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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…

SPYING ON SHELLHEAD

IESB has scored some video taken surreptitiously on the set of Iron Man, and the footage shows a few precious seconds of the Iron Man suit in motion – nothing too spectacular, but you can see that this costume is well made and mobile. Of course these few seconds of footage are buried in 2 … Continue reading

IT’S A VINE, VINE DAY (FOR A REUNION)

My apologies to Tony Carey… So three more young, work-hungry actors have been scooped up for the Dreamworks/Spyglass/Red Hour production of The Ruins, based on Scott Smith’s big beach read of summer 2006. They are Jena Malone, Shawn "Bobby Drake" Ashmore and Laura "…" Ramsey, and they will be joining Jonathan Tucker in the college … Continue reading

THE HULK LIVS!

Much as I want to tell you Liv Ullman has been cast as Betty Ross in the Louis Leterrier angry green man reboot, currently titled The Hulk Who’s Okay with His Father Who Doesn’t Resemble Nick Nolte, I’m afraid the sixty-eight-year-old muse of Ingmar Bergman is too old and just too goddamn Norwegian to pull … Continue reading

REESE HANGS OUT UNDER THE BRIDGE

"At the risk of being labeled a scold – the ultimate in uncool – I have to ask: before cashing those big checks, shouldn’t we at least pause to consider what we are saying with our movies about the value of life and the pleasures of mayhem?" That was Mike White chiming in via The … Continue reading

THE PROGNOSTICATOR: MAY 2007

…aaaand we’re back. May. The most obvious month in cinema. I know that everyone reading this is planning to see Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean, and I’m afraid that some of you are going to plonk down duckets for Shrek, as well. Your funeral, pal. And yet in spite, or because of those … Continue reading

CHUD’S 50 BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENTS, DAY 9

Welcome to the next CHUD List. We’ve tackled our essentials list and the continued revelation of our Kills List from 2003, and now that we’ve begun the beguine, we must continue. Behold: The CHUD.com Top 50 Disappointments. A quick word on the criteria. We could very easily have spent this whole article discussing sequels and … Continue reading

GRIZZLY PARK VIDEO #6

This week will see a series of mini-featurettes about Grizzly Park, my maiden voyage into producing a feature. Directed by the enigmatic Tom Skull [I don’t know his legal name], it’s a nice cocktail of horror and comedy that we’ll hopefully be seeing in theaters later this year. Here’s the sixth video, Who is Tom … Continue reading

TEEN IS THE NEW NOIR

As a genre, "Teen Noir Thriller" wasn’t even in the vocabulary until a couple years ago when Brick deftly handled the teen scene, making it feel grown up and just as seedy as any hard-boiled crime yarn – with a fun oratorical twist to boot.I’d venture to say we’ll be seeing more and more of … Continue reading

DELLAMORTE DOES B.O. – 5/4/07

And so the most interesting time for Box Office begins. MOST INTERESTING FILM OF THE WEEKNow the world gets Spider-Man 3, and it’s already doing great numbers abroad. It should clear $100 million this weekend, maybe get to $150, though my money’s on $124, which falls short of Pirates 2‘s record $135. Failure would be … Continue reading