August 2008 Archives

Poltergeist Remake Builds on Ancient Screenplay Ground

by Odie Henderson August 20, 2008 4:04 PM
Poltergeist Remake Builds on Ancient Screenplay Ground They're herrrrrre!And they're being remaaaaaaaade!!! The Poltergeist remake has found two screenwriters willing to build their story on ancient (circa. 1982) screenplay burial ground. Juliet Snowden and Stiles White will be taking the Freelings through their latest encounter with ghosts who pull little girls into the TV. The original is a classic that still scares me (I hate clowns...) and I'm disgusted that this is even being considered. Especially since, according to an episode of True Hollywood Story, the Poltergeist series is cursed. Since I can't stop them from making it, I can at least hope CNN's kidnap-happy Nancy Grace has a cameo.

Chucky Remake is Child's Play

by Odie Henderson August 20, 2008 1:42 PM
Chucky Remake is Child's Play

We've had Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky, but now it's time for the scariest installment of all in the Child's Play series: REMAKE of Chucky! Chucky creator Don Mancini and series producer David Kirschner have announced a revamp that will take the franchise back to its horror roots. Including his first appearance 20 years ago in the entertaining Child's Play ("But Andy! I'm your friend to the end." "This IS the end!"), Chucky has slashed his way through five movies, never once answering the burning question: "Why didn't anybody just kick the damn doll?" He couldn't weigh more than 10 pounds! In honor of the role Oscar nominee Brad Dourif will be remembered for forever and ever, here are a few other killer dolls to creep you out.

Sing Along With Meryl

by Odie Henderson August 20, 2008 11:27 AM
Sing Along With Meryl When I die and ascend to heaven's Pearly Gates, right before St. Peter says "Nuh-Unhhh!" and pushes the big button labeled Hell, he's going to sing "So long, see you honey/You can't buy me with your money." Thanks to the Hot Blog, I now know what my Hell is going to look like. Taking a cue from the numerous people who have danced in the aisles at the Winter Garden, Universal is now releasing the Sing-Along, Dance-Along version of Mamma Mia! That exclamation point belongs to the title, not my obvious excitement (not!) at this revoltin' development. As the worst part of any ABBA song appears onscreen, people can sing and dance, hopefully better than Pierce Brosnan does in the film. This is the beginning of the end, people! The 70's are returning and I'm all out of Afro Sheen! Next, folks will show up in bad jumpsuits and wigs, and CNN will catch self-admitted ABBA fan John McCain dropping it like it's hot to "Take a Chance On Me" at the AMC Googleplex in Phoenix.

Fox to Warners: Nobody's Watching Your Watchmen

by Odie Henderson August 20, 2008 9:24 AM
Fox to Warners: Nobody's Watching Your Watchmen

After viewing the Watchmen trailer, this Watchmen purist said that Zack Snyder deserved a torch enema from the Columbia Pictures lady. Miss C. politely declined, but the folks at 20th Century Fox are more than happy to use their spotlights on the director. Fox is attempting to enforce their prior (and apparently current) "settlement and release" rights on the Watchmen property, which they acquired in 1991 from Larry Gordon's LARGO company, and the matter now resides in court. Adding fuel to the fiery panic of the fanboys, who drool over every aspect and detail of the film, is the judge who refused Warners' request for dismissal of Fox's lawsuit. This could get ugly, folks. Who watches this Watchmen? The answer could very well be nobody.

Christina Applegate: Boobless, Fearless

by Lauren Gitlin August 19, 2008 5:15 PM
Christina Applegate: Boobless, Fearless

The wires today were clogged with news that Christina Applegate had a double mastectomy after being recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Get our schpiel on the matter over at the Telefile.



Convention or Film Festival? You Decide!

by Tippi Blevins August 19, 2008 1:56 PM
Convention or Film Festival?  You Decide! Later this month, movie stars and producers will descend upon Colorado. Hollywood's A-listers will rub shoulders with the industry elite, hobnob with the wealthy, attend exclusive parties, promote their causes, and get a sneak peek at a slate of movies. Is it the highly regarded Telluride Film Festival they're all turning out for? Not this time around. According to The Hollywood Reporter, what's got actors and producers all frothing with an excitement usually reserved for prestigious film festivals and awards ceremonies is, instead, the Democratic National Convention.

The Gilliam-Dollar Baby

by Zach Oat August 19, 2008 11:16 AM
The Gilliam-Dollar Baby

Why can't Terry Gilliam catch a break? As a former member of Monty Python, Gilliam should receive whatever he wants for life, a system Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and John Cleese have worked out with the British government, I believe. And yet the group's lone American still has to struggle and stretch to make his projects reality. Okay, so Gilliam makes strange movies. 12 Monkeys? Strange. Brazil? Stranger. And he has some bad luck, like when his movie about Don Quixote imploded (as documented in the film Lost in La Mancha), and when Heath Ledger, the star of his latest film, died in the middle of shooting. But he still managed to finish it, so why doesn't anybody want to distribute the thing?! Don't they know how important this man's work is? He was in Monty Python!

It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, It's.. SUPERCRUISE!

by Tippi Blevins August 19, 2008 10:59 AM
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, It's.. SUPERCRUISE! I don't mean to keep picking on Tom Cruise, but it seems like every time I'm on duty for the Moviefile, he pops up in the news like some kind of spring-loaded jack-in-the-box that cannot be ignored. Just a week after I was hopeful that Cruise was changing up his résumé just a little with the help of a fluffy kiddie movie, it looks like he's back to his old tricks as a spy/cop/man on the run. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Cruise is looking to star in Sleeper, an adaptation of a DC Comics/Wildstorm comic book title in which he would play an undercover "operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him impervious to pain." An alien artifact? Ooh, I hope it's not Xenu's doing.

The Scarlett Pimping Mill

by Tippi Blevins August 19, 2008 9:28 AM
The Scarlett Pimping Mill The promo mill for Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona started grinding into high gear recently and it cranked out a doozy. It's like someone asked, "How do you promote a movie about two women involved in a love affair with the same man?" And the answer came back: "Naturally you pimp one of those women out for a threesome!" That woman is none other than Scarlett Johansson, who plays the titular Cristina, and you can check out a screenshot of the contest at The Dish Rag. But, look, ScarJo. No one thinks less of Paris Hilton for not promoting her National Lampoon movie, and she's generally a huge waste of space. You, on the other hand, were in Lost in Translation. So what in the world are you doing with this?

Tony Stark Proves his Iron Manhood

by Zach Oat August 18, 2008 5:26 PM

Access Hollywood has scored a first look at a deleted scene from the upcoming Iron Man DVD, and while it doesn't exactly have Iron Man in it, it does have Tony Stark demonstrating his reputation for being a man of steal. Stark pulls a Bruce Wayne and creates a decadently expensive cover story for his mission to the Middle East by throwing a massive party at his house in Dubai. Sequestering himself in his room with two bikini-clad ladies, he then steals a third girl from somebody else on the way -- kinda mean, especially since he then ditches them all to fly off under cover of fireworks. And here we just thought he flew there from California. Check out the clip after the jump.

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