It’s gotta be pretty neat being Johnny Depp now, especially since his presence in Pirates of the Caribbean is (rightfully) perceived as a major reason for that flick’s colossal success. Now if Depp wants to adapt a book for the screen, he gets top treatment. The book is called Shantaram, and the treatment will come from … Continue reading
Chiwetel Ejiofor is having a hell of a year for a guy whose name is Chiwetel Ejiofor. I mean, back in the day he would have changed his monicker to something like Chuck Eiger. But in 2005 he was able to keep his name and still be one of the leads in Woody Allen’s Melinda … Continue reading
A scooper has told Coming Soon! that one of the roles in Quentin Tarantino’s half of the upcoming film Grindhouse may have been cast. Grindhouse is a neat experiment of a movie – Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez will both direct one hour segments based on the kind of movies you would have once seen at … Continue reading
Way back when I had a chance to sit down with Matthew Vaughn, and he talked about how he wanted to direct an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust. Here’s what he had to say back when his gangster film and directorial debut, Layer Cake, was being released in the States: Vaughn: I’m doing a feature … Continue reading
So here’s the second half of my adventures in Potterland, in which Harry, Ron and Hermione (aka Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint) faced the press for their fourth time around – a scary thought, considering the first time they jumped on the promotional treadmill they were about 10 years old. As much as … Continue reading
It’s fitting that on the week before Halloween I’m running a contest for the Korean horror film Spider Forest. Because there’s nothing scarier than running a CHUD contest, of course. Spider Forest isn’t your average Pacific Rim horror picture – it’s a psychological thriller about mysterious murders in a cabin in the woods, and the … Continue reading
The Mask of Zorro was a real breath of fresh air in the stale, stale year of 1998. That was the year of dueling asteroid films and Godzilla; it seemed like the Hollywood action film was about to go the way of the musical. But Zorro was lithe where the rest lumbered, and it presented … Continue reading
Canada may be a haven for talented comic book writers and artists, but there’s never really been a major comic book publisher around, that is until Adam Fortier came on the scene. Getting his start in “the industry” during his teen years as a volunteer stock boy in Scarborough’s 1,000,000 Comics, he was eventually hired … Continue reading
The Set Up…As many of you are aware, my time here at CHUD.com is coming to a close, though I’ve decided that I’ll still contribute things like this column on a regular basis (in fact, more regular once I’m not dealing with administrative and organizational stuff). The Steady Leak is the one thing that I … Continue reading
The Set Up…As many of you are aware, my time here at CHUD.com is coming to a close, though I’ve decided that I’ll still contribute things like this column on a regular basis (in fact, more regular once I’m not dealing with administrative and organizational stuff). The Steady Leak is the one thing that I … Continue reading