The devil hasn’t had an easy time in movies. He’s either trapped in a green tube underneath a church, or forced to wear the skin of people like Gabriel Byrne or Al Pacino or Peter Stormare (or Elizabeth Hurley, which is better), or stuck in a car chasing James Brolin, and he almost always winds … Continue reading
We’ll have to wait a few months longer to witness the dusty lost culture of the Mayans. Apocalypto, the upcoming film from hunky actor turned crazy bearded filmmaker Mel Gibson, is one of the first major releases to shift its release date. Originally slated for an August release, the Disney movie will now sacrifice humans … 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
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Scary Movie 4 $41,000,000 $41,000,000 1 2 Ice Age: The Meltdown $20,000,000 $147,100,000 3 3 The Benchwarmers $10,000,000 $35,900,000 2 4 The Wild $9,500,000 $9,500,000 1 5 Take the Lead $6,700,000 $22,500,000 2 6 Inside Man $6,200,000 $75,200,000 4 7 Lucky Number Slevin $4,600,000 $14,100,000 2 8 … Continue reading
In two weeks United 93, the first narrative feature film to deal directly with the events of 9/11, will open the Tribeca Film Festival. It’s really fitting – Tribeca began as an answer to the devastation the terrorist attacks had visited upon the economy of downtown Manhattan (we’ll argue about where Tribeca is exactly later. … Continue reading
Brian K Vaughan is one of the best comic book writers today – his three main titles, Y The Last Man, Ex-Machina and Runaways are all among my very favorite books on the market (Y and Ex-Machina often jostle for the top spot in my list). The third trade paperback volume of Ex-Machina, Fact vs … Continue reading
I got quite a few emails from folks who missed yesterday’s live appearance on G4’s Attack of the Show! and are dying to see the concept art we ran from the piles of MEG pre-viz stuff. There it is above. Now tell me you wouldn’t want to see THAT on the big screen. In a … Continue reading
Above is an exclusive new character image from Pixar’s next film, Cars. Hell, we’re so special it’s two new exclusive character images – on the left we have Ramone, voiced by Cheech Marin, and on the right is Fillmore, played by George Carlin.I’m pretty excited about Cars, mainly because – and I know this is … 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
The Longest Yard director Peter Segal, whose Sandleriffic career also includes 50 First Dates and Anger Management has been handed the unenviable task of trying to make Shazam into an interesting modern motion picture for New Line. The story involves dorky teenager Billy Batson, who meets an ancient wizard/pedophile and is granted the superpowers and … Continue reading