Jean-Claude Van Damme fans, prepare to start a petition campaign. The goal of the petition will be to secure Jean-Claude a cameo in the new Street Fighter movie. No, this one has nothing to do with Sonny Chiba but rather the astonishingly hyper-extended video game franchise (what exactly is the difference between Super Street Fighter … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 Saw III $34,300,000 $34,300,000 1 2 The Departed $9,840,000 $91,090,000 4 3 The Prestige $9,626,000 $28,834,000 2 4 Flags of Our Fathers $6,350,000 $19,926,000 2 5 Open Season $6,100,000 $77,357,000 5 6 Flicka $4,975,000 $14,138,000 2 7 Man of the Year $4,714,000 $28,871,000 3 8 … Continue reading
It’s been five years between films for Joe Carnahan, the man who directed the modern classic undercover cop movie Narc; his new film, Smokin’ Aces – a balls to the wall action madhouse unlike anything you’ve seen before, and with a killer cast – hits early next year. But it won’t be another half decade … Continue reading
In less than a month you’ll be able to find out which side you are on in the great The Fountain debate – will you agree with the folks who booed the film (or did they? Read on) at the Venice Film Festival, or will you be with yours truly, thinking it’s one of the … Continue reading
A couple of weeks back Gael Garcia Bernal was offered the role of a super-assassin hunting down Jason Bourne in The Bourne Ultimatum, Paul Greengrass’ second go round with Matt Damon as the amnesiac super-spy. Yesterday was the New York City press day for Bernal’s newest film, Babel, which reteams him with his Amores Perros … Continue reading
Controversy is common marketing currency. It may not have done much for Pasolini, perhaps killed for making Salo, or for Theo van Gogh, definitely killed for making Submission. But less incendiary films by Scorsese, Michael Moore and Mel Gibson have all benefited from the protests of audiences and activists and the media coverage those actions … Continue reading
Did you go buy Slither yesterday when it was released on DVD? If not, I don’t hate you. Yet. Maybe you need some extra convincing, and I’m happy to do some of that convincing here by bringing you a clip from the DVD’s copious and excellent special features, specifically from the “Bringing Slither’s Creatures to … Continue reading
There is a bizarre and fascinating PR war going on right now centering on Ed Zwick’s new Warner Bros film, Blood Diamond, which has Leonardo DiCaprio teaming up with a Kanye West song to draw attention to some of the evils of the African diamond trade. The diamond industry has been really skittish about this … Continue reading
The Browncoats, a hardcore sci-fi subculture that loves Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity to an incredible (and, if you think hardcore “fandom”* is as creepy as I do, frightening) degree, usually feel like the underdogs. Heck, their name comes from a Confederate States analogue in Whedon’s western meets Star Wars mythology. And to be fair, … Continue reading