In a few hours I will be boarding a plane for the longest flight of my life, going from LAX to Heathrow. Once that 12 hour flight is over, I’ll hop on another plane that will take me to Belfast, Ireland, where I’ll be visiting the set of City of Ember, the next family movie … Continue reading →
One year after Laura Ziskin presided over the blandest Oscar broadcast in my lifetime (as opposed to the most disastrous broadcast in my lifetime, which entailed Rob Lowe warbling "Proud Mary" with Snow White), producer Gil Cates is back in the saddle for the 754th time, and he’s wisely bringing back Jon Stewart, who, in … Continue reading →
The following is excessively juvenile even by my standards. Whether you took David Fincher’s Fight Club as satire or generational rallying cry (FYI, there’s only one correct reading, and if you’ve at any point slugged it out with your bare-chested buds in a suburban basement to… feel… something, you read poorly), there’s no denying that … Continue reading →
You could choose to believe that the forthcoming strike by the Screen Actors Guild is responsible for Roman Polanski backing out of the $100 million Pompeii, but that would require buying producer Robert Benmussa’s excuse that he just now discovered the June 30, 2008 work stoppage might prove problematic for the production’s August 2008 start … Continue reading →
It was just a week ago that original Tron director Steven Lisberger returned from oblivion to helm a new futuristic sci-fi film called Soul Code about people downloading memories into other bodies. Apparently, the news made Disney execs remember that the property was still viable and relevant because they’ve just appointed a director for a … Continue reading →
What’s he looking at over there to the left? It must be INTENSE. The man with the piercing green eyes and the mostly shaven nutduster is Nelson McCormick, the man making all of your remake dreams come true with his Prom Night. That’s right, the horror film that was no good in the 80’s is … Continue reading →
Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day FiveDay Six | Day Seven | Day Eight Oh, I’m really sad that I missed the only press screening of Water Lilies today. I opened with Joy Division (I’ll get there in a second) but would have chosen Water Lilies instead of … Continue reading →
Let me get this a little less than straight: Jennifer Hudson, hot off of winning Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Effie White in Bill Condon’s Dreamgirls, has just joined the cast of Sex & the City: Bigger, Deeper & Unprotected? While I loved Hudson in Dreamgirls (and, by the way, loved Dreamgirls in … Continue reading →
Shooting on Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Watchmen has quietly gotten under way in Vancouver, and a Watchmen fan site, Watchmencomicmovie.com, has scored some pics from the production. The photos were taken at Nat Bailey Stadium last week, where Snyder was filming a scene where Dr. Manhattan meets John F Kennedy. Visible in the pictures is … Continue reading →
Despite Sylvester Stallone’s surprisingly successful Rocky Balboa, it’s still a little too early to say he’s on a comeback. And part of problem, at least for me, is the Millennium Films-funded, almost buzz-less John Rambo, which just seems like a creaky throwback when placed next to the big-budget action extravaganzas and smaller-scale insane action movies … Continue reading →