The day of the screening I was joking around with some friends at my day job and came up with this snazzy catchphrase regarding the new movie 2012: “Only John Cusack can outrun disasters of massive proportions but not be able to stop the disaster that was his character’s marriage.” I knew that Amanda Peet [...]
I didn’t fall head over heels in love with Tropic Thunder as many other people did; I found it overlong and Jack Black’s performance sucked all the air out after Robert Downey Jr. would fill it up again. That’s not to say it’s bad. It’s really very good, just not mind-blowing.
One film that was very [...]
Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie. Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire. John Travolta in Hairspray. These are among some of Hollywood’s big name men to let their feminine sides shine through on screen by playing the role of women (granted, Hoffman and Williams were both men playing men playing women…)
The next star to don a dress for [...]
I have trained myself to roll my eyes every time I read the words “pirate film” in the headline of an article, but this is different: we’re not dealing with swashbuckling Jack Sparrow or a gaunt Kiera Knightley, but instead real life Somali pirates that have peppered the news for over a year.
Columbia Pictures is [...]
Perhaps in a Julie & Julia-inspired agenda, Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures TV (in conjunction with HBO) have signed first-look deals with the New York Times for film rights to their column “Modern Love,” which is essentially a weekly romantic comedy-drama bundled into a page or so. Thus, each week the column provides enough ammunition [...]
I’m somewhat convinced that Ridley Scott — either by his own nature or by the wishes of studios — will eventually attach his name in some capacity to every film on the horizon. A quick scan of IMDb reveals that the director of Blade Runner and Gladiator has twenty two films in the works, including [...]
Coming into theaters for two weeks only starting on October 28th is the highly anticipated Michael Jackson’s This Is It. Deriving from his comeback tour that the late king of pop was never able to act out, the film consists of behind the scenes footage of Jackson himself on and off stage. Tickets are now [...]
Columbia Pictures fills up its schedule, putting together a sequel for the Nicolas Cage 2007 film Ghost Rider. In talks to pen the script is scribe David Goyer who previously worked on The Dark Knight and The Unborn. Actor Nicolas Cage will be reprising his role as the motorcycle riding demon, no word at all [...]
Warner Bros Pictures, just a few weeks ago, let go of the Mattel property called Masters of the Universe due to several conflicting viewpoints on how the movie would be approached. The studio parted ways, leaving the toys turned animated show to find another company to pick it up. Columbia Pictures has swooped on in [...]
What is Zombieland? Why does everyone keep on talking about it? Yes, I was thinking about that last night when someone mentioned it to me. There are so many zombie movies as comparison to vampire movies that are spawning nowadays, its just overall hard to keep track of what is what. After a little bit [...]
Stephen Chow, who originally was going to direct The Green Hornet and ended up just being Kato in the updated film version of the television show, has abandoned ship. What has been described by the studios as simply “mutual and amicable decision by both sides to move on”, it looks like there’s been some trouble with [...]
Raja Gosnell, director of films such as Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Scooby Doo, is setting himself up to hang out with some blue men as he takes on the directing duties of the Smurfs. The new live action/animated hybrid feature under the good people of Sony Animated and Columbia Pictures will include everyone’s tiny heroes within the [...]
