I don’t know if there’s a modern book that I did not get as much as I did not get Life of Pi. The book’s apparently a classic, a wonderful tale about a boy and a tiger who are trapped on a lifeboat together. It’s supposed to be this whole thing about God and about … Continue reading
As Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller get back together to start work on Sin City 2 (a title cleverly designed to help you realize that this is in fact related in some way to Rodriguez and Miller’s Sin City. See the film to find out how!), the good people at The Weinstein Co have announced … Continue reading
One of Sony’s big Oscar guns has been pulled at the last minute, and has now been rescheduled for a full year later. All the King’s Men, a remake (sort of? What’s the real nomenclature for remakes of movies that are based on books in the first place, but the movie is way more famous?) … Continue reading
I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Doom $15,300,000 $15,300,000 1 2 Dreamer $9,300,000 $9,300,000 1 3 Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit $8,700,000 $44,000,000 3 4 The Fog $7,300,000 $21,500,000 2 5 North Country $6,400,000 $6,400,000 1 6 Elizabethtown $5,700,000 $18,900,000 2 7 Flightplan $4,700,000 $77,200,000 5 8 In Her Shoes $3,900,000 … Continue reading
The fourth Harry Potter movie – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – is less than a month away and, as with all things Hogwarts related, speculation is rife as to how this latest chapter will move the story forwards and how faithful it will be to the best-selling book.I was lucky enough to … Continue reading
UPDATE: This trailer is now available in Quicktime as well! Praise the Mouse! Click here to visit, and it’s under View XTra Large Trailer.There’s a new trailer for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and if the shitty AOL Media stuttering and stopping doesn’t send you into a foaming, twitching … Continue reading
Just yesterday I talked about The Rock venturing from films to the videogame industry, while today we’ll talk about Vin Diesel going in the opposite direction, converting polygons to motion pictures. We heard a few months back that Diesel would label his melon with the barcode of Hitman, based on the multimillion-selling game franchise. And now … Continue reading
I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading
Last week I had the distinct pleasure of hanging out with Garth Franklin, the inestimable man behind the movie site juggernaut Dark Horizons. Garth and I have hung out a couple of times (he has seen me in about as bad shape as I have ever been, as I approached alcohol poisoning in Berlin on … Continue reading