UPDATED! Update follows at the endMovies get bounced around the release schedule all the time, but rarely is there as big and sudden a leap as Hollywood Pictures has made with their giant crocodile-but- we-want-you- to-think-it’s-a-serial-killer movie Primeval, which has moved from April to… January 12, two weeks from now! That’s a big change, which … Continue reading
I can only recall a few films turned into small screen concepts that didn’t become a short lived excercise in TV disappointment- MASH, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate and… that’s about it. (RIP Alien Nation, Ferris Beuller, My Big Fat Greek Life, Clueless, Freddy’s Nightmares, Tremors and Young Indie). Is it time to add another … Continue reading
I imagine that the Spider-Man movies have been a tough sell in Japan – after all, the Nipponese grew up with a Spidey who rode around in a big mechazord thing. But our friends to the East have embraced Tobey Maguire and friends, and they’re jonesing for Spider-Man 3 just as much as we are. … Continue reading
Will the travails of Mel Gibson never end? After getting drunk and revealing his true thoughts about the Chosen People and then mistaking a female police officer’s breasts for a sweet confection, Mel hoped to bounce back with Apocalypto, his gory Mayan epic. The film opened well, but soon imploded – the movie has made … Continue reading
In just over 24 hours the word about Zyzzyx Road has spread across the internet, and my inbox has been inundated with emails. I haven’t even had a chance to call the folks at Leo Grillo Productions yet and already many new facts have surfaced – including an eyewitness report from someone who saw the … Continue reading
NTDOWN
There are so many things about Heroes that are remarkable: that such a middling show could be so big, that a mass audience could take to series heavily influenced by comic books, that comic fans wouldn’t mind grossly obvious stealing from better comic book stories just because the show is popular. But most shocking of … Continue reading
My ban on writing Indiana Jones IV-related pieces didn’t last long, huh? I have to admit – I never thought I would see this picture actually getting off the ground, but on the first day of this glorious New Year, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford backed up what George Lucas said at the Rose Parade … Continue reading
Buried at the end of a fawning Variety profile of Roy Lee, the guy behind pretty many of the shitty Asian film remakes that have hit America over the last few years, is a sentence that proves that the planned Universal remake of the fantastic Korean monster movie The Host will be completely neutered: Having … Continue reading