Tomorrow I board a jet airplane and head out West. I’ll be spending some days in LA catching up with friends before going south to attend the San Diego Comic-Con – a massive event where you’ll also find CHUD.com’s Nick Nunziata and Dave Davis. I’m sure there will be a more formal call to arms … Continue reading
We heard a couple of months ago that award-winning Star Wars editorr andd soundd designerr Ben Burtt was packing up his box of sci-fi sounds and leaving Lucasfilm for a new future at Pixar, but he’s also stepping behind the camera for an FX-fueled flick based on a comic. Burtt will take a bite of … Continue reading
Are you excited about the movie being touted as the "smart Michael Bay film?" Can’t wait to see The Island, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson? The good news is that Dreamworks is doing a massive sneak preview tomorrow night – they sent me a list of 200 theaters. That’s more theaters than some of … Continue reading
Have I used that headline already? Possibly. With this gig there’s really only so many witty headlines you can come up with in relation to a single news story, but the same news stories will often surface again and again. Two biggies are both related to the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels – that Chow … Continue reading
There’s a movie coming out this month called The Aristocrats, and it may be one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. It’s also possibly the foulest. It’s just 100 comedians all telling the same joke – the filthiest joke in the world. That may sound like a recipe for snoozing, but it’s fantastic. … Continue reading
It’s been over three decades since cinema living legend Clint Eastwood traveled back in time to WWII (and swiped some Nazi treasure with Donald Sutherland), but he’ll be commanding the troops for his next film Flags of Our Fathers. My idol is producing and directing the story of those Easy Company soldiers made famous by … Continue reading
Coming off of a wonderful and rather subdued performance as James Gordon in Batman Begins, Gary Oldman is now set to work under the creative (and long-awaited) direction of David Fincher in the film Zodiac. Oldman will be playing the role of attorney Melvin Belli. Based out of San Fransico, Belli was a significant American … Continue reading
The latest trailer for Tim Burton’s gothic stop-motion opus has arrived courtesy of Yahoo, and while the first half happens to be a bit too similar to the last trailer for my liking (which you can still check out here), the latter half displays a lot more freshness and plenty of those tried and true … Continue reading
That Leo DiCaprio kid, he don’t slow down for nothin’. After narrowly (??) missing a little man statue for his portrayal of aeronautical genius/OCD icon Howard Hughes, he’s already latched onto a number of new projects. Add another one to the list, because Leo’s been reading lately. He and his production company Appian Way have … Continue reading
While I was losing horribly at “cards with the ‘tards” last weekend (that’s Poker Night for you non-Dempsey fans), the subject of summer movies and Batman Begins arose, and one of the guys said “Did you hear who they cast as the Joker in the next one? Paul Bettany.” This was quickly followed by "Really? … Continue reading