We’re less than a week away from the 79th annual Academy Awards, the awards ceremony most likely to make me get angrier and angrier over the course of four hours. Last year I actually got to my feet and yelled obscenities at my television when Crash got the Best Picture Oscar. This year looks like … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 Ghost Rider $19,700,000 $78,660,000 2 2 The Number 23 $15,107,000 $15,107,000 1 3 Bridge to Terabithia $13,574,000 $46,222,000 2 4 Reno 911!: Miami $10,400,000 $10,400,000 1 5 Norbit $9,736,000 $74,674,000 3 6 Music and Lyrics $8,000,000 $32,063,000 2 7 Breach $6,159,000 $20,468,000 2 8 Tyler … Continue reading
We’re less than a week away from the 79th annual Academy Awards, the awards ceremony most likely to make me get angrier and angrier over the course of four hours. Last year I actually got to my feet and yelled obscenities at my television when Crash got the Best Picture Oscar. This year looks like … Continue reading
Barry Levinson’s such a hit and miss guy. For every Diner, Rain Man or The Natural, we get a Toys, Sphere or Envy. Levinson currently has the Hollywood expose What Just Happened? (as reported here) shooting in March… and I’m optimistic, actually. Since we’ve just come off the stinky Man of the Year, track record … Continue reading
James Cameron may have proven that Jesus did not rise from the dead. Yes, the guy who directed Piranha II: The Spawning. I’m going to give you a second to let that sink in. 27 years ago, Israeli construction workers found an ancient tomb. Inside were sarcophagi; a decade later the names on the coffin … Continue reading
It looks like JJ Abrams made up his mind, and the decision he came to was, “Yes, thank you, I would like to direct Star Trek after all.” And thus ends months of back and forth and speculation and rumors and inaccurate reports. Thus Gail Berman is proved right. The new film will be a … Continue reading
The trailer for the Philip K Dick adaptation Next* is here, and it looks like this could be the third in Nicolas Cage’s trifecta of the truly terrible. His trilogy of trash began with Wicker Man, continued last week with Ghost Rider, and if we’re lucky, will be concluded on April 27 with Next. In … Continue reading
George Clooney will be lending the mellifluous tones of the sexiest vocal chords alive to the lead character in Wes Anderson’s stop motion version of Roald Dahl’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox. And joining him from the post-war Germany of The Good German is the lovely Cate Blanchett. Clooney will play Mr. Fox, and Blanchett will … Continue reading
I really liked Robert DeNiro’s second directorial effort, The Good Shepherd*, a movie that was smart, classy and old-fashioned. So from now on I am going to try and keep that movie in mind every time there’s new announcements of DeNiro being cast in yet another loud, stupid comedy. This time he’s coming back for … Continue reading
Could the next superhero franchise that Warner Bros grotesquely mishandles be the biggest one of all for them – the Justice League? The studio has hired Kiernan and Michele Mulroney to write a script for a movie featuring DC Comics’ legendary superteam. But there are some big questions around the film. Which characters from League … Continue reading