Archive · 2005

July 2005

228 posts

ZOMBIE CONTEST WINNERS!

Our zombie combo contest (more details HERE) has come to a close, and drew a staggering amount of responses. Contestants were required to answer these two questions: 1. Besides the mall, where’s the best place to go when the dead start rising from the grave?… Continue reading →

REVIEW: 9 SONGS

I have read that the film SOB was at least partially inspired by Blake Edward’s true life interest in making a hardcore adaptation of The Joy Of Sex. It obviously never happened, and after watching Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs, I have decided that maybe… Continue reading →

TRAILER: THE FOG

Second-hand smoke really does kill. At least when it has hook-handed specters contained within. In the remake of John Carpenter’s 1980 weather-horror flick The Fog, an angry cloud of billowing mist descends upon a small California island community and attacks… Continue reading →

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE REPORT

Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory $28,300,000 $114,100,000 2 2 Wedding Crashers $26,200,000 $80,900,000 2 3 Fantastic Four $12,200,000 $122,500,000 3 4 The Island $12,100,000 $12,100,000 1 5 Bad News… Continue reading →

WHOOP THAT LUKE CAGE?

This morning at the press junket for his new film Four Brothers (yet another movie I liked better than Batman Begins!), John Singleton briefly talked about his possible adaptation of Marvel Comics' Luke Cage, Power Man. When asked if Jamie Foxx would be… Continue reading →

UNIVERSAL CAN COUNT TO 9

Universal’s subsection Focus Features (under which is genre arm Rogue Pictures, who astutely brought Shaun of the Dead stateside) is getting into the animation racket with a bizarro flick simply known as 9. The feature-length movie will be directed by Shane… Continue reading →

TRAILER: V FOR VENDETTA

I sort of have to question the wisdom of releasing a trailer about a futuristic film involving terrorism in England during a time when the London of now is under siege by the same, but I suppose when you’ve got a movie to promote, there’s nothing for it. At… Continue reading →