We all know how Hollywood operates: a movie makes a zillion dollars and the studio is announcing a sequel before the Sunday box office receipts are tallied. Especially when the film in question is seen as the flagship of a new franchise, and the filmmakers have been on the record talking about where they’d like … Continue reading →
It’s late and I’m exhausted, so let’s make this quick: the Iron Man trailer is online a day early, and it can be seen in Quicktime. It’s more or less a re-edited version of the Comic Con footage… but that stuff was totally kick-ass, after all. Click here to watch the trailer (while it lasts).
It looks like Bryan Singer has not only lost the race to make a Harvey Milk biopic, he’s lost it HARD: Gus Van Sant has lined up Sean Penn to play the gay martyr and possibly Matt Damon to play his Twinkie engorged killer. Maybe. Van Sant is looking at starting production in San Francisco … Continue reading →
Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day FiveDay Six | Day Seven | Day Eight It’s almost 2am on Monday morning, and I’m excited to get up in six hours to see Joy Division, so this daily wrapup is going to be on the short side. I also saw … Continue reading →
There’s something I keep hearing people say about Superbad that gives me pause; they compliment the movie on its soundtrack, which they say keeps it from being dated. Some people say it’s part of the movie’s attempt to be timeless. In fact, I seem to come across a lot of people talking about movies being … Continue reading →
If you were watching the MTV Video Music Awards just now… I’m sorry. Thankfully, one of my good friends was sacrificing his brain cells for reasons he’ll explain later (I’m the high-minded sort, watchin’ some Indians/Angels baseball), and was good enough to pass along the news that loyal CHUD reader Shia LaBeouf says the title … Continue reading →
The Orphanage has been a big hit on the festival circuit (well, with everyone except our own Russ Fischer, who gave it a 5 out of 10 in his review right here), so it was only a matter of time before this Spanish ghost story got picked up for an English language remake. The Orphanage … Continue reading →
Naomi Klein’s book No Logo is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the corporate driven world in which we live (and serve as serfs). Her new book looks promising and disturbing; Shock Doctrine explores how Milton Friedman’s concepts of economic shock therapy – using natural and manmade catastrophes and society’s stunned response to … Continue reading →
Obsessed With Film seems to be the only site getting solid information about the Justice League movie, even if it isn’t the kind of earth shattering casting news that makes up the bread and butter of scoop-driven websites. Last week they were the first with the fact that casting agents had been hired for the … Continue reading →