According to Cinema Blend, Stan Lee Media, Inc. (SLMI) a company no longer affiliated with Stan Lee, is suing the makers of Lionsgate’s “Conan, The Barbarian for the use of the character of Conan, which they supposedly own the rights to.” I have one problem with this: ‘Conan’ isn’t making any money. It cost somewhere in […]
Just in case the first trailer for Troy Nixey’s remake of “Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark” didn’t get your blood racing, here’s the red band trailer, where all sorts of nastiness is hinted at. Considering all the sinister goings on at Blackwood Manor, shouldn’t this film be called “You Will Definitely Be Afraid Of […]
Edited 8/25 2239 David Goyer is preparing a version of H.G Wells’ “The Invisible Man” for Universal. The problem with this is that he isn’t a very good director (I still haven’t recovered from the mess that was “Blade: Trinity“), and he tends to be an even worse one when he’s directing from his own writing, when […]
When I heard that Universal was abandoning a film version of Hasbro’s ‘Ouija’ board game, I was glad because, while I have nothing against using a board game to inspire a movie, I definitely have a problem with a board game being the primary basis for a movie. This applies to Transformers as well, though […]
Man! Yesterday there was an earthquake in Washington, DC, and now Steve Jobs is no longer Apple’s CEO. Could this be a sign of the Apocalypse that the religious-minded have been talking about for so long? I hope that his health wasn’t the primary motivator and that he continues to play a role at the […]
For those of you, like me, that happen to think that Guillermo del Toro is the best thing to happen to American genre film since latex, Vulture has an interview.
According to Deadline, Marvel Studios’ Marketing department, essentially three people, has been released. I don’t know what this means–as in, was it an act of vindictiveness by Disney (the owners of Marvel) or is it simply that they were redundant, and it was decided that what they did would be better handled in-house. While it […]
Edited 8/23 622 Here’s the latest trailer for “Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark,” directed by Troy Nixey, and opening this Friday. As happy as I am to see a new horror film that seems to remember that the genre isn’t always how gorily you can dispose of someone, but can occasionally rise above such […]
Milton’s Paradise Lost will be coming soon to a theater near you, by way of Alex Proyas (of “The Crow,” “Dark City,” “I, Robot,” etc), though my question is when did Alex Proyas–a very talented director, by the way–take the helm of this project? That being said, I suspect that as long as he’s allowed to […]
I would never have thought that a film about the lives of African-American domestics (which some believed was not a very accurate portrayal) would have the strength to hold off a box-office assault from not only the greatest barbarian in cinema, but also a vampire, but “The Help” has managed to overwhelm both “Conan, The […]
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