reading →
While it’s entirely plausible that Oliver Stone’s Pinkville, a sprawling ensemble drama centered on the My Lai Massacre, has been temporarily halted due to the writer-director’s inability to rewrite throughout production (with co-writer Mikko Alanne), how was this not a major consideration during the completed-last-week casting process which rounded up no fewer than six name … Continue reading →
Rank Film File Serial Number Essence 1 Beowulf $28,100,000 $8,912 $28,100,000 2 Bee Movie $14,300,000 (-44.1%) $3,589 $93,862,000 3 American Gangster $13,218,000 (-45.0%) $4,250 $100,993,000 4 Fred Claus $12,000,000 (-35.2%) $3,330 $35,799,000 5 Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium $10,025,000 $3,168 $10,025,000 6 Dan in Real Life $4,511,000 (-24.9%) $2,372 $37,099,000 7 No Country for Old Men … Continue reading →
This morning I got a huge box in the mail. Inside was The Cox Box, shaped like an amp, and filled with Walk Hard goodies. I don’t usually talk about the swag that gets mailed to me, but this thing is so excellent that I have to share. There’s a CD with a selection of … Continue reading →
This is not the type of one-sheet that inspires a great deal of confidence. But it’s a fucking one-sheet. Why get worked up? I’m going to be extra nice to Peter Segal’s big screen transfer of Get Smart until it is released. Why? Read this ComicCon ’07 interview, and all will make sense. Actually, it … Continue reading →
I was getting my hair cut, and my barber was telling me how he already had copies of American Gangster and Things We Lost in the Fire. Then he told me how much he loved Blood Diamond (but that he’d seen it way too many times), and one film he couldn’t get enough of was … Continue reading →
Katherine Heigl may be too career savvy for her own good. Oh, sure, the decision to team with director Robert Luketic and screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith on the romantic comedy The Ugly Truth is a sound one on the surface. The last time those three got together, their Legally Blonde launched Reese … Continue reading →
Rogen’s off the reservation! Back in August, Devin breathlessly relayed the news (culled from AICN) that Jason Bateman had been selected as one-half of the titular duo for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. This was good news in that we’d get more big-screen Bateman. Unfortunately, for those of us who run more … Continue reading →
Spoilers for the Friday the 13th remake within! Remaking Friday the 13th is actually more complicated than you might think. After all, there’s no Jason Voorhees in the first film – his mom is the killer. And there’s no hockey mask until Part III. It took until Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter for the … Continue reading →