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There are all sorts of books and lecture series and such telling you how easy it is to write a screenplay. Let me just say from first-hand experience, it’s not. It’s hard work. It takes dedication. It takes planning. It takes effort. It takes support, from both friends, family and anonymous people. What, you don’t …
Dimension films must have money like Angelina Jolie has crazy because why else would they decided to give a $10 million budget to the newest Ice Cube script ‘Janky Promoters’?
The full trailer will be seen with the release of ‘Iron Man’ on May 2nd, but there has been some covert filming going on and we now have a bootleg version on line, complete with giddy giggling during the X-Files music.If my reaction to the trailer was a person, it would be a depressed emo …
Richard Matheson’s classic Twilight Zone Episode “Death Ship,” is being adapted for the screen by ‘3:10 to Yuma’ scribe Michael Brandt. The original episode is about the arrival of three astronauts to a planet, and the subsequent discovery of a crashed ship identical to their own, the twist is, the bodies they find are there …
Ok, ‘The Polar Express’ looked creepy. ‘Beowulf’ looked a little less creepy, but still kind of off. Now Robert Zemeckis, paired with Walt Disney Pictures, will be doing yet another film using the CG/performance capture technology. This time the film will be an original story called, ‘Calling All Robots.’ Not much is known about the …
The more I see, the more excited I become.
Tobey Maguire will be producing ‘Afterburn.” The property, based on the post-Apocalyptic comic from Red 5, it is one year after a solar flare burned half the planet, and treasure hunters are venturing into scorched territory to retrieve artifacts. No word if Tobey will act in the film, it sounds like a fun sci-fi project, …
Yesterday we reported on the casting of Elizabeth Banks as First Lady Laura Bush in Oliver Stone’s ‘W’ biopic.
Actor Richard Widmark, best known for his starring roles in many film noir movies of the 1950s has died at the age of 93. Widmark appeared in Sam Fuller’s ‘Pick-up on South Street,’ Jules Dassin’s ‘Night in the City,’ and Elia Kazan’s ‘Panic in the Streets.’ He appeared in more than 40 movies, working into …
Just when you thought it was all about sports, Will Ferrell turns things around and does some animal jokes with a dry heaving elephant. Here are the first pictures from his movie ‘Land of the Lost.’ Will Ferrell looks about as unimpressed with the movie as I am. That is unless the movie involves some …