March 16, 2008 - March 22, 2008 Archives
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Just in case you didn't pick up a copy of USA Today while getting coffee with the hordes of senior citizens in McDonald's this morning, here's what you missed: the first published, official photograph from next year's G.I. Joe live action film. And of course the image is of the... / Continue →
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As the trend of the previous Get Smart posters forebode, the most recent incarnation appears to now be completely devoid of any comedy at all. Sure, the line "...and loving it" is a direct cribbing of one of Don Adams' famed catchphrases from the original 60's show, but when no... / Continue →
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Douchebag apotheosis Chris Evans recently spoke about the future of the Fantastic Four film franchise with his most trusted news source, MTV News. Things don't look so good for Marvel's first family of film. Apparently harsh criticism of the first two entries has sufficiently d... / Continue →
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Unabashed love for Ricky Gervais is well-documented in the archives of this blog. However, even after the sublime The Office, hilarious Extras and repeat listen-friendly The Ricky Gervais Show, I was getting worried that Gervais' in production film This Side of the Truth would... / Continue →
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Sweet car, brah! ...I don't know what I was expecting. More of the same after the jump. More Spy Pics From the Fast and the Furious 4 Shoot [CarDomain]... / Continue →
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With the unavailability of Raul Julia, the latest Street Fighter movie attempt has at last found an actor to fill the jackboots once occupied by The Man Who Would Be Gomez Addams. Disturbingly puffy-faced pretty-boy Neal McDonough, heretofore known to me as shirtless screaming ... / Continue →
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After having only a single issue reach newsstands, Ain't It Cool News is already reporting that a motion picture adaptation of Marvel Comics' Kick-Ass is being written, and will be directed, by Matthew Vaughn of Layer Cake fame. (See Vaughn's long-gestating Thor movie or his ab... / Continue →
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Entertaiment Weekly has nabbed the first look at The Wolfman's outstandingly detailed, sort of Robert Smith-haired titular monster, along with an interview with legendary ponytailed makeup artist Rick Baker. Though it's hard to tell through the dense prosthetics, the already-hi... / Continue →
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Yahoo! has posted some new character posters for Speed Racer, giving us fresh looks at Christina Ricci as Trixie, Matthew Fox as Racer X, and, our star, Buddy the Magical Doll Boy. See the rest here.... / Continue →
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Alpha Dog's fabled "Stolen Boy"-turned-teenage Chekhov, Anton Yelchin, is in talks to join the cast of McG's unnecessary addition to the Terminator series. Yelchin would play Kyle Reese, the character originally played by Michael Bihn who travels back in time to impregnate Sara... / Continue →
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Long-standing haven for most of television's watchable content, HBO, has officially picked up a new pilot by Mr. Show's David Cross and Bob Odenkirk. From the sounds of it, it will be the next higher-cable entry you'll be tenaciously insisting your friend have to watch. It’s c... / Continue →
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The one problem with computer-enhanced, homo-erotic violence: once you get a taste, you just want more. Well, we just might get it, with 300 producer Mark Canton nearly confirming a sequel with a disturbing series of winks and grins. SOS Hollywood has the interview: SOS: Is a ... / Continue →
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Like time-lapse photography of an ox's corpse, slowly drying in the hot midday sun, the leathery death of Clint Eastwood (above, happily recharging) will be chronicled at regular intervals until we can no longer stand to look. Despite the withering actor's claims he had retired... / Continue →
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Man, I've always wanted to see Johnny Depp in a fedora. Who would have thought I'd get to finally live out my dream, if only through an old fashioney car's window? If someone could get him in to wear a buccaneer's facial hair and the glasses of a 19th century professor, I could... / Continue →
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With Hollywood's glittering paw pressed firmly to the pulse of the hip, Universal has recognized that there may be some money to be had in these "graphic novels" that everyone seems to be talking about these days. The studio is hoping to start production this fall on an adaptat... / Continue →
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It's like looking at a Jeremy Blake painting through a haze of tears and pensive women. Or something like that. 'My Blueberry Nights' Poster Premiere [Cinematical]... / Continue →
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You may think Ben Stiller is an A-list comedy star who's taken more than his share of execrable roles, and is as guilty as Will Ferrell of expecting us to continually enjoy the same tired schtick. But he's totally not. As this trailer to Tropic Thunder demonstrates, Stiller con... / Continue →
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Anthony Minghella, Oscar-winning director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Cold Mountain, has died at the age of 54. He had just finished production on his Botswana-based adaptation of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. As of yet, no further details have b... / Continue →
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Need to add a gangsta, largely morose touch to your next party or other social gathering? Then hire Jamal Woolard to "Biggie size" your next event with his spot-on impression of a less-morbidly obese Notorious B.I.G.! Actually, it's the first in-costume shot from Notorious, st... / Continue →
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There's an old adage in Hollywood that goes something like this: "When the idea cup runneth dry, repeatedly punch the audience in the stomach until their insides relent, and they regurgitate enough of that sweet, bile-mixed idea juice that you can use it again." At least I assu... / Continue →
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Ah, red-band trailers: equally capable of showing off Judd Apatow's taste for raunchy comedy and that Pathology is more than just a heavy-handed, serial-killing-as-sport thriller full of unlikable caricatures--it's also a Cinemax-level pornographic feature. But don't go in expe... / Continue →
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1. Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! - After a $45.1 million weekend, sounds like Horton heard a cha-ching! Like a cash register. For all the money it earned. 2. 10,000 B.C. - $16.4 million, I assume because rushed theater-goers see it at the top of the alphabetical movie listing... / Continue →
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OK, I've gotten over a lot of my initial anger that Ice Age 3 introduces dinosaurs after mammals, and that they're skyscraper size. Now I'm just a bit annoyed that they stopped there. Why not an even larger, robot dinosaur behind this one, maybe with some U.S. presidents riding... / Continue →
