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Sommers Won’t Direct GI JOE 2

January 5, 2011 Rich Drees

What has more weight in Hollywood – A $302 million worldwide box office take or a humiliating 34% rating at Rotten Tomatoes? If you answered the latter, I envy the idealistic world you live in. [click for more]

GI JOE Sequel Planning To Begin Soon

August 11, 2009 Rich Drees

In Hollywood, it is not how good or bad your movie actually is, it is how much it manages to take in at the box office. Case in point- G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra. [click for more]

Scrambling To Save GI JOE From Complete Disaster

June 11, 2009 Rich Drees

With just under 8 weeks to go before its release, it is looking as if the big screen adaptation of toy and cartoon franchise G. I. Joe is undergoing some last minute, panicked tinkering, starting [click for more]

Script Review: GI JOE

May 10, 2009 Rich Drees

(AKA Dark Skies: First Strike) By Stuart Beattie Revisions By John Lee Hancock And Brian Koppelman & David Levien Draft Dated November 3, 2007 For years, fans of the toy line turned cartoon and comic [click for more]

Sommers Threatening To Ruin, Err. . . Make A New TARZAN Movie

September 2, 2008 Rich Drees

Director Stephen Sommers, whose Van Helsing ruined anything good about Universal Studios great monster movie legacy and whose upcoming live-action adaptation GI Joe will do to the same to the popular 1980s cartoon series, is [click for more]