Kevin Smith’s Birthday Plans And A ‘Harry Potter’ Actor’s First Tweets In Today’s Twitter-Wood
Considering the amount of hockey tweeting Kevin Smith has been doing lately, it should come as little surprise that he’s setting up a match for his 39th birthday on Sunday. It sounds like he’ll need to get some extra rest hours in on Saturday, though, because his new film “A Couple of Dicks” is pulling [...]
Five Reasons Why Rob Marshall Is An Inspired (Or Demented) Choice To Direct ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 4′
Of all the directors in all of Hollywood, could anyone have predicted that the person who’d end up replacing Gore Verbinski at the wheel of the multi-billion dollar “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise would be the guy who scored an Oscar nod for “Chicago”? You remember, the 2002 musical about those lovely, murderous ladies? The [...]
‘Funny People’ Star Seth Rogen Was In ‘Donnie Darko’?! Plus Other Rogen Cameos
Fame is a tricky beast. Once everyone gets used to seeing your face everywhere, that newfound notoriety makes people forget your early work. It sucks for you because you want your audience to recognize the effort you’ve made to get where you are. The audience gets a treat from their forgetfulness however: DVD night at [...]
‘Eclipse’ Casting Change: Rounding Up Yesterday’s Poll
I asked, and you all answered with your clicks. To recap briefly for those who have just returned from Mars: Rachelle Lefevre, who played Victoria in “Twilight” and the upcoming “New Moon,” has been replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard for the third (and presumably fourth) film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s four-part vampire romance series. [...]
‘Funny People’ Director Judd Apatow Delivers Comfort Film For The Soul
The feud-starting dialogue in a recent episode of “Entourage” pointed out the all too obvious: “Knocked Up” is insanely unrealistic. People get pregnant all the time and romance usually starts in the most unusual of places, true. But no way in hell does Katherine Heigl look across a crowded nightclub, see Seth Rogen and decide [...]
Aziz Ansari Set To Break Out In ‘Funny People’
FROM MTV.COM: Judd Apatow’s “Funny People” stars some of the most established names in comedy — Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill — and features cameos from heavyweights like Ray Romano, Sarah Silverman and Paul Reiser.
But heading into Friday’s opening, the actor everyone seems to be talking about is Aziz Ansari, who has created [...]
Third ‘Gremlins’ Film Might Be In The Works, Mr. Wing Rolls In His Grave
“Gremlins” fans beware: everybody’s favorite mogwai could be getting the Yoda treatment.
In an interview with Empire Online, original “Gremlins” director Joe Dante said that he’s heard scuttlebutt of a third installment in the franchise, packed to the gills with CGI effects. According to Dante, the film would likely be less of a sequel and more [...]
Kurt Loder Reviews ‘Thirst’
FROM MTV.COM: A movie about a priest who’s transformed into a vampire might inspire some deep noodling about Catholic liturgy, no doubt. And that could be what Park Chan-wook, the waywardly brilliant South Korean director (and onetime philosophy student), had in mind in making his latest film, “Thirst.” But just when we’ve set our [...]
‘Harry Potter’ IMAX Opening, ‘Funny People’ Top The Weekly Box Office Poll
The majority of you — 60% — will forego the week’s latest movie releases in favor of witnessing the IMAX Experience for the summer hit “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” I’m not expecting to see another record-breaking weekend along the lines of what happened when “Prince” opened a couple of weeks ago however. Mainly [...]
Stan Lee Talks Michael Jackson And Spider-Man
FROM SPLASH PAGE: Last month, Michael Jackson’s death prompted a recollection of how close he and Stan Lee came to buying Marvel Comics. The piece received quite a bit of attention, so when I had the chance to talk with Lee during this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego, I had to ask the legendary [...]
