August 16, 2009 - August 22, 2009 Archives
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This sounds like something I want to feed my brain-mouth! The original Kids in the Hall are reuniting to an eight-part murder mystery mini-series, full of all the cross-dressing and comedy we've come to expect from the KitH brand! From Twitch: A departure from sketch comedy, "... / Continue →
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Now that director Catherine Hardwicke has Twilight behind her, it's time to move on past teenager/vampire romance to something with a bit more gravity: teenager/werewolf romance. From Variety: The "Twilight" helmer is signing on to Appian Way's "The Girl With the Red Riding Ho... / Continue →
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Someone who did a good job noticing things has put together some side-by-side screenshots comparing the new Avatar trailer to the 2008 animated adventure Delgo, and the visual similarities are pretty astounding. Does this mean Delgo is the revolutionary game changer? (via PopC... / Continue →
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Bryan Singer, the man working a confusing reimagining of Battlestar Galactica that disregards Sci Fi's already-reimagined Battlestar Galactica, has announced his intentions for further remaking: Warner Bros. and Bryan Singer are unsheathing "Excalibur," redoing the 1981 John B... / Continue →
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Think how much funnier the above image would be if the dog were really huge! Can you imagine how riotous that would be, with an abnormally large breed of dog? Well, soon you won't have to imagine; that will soon be a partially-computer-generated reality you can choose to experi... / Continue →
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Hey, it's the new trailer for Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story. Hopefully this latest documentary will do as good a job opening eyes to the flaws of capitalism as Sicko did at making everyone realize how obvious it is that all citizens should be afforded health care. Th... / Continue →
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This poster nearly perfectly recreates what I see every morning when I stop at the local toy shoppe and covetously stare through their display window at that Lawyer Gear Jamie Foxx doll I want so desperately. I'll have you one day, Jamie Fox doll. One day. 'Law Abiding Citizen... / Continue →
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No more having to constantly switch out DVDs just to watch a constant string of scenes where someone gets cut apart so precisely that there are several seconds of stunned silence before the person falls apart at the slice line(s)! This montage makes indulging that base desire a... / Continue →
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This weekend, figure out why everyone gets so excited about two hours of synchronized picture and sound by seeing one of these "movies" they're always talking about: Inglourious Basterds Director: Quentin Tarantino--HEARD OF HIM? Starring: Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Ry... / Continue →
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A new Extract one-sheet has been released and, just as with the previous poster, for some reason the poster-makers have decided to visually assert that the seemingly funny Mike Judge comedy is, in actuality, a straight-to-video National Lampoon's movie. It's like they intention... / Continue →
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The trailer for Joe Johnson's The Wolfman has been released, and I'm pleased to say that, as hoped, the film looks dark, often ominous, and full of grade A special effects and actors. But I can't help but think that maybe the preview could have shown a little bit more of Wolfma... / Continue →
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With Beatles music and likenesses coming to RockBands everywhere next month, allowing me and other talentless idiots to scream into a microphone and pretend we're playing some of the most popular and enduring songs ever written, whoever it is that now has control of the band's ... / Continue →
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James Cameron's Avatar is being called everything from "a gamechanger" to "a life destroyer" to "something that will forcefully fill every one of your orifices with three-dimensionalness." The film's first trailer has finally been released, so now you can see what all the fanbo... / Continue →
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In these modern times, is Baby still safeguarded from corner placement? Time to find out! Production Weekly has revealed that Lionsgate is developing a remake of the 1987 Patrick Swayze/Jennifer Grey/Laws & Order's Jerry Orbach film about dirty dancing, Dirty Dancing. Meaning a... / Continue →
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Sensing there was still a film that had not yet been pointlessly remade, Warner Bros. and Hollywood Gang Productions have hired Michael Davis, director of Shoot 'Em Up and 100 Girls, to direct a remake of the 1981 film Outland (which itself was basically a sci-fi remake of High... / Continue →
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What happens when you mix the torturous I'm-a-Manhattan-lady-looking-for-love voice-over of Sex and the City; advertisements for the music of Jason Mraz, The Academy Is, and a group that chose to name themselves 3OH!3; the unfortunate, image-tarnishing presence of Will Arnett; ... / Continue →
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From my electronic mailbox: I’m working on Overture’s upcoming Jamie Foxx/Gerard Butler suspense thriller flick, LAW ABIDING CITIZEN. (Which comes out October 16th!) The director of the film, F. Gary Gray (Be Cool, The Italian Job) just tweeted from his personal twitter acco... / Continue →
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Saw VI! Trust in him! To help you trust in him, here are some pale hand boxing gloves on a reflective surface. What? First Look at the Latest Saw VI Poster! [STYD]... / Continue →
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Breathe a sigh of relief, Castlevania fans. Speaking about the long-planned film adaptation of the video game, Paul W.S. Anderson (producer on the project and director of horrible video game adaptations like Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil) said Saw's James Wan is currently wor... / Continue →
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Here's a film with an equal chance of being really good and really obtuse (probably both): My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. The film is directed by Werner Herzog, executive produced by David Lynch, and stars Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe, Academy Award nominee Michael Sh... / Continue →
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Apparently this Avatar movie might end up being a movie EVENT--like NBC's television events (Gulliver's Travels, Merlin, The Odyssey, but in theaters! The Hollywood Reporter is saying demand for tickets to the new James Cameron film's Friday preview was so high yesterday that t... / Continue →
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Surprising things about this list: 1. Despite the self-imposed 1992-2009 restriction, you'd think he'd have somehow found a way to work in an obscure '70s kung fu film. 2. Referring to his contemporary as "M. Night Shamalamadingdong." 3. Half his selections. I can't imagine ... / Continue →
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Cancer: horribly frightening or hilarious? I'm leaning towards horribly frightening, but James McAvoy has plans to show me otherwise. The actor has just signed on to star in the Seth Rogen-produced comedic adaptation of Will Reiser novel, I'm With Cancer. From Variety: Nicole ... / Continue →
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Removed at the request of Paramount Pictures Corporation Empire has debuted the first poster for Up in the Air, the new comedy from Jason Reitman. If the goal was to make this, at first glance, look like a mobile phone ad that has George Clooney in it for some reason, they have ... / Continue →
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Sci-fi social commentary faced off against sci-fi marriage last weekend, and it's now clear we're far more likely to see a District 10 than we are a Time Traveler Jr.'s Wife: 1. District 9 - $37 million. That already makes back the $30 million budget, so now they can just wast... / Continue →
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Our precious Spider-Man script reserves are growing! Though production has yet to begin on Spider-Man 4, Zodiac writer James Vanderbilt has been hired to write fifth and sixth chapters of the superhero franchise: As Sony Pictures Entertainment preps a fourth installment of "Sp... / Continue →
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Being a mom in New York is crazy! So crazy that it's turned Uma Thurman into a sad, angry Joan Cusack who goes around the city accepting pitied condescension from every other urban mom she can find and forcing out pursed grins (above) every time she wants to non-verbally broadc... / Continue →
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Man, how did Creed never use this as an album cover? Don't get me wrong--a poorly computer-generated clay man bursting out of the ground is super awesome and all--but I think an angel with a glistening, photoshopped uzi would have really captured the band's mixture of ridiculou... / Continue →
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Because the concept of two black guys pretending to be two white women will never not be hilarious: The Wayans Brothers and Sony are developing a sequel to the 2004 comedy "White Chicks," which will see Marlon and Shawn Wayans reprise their roles as sibling FBI agents posing a... / Continue →
