The specter of a strike in Hollywood has been hanging over the world like an impending Category 5 hurricane these last few months. Terror has taken up residence in the hearts of the people as they wonder whether Transformers 2 could possibly be made pre-strike, and if not, does that mean we won’t get to … Continue reading →
Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor love video games. Crank was essentially an adaptation of a video game that does not (yet) exist, and they’ll be doing a sequel to that. Their next project is even more specifically game-related: it’s actually called Game and it’s set in a near-future where a MMORPG called Slayers is hugely … Continue reading →
Who the hell knows if Frank Miller’s adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit is going to be any good (actually, I might have an inkling if I ever get around to reading the script that’s been sitting on my living room table for the past week)? All that matters is this: Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, … Continue reading →
It’s beginning to sound like The Goods: The Don Ready Story, a Used Cars-ish romp being produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay for Paramount Vantage, is essentially a reworking of August Blowout, a long-dead script that was partially cannibalized for Anchorman. Fine by me. Though the current version of the script is credited to … Continue reading →
Happy "Trying Too Hard" Day! For a year or two, it looked like Simon West was going to give Michael Bay a run for Jerry Bruckheimer’s money as the modern day king of mindless action. But then he followed up the gleefully ludicrous Con Air with the plain old ludicrous The General’s Daughter and Lara … Continue reading →
Imagi Animation Studios’ big screen rendition of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy couldn’t be more off my radar, but now that I’ve seen this splendid first image of the legendary character… I now know an Astro Boy movie is being made! And that Astro Boy will look like Astro Boy. And that there’s going to be … Continue reading →
Name of this Film Gross (Weekend) Per Screen Gross (Lifetime Channel) 1 The Game Plan $16,262,000 (-29.1%) $5,237 $42,811,000 2 The Heartbreak Kid $14,031,000 $4,345 $14,031,000 3 The Kingdom $9,345,000 (-45.5%) $3,335 $31,368,000 4 Resident Evil: Extinction $4,300,000 (-46.5%) $1,509 $43,474,000 5 The Seeker: The Bile Is Rising $3,725,000 $1,185 $3,725,000 6 Good Luck Chuck … Continue reading →
To paraphrase Spencer Tracy, there ain’t much meat on this story, but what’s there is cherce. Though Nikki Finke pretty much reports everything like it’s the Normandy Invasion, the idea of Warner Brothers’ President of Production, Jeff Robinov*, literally declaring "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead" in response to the … Continue reading →
That headline’s only, what, two years past its expiration date? I’ve also got video of a tranquilized bear bouncing off a trampoline if you’re interested. Jeffrey Wells broke this story last Wednesday, but I held off filing a reaction on the off-chance he got some bad information. It’s not that I had any reason to … Continue reading →
I always appreciate when studios take the quiet road in their viral marketing, rather than coming up with some elaborate website/phone line/bomb hidden under a car scheme. YouTube user adin1978 is the former; seemingly a Weinstein Company employee, the person has posted a clip from I’m Not There, and now this neat little ad for … Continue reading →