Summer Time is Here Time to sit back and unwind. Unless you’re Marvel Studios, in which case you’ll be wanting to jump up and fire your whole publicity department.
Never mind the fact that my school just let out for spring break. It’s a beautiful 77 degrees in New York City today, the outdoor bars are […]
Eli Roth Surrenders to Your Kids The director of the very violent Hostel movies to make a film the whole family can enjoy.
It happens eventually to every filmmaker and actor associated with R-rated movies*, and now Eli Roth, the “torture porn auteur” who gave us Hostel and Hostel II, is making the transition to family-friendly […]
Beastie Boys Movie Back in Development Again? A couple of weeks ago it was announced that Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch was working on a documentary about college basketball prospects called Gunnin’ For That No. 1 Spot (due out June 27th). While it seems unlikely that this movie could become the next Hoop Dreams, […]
Harmony Korine Sells Bud To England. Clip of the Day. Michael Tully, who interviewed Mister Lonely director Harmony Korine for the upcoming issue of FILMMAKER Magazine, points to Korine’s latest work for hire, a series of British TV commercials for Budweiser. There are four short clips, featuring two members of the Silver Jews, and […]
Film Junk Podcast #165: Forgetting Sarah Marshall 0:00-06:10 - Intro / In-house Stuff 06:10-43:03 - Headlines: G.I. Joe Character Pics, Blockbuster Censors Another DVD Release, Expelled Documentary Cracks Box Office Top 10 43:03-1:18:15 - Junk Mail 1:18:15-1:42:35 - Stuff We Watched This Week: Walk Hard, Ghosts de Cite Soleil, Hot Docs: Shot in Bombay, […]
SilverDocs: Spike Lee to be honored I’ve been making plans travel plans for the next couple of months this week, and it looks like in mid-June I’ll be making my first trip to SilverDocs. And look: they’ve just made their first major program announcement: Spike Lee, the Oscar-nominated director of Do the Right Thing, will […]
This Week on DVD - Apr. 22, 2008 Cloverfield makes a fairly quick bow on DVD this week, only 3 months after it was playing in theatres, along with a couple of critical hits from 2007 in The Savages and Charlie Wilson’s War. The U.S. remake of Takashi Miike’s One Missed Call is also […]
Sorry Giselle But ‘Austin Powers 4’ Still Isn’t Happening, Says Seth Green Remember those reports earlier this month that supermodel Gisele Bundchen was in talks to star in “Austin Powers 4,” and had already read a script for the project and was soon to meet Mike Myers and director Jay Roach? And how it thoroughly […]
The Dailies: April 23, 2008 - Brandon Routh says he hopes to shoot next “Superman” early next year. Meanwhile, film company president says it will follow a more “angry god” like Man of Steel. (Collider and Hamilton College) - Where’s your God now? “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” gets a second, darker trailer. (Myspace) […]
Next Bond to be funny So we all saw Casino Royale and loved it. But where were the funny bits? Pretty much non existent. Well Daniel Craig revealed that the next Bond, Bond 22 will have a new twist to it, it will be returning to it’s Roger Moore roots and be including a lot […]