Paul Sills, a founding father of the legendary Second City improv comedy group, has died at the age of 80 from complications of pneumonia. Variety The troupe, which has turned out some of America’s best-known comedians, said in a statement on its Web site Monday that “the influence of Paul … [Read More]
A few days back I showed you the teaser poster for the City of Ember. Well today we catch wind that the trailer has come out. ComingSoon describes it: In the fantasy-adventure, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights for generations. … [Read More]
We have word today that the Farrelly Brothers have been assigned to a redneck action-adventure film. We get word of this project thanks to the professionals at Variety: Fox has preemptively bought Mike Arnold and Chris Poole’s spec “Beaujolais” for Bobby and Peter Farrelly to produce through their Conundrum banner … [Read More]
Well International Friends, it is upon this most festive of holidays that we are flooded with Christmas Movies. In the regular fashion of the Movie Blog, I thought I would compile a list of my personal Best 10 Christmas Movies off the top of my head. 10. Christmas Vacation The … [Read More]
Spoiler City! Spoiler City! For those of you that have always wondered what Bill Murray said to Scarlett Johannson in the final scene of Lost In Translation, I have good news for you. It appears a studious sound-smith has used modern gadgetry and science to divulge the whispered words between … [Read More]
It looks like the new year will treat us to a Groundhog Day DVD that is stuffed with special features. We get the scoop from the fabled caves of Yahoo: A 15th anniversary edition of “Groundhog Day” will cone out on January 29, followed by a 25th anniversary edition of … [Read More]
It appears the NY team of ghost trappers will soon be returning to us in video game format. We get the scoop this morning from Variety via our amigos at /Film: First title in what the publisher hopes will be a series of “Ghostbusters” games is set for release in … [Read More]
The man that brought us Wild Hogs has teamed up with Disney to bring us a movie about a Samurai Servant. We get the scoop from the news masters at Variety: “Wild Hogs” director Walt Becker has inked a first-look deal at Disney to develop projects to direct and produce. … [Read More]
For those of you that enjoy dissapointment and bad ideas I have great news for you! They are making a Meatballs remake. We get the news from cinematical: Without Bill Murray, does the title “Meatballs” even matter? I say not. Er, no. Having said that, at least Lionsgate had the … [Read More]
Groundhog Day tops the list of so many movie fans favourite comedies. Its certainly near the top of mine. So when I heard the news of Disney buying the rights to a remake I was reminiscent of the classic Bill Murray movie, but nervous about the word remake. The good … [Read More]
For those of you who have been reading The Movie Blog for at least 2 years or more, you may remember that at one point I signed a small book deal with an even smaller publisher to write a book that I was calling “The Silver Screen From Where I’m … [Read More]
I love lists, so when I tripped over the Top 100 Greatest Movie lines, I couldn’t resist reading them all. The way Premier Online presents this list is a little tiresome, clicking from image to image reading their lines in their chosen order, but it was enlightening. Premier Magazine writes: … [Read More]