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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…

GOD BLESS LABOR DISPUTES!

If every time there’s talk of a strike, it means Michael Mann can get $120 million for a 1930’s Hollywood noir epic – set on studio backlots and, if all goes according to plan, shot almost exclusively on soundstages! – and Peter Jackson can take (as two sources are now telling me) Warner Brothers for … Continue reading

THE CROP REPORT – 5/2/07 (BURN AFTER READING)

The Crop: Burn After Reading The Production Company: Working Title Films (Focus Features will distribute in the U.S.) The Director: Joel Coen The Producer: Ethan Coen The Writers: Joel & Ethan The Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand. The Premise: A hubristic, mid-level CIA flunkie hellbent on writing his memoirs to avenge a … Continue reading

DE BONT CORRALS CUSACK

Time was, when John Cusack announced that he was doing a movie with Jan de Bont, our reaction would have been predictable. RomCom hero joins high-budget hack! Will Womb Raider unite the sexes in box office bliss? Alas, those days are gone, and friendly (read: business) overtures have whittled the spears with which we once … Continue reading

CHUD’S 50 BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENTS, DAY 8

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 #4

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 fourth video, Filming in the … Continue reading

SPIDEY WEBS UP THE WORLD

While Americans must wait until this weekend to see if Peter Parker survives Spider-Man 3 (spoiler: he doesn’t), the rest of the world is already getting to ogle the new black suit, the birth of Venom, and Sandman getting right up in Mary Jane’s vagina and turning into a pearl. And it seems like everybody … Continue reading

A TEASER TO BUY NEW PANTS FOR

Thanks to one Mr. Smokin Joe (Carnahan that is), we’re getting word that workaholic Robert Rodriguez didn’t waste any time post-Grindhouse and has put together a possible teaser for Sin City 2, which revolves around the plot from the A Dame to Kill For books.Sounds like it’s going to make many a dudes pants shrink … Continue reading

THE INCONVENIENT KING OF THE WORLD

The environment, as a political issue, has only (no pun intended, goddamnit) heated up since the release of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, and the hope for any sort of consensus on forward action between our current Prez and the Democratic Congress grows increasingly dim. I narrow it to a battle between the President and … Continue reading

STARK CONTRAST!

Discuss this article here.Good on Entertainment Weekly! They’ve labored so long in the trenches of the fandom subculture amidst the sweaty hardcore fans it’s nice to see them finally get redemption in the form of an exlcusive image! I remember sitting at a rickety table at Atlanta’s Dragon*Con convention in 1999 next to EW’s ramshackle … Continue reading