I have yet to seen a movie adaptation of a young adult book that has really really impressed me. But I’ve got to admit this one sounds interesting. Uglies is on its way. The good folks over at Dark Horizons gives us this: Futuristic tale taps into teen angst over … [Read More]
Here are some of the other movie news stories floating around the web today: – AICN gives it’s review of Pirates of the Caribbean 2 – Click Win Box Office Whoopie! It’s didn’t open against anything. I had a bet with a few guys that it wouldn’t crack $50 million. … [Read More]
No one will really argue… Superman is the god of the Super Hero world. I’m not saying he’s the most popular… or even the “best” (a very subjective term), but most will agree that Superman is “THE” superhero. He’s been around longer than any other modern hero, he embodies all … [Read More]
Wolf brought this to my attention this morning. The good folks over at Superhero Hype have reported that there is an open casting call going on right now for Transformers the Movie. Man I suddenly wish I was under 23. Here’s the call: Central Casting is holding an open call … [Read More]
We’re still so far away from Spider-Man 3, but the hype is already insane. People (including me) are so looking forward to this flick it’s nuts. Can’t get enough? Well lucky for you some more WONDERFUL Spider-Man 3 set pics have made theri way on the web. Below are just … [Read More]
The running soap opera of “Is Keith Richards going to appear in the new Pirates of the Caribbean films or not” questions has been raging back and forth for well over a year now. The background for this comes from the fact that Johnny Depp confirmed that he based his … [Read More]
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1) M. Night Shyamalan acting dumb
2) Studios acting dumb towards iTunes movie sales prices
3) More dumb Lord Of the Rings DVDs
4) Dumb Blu-Ray / HD-DVD stuff
5) Sabertooth in the Wolverine Movie… not so dumb
All this and a few things more.
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Ok, now before I get into it here… let me say a couple of things. 1) I LOVED Sixth Sense 2) I LOVED Signs 3) I think M. Night Shyamalan is very gifted. There… we clear on that? Good. It’s no big secret that prior to the production of “Lady … [Read More]
Iron Man (being directed by Jon Favreau) has its release date. May 2nd, 2008. So just under 2 years from now he’ll be on the big screen. On the positive side, as Darren S. pointed out to me, this is good news because it means they’re not overly rushing the … [Read More]
Well it’s been a while since there has been any substantive Watchmen news, but it appears that the gears are once again in motion. According to Yahoo, Warner Bros. Pictures has hired Dawn of the Dead (the 2004 version) director Zach Snyder to “develop and direct” the graphic novel adaptation. … [Read More]
One of the biggest objections that I, and many other have with these new High Definition formats (Blu-Ray and HD-DVD) is that fact that we don’t want to get caught in the middle of yet another format war. With many studios already announcing that their movies will only be released … [Read More]
Wow… this is pretty damn cool! Carl just pointed out to me that even though we’re not on the iTunes “featured podcasts” list yet, Yahoo Podcasts has featured us on their front page! (see the image below). All Hail Yahoo’s Podcast page! (podcasts.yahoo.com).