Ok, so it’s another week of finding film facts to amaze and amuse! Shenanigans Edition! In this week’s “Weird Project Central” story, Warner Bros. bought the rights to make a film adaptation of the video game Mincraft back in early 2014. After some changes along the way, Steve Carell is now in talks to star,…
DetailsElle, based on a novel called O by Philippe Dijan, who also wrote Betty Blue, is Dutch director Paul Verhoeven’s first French film, and features Isabelle Huppert in a performance already being touted as an Oscar contender. It is a mesmerizing, frenzied abomination, a thrilling, propulsively lurid provocation that is simultaneously classy and grotesque, refined and coarse, arthouse and grindhouse.…
DetailsTrust Mel Gibson, that maestro of the sadomasochistic, to create a movie that is one part Norman Rockwell-esque love letter to 1940s rural America, one part military courtroom drama, and two parts a war-is-hell mugging that seems to be attempting to mash Hieronymus Bosch into the first twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan. Despite his…
DetailsHaving served as a consultant on the original Kung Fu Panda, I’ve been able to observe the rise and fall of DreamWorks SKG Animation from both sides. It’s done remarkably well, considering that it started with an ax to grind. Jeffrey Katzenberg (the “K” in SKG), having felt underappreciated during his time at Walt Disney…
DetailsWelcome to another week of updates in the world of film – and maybe a television story – you never know. I’ll try to keep it as absurd as possible to offset the sorrow of this week’s election results. Ugh. In this week’s “Planning ahead” story, 20th Century Fox is already looking ahead to Deadpool…
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