Before Peter Jackson reached Steven Spielberg levels of Hollywood mainstream acceptance, he was a chubby, hairy kid in New Zealand who loved making movies with tons of laughs provided by oceans of blood and gore. Jackson’s first feature, Bad Taste,
BOX OFFICE ANALYSIS 1. Dolphin Tale: $14.3M – Family films rule. Shallow nihilism and conformity posing as “edginess” do not. Yet Hollywood keeps right on making them. Yes, someone somewhere is currently squandering millions of dollars on “Margot At the
NIRVANA’S “NEVERMIND” IS 20 YEARS OLD? All I remember about this album is that it ushered in the grunge era which in turn forced me to stop wearing flannel shirts because I’d rather be dead than trendy. Yep, it’s been
“We need to tax the trees. They can easily afford it. Right?” With all the industry developments we saw in last weekend’s results, look for family audiences to once again rule the marketplace. That, and you’ll find The Blind Side
Head on over to The Film Thugs blog to listen to the second episode of the HomeVideodrome podcast! Folks, last week was overstuffed with new releases, this week is a bit of a dry spell. One of the bigger releases
Maybe I need to start calling this “The Early-Afternoon-On-The-West-Coast Call Sheet”. Anyone who runs any kind of blog will tell you that it takes more work to write something when there isn’t much to write about. The search for inspiration
From The Wrap: Hollywood donors are high on the list of political donors whose money is presumed lost in an alleged embezzlement scheme that led to the arrest last week of a longtime Democratic operative. Sony, Disney, News Corp., labor
On September 11, 2001, I was supposed to be on Flight 77 on the way to guest on ABC’s Politically Incorrect in LA that night. Even though the appearance conflicted with a conference I was hosting in DC with a
The first trailer was recently released for the upcoming adaptation of John Carter Of Mars. What followed across Internet boards was quite surprising. First, here’s a look at the trailer: —– The way the character jumps and moves around reminded
EXCLUSIVE: KEITH DAVID JOINS WACHOWSKI’S ‘CLOUD ATLAS’ One of the most underused, under-appreciated actors in Hollywood is The Mighty Keith David, a true screen talent and presence who has made every project he’s been associated with better since his first
NO JOKE: ‘BLUES BROTHERS’ TV SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT The pitch is ‘Route 66’ meets ‘Glee’. So I guess Jake and Elwood went gay in prison and are now on the road combing their hair a lot in-between show tunes. Somebody
This week we’re getting four Coen brothers classics on Blu-ray in a handy box set, as well as released individually: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, and Miller’s Crossing (though Fargo has already been made available). The Coens specialize in bizarre
A note for future prospective ESPN employees: You can only cheerlead Obama at ESPN. I’m not joking. Case in point: The network’s golf analyst, 12-time PGA Tour winner Paul Azinger hit out at the President’s amount of golf games on
This is the final installment of the Indoctrination Fridays series. They can all be read at PublicSchoolSpending.com. A book featuring more leftist curricula, entitled, “Indoctrination! How Useful Idiots Are Using Our Schools to Subvert American Exceptionalism” will be released later
Every once in a while an issue arises that can leave no doubt as to one’s true colors. Clear examples of this are the congressional bills that unambiguously prevent judges in American courts from citing or using Sharia in their
–SORRY FOR THE DELAYED MORNING CALL SHEET– Before moving, I apparently made the mistake of getting Charter Internet — and it went a little something like this: ME: Hi, I’m moving to North Carolina, work online and want Netflix to
“AUSTIN POWERS 4′? I have nothing but love for the “Austin Powers” trilogy, especially the first act of “Goldmember” which makes me laugh harder than anything since Steve Martin’s rental car meltdown in “Planes Trains and Automobiles.” But it’s been
–WEREN’T WE JUST TALKING ABOUT MICHAEL RAPAPORT?– Big Hollywood’s own Carl Kozlowski co-hosts a weekly (Thursdays 6-8pm PST) podcast called “GrandTheft Audio.” Tonight their special guest is actor Michael Rapaport. Tune in here. And Sunday you can see the show
Remember back in the early 1960s when blacks could get any job they wanted in the American airline industry? Oh, and remember back then how no one smoked cuz it was really, really bad for you and stuff? Yeah. No
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are dynamite as a comedic duo, as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are two of the best comedies of the past decade. Paul is their first outing sans the directorial guidance of Edgar
There’s no way Japan should have won the soccer World Cup in Women’s soccer in their match today against the USA in Germany. But they did. It was incredible. The American women were stronger, significantly taller (by 4″ on average)
Click here for Part 1 on Ben Shapiro’s Primetime Propaganda, here for Part 2 on Roger L. Simon’s Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine, here for part 3 on David Mamet’s The Secret Knowledge, and here for part 4 on
Listen, I know a lot of you out there love Wall-E. I know a lot of people squeal with delight when he chirps his name, or when he sighs the name of his true love, Eva, a floating robot that
“The thing will get more beautiful year after year. And it will get better as I find out what the public likes; I can’t do that with a picture it’s finished and unchangeable before I find out whether the public
Synopsis via Collider where you can see stills from the film — which debuts next summer: Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen
