Katherine Heigl may be too career savvy for her own good. Oh, sure, the decision to team with director Robert Luketic and screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith on the romantic comedy The Ugly Truth is a sound one on the surface. The last time those three got together, their Legally Blonde launched Reese … Continue reading
Where the author tells you of the many things out there that make him want to become a master thief with an exceptionally large basement to hoard the myriad material things worth owning and loving. Installment One.Installment Two.Installment Three.Installment Four.Installment Five.Installment Six.Installment Seven.Installment Eight.Installment Nine.Installment Ten.Message Board Discussion. Good day. The love of consumption is … Continue reading
Rogen’s off the reservation! Back in August, Devin breathlessly relayed the news (culled from AICN) that Jason Bateman had been selected as one-half of the titular duo for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. This was good news in that we’d get more big-screen Bateman. Unfortunately, for those of us who run more … Continue reading
Spoilers for the Friday the 13th remake within! Remaking Friday the 13th is actually more complicated than you might think. After all, there’s no Jason Voorhees in the first film – his mom is the killer. And there’s no hockey mask until Part III. It took until Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter for the … Continue reading
A lot of people have been wondering how they can support the writers on strike right now. Yes, you can picket with them – in fact, there’s a semi-formal event tomorrow (Friday November 16) which is built around that concept. It’s Unofficial Fan Support Day at Universal, and from 11-2 the fans of NBC-Universal shows … Continue reading
Just the other day I got the invite for the I Am Legend junket here in Los Angeles at the end of the month. They’ll be showing us the film, obviously, but it sounds like they’re going to have to go double time in the editing room to get it finished: I have confirmed that … Continue reading
Frank Darabont still wants to film Stephen King’s novella The Long Walk, and if there’s anything right with the world, he’ll get to do it. Set in a vague but obviously dystopian future, the story is about an annual contest in which 100 randomly selected young male applicants walk until only one is left. Most … Continue reading
At some point, every fantastical tome littering "Young Adult" shelves in bookstores all over the world will be in development at one studio or another, and I’ll no longer have to spend twenty minutes browsing through reviews in order to ascertain whether each series is halfway original or, as is typically the case, hopelessly derivative. … Continue reading
Where the hell was I when the Jewsploitation genre began to burgeon? I thought it was just a jokey term invented for the marketing of Jonathan Kesselman’s Semetic Shaft comedy, The Hebrew Hammer. Now it’s a full-blown movement? And Judd Apatow had nothing to do with it? As a huge fan of the chosen people, … Continue reading