Thanks to a new video, The Dark Knight has my right foot out.
Predictions that Leatherheads would take the top spot at the weekend box office in spite of middling reviews and virtually no hook for young viewers proved to be unfounded. The Film That Turned George Clooney Fi-Core made just $13.5 million, barely enough for second place behind the still strong 21.
Sundance vets Trouble the Water and […]
The Spike Jonze/Michel Gondry wannabe SPECIAL finally gets a New York screening thanks to its relevancy to the world of comic books.
The Hollywood Reporter has details on Werner Herzog’s next project. Funded by Focus Features and described as Herzog’s “biggest English-language costume drama in more than four decades as a filmmaker,” it’s an adaptation of a novel called The Piano Tuner. Set in Burma, it’s about “a man sent to a remote village in the late […]
Plus: The future, as imagined in the mid-80s, is already here.
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A U.S. District judge threw out a defamation case against the makers of Borat yesterday, on the grounds that Sacha Baron Cohen’s fake journalist schtick is protected under the same laws as real journalism. A New York businessman had sued for unspecified, claiming he was humiliated against his will when footage of Cohen chasing him […]
It could be the actor’s best performance ever.
Wow, that was sudden: last night’s Gen Art screening of Cook County will be the Clearview Chelsea West’s last show as a commercial movie theater. The School of Visual Arts has bought the site, and after several months of renovation, the theater will be reopened as “a new repertory/special event venue,” with tie-ins planned with […]
His name is Lopez. Carlos Lopez. And he isn’t happy with Quantum of Solace being filmed in his neighborhood.
