January 24, 2010 - January 30, 2010 Archives
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Counterbalancing the strangeness of Seth Rogen playing a superhero in a Michel Gondry film, regular superhero film composer Danny Elfman has been hired to score The Green Hornet. Though the news was not formally announced, the dependable monthly film score analysts at Film Scor... / Continue →
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If you've ever wondered what The A-Team would be like if it were more like Ocean's Eleven, here's sort of your answer:... / Continue →
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Former Da Ali G Show writer and Flight of the Conchords co-creator James Bobin has signed on to direct Disney's new Muppets movie. The script was written by Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segel, the latter of whom Heat Vision claims is called a "Muppet freak," indicating that he ei... / Continue →
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Guess what! There's this now: an animated comedy about hick culture with absolutely none of the dignity of King of the Hill. The Hollywood Reporter explains the doomsday scenario: TBS is partnering with David Spade to develop an animated version of his film "Joe Dirt." The pi... / Continue →
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It's OK if you want to see When in Rome. Just know that, if you do, you no longer have a home here. When in Rome Director: Mark Steven Johnson (the auteur behind Daredevil, Ghost Rider, and Simon Birch!) Starring: Veronica Mars, Transformers Army Guy/Tad Hamilton Good if you w... / Continue →
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This is just the kind of photograph I want hanging in my office, if I ever have an office, and if I ever have a mentor or protégé willing to stand/sit beside me for a professional photo that conveys what an air of dignity we have in this office since I've been working there.... / Continue →
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Guitar jammin' and Shia LeBeouf cruising around on a motorcycle? It must be Wall Street 2: Wall Street Is So Fucking Badass!... / Continue →
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Zac Efron, captain of the Wildcats basketball team, has reportedly signed on to two new projects that he hopes will distance him from being thought of as an elven song and dance man. With Universal, Efron is set to star in Fire, an adaptation of comics goldenboy Brian Michael ... / Continue →
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Zelda Rubinstein, the diminutive, child-voiced actress who was somehow able to upstage even the great Craig T. Nelson, died yesterday. The just-over-four-foot actress had a heart attack two months ago and had been hospitalized until her death. In the '80s, she nobly campaigned ... / Continue →
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And boy are they proud of it: “The title is provocative,” explains studio marketing head Michael Vollman. “We wanted to try to tell some story with the poster, which you don’t do a lot of the time. Who has algebra in something aimed at a mass audience? It was a fun way to make... / Continue →
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After 31 years of operation, Miramax, the Weinstein-founded company known for its independent spirit, is closing the doors on its New York and LA offices today, officially killing the company. The closure will put 80 people out of their jobs, and your Pulp Fiction and Clerks DV... / Continue →
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Apparently this is pretty old, but a friend just sent it to me and I'd never seen it, so accept it, because you'll never take my Independence Day.... / Continue →
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Get it? GET IT? CHERRY BOMB. And not even a normal cherry bomb. Literally a cherry that is also a bomb, like you'd draw if that was the Pictionary word you got, just to make sure you get it. Because that's a Runaways song. If you still didn't get it. 'The Runaways' Poster [Tra... / Continue →
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Sure, it was pretty rad when the amazing beast known as Mega Shark erupted from its watery home to take down a passing aircraft in Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, but did you ever stop and think if it was scientifically feasible? Fuck yeah, it was! (Assuming that Mega Shark is ca... / Continue →
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He could have made Big Money Rustlas, the Insane Clown Posse western:... / Continue →
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Addressing concerns that most of America would rather see Larry the Cable Guy do something, anything, than learn a valuable history lesson, History Channel has decided to further stray from its titular theme and give L.C.G. a show where he goes around doing things in his tradem... / Continue →
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I suppose its only weakness is that you have to have seen the American Psycho business card scene for it to make any sense, thus making the entire concept a fundamentally flawed in-joke. Still, if only American television would put such effort into advertising movies on televi... / Continue →
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Remember when you considered George Lucas a demigod because he invented two of the most indisputably great franchises ever created? Well, as if he didn't disappoint you enough with the last few Star Warses, now he's doing some kind of cartoon musical with fairies: George Lucas... / Continue →
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Lionsgate is getting cutthroat in its rivalry with Paramount to have the best piece-of-shit horror sequel that's so cheaply made that even the rapidly diminishing retard masses who see it are enough to make more than enough profit. Let me catch you up. Saw VI director Kevin G... / Continue →
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On his final day as host of The Tonight Show, departing hero Conan O'Brien mentioned that if HBO decides to make a The Late Shift 2, he'd like fellow red-head Tilda Swinton to play his part. So, logically, when Movieline caught up with the translucent-skinned actress at Sundanc... / Continue →
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You know when you're watching a movie and someone on-screen says, "Time to use internet!", and then they get on a computer and it looks nothing like any operating system or browser that ever existed, and then a red screen that says "GAME OVER!!!" pops up for some reason, and yo... / Continue →
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Welp, James Cameron finally managed to beat that boat movie he made. It's official: Avatar, which is sort of a sci-fi thing that's currently playing in theaters, has surpassed Titanic's worldwide box office, with a $1.859 billion total so far. Of course, Tooth Fairy is just gai... / Continue →
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Good news if you're a fan of actors in mediocre police dramas that seem to always be on. Vincent D'Onofrio of Law & Order: Criminal Intent reruns and cleaned-up Jerri Blank (Kyra Sedgwick) of The Closer have joined Jay Alaimo's new indie drama-d Chlorine. The Hollywood Reporter... / Continue →
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Probably. Why wouldn't he be? That's just the kind of thing a man always ready to stack another brick in the Focker estate would do. Buried in this Deadline Hollywood story about other garbage De Niro is doing, Nikki Finke casually drops that the once-esteemed actor is "mid-de... / Continue →
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The final Wolfman poster, yet the first to truly express the sentiment, "What the...? Anthony Hopkins is in this with me?"... / Continue →
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From avatar mind transfer pod chamber thing to just a standard coffin. Latino Review is reporting that Sam Worthington, the unmemorable, blunt-featured guy Hollywood keeps insisting is a huge action star, will likely be starring in Universal's miserably-titled Dracula: Year Zer... / Continue →
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Coming soon to Sega CD! The long-awaited sequel to the cult classic Repo Man, starring the cockfight organizer from Seinfeld and a would-be Orbitz gum spokeswoman, Repo Chick:... / Continue →
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It also isn't UHF 2. But that's closer. The musical parodist announced on his blog today that he's signed a deal with Cartoon Network to make a variety of content for them, beginning with a live-action film he'll be writing and directing. Weird disclosed little else, adding on... / Continue →
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Time to get those Tim Burton Planet of the Apes costumes dry cleaned. Vulture is reporting another ape-ruled film is in the works--one that bares more similarity to Conquest of the Planet of the Apes--telling the story of Caesar, the original chimp Che who leads the successful ... / Continue →
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From Yahoo Movies, here are the first posters for Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (formerly known as Avatar: The Last Airbender, until James Cameron decided he owned that word). And it appears we have a frontrunner for largest, most prominent incense stick of su... / Continue →
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Because decades-after-the-fact sequels have been working out well thus far (remember how marginal your hatred for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was compared to all those newer Star Warses?), sounds like we're probably going to get another Gremlins movie now. In 3D, of course: I... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office report, brought to you by Golden Corral, the fictional restaurant chain that keeps airing those commercials for their meals where everything is wrapped in bacon: 1. Avatar - $36 million. Now the second highest-grossing picture domestically, after the bo... / Continue →
