Yesterday I had to spend some time in the Brooklyn Supreme Court building. I won’t tell you why I was there, because making up reasons will be more fun for you, but it wasn’t a great visit. After being there for about an hour I began walking home – it was a lovely day – … Continue reading
If you’ve been reading Jeremy’s fantastic Crop Report feature, you’d know that Burn Before Reading, the Coen Brothers’ follow-up to the already completed No Country For Old Men, sounds like a pitch-perfect return to form. That’s on the page, anyway, and since their material is so relentlessly scripted before cameras roll, that’s two-thirds of the … Continue reading
I wish I had been in the meeting when the guy in Warner Bros’ art department was told he had to enhance the bust of a 16 year old girl for the poster for the IMAX version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Perhaps he was excited, realizing that years of a … Continue reading
IESB has scored some video taken surreptitiously on the set of Iron Man, and the footage shows a few precious seconds of the Iron Man suit in motion – nothing too spectacular, but you can see that this costume is well made and mobile. Of course these few seconds of footage are buried in 2 … Continue reading
My apologies to Tony Carey… So three more young, work-hungry actors have been scooped up for the Dreamworks/Spyglass/Red Hour production of The Ruins, based on Scott Smith’s big beach read of summer 2006. They are Jena Malone, Shawn "Bobby Drake" Ashmore and Laura "…" Ramsey, and they will be joining Jonathan Tucker in the college … Continue reading
Much as I want to tell you Liv Ullman has been cast as Betty Ross in the Louis Leterrier angry green man reboot, currently titled The Hulk Who’s Okay with His Father Who Doesn’t Resemble Nick Nolte, I’m afraid the sixty-eight-year-old muse of Ingmar Bergman is too old and just too goddamn Norwegian to pull … Continue reading
"At the risk of being labeled a scold – the ultimate in uncool – I have to ask: before cashing those big checks, shouldn’t we at least pause to consider what we are saying with our movies about the value of life and the pleasures of mayhem?" That was Mike White chiming in via The … Continue reading
…aaaand we’re back. May. The most obvious month in cinema. I know that everyone reading this is planning to see Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean, and I’m afraid that some of you are going to plonk down duckets for Shrek, as well. Your funeral, pal. And yet in spite, or because of those … Continue reading
Welcome to the next CHUD List. We’ve tackled our essentials list and the continued revelation of our Kills List from 2003, and now that we’ve begun the beguine, we must continue. Behold: The CHUD.com Top 50 Disappointments. A quick word on the criteria. We could very easily have spent this whole article discussing sequels and … Continue reading
This week will see a series of mini-featurettes about Grizzly Park, my maiden voyage into producing a feature. Directed by the enigmatic Tom Skull [I don’t know his legal name], it’s a nice cocktail of horror and comedy that we’ll hopefully be seeing in theaters later this year. Here’s the sixth video, Who is Tom … Continue reading