Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, starring a bunch of nobodies who speak only in Mayan with subtitles, ended up being much more of a standard Hollywood movie than I had anticipated. What wasn’t standard was the film’s production, which was self-financed and shot on location in Mexico. If the DVD of Apocalypto contains a frank behind the … Continue reading
Hardcore fanbases creep me out. Whether it’s the Browncoats or Star Wars nerds or the socially stunted emotional infants who get upset about changes to the designs of Transformers, I have time and again decried these easy targets and ridiculed their possibly birth defect-related levels of obsessive love for marginally interesting entertainment properties. But none … Continue reading
The release of the first season of Saturday Night Live on DVD is something I never thought we would see. After all, they could milk endless “Best of” collections out of the show without ponying up the bucks to pay for the rights to the various musical acts who have appeared on the program. But … Continue reading
I have not run a weekend box office report for the last two weeks for two reasons – one, I have been away from the computer for large chunks of the last two weekends doing junkets and other things (which will continue next weekend, by the way). The other reason was that box office reporting … Continue reading
The screenwriter for Deadman, based on the very strange DC Comics undead superhero, has been announced – it’s newbie Gary Dauberman. He caught the attention of producers Don Murphy and Guillermo del Toro with a spec script he had done for a zombie Western, and now he’s chronicling the origin of Boston Brand, a murdered … Continue reading
Howdy folks! Welcome to this week’s edition of The Trailer Round Up! We got some cool new stuff this week, so let’s begin!MR. BEAN’S HOLIDAYStarring: Rowan Atkinson, Antoine de Caunes, Willem DafoeTrailer: http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/trailers/beansholiday_large.htmSummary: Bean packs up his suitcase and camcorder to head to Cannes for some sun on the beach. But his trip doesn’t go … Continue reading
It’s not unusual for prettyboy actors to try and ugly themselves up for credibility. Brad Pitt chipped a tooth on purpose for Fight Club. Jared Leto gained a bunch of weight for Chapter 27. Marlon Brando became a grotesque slob for every role after the mid-70s. I’m not pretty, but I can imagine the frustration … Continue reading
Stuart Townsend may be best known for being fired from the role of Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies, but he’s looking to make a new name for himself: director. He’s currently shooting a fairly sprawling movie, The Battle in Seattle, based on the true story of the 1999 anti-WTO protests in … Continue reading
Controversy swirls around Dakota Fanning’s next film, which will play the Sundance Film Festival in January. Officially called “Untitled Dakota Fanning Project” but known as Hounddog (“I’m supposed to say Untitled, but it’s basically Hounddog,” Fanning told me), the movie stars the preternaturally mature child actor as a girl who gets raped and then finds … Continue reading
The remake of The Hills Have Eyes was one of the best horror films I’ve seen in some time. It worked for me on almost every level, and I guess it worked for the audience too, since it made enough money to warrant a sequel. I don’t know if that film will be any good … Continue reading