I know lots of Chewers share screenwriting aspirations, and we’ve enjoyed a lot of success tales lately from the likes of Dave Davis and Jeremy Slater. But for the rest of you undiscovered masses out there, here’s a super secret tip for getting your work sold: Stop writing screenplays and start freelancing for fancy mags … Continue reading
Despite the fact that I haven’t made any crappy kids comedies and despite the fact that I don’t have a semi-permanent, yet marketable scowl attached to my face, I feel a lot like Ice Cube today. I had a breakfast with no hog. I saw the police, and they rolled right past me. Hell, I’ll … Continue reading
“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is one of my most anticipated films this year.” I wrote that almost exactly 12 months ago. Oops! The western, starring Brad Pitt as the outlaw Jesse James and written and directed by Andrew Dominik, started shooting in late summer 2005, and it just now … Continue reading
If every time there’s talk of a strike, it means Michael Mann can get $120 million for a 1930’s Hollywood noir epic – set on studio backlots and, if all goes according to plan, shot almost exclusively on soundstages! – and Peter Jackson can take (as two sources are now telling me) Warner Brothers for … Continue reading
The Crop: Burn After Reading The Production Company: Working Title Films (Focus Features will distribute in the U.S.) The Director: Joel Coen The Producer: Ethan Coen The Writers: Joel & Ethan The Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand. The Premise: A hubristic, mid-level CIA flunkie hellbent on writing his memoirs to avenge a … Continue reading
Time was, when John Cusack announced that he was doing a movie with Jan de Bont, our reaction would have been predictable. RomCom hero joins high-budget hack! Will Womb Raider unite the sexes in box office bliss? Alas, those days are gone, and friendly (read: business) overtures have whittled the spears with which we once … 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 fourth video, Filming in the … Continue reading
While Americans must wait until this weekend to see if Peter Parker survives Spider-Man 3 (spoiler: he doesn’t), the rest of the world is already getting to ogle the new black suit, the birth of Venom, and Sandman getting right up in Mary Jane’s vagina and turning into a pearl. And it seems like everybody … Continue reading
Thanks to one Mr. Smokin Joe (Carnahan that is), we’re getting word that workaholic Robert Rodriguez didn’t waste any time post-Grindhouse and has put together a possible teaser for Sin City 2, which revolves around the plot from the A Dame to Kill For books.Sounds like it’s going to make many a dudes pants shrink … Continue reading