August 30, 2009 - September 5, 2009 Archives
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I think I like this new trend of marketing movies as if they're Arrested Development's Homeless Dad Let's stop chastising hobo paternity; celebrate it! New Posters For The Road [Latino Review]... / Continue →
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As if nerds didn't want to see Where the Wild Thing Are enough already, here's a new poster where the film's monster and boy appear to be recreating a scene from Star Wars. This may win over some of the remaining hold-out geek demographic, but I'm still waiting on buying a tick... / Continue →
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New Tyler Perry! Only this time T.P. isn't directing something from his own melodrama-and-sass-filled mindscape. Variety reports America's favorite comic transvestite is adapting For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf for the big screen. Wikipedi... / Continue →
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It's what everyone who thinks Indian and Arab are the same people has been waiting for: an Indian version of Aladin! It's like Aladdin, only with one "d", Bollywood dance numbers instead of Gilbert Gottfried the Parrot, and someone called "The Ringmaster." And apparently it's c... / Continue →
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Ever hope to see the 1994 Damon Wayans/David Alan Grier superhero comedy Blankman remade slightly more deadpan, with a hooker, and starring Woody Harrelson as a madman? No? Well, you should try to be more ambitious about wanting to see In Living Color-centric movies re-done in ... / Continue →
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I just spent the last 20 or so minutes reading a pretty expansive New York Times Article about Where the Wild Things Are and the life and career of its director, Spike Jonze. Maybe you should too, friend. Excerpt: When I sat down with Jonze, I’d just seen a rough cut of the mo... / Continue →
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Best Tagline: The only criminal he can't catch is himself - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Best Subtitle: "Port of Call New Orleans" - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Best Cutout of Nicolas Cage's Head with Blurred Edges: Nicolas Cage's Head - Bad Lieutenant:... / Continue →
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Apparently not everyone instinctively forms tight fists as soon as they hear Jeff Foxworthy's voice inquiring if viewers are smarter than 10-year-olds and/or are rednecks. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the mustached comedian's southern accent will provide the voice of Ba... / Continue →
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Filling one of those unfortunate, fat-dragless gaps America is left with in the absence of Madea and Norbit films, Martin Lawrence will again be donning his prosthetic fat suit, muumuu, and house for a third Big Momma House: Fox may be ready for more Momma as the studio has ta... / Continue →
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The new issue of Filter has this great Where the Wild Things Are cover illustrated by Geoff McFetridge, whose work you may have also seen in the Wild Things trailer titles and "I'm Rocking on Your Dime t-shirts. Pick it up on September 11 so you can hold it up while riding mass... / Continue →
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A Venom movie, Youngblood movie, and now a Lobo movie? Warner Bros. has locked Guy Ritchie to direct “Lobo,” the live action adaptation of the DC Comics drama about an alien interstellar bounty hunter. Production on “Lobo” begins early next year. The character originated in 1... / Continue →
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I'm just going to admit to you all right now that I've never seen Boondock Saints. After 20 or so dudes in my freshman dorm explained to me how "fucking awesome" and "totally bad-ass" it was, I became too annoyed and decided I would never see this movie under any circumstances.... / Continue →
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I would hope this film wouldn't win any sort of awards, but if it does, a good one would be "Most Discreet Masking of Rumer Willis's Unnaturally Large Chin." Final 'Sorority Row' One-Sheet [Bloody Disgusting]... / Continue →
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This movie sounds like a good one, if you want the rest of your days to be spent in living nightmare where your only language is your mind's constant screaming. The summary for Human Centipede: First Sequence: Internationally respected Siamese twin surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter has... / Continue →
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Hey, remember Beavis and Butthead? Mike Judge hopes you do, because he's made a new animation where the characters introduce a clip of his new film and laugh about how Jason Bateman's name contains a third of the syllables required to say "masturbate." Seeing that Judge's last ... / Continue →
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The difficult-to-find cult documentary Hands on a Hard Body is become a musical? So Variety tells me! The film focused on a group of eccentric Texas characters competing in a contest of endurance to hold their hands on a truck the longest, thereby winning the vehicle; the Doug ... / Continue →
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Tossing some more dirt on the grave of Chris O'Donnell's career, Paul W.S. Anderson, writer/director of Resident Evil and Death Race, has written a Three Musketeers script and has plans to produce the film in 3-D. Heat Vision Blog adds: “We are definitely modernizing ‘The Thre... / Continue →
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For his second Iron Man film, Jon Favreau could be taking things to the next level! That level being the level of visual depth. According to AICN, 3-D decision-makers at Paramount and Marvel/Disney are reviewing a minute of Iron Man 2 3-D test footage to determine if Scarlett J... / Continue →
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Here's a Fantastic Mr. Fox featurette, hosted by Jason Schwartzman. If you want to see how laborious it is creating feature-length stop-motion of some well-dressed wildlife, this is just the thing for you. And if you want to see George Clooney roll around on the ground whistlin... / Continue →
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Someone better invent a device to record programming for later enjoyment and posterity, because MTV has ordered up a pilot of a Teen Wolf series. So long as the above scene is used as the opening sequence, I'm fine with that.... / Continue →
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Hot on he heels of Disney's purchase of Marvel Entertainment, 20th Century Fox has decided to show off that they're still in charge of ruining some franchises. The studio has announced they're relaunching the Fantastic Four series. As an indication of what direction they'd like... / Continue →
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The Academy of Motion Picture Whatever has decided on a new, fairer Best Picture voting method that will ensure the wrong film wins in a more complicated manner this year: The new system will require voters to rank each of the 10 nominees on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being be... / Continue →
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The long-ago talked about Deadman movie is finally happening. Variety is reporting the pale DC comics character with the plunging neckline will be brought to screens by Warner Bros. and Nikolaj Arcel, director of Island of Lost Souls. So take that, Marvel/Disney team-up: Warner... / Continue →
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From PVCBlue.com, some sort of devoted Smurf site, here's the first look at a CGI Smurf from the upcoming film adaptation of the three-apple-high species. Looks like Columbia is really trying to hit that small group that both loves The Smurfs and Scarface references. Get them a... / Continue →
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Still maintaining he has the look and hair of an action star, Nicolas Cage has signed on to star in Drive Angry, a 3-D action film where he'll play a guy trying to fucking kill some dudes who kidnapped his infant granddaughter: [T]he story centers on a man (Cage) driven by rag... / Continue →
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Just in case you thought this whole vampire thing still wasn't terrible enough since the invention of Twilight dildos, here's a movie that combines Dracula and EuroTrip into some awful thing with a special appearance by Meegosh from Willow:... / Continue →
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Bad Boys 3!!!: Columbia Pictures is developing a third installment of the high-octane "Bad Boys" franchise, tapping Peter Craig to pen the screenplay. The hope is to have a script that would reunite director Michael Bay, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and stars Will Smith and Mar... / Continue →
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The simplified "Rambo" title of the fourth Rambo film made it seem so final, didn't it? We should have known it wouldn't be over until one was titled "Last Blood"--here comes a fifth Rambo movie: Nu Image/Millennium Films has greenlit the franchise's fifth installment, with Sy... / Continue →
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In news that could prove disastrous to Islands of Adventure's Incredible Hulk Coaster and Dr. Doom's FearFall, Disney is acquiring Marvel Entertainment for the sum of $4 BILLION. The deal gives Disney ownership over all of Marvel's cast of over 5000 characters--even Awesome And... / Continue →
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The Sirens' call of teenagers dying overly-elaborate deaths was too loud to resist: 1. The Final Destination - $28.3 million. I can't figure out if the third one was that good or if everyone just forgot prior Final Destinations existed. 2. Inglourious Basterds - $20 million. ... / Continue →
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Since he didn't become Bond, looks like he decided to become a male Bette Midler instead. When this comes out, I'm going to have such a good cry that I probably won't come out of my bath all night. 'The Boys Are Back' Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
