Archive · 2007
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“This is madness!” ”THIS… IS… A…COMPETITION!” Coming in a few weeks is Zack Snyder’s take on Frank Miller’s 300 – the epic story of 300 Spartans who stand between Greece and a massive invading army of Persians. Snyder has taken Miller’s imagery and reproduced… Continue reading
After the announcement that Shawn “I hate and shit upon the very concept of cinema” Levy would be directing a movie based on The Flash, many comic nerds thought we had reached rock bottom. Oh, how naïve. There’s always worse. Like Joel Schumacher directing a… Continue reading
This is still in the not-quite-concrete/rumor stage, as the source for this story is gossip haven TMZ.com, but reportedly Tom Cruise looks to do a flick with Ben Stiller tentatively called The Hardy Men, which of course would be based on the Hardy Boys… Continue reading
Microsoft sure knows what subscribers to its Live service are thirsty for. Root beer, apparently. Out of all the promising titles announced last week for the Xbox Live Arcade, the first to hit release is Root Beer Tapper. The slightly-remixed arcade classic… Continue reading
Before 2006, I would have probably ranked Iron Man somewhere in the low 3000s in the list of Marvel characters I cared about, nestled comfortably between The USAgent and Night Thrasher. Aside from the “Armor Wars” storyline, where they explored his crisis of… Continue reading
Who doesn’t love serial killers? And doesn't everybody adore World’s Fairs? So it stands to reason that putting the two of them together would be a slam dunk. That’s what Erik Larson (no Savage Dragon) did with his nonfiction book The Devil in the White City,… Continue reading
Oliver Stone did his 9/11 movie and lo, it stunk. I rewatched World Trade Center recently, and then again with Stone’s commentary, and the banality of the whole thing was evident. Stone took a story suited for a TV movie and never figured out how to do… Continue reading
Box Office Mojo, bastion of all box office number references, has either been doing some deductive reasoning or has the inside track on George Lucas and friends.The site has posted a release date for the long-rumored, much skepticised Indiana Jones IV: May… Continue reading
Is Warwick Davis plotting against Peter Dinklage? Once upon a time if a character in a movie was a dwarf or a halfling or a midget or even just a tiny monster, Davis was the guy who got the call. Now it’s all about Dinklage. Actually, this is not a bad idea… Continue reading
Rian Johnson’s follow-up to Brick has been slowly percolating behind the scenes. Months ago we learned that Rachel Weisz had signed on to The Brothers Bloom, Johnson’s take on a con man movie. Now there’s finally new casting, and it was worth the wait. Rian… Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid… Continue reading
Jeff Zucker, the George W. Bush of television, will be named chief executive of NBC Universal this week, reports the L.A. Times. Zucker, the 41-year-old former president of NBC’s prime-time entertainment division and executive producer of Today, succeeds… Continue reading
