This is not the movie that the trailer promised. And, that’s a good thing. “Adventureland,” is writer-director Greg Mottola’s autobiographical follow-up to “Superbad.” And, unlike most sophomore slumps, this is as good as his first movie.
John Olson, best known for writing “A History of Violence,” with director David Cronenberg says in a new article in The Village Voice that, no, thank you, he’d rather not look through your latest draft of a magnum opus. Titled, “I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script,” Olson lays out, in pretty black and white …
At the D23 Expo, (the Disney company’s take on Comic-Con,) on Friday, Disney Chairman Dick Cook announced that a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie will be released summer, 2011. The next movie, (the series’ fourth,) will be sub-titled, “On Stranger Tides.” Johnny Depp also made an appearance at the announcement, dressed as Jack Sparrow. …
You’ve seen it before, HD-DVD execs finding out Blu-Ray has beaten them, Hillary Clinton finding out that she doesn’t have enough delegates to win the nomination, Brett Favre signing with the Vikings and so on. Virtually everyone has made a parody clip using Bruno Ganz’s amazing portrayal of Hitler in “Downfall.” Now, Funny or Die …
As the Toronto film festival gets underway, Sylvester Stallone has released the following poster to promote the upcoming “Rambo 5.” Apparently, this one will be less realistic. (Considering the fact that most of the other movies didn’t exactly reek of reality, I’m intrigued to see what this means.) So, here’s the poster that they’ll show …
There are three words that, depending on your reaction to them, will say what you will think of Alex Proyas’ latest sci-fi thriller starring Nicolas Cage: CGI flaming moose. Thoughts?
After much back-and-forth with who would star, and who would direct this movie, shooting has begun on “The Green Hornet.” Michel Gondry is directing the script by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Rogen is also starring as Britt Reid. Cameron Diaz plays Lenore Case while Nicolas Cage plays the enigmatically named Mr. X. Just as …
Fighter Gina Carano, (best known to “American Gladiators” fans as “Crush,”) has been tapped to play the lead in a new thriller from director Steven Soderbergh. What makes this news all the more exciting is that the movie, (called “Knockout,”) is written by Lem Dobbs. Soderbergh and Dobbs last collaborated on “The Limey.” (They also …
One of the big stories yesterday was word that the Walt Disney Company had bought Marvel Entertainment. One of the smaller stories is that Marvel is also considering rebooting their “Fantastic Four” franchise. Writer Akiva Goldsman scribe for the two worst Batman movies, “Batman & Robin,” and “Batman Forever,” as well as producer of the …
In 1981, Thomas Harris introduced the world to Hanibal Lector in his book “Red Dragon.” Lector was a supporting character, while the lead was serial killer investigator Will Graham.