Headlining the top of my must-see films this season is Tim Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland.  Recently announced to debut in 3-D and releasing at the start of next month, it seems to be on the tip of  a lot of movie buff tongues. I’m big fan of Lewis Caroll’s nonsensical novels and with [...]

Last year it was announced that Studio Ghibli, the animation studio headed up by Japanese maestro Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Ponyo) was in the process of adapting Mary Norton’s classic The Borrowers for Studio Ghibli.
At the time we were left with only vague sketches and a few designs and our own childhood memories of the [...]

Jack Bauer has been just about everywhere and done just about everything. Everything that is, except get his own theatrical blockbuster. Well, in typical Bauer fashion, he seems poised to cross another bit of the impossible off his bucket list.
According to Variety, Fox is in talks with screenwriter Billy Ray (Shattered Glass)  to develop a [...]

Well, the word on Bill Murray’s involvement in the third Ghostbusters film has finally been confirmed by the man himself. The how and why of that involvement are slightly different than expected. While Murray will indeed be returning as the sarcastic and sly Peter Venkman from the original films, he’s trading in his proton pack [...]

When it was all said and done the New Orleans Saints were Super Bowl Champs and Hollywood had a bunch o’ movies that wanted to advertise during the big game. We already talked about Alice in Wonderland and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time; joining those two were M. Night Shyamalan’s Avatar The Last [...]

The first movie advertisement to run during Super Bowl 44 in Miami on CBS was Disney’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

ALICE was the only film to advertise during the first half of the game starring Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts versus Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints. The second film to run an ad in [...]

In an apparent attempt to mine every existing intellectual property in the world for film ideas, Hollywood has turned its sights on the much-beloved board game market. Universal, in particular, has secured the rights to two of America’s most classic games, Monopoly and Battleship.
Battleship will reportedly be first. Universal has set a release date for [...]

With a planned reboot of Sony and Marvel’s hit Spider-Man franchise underway, it was only a matter of time before casting rumors began to swirl for the web-slinging lead. The first name to be thrown into the ring is newcomer Logan Lerman who will be making his big screen debut this year in another adventure franchise [...]

Meet Charlie Wax. He’s a loud, boorish American whose bald-head, quirky shades and ‘screw you’ attitude suggest Bruce Willis’ midlife crisis. Charlie is also a spy, living in France while working to stop an intricate and dangerous web of Chinese drug dealers and Pakistani terrorists. Spy protocol would suggest dealing with such a complex and [...]

I’m gonna get Biblical and quote Solomon “there is nothing new under the sun” and there isn’t but why does Hollywood feel they have to give their take on everything? I see film as an art form and as an artist I think that sometimes someone else got it right, their representation of a thought [...]