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THE CROP REPORT – 8/21/07 (PASSENGERS)

The Crop: Passengers The Production Company: Davis Entertainment? The Director: None The Writer: Jon Spaihts The Actors: Nada The Logline: "A guy wakes up on a space ship that’s on a 120-year mission 90 years early, and apparently is the only one on the ship. Allegedly pretty good, a character study in a sci-fi environment." … Continue reading

HAVE SOME IRON MAN NON-NEWS

This monday post-Superbad, not much is happening. Jonah Hill and Michael Cera are waking up from their box-office orgy, hoping that their cold feet don’t have to touch each other and wondering if it’s going to be more awkward between them now that they have to stare across piles of money. I hear Judd Apatow … Continue reading

A ROUGH, HARD WOODY

If Match Point and this new trailer for Cassandra’s Dream are any indication, Woody Allen’s vigorousness as a filmmaker seems directly related to the viciousness of the material. When the seventy-one-year-old writer-director tried to downshift back to comedy after Match Point, he delivered the pleasant but forgettably benign Scoop (which, I’ll admit, is better than … Continue reading

WAIT… WHO THE FUCK IS ZAC EFRON?

As a straight man who experienced puberty while Ronald Reagan was still president, the name Zac Efron fills me with a profound sense of ‘Who the fuck is that?’ Wikipedia tells me that Zac is in no way related to Nora (the spellings of the last names are different, but who knows how these Hollywood … Continue reading

THE PASSION OF THE MAHER

Not content with the controversy he’s surely going to cause with his documentary on religion (currently titled Religulous… eh), Bill Maher has revealed to the all powerful, all knowing, perhaps thirty-percent living Larry King that the film is targeting an Easter ’08 release date. You’ll recall Easter as the day that, according to the New … Continue reading

FRANKIE MACHINE BREAKING DOWN?

The excitement we felt over the reteaming of Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro in The Winter of Frankie Machine may be evaporating. According to Frosty over at Collider, Scorsese has dropped out of the project, and by leaving he has put the whole thing in jeopardy. Frankie Machine was going to be DeNiro and Scorsese … Continue reading

MAWKISH & ME

Though I have the utmost respect for director David Frankel and screenwriter Scott Frank, I cannot countenance another film based on a memoir of personal growth hitched to an author’s relationship with a dog. The emotional distance traveled is usually very small, while the narrative always ends with the faithful, furry companion keeling over. It’s … Continue reading

DELLAMORTE’s BO WRAP – 8/17/07

Judd Apatow’s Title Judd Apatow’s Weekend Judd Apatow’s Per Screen Judd Apatow’s Total 1 Judd Apatow’s Superbad $31,200,000 $10,583 $31,200,000 2 Rush Apatow 3 $21,830,000 (-55.5%) $5,778 $88,153,000 3 The Apatow Ultimatum $18,986,000 (-42.3%) $5,129 $163,806,000 4 The Simpsons Movie $6,675,000 (-40.8%) $2,111 $165,117,000 5 The Apatow Invasion $6,000,000 $2,161 $6,000,000 6 Apatowdust $5,244,000 (-42.8%) … Continue reading

WHO’S UP FOR AN EROTIC AWAKENING?

Next year’s prestige pictures keep on castin’! Yesterday, we learned of Jamie Foxx’s decision to play crazy and homeless; today, we’ve got Nicole Kidman and Ralph Fiennes joining the high-toned adaptation of Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader. The Academy might as well reserve a good eight to ten nominations for this sucker. Check out this pedigree: … Continue reading