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Michael Clarke Duncan dead at age 54
Actor Michael Clarke Duncan has passed away at the age of 54, from complications suffered from a heart attack he had in July.
Known for his big build and deep voice, Duncan was in the prime of his life. His first movie role was in 1995's Friday, and he had several small parts playing bouncers and muscle men. It wasn't until 1997's Armageddon that he had a meatier role with more lines, playing one of the rough-and-tumble drilling crew drafted into blowing up an approaching asteroid.
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Will Viggo Mortensen show up as Dr. Strange in Thor 2?
The latest rumor du jour concerning a Marvel movie has to do with their sorcerer supreme showing up in Thor: The Dark World. If you read between the lines of what someone on Twitter is saying, the magician known as Dr. Strange will appear in the next Thor movie.
If true, such a move would set the stage for Strange to get his own spinoff film at a future date.
Add a comment (0)Survey finds Airplane! as the funniest film ever
According to a survey done by the users of Lovefilm, the 1980 slapstick comedy Airplane! ranks as the funnest movie of all-time if you measure its value by laughs.
With an average number of three laughs per minute, the 88 minute comedy would generate 265 laughs from you, if you follow the site's methodology. According to Lovefilm's editors, just because Airplane! can make you laugh out loud so many times and so frequently, that doesn't make it the funniest movie of all-time. Monty Python's Life of Brian would take the Lovefilm's title for that distinction.
Add a comment (0)Saturday, September 8, 2012
Box Office Autopsy: The Summer of 2012 - June
Playing the role of a mortician for the summer 2012 movie season, I can’t help but get some red on myself. And maybe there’s more of it than usual, but that’s only because when you try and find out what why some movies were good and others terrible, you can’t help but get a little messy.
Add a comment (0)Thursday, September 6, 2012
A new Wonder Woman show in development
It's been less than a year since David E. Kelley tried to bring Wonder Woman back to the small screen. While Kelley's version of the DC Comics heroine wound up being made into a pilot episode that starred Adrianne Palicki, it wasn't given the greenlight by NBC. But now there's a new attempt brewing to bring the Amazonian back onto the airwaves, and this time it's being developed for The CW Network.
Add a comment (1)Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Box Office Autopsy: The Summer of 2012 - May
With the passing of Labor Day, I can say that the summer movie season of 2012 has come and gone. Now comes the time to examine what this summer season meant to us, the movie lovers, and to Hollywood, the ones that profited (or not) from the films.
For this endeavor I don’t want to look too closely at the creative stamp of a movie as judging whether a movie is good or bad for you is subjective and entirely personal. Instead, I want to cast a stronger eye towards the box office results and try to augur what it means for us. Will we see a sequel, or has a profitable movie made enough of a dent in the zeitgeist that we’ll get to see a bunch of copycats in two years time? That’s the sort of thing that I’m interested in with my analysis.
Add a comment (0)Beverly Hills Cop TV show lands at CBS
When there's no more room left in cinemas, the dead movie franchises will play on television set as new TV series. OK, so I'm paraphrasing Romero's Dawn of the Dead, but you get my drift, don't you?
CBS has won a bidding war and will broadcast an hour-long TV series based on Beverly Hills Cop, the once-hugely popular movie that starred once-huge Hollywood star Eddie Murphy. Murphy will be involved with the new BHC TV show, both as an executive producer (along with The Shield's creator Shawn Ryan) as well as star periodically in the show.
Add a comment (1)Spec'd: The Amazing Spider-Man
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is bringing home The Amazing Spider-Man on Friday, November 9 as a 3D combo pack, limited edition gift set and Blu-ray/DVD.
The Blu-ray/DVD combo comes with three discs:
Add a comment (0)Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Bad Lip Reading for Twilight
Stephanie Meyer's Twilight gets a lot of slapdown. If you've ever read her novels, then you would know why. Still, she's a mega-successful author worth hundreds of millions of dollars while I'm a broke movie webmaster writing about her stuff. Who's the king of the world now?
But the good news is that there are a lot of other broke people who love to poke at the whole Twilight phenomenon. The folks at Bad Lip Reading, who seem to make it a crusade to provide alternative dialogue for famous people and celebrities, wanted to share their loathing of Twilight by making it the subject of their latest video.
Add a comment (0)Monday, September 3, 2012
Michael Clarke Duncan dead at age 54
Actor Michael Clarke Duncan has passed away at the age of 54, from complications suffered from a heart attack he had in July.
Known for his big build and deep voice, Duncan was in the prime of his life. His first movie role was in 1995's Friday, and he had several small parts playing bouncers and muscle men. It wasn't until 1997's Armageddon that he had a meatier role with more lines, playing one of the rough-and-tumble drilling crew drafted into blowing up an approaching asteroid.
Add a comment (2)The Dark Knight Rises' box office surpasses The Dark Knight
Call it official: The Dark Knight Rises has now earned more money at theaters than its predecessor, The Dark Knight. This weekend TDKR netted enough to push its worldwide gross to $1.005 billion dollars, $3 million dollars over the 2008 gross of The Dark Knight's $1.003 billion.
Of course, ticket prices have gone up in the four years since the release of The Dark Knight, and more screens are playing the IMAX versions of The Dark Knight Rises, further raising ticket prices.
Add a comment (0)Bruce Willis suing Apple over iTunes
Bruce Willis is suing Apple over who gets ownership of his digital music collection after he dies.
Add a comment (0)Friday, August 31, 2012
First photo of Chris Pine as Jack Ryan
Paramount Pictures decided to officially announced the start of filming on its Jack Ryan movie by releasing a photo of its star, Chris Pine, riding a motorcycle in the streets of New York.
The film is rolling under the work-in-progress title of the untitled Jack Ryan movie, but conceivably the studio could decide to roll with simply Jack Ryan as its name. It makes sense; this is a reboot of the franchise (the second after the Ben Affleck Sum of All Fears one.)
Also starring in the picture is Keira Knightly as Jack's love interest, Cathy; Kevin Costner as Ryan's mentor; and Branagh himself as the picture's villain.
Add a comment (0)Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Two Stanley Kubrick TV shows in the works
Plans are afoot to turn two of movie director Stanley Kubrick's ideas into television shows. One will be a made-for-TV movie while the other is now envisioned as a mini-series.
The son-in-law of Kubrick, Philip Hobbs, and another person named Steve Lanning are developing the projects under their Philco Films banner.
Downslope is the title of the proposed television movie. Set in 18th century America, it would follow the revenge-fueled mission of defeated Confederate Army Colonel John S. Mosby, and his path to exact vengeance on General Custer.
Add a comment (0)Black Sails pirate show finds its director
I bet that you didn't know that there was a pirate TV show in development. It's called Black Sails, and it will air on the Starz cable channel in 2014. While that's still a good chunk of time away from us, filming on the series is slated to commence before the end of the year in Cape Town, Africa.
Starz has just hired the director of the pilot episode for Black Sails, and it's Neil Marshall who will call the first shots. The director of The Descent, Doomsday, Centurion and an episode of HBO's Game of Thrones show, Marshall is an experienced genre director and is likely to add his kinetic style of action to the show's production.
Add a comment (0)Global James Bond Day to be held on October 5
2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the appearance of James Bond in movies. To celebrate the occassion, the makers of the James Bond film series have announced plans to make October 5, 2012 Global James Bond Day, and will mark the event with special events held around the world.
The companies involved with the promotion include EON Productions, the producers of the Bond films (including the new one, Skyfall), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Sony Pictures Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. October 5, 1962 was the day that Dr. No, the very first 007 movie, had its world premiere in London.
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