I can’t pinpoint the moment when Ben Stiller went from someone whose films I anticipated to someone whose omnipresence became overwhelming and annoying. It might have been just around Starksy and Hutch. At any rate, the inclusion of Stiller in a film is no longer so exciting, so it’s tough to get any interest going … Continue reading
So, apparently Microsoft tried a fun and quirky way to get the idea of HALO: The Movie in front of studios… …by walking Master Chiefs through their doors with copies of Alex Garland’s script. Inventive. According to the Defamer site (thanks Jack, you SW apologist), the buzz on the script is that it’s shate but … Continue reading
Paramount didn’t "get" The Watchmen enough to commit to a budget befitting a project of its scope, size, and importance. Whether it was the difference of ten million bucks or whatever is beside the point. They didn’t get it, or at least they weren’t confident enough in its potential to earn to pull the trigger. … Continue reading
Hey, it’s "Sequels to Really Old Movies" day here at CHUD.com! We’ve brought you info about unlikely follow ups to The Goonies and Sixteen Candles, so let’s go with the trifecta and talk about Beetlejuice 2! The cats from JoBlo talked to Michael Keaton for the new Herbie movie, and they asked him: Q: Is … Continue reading
This is why I would like to be rich, famous and powerful. While watching the Miss Universe pageant, Adam Sandler saw Jennifer Hawkins, last year’s winner, hand off her crown to this year’s Beauticon. I guess he liked how she looked, because he offered Hawkins a role in his next film, Click. Click is a … Continue reading
Here’s a fitting follow up to the news about a possible sequel to The Goonies– Molly Ringwald says she is mulling a sequel to Sixteen Candles. "I’ve turned it down for years. I couldn’t see how it would work," she said at Saturday’s MTV Movie Awards, where she was reunited with Breakfast Club co-stars Ally Sheedy and … Continue reading
I want a sequel to The Goonies like I want a rectal prolapse, but there are plenty of people who love the original film, screamy and annoying as it is, enough to want to revisit these paper thin characters in their implausible situations all over again. And sometimes those people get together and have conventions. … Continue reading
Our favorite archetypal tough guy Kurt Russell goes from Disney superdad in Sky High to check-collector for a big Warner Bros. remake. The guy who saved the President, Antarctica and Little China has joined the 21st century version of the 1972 disaster flick The Poseidon Adventure, which gilled helmer Wolfgang Petersen is directing. As with … Continue reading
UPDATE: Variety reports this morning that Ratner is signed, sealed and delivered to direct X3. Cope. I’ll just get it out of the way: Drew over at Ain’t it Cool says that either John Moore or Brett Ratner will be the new director for X3 in place of the departed Matthew Vaughn. Personally it sounds like … Continue reading
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Madagascar $28,700,000 $101,000,000 2 2 The Longest Yard $26,100,000 $95,800,000 2 3 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith $26,000,000 $308,800,000 3 4 Cinderella Man $18,600,000 $18,600,000 1 5 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants $10,200,000 $14,000,000 1 6 Lords of Dogtown $5,700,000 $5,700,000 1 7 … Continue reading