What happens when the eternal teenager grows up? Kevin Smith burst onto the scene in the mid-90s with “Clerks,” a movie filled with no dirty pictures, but wall-to-wall filth. Smith continued the trend with “Mallrats,” “Chasing Amy,” and then, lesser fare. “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” is Smith’s second movie that takes place without …
In an interview with English newspaper The Independent, (and then repeated in a completely different interview wit another paper,) Daniel Craig says he’ll keep on playing James Bond “until my joints go.” “If people still want to see these movies I’ll keep doing them for as long as it takes, or until my knees go, …
A new teaser poster for Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds” has been released. It’s spare, simple and gets me excited even more excited to see the movie. “Inglorious Basterds” will play at the Cannes Film Festival, and then open nation-wide at the end of August.
Mike Newell, best known for directing “Four Weddings & a Funeral,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” and the upcoming “Prince of Persia,” is reportedly in talks to direct Johnny Depp in Disney’s upcoming “The Lone Ranger.” Disney is said to view the movie as the heir to their “Pirates of the Carribean” film …
Try to follow this: “Every Little Step,” is a documentary about the behind-the-scenes making of a revival of a musical that is a behind-the-scenes of a musical based on real-life behind-the-scenes about the making of a musical. Got that?
Recreating events from recently past history in a film is a tricky business. If part of your audience remembers the event, the concern is that they’ll be looking at the details and not the overall story. When your film is about a former president, the scrutiny is that much greater.
In 1978, Michael Crichton was well underway in his career as a great suspense/thriller novelist and he had already directed his first feature film, “Westworld.” For his second film, Crichton combined his current job with the vocation he trained for. Set in the world of hospitals and medical advances, “Coma,” based on Robin Cook’s book …
Both the jury and audience awards have been handed out for the 2009 Indpendent Film Festival of Boston. The winners are as follows: Narrative Feature: Grand Jury Prize Winner: CHILDREN OF INVENTION directed by Tze Chun Special Jury Prize Winner: BEESWAX directed by Andrew Bujalski Audience Award Winner: STILL WALKING directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda Documentary …
This story is brief, but interesting. In an interview with MTV News, director Robert Zemeckis said that he’s a fan of motion capture, and that he’s considering doing a second Roger Rabbit movie. And that’s it. Zemeckis didn’t say anything else. While I liked the original movie growing up, I don’t know if going 3D …
Variety is reporting that Oliver Stone and Shia LaBeouf has signed on to join Michael Douglas in “Wall Street 2.” The script was originally witten a couple of years ago by Stephen Schiff, but things didn’t work out. Alan Loeb has done a re-write on the script and now things look like they’re moving forward. …