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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

HERE’S YOUR VOLKER-ING PAPERS, SCHLONDORFF

Fire Joss Whedon or JJ Abrams from a project and just watch the internet erupt. Petitions, barrages of emails and letters and websites springing up like born again Christians seeing the light at a revival. Fire Volker Schlondorff and…crickets. I notice it’s been hours since news leaked that he was sacked from Pope Joan, and … Continue reading

STEVE GUTTENBERG TO WORK AGAIN

Steve Guttenberg’s IMDB filmography over the last couple of years is enough to bring a tear to the eye of any Police Academy fan. While The Gutt has been working more or less steadily, it’s all been the kind of gigs where you bring your own lunch because the budget doesn’t cover the catering. I … Continue reading

WITCH MOUNTAIN CAPTURES A DIRECTOR

It’s an accepted truism that Disney’s ’70s output, especially in the realm of live action, was questionable at best. But say what you will about Condorman (and there’s a lot to be said about it — enough that it could easily count as one of our guilty pleasures) the studio made a couple of flicks … Continue reading

THIS MOVIE MIGHT SEEM FAMILY(GUY)-IAR

As we’re finally in the home stretch of getting a bigscreen version of The Simpsons, it’s only natural that studios look at that film’s box office prospects, size up their animated/TV offerings, and figure out what could possibly make a decent transition to celluloid as well. And of those shows, there is one about another … Continue reading

TITUS PULLO PUNISHES

In terms of the internet this is old news – it broke a couple of days ago – but I was out at junkets and reading Harry Potter all weekend (I’m still not done, but Jesus, Rowling is bloodthirsty this time out, huh?) so this tidbit slipped through my crack: Latino Review says that there’s … Continue reading

ROMERO, IN CANADA, AT MIDNIGHT

Since he’s been up there making it for months, it makes sense that George A Romero’s Diary Of The Dead (that’s the full title, folks) will premiere as part of the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program. That’s the part of the festival where movies like Ichi The Killer, Hostel and High Tension … Continue reading

HULK SMASH BIG APPLE

Unlike characters like Superman, Batman or Spider-Man, who are very associated with a single city, the Incredible Hulk is a character without a home, a character who wanders America occasionally smashing shit up when he gets angry. While the first Hulk movie ended up in San Francisco, don’t expect the new Hulk movie (ie the … Continue reading

TO CATCH A TUCCI

One of the final pieces of Peter Jackson’s Lovely Bones has been aligned*: Stanley Tucci has joined the cast as the man who rapes and kills the film’s young protagonist, Susie. This, amazingly, is not a spoiler, as the whole movie is told from her point of view in Heaven as she looks down on … Continue reading

THE MATT DAMON ULTIMATUM

So what the heck is next for Matt Damon? At this weekend’s The Bourne Ultimatum junket, the actor was very aware of the impending strike that looms over Hollywood*, and said that he was making his decisions based on that. “I’m hoping to do the Green Zone movie [Imperial Life in the Emerald City] that … Continue reading