ESSENTIAL CHUD: THE APPENDIX – DAY ONE
Clint at Moviehole seems to have some good contacts deep inside the Warner Bros facilities. I don’t know how some bloke in Australia managed to get those contacts, but bully for him, because sometimes they give him killer info. Info like this: Warner Bros is considering putting Superman: The Man of Steel into turnaround and … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 300 $31,185,000 $127,473,000 2 2 Wild Hogs $18,825,000 $103,993,000 3 3 Premonition $18,000,000 $18,000,000 1 4 Dead Silence $7,771,000 $7,771,000 1 5 I Think I Love My Wife $5,715,000 $5,715,000 1 6 Bridge to Terabithia $5,141,000 $74,917,000 5 7 Ghost Rider $4,000,000 $110,202,000 5 8 … Continue reading
Every year there’s the big hit TV show that introduces/reintroduces actors to the scene. Most of the time, they go opposite Johnny Storm (flame out!) or try to leverage their newly acquired small screen fame to impotently launch/relaunch a film career (Laura Flynn Boyle, David Carusso, Debra Messing). Grey’s Anatomy has been no exception- Patrick … Continue reading
UPDATED! The answer to the question, ‘Who is less reliable than the British tabloids’ is actually pretty easy to answer, and it’s ‘The Asian press.’ The Asian papers never met a half-baked rumor or misquote that they didn’t feel comfortable blowing way up into something bigger. This makes the following news story even more suspect … Continue reading
I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that 300 is THE movie topic of the moment. While most films disappear after their opening weekend, Zack Snyder’s take on Frank Miller’s version of the Battle of Thermopylae has really entered the popular consciousness in a way that fewer and fewer films do … Continue reading
I’ve been fascinated with the year 2012 for some time. I think Terence McKenna first brought it to my attention, back when I was in my taking drugs to achieve full universal understanding phase. According to the Mayan calendar, December 21, 2012 completes the 13th cycle since the beginning of time. Nobody knows what the … Continue reading
When Wes Craven made the original The Last House on the Left, he and his editor went down the hall from where they were cutting the movie and removed the R-rating from another film and spliced it into theirs. That’s the kind of exploitation gumption that made the grindhouse films of the 70s so wonderful … Continue reading
In America we have YouTube. In Russia they have RuTube. This Yakov Smirnoff realization came as I was watching some footage from Stardust, Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s story about faeries and other stuff fat Renaissance chicks love. There’s not been any footage shown to loyal Americans, but the Russkies get a whole scene, … Continue reading
In recent months for reasons of varying importance, my personal goals have changed in regards to the projects I developing, and I’ve realized that the more you can actually control in this business the better. As a result, the myriad of screenplays on my hard drive collecting cyberdust and the stuff in my lame head … Continue reading