Entries Tagged as 'Movie'

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Remembering Cary Grant

How many Cary Grant movies can you name?  He has 73 movie credits in all so you’ll probably be able to list at least a dozen off the top of your head even if you’re in the under 35 crowd.
A few fun facts about Cary:

His real name was Archibald Alec Leach.
He was a British actor […]

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Scarlett Johansson’s latest film is postponed

PR-Inside is reporting that Scarlett’s latest film, Mary Queen of Scots, has been postponed by the Irish production, Element Pictures.  A representative of Element said that “With strike action involving the Screen Actors Guild looming we are waiting to see what happens.  We are hoping that things get resoved in the next few weeks.”
The union […]

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Alan Rickman on the set of HBP

Here’s a quick shot of Alan Rickman on the set of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.  He’s looking very Snapeish indeed in this shot.  HBP is due out November 21, 2008.  I think it’s been my second favorite intallment of Harry Potter so far (Goblet of Fire being the first) and I’m hoping […]

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

From “Wild Hogs” to “Old Dogs”

 
Director Walt Becker has gone from Wild Hogs to Old Dogs.  Written by David Diamond and David Weissman who brought us Evolution and The Family Man, this film is based on the theme that old dogs can learn new tricks.  John Travolta and Robin Williams play the parts of business partners and are happy with their lives […]

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Now filming: Triage

Danis Tanovic is making his American directorial debut with Triage.  As a native of Bosnia that country has been the topic of most of his filmography.  Danis actually spent two years on the front lines filming for the Bosnian Army at Sarajevo.  They say to write what you know and he did when he wrote the screenplay for […]

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Men Who Stare at Goats is a go.

First and foremost, I’d like to say that this isn’t a joke.  Or at least I don’t think it is.  TV Guide is reporting that George Clooney has signed on to Men Who Stare At Goats.  This movie is being adapted from Jon Ronson’s book of the same name.
The movie tells us about the Army’s […]

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Bangkok Dangerous: The Remake

 
Nicholas Cage is starring in the remake of Bangkok Dangerous.  We’ve been seeing a rash of remakes lately in the film industry.  The thing is they’ve generally stuck to remaking U.S. films that we were already familiar with.  The thing that makes this remake unique is that it’s and American remake of an Asian film.  […]

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Sex and the City hits theaters May 30th

The long awaited Sex and the City: The Movie will hit theaters on May 30th.  It’ll be the final hurrah for the girls.  We’ve seen lots of photos leaked from the set of this movie so I think that we know what to expect from wardrobe.
Of course, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and […]

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Broken Embraces is in the works

 
Penelope Cruz is currently filming Broken Embraces ( Los Abrazos Rotos) on location in the Canary Islands and Madrid, Spain. 
Director Pedro Almodovar is blogging about the film at www.pedroalmodovar.es  There he tells us that Broken Embraces isn’t inspired by any novel but is an original script that he’s been nurturing for years.  Almodovar says there […]

Friday, May 9th, 2008

All Good Things is filming

                                 Kirsten Dunst on the set of All Good Things
All Good Things is set in the 80’s.  The head of a New York real estate dynasty falls for a girl from the wrong side of town.  When she disappears and a detective begins investigating, others who are close to the case begin dying. 
The film is […]