Hollywood’s usual habit of late is to dump three to four new movies into theaters every weekend, most of it mediocre crap not worth half the ticket price. It’s a trend interrupted only when the big fish come along. You know which movies are likely to be huge because no one dares to open anything against them, and this weekend is just such an occasion.
Walden Media’s fantasy franchise The Chronicles......
For months now Uwe Boll has littered the internet with his bragging that his new movie Postal would open against Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In fact we got so sick of it, we told him to go to hell. Now it looks like theater distributors are doing the same.
According to a statement issued in the wee hours of this morning by Boll’s people, the movie’s wide release next weekend......
George Clooney’s new movie will win the title for funniest title of the year, in whatever year it finally comes out. Variety says the Clooney has signed up to star in a movie called Men Who Stare At Goats.
It’s based on a book, but nobody reads anymore so who cares about that right? Of course if you’re reading this you do read, so maybe you do care. I don’t know. What you probably really want......
Disturbing news from the realm of Will Smith’s superhero movie Hancock. The movie’s world premiere had been scheduled to happen next month in Australia. Everyone from Will Smith to Peter Berg was scheduled to attend, but now not so much. The film’s premiere has been unceremoniously cancelled.
What’s really worrisome here is the reason it may have been cancelled. Our sources tell us they aren’t......
The first trailer for Bill Murray’s City of Ember has arrived. It looks like a cross between Dark City and National Treasure. Weird, but good.
It’s the story of a civilization living in a dying underground city. As the power fails, two kids follow a series of clues to find their way out. Bill Murray plays the city’s mayor and Tim Robbins seems to be playing some sort of mentor/inventor figure.......
The Wackness has a third trailer. They keep getting better. Still not entirely representative of the greatness of this movie, but also still better than that first awful trailer we got awhile back. This one is focused mainly on Shapiro’s relationship with Olivia Thirlby’s character.
They’ve also spiced the look of the movie’s marketing materials up a bit. You’ll see them using brighter colors......
I can remember three times in recent memory when I saw a movie with an audience that laughed so loudly, and so often, that they drowned out half the jokes. Two were last summer, when I saw Knocked Up and Superbad on packed opening weekends. The third was last night, when I found myself in an advance screening of Pineapple Express, laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes.
Pineapple Express follows......
John McCain may want him for his vice president, but right now Dwight Schrute is much too busy being The Rocker. It’s Rainn Wilson’s first lead role in a feature film, an insane looking movie which castes him as a washed up, over the top drummer who drags a group of kids out with him on the road for one last shot at rock.
The movie’s first poster is here… and it’s weird. Is that really Rainn Wilson......
Working hard in front of the cameras and the expectations of award season is exhausting. Occasionally, it can be too much for some, like Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men), who recently dropped off Nine. Others feed off the energy and take up the slack. Case in point -- Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood) has taken Bardem's place in the musical based on Federico Fellini's superb 8 1/2, according......
You may be sick of seeing Ben Barnes’ face all over posters, billboards and your television, but you probably don’t feel nearly as weird about it as he does. The 25-year-old British actor, whose biggest movie role before this was in 2006’s little-seen The History Boys, is the star of one of May’s biggest movies, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. With a Mediterranean accent, a hairpiece and......
