High concept movies can be difficult to market. If the film itself, or the campaign to sell it to audiences doesn’t resonate, then no one is going to see it. In fact, sometimes the higher the concept, the weaker the performance, and as of late, there’s virtually nothing higher concept than “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” […]
In case you haven’t yet heard, Disney now owns Lucasfilm, as well as the rights to make future Star Wars and Indiana Jones films. As I posted elsewhere, how Twentieth-Century Fox let this one go (could this have something to do with Tom Rothman leaving) is almost beyond comprehension, though their loss is Disney’s gain. […]
I like quite a few of the films that John Coscarelli has done, particularly “Phantasm,” but that’s almost a given. That being said, I really do want to see his version of James Wong’s novel. In fact I have been wanting to see this movie for at least five or six months, every since I […]
According to Deadline, Shonda Rimes is producing a scifi television series, a move that’s just a bit outside her comfort zone of relationship dramas, and interesting in and of itself. That being said, what’s even more interesting is that David DiGilio is writing it. DiGilio is the guy that was chosen by Disney to write […]
I like Joss Whedon (which is a little odd–and mildly creepy–since I have never met the man). He not only can direct kick-arse action films (“Serenity,” “The Avengers”) but he also has this snarky way toward responding to events around him that’s refreshing, especially in these days of self-important commentators that are more about telling […]
“Nolanitis” is a disease I named after Christopher Nolan, the director of the Batman Saga. A definite sign of the condition is when film makers feel the need to render the fantastic, the wonderful, on more human terms, sapping the aforementioned fantasticalness and wonder in the name of a realism no one asked for in […]
Halloween’s just around the corner, which is why it’s the perfect time to discuss monsters and other things that go bump in the night. A creature that is currently in vogue is the zombie, which is enjoying a surge in popularity, evidenced by “The Walking Dead,” a series about a small band of survivors who […]
I’d be amiss if I didn’t include the trailer for “Halo 4,” which I have to admit that I have never played (though the trailer reminds me of Blizzard’s “Starcraft,” which I have). It’s really interesting how video games have moved toward the cinematic. Heck, this trailer looks better than some for genuine movies that […]
Here’s “The Evil Dead” Red Band trailer, and it is so NOT SAFE FOR WORK–unless you work in a slaughterhouse, or perhaps in a hospital trauma unit, where so much blood, gore, and self-mutilation would not be so beyond the pale. I mean, I am not one to shy away from copious amounts of the […]
Timing is always an interesting thing. On the seventeenth, I inquired about Sam Raimi rebooting Tobe Hooper’s “Poltergeist.” In reference to that film and to give an indication of just what Sam Raimi could bring I included a trailer to his first film, “The Evil Dead.” Just recently I read that the trailer for Fede […]
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