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…

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE REPORT

Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Ice Age: The Meltdown $70,500,000 $70,500,000 1 2 Inside Man $15,600,000 $52,700,000 2 3 ATL $12,500,000 $12,500,000 1 4 Failure to Launch $6,600,000 $73,200,000 4 5 V for Vendetta $6,400,000 $56,800,000 3 6 Stay Alive $4,500,000 $17,300,000 2 7 She’s the Man $4,500,000 $26,700,000 3 8 Slither … Continue reading

NICK + ATTACK OF THE SHOW = THIS

Hey, look what idiot is getting back into the TV arena a year and change after the CNN Headline News days? No, not Bud Dwyer. Me! G4’s Attack of the Show featured an interview with myself about this weekend’s flicks and I’ll be flying to Los Angeles in two weeks to do a live segment … Continue reading

ONE DINKLAGE UNDER DOG

I’m about as interested in a live-action Underdog movie as I am in being the owner of randomly imploding molars, but at least a decent actor will wring his hands as diminutive villain Simon Barsinister, whose name is probably the only entertaining aspect of the whole thing. Disney has pocketed Peter Dinklage for the pernicious part … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 3.31.06

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

OLMOS THERE

Using some of the mad cash stacks they made from licensing Star Wars and Alien vs. Predator, Dark Horse Comics is knuckling their way through Hollywood with a handful of self-funded indie films, including a new crime thriller called Splinter. The story involves a Latino LA gangbanger with a bullet lodged in his cabeza which, … Continue reading

AN AMERICAN TORRENTE? DIOS MIO!

Along with the original Battle Royale getting a domestic release, the list of things I’d never expect to see coming to our shores would probably include Spanish writer-director-actor Santiago Segura’s sexist cop series Torrente. But New Line got out the Sharpie and scratched that right the hell off the list. Si, hermanos y hermanas: they’re … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 3.30.06

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