When I talked to Stuart Gordon about his excellent and mean adaptation of David Mamet’s Edmond, we spent a little time chatting about House of Re-Animator, the next film in the series of Herbert West splatter films. The concept, Gordon told me, had Dick Cheney dying while getting a lapdance and Dr. West is called … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 Night at the Museum $24,000,000 $164,097,000 3 2 The Pursuit of Happyness $13,000,000 $124,159,000 4 3 Children of Men $10,295,000 $11,902,000 2 4 Freedom Writers $9,705,000 $9,705,000 1 5 Dreamgirls $8,825,000 $54,484,000 4 6 Happily N’ever After $6,800,000 $6,800,000 1 7 Charlotte’s Web $6,610,000 $66,975,000 … Continue reading
UPDATE! In this piece I mention that I never got a response from Dade Hayes or Variety – I was wrong! Buried in the mountain of spam that managed to accumulate over a five and a half hour plane trip was a very generous email from Dade explaining what happened behind the scenes at Variety. … Continue reading
Just when you couldn’t get any more excited about April’s release of Grindhouse, Fangoria goes and breaks a story like this: Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright is going to be directing one of the fake trailers that will play in between Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s individual films. Ryan Rotten got the scoop … Continue reading
In case you need any proof that Smokin’ Aces is going to be one of the big, crazy blasts of a movie to see in a theater this year, Smokin’ Joe Carnahan has a handful of comic books to prove it. If you’ve been reading our ongoing Q&A missives with the man, you already know … Continue reading
— As is being luke-warmly discussed in the forums, Colin and Greg Strause (the FX guys turned new co-directors) discuss their plans for the next molestation of the Aliens vs. Predator (AVP) franchise. Essentially, they say nothing, rehashing what you’ve heard a thousand times before in various DVD commentaries and interviews. The only mildly interesting … Continue reading
For those just waking up from cryosleep: This is the latest installment in the saga of a movie that made 30 dollars at the box office. It begins here, continues here, and the last installment is here. It’s been a busy day here on Zyzzyx Road. I thought the whole thing had reached critical mass … Continue reading
Round 7 and no end in sight! Joe Carnahan is counting down the days until the release of Smokin’ Aces (January 26th!) by answering the fevered queries of internet maniacs like you. You line em up, Joe knocks em down. Like I said, this is Round 7. Here are the first 6: 123456 And when … Continue reading
With every little drop of 300 related imagery, my art-geek sensibilities go into overdrive. This film can’t come fast enough.And now this. Empire has scored some exclusive character posters for the upcoming visual feast 300. The images are stuff we’ve seen in other stills, trailers and past artwork, carrying a very, very, familiar tone as … Continue reading
You know that we at CHUD loved Pan’s Labyrinth (read my review and Nick’s review). Did you know that so does everyone else? The movie has been getting amazing reviews across the board – 99% at Rotten Tomatoes (only “Modern Fabulosity” didn’t like it, calling it “too sophisticated.” Oooh boy) and Metacritic has it as … Continue reading