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2008
Frank Miller Promises ‘The Spirit’ Won’t Be a Return to ‘Sin City’Posted by: in Hollywood newsFiled under: Action, Classics, Thrillers, Noir, Lionsgate Films, Celebrities and Controversy, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek
Today, Miller addressed the concerns and criticism directed at the first teaser for The Spirit, mainly centered on its resemblance to the eye-popping Sin City. “It only resembles Sin City in that I am its director, and, well, yes, I have my ways and my proclivities …. No, Sin City, that one’s my own baby, folks, and it looks the way it does for its own reasons. The Spirit is, and will always be, Eisner’s Spirit …. To drive the point home, The Spirit , despite any accidental impression left by that kickass teaser-trailer, is a full-color movie. Sin City - and I hope to make of it a movie trilogy all its own, come Hell and high water - is, visually, a playhouse for black and white.” Continue reading Frank Miller Promises ‘The Spirit’ Won’t Be a Return to ‘Sin City’ Filed under: Action, Comedy, Movie Marketing, Trailers and Clips It’s been a while since I blogged about the international trailer for Get Smart back in January. Now we’ve got a whole new trailer, which you can check out above. A lot of it has been seen in other trailers, but there are some new scenes, plus continuations of previously released clips. If I wasn’t slightly cynical, this trailer would reinvigorate my interest in this flick. It’s funny, goofy, and has a great wrap-up (Has any mom you know ever done that? It’s brilliant!). That being said, I worry that this film has entered “seen too much” territory. In this big-screen re-do, KAOS schemes up a plot “to dominate every living man, woman, and child on the planet,” and they start by messing with Control. The only way to bring KAOS down — Maxwell Smart. From there, it’s a lot of false bravado, spastic maneuverings, and splits that don’t seem to hurt his groin one bit. Get Smart hits theaters on June 20. Check out our gallery of images from the film below. Gallery: Get Smart
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2008
Jon Cryer and James Spader Try On Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Shorts’Posted by: in Hollywood newsFiled under: Action, Casting, Family Films
The descriptions of the movie on THR and the script review are a little different, but the basic gist of the film is about a magic rock in a suburb where everyone works for the Black Box company. Kids find this rainbow-colored rock that grants wishes, and go a bit nuts with it before the adults get their hands on it and things get even crazier. Bennett plays the protagonist, Toe Jackson, Cryer and Mann play his parents, and Dennings plays his older sister. Spader, meanwhile, plays Mr. Black, and Macy plays “the father of a germphobic genius,” which I imagine makes him Dr. Noseworthy. If Robert pulls this off with the same spark that Spy Kids held, this could be one fun flick. Per usual, Rodriguez is involved in many aspects of the film — he wrote it, is producing with ex Elizabeth Avellan, and will be director of photography, editor, and visual effects supervisor. According to Variety, production is just gearing up in Austin. Filed under: Action, Disney, Box Office, Family Films
I find humor in that excuse for two reasons. One, Disney moved the film to that date on purpose, away from its originally planned date of December 2007. The fact that Walden Media, which co-produced Prince Caspian, also had a Christmas movie, The Water Horse, may have been a factor in the move, with Disney not wanting to cannibalize its own audience. But the Narnia series, with its PG rating (though undeserved) and overt Christian allegories and occasional cameos by medieval-weapon-distributing Santa Clauses, is a much better fit for December than May. Any fool can see that. The second reason the excuse is amusing is that it’s not like the competitiveness of May 16 was a huge surprise. It’s not like they moved the film to May 16 at a time when there were no other major titles announced for around the same time. It’s MAY, dummies. That’s when big movies come out. Disney knew that Iron Man would come out on May 2 and Speed Racer on May 9, and they moved Prince Caspian to May 16 anyway. Continue reading Discuss: Was ‘Prince Caspian’s’ Release Date a Mistake? Filed under: Action, Classics, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery & Suspense, Warner Brothers, Celebrities and Controversy, Fandom, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek
He was a little more guarded during this interview, but still admired what he had seen of the filming: “The most important thing is that the Watchmen movie be a good movie. From what I’ve seen of it, I think it is going to be a good movie, and I think it’s going to be as faithful to the original graphic novel as is possible, given the constraints of a movie and the nature of a graphic novel. I think that as long as it’s true to the spirit of the comic book, and as long as - in broad strokes - it follows the plot and the characterisations … I don’t think you can ask for every individual detail to be replicated. There are hardcore fans out there who’ll be satisfied with nothing less than a word-for-word, line-for-line, scene-for-scene recreation of the comic book. I didn’t believe that was ever going to happen. Certainly, from what I’ve seen of the movie, it looks like it’ll be a good movie and very faithful to the comic book. If it isn’t, it won’t be for want of trying. Everybody’s using the graphic novel as their bible, and really doing their best to pay tribute to it, I think. “ Continue reading Dave Gibbons On ‘Watchmen’ and Alan Moore Filed under: Action, Comedy, Fandom, Newsstand
Okay, so I changed part of Aretha Franklin’s improvised chorus, but it fits! Dear Jean-Claude Van Damme spoke to MTV while in Cannes, and he said: “I’m a brand name. I’m not just a guy. I think I’m ready to be decent. I’m hungry to make movies, but movies with deeper characters. I want respect. I want to believe in myself.” (Tony Robbins might be getting some big-muscle competition soon, at this rate!) It seems that this desire comes from his realization, after his 37th movie, that “Acting is not acting if you act. You have to tell the truth…” I would argue that you have to act to “tell the truth,” but at least the guy is trying to grow. So now he’s got JCVD on the way (which premiered at Cannes), and he hopes this is the start of better choices for his career. Have any of you seen it? Is his self-mocking film a step towards a more solid career? Van Damme has been in lots of crap, but I’m inclined to believe that if Arnie can do it, he can. Or, maybe that ship has sailed. Filed under: Action, Casting, Sony, RumorMonger, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels
CHUD happened to be on set of Cirque du Freak, which Fugit has just finished filming, and one of the producers sent off an inquiry as to the truth of the casting rumor. The e-mail was the first Fugit had heard about it — which means little in the world of “insider scoops,” as Fugit could still quite possibly be on a “to be considered” list. Every 20-something male in the world could be on it. Maybe there’s a Cinematical reader just waiting to be plucked from obscurity! Or not. According to sources over at IESB.net, which included everyone from CAA to Marvel, no actor has been approached. Not even Maguire. But so worried has Sony been about the rumor that they have supposedly been scrambling to have the Fugit story taken off the sites, down to every link and reference. A Sony rep also told IESB that the Fugit story is completely false. “No one is being considered for the role but Tobey. Period.” Continue reading Tobey Maguire Still Top Pick for ‘Spider-Man 4′ Filed under: Action, Horror, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense, Universal, Games and Game Movies
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ouija will hit the big screen courtesy of Platinum Dunes, Universal Pictures, Hasbro, and producer / screenwriter David Berenbaum. (His credits include Elf and The Spiderwick Chronicles.) No director has been named yet, and the top secret premise is being described as “a supernatural adventure…” I smell a PG-13 horror flick. All I know is I hope it’s better than Witchboard. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments |
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Frank Miller is just blogging like crazy these days. Which is great — I wish everybody I ever wrote about had a blog, because it would make everything ten times easier and more interesting. No conjecture. Straight from the horse’s mouth!
Back in March, 
One thing you can count on in Hollywood is that when a film under-performs at the box office, the studio will have a bevy of explanations for it — and it’s never just that the movie is no good. (Wouldn’t that be great, though? “Yes, our tentpole summer release tanked. Our best explanation for this is that it was just a huge pile of crap.”) This week, according 
Let us close out the week with a 
R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what it means to me. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Take care, JCVD!
A few days ago, 
When I say “Platinum Dunes,” you probably think “horror remake” — which only makes sense since PD is the production company that brought you 
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