How does the anarchic comedic sensibilities of Anchorman director/star combo Adam McKay and Will Ferrell mesh with the middle American sensibilities of NASCAR? Not that bad, it turns out. When I attended the Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (when is this movie screening again? I love it!) junket, I asked Adam McKay if … Continue reading
For the last couple of weeks G4 has been featuring Nick and I as talking heads on its weekly countdown show, Filter. It airs every Saturday at 7pm Eastern/Pacific, and repeats on Sundays at 5 and 11. But you may have missed some of these shows. The folks at Filter have been good enough to … Continue reading
Aint It Cool News broke the story this weekend, and now SciFi Wire has all but confirmed it – Doug Jones will be making a major announcement at Comic Con this weekend about his casting in a big superhero movie. And the word is that he’ll be playing the Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four and … Continue reading
It turns out that the guy who runs SpielbergFilms.com had never met big Steve. I mean, how does that happen? Even I’ve met him twice, and SpielbergFilms is easily the best site on the web for anything about Spielberg, and an invaluable resource when it comes to cutting through the bullshit that inevitably surrounds the … Continue reading
I’m about to announce a New York City screening of a very impressive foreign film, and I’ve just run the piece on The Warriors playing at Coney Island, so I decided to go for the New York City-centric trifecta by alerting you to the Lady in the Water premiere tonight. There are a lot of … Continue reading
If I ever moved out of New York City, my choice for a new locale would be Austin, Texas. It’s a great little town, with excellent bars, friendly and cute women and the Alamo Drafthouse. If I were to list the things that attract me to Austin the most, the Drafthouse would be number one … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
I have my TiVo set to to record any Billy Wilder movie that comes on TV, and I think that the film that gets played the most is Witness for the Prosecution (I also have it taping any Scorsese, and Cape Fear seems to be on like weekly). Maybe some studio chief stumbled on the … Continue reading
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest $62,100,000 $258,200,000 2 2 Little Man $21,700,000 $21,700,000 1 3 You Me and Dupree $21,300,000 $21,300,000 1 4 Superman Returns $11,600,000 $163,600,000 3 5 The Devil Wears Prada $10,400,000 $83,500,000 3 6 Cars $7,500,000 $219,600,000 6 7 Click $7,000,000 $119,700,000 … Continue reading