Entries Tagged as 'Movie News'

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

The trouble with ‘Nailed’

This movie is being directed by David O. Russell (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees) and was written by Al Gore’s daughter, Kristen.  The stars attached are Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Biel, James Marsden, Kirstie Alley, Paul Reubens and James Brolin.  No problem so far, right?
The problem comes with the finances.  This movie has stopped production on […]

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins

So far Christian Bale, Anton Yelchin (House of D, Alpha Dog), Sam Worthington, and Moon Bloodgood (Eight Below) are confirmed cast for this film with Josh Brolin and Chris Browning (3:10 to Yuma)  are rumored. 
In this, the fourth Terminator movie, John Conner (Christian Bale) is leading the resistance against Skynet in the year 2018.  But […]

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

‘Tales of the Black Freighter’ to follow ‘Watchmen’ release

In order to bump DVD sales, Warner Brothers will be releasing Tales of the Black Freighter direct to DVD five days after Watchmen is released in March of 2009.  One of the charcters in the Watchmen will actually be reading a ‘Tales of the Black Freighter‘ comic book.  It will include a documentary type film […]

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Conflict behind the scenes of ‘The Incredible Hulk’

Edward Norton turned down the starring role in Ang Lee’s 2003 Hulk movie but decided to take the lead when it was offered by Marvel this time around.  During a promo interview in August he revealed that he had rewritten the entire script which was originally done by Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand).  The […]

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Movie News: Sydney Pollack dies of cancer

Sydney Pollack died on Memorial Day at his home in Pacific Palisades at the age of 73.  He was diagnosed with cancer about nine months ago according to his pulicist.  He directed some of my favorite films so lets dedicate our next Movie Marathon Day to him.

Out of Africa recieved 7 Academy Awards.  One of them went to […]

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Movie News: Lindsay Lohan dropped from Manson Girls ? ? ?

 
The buzz is that Lindsay Lohan has been dropped from the indie film The Manson Girls.  Matthew Bright (Freeway) is writing and directing this film.  It was rumored that Lindsay was to protray Nancy Pitman.  She was a pampered surfer girl who became enamoured with Charles Manson.
Unfortunately, Lilo’s recent problems have become a liability.  It’s […]

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Movie News:Ted Key dies at age 95

 
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Ted Key who wrote the scripts for Disney’s The Cat From Outer Space, Gus, and The Million Dollar Duck, passed away at the age of 95.
Mr. Key also created the comic strip Hazel which was later produced as a television show.  Hazel was played by Shirley Booth who won two Emmys […]