So about a week or so ago, Michael Bay accepted an award at Showest, the industry convention in Las Vegas. At the event, he showed some exclusive footage from the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen…
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The Dawn of Digital and The Death of Film
I’ve been meaning to write this article for a very long time. I think the beginnings of it came way back in 2002 when George Lucas announced that Star Wars Episode II would be shot…
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Ready To Get A Hangover Again… Before You Even Start Drinking?
It appears that Warnerbros. really likes what they’ve seen of Todd Phillip’s new film The Hangover, because they’ve already made some waves with their newest production announcement. Apparently the R-Rated comedy staring Bradley Cooper, Ed…
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The Box Office For April 3rd-5th Makes Me Sad To Be An American
Week after week we hear about the morbid and all together depressing outlook on Wall Street. Yet week after week, the movie industry out-performs the money it made during the same time period the previous…
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The Showest Round-Up, Announcements and Buzz
This past week, Las Vegas was hopping on account of the annual Showest Expo of artists and executives looking to generate early buzz and bring their newest footage of all their upcoming releases to theater…
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Superman Reboot Fast-Tracked; Brett Ratner Back Onboard
Brett Ratner had signed onto direct a Superman movie back in the early 2000s, before Bryan Singer came along. At the time, he was going after Josh Hartnett for the title role, but after Hartnett…
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Next Star Trek Movie Fast-Tracked (New Pics Too)
Well, for those of us who are excited for the new J.J. Abrams Star Trek film, this news is good to hear. Apparently Paramount likes what they’ve seen and they’ve gone ahead and hired back…
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Box Office, March 20-22: Knowing, then I Love You Man, then Duplicity
Knowing scored an easy win at the box office this weekend despite some bad reviews, banking $24.6 million. But the Paul Rudd/Jason Segel comedy pairing in I Love You, Man was no slouch either, making…
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Remakes of Total Recall and The NeverEnding Story Are Coming…
I have similar feelings toward both Total Recall and The NeverEnding Story: they’re both really cool, fully-realized genre movies (despite ’80s-era special effects) that tackle some weighty issues and probably aren’t given the mainstream respect…
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The Non-Fanboy Watchmen Reviews are…Bad? Uh-oh.
Despite the tone of my last Watchmen article, I’m not rooting for it to fail. Seriously. Its success would do a lot for future critically-acclaimed but less-mainstream comic book adaptations, not to mention serve as…
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