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DAILY GRABOID 5.9.06

What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading

THE HITCH HER

Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company has been revving the remake machine since their first major financial successes (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror), and now they’re whirling the ratchet on their update of The Hitcher for Rogue Pictures. Jiving with early rumor (somewhat), the new version will switch sexes of the protagonist from C. Thomas … Continue reading

JOSH LUCAS LOSES HIS HEAD

When I interviewed Josh Lucas two weeks ago (look for that to run today, the good lord willing), I thought to myself that it’s been two years since we’ve seen him in a movie that actually required acting. That film was the excellent and still-ignored Undertow. He’s made a reasonable film or two since then, … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 5.8.06

What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE REPORT

Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Mission: Impossible III $48,000,000 $48,000,000 1 2 RV $11,100,000 $31,000,000 2 3 An American Haunting $6,300,000 $6,300,000 1 4 Stick It $5,500,000 $17,900,000 2 5 United 93 $5,200,000 $20,000,000 2 6 Ice Age: The Meltdown $4,000,000 $183,200,000 6 7 Silent Hill $3,900,000 $40,800,000 3 8 Scary Movie … Continue reading

WEITZ YOU LEAVE JUST TO COME BACK AGAIN?

Pre-production has taken another victim – Anand Tucker, director of Shopgirl, has left The Golden Compass, the film adaptation of the first book in Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy. The new director? Why, none other than Chris Weitz. Yes, you read that right – Chris Weitz, who was attached to direct the film … Continue reading

REVENGE OF THE STUPID

It’s beautiful outside – the sun is shining, the air is filled with the smell of green things growing, and girls are down to their t-shirts. That must mean it’s time for the moviegoing public to collectively accept whatever half baked bullshit is fed to them by the movie studios – at least as long … Continue reading

WAN MAN DELIVERS THE DEATH PENALTY

Concept: a man’s family is brutally killed in a gang initiation (I am assuming his family was not, in fact, becoming members of the Black Gangster Disciples, but rather were innocents). The man then hunts down the gang members and inflicts the death penalty on them one by one. That’s the concept of Death Penalty, … Continue reading

HAIR CLUB FOR MEN ALMIGHTY

The first picture of Steve Carrell from Evan Almighty has appeared in the pages of USA Today, Official Newspaper of the Dumbening of America. It looks like Carrell has gone full on Old Testament here – and speaking of testaments, it’s a testament to his commitment to this role that he would allow his hair … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 5.5.06

What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading