Buried in our archives is a story I wrote in 2003, when I was but a young journalistic tyke, breaking the scoop that The Rock was being considered to star in a movie version of the DC Comic Shazam! (the character is Captain Marvel, Shazam is his catchphrase). That archived story is not available through … Continue reading →
Right now there are a couple of scripts that are Holy Grails among the people who like to read scripts: one is Star Trek, another is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Not quite as coveted as those two, but still sought after, is the Kieran and Michele Mulroney script for Justice … Continue reading →
I saw 300 before watching The Wire, so it took me a little while to clear the evil Dominic West out of my head and come to love him as McNulty, the fucked up Baltimore cop who is trying to make a difference. Come to love him I did, and now watching West be villainous … Continue reading →
A couple of months ago, when we were breaking story details about Indiana Jones IV (then called Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods, a title I still think is better than Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), there was a meeting of the production crew. ‘Who’s leaking info to CHUD.com?’ … Continue reading →
You know who we love here at CHUD? David Koechner. And anytime David Koechner is in a movie, I give it a shot. Well, except that Larry the Cable Guy movie, but I’m just human and I only love Koechner so much. Now Koechner is the lead in a new film from Fox Atomic, The … Continue reading →
I don’t know how Hilary Swank got hooked up with Richard LaGravenese, but if she’s serious about having a lucrative career beyond those two Best Actress wins, she couldn’t have picked a better collaborator. The writer of The Bridges of Madison County, The Horse Whisperer, The Mirror Has Two Faces and Living Out Loud is … Continue reading →
While I revere Clint Eastwood as a director, and hope he continues to make films until he is ready to break his staff, I haven’t unabashedly loved anything he’s done since 1993’s A Perfect World. True, there may be moments of stirring visual poetry in Letters from Iwo Jima, The Bridges of Madison County and … Continue reading →
Those open casting sessions for George Miller’s Justice League film sure are turning up some fresh faces. The first to get some public non-announcement (WB: We’ll announce the whole cast when it’s bloody ready, you Watchmen deflaters!) is the top-running actress to fill Wonder Woman’s wristbands, boots and corset: Jessica Biel, currently ‘in talks’ to … Continue reading →
By and large I don’t like linking to images on IGN, not because the people over there aren’t cool (they definitely are) but because the company splashes that ugly logo on everything. Branding an image makes sense when you’re Getty Images, but not when you’re a website running someone else’s material for purposes of promotion. … Continue reading →
Jason Segel is late for lunch, but that’s his problem. I’m on a mission. I’ve got to find out where Judd Apatow’s Lakers seats are. And Segel – the writer and star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the set I’m ostensibly "visiting" – can either cough up the info, or eat a cold veggie burger. "They … Continue reading →