Hollywood scrapes the bottom of the barrel and comes away with “Asteroids: The Movie.” PEW, PEW, PEW
02nd July 2009
Aintitcool – Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Methinks someone high up at Universal is having a bit of Peter Pan complex. There are worse things for an executive to have, for sure… But this is the studio that’s working to bring us Candyland and Battleship and now they’ve jumped from the board game to the classic arcade game.
The greatest dwarf actors of all time.
01st April 2009
iheartchaos.com – Where would entertainment be if it weren’t for little people? Dwarves, midgets, whatever you want to call them, this world would be a sad, sad place if it weren’t for the vertically challenged. No Ewoks, no Mini-Me, no Verne Troyner sex tape, nobody to get juggled by strong men at the circus. UGO has compiled a fantastic list of the greatest little people ever to grace to big and small screen.
Watchmen’s “Decent” Midnight Box Office
07th March 2009
Los Angeles (E! Online) – Watchmen grossed an estimated $4.6 million in Friday midnight screenings, Exhibitor Relations reported today.
“It’s not high. It’s a decent gross for the [two-and-a-half-hour-plus] running time,” says Jeff Bock, a box-office analyst for the company. The numbers, he adds, “don’t tell us it’s going to be a huge blockbuster.”
Bock says the take signals somewhere around a $46 million to $50 million three-day gross, a debut that would put it in the neighborhood of Batman Begins, Superman Returns and Wanted, to name three comic-book releases, but leave it out of the reach of director Zack Snyder’s 300, which bowed with $70.8 million in 2007.
Among other recent midnight-launched movies, Watchmen came up short of Twilight ($7 million), and, unsurprisingly, a very long ways away from The Dark Knight (record $18.5 million.)
The Rise and fall of the drive-in movie theater:
16th February 2009
SlashFilm.com – Sometime in the 1970s, my older cousin and her husband took me and a neighbor girl to a drive-in theater in Texas, and I still remember how amazing it was to be watching a movie from the back of a station wagon. I mean, you’re sitting there in a car, watching a movie and listening to the audio over a speaker. As a kid, it was about one of the coolest things ever. Nowadays you have cars with built-in DVD players, video game systems, and LCD flatscreens, but nothing really beats the experience of going to the good old drive-in.
I can remember my first drive-in. I think I was 15 on a family trip in New Mexico or somewhere like that. It was next to our motel and we sat and watched it on a picnic table eating watermelon. Or at least that’s how I remember it. I think the movie was Jurassic Park. I wonder if they will make a comeback.
The 8 Most Misguided Sci-Fi Versions Of 2008
31st December 2008
This is a very interesting read. I like sci-fi of all types but it does make it interesting to see what the past thought of us now. I wonder what humaity will be doing in 2108. Probably fighting the Borg.
The Lost in Space review was really funny. And I would hope that if humaity tried something like that..sending people into the unknown never to return..to please..please put Matt Leblanc on that ship and jettison him to the cold reaches of space for 350 million years for ruining the whole movie version of Lost in Space. Why did they cast him in that…WHY.
Top Box Office Hits From 2008
26th December 2008
Top 10 movies at the box office from 2008. Batman: Dark Night reigns – led by Christian Bale and Heath Ledger. What a great movie. Check out the highlights from a decent year in film.
The Top 7 Most Miscast Movie Roles. So agree with number 5. He should never be allow to act.
23rd December 2008
7. Sofia Coppola in The Godfather Part III
6. Halle Berry in Catwoman
5. Mark Wahlberg in The Happening, We Own the Night, Shooter, Planet of the Apes, etc.
4. James Franco in all three Spider-man movies
3. Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York
2. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator
1. Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Click on source to see more. Plus some movie clips to Illustrate the choices.
List of Best Loved screenplays that yet to see the light of day.
13th December 2008
The Black List as it’s called is an index of the year’s best-liked, not-yet-produced screenplays compiled from a survey of more than 250 film executives. Below are the top 5.
THE BEAVER by Kyle Killen
“A depressed man finds hope in a beaver puppet that he wears on his hand.”
THE ORANGES by Jay Reiss & Ian Helfer
“A man has a romantic relationship with the daughter of a family friend, which turns their lives upside down.”
BUTTER by Jason Micallef
“A small town becomes a center for controversy and jealousy as its annual butter
carving contest begins.”
BIG HOLE by Michael Gilio
“An old cowboy goes on a mission to recover his money after a million dollar
sweepstakes scam cleans out his entire bank account.”
THE LOW DWELLER by Brad Ingelsby
“A man trying to assimilate into society after being released from jail discovers that someone from his past is out to settle a score.”
So next year we can look forward to seeing A Low Dwellin Beaver Buttering his Oranges to fit in a Big Hole. I’m stoked!