A lot of people have been wondering how they can support the writers on strike right now. Yes, you can picket with them – in fact, there’s a semi-formal event tomorrow (Friday November 16) which is built around that concept. It’s Unofficial Fan Support Day at Universal, and from 11-2 the fans of NBC-Universal shows … Continue reading →
Just the other day I got the invite for the I Am Legend junket here in Los Angeles at the end of the month. They’ll be showing us the film, obviously, but it sounds like they’re going to have to go double time in the editing room to get it finished: I have confirmed that … Continue reading →
Frank Darabont still wants to film Stephen King’s novella The Long Walk, and if there’s anything right with the world, he’ll get to do it. Set in a vague but obviously dystopian future, the story is about an annual contest in which 100 randomly selected young male applicants walk until only one is left. Most … Continue reading →
At some point, every fantastical tome littering "Young Adult" shelves in bookstores all over the world will be in development at one studio or another, and I’ll no longer have to spend twenty minutes browsing through reviews in order to ascertain whether each series is halfway original or, as is typically the case, hopelessly derivative. … Continue reading →
Where the hell was I when the Jewsploitation genre began to burgeon? I thought it was just a jokey term invented for the marketing of Jonathan Kesselman’s Semetic Shaft comedy, The Hebrew Hammer. Now it’s a full-blown movement? And Judd Apatow had nothing to do with it? As a huge fan of the chosen people, … Continue reading →
And this, you’ll agree, is preferable to ruining The Flash. It’s surprising that, with all the frenzied pre-strike activity of September and October, we weren’t completely bombarded with news of the next spirit-hollowing projects from the clods of the industry – i.e. our pals Adam Shankman, Marc Lawrence, Howard Deutch and so on. Or maybe … Continue reading →
Two weeks ago I brought you the exclusive description of the trailer for and the title of the JJ Abrams produced monster movie being released on 1-18-08. I told you that the film was called Cloverfield. I walked you through the trailer scene by scene. Now the trailer is debuting in front of Beowulf, and … Continue reading →
The good* news: New Line and Platinum Dunes are going ahead with another Friday the 13th flick. But you knew that. The bad news: CHUD alum Smilin’ Jack Ruby’s script ain’t the blueprint. But you knew that, too. The ugly news: a director has been signed, and it’s Marcus Nispel. Is that actually good news? … Continue reading →
There’s been an upswell of interest in Ghostbusters lately, culminating in that phony grim n’ gritty Ghostbusters game that made the rounds waaaay back in January (Jesus, 2007 jetted right past me. I remember being annoyed at that like it was yesterday). It seems that someone has been paying attention, since the official Ghostbusters franchise … Continue reading →
I’ve had a friendly attitude towards Thomas Jane since I interviewed him for The Punisher. No other actor has sat through an interview constantly sipping from a bottle of whiskey; call it a comment on my interviewing skills if you want, but the fact is that most actors now seem like pussies. Tom Jane does … Continue reading →