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WOLVERINE SHARPENS HIS CLAWS

Gavin Hood’s Wolverine solo movie will start shooting this November in Australia, according to sources at X-Men fansite The XVerse. The film, which has a script by David Benioff, would be about Wolverine’s Weapon X days, and feature other mutants like The Blob. It’s essentially Wolverine’s origin story, telling how he got that indestructible admantium … Continue reading

AND THERE WILL BE A THEATRICAL TRAILER

A week after Paul Thomas Anderson was good enough to let slip twenty minutes of his upcoming Upton Sinclair riff, There Will Be Blood (it’s a "riff" and not an "adaptation" because Anderson reportedly departs from the novel in significant ways as the story progresses), at the Telluride Film Festival, Paramount Vantage has finally delivered … Continue reading

HAMLET 2: MELANCHOLIER DANE

Sure, the biggest high school drama story right now is Vanessa Hudgens’ naked pictures, but once you’ve filled your spooge sock*, turn your attention to another high school production: Hamlet 2. It’s a great idea: a teacher tries to save the drama department at his school by writing a sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Conceptually this … Continue reading

DVDA: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS

CHUD’s got a good number of columns that cover a pretty wide chunk of the film spectrum. Beaks gives you the prestige, along with liberal helpings of wit and brilliance. Devin’s all over the place with great movie and TV-related rants. Jason Pollock spotlights the obscurities. Nick heaps sarcasm and hate on the survivors. So … Continue reading

ROMANEK SEES THE BAKER ABOUT A WOLF

If Mark Romanek hiring the legendary Rick Baker to design the lycanthrope for his forthcoming Wolf Man update means the production is going heavy on practical f/x, then we could be in for something special. Of course, this is piling speculation upon speculation: ShockTilYouDrop‘s report about Baker’s hiring has yet to be confirmed by Universal, … Continue reading

FROM POSEIDON TO POOHOLES

Wolfgang Petersen has his next project lined up: The Grays, based on a novel by crazy alien abductee Whitley Streiber. I guess this is what happens when you make Poseidon, a movie that sank faster than the titular ship (take that Richard Dreyfuss, you punching bastard!). Streiber used to be a regular writer of horror … Continue reading

TONIGHT, HE LOVES

When Will Smith and director Gabriele Muccino parted ways on Tonight, He Comes (now John Hancock) due to the dreaded "creative differences" (Hollywood speak for "You’re a piece of shit!"/"No, You’re a piece of shit! And gay! And I can prove it!"), I thought it was the end of the end of an historic partnership … Continue reading