The producers of 24 are looking to bring secret agent killerman Jack Bauer from the TV to the movies in a feature film franchise. This is obviously a ridiculous idea – sitting through three hours of King Kong was trying enough, there’s no fucking way I am spending a solid day in a movie theater. … Continue reading
Clint Eastwood’s companion piece to Flags of our Fathers, now titled Red Sun, Black Sand, is finding itself having some logistical issues. The movie will tell the story of the battle for Iwo Jima from the Japanese point of view, a very intriguing concept – two films telling the same story from different sides. I … Continue reading
Though their Grindhouse project is still a vapormovie (I think they may start shooting later this month), directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are chronicling the experience for a 250 page “companion” book that should theoretically be on shelves before the movie’s tentative September release date. The book info from Rodriguez’s site: An insider’s look into … Continue reading
I recently read an excellent book, Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause, and I was just as fascinated by the general life of that film’s director, Nicholas Ray, as I was in what went into making the film. Ray was a madman and possibly a genius, but also … Continue reading
It looks like my “Going for Brokeback” piece was written a week or two early. Just this weekend Brokeback Mountain, well on its way to being the frontrunner for the Academy Awards, became the center of two controversies. One is stupid. A movie theater in Utah reneged on showing the film after it had been … 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 Hostel $20,100,000 $20,100,000 1 2 Narnia $15,400,000 $247,500,000 5 3 King Kong $12,400,000 $192,500,000 4 4 Fun with Dick and Jane $12,200,000 $81,300,000 3 5 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 $8,300,000 $66,400,000 3 6 Munich $7,400,000 $25,200,000 3 7 Memoirs of a Geisha $6,000,000 $39,700,000 5 8 … Continue reading
I guess there are no hard feelings that Tim Burton will be working with Jim Carrey in the upcoming Ripley’s Believe It or Not movie – the director and his longtime leading man Johnny Depp are looking at working together a sixth time, adapting Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. This, … Continue reading
Actor/comedian Jim Zulevic passed away this weekend and while I’m sure he’s not familiar to most of you, he was sneakily all over the place. I remember seeing him in an episode of The Shield and immediately remembering him from The Specials and being glad he was still out there doing it. It was like … 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