There are times in history when you simply know you’re in the midst of greatness. Sitting and watching Henry Selick’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s popular children’s book “Coraline,” you realize quite quickly that you are watching the beginning of a new era of cinema.
David Cronenberg, best known for making some of the creepiest (and best) movies of the past two decades has reportedly signed to direct Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington in “The Matarese Circle.” The script is by the guys who wrote “Wanted,” and based on the Robert Ludlum novel. It’s about two long-time rival spies who …
Writer Ed Solomon, best known for scripting “Men in Black,” and “Charlie’s Angels,” has been hired to take on the Hardy boys. Apparently, this is a dream project for Tom Cruise. (No idea about what else he dreams about.) Cruise hopes to make the movie with Ben Stiller and “Night at the Museum” director Shawn …
The wait is over. After eager anticipation, the teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds,” is out. I have a copy of the script, but haven’t dared to read it yet, not wanting to spoil any of the surprises that I eagerly await. The movie is scheduled to premiere at Cannes and open in August. …
Though it’s set in the 1880’s, Andrew Dominik’s “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” could have been set today. The questions it raises, namely, what is celebrity, what makes celebrity, why do people crave celebrity and, perhaps most importantly, what happens after you get celebrity?
If I wasn’t looking forward to this movie before, this poster isn’t helping. The photo-shop job on Tony Scott’s latest assault on cinema doesn’t tease as much as assure me that there is no need to see this movie. The original, which is wonderful, is still available and still worth seeing. Maybe we, as a …
The new film of Hunter S. Thompson’s first book might be adding a few new faces to the cast. Aaron Eckhart is in talks to join the project, while Oscar-nominated actor Richard Jenkins has already signed on. Jenkins joins previously signed actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, who played Raoul Duke, another one of Thompson’s …
Michael Pena, Brad Dourif and Bill Cobbs have signed on to join Werner Herzog’s latest movie, “My Son, My Son, What Have You Done?” The movie is loosely based on the story of a San Diego man who sees a series of bizarre mystical sights and ends up killing his mother with a sword. Already …
If you wondered how things worked out between Carrie and Big, wonder no more. Variety is reporting that Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis have all signed on for a “Sex and the City,” sequel. The first film, which opened last summer, made $152 million in the US and an additional …
Steven Soderbergh apparently never sleeps. Even though, “Cleo,” his Cleopatra rock opera fell apart after Hugh Jackman bailed, (one would assume the performance of “Australia,” didn’t help make the backers sleep easy,) Soderbergh already has his next proejct lined up. Based on Michael Lewis’ book of the same name, “Moneyball,” is about Oakland A’s manager …