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SNYDER EYES LIFE AFTER WATCHMEN

Zack Snyder knows how this game works. He’s high up on lists right now based on the success of 300, but Watchmen could change things really fast, either for the better or worse. So he’s already got a couple projects lined up for after Watchmen: Army of the Dead and Sucker Punch, both of which … Continue reading

WHAT THE FUCKPEGG?

Simon Pegg is going to play Scotty in the new Star Trek film. You remember Scotty, the Chief Engineer of the Starship Enterprise in that little-seen show about the people in space who did stuff? Simon Pegg is stepping into his shoes for J.J. Abrams’ prequel into the world of Captain Kirk and his beloved … Continue reading

THINGS GLEANED FROM CRONENBERG

(Impressions from a Thursday, October 11th cocktail reception at Il Cielo in Beverly Hills.) SPOILERS FOR EASTERN PROMISES DIVULGED!David Cronenberg does not look back. He may appreciate the multitude of plaudits he receives to this day for classics like Dead Ringers, The Fly, The Brood, Videodrome and The Dead Zone, but he is too busy … Continue reading

WALKING HARD WITH DEWEY COX

This afternoon Sony had a group of journalists come by the Burt Lancaster Theater on the studio lot to see about twenty minutes of footage from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and do a Q&A with producer Judd Apatow, director Jake Kasdan and star John C Reilly. Reilly was on his lunch break from … Continue reading

TOM HANKS GIVES YOU A WAR

Charlie Wilson’s War is going to be a wittier, zippier film than the timidly political picture being sold by this theatrical trailer, so the question before Universal now is how do they more effectively play up the screwball buoyancy of Sorkin’s screenplay. Because they’ve got to. Otherwise, the film will continue to look like a … Continue reading

TOBE HOOPER GETS IN GEAR

There are some of you reading this who are old enough to drink but not old enough to remember a time when the name Tobe Hooper would bring excitement to fans. In reality his 85/86 trio of Lifeforce, Invaders From Mars and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 are not a beacon of quality, but at the … Continue reading

HITMAN GETS A REPRIEVE?

I still have not heard back from Daniel Alter about yesterday’s Xavier Gens-getting-kicked-from-Hitman story, which is odd. But IGN did talk to somebody who agreed that Nicholas De Toth has been brought in as an editor, but denied that he had been ordered to cut a bloodless version of the movie. "The film still has … Continue reading