Set me down at the end of the bar where no one but the saggy old woman tending can see us, put down a bottle and wait a couple hours, and I might tell you how much I actually, truly enjoy House of Wax. The remake. The one that was part of the nascent torture … Continue reading
If you live in Los Angeles and read CHUD regularly, this update shouldn’t be necessary. But just in case you’ve been busy lately and/or are a fucking idiot, here’s your friendly reminder that The Wright Stuff begins this Sunday!!! For two weeks this December (and if we’re lucky, maybe more), Edgar Wright is going to … Continue reading
I’m not the guy that thinks every discussion of The Dark Knight turns on an opinion about Batman Begins. Not so with Louis Leterrier’s upcoming The Incredible Hulk, which has an explicitly and rather shamelessly stated goal of wiping out the film Ang Lee released in 2003. Granted, I’m also not one to mount a … Continue reading
Now that he’s broken Major League Baseball’s (and, more importantly, Hank Aaron’s) career home run record, I’m pretty sure Barry Bonds’s place in the record books is secure unless George Mitchell’s investigation yields a definitive list of everyone who took steroids in the game’s history. Barring the highly improbable discovery of such a list, the … Continue reading
New Line is famous as the studio who gambled everything on making all three of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films at once; it’s almost hard to remember a time when that wasn’t just a risk, it was a huge and possibly crazy risk. It’s not a risk they’re taking on a second time … Continue reading
Here’s the second character poster for Hellboy II: The Golden Army, coming to theaters next year. Universal will be debuting more in the coming days, including Big Red himself tomorrow and new character Johann sometime in December.Abe Sapien gets a much bigger role in this sequel, and even has a love story of his own. … Continue reading
The Wayans Brothers are like the HPV of the movie world – they are with you for life, they come and go and tend to be more unsightly than dangerous. Now that HPV is having a new outbreak, and it could be the ugliest one yet: Shawn Wayans tells moviepicturefilm.com* that he and his siblings … Continue reading
When Soul Men was announced back in September, I couldn’t get too excited on account of the screenplay by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone (who brought you Intolerable Cruelty, Life and the spellbinding Man of the House). Though the casting of Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac as feuding soul singers who reunite to honor … Continue reading
Universal’s State of Play nightmare may have finally come to an end. The film, which lost Brad Pitt last week and needed to find a star ASAP to start filming by pretty much NOW, has roped in Russell Crowe. Director Kevin Macdonald flew to Australia over the weekend to cajole the actor into appearing in … Continue reading
Looking to capitalize on the enduring cult popularity of Mr. Nanny and the recent box office windfall generated by The Nanny Diaries, Samuel L. Jackson has agreed to star as a brat minder in The Man That Rocks the Cradle for New Line. I’m currently hitting up sources to clarify that this is not, in … Continue reading