April 11, 2010 - April 17, 2010 Archives
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How long has it been since a classic cartoon character has been brought into the "real world" thanks to CGI and some sassy pop culture jokes left over from the last Shrek script? Days? Hours? Whenever Dan Aykroyd gave his last "Hey, Booboo!" at the recording studio? The correct... / Continue →
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Lars von Trier has a new female lead to be emotionally annihilated by his creatively exploitative work! It's Spider-Man's girlfriend: [Kirsten Dunst] just been set by Lars von Trier to play the lead role in Melancholia that Penelope Cruz was negotiating before she jumped to P... / Continue →
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O Chris Farley, why did you have to die so young, before you had the chance to partake in a weird joke about all your SNL Bad Boy brethren simultaneously pissing in a public pool?... / Continue →
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Last weekend's new movies are old. These are new new. For real. Kick-Ass Director: Matthew Vaughn Starring: Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloe Moretz Good if you want to see: a little girl murder a bunch of guys; any of the scenes in the hundreds of fucking trailers and poster... / Continue →
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Captain America having a teenage boy sidekick just got slightly less gay and pedophilic! Heat Vision is reporting that this lovely gal will be playing the romantic lead in that Shield Man movie: British actress Hayley Atwell has nabbed the coveted female lead in Marvel’s “Capt... / Continue →
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Through a combination of his faerie magic and his oh-so-special haircuts, Zac Efron has scored another role in a movie that doesn't involve singing or basketball. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the woodsprite actor will star in a remake of this Swedish thing: Efron is at... / Continue →
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OHHHHHHHHH, BECAUSE SHREK IS AN OGRE!!!!... / Continue →
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After all those BORING trailers with guys in awesome suits shooting things, a guy with electro-whips, and Scarlett Johansson crawling around in a skintight catsuit, Marvel has finally made a piece of marketing that might actually get some people interested in "Iron Man Two": so... / Continue →
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You know, I think I might be starting to like this Sorcerer's Apprentice movie, if only because I like it when a film's main character looks like he listens to way too much Rush. Bigger version at ComingSoon.... / Continue →
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I've always really wanted to get to say "we've got company." But no one visits Grandma. :( (Thanks, Richard!)... / Continue →
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Sharlto Copley will not rest until South African is as known for science fiction as it is for Nelson Mandela and carjacking so prevalent it necessitated flamethrower cars. After hitting it big with District 9, the South African actor is now set to star in DJ Caruso's adaptation... / Continue →
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In the market for a computer movie prop? Good news! Though the laptop from ID4 was tragically lost to that laughing skull computer virus, the IMSAI 8080 computer from the 1983 Matthew Broderick movie WarGames is apparently still around, and it will be up for sale. If you're so... / Continue →
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Darren Aronofsky and Rachel Weisz have made another move to secure themselves as "best couple" amongst their other film-making couple friends. Entertainment Weekly says the two, who previously collaborated on The Fountain, will be working together again on a Jackie Kennedy film... / Continue →
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Alright, Avengers fans, I hope you also like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Dollhouse, and "Joss" as a name, because it looks like geek beloved writer/director Joss Whedon is going to end up directing the Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hulk team-up film The Avengers. Vari... / Continue →
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Are you excited for that Cemetery Junction motion picture, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's upcoming coming-of-age film? I sure am, even though it doesn't yet have a release date in the U.S., meaning I'm looking forward to it with the same undefined "I'm not sure when I'll ... / Continue →
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Today, when clicking around the "foreign" section (it's his favorite; American films are so broad and pandering), Chris Rock used his magic Netflix account's "remake this for some reason" button again. This was the result: ... Chris Rock revealed that his next project included... / Continue →
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Guess what. There's this now: Mega Piranha--which, believe it or not, is a different thing than this other piranha movie with Richard Dreyfuss, Christopher Lloyd, Jerry O'Connell, and Elisabeth Shue. Asylum (the studio that brought us Transmorphers and Terminators [plural]) ha... / Continue →
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I think maybe Tony Jaa is bludgeoned to death with logs, turned into a mummy, and then resurrected as Feral Tony Jaa? I have no fucking clue. The important thing is, just as in Ong Bak 2, Tony Jaa jumps around on elephants and finds new and entertaining ways to murder people.... / Continue →
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After stagnating a bit due to disagreements between Warner and toy manufacturer Mattel (who has final story approval, because they care), the long-in-development film adaptation of the Masters of the Universe toy line (also known as "He-Men" if you were me at 6 or "plastic mons... / Continue →
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I think the idea is that Freddy is resorting to making the kind of hollow threats a 4th grader makes when they're mad at their parents. After promising to "never sleep again," he'll probably go on to assert he's going to run, like, a million miles away and never speak to any of... / Continue →
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TBS, the station that has played Wedding Crashers more times than Earth's combined frat house DVD players, has signed Conan O'Brien to host an hour-long show to begin in November. The Hollywood Reporter explains: "In three months I've gone from network television to Twitter to... / Continue →
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Dressing up as the movie version of Green Lantern for Halloween is going to be tough, and not just because your lumpy physique is repulsive in anything even modestly form-fitting. According to /Film, the costume in the film is going to be entirely VIRTUAL. For those that don't... / Continue →
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Dixie Carter, the one I always assumed was the Leonardo-esque "leader" of Designing Women, has reportedly died of undisclosed causes (hopefully not that crazy neck thing she did the commercials about): Carter died Saturday morning, according to publicist Steve Rohr, who repres... / Continue →
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1. Date Night - $27.1 million. Seems quite a few people saw Date Night this weekend. With any luck, one of them can now tell me what a date is like. 2. Clash of the Titans - $26.9 million. I don't want to start any crazy rumors here, but I heard most of the sales are from Harr... / Continue →
