August 2008

Babylon A.D. Review

Published on: 31st August, 2008

It makes it easy to review a bad movie when the director has said it all.
In an interview recently, french director Mathieu Kassovitz criticized the final cut of Babylon A.D., complaining about Fox’s overbearing involvement during production. He called the movie in theaters “pure violence and stupidity… like a bad episode of ‘24.’” [...]

‘Tropic Thunder’ Wins Third Straight as ‘Knight’ Passes $500M

Published on: 31st August, 2008

Tropic Thunder took on four more openers this weekend and still emerged the winner, earning an estimated $11.5 million. Meanwhile, The Dark Knight passed the coveted $500 million total, reaching the goal in a record 45 days.
Last week Thunder took on bunnies, death cars, an aptly named Longshots, and a Rocker. This week [...]

Actress Diane Kruger Plays ‘Bastard’ Actress

Published on: 29th August, 2008

Diane Kruger has been officially cast in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards as German actress Bridget Von Hammersmark. Christoph Waltz also joins as Hans Landa.
Kruger is a German native and the lead actress in the National Treasure series alongside Nicolas Cage. She was also the “face that launched a thousand ships” in Troy. [...]

‘Max Payne’ Trailer Sheds Doubt on Bad Movie

Published on: 29th August, 2008

The new, full-length trailer for Max Payne shows a movie that may not suck, a complete surprise considering the endless streak of bad video game movies.
Mark Wahlberg has been touting this movie for months now, even before the impressive footage shown at Comic-Con. He actually told MTV with a straight face that Max Payne [...]

Voltron Finds a Director

Published on: 28th August, 2008

Earlier this month Fox turned the Voltron movie over to Relativity Media, who had plans on making it on a more moderate budget.  It seems they’re cutting costs on a director too.
LatinoReview has the exclusive on who the director will be for Voltron.  It’ll be… wait for it…  Max Makowski.
Who?  Exactly.  His biggest career credit [...]

Redbelt Review

Published on: 28th August, 2008

Redbelt is the best film about fighting since Karate Kid, and will likely reign supreme for a number of rounds as the top movie for the viral sport of mixed martial arts (MMA).  I’m sorry I missed it in theaters, but I was glad I caught it out on DVD this week.
David Mamet, known for [...]

Sequel to ‘Strangers’ Brings Back Original Writer

Published on: 28th August, 2008

Surprise profits and an open-ended final scene made a sequel to The Strangers inevitable. There was confirmation today from the trades that the original’s writer/director, Bryan Bertino, has been hired to type up another scary script.
The first movie, released this past June, made $54 million domestically on a $9 million budget.
Bertino will write the [...]

Clooney In Talks for Reitman’s ‘Air’

Published on: 27th August, 2008

George Clooney is in talks to star in Up in the Air, a movie being adapted and directed by Juno and Thank You for Smoking director Jason Reitman.
Reitman apparently has been passionate about the project for over five years, setting it aside to work on his breakout smoking movie and Diablo Cody’s debut script about [...]

The Plot of First ‘Tintin’ Revealed, Spielberg to Direct

Published on: 27th August, 2008

There was a bit of a mix-up yesterday over who would be directing the first of the planned Tintin trilogy. Originally Steven Spielberg was scheduled to direct and Peter Jackson would helm the second, leaving the third to a possible joint collaboration between the two great talents. That’s still the case, but here’s [...]

Facebook: The Movie by Aaron Sorkin

Published on: 27th August, 2008

According to his own Facebook group, Aaron Sorkin is writing a movie about how Facebook was invented.
In case you’re old, Facebook is the popular social networking site that has eclipsed MySpace as the best place to share photos, games, and constant minute-by-minute updates of what you’re doing. It started as a membership site for [...]

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