Studio coffee run 11/30/09 — THE LOSERS, Smallville
• Despite a 70 percent drop-off, TWILIGHT stayed atop the Thanksgiving box office. But it got some competition from a film where Sandra Bullock mentors an offensive tackle, proving that teaming up somebody small...
TWILIGHT ruined THE DARK KNIGHT’s record opening!
Fangirls now have bragging rights over fanboys, as TWILIGHT: NEW MOON shattered the opening day box office record -- previously held by THE DARK KNIGHT -- with $72.7 million. It also set a midnight...
Studio coffee run: UNTHINKABLE; NIGHTFALL; Global Frequency; THOR casts Elba
• Option watch: Mandalay Pictures has picked up UNTHINKABLE by author Mark Sable and artist Julian Totino Tedesco. The book is published by BOOM!. Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby will produce, along with Mandalay's...
Were ’90s movies as unoriginal as Aught movies?
Just to follow up on the earlier post about how only one movie in the top 20 highest grossing films of the Aughts was based on an original idea, lets check out the '90s...
Is Rich Ross going to save Hollywood?
People are reporting that new Disney head Rich Ross has pulled the last project his predecessor -- Dick Cook -- had in the hopper, a costly reboot of the 20,000 Leagues Under The...
Showbiz news and notes: TWILIGHT, Superman, etc., etc.
§ Director Chris Columbus reveals how far the HARRY POTTER cast has come
"My biggest pride is seeing the pictures now, and watching the three of them from a distance, and seeing them do an...
Sgt. Rock going to the future!
Because contemporary audiences have gotten way too much of World War II, the long-aborning Sgt. Rock movie is getting a boot to the future. Francis Lawrence (I AM LEGEND, CONSTANTINE) is set to...
Spielberg/Smith OLD BOY is no more
Those of you savvy enough to predict that a planned adaptation of the OLD BOY manga by Steven Spielberg and Will Smith was extremely unlikely to ever be made were RIGHT ON...
First KICK-ASS trailer
http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=100571743,t=1,mt=videoTrailer Park | MySpace Video
"That looks cool. What is it?"
"Kick-Ass!"
"I know it is, but what's the movie called?"
"Kick-Ass!"
"RIGHT! I love the idea of super violent children in costumes. But WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE...
Studio coffee run: KICK-ASS posters; Who is Boo-Boo?; etc
¶ IGN has revealed a set of four posters for KICK-ASS. WARNING: the poster descriptions contain spoilers aplenty.
¶ Some kind of horrible live/CGI mutant version of YOGI BEAR is being planned, and...
Studio coffee run: Ellis projects; KICK-ASS reviews; ALMIGHTY; Levy
¶ We haven't been reporting too much on Hollywood of late; but it hasn't been for want of activity.
¶ A while ago, the miniseries RED by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner-- the tale...
24 Hours of Halloween: Bride of Frankenstein
Okay it's not a comics, but nothing has influenced the imagery of Halloween more than James Whale's classic, so let's give it up for the king.
And with that, we're off to Trick or...