The Gulf region of the United States has seen more than its share of tough times lately, but a rare bright spot has been the fairly consistent stream of film productions bringing attention and, most importantly, jobs to the area. The latest is a rather odd little duck because it appears to be a sequel … Continue reading
Do you like pre-order deals? Are you a cynic who believes that such deals are in place only to minimize shipments to brick-and-mortar game stores so that only pre-orders can be filled? Either way, you probably like free money, even if it is virtual. Best Buy is currently running a promotion which promises a gift … Continue reading
Loading up its animation docket as if it were going up against the likes of Dreamworks and Pixar, Sony is returning to the supernatural dwelling genre that spawned its Oscar nominated Monster House with Hotel Transylvania. As only the luck of classic monsters would have it, Frankenstein’s lovingly sewn monster-man, the Mummy, Dracula and Wolf … Continue reading
I know a few of you readers are familiar with the Pang Brothers’ work. The CHUD Message Boards have an Asian film thread longer than Tom Sizemore’s rap sheet to attest to the fact that Asian films (and their proponents) are making it huge here in the States. The Pangs are the creators of the … Continue reading
Last year Fox found major success with the MySpace screenings of Borat, which sent thousands of people out of theaters with the kind of killer buzz no ad campaign can create. Now they’re trying to get the same reaction from Reno 911!: Miami, the big screen version of the hit Comedy Central improv cop show. … Continue reading
A few years ago, some South Pacific-cruising Tiger shark decided there wasn’t enough big screen shark carnage and did something about it. He promptly bit off professional surfer Bethany Hamilton’s arm as she paddled out to sea on her surfboard in Hawaii*. The chomping inspired a terribly titled book called Soul Surfer and thanks to … Continue reading
Michael Caine was famously on the set of Jaws: The Revenge when he won his Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters. Helen Mirren will probably be in the Kodak Theater on Oscar night to collect her all but inevitable award for The Queen, but she was on set in England the day the nominations were … Continue reading
Continuing to aid in HDNet’s expansion beyond a love for boobies in Hi Def, HDNet Films has been expirementing with lower budget High Def filmmaking and has released a couple films (the experimental Steven Soderbergh multi media blast Bubble and the doc Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) over the last two years. The … Continue reading
I’m not sure if there is a more tried-and-true plot for the modern thriller than the one where terrorists or criminals take some average Joe or Jane, kidnap their family, then force them to do some criminal act to save them. Then, in the last act of them film, our protagonist uses what they know … Continue reading
Yet another great comedic actor is joining the Judd Apatow Universe of Comedy Stars – Jenna Fischer, who plays receptionist Pam on the American version of The Office, has signed on to star alongside John C Reilly in the fake music biopic Walk Hard, which Apatow is writing with director Jake Kasdan. Fischer, who is … Continue reading