Aside from The Rock™, Roddy Piper and… Tiny Lister, not a lot of guys have successfully shifted between professional wrestling “sports entertainment” and feature films. Yet another actor-athlete bounding from the homoerotic faux-violence of the ring into the turnbuckle of your local theater is “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, who typically demands at least one “Hell … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
UPDATE: We originally reported this way back on 3/26/06, and it’s now officially hitting Variety. See, we do get some valid scoops every now and then! Ben Affleck is getting ready to make his directing debut with an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel Gone Baby Gone, and he could have some serious talent to tell what … Continue reading
Having survived his stopover in Silent Hill, Roger Avary is barreling down the highway for an adaptation of another successful videogame franchise. Avary, who penned Silent Hill’s spooky treats for Christophe Gans, is writing and directing Driver for Rogue Pictures, the genre arm of Focus/Universal. In the game series, players took the role of Tanner, … Continue reading
There has been an onslaught of rumors lately about the Rodriguez/Tarantino exploitation smashup Grind House, and aside from the cast members we’ve revealed right here on CHUD (hooray for Biehn!), most of them have been negative. For example, the buzz circulating last week was that filming on Rodriguez’s Project Terror, which has been shooting in Austin, had … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
I can understand newly Bonded actor Daniel Craig not wanting to be pigeonholed as the suave spy type, but playing the Devil himself seems like it might be going to an extreme. If The Hollywood News has a reliable source, that’s what the current 007 plans to do once he’s kickstarted the Bond franchise with Casino Royale – … Continue reading
I’m positive I had some Sgt. Rock comics as a lad, but I can’t recall anything about the character other than he usually wore "lucky" bullet belts and a tattered uniform, carried a Tommy gun, and obliterated Nazis. Warner Bros. will help me remember, now that they’re promoting (or is it a demotion?) the comic … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
I’ll admit it – I sometimes buy the New York Times just for the crossword puzzle. Will Shortz, the editor of the puzzle, is like some kind of mysterious demigod to me, and I’m excited that the new documentary Wordplay will be bringing us into the world of crossword puzzle creators and fans. Some of … Continue reading