With a silly name like Andre 3000 you just have to be in showbiz, and not content with singing 3000 (could I call him 3k?) is making the transition to movies quite well. Yahoo is carrying the story from Reuters that 3k (real name Andre Benjamin) has been cast in … [Read More]

Are plans quashed for a Blade: Trinity Nightstalkers spin off or a Freddy vs Jason movie? Well Coming Soon take the quotes from Creature Corner‘s questions to Toby Emmerich over at New Line about the possibilities. Without much surprise he said that there are no plans right now for either. … [Read More]

The news on V for Vendetta is rolling out fast, no sooner was the news out that Natalie Portman was looking to be cast in the film, sites are now saying that she is cast for sure. Now Coming Soon is carrying a teaser picture for the film. It’s not … [Read More]

The excellent Director Mike Leigh who bases his films around altogether real and believable characters, has been openly criticising the interfering ways of Hollywood during the film making process. Allegedly he has turned down major actors to appear in his movies because of the negative influence they would have. In … [Read More]

File this one under the “Oh good God, please make it go away” category. If you’ve read The Movie Blog at all over the last year or so, you know how much I detest the whole “singers who think they can be actors” thing. Well, Britney Spears is now taking … [Read More]

J.J. Abrams sounds like one of those amazingly talented guys. He’s running with Alias, Lost and MI:3 right now, and that doesn’t cover his upcoming projects: The Catch, a bounty-hunter comedy/drama starring Grunberg and Don Rickles. Pros and Cons, a drama about con artists working for the feds. What About … [Read More]

Another childhood series is making its way to the big screen. The TV adaptation of The Tripods was something I watched with glee and much unease when I was a kid, it was a series that really did hit me as one of the first programs to play around with … [Read More]

I haven’t heard anything about this movie until now, and the write up from JoBlo sounds very intriguing: It’s something like a guy is arrested for the murder of a cop and sentenced to a mental hospital where a doctor gives him a radical new treatment. That includes being injected … [Read More]

In a time when we’re besieged by Comic and Graphic Novel (see, I made the distinction for all you fans out there) movie adaptations that are often below standard, or just cash cows, it’s extremely heartening to see an adaptation that not only comes from excellent stock but is getting … [Read More]

This may be the only time in my life that I mutter these words: “I can’t wait to get my hands on the next issue of Vanity Fair”. Apparently there’s going to be a ton of good stuff in there to make even the most rabid Star Wars fan happy. … [Read More]

I’m not that big of a fan of horror films. It’s not that they scare me… it’s that I’ve seen so many of them I’m just desensitized to the whole “spook” effect (although An American Werewolf In London still makes me soil my pants). Having said that, I must confess … [Read More]