Kerouac movie may have its Moriarty–Garrett Hedlund
Walter Salles earned the right to make a film of Jack Kerouac’s ultimate road picture novel, On the Road, by virtue of his glorious young Che road picture, Motorcycle Diaries. Production Weekly reports...
View ArticleAvatar’s record roll continues, but are you having BluRay issues?
James Cameron’s Avatar continues to break new ground on DVD and BluRay sales records – 6.7 million discs the first four days. But all is not well in BluRay Nation. There are issues with some up-datable...
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Glee star lands co-lead in Spielberg’s I Am Number 4
The plot description reads vaguely Twilight-ish. A tiny group of aliens escapes their planet just as it is destroyed, and hide out on Earth. One (played by Alex Pettyfer, of this summer’s Beastly) lays...
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The great concert films–the gold standards? Your favorites?
All the back and forth with the Phans of Phish who pheel their phellas can do no wrong got me to thinking about the touchstone concert movies that I weigh every concert film I see against. I’ve always...
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Dead By Friday–a night shoot on Universal backlot
It’s not often that the “backlot,” the huge, ultra-realistic streets of the Universal Studios “tour” here in Orlando are used for an actual movie shoot–so I wanted to be sure to catch the after-hours...
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Nottingham’s Sheriff Macfadyen on his Musketeer role
His work as the Sheriff of Nottingham has led to at least one phone call, according to the terrific British character actor and sometime leading man Matthew Macfadyen. He’s about to don the big French...
View ArticleAlfred Molina classes up Taylor Lautner’s “Abduction”
I’m hard pressed to think of a movie that the great character actor Alfred “Fred” Molina hasn’t improved, merely by his presence. Check him out in Prince of Persia in a couple of weeks. He’s mad-eyed...
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Del Toro’s REAL reason for bailing out of The Hobbit?
He got tired of production staff referring to him as “Peter Jackson pre-Lasik.” No word on who will take over as director of the $150 million prequel to The Lord of the Rings. Del Toro is still working...
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Killlers screenwriter Bob DeRosa takes Hollywood one step at a time
Screenwriting is not for the thin of skin or the fragile of ego. Stars are stars, and are treated as such, and directors are pretty much stars in their own right. But production companies change...
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Movie Review: Micmacs
The director of Amelie, A Very Long Engagement and Delicatessen serves up another darkly comic French fable and an unseen world of freaks and geeks with Micmacs, an intricate and daft tale of love,...
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