The trailer for David Fincher’s new film, Zodiac, is on the web. Click here to see it. I would tell you what I thought about this trailer, but after trying to watch it three times and having it turn into a narrated slideshow each time, I gave up. I’ll wait for the Quicktime. I’m on … Continue reading
I don’t know where Garth Franklin gets all his links from. Dark Horizons links to the most obscure corners of the net, which I love – it makes the site one of my daily must-reads. Otherwise how would I ever know that “MyVideoStore.com” is reporting that Paramount is thinking about adapting the new Godfather novels … Continue reading
Peter Weir, who last directed the vastly underrated Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, is getting nautical again with his next film, Shadow Divers. A long in development movie – once rumored to be Ridley Scott’s – it’s based on a book of the same title (with the additional subtitle “The True … Continue reading
I have to upfront with you people – I am no longer impartial when it comes to Dax Shepard. When I interviewed him in the W Hotel in Los Angeles last weekend he told me he liked my beard, which has grown to Old Testament proportions. “Some of my friends don’t like it as much,” … Continue reading
Voldemort, you snake-faced bastard! The first teaser poster for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* has been loosed upon the world (below!), and it makes it look like things are going to be pretty dark for our heroes this time around. Actually, if you’ve read the book you know that things get very, … Continue reading
We haven’t even had Christmas 2006 and already the 2007 holiday movies are strutting their stuff. Thankfully the ’07 Christmas film that’s running a teaser happens to be one I’m actually looking forward to: Fred Claus. It’s about Santa Claus’ brother Fred, played by Vince Vaughn. The teaser is exclusive to MySpace and looks like … Continue reading
The face of the Oscar race may be getting an overhaul, if Tom O’Neil’s Gold Derby is right – Warner Bros is going to give Letters From Iwo Jima a one week New York and LA qualifying run at the end of the year.Letters is the companion piece to Clint Eastwood’s recent disappointment, Flags of … Continue reading
It’s been a really long time since we’ve seen anything from Frank Darabont. The last film to carry his writing credit was 1999’s The Green Mile, and his last feature directorial effort was 2001’s The Majestic. But now he’s coming back – he has two movies lined up (The Mist and Fahrenheit 451), and this … Continue reading
Talk show couches across the nation, beware! Tom Cruise is coming back. After getting canned from Paramount and seeing Mission: Impossible III deflate at the box office, the tiny thespian is acting just like a Tom Cruise character at the end of the second act of a Tom Cruise movie – he’s getting back on … Continue reading
Dax Shepard knew CHUD when I walked in for our one on one for his new film, Let’s Go to Prison, opening this weekend. “You’re from CHUD,” he said. “CHUD’s been intermittently mean and nice to me – they can’t decide if they like me or hate me.” The fact of the matter, and I … Continue reading