Movie News

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

BEYOND BORAT

There is some hand-wringing going on about Borat, which opens in two weeks. Is it being overhyped? Will it crash and burn, having never crossed over from the “hipster”* audience to the general public? Whatever happens, Sacha Baron Cohen doesn’t seem to be too stressed about it; while he’s making the rounds like mad to … Continue reading

SPLATTER FOOD NATION

Ryan Schifrin, director of the awesome Bigfoot movie Abominable (click here the Creature Corner DVD review, and click here for my interview with Ryan), has teamed up with Adam Green, director of the incredibly buzzed about but unseen by me Hatchet (click here for my interview with Adam, and you would click here to read … Continue reading

A FANTASTIC WEDDING ALBUM

New pictures from the Vancouver shoot of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer have appeared online, and they’re of a super-powered wedding. The first pics from the wedding between Sue Storm and Reed Richards appeared on the internet a couple of weeks back and showed our heroes happy and celebrating. But this is a … Continue reading

CLOONEY AND THE COENS THREEPEAT

George Clooney and the Coen Brothers can’t get enough of each other. They’re teaming for a third film (yes, third. Everybody remembers O Brother, Where Art Thou?, but Intolerable Cruelty seems to have dropped off the resumes of everyone involved), and this time George is playing a killer. The movie called Burn Before Reading, and … Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE CLIP: COCAINE COWBOYS

When I saw the documentary Cocaine Cowboys a couple of months ago, I walked out the theater with the strong urge to play Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and do a couple of lines. I split the difference and watched Scarface. The film is an incredibly entertaining and astonishingly educational look at the world of … Continue reading

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE REPORT

Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 The Prestige $14,818,000 $14,818,000 1 2 The Departed $13,675,000 $77,148,000 3 3 Flags of Our Fathers $10,200,000 $10,200,000 1 4 Open Season $8,000,000 $69,602,000 4 5 Flicka $7,700,000 $7,700,000 1 6 The Grudge 2 $7,700,000 $31,380,000 2 7 Man of the Year $7,035,000 $22,516,000 2 … Continue reading

GAME OVER FOR HALO?

Sanity reared its head in Hollywood today as Fox and Universal pulled out of the Xbox video game movie Halo after its budget rocketed to a rumored 200 million dollars. A representative for executive producer Peter Jackson made a carefully worded denial of that number: "The only budget the filmmakers every spoke about was $145 … Continue reading