James Mangold, currently basking in far too much adulation for the merely good Walk the Line, may have received the inspiration for his next film from one of Johnny Cash’s albums, Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West – he’s remaking the classic western 3:10 to Yuma. The original is very High Noon-ian … 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 Eight Below $25,000,000 $25,000,000 1 2 Date Movie $22,300,000 $22,300,000 1 3 The Pink Panther $21,000,000 $46,600,000 2 4 Curious George $15,300,000 $33,400,000 2 5 Final Destination 3 $12,500,000 $38,200,000 2 6 Firewall $10,300,000 $28,600,000 2 7 Freedomland $7,000,000 $7,000,000 1 8 Big Mommas House 2 $5,800,000 … Continue reading
I won’t lie to you – I want you to go see Running Scared this weekend. I think it’s a blast of a film, a fun, intense, insane movie that will become a serious cult classic. We’ll be featuring some Running Scared coverage this week, including exclusive interviews with star Paul Walker and director Wayne … Continue reading
Any Paul Thomas Anderson movie is going to get me excited; hell, I was completely psyched for a PTA movie starring Adam Sandler, for God’s sake. Add in the fact that the new film is a sprawling epic and I get even more excited. Cast Daniel Day Lewis in the lead and I would be … 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
A month or two ago we ran a story about how Radiohead had been approached to do the score for Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, based on the Philip K Dick novel. The story was either false or the band was too busy in the studio – the short and not so sweet was that … 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 had a chance to talk with Wayne Kramer today, the director of the upcoming and excellent Running Scared. The full interview will run next week, but Wayne spilled some interesting beans about his upcoming projects, including the fact that Thomas Jane is interested in starring in his film Evil Seek – as Satan. The … Continue reading
Oscar winner Ben Affleck (man, that still seems like an odd thing to call the star of Gigli and Surviving Christmas) is finally putting the pieces together on his adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s Boston-based mystery novel Gone Baby Gone, and some of it is genetic. The heroically-chinned actor, who penned the script and is making … Continue reading