The whole Raimi/Hobbit geekgasm news from a while back may have been juicy rumor, but Columbia seems to have been listening to the fantasy yearnings of everyone’s favorite Spidey director. Columbia has picked up a script from Freddy vs. Jason writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift and hopes to put it on the fast track. … Continue reading →
Prior to today, I considered myself a fan of the Muscles from Brussels AKA JCVD AKA Jean Claude Van Damme AKA Christ. I really did. I’ve seen a lot of his direct-to-video output, and I’m talking rentals, not waiting for them to wash up on USA Netowrk like the rest of you wusses. I can … Continue reading →
Doing this the right way, counting back as it was back in the day. One a day. Discuss it right here. Previous deaths: 100, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94. Enjoy!* # 93 – The Blob Few people appreciated the many uses of the new Swiss Army Jeremy. The Blob:How would you like it if … Continue reading →
Sir Ridley Scott’s next film, American Gangster (starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in the most anticipated act-off since De Niro and Pacino sat down for coffee at Kate Mantilini), is currently slated to open November 2, 2007. Later that month, the director of Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator will turn seventy-years-old. Somewhere on the … Continue reading →
Two weeks ago, we learned that the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men, James Grey’s We Own the Night and David Fincher’s Zodiac will be vying for Cannes glory this May; today, the list of probable competition entries expanded a bit, as Wong Kar-Wai’s My Blueberry Nights has emerged as the opening night favorite, … Continue reading →
Fans who were excited about the return of the legendary John Woo/Chow Yun Fat team can go ahead and get unexcited: three days into shooting the expensive historical epic Red Cliff, Chow’s out. At 70 million dollars, Red Cliff is most expensive Chinese film ever, with the script clocking in at four hours (Asian markets … Continue reading →
It took Clive Owen long enough, but it appears as if he’s finally a viable Hollywood movie star. Coming off a very impressive 2006 that found him co-toplining one box office smash, Spike Lee’s Inside Man, and outright starring in another steady b.o. performer, Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men, Owen has just booked the lead … Continue reading →
FilmJerk is one of the best places to get early info on movie releases, and site runner Ed Havens is usually completely and totally correct. So that means that I believe the running time he has listed for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End: 170 minutes. That’s just a hair under three hours. Some … Continue reading →
–Multi-interpreted Catholic literature gets a boost as Emma Thompson has signed to play the role Mrs. Marchmain, the matriarch of an imploding family in the filmic version of Brideshead Revisited. Brideshead follows the story of a young man who, through the friendship of a college friend, is brought into the aristocratic, Catholic-tinged and drama-filled world … Continue reading →
I can believe that Benicio del Toro is a werewolf with very little prodding. Believing that Sir Anthony Hopkins is his dad will take a little more suspending of my disbelief. Might as well get started on that now – Hopkins tells Rotten Tomatoes that he’s lining up to play Benicio’s sire in the upcoming … Continue reading →