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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…

PEE WEE COMES AGAIN

If Ernest could go to prison, why not Pee Wee? That’s one of the two possible movie concepts for the triumphant return of the once-disgraced Pee Wee Herman. Hell, if Ollie North could have a major career as a commentator and a writer after seeking to undermine the very Constitutional fabric of this country and … Continue reading

PARAMOUNT FALLS INTO BLACK HOLE

Worry not, Chewers, Paramount’s Black Hole will not be a remake of the seminal floating robot film, but rather an adaptation of Charles Burns’ black and white graphic novel about a group of kids hit with a very, very weird STD.It took Burns ten years to finish his 12 part story, which has just been … Continue reading

SON OF JACKASS

Paramount Pictures president Gail Berman has laid out the studio’s plans for the next couple of years, and one of the things that she mentioned that caught my eye was a sequel to Jackass. The original Jackass was a monster smash for the studio – it cost only 5 million to make and it raked … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 11.1.05

Every single day of the week, a new Graboid 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 as obscure as obscure gets.  So read the news, read the reviews, … Continue reading

JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT IS A WHORE

Because hookers are fucking funny (prostitute puns!), Jennifer Love Hewitt, who sometimes dresses like one, is planning to just go ahead and portray one in an upcoming comedy. The deep-cleavaged cutie will bring her increasingly pendulous breasts to a movie about a homecoming queen turned housewife harlot, based on an article called "She Had Brains, a Body, … Continue reading

ARONOFSKY ATTRACTS FLIES

What’s next for Darren Aronofsky? He’s finishing up work on The Fountain, his long-gestating epic space/time love story, and after that he’s helming an episode of Lost. Then what? I have gotten used to two things with Aronofsky – long waits between projects and lots of stops and starts and planned movies falling to the … Continue reading

SPIELBERG’S SPRINT

Over the last couple of weeks I have told you that word on the street was that Spielberg’s Munich was running behind, and that there was some doubt that the film would actually hit at the end of the year as promised – and in time to make it an Oscar contender. Spielberg’s mouthpiece Martin … Continue reading

SET VISIT: MONSTER HOUSE

The flick? Monster House. The locale? Sony Studios in Culver City, California. The agenda? Find out what in the flying balls this film is all about. I do regret to inform that I did not get punched in the tit (or pec, as my chest is in fact QUITE sculpted… ahem) by Richard Dreyfuss like … Continue reading