Imagi Animation Studios’ big screen rendition of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy couldn’t be more off my radar, but now that I’ve seen this splendid first image of the legendary character… I now know an Astro Boy movie is being made! And that Astro Boy will look like Astro Boy. And that there’s going to be … Continue reading
Name of this Film Gross (Weekend) Per Screen Gross (Lifetime Channel) 1 The Game Plan $16,262,000 (-29.1%) $5,237 $42,811,000 2 The Heartbreak Kid $14,031,000 $4,345 $14,031,000 3 The Kingdom $9,345,000 (-45.5%) $3,335 $31,368,000 4 Resident Evil: Extinction $4,300,000 (-46.5%) $1,509 $43,474,000 5 The Seeker: The Bile Is Rising $3,725,000 $1,185 $3,725,000 6 Good Luck Chuck … Continue reading
"Look at these assholes." That’s the funniest line in The Darjeeling Limited, and it also marks the point where the film slowly begins to deflate. At this point in the film the three Whitman brothers who are taking a train trip across India come across another group of brothers taking their own trip, across a … Continue reading
To say that The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising is worse than the book on which it is based is faint praise, since I found the book to be a barely readable bore. The movie’s script, by the guy behind Trainspotting, believe it or not, at least has the kindness to include incidents; ie, stuff … Continue reading
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To paraphrase Spencer Tracy, there ain’t much meat on this story, but what’s there is cherce. Though Nikki Finke pretty much reports everything like it’s the Normandy Invasion, the idea of Warner Brothers’ President of Production, Jeff Robinov*, literally declaring "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead" in response to the … 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.Message Board Discussion. Good day. The love of consumption is a shameful yet glorious thing as … Continue reading
Most ‘new directors’ that come on the scene have a history; they’re not grown in vats or elevated to the big chair after cleaning pools and handing out blowjobs. (Oops, sorry Troy. Did you want a clean introduction you’d be OK with your mom reading?) And Troy Nixey definitely has a history; he spent over … Continue reading
That headline’s only, what, two years past its expiration date? I’ve also got video of a tranquilized bear bouncing off a trampoline if you’re interested. Jeffrey Wells broke this story last Wednesday, but I held off filing a reaction on the off-chance he got some bad information. It’s not that I had any reason to … Continue reading
I always appreciate when studios take the quiet road in their viral marketing, rather than coming up with some elaborate website/phone line/bomb hidden under a car scheme. YouTube user adin1978 is the former; seemingly a Weinstein Company employee, the person has posted a clip from I’m Not There, and now this neat little ad for … Continue reading