There is some hand-wringing going on about Borat, which opens in two weeks. Is it being overhyped? Will it crash and burn, having never crossed over from the “hipster”* audience to the general public? Whatever happens, Sacha Baron Cohen doesn’t seem to be too stressed about it; while he’s making the rounds like mad to … Continue reading
The reports of Tom Cruise’s career death are greatly exaggerated. Take that, Sumner Redstone! After getting dumped from his deal at Paramount and after his fake wife gave birth to the clone of L Ron Hubbard, Cruise is bounding back with three new projects in the pipeline. Variety says that Cruise is looking at three … Continue reading
Ryan Schifrin, director of the awesome Bigfoot movie Abominable (click here the Creature Corner DVD review, and click here for my interview with Ryan), has teamed up with Adam Green, director of the incredibly buzzed about but unseen by me Hatchet (click here for my interview with Adam, and you would click here to read … Continue reading
New pictures from the Vancouver shoot of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer have appeared online, and they’re of a super-powered wedding. The first pics from the wedding between Sue Storm and Reed Richards appeared on the internet a couple of weeks back and showed our heroes happy and celebrating. But this is a … Continue reading
George Clooney and the Coen Brothers can’t get enough of each other. They’re teaming for a third film (yes, third. Everybody remembers O Brother, Where Art Thou?, but Intolerable Cruelty seems to have dropped off the resumes of everyone involved), and this time George is playing a killer. The movie called Burn Before Reading, and … Continue reading
When I saw the documentary Cocaine Cowboys a couple of months ago, I walked out the theater with the strong urge to play Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and do a couple of lines. I split the difference and watched Scarface. The film is an incredibly entertaining and astonishingly educational look at the world of … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 The Prestige $14,818,000 $14,818,000 1 2 The Departed $13,675,000 $77,148,000 3 3 Flags of Our Fathers $10,200,000 $10,200,000 1 4 Open Season $8,000,000 $69,602,000 4 5 Flicka $7,700,000 $7,700,000 1 6 The Grudge 2 $7,700,000 $31,380,000 2 7 Man of the Year $7,035,000 $22,516,000 2 … Continue reading
Someone has to draw the line somewhere. Someone needs to stand up and demand a change. Someone needs to lead the way. Someone has to stop running all these fucking inane Indiana Jones IV stories. Has there ever been as much bandwidth wasted on a movie that’s essentially theoretical? Every time anyone speaks to Harrison … Continue reading
A lot of you aren’t going to like hearing this, but getting excited about a Fraggle Rock movie will make you exceptionally suspect. If you have kids at least you can pretend that you’re excited that your kids will have a chance to get into something you liked when you were younger, but if you’re … Continue reading
Sanity reared its head in Hollywood today as Fox and Universal pulled out of the Xbox video game movie Halo after its budget rocketed to a rumored 200 million dollars. A representative for executive producer Peter Jackson made a carefully worded denial of that number: "The only budget the filmmakers every spoke about was $145 … Continue reading