Hugh Jackman recently did press for this weekend’s magician movie, The Prestige, and SciFi.com asked him about the negative reaction his next film, The Fountain, garnered at some festivals in the past few months. Hugh wasn’t at the festivals – he was doing The Boy From Oz in Oz, it turns out – but he … Continue reading
“Hey! It’s his career! He must hate his career! Stay away from his career!” Eddie Murphy has not learned the tough lessons of his (and Chris Rock’s) past. This is the only reason I can imagine for him signing on to a film whose basic pitch sounds like “Pluto Nash meets Osmosis Jones!” – Starship … Continue reading
So far Jon Favreau’s casting choices for his Iron Man movie have been impeccable, with Robert Downey Jr signing on as Tony Stark and Terence Howard signing on as Rhodey, but maybe Favs’ well only runs so deep. He seems to be stuck in regards to casting one of the female leads, and he has … Continue reading
Reading Linda Stein’s tale of woe, “How I Was Duped by Ali G,” it becomes glaringly obvious why this woman not only made it into the Borat movie but why she’s in the trailer: she’s a self-righteous ding dong with no sense of humor. If you’ve seen the trailer for Borat you know Linda – … Continue reading
All of the talk about Jim Cameron’s Avatar, his next budget-blasting project, has been about the creation of an all-CGI alien race. I thought this movie would be all motion capture for sure, but if Freeze Dried Movies is right there will be actual human beings in the film. Actual humans who are from Earth. … Continue reading
What’s interesting about Peter Berg’s career isn’t that this goofy character actor has become one of my favorite directors, it’s that he gets attached to more projects that remoras get attached to sharks. Last week when the rumor went up that he might direct Will Smith in the dark, revisionist superhero movie Tonight, He Comes, … Continue reading
In an event that is sure to inform the course of many a young man’s sexual awakening, Lindsay Lohan has signed on to star with Keira Knightley in The Best Times of Our Lives, and La Lohan has revealed that “there’s somewhat of a lesbian undertone” between the characters the two actresses are playing. SCORE! … Continue reading
Just when you thought Sly Stallone was on a roll – Rocky VI is hitting theaters this Christmas (thank you Santa Claus!) and Rambo IV is set to begin filming early next year – a terrible obstacle has risen before him. A great big fleshy obstacle. The Weinsteins. The Bros Weinstein filed a lawsuit on … Continue reading
Oliver Stone’s 9/11 movie was toothless and very different from his usual work. World Trade Center was, putting it mildly, a disappointment. But it may have just been his opening salvo on the new state of the world; it turns out that Stone and Paramount secretly optioned the book Jawbreaker, CIA agent Gary Berntsen’s account … Continue reading
Way back, I used to do this little column called the Poster Attack!. It was a sarcastic little thing, sometimes existing solely to bash silly artwork but sometimes just simply a showcase for the latest film art. Since we have enough silly columns, I’ll try to get back to