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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

DAILY GRABOID 9.7.05

I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading

IS HE WRIGHT FOR ANT-MAN?

Yesterday the news about Marvel making its own movies, with marketing and distribution from Paramount, was announced. One of the ten film projects mentioned was Ant-Man. Much derision ensued across the internet. Meanwhile, in an Aint It Cool talkback, Moriarty said that he knew who was in talks to direct the film, and that fandom … Continue reading

I WANNA BE YOUR FRODO

Weird news is percolating, and the gist of it is that Elijah Wood will be playing Iggy Pop in a biopic about the one-time front man of The Stooges. As Quint from Ain’t It Cool points out, this isn’t exactly that shocking from Elijah, who has been carefully trying to not get trapped in his … Continue reading

30 DAYS OF DIRECTOR

Several years after Sam Raimi famously plunked down a cool million for the privilege of adapting it, the sun has finally started to descend on 30 Days of Night. Director David Slade has grabbed his holy water and night vision gear for the high-concept fright flick, based on a comic (which you can buy HERE!) … Continue reading

SHOUT AT THE DEVIL #4

Welcome to the latest lettercol from yours truly. This one’s going to be a little short, but I think it’s all about quality over quantity, honestly. This past week has been weird for me. I tend to get really focused on stuff, and I have been very focused the past week on Hurricane Katrina and … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 9.6.05

I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading

FINE YOUNG HANNIBAL

If you thought that Brett Ratner taking a swing at the franchise was about as low as the Hannibal Lector films would go, you were wrong! There’s yet another Hannibal film in development, and in an act of seriously extraordinary whorism, it’s being based on a new book by Thomas Harris, who apparently cranks these … Continue reading

FOREVERAMA

Sometimes you’ll hear about someone in this industry we call The Industry taking a less than personal or creative job so they can do other – and presumably better – things. Roger Avary is doing that quite literally. It seems that the money he has made from writing the script for Bob Zemeckis’ high tech … Continue reading

A DICK MOVE

Back when Jimbo Cameron was emotionally abusing his way through the filming of Titanic, Variety ran a daily front-page Titanic Watch. That may have been the most famous troubled production in decades (and the most profitable since Gone With the Wind), but it wasn’t alone. And to this day movies find themselves getting deeper and … Continue reading