Ricky Gervais earned enormous cred with The Office and packed away a bit of additional investment with Extras, but to say he’s been squandering it in features is a gross understatement. A Night At The Museum and For Your Consideration do nothing for his resume, though no one would have predicted the latter as an … Continue reading
David Twohy was one of the reasons I started The List of Dumb on the site, because it baffles me that the intelligent and quite imaginative filmmaker isn’t near the top of the lists for films that are big and need a savvy helmer who isn’t a pile of mammal shit. Yeah, many of his … Continue reading
Yeah, it’s manipulative. Yeah, J.J. Abrams and crew milked their fanboys a little too hard. Yeah, viral marketing has already gotten stale. Yeah, the film’s two months away and they still ain’t shown us jack shit. But I’m sold. The new teaser trailer for Cloverfield has finally eclipsed its shaky and hideous YouTube origins having … Continue reading
Jonathan Mostow is about as high functioning a hack as there is working in Hollywood today; while his three major studio pictures – Breakdown, U-571 and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines – are completely anonymous, they’re just a tad more proficient in the execution than your random Hollywood programmer. Mostow has chops, and he … Continue reading
While it’s entirely plausible that Oliver Stone’s Pinkville, a sprawling ensemble drama centered on the My Lai Massacre, has been temporarily halted due to the writer-director’s inability to rewrite throughout production (with co-writer Mikko Alanne), how was this not a major consideration during the completed-last-week casting process which rounded up no fewer than six name … Continue reading
Rank Film File Serial Number Essence 1 Beowulf $28,100,000 $8,912 $28,100,000 2 Bee Movie $14,300,000 (-44.1%) $3,589 $93,862,000 3 American Gangster $13,218,000 (-45.0%) $4,250 $100,993,000 4 Fred Claus $12,000,000 (-35.2%) $3,330 $35,799,000 5 Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium $10,025,000 $3,168 $10,025,000 6 Dan in Real Life $4,511,000 (-24.9%) $2,372 $37,099,000 7 No Country for Old Men … Continue reading
This morning I got a huge box in the mail. Inside was The Cox Box, shaped like an amp, and filled with Walk Hard goodies. I don’t usually talk about the swag that gets mailed to me, but this thing is so excellent that I have to share. There’s a CD with a selection of … Continue reading
This is not the type of one-sheet that inspires a great deal of confidence. But it’s a fucking one-sheet. Why get worked up? I’m going to be extra nice to Peter Segal’s big screen transfer of Get Smart until it is released. Why? Read this ComicCon ’07 interview, and all will make sense. Actually, it … Continue reading
I was getting my hair cut, and my barber was telling me how he already had copies of American Gangster and Things We Lost in the Fire. Then he told me how much he loved Blood Diamond (but that he’d seen it way too many times), and one film he couldn’t get enough of was … Continue reading