Dan Vinton

273 posts

HAIRLINES AND BROOMSTICKS

Sure to give millions a relapse of childhood nightmares involving gloved brooms trying to drown Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney Pictures is reportedly developing a two-hour film based on their 10-minute Fantasia feature, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Nicolas Cage,… Continue reading →

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE REPORT

Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 Norbit $33,740,000 $33,740,000 1 2 Hannibal Rising $13,350,000 $13,350,000 1 3 Because I Told You So $9,041,000 $25,626,000 2 4 The Messengers $7,200,000 $24,724,000 2 5 Night at the Museum… Continue reading →

UPDATED! DARK CRYSTAL IS A GO

With the recent rumor of the Dark Crystal prequel Power of the Dark Crystal being kaput and our mention of that in the Puppets Plan Attack story (read it here), some some investigative readers on the message boards called bullshit. I put in a call to the Jim… Continue reading →

SPIES LIKE A REMAKE

Spies Like Us, John Landis' 80's cold war comedy starring Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase and Donna Dixon's bouncing mammaries, is getting a shot at becoming relevant in the 2000s.Warner Brothers and Imagine will be distributing/producing a remake and has tapped… Continue reading →

JAMES MCSCOTTY?

For as little information as there is officially coming out of the new Star Trek film, speculation and rumor-mongering have naturally become the order of the day. Is it a reboot or a revisit? Will it have the original characters or won't it? Is JJ Abrams… Continue reading →

PUPPETS PLAN ATTACK

It was a rough weekend for fans of the puppet. Word came last week that the whole Dark Crystal prequel was shut down all Halo-style. Clone War/Samurai Jack fan-god Genndy Tartakovsky was directing, preproduction was churning out some goods and seemingly, out… Continue reading →

SANDLER IS MOSSAD

In 2005 Steven Spielberg deftly and depressingly gave us a microcosmic view of the Mossad (Israel's intelligence agency) as it related to the events of Munich. Now it's Sandler's turn because, man! Is that Mossad ever funny!Actually, it's more a comedy… Continue reading →

FANGORIA JOINS HOLLYWOOD

Fangoria was always one of two dirty magazines for me as a kid. The first was Cosmo – you know, before I discovered it wasn't filled with naked ladies, but just the cleave-heavy one on the front. Fangoria, on the other hand, never blueballed. I knew if I saw… Continue reading →

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE REPORT

Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 The Messenger $14,500,000 $14,500,000 1 2 Because I Told You So $13,022,000 $13,022,000 1 3 Epic Movie $8,225,000 $29,369,000 2 4 Night at the Museum $6,750,000 $225,365,000 7 5 Smokin' Aces… Continue reading →

12 YEAR OLDS WITH WEAPONS

Ryan Gosling is one crafty fella. Lightweight (Remember the Titans!), heavyweight (The Believer!) and weird choices in between (The Notebook), the dude has earned himself a rep as a true thesp, as evidenced by his recent Academy Award and SAG nomination for… Continue reading →

EYE DREAM OF ALBA

Way back in 2002, when Paula Wagner and Tom Cruise could do no wrong and were cuddling and snuggling with Paramount, the two worked out a deal to buy the remake rights to the Chinese horror film, The Eye. Now that it's the morning after, Lionsgate received… Continue reading →