There’s going to be a new biopic about Salvador Dali. Okay, that’s reasonable. Antonio Banderas is in negotiations to play Dali. Sure, he’s a capable actor. [...]
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There’s going to be a new biopic about Salvador Dali. Okay, that’s reasonable. Antonio Banderas is in negotiations to play Dali. Sure, he’s a capable actor. [...] Continue reading Antonio Banderas + Simon West = Salvador Dali Next up for the Farrelly Brothers will be perhaps the most ambitiously repugnant thing they’ve attempted yet, a Three Stooges movie. [...] Continue reading The Three Stooges Ride Again? Tobe Hooper’s career has been on a downward slide since he made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974. Maybe he’s a hack that got lucky with his first theatrically released movie. [...] Continue reading The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore So, these guys are terrible. I mean so awful they make me wish for an acute case of hysterical blindness. Or maybe a sharp stick to jab out my eyes and the eyes of anyone sitting near me. [...] Continue reading 5 Directors I Hate- And You Should Too Rather than try to capitalize on the buzz of Mickey Rourke’s career rejuvenating performance in The Wrestler and find a way push his older movies, we’ll just get remakes instead. The always interesting Michael De Luca is going to lead the charge on an Angel Heart remake. [...] Continue reading We Can Remake Angel Heart- We Have The Technology You know I hate remakes, but, hey, this is just me bitching. Let’s take a look at a couple people who are actually affected: John Carpenter and Dario Argento. [...] Continue reading Two Masters Of Horror Talking Remakes It took almost a year and a half, but the trust that holds the rights to the story the Rear Window was officially based on have filed a lawsuit alleging Dreamworks, Viacom, Steven Spielberg and others should have also secured the rights to the story. [...] Continue reading A Disturbing Rip-off He originally signed a three year deal with the studio in 2007, but since he signed on to direct The Hobbit movies, the Universal deal wouldn’t really take effect until 2013 or so. Yep, that’s five years to make the two Hobbit movies. After that, del Toro and Universal have no less than four movies lined up. [...] Continue reading I Scoff At Your Piddly Five Year Plan The article bills it as a reimagining, which, due do it’s over-over-overuse in the marketing of the confounding Plant of the Apes remake, has given the movie a cinematic scarlet letter for me. [...] Continue reading Tarzan And The Reimagining So, here we are, in the golden age of remakes, and things just keep getting more obfuscated. First we had remakes. If you want to see The Fog, you have to figure out whether you want the original 1980 version or the 2005 remake. That’s bad enough, but now we’ve got the insanity of remakes of sequels and sequels to remakes. [...] Continue reading Stop This Crazy World, I Want To Get Off | |||