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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…

SAY HALL-O to SAMMY

How many duds does it take to put someone in director jail? I’ve always wdondered if there’s a set number. If there is, then director Lasse Hallstrom is most likely closing in on it. He  made his biggest domestic mark with a decent one-two punch of The Cider House Rules and the treacly, yet enjoyable … Continue reading

MEN IN ORANGE

Men in Black, meet C.H.U.D.. C.H.U.D. meet Men in Black. M.I.B, C.H.U.D.,proceed to copulate.Not to sully the CHUD name there, but Dreamworks has picked up what’s being called an "action-comedy" spec script called The Secret Lives of Road Crews. See, all those times you’re driving and dead-stopped in traffic while you watch a bunch of … Continue reading

REMAKE FOR THE SAKE OF REMAKE

Say what you want about the Weinsteins, but it goes without saying that they know how to work the film industry system (and make it work) better than I know how to curse little bastards on XBOX Live- and that’s saying something.Still, there’s something about shuffling to remake a foreign film that just garnered a … Continue reading

BARON OLD LADYHAUSEN

The Baron Cohen name is getting a cardiovascular workout these days. Sasha Baron Cohen is becoming a household name thanks to the big fat success of Borat, and Borat cousin Ash Baron Cohen has been running the entertainment treadmill as well. I was going to make some off the cuff remark about how it pays … Continue reading

YOUR CONTRACT HAS NOT BEEN TERMINATED

He overcame some long odds to become the governor of California. He’s survived many challenges since. He rebounded from the outright rejection of his definitive ballot initiatives to take the state in a different direction. He’s taken the lead on some of the most important issues of our day from healthcare to stem cells without … Continue reading

RAMBUNCTIOUS

As filming on John Rambo gets underway, we’re getting juicy detail after juicy detail. The latest involves the badass who’s going to be opposing one John J. Rambo (please say the J) as he ends lives in the jungles of Myanmar. Apparently realizing that there are few forces in filmdowm much less humans that could … Continue reading

PROJECT PAUL

Even though Running Scared hit with all of the impact of a sneeze, it managed to change the way I saw Paul Walker. That is to say…I realized he had a pulse. There wasn’t a lot of convincing proof before then as every role he’d taken required little of him but to smile and stare … Continue reading

DR. DOOM, I PRESUME?

The new issue of Empire Magazine has a cover story about Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, along with a bunch of images from the film. Many of the pictures have already been released, but there’s one that caught my eye. It’s The Thing smashing someone who looks an awful lot like Victor Von … Continue reading

MERRY CHRISTMAS, NERDS

Press Releases, as a whole, are pretty dumb. I’ve written my fair share and they’re full of self-congratulatory ass-rubbing, weiner measuring, boilerplates and othe frivilous fluff. But hey man, it’s spoon-fed information and if it’s slightly relevant, PRs get eaten up. Which, in the end, is a good thing for everybody, since the intern market … Continue reading

TUNES TO CRASH YOUR CAR BY

Death Proof is a tender movie about a guy, his car and the supple hotties who learn their hotness isn’t much of an asset when it’s being bounced around a pokey, disintegrating hotrod at 200 miles an hour.Maverick Records, the label for the soundtrack, has given the heads up as to the music you’re going … Continue reading