Regular CHUD readers* will recognize the plaintive cry of “Oh Don Piano!” – it’s what we call that breed of non-news story the internet specializes in, where someone at a junket asks a random actor if he’d like to star in Geek Project X, and the actor, knowing to not close any doors to potential … Continue reading
HUGE UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE! The Hollywood tradition of dueling movie concepts may have just taken the most absurd turn yet – TMZ, the hot shot news gossip site who actually has people assigned to shadow Lindsey Lohan 24 hours a day, is reporting that the team behind LA Confidential is trying … Continue reading
The question of Galactus has loomed large the last few weeks: would he show up in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer? We heard yes, we heard no, we wondered how you could do a movie with Silver Surfer and not have Galactus involved. Now the mystery has been solved, as Tim Story speaks … Continue reading
Let’s look back in time to when the Harry Potter films first started being made. Remember that? Jesus, they’re up to the fifth one, and people used to wonder if they would actually be able to do all seven. And people also wondered whether the child actors who had been hired by Chris Columbus would … Continue reading
In the wake of our ongoing ‘Essential’ list, we’re going to also rerun the popular and lost to the annals of the web CHUD’s 100 BEST KILLS list, half of which originally aired in the sadly defunct MOVIE INSIDER magazine with the rest appearing on this here site. As the site prepares for a ground-up … Continue reading
Walden Media, hit and miss gatekeeper of adapted children’s literature (Narnia v. Hoot), is travelling off the beaten path of adaptations by working with director Todd Graff on an original screenplay called Will. Will, written by Josh Kagen is the story and the story goes like this: High School outcast loves him some music. High … Continue reading
Invisible Man is one of the most definitive and widely read works about race in the US. Still, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has never been made into a movie. That’s not necessarily about to change, but at least it’s inspiring an action thriller that hoists half the name: Invisible. That’s where the similarites appear to … Continue reading
Amy Berg’s documentary Deliver Us From Evil was about as frank and cutting as an indictment of the child abuse that has occurred within Catholic Priesthood could be. The patterns of pedophilia and the cover-ups by Catholic authorities are well-known now, but as with any large-scale tragedy, it’s sometimes tough to fully grasp the damage … Continue reading
Let there be no doubt- Shawn Levy is putting food on the table. Recently announced as helming the naughty but loveable labradour flick Marley & Me, speedy guy biography The Flash and some untitled project, Levy has added producer to the plate. Levy, in association with 20th Century Fox, is guiding the adaptation of children’s … Continue reading
In 1999, there was huge drug bust in the small, rundown town of Tulia, Texas. 46 people were arrested based solely on the testimony of one officer, Tom Coleman. What stood out about this series of arrests, however, is that almost all of the men, 40 to be exact, were black. In fact, this was … Continue reading