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There are so many things about Heroes that are remarkable: that such a middling show could be so big, that a mass audience could take to series heavily influenced by comic books, that comic fans wouldn’t mind grossly obvious stealing from better comic book stories just because the show is popular. But most shocking of … Continue reading
A NOTE FROM SEAN… Here’s a smattering a trades and some other reviews for your reading pleasure. For those of you who still read monthly comics and enjoy the occassional small press or indie book, be sure to check out the warrior-scribes’ expanded comic book review site RACK RAIDS at www.rackraids.com. Happy New Year! Elgin … Continue reading
Indy Lovely? (RESPONSE TO THIS ARTICLE) (SEND A LETTER) Lee: Dude, come the hell down. He did say that it will be the best one yet on that very same AP press report, but you somehow ‘forgot’ to mention that. So just chill and don’t try to bring everyone else down with you. Nick: That’s … Continue reading
My ban on writing Indiana Jones IV-related pieces didn’t last long, huh? I have to admit – I never thought I would see this picture actually getting off the ground, but on the first day of this glorious New Year, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford backed up what George Lucas said at the Rose Parade … Continue reading
Buried at the end of a fawning Variety profile of Roy Lee, the guy behind pretty many of the shitty Asian film remakes that have hit America over the last few years, is a sentence that proves that the planned Universal remake of the fantastic Korean monster movie The Host will be completely neutered: Having … Continue reading
I was recently in Times Square, and the massive outdoor posters for Apocalypto and Stomp the Yard are very close together on the north side of 42nd Street just off 8th Avenue. Moments later I came across the poster for Night at the Museum, and it was hard to not notice that these three posters … Continue reading
Babel is what Crash could have been if Paul Haggis were a better director. Alejandro González Iñárritu and longtime partner Guillermo Arriaga once again bring a fractured narrative to an otherwise straightforward story that contains supposedly deep commentary about the human condition. This is probably the last time they’ll be doing this, since Arriaga and … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 Night at the Museum $37,800,000 $116,855,000 2 2 The Pursuit of Happyness $19,300,000 $98,346,000 3 3 Dreamgirls $15,500,000 $38,464,000 4 4 Charlotte’s Web $12,000,000 $52,858,000 3 5 Rocky Balboa $11,350,000 $48,822,000 2 6 The Good Shepherd $11,245,000 $35,311,000 2 7 Eragon $8,475,000 $56,689,000 3 8 … Continue reading