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Forster To Document WORLD WAR Z

November 14, 2008 Rich Drees

Marc Forster, whose Bond installment Quantum Of Solace opens in theaters today, has been hired by Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B to direct their adaptation of the Max Brooks zombie apocalypse novel World War [click for more]

Behold The Second WATCHMEN Trailer

November 14, 2008 Rich Drees

I just got back from an early evening screening of Quantum Of Solace (more on that tomorrow afternoon), where we also got to see the new Watchmen trailer, embedded below. If the first trailer was [click for more]

Michael Moore’s Next Film Takes Aim At The Economy

November 13, 2008 Rich Drees

Documentarian Michael Moore’s work has always depended on the prevailing political climate. It should come as no surprise that Moore’s currently in production next film is changing focus from foreign policy to the current financial [click for more]

Pegg And Frost Team For Road Trip In PAUL

November 13, 2008 Rich Drees

Forget Nixon/Frost. I’m more looking forward to the next Pegg/Frost collaboration. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the stars of Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, are teaming for a third film, Paul, a road [click for more]

Paris Hilton in A Todd Solondz Picture?!!?

November 12, 2008 Rich Drees

Well, here are two people whom I never imagined would show up in the same sentence. Edgy director Todd Solondz has cast the famous-for-no-particularly-good-reason Paris Hilton in his upcoming, Life During Wartime. Hilton will be [click for more]

Brett Ratner’s Dilemma- Ruin CONAN or BEVERLY HILLS COP 4 First?

November 10, 2008 Rich Drees

Well, the headline pretty much sums it up, but here are the details. The Hollywood Reporter is stating that Brett Ratner is in final negotiations to take on directorial chores for Nu Image/Millennium’s long in [click for more]

Joe Johnston Drafted For CAPTAIN AMERICA

November 10, 2008 Rich Drees

Director Joe Johnston has signed to direct Captain America: The First Avenger for Marvel Studios. No writer has yet been hired for the project, though the studio hopes to have one locked down soon. Johnston [click for more]

Hollywood Swallows Own Tail With Spoof Of Spoof Movies

November 9, 2008 Rich Drees

In 1980, Mad Magazine was roped into participating in a teen comedy called Up The Academy. The producers hoped to us the humor magazine’s cache as a way to garner attention to their film by [click for more]

Pabulum Of Solace?

November 5, 2008 Rich Drees

The development of any motion picture is always an exciting time when possible story ideas are generated, discussed and then used or discarded. Sometimes, the most fascinating ideas are the ones that are discarded, either [click for more]

Halloween Film Of The Day: 28 DAYS LATER

October 31, 2008 Rich Drees

If Romero’s zombie film Night Of The Living Dead reinvented the genre as social satire, Danny Boyle’s 2002 post-zombie apocolypse 28 Days Later feels almost like a reaction to the previous year’s terrorist attacks on [click for more]