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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS’ NEW DIMENSION

Before seeing The Nightmare Before Christmas at the El Capitan Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, I ducked into the Disney Store right next door and marveled at the amount of Nightmare merchandise available. Old timers will remember that when the movie was originally released it did okay business, and it captured the imagination of a certain … Continue reading

THE LESS-THAN-LOVELY CREATIVE DIFFERENCES

For those who felt the twenty-six-year-old Ryan Gosling was questionable casting as the father in the film version of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, it could be that Peter Jackson just agreed with you: according to Variety, Gosling is out, and Mark Wahlberg is in as the anguished, self-destructive Jack Salmon. Ah, "creative differences". I … Continue reading

SUPES STALKS NEW WRITERS

The news that screenwriters Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris have "opted not to come back" for Man of Steel is surprising in one regard: up until now, I didn’t think Warner Brothers was serious about reinventing the failed re-whatever of D.C. Comics’ signature superhero. While I can’t speak to any schism between Bryan Singer and … Continue reading

DELLAMORTE’S BOX OFFICE WRAP – 10/19/07

Film Weekend Per Screen Total for all of time 1 30 Days of Night $16,000,000 $5,604 $16,000,000 2 Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married $12,100,000 (-43.3%) $5,948 $38,865,000 3 The Game Plan $8,122,000 (-26.4%) $2,460 $69,150,000 4 Michael Clayton $7,100,000 (-31.6%) $2,746 $21,986,000 5 Gone Baby Gone $6,000,000 $3,502 $6,000,000 6 The Comebacks $5,850,000 … Continue reading

CLOONEY SMOKES JOE CARNAHAN

I was talking with CHUD’s own Jeremy Smith about White Jazz the other day, saying how excited I was for it. Jeremy said he had heard that the project was in trouble; I laughed it off, saying that if George Clooney wanted to make the movie, the movie would get made. George Clooney has dropped … Continue reading

ANCHOR BAY UPFRONT – 10-21-07

And we’re back-uh! Welcome once again to another edition of the Anchor Bay Upfront. Oh, and now this bitch is weekly! We’ve got a lot of discs to cover and..well…all the time in the damn world to cover them, but we’re gonna get right to it anyway. So, without further ado… Masters of Horror – … Continue reading

DARREN ARONOFSKY = BARTON FINK?

It’s been known that Darren Aronofsky’s production company, Protozoa Pictures, had Robert Siegal’s script The Wrestler. But it’s only as of yesterday that we know Aronofsky is actually in talks to direct. This’ll make half of a matched salt and pepper shaker set with The Fighter, the story of boxer Irish Mickey Ward, which Aronofsky … Continue reading

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE REVIEWED

Why, oh, why is Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are still a whole year away? His big screen take on Maurice Sendak’s Caldecott Medal-winning picture book wrapped principal photography last December, and, since then, we’ve been teased with one amazing still image (seen above). Other than that, all has been excruciating mystery. Until now. … Continue reading