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Continuing to aid in HDNet's expansion beyond a love for boobies in Hi Def, HDNet Films has been expirementing with lower budget High Def filmmaking and has released a couple films (the experimental Steven Soderbergh multi media blast Bubble and the doc… Continue reading
Now that the whole New Line v. Peter Jackson v. New Line feud has exploded with a concussive blast that's apparently flattened any modicum of goodwill between the parties (read Devin's coverage here), the real speculation on who will direct The Hobbit and… Continue reading
1408 sounds like a significant number. I tried coming up with some trivia for the lead in, but could only come up with boring stuff like a bill from Oregon Senator Gordon Smith, introduced "to strengthen data protection and safeguards, require data breach… Continue reading
Before Lionsgate releases Fido to go lurching its way to the general US public on June 15, movie lobby patrons will have this poster to whet their whistle. If blood-soaked picket fences and man-FUP can be counted as whistle whetters. In the tradition of… Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 Epic Movie $19,200,000 $19,200,000 1 2 Smokin' Aces $14,262,000 $14,262,000 1 3 Night at the Museum $9,450,000 $216,738,000 6 4 Catch and Release $8,000,000 $8,000,000 1 5 Stomp the Yard $7,800,000… Continue reading
Remember when important films/filmmakers earned the right to have the directors name appear as part of the title? I.e- A Stanley Kubrik film. A Steven Spielberg film. A film by Martin Scorsese. Since when did silly pieces of ass-foolery like a Rush Hour… Continue reading
Every time I go to Vegas, I stroke my fiscally responsible ego by watching the blank faces of middle America as they yank slot handles with one hand and suck smoke/cradle their imbibery with the other. Sillies. Don’t they know slots are for kids? The odds… Continue reading
The long rumored, oft-delayed big screen adaptation of the IO/Eidos video game Hitman is up and running. With the recent announcement Luc Besson will be co-producing, (I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again- he’s everywhere! Those underpants you’re… Continue reading
You’ve got to wonder what agents and the actors who follow them are thinking when they sign up for certain projects. Take lovely lady lumped Queen Latifah, for example. She won the hearts of Academy voting boxes with an Oscar nomination for her role in… Continue reading
Catherine Hardwick, known for her alternative youth culture knack (naughty girl subpolitics of Thirteen, edge riding trendsetters at the dawn of skateboarding in Lords of Dogtown and teen pregnancy in The Nativity), is looking to add some righteous… Continue reading
Any time I see the term “ferocious” combined with “bidding battles”, I envision nothing short of severed limbs slapping to the floor, eyeballs hanging from the danglies and stuffy old executives leaping at obnoxious young executives in a battle to the death.… Continue reading
There’s nothing like beating a topic into oblivion to send the “who gives a shit meter” into the red. So, I'm sorry and thanks for reading. Amidst all the recent ratings fuss, ex MPAA head and current advocate of the silver haired blackened brow club, Jack… Continue reading
