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Hey there folks. John here. Just a heads up... pre-existing technical issues that have been causing occasional site down time, as well as a sudden new surge in Audio Edition popularity (I can't imagine why) has forced us to yet... - Audio Edition - March 15th 2006
AudioFile=http://www.themovieblog.com/audioedition/AudioEditionVol115.mp3 AudioFileSize=13565528 AudioDescription=Today on The Audio Edition Doug and I discuss the stupidity of the Brokeback Moutain Author, the new HILARIOUS trailer for The Moglus, Peter Jacksons pre-recorded acceptance speech for The Empire Awards, some Ghost Rider trailer news, Welcome Back Kotter being re-made into a movie, Uncle Ben coming back in Spider-Man 3, an alternate idea for the origins of Venom in Spider-Man 3, the Alpha Dog trailer and a few things more. AudioExplicit=yes AudioDuration=00:30:54 - Brokeback Author is a Whinny Sniveling Pathetic Little Suck
This issue just isn't going away. The conspiracy theorists about Crash winning the Best Picture Oscar over Brokeback Mountain just keep poking their ignorant little heads up to keep stirring the pot. This time it's Annie Proulx, the author of... - The Moguls Trailer
STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW AND WATCH THIS TRAILER!!!! The Moguls trailer has hit the web... and aside from Superman Returns, it is now the movie I am MOST looking forward to seeing! This trailer is HILARIOUS! Here's a... - Hilarious King Kong Outtakes
Recently, King Kong won the Empire Awards for Best Picture. In one of the best pre-recorded acceptance speeches off all time, Peter Jackson talked about some of the "problems" with the production of the film... and the fact that he'd... - Kevin Costner And Ashton Kutcher In Coast Guard Movie
Oh my goodness. It looks like Kevin Costner And Ashton Kutcher are teaming up for a film about the US Coast Guard. And Ashton Kutcher's decent in to Hollywood obscurity continues! According to the good folks at Yahoo Movie News,... - Chow Yun Fat In US Remake of Hard Boiled
Any serious action film fan knows the John Woo classic Hard Boiled all too well. It has been suggested that it could very well be the greatest action film of all time. Today it looks like actin fans have a... - Ghost Rider Trailer To Play With X-Men 3
Big new for all you folks anxiously awaiting the new Nic Cage film "Ghost Rider". It's being reported all over the web today that the first official Ghost Rider trailer will be playing in May in front of the new... - Around The Web - March 15th 2006
Here are some of the other things going on in Movie News today: - Michael Douglas slams Brad Pitt for leaving wife and Renee Zellweger and Julia Roberts for Short marriages Ummm... I like Michael Douglas an all... but shouldn't... - Press Release of Will Ferrell's Death a Hoax
Within the last 24 hours or so, there had been a rumor on the Internet stating the death of actor Will Ferrell. Up until recently I-News Wire had the spotty press release published. Certainly a scare and shock had run... - Best Fan Lightsaber Fight I've Ever Seen
This little video is just amazing. It's basically 2 KIDS (no really... KIDS) who pull off one of the best lightsaber fight videos I've ever seen. It's amazingly well shot, nicely edited, the sound editing is almost flawless, the lightsaber... - Welcome Back Kotter The Movie
Oh man it's already a rough day. There's a blizzard going on outside my window (when it was warm enough to go outside in a t-shirt yesterday) and on top of that it looks like they're going to be making... - Alpha Dog Trailer
The new Alpha Dog trailer has hit the web, and well... all I can say is that I'm getting less and less impressed with this project the more I see of it. I know, I know... a lot of people... - Audio Edition - March 13th 2006
AudioFile=http://www.themovieblog.com/audioedition/AudioEditionVol114.mp3 AudioFileSize=20565528 AudioDescription=Welcome to the "Podast of the Year" installment of The Audio Edition. Today, Doug, Darren and I talk about our excitment of winning the award... and then get on to some actual movie stuff. Stuff like Sin City 2 and Angelina Jolie's reported involvement in it, Tom Cruise apparently learning to keep his big mouth shut and let people talk about his movies, some Hellboy 2 news, Final Fantasy reflections, Halo stuff and a few things more. AudioExplicit=yes AudioDuration=00:43:54 - Holy Crap!!! The Movie Blog Audio Edition Wins Podcast Of The Year!!!
I got home just a little while ago and there were about 20 emails waiting for me from people congratulating me on the 2006 Weblog Award win for Best Podcast. I thought they just misunderstood the previous post and that...
- Transformers 2 is No. 1, breaking holiday weekend tie
The big frakkin' robots appear to have won out over the woolly mammoths after all. Updated studio estimates released today show that Paramount's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was No. 1 in the photo-finish race for box-office supremacy this weekend, topping the domestic pack with $42.4 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
We reported yesterday that Transformers and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs were tied for the top spot when preliminary box-office estimates for the July 4 weekend were released.
- Harry Potter stars honor murdered Half-Blood Prince co-star
The cast and crew of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will wear white ribbons on their wrists at the film's world premiere in Leicester Square Tuesday as a mark of respect to murdered actor Rob Knox, BBC News reported.
Knox, 18, who portrays Marcus Belby in the film, was stabbed in southeast London last May while defending his brother from an attack by Karl Bishop, who received four life terms in March.
- Columnist Michael Cassutt overdoses on Star Trek's time-travel twists
Somewhere between watching the first half-hour of the new Star Trek film and, five days later, the season finale of Lost, something happened.
You know how it is when you have that second piece of dessert? It tastes great at the time. The sensory delights linger through the after-dinner drinks and through the evening ... right up to the moment when you step on the scale the next morning.
It can happen with stories, too. There are themes and high concepts you love, then you have one more than the standard adult requirement.
- Why Hollywood stuntmen think The Matrix changed everything
Matrix producer Joel Silver changed the rules of the game and made Hollywood stunt history when he traveled to China to beg reluctant action director Yuen Wo-Ping to choreograph the fighting for the film, according to an informal poll by author Kevin Conley.
- Megan Fox burns up the screen in R-rated Jennifer's Body trailer
Megan Fox, the hottest thing in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, is even hotter as the demon-possessed high school cheerleader of Jennifer's Body—especially when she sticks her tongue in the flame of a cigarette lighter in the new "red-band trailer" released earlier today at ShockTillYouDrop.com. (Red-band trailers can be screened in theaters only when they accompany R-rated films, since the trailers themselves may contain strong language or sexual situations.)
The teen horror flick, written by Diablo Cody, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Juno, won't hit theaters until Sept. 18, 2009, but you can view the new trailer after the jump.
- Watchmen's Zack Snyder previews director's cut: easter eggs, bloopers and more
If two hours and 42 minutes of Watchmen wasn't enough for you, you can enjoy about half an hour more on the upcoming director's cut DVD/Blu-ray, which is due this month, and director Zack Snyder promises that he'll personally guide you through the film's byzantine storyline, reveal secrets and bloopers and more.
"I think it'll really help you go, 'Wow, they meant all that,'" Snyder said in an exclusive interview with SCI FI Wire last week in Burbank, Calif. "I think a lot of people see movies and they think, 'Wow, that's random.' I think the truth is when you watch this, you realize that none of it's by accident."
- Eureka's Colin Ferguson on going behind the camera for the first time
When SCI FI's original series Eureka returns on Friday with a run of 10 new episodes, one will mark the directorial debut of Colin Ferguson, who stars as Sheriff Carter.
The episode was actually the first of the new episodes to be shot, but it will not be the first to air: Producers scheduled "Your Face or Mine" first, so that Ferguson could use the week prior to filming for preproduction. Were he midway through the season, he would be acting while the next episode went into prep.
- How Virgin's Jane Lynch brings her own brand of funny to sci-fi spoof Paul
After sending up the traditions of zombie movies in Shaun of the Dead and cop movies in Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are about to make use of all their sci-fi movie knowledge in Paul, an alien satire they wrote and star in.
Directed by Greg Mottola, Paul centers on their characters, two comic-book geeks who go on a road trip to visit famous sites from sci-fi lore, in the course of which they encounter co-star Jane Lynch.
- Review: How RiffTrax makes the epic fail of Plan 9 epic fun
As the horror/punk/metal/thrash band the Murderdolls sang, "You can knock on Ed Wood, but it won't do you no good."
What's the point of making fun of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space? The movie about super-advanced aliens rising the dead—which features a posthumous performance by Bela Lugosi courtesy of Mrs. Wood's chiropractor acting as a body double for the late actor—is considered to be the worst and most unintentionally funny movie ever made (with no diss to the glory that is Troll 2).
And Wood is considered the worst filmmaker of all time. Plan 9 and Ed Wood's legacy have endured because they need no ribbing. The movie is the crystallized vision of Wood in all his demented glory. Plan 9 isn't fascinating just because it's bad. It's fascinating because of the mind-boggling and kind of touching sincerity that Wood brought to the material. It's great in its awfulness, and watching it is funny because it's what we now call an "epic fail," the striving for greatness totally beyond the striver's ability.
- Transformers, Ice Age in Fourth of July tie for top slot
It's going to be close: Preliminary box-office estimates for the July 4 weekend show that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs are tied for the top spot, with an estimated $42.5 million in domestic ticket sales each, the Associated Press reported.
Whether that tie will remain on Monday, when final figures are reported, remains to be seen.
Johnny Depp and Christian Bale's gangster epic Public Enemies, meanwhile, debuted in third place, with $26.2 million.
- The new trailer for the animated comedy Planet 51 has landed
A new trailer has gone live for the upcoming animated sci-fi family comedy Planet 51, which you can view after the jump.
- 11 most patriotic sci-fi movie and TV moments
The long July 4th holiday weekend kicks off tomorrow, which for many of us means trips to the beach, burgers on the grill and fireworks (only where legal, of course). But it should also mean some time spent remembering those patriots who defended our liberty—both the real ones who fought for our freedoms and those fictional ones who on television and at the movies reminded us what that liberty was all about.
With that in mind, let's take a look back at our 10 favorite sci-fi examples of patriotic film and TV.
- New 'House of Imagination' film reflects SCI FI's evolution to Syfy
A two-minute film, "House of Imagination," has gone live to reflect SCI FI's brand evolution to Syfy on Tuesday, celebrating Syfy's unique spin on imagination.
The new film features stars from Warehouse 13, Eureka, Ghost Hunters, Caprica, Sanctuary, Stargate Universe, Destination Truth and ECW.
- News briefs: Asteroids flies; Defying Gravity drops
The Hollywood Reporter says that Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game Asteroids, for which Matthew Lopez will write the script; the game, initially released in 1979, lets a player control a triangular spaceship to shoot and destroy hulking masses of rock and the occasional flying saucer while avoiding smashing into both.
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ABC has picked up the 13-episode sci-fi series Defying Gravity, starring Ron Livingston, which is slated to air this summer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show stars Laura Harris, Christina Cox, Malik Yoba and Florentine Lahme and is set in the near future and revolves around a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system.
... - 11 hot things you MUST see at Comic-Con in San Diego this month
Comic-Con can be an overwhelming four days of multimedia spectacle, and unless you can clone yourself or you have access to time travel, there's no way to attend every cool event. That's where we can help.
The schedule's not even out yet, but we've already gotten wind of dozens of must-see happenings. For those of you corporeal beings traveling to San Diego July 22-26, here are SCI FI Wire's recommendations for 11 Comic-Con events not to miss. (The movies, panelists, days and times are all tentative; check Comic-Con's official Web site closer to the convention for the full schedule.)
- Tom Cruise, in Bit Role, Nips Studio?s Top Gun
At an industry screening of the forthcoming comedy ?Tropic Thunder,? Tom Cruise brought down the house with his portrayal of a dirty-dancing movie mogul. - Movie Guide and Film Series
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- Movie Review: Get Low (2010)
Spectacular performances make up this 1930s drama - Movie Review: Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
To say they tried feels like a lie - Box-Office Oracle: Jul. 30 - Aug. 1, 2010
Will Inception take its third weekend in a row? Here's our call! - Blu-ray Review: Crumb (Criterion Collection)
An absolute must watch - Blu-ray Review: The Secret of the Grain (Criterion Collection)
I can't get over the terribly mellodramatic ending to give this a recommendation - Box-Office Wrap-Up: Jul. 23 - Jul. 25, 2010
Inception takes the crown and the crowd goes wild! - Movie Review: Salt (2010)
Jolie delivers but the film falters - Box-Office Oracle: Jul. 23 - Jul. 25, 2010
Inception vs. Salt for the crown: Choose One! - Box-Office Wrap-Up: 'Inception' Opening Weekend Scores $64 Million
Is that enough to leave Warner Bros. smiling? - Box-Office Oracle: Jul. 16 - Jul. 18, 2010
Inception will win... but will it be enough to sustain "smart" cinema?
- Cool Videos: Deja View - Point Break vs. The Fast and the Furious
Ever noticed how certain films are, well, EXACTLY THE SAME? Anyone who's watched movies for long enough is sure to have noticed this. The boys over at CollegeHumor certainly have, and they've distilled two films down into a single short funny video that highlights the issue. ¡Vaya con Dios!
If you see a cool video online you think would be perfect for this spotlight, drop us a line at yourvideos@joblo.com.
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- Karyn Kusama gets into a Rut, Chloe Moretz to join her?
You may know Karyn Kusama as the director behind last year's JENNIFER'S BODY and 2005's AEON FLUX, two films that weren't exactly well-received by either critics or audiences upon release.
But it looks like Kusama will be back at it nevertheless, though this time leaving behind the genre-filmmaking and, as LA Times' 24 Frames puts it, tackling a project that'll take the filmmaker "in a slightly different...
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- Are you a Daft Punk fan? Listen to some of their music from Tron: Legacy!
If you're a fan of electronic musicians Daft Punk, then you've probably been itching to get a listen to some of their sounds from Disney's upcoming TRON: LEGACY.
And if so, you're in luck! Tracks of the French duo's music from the film have recently made their way online, and now we have them for your aural pleasure.
In the music player below, you can listen to six great score tracks, and in the video player...
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- COMIC CON: Our final thoughts on the 2010 edition
I can't believe our 11th year of Comic Con coverage has
now ended (who are we kidding, we still have a handful of interviews to
post today and in the coming weeks, but you know what I mean) and
hopefully you all got a kick out of our presentation, columns, pictures
and videos. If you haven't checked out all of our coverage, you can click
on the big blue banner at the top of any of...
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- Review: Get Low
PLOT: An elderly hermit (Robert Duvall), living in Depression-era Tennessee, decides to throw himself a ‘living funeral’, with the help of an unscrupulous funeral parlor owner (Bill Murray), and his young, clean-cut assistant (Lucas Black). Once preparations for the ‘funeral’ get underway, the many skeletons in the hermit’s closet begin to emerge, starting with a long-ago spurned lover (Sissy Spacek).
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- Plenty of fighting and pain in this new behind the scenes look at The Expendables
I don't think I've ever seen a behind-the-scenes clip that showed a sequence from the movie being filmed, intercut with the star (and director) receiving medical attention.
But obviously the Stallone/Steve Austin clash in THE EXPENDABLES was serious business, judging by the amount of damage inflicted on each. This new sneak-peek clip shows the breakdown of both the big confrontation and Sly's body. No wonder he wants to...
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- Get horizontal with this epic banner for Sucker Punch
You already gazed and/or drooled at the sexy posters and marveled at the cacophonous lunacy of the trailer, and here's another panoramic look at Zack Snyder's action epic SUCKER PUNCH.
If that image of the gun-toting gals and their oversized metallic associate seems familiar, you probably saw it in motion at the official site, which went live last week.
Click either pic for a bigger view.
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- The hell? A new Sinbad movie with Patrick Stewart? This trailer says yes.
The famed Middle Eastern swashbuckler known as SINBAD hasn't seen easy sailing for a big-budget Hollywood production lately.
Keanu Reeves and director Rob Cohen (STEALTH, XXX) had plans for the scimitar-swinging adventurer, and then THE PACIFIER director Adam Shankman was going to take a stab at a new voyage. But the sailor seems stuck on dry land.
Until now, anyway -- SINBAD: THE FIFTH VOYAGE appears to be a...
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- New SAW 3D motion poster literally blows your mind
We saw the stills, the teaser trailer, and now we're getting our first look at a new SAW 3D motion poster, naturally, in 3D!
UGO has the exclusive, so you'll only see the 2D version of said poster below, but go on and click it to head over to their site and see the head splodin' in all its multi-layered glory. It's actually pretty cool.
SAW 3D opens everywhere October 29th.
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- J.J. Abrams to bring us a Victorian-era robot tale with Boilerplate
J.J. Abrams and his production company Bad Robot are, appropriately, preparing to tell the story of the "world's first robot" - Boilerplate.
Abrams will produce the adaptation based on the graphic novel-picture book hybrid Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett.
According to THR's Heat Vision, BOILERPLATE "purports to tell the story of the world’s first robot,...
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- See James Franco, Freida Pinto, and some dude in a mocap suit on the Rise of the Apes set
KinoGallery has gotten hold of some behind-the-scenes photos from director Rupert Wyatt's RISE OF THE APES. You can head on over there to check out the full gallery but you'll find the best ones below, featuring a rather normal-looking James Franco and Freida Pinto being accompanied by a short monkey-like man in a mocap suit. Wait... is that Andy Serkis in the mocap suit as "Caesar", the eventual...
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- Check out Rainn Wilson and Liv Tyler in these new pics from James Gunn's Super
Rainn Wilson as a superhero! Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica!
What's all this for? Well, it's for a little film from James Gunn titled, SUPER. Wilson stars as Frank D'Arbo, a man who decides to transform himself into the Crimson Bolt after his wife (Liv Tyler) falls under the influence of a drug dealer. The film also stars Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon, and Nathan Fillion.
Today Gunn posted some pictures as well as...
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- Rapunzel is a prisoner of her own hair in the new Tangled poster
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- Zhang Ziyi to produce and star in a live-action version of Mulan
The gorgeous Zhang Ziyi will produce and star in the live-action version of the Chinese folktale Mulan. The film will be backed by Disney, but there is no word if the project will be directly based off the 1998 animated film.
If you recall, the story is about a woman warrior, Hua Mulan who impersonates a man to enlist in the army in order to take her elderly father's place to save him from death. When the Huns...
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- Who's the new red autobot in Transformers 3?
It's a new transformer!
You trade in two "racist" autobots and get a jacked up red jeep for TRANSFORMERS 3.
I'm sort of interested in how all this crazy is going to pan out. There's a new chick who looks semi-hot from certain angles, John Malkovich is thrown in the mix, and there's this really insane opening that they want to do inspired by Spielberg. This is just an average day for Michael Bay. The man...
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- Len Wiseman to direct the Total Recall remake
Because what's old is new profitable again, TOTAL RECALL is being remade. This was news to me, until I looked back and saw we’d written about it twice already, but the big story of the day is that the project has found a director.
Columbia has anointed Len Wiseman to helm the project, which looks to be an Arnold-free reimagining of the Philip K. Dick story. Why does that name sound familiar? Well Wiseman...
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- Old Spice Guy lands a movie role opposite Bateman and Aniston in Horrible Bosses
Look down, then up, now back at me. Old Spice Guy is now a movie star.
Well, not really, but he is on his way to being sought after as he’s recently revealed to THR that he’s got a role in HORRIBLE BOSSES, the Jennifer Aniston/Jason Bateman/Colin Farrell/everyone comedy about well, horrible bosses.
It’s his first film role since Tyler Perry’s FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE...
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- 30 Days of Night 2 gets a bloodthirsty trailer
Alright so, yeah, I know 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: DARK DAYS ended up going straight to DVD, but since we've reported on it in the past, I feel the need to at least see it through to a trailer, as there are a lot of fans of the original out there.
The blonde chick from the first movie survived and is now giving lectures on how vampires exist and are shitty. She demonstrates this by turning on UV lights during her presentation...
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- Russell Brand to swash and buckle as Hawkwood
Despite really only playing the same character in two movies and doing a memorable hosting job at the MTV Something Awards, Russell Brand’s comedic star is rising. Currently filming a remake of ARTHUR, Brand’s next project will be something a bit more unusual.
It’s a comedic telling of the life of famous (among historians at least) mercenary John Hawkwood, who lead a number of different...
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- COMIC CON: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively and more talk Green Lantern!
The GREEN LANTERN footage at Comic-Con was so quick that it almost immediately demanded a bunch of questions. Luckily we were on hand to corner the GREEN LANTERN crew including Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, director Martin Campbell and producer Donald De Line and bring you the scoop. We'll have some more firsthand scoop from GREEN LANTERN but I'm not allowed to talk about that just yet. Soon...
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- Dinner for Schmucks
New Clip from Dinner for Schmucks is now available. - The Virginity Hit
New Red Band Trailer from The Virginity Hit is now available. - The Disappearance of Alice Creed
New Teaser Trailer from The Disappearance of Alice Creed is now available. - 13 Assassins
New International Trailer from 13 Assassins is now available. - Reign of Assassins
New International Promo Reel from Reign of Assassins is now available. - Yogi Bear
New Teaser Trailer from Yogi Bear is now available.
- It's my birthday!
And I am having the best birthday, ever! Thank you to everyone who has wished me happy birthday on the Twitters, and if July 29th is your birthday too, happy birthday to you! - singing fun fun fun
I have what Anne calls "Writer brain." (Witness: "You have writer brain." "Why do you say that?" "Because you just put the cereal in the refrigerator and the almond milk in the pantry." "Oh.") - #GAMEON!
Just in case you haven't had your mind blown by the latest music video from The Guild, yet... - FLASHBACK! True Stories From Famous People
Interstitial programming from the last 80s on Nickelodeon that I'd forgotten I was part of. - memories of w00tstock 2.4
The majority of the show is a blur of squee and laughter and OMG. Adam observed that everyone came off stage just beaming with joy. As a performer, to have that feeling ... it's one of the greatest things in the world. If you were in that audience, and you helped us feel that way: thank you. - "as his kilt rises..."
I think this is one of those rare things that can be equally enjoyed by those who have context, and those who don't. - Fargo is, after all, the boss of us ...
During production, it was a bit of a challenge to play a guy who hates Fargo as much as Doctor Parrish does, since I personally like Neil Grayston so much. Here's an amusing story about how much everyone in the NolWep Lab feels about Fargo... - A Little Summer Reading
Yesterday on Twitter, I joked: "Trying to read a book about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, but whenever I look for it, it moves." The book I was talking about it called Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science - one small step for man
Ken Levine, on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing: - Colin Ferguson and me, on acting
This was filmed by one of the producers, near the end of a very, very long day on the set of Eureka. We're obviously having fun and being silly, but there is an element of truth to what we said: we have a good time when we bring these characters to life, but it really does require a great deal of focus and dedication. One of the reasons I loved working on Eureka so much was the cast and crew's ability to have fun and stay relaxed, while remaining focused and working hard to make the very best show we could make.
- Looks Like Venom Is From Outer Space
There are some new photos from Spider-Man 3 over at Joblo.com including the one above. If you ask me this image settles the question of whether in the movie Venom will be from outer space. That's Peter Parker's moped in the foreground (as if you didn't know).... - First Photo Of Jeff Bridges As Obadiah Stane!
IESB.net has scooped the first image of Jeff Bridges with shaved head and goatee as he will appear in Iron Man playing Obadiah Stane! Click on the image on the left or here for a bigger version and more photos. They also have a side by side with Bridges and a cover of an Iron Man comic showing what Stane... - Spider-Man 3: Venom Has Black Webbing
So Venom has black webbing? Here's a new pic showing Spiderman snagged by the long-tongued, big-fanged dude. Sadly I must admit that I have never read an issue of Spiderman that had Venom in it as a villain (I know! Can you believe it?). So can anyone tell me, does the uber-evil villain in black have black webbing in... - 2007 Movies: Release Dates And Thoughts
Here's a list of some of the movies coming out this year... some are highly anticipated, others are on the list because I find them interesting in one way or another. And yes, I know that I should have called this post "2007 Movie Roundup". :-) March 16 I Think I Love My Wife - Being married for 11 years,... - Transformers Will Require Doctors On Stand-By
When I saw the first full Transformers trailer it blew me away, and apparently it was a pretty good indication of what the film will be like. It seems that the much-beloved (not) MPAA gave the movie an R-rating after viewing it, which is very much NOT what the studio wanted for the movie. Since Steven Spielberg is an executive... - Jeff Briges = Obadiah Stane In Iron Man!
Ok, so Jeff Bridges won't be playing Happy Hogan or even Sal Kennedy (thanks goodness!) but a character from the Layton/Michelinie era: Obadiah Stane! From reports he's sporting a shaved head and a silver/grey goatee. Will we be seeing the Iron Monger armor? That's the armor that Stane built from stolen Stark Technology when he took over the company.... - Review: 300
By Vic Holtreman Rating: 4 out of 5 Short version: Pretty close to being the ultimate "guy movie." I've waited a long time to see 300, the movie inspired by Frank Miller's graphic novel about the Spartans. If nothing else, based on the trailers I was expecting a movie that at least visually, would blow me away. My only concern... - Star Trek XI Movie Update
Just a few snippets of info from Wondercon coming from Anthony Pascale of Trekmovie.com and Jeff Bond, some speculation but what the heck: - If it wasn't for an established, non-Trek-related person like J.J. Abrams coming on board, there wouldn't be a Star Trek movie in production right now. - The idea is to satisfy long-time Trek fans but bring... - Big Honking Spiderman 3 Preview
Update: You can now see the preview right here! For the next 24 hours only you can go to NBC.com and catch a seven minute preview of Spiderman 3. Personally I fast forwarded through the first half because what I wanted to see was some ACTION. I hate to admit it, but although I found James Franco's portrayal of... - Heroes Freaking ROCKS!
All you Lost fanboy losers out there: you can keep that go-nowhere, yank my chain show... NBC's Heroes is where it's at, baby! If you're not watching it already, hopefully between now and April 23rd (when the show picks up again) you'll have a chance to watch it in reruns. Just kinda, sorta kidding about the fanboy loser comment, BTW.... - Review: The Host (aka Gwoemul)
By Vic Holtreman Rating: 3 out of 5 Short version: Although The Host is unusual, unpredictable and at times funny, it's undercut by a running time that is way too long. The Host is a South Korean horror-comedy film with a serious side to boot. It was made in 2006 and is being released in the U.S. on March 9th,... - Favreau Talks Iron Man Status
Well heck, guess I should have waited a couple of days for my Iron Man movie update post... Over at his MySpace page (via SuperheroHype), Jon Favreau spilled forth a bunch of stuff about where the movie is right now in regards to production. I guess I can continue to hope in vain that he will stop announcing news on... - Lex Leaving Smallville... At The End Like Everyone Else?
Well here's a confusing news story: I just read over at BuddyTV.com (link at end of article) that Michael Rosenbaum, who plays Lex Luthor to perfection on the TV show Smallville, is leaving the series... at the end of the seventh season. Why is this confusing? Because my understanding is that the series was going to end at the end... - Bunch Of Iron Man Updates
It's been a while since I posted any Iron Man movie updates so I thought I'd just summarize news from the last week or so... There's a short video interview with Robert Downey Jr. over at IESB.net where he discusses his take on the character (arms manufacturer who becomes conflicted about what he does) and how it's going with the... - Geico Caveman Doomed
According to a story in Variety, a TV sitcom is being developed at ABC based on the very popular Geico Insurance caveman commercials. "'Cavemen' will revolve around three pre-historic men who must battle prejudice as they attempt to live as normal thirtysomethings in modern Atlanta." I'll be the first to tell you that I love those commercials, but it's quite...