The love for JJ Abrams approaches Whedonesque or Apatowian heights in some quarters, but LiC is not one of them. Then again, I’m a mystery-puzzle nerd so the news yesterday that Mr. Abrams would be producing a movie based on this NY Times story by Penelope Green caught my attention.
The short of it is that [...]
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Next up for Spike Lee is Time Traveler which he plans to co-write and direct from a memoir by Ronald Mallett, one of the first African-American Ph.Ds in theoretical physics.
Co-written with Bruce Henderson, Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality traces Mallett’s life story from poverty to Ph.D. and of [...]
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I haven’t seen a movie based on a Dennis Lehane novel yet that I really liked, but they just keep coming. Clint Eastwood directed Mystic River, Ben Affleck did Gone Baby Gone, Martin Scorsese is working on Shutter Island and now Sam Raimi joins the fray with The Given Day, to be published September 23.
Lehane [...]
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I managed to avoid it before Indy 4 and I’m not watching it now, but that doesn’t stop me from trying to tempt you with it. Courtesy of Trailer Addict.
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Hulk SMASH puny summer movies!
Here’s what’s opening wide on Friday the 13th:
The Happening. Other than the fact that Mark Wahlberg is in it and it’s directed by M. Night Shyamalan, I know exactly nothing about this one. Whatever your opinion about Shyamalan, he’s a guy whose movies you don’t want spoiled. If I’m going to see [...]
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Positioning themselves firmly as the home of tired retreads, Millennium Films is adding The Three Musketeers to its stable of shopworn properties that now include Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, Hercules, Buck Rogers and Rambo.
The story will reportedly tell how the original three, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, first teamed up.
The best part for Millenium? Alexandre [...]
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Neil Jordan has put together financing for his self-scripted film Ondine in which Colin Farrell plays a fisherman in southwest Ireland who reels in a sea nymph played by Alicja Bachleda (Trade). The film begins shooting in mid-July.
Meanwhile, Cameron Crowe is stirring up an as-yet-untitled romantic comedy starring Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon. Scott Rudin [...]
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My first response to the teaser trailer for The Pink Panther 2 was “What’s a French policeman doing lurking around the El Portal theater in North Hollywood?” and my second response was “Wait a minute, they’re making another one of these things?”
Then I looked the last one up at Box Office Mojo and found that [...]
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In Internet time this is already old news, but in the interest of following up on stuff I’ve already talked about, here it is anyway.
Speaking to Defamer’s Stu VanAirsdale, Werner Herzog shed some light on his upcoming Bad Lieutenant project with Nicholas Cage.
Turns out he’s not actually remaking Abel Ferrara’s film so much as making [...]
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They’re cranking out remakes faster than I can make fun of them. This time it’s an LiC childhood favorite: Peter Hyams’ Capricorn One, the conspiracy thriller about a fake mission to Mars starring Elliot Gould, Sam Waterston, James Brolin, Hal Holbrook, Karen Black, Telly Savalas, Brenda Vaccaro and of course, O.J. “Stabby” Simpson.
Peter Buchman who [...]
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Mmmm…Dumplings
I love a Weekend Forecast in June, how ’bout you? Actually, there isn’t much to write home about this week. Undaunted, we start off with the wide releases:
Kung Fu Panda. DreamWorks hasn’t done much in the animation department that has gotten me excited. This one’s an unlikely hero story about a tubby panda chosen to [...]
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Forget about Brett Ratner, the disturbing angle on news that the long-rumored Beverly Hills Cop sequel may finally be making some headway is that for every note of justified skepticism, there’s someone who actually thinks it’s a good idea.
Why do the studios keep churning out sequels and remakes? Because there are always enough dumbasses who can’t let [...]
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Campino and Wim Wenders - star and director of Palermo Shooting (Getty Images)
Palermo Shooting, the latest film from LiC favorite Wim Wenders, is scheduled to be unveiled in competition at Cannes on Saturday, but according to a Reuters interview from Scott Roxborough, Wenders was still working on mixing the film when the festival began and the [...]
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Due to ’scheduling conflicts’ (like maybe he’s just signed on to too many movies), Martin Scorsese is out as director of the upcoming Bob Marley documentary and Jonathan Demme is in.
Demme is no stranger to non-fiction music films, having made the classic Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense and, more recently, Neil Young: Heart [...]
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…to form a production company?
Two if they’re Mark and Michael Polish, the identical twin writing-directing-producing (and sometimes starring) brother team behind such enigmatic films as Twin Falls Idaho, Northfork and the more recent (and more mainstream) The Astronaut Farmer.
According to Variety’s Michael Flemming, the two have formed Prohibition Pictures with the aim of producing four [...]
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