October 4, 2009 - October 10, 2009 Archives
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At last, child screaming is being used for something better than alerting nearby authorities. Spike Jonze and Karen O harnessed untrained kid vocals for the Where the Wild Things Are Soundtrack (remember listening to that?), and now there's this featurette where you can see how... / Continue →
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Nicolas Cage gets a lot of guff these days, and not without reason. Look at some of his recent catalog: Knowing? Bangkok Dangerous? National Treasure? National Treasure: Book of Secrets? Next? Ghost Rider? Just reading those titles makes my braintongue feel like it's licked a p... / Continue →
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Remember all that talk of a Hawaii Five-O reboot from a year ago (a project that was then going by the unfortunate name of "Hawaii Five-O 2.0")? Well, turns out that's still happening, and Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman--the Star Trek and Transformers writers that give Hollywoo... / Continue →
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Black Dyamite comes out next weekend, so time for a final trailer. If you like '70s blaxploitation films, parodies of '70s blaxploitation, or seeing Arsenio Hall doing something other than hosting World's Funniest Moments--the premier series for documenting human history's funn... / Continue →
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I pretty sure what they're implying here is that, in Toy Story 3, the dinosaur toy will eat some sort of "3 capsule," which will result in him splitting into three versions of himself, each personifying only one part of his Freudian psyche--one dinosaur of pure id, one of pure ... / Continue →
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I don't understand why there would ever be a Showgirls sequel, or why said sequel's website would consist of only a really long, really ridiculous video promo that I couldn't make it more than a third of the way through. But that appears to be reality, so let's just sleep on th... / Continue →
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Ever wondered what the Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz are up to nowadays? Wonder no longer, wonderer. With Pavement getting back together next year, Newsweek took the next logical step in reunions and got the last surviving Lollipop Guildsmen and other Munchkins from the 1939 ... / Continue →
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Also, probably Thomas Kinkade's most subtly morbid painting yet. (from the Yahoo)... / Continue →
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Isla Fisher continues down the bubbly-generally-agreeable-pretty-face acting path with two new romantic comedy roles probably turned down by Amy Adams. Variety, please give the specifics: Fisher, who last starred in "Confessions of a Shopaholic," is attached to topline and pro... / Continue →
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Providing an ominous reminder that, oh yeah, a Venom movie is still in the works, Variety is reporting that Gary Ross, the man recently charged with writing a new draft of the equally inauspicious Spider-Man 4 (and writer of an odd collection of mixed results, including Big, Pl... / Continue →
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Congratulations, chubby extra: despite very nearly ruining the shot, you made it in the movie! Well done. Now here's the rest of the bland historical-rom-com-trailer/Orson-Welles-impression-reel so you can see if you made it in anywhere else:... / Continue →
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Noting the pinball industry's lack of progress on machines focused on actor Bill Paxton, Ben Heckendorn is effing making his own! Thus, Ben Heckendorn is officially Earth history's greatest pinball machine-maker. On his blog, you can see more shots (close-up of the Big Love si... / Continue →
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Marlon Wayans has nabbed Eddie Murphy's presumptive Oscar right out of his chubby, fat-suited hands. EW is reporting the White Chick is in talks to take over the role of Richard Pryor in an upcoming, Oscar-baiting biopic on the comedian: Funny man Marlon Wayans is in advanced ... / Continue →
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Believe it or not, Anna Nicole Smith didn't knock every take in her 1996 Die Hard rip-off, Skyscraper, out of the park. Even our greatest actors have their off days, and she's no exception. Which is great for us, because these insane outtakes are the most amazing way we could e... / Continue →
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Hasn't National Lampoon's Vacation series been crapped-on enough by Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure? Apparently not, because Heat Vision reports New Line is preparing a station wagon for a new sequel that would, oof, follow one of the incarnations of a now... / Continue →
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Here's the new Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus trailer, in all its final-Heath-Ledger-performance, phallic-nosed, multiple-actored glory. If this doesn't make you want to see it, you clearly have an issue with alternately carnivalesque and candy-lacquered surreality making your... / Continue →
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True, some of the brands were mentioned derisively as jokes but, really, what kind of joke set-up begins with "Pantene Volumizing Shampoo"? (Answer: a terrible, corporate-sponsored joke.) We can't be more than a few weeks away from a Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show-style switch... / Continue →
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I've always said Adrien Brody and Topher Grace were basically the new Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers. At last, validation! Adrien Brody is boarding to star in "Robert Rodriguez's Predators," Fox’s reboot of the sci-fi franchise being directed by Nimrod Antal. Topher ... / Continue →
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Can we fast-track this? Disney has preemptively picked up "Reel to Real," a family fantasy pitch by Eric Saiet and Andrea Maywhort-Scully. The story involves a magical film projector. A magic film projector! That's almost as good as Adam Sandler's magic universal remote. Or A... / Continue →
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What happens when you cut out all the effects shots from a five-minute clip of Roland Emmerich's newest disaster film, 2012? You get a sad, shouty minute-and-a-half acting reel composed of John Cusack doing a Conan-driving-his-desk Late Night sketch:... / Continue →
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New Doctor Who logo! "DW" as a tardis! Lens flares! And no one is more excited about it than leader writer/executive producer Steven Moffat, who said: Look at that, something really new - an insignia! DW in TARDIS form! Simple and beautiful, and most important of all, a comple... / Continue →
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The Icelandic thriller Reykjavík-Rotterdam has an all-star Icelandic cast, a four-star rating from Iceland's daily paper, won five Icelandic film awards, and is the country's Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Film. But there's one thing Reykjavík-Rotterdam does not have... / Continue →
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And now Gremlins 2: The New Batch is getting a line of clothing and housewares at Urban Outfitters. (via We Love You So)... / Continue →
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In case you missed the photos on The Superficial, here's the first look at Jessica Biel in her role as a general pursuing the A-Team. Apparently she'll be playing one of those leggy, sexy, carefully-styled, form-fitting trenchcoat-wearing generals. Classic general type. I hear ... / Continue →
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Remember how, in The Lion King, Disney kicked open your skull doors and gave your brain a charliehorse right from the start with "Circle of Life"? Such powerful music! So much reverent African wildlife! Well, the opening to Disney's The Princess and the Frog is nothing like th... / Continue →
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Oprah thinks the struggle for a white person to form a relationship with a black person is hysterical! (She can't fathom it, because all races and species love Oprah equally.) The talk show host's Harpo Films has acquired the movie rights to Will You Be My Black Friend, a year-... / Continue →
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The perpetually it-will-happen-eventually Arrested Development movie has made some slight but official progress. The Hollywood Reporter claims series creator Mitch Hurwitz and co-executive producer James Vallely are finally at work on a screenplay, which--if last night's Curb Y... / Continue →
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How did director Wes Anderson get teams of animators to meticulously compose shots so distinctly Wes Andersony? By recording videos of himself playing every part and editing those performances together into an all-Anderson version of the film for the animators to recreate with ... / Continue →
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Sorry, Drew Barrymore, no Whip It this week: 1. Zombieland - $25 million. Killing zombies will always be a big crowd pleaser. At least until the zombies populations take over; then we'll probably pander more to them with brain-centric plots. 2. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatbal... / Continue →
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Only one serial killer goes through the trouble of installing a playground merry-go-round in his warehouse apartment just to force people to make complicated decisions that lead to each others' elaborate deaths. It's Saw, everyone! Here's his latest torture opus. He may be on ... / Continue →
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The first photos of Liam Neeson as Zeus in Clash of the Titans have shown up in Entertainment Weekly. I was a bit skeptical of the amount of t-shirt I was seeing in other costumes, but in this shot, I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by the degree of authenticity here. That's ... / Continue →
