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If every time there's talk of a strike, it means Michael Mann can get $120 million for a 1930's Hollywood noir epic – set on studio backlots and, if all goes according to plan, shot almost exclusively on soundstages! – and Peter Jackson can take (as two… Continue reading
The Crop: Burn After Reading The Production Company: Working Title Films (Focus Features will distribute in the U.S.) The Director: Joel Coen The Producer: Ethan Coen The Writers: Joel & Ethan The Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand. The… Continue reading
When you're lucky enough to call Eric Roberts "dad", that means a) you've got a direct access to some killer Mickey Rourke stories, b) every other movie shown on Cinemax between midnight and six a.m. will help put you through college and c) you aunt is… Continue reading
Welcome to the next CHUD List. We've tackled our essentials list and the continued revelation of our Kills List from 2003, and now that we've begun the beguine, we must continue. Behold: The CHUD.com Top 50 Disappointments. A quick word on the criteria. We… Continue reading
David Ayer's The Night Watchman is turning into quite the testosterone-soaked cop melodrama. One month after snagging Forrest Whitaker to play the corrupt captain of an elite LAPD unit who frames his protégé (played by Keanu Reeves) for the murder of a fellow… Continue reading
Oh, what's the use? According to the employer of that weirdo Scott Holleran, director Shawn Levy's five movies have grossed over $575 million, which averages out to around $115 million per picture. He is obscenely bankable. He also has no pretensions to… Continue reading
After a much-deserved two year break in between mammoth productions, Peter Jackson is taking his first, tentative steps toward directing again by shopping his take on Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones around to the studios. As someone who had little use for… Continue reading
You've no doubt heard the big news by now, but for those of you who've been laying low after killing your ex-wife, here's the short version: Live Free or Die Hard is the Biggest Movie in the Blogosphere!!! Not since Nikki Finke blew the cover off the… Continue reading
I'm not up on my Sara Gran, but I do know my Roman Polanski, and, aside from having the good sense to say no to a champagne/lude cocktail, I'm well aware that the master filmmaker did the crazy-bitch-gets-worked-up-over-nothing subgenre to perfection with… Continue reading
Remember all that talk of Blood Meridian being Ridley Scott's next film after Penetration aka Body of Lies? Forget about it. Now that he's attached himself to Ethan Reiff's and Cyris Voris's Nottingham, a revisionist retelling of the Robin Hood legend… Continue reading
Bill Condon does not lack for humbleness. Though the Academy Award winning screenwriter of Gods and Monsters and the shoulda-been Academy Award nominated director of Dreamgirls must have considerable reserves of confidence stored away somewhere (how else does… Continue reading
Opie Cunningham, director of the greatest film ever made starring Matthew McConaughey and Jenna Elfman (EDtv), has done the prudent thing and cast Frank Langella to reprise his role as former President Richard M. Nixon in his big screen adaptation of… Continue reading
