This really isn’t movie "news" per se, but once you’ve read these two stories – the first by The New York Post‘s Lou Lumenick and the second a supplemental anecdote of sorts posted to Livejournal by "moroccomole" – about the Fair Theater, New York City’s "Last Grindhouse", I’m confident that you’ll thank me for running … Continue reading
Doing interviews for Blades of Glory, I got to come about as close as I will ever get to fulfilling my dream of meeting Woody Allen by getting a chance to meet Will Ferrell, who stared in Melinda and Melinda. I also had the chance to meet with Jon Heder, who I have seen on … Continue reading
So I missed the unveiling of the cover of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Let me make that up to you with a fucking BARRAGE of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix images, now flooding my inbox from my good friends at Warner Bros. These images will be appearing in the new … Continue reading
In an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Mia Farrow and her son, Ronan (the Accuser), made some very strong statements about Steven Spielberg and his involvement in the 2008 Olympics, to be held in China. "Is Mr. Spielberg, who in 1994 founded the Shoah Foundation to record the testimony of survivors of the Holocaust, … Continue reading
You win, ok, Ice Cube? You win. I’ll buy the limited edition of Laugh Now, Cry Later with the bonus DVD. I’ll proclaim you the greatest West Coast rapper of all time. I’ll say or do whatever you want. Just step away from the slate of projects you have lined up….slowly. Real slow. No crazy … Continue reading
No project in years has divided me like You Don’t Mess With the Zohan (the last one to get me this confused was Debbie Does ‘Em All – how could she possibly do them all and within the running time? But yet that is such a great concept! God, even now I find I am … Continue reading
I’ve been behind Elizabeth Banks for some time. Well, not as much as I’d literally like to be, but what can you do with the stalking laws these days? Crazy, right? But I think it’s nigh impossible for pretty much anyone to not be enchanted by the lady. She’s gorgeous, but not in a cheesecake-obvious … Continue reading
It’s sort of a formality, but Dickhouse – the production company started by Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze and Jeff Tremaine – has signed a first-look deal with Paramount. I say that it’s a formality because Dickhouse has been working with Paramount from the start, with the beginning of the Jackass TV show and later through … Continue reading
Joseph Gordon-:Levitt is going to surprise everybody in the not too distant future. See, the kid’s a great actor, but he’s still got the Third Rock From the Sun thing around his neck and he’s been acting in a lot of smaller indie movies that don’t get seen much outside of specialty circles. But someday … Continue reading
No, the title of this article isn’t an outtake joke from the infamous CHUD Oscar podcast. besides if you listened to that, you now already likely know every possible variant on Jennifer Hudson fat jokes. What you may not know is that she really seems to be taking this acting shit seriously, and she wants to … Continue reading