November 2, 2008 - November 8, 2008 Archives
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Continuing the trend of standing in the middle of the street for a poster, here's the new Rorschach-featuring Watchmen one-sheet. I can completely relate to the sentiment that "the city is afraid of me." It's not because I've seen it's true face though; it's because I'm constan... / Continue →
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Disney has released a new trailer for Bolt, the Homeward Bound-esque story of the dog star of an action series who must find his way home after coming to the terms with the somber reality that he possesses none of the powers of his on-screen alter ego. I'm curious how this will... / Continue →
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Steven Spielberg (Duel) is in talks to remake the Korean film Oldboy with Will Smith (co-rapper, Summertime) in the lead. Not a joke: Steven Spielberg and Will Smith are in early discussions to collaborate on a remake of Chan Wook-park's "Oldboy." DreamWorks is in the process ... / Continue →
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When you've already stepped up 2 (to) the street--which many consider the definitive endpoint for stepping up--how do you take it to that next level, really blow some minds? How about having these two (their faces have been obscured to protect the identities of all those involv... / Continue →
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Watching this is like seeing Steve Martin standing on the ledge of a building--wanting to help him, to stop this, but not knowing how. You keep shouting up at him, begging him, pleading--this is not the answer!--and he just yells back something unintelligible in a ridiculous Fr... / Continue →
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Pixar has released a new trailer for Up. I know better than to say anything derogatory towards it because, well, it's Pixar, and it isn't about anthropomorphic cars, so chances are I come out the one looking stupid, not the most critically and commercially successful animation ... / Continue →
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Hyde Park Entertainment, Toonz Entertainment, and Gang of 7 Animation are teaming up to produce a CGI-animated feature film version of L. Frank Baum's The Life and Aventures of Santa Claus. From Variety: Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment has joined forces with Singapore... / Continue →
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Over at DBtheMovie.com, they've posted what they claim is an early look at the protagonist, Goku, in monster form. If you know as little about Dragonball as me (I basically only know that the series involves a lot of screaming), you're probably thinking, wait, besides all the f... / Continue →
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They had to get greedy. They could have used Roger Ebert's quote: "You want a good time? Soul Men will provide it," and I would have sort of believed it. Or the Hollywood Reporter's quote that "The late Bernie Mac scores big laughs in this raucous, music-filled comedy," and I m... / Continue →
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Here's the new trailer for Tale of Despereaux, the animated movie involving difficult-to-spell CGI rodents and soup that isn't Ratataouille. Summary! Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air, laughter aplenty and gallons of mouthwatering soup... / Continue →
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Jack Black has signed on to act hammy in a new Fox adaptation of Gulliver's Travels. From Variety: Twentieth Century Fox is moving forward with a bigscreen adaptation of "Gulliver's Travels," with Jack Black taking on the title role as his next project. Rob Letterman ("Shark ... / Continue →
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Girls Kick Ass, the latest production diary from the set of Watchmen, has gone online at MySpace. As you might expect, it focuses on the stars that have ladyparts (Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman), the training they went through, and the relationship between their characters. Girls... / Continue →
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It's a pretty slow day in the entertainment "biz" (business). For some of us, that means covering stories about Jonathan Lipnicki roles and pretending someone cares what Jonathan Lipnicki is doing with himself, and how he wants you to vote. For others, it means making up storie... / Continue →
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How about this trailer for The Class, a French piece about a teacher's struggles in dealing with his racially-mixed class in a rough neighborhood? It looks like if Dangerous Minds were a respectable, acclaimed foreign film, instead of an excuse to promote a Coolio song:... / Continue →
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Chatroom, a stage play written by the Irish playwright Enda Walsh, is being adapted into a film to be directed by Ringu's Hiedo Nakata. The National Theatre describes the plot: "In cyberspace six 15-year-olds type and chat. A chilling and powerful tale of manipulation and the... / Continue →
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Michael Crichton, screenwriter, director, producer, and bestselling author, whose novels were the basis for the films The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Congo, and many others, has died at 66. From the BBC (thanks, Doogs): Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, has died ... / Continue →
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It's been 12 years since Jonathan Lipnicki stole the show in Jerry Maguire, telling Tom Cruise that a human head weighs eight pounds, so it's about time to ask: where is he now??? Drying out in a rehab center? Curled up in an L.A. alleyway, wishing someone would carry him back ... / Continue →
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Rob Schneider is going to star in a raunchy sex comedy called Virgin on Bourbon Street, the tale of an abstinent coed who threatens her college career during a night of debauchery. From Variety: Rob Schneider, Jenna Dewan ("Step Up") and Brianne Davis ("Jarhead") star in sex c... / Continue →
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Sony has released the trailer to Cadillac Records, the story of Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Chuck Berry (Mos Def), Etta James (Beyoncé), Big Willie Dixon (Cedric t. Entertainer), and Chess Records owner Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody). If most single-musician biopics have a dec... / Continue →
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Jenna Fischer is no longer content to only endlessly charm us with her mousy wit on The Office and occasionally as a love interest in a comedy. Variety reports she will be taking a starring role in A Little Help, an indie dramedy written and directed, unfortunately, by Michael ... / Continue →
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I'll tell ya, is there anything more beautiful than when you manage to wake up early enough to catch that first glint of sunlight peeking over the wilting crags of Clint Eastwood's grimacing visage? I think not. This is what mornings were made for: silhouetted scowls. Gran Tor... / Continue →
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Monsters versus aliens: classic match-up. Brute size and strength versus advanced technology. Unless we're talking about Aliens aliens, then it's brute size and strength versus acid blood and a smaller mouth inside the normal mouth. And sometimes are greatest "monsters" are in ... / Continue →
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World economies are failing, stock markets are plummeting, bank systems are collapsing in on themselves, and the government is either too corrupt or too inept to do anything about it. So today, on Election Day, I'm going to take this opportunity to get on my soapbox here and sa... / Continue →
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After years of delays, it looks like Fanboys, the story of a group of kids breaking into the Skywalker Ranch to give their friend a screening of The Phantom Menace before he dies of cancer, might finally be released. Last week, a new poster turned up, and now there's a trailer,... / Continue →
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Henry Selick's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline is one film I'm looking forward to, and JoBlo has put up the poster for the stop-motion film. The "be careful what you wish for" sentiment holds particular weight for me right now because, for whatever reason, I watched Wishma... / Continue →
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You may recall, back in September, Universal told Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, "Look, buds, you've made some great films, and we plan to re-buy them on Blu-Ray, but we're not going to give you $130 million dollars and 30% gross revenue to make a few films about some Belg... / Continue →
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The LA Times (via First Showing) has some new shots from David Fincher's much-anticipated adaptation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in which Brad Pitt plays a man born a very small old man who grows into a young man (i.e. he anti-ages). Above is small, elderly, grossl... / Continue →
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Entertainment Weekly has another update to the ongoing debate on why Terrence Howard was cut out of Iron Man 2 (he wouldn't take a pay cut and wasn't that good at acting, apparently): Hollywood insiders believe the exit stems from Terrence Howard's difficult behavior on the se... / Continue →
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You know that great Dante's Inferno game that everyone is talking about? That's OK if you haven't, because it hasn't been released yet, or even officially announced, but that didn't stop several studios getting in a bidding war for movie rights to the game, eventually ending wi... / Continue →
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I've always wondered what people who read books are like. I bet they're really interesting, and usually have things to talk about that they've read, and do you think they smell nice? I bet they smell nice. With any luck, maybe I'll know one of these "readers" one day, but until... / Continue →
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For all you film statisticians: weekend box office numbers! 1. High School Musical 3: Senior Year - $15 million. Now that Disney has figured out their television programming can make so much money in theaters, the studio's production schedule has been cleared and replaced with... / Continue →
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Similar to the teaser poster for Star Wars: Episode I, this new poster for Pink Panther 2 uses shadow imagery to hint at what hidden conflict lies inside our protagonist. For Anakin Skywalker, it was a Sith lord; For Steve Martin, it's pity wrapped in a Peter Sellers impression... / Continue →
