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The Black List of 2009 - Part 1
For the fourth consecutive year Hollywood has selected its Black List, a compilation of the top unproduced screenplays for 2009. Over 300 film professionals were asked to submit the titles of up to ten of their favorite screenplays. The only condition for the picks were that the projects would not be released in theaters this year. That means some of the Black List honorees may be in the process of being turned into movies but by far the majority remain thoughts on digital ink, a blueprint for grand dramatic ideas, high-reaching adventure and controversial ideas waiting to be burned to light.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Watch this trailer for Hobo With a Shotgun before you eat
I've written about Hobo With a Shotgun before and what got me interested in seeing it originally was Rutger Hauer armed and distressed. Now I can add another reason to want to see this grindhouser: people getting 'sploded in new ways.
Add a comment (0)Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Is it too early to start the Kick-Ass 2 hype?
Comic book writer Mark Millar is a marketing genius. He's been able to build up hype about himself and his projects, giving them what every movie producer and/or comic book creator wants: visibility with the public. Specifically, visibility with the online crowd. That in turn can be used to show Hollywood people higher on the money food chain that there's enough interest to get one of Millar's projects greenlit. It's a proven strategy, one that the Scottish-born writer has used time and time before.
Add a comment (0)Sunday, August 29, 2010
At summer's end The Last Exorcism squeaks out ahead
The final week of August is the near-last gasp of the summer. Technically there's one more week to go until the school year starts up and the box office can't rely on the free schedules of kids, teens and the college-aged crowd to make money during the mid-week. But even so, a $21.3 million dollar opening for The Last Exorcism is an amazing feat for Lionsgate. The budget for this shocker was reportedly under $2 million dollars (update: Bloody Disgusting says it's more like $8 million.) I'm guessing that the marketing budget must be somewhere between $10 - 15 million so at this point Lionsgate execs are high-fiving each other like The A-Team at the end of a mission.
Add a comment (0)Friday, August 27, 2010
Toy Story 3 crosses the one billion dollar mark
Today Toy Story 3 earned its first ten figure dollar bill, pushing the worldwide take of the film to one billion dollars. The watermark isn't just significant for Disney and Pixar because the movie is now the animation house's highest grossing Pixar film ever but that Toy Story 3 is the second movie released by Disney in 2010 to earn $1 billion at the box office.
Add a comment (0)Thursday, August 26, 2010
Half-Life game creators only want themselves to make the movie
One of the most coveted properties today in gaming is Valve's Half-Life franchise. Released in 1998, this first-person shooter borrowed story elements from The War of the Worlds, Alien and Stephen King's The Mist and to give us not just a strong action gameplay element but an equally as compelling storyline. In the game you play a scientist who tries to halt the invasion of an other dimensional alien force.
Add a comment (1)Marvel's Iron Fist movie gets a writer
News on an interesting development for a Marvel Studios project involving a secondary tier superhero emerged yesterday on Deadline. If you know your comic book roster then the name of Iron Fist should ring a bell. If he doesn't, don't worry so much about it. Like I said, Iron Fist is not a major superhero on the Marvel scene -- but then again, how many of the general public knew that Blade hunted vampires in the Marvel U. before his movie came out?
Add a comment (0)Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Paul Verhoeven tackles Islam, colonial rule, adultery and psychic powers
Paul Verhoeven, that crazy as a fox Dutch director who gave us Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, RoboCop and Arnold Schwarzenegger pulling a tracking device from out of his nose in Total Recall, hasn't given us a movie in four years. He's about to rectify that.
Add a comment (1)Katie Holmes takes a job from Adam Sandler
One of the saddest duties I perform as a writer for Coming Attractions is notifying you of a new Adam Sandler project in development. I don't care if Grown Ups made $150 million dollars domestic; eating McDonald's isn't good for you either. Yet, here we are with a couple of Big Macs.
Add a comment (0)Monday, August 23, 2010
Heaven's Shadow falls upon Warner Bros.
David Goyer is a likeable guy. He's fought his way up from being a writer for shlocky horror movies in the 1990s to a respected producer/director/screenwriter. Not every film he makes is a winner but having credits on Batman Begins and The Dark Knight kinda rounds things out.
Add a comment (0)Piranha sequel in development
When's the last time you saw a movie studio excited about one of its film's making $10 million dollars on its opening weekend? I'm guessing that it may have been a year that began with "19".
Add a comment (1)Ice Age director barks for Monster Dogs
Chris Wedge has been interested in making a movie about Lives of the Monster Dogs for over a decade. Back in 1998, when Kirsten Bakis' book first came out, Wedge read it and thought that it would make for an interesting movie. Now that he's minted in the eyes of Hollywood, he's picked up the screen rights and is developing Monster Dogs under his WedgeWorks production company.
Add a comment (0)Sunday, August 22, 2010
The Expendables secures a second weekend at #1
The second-to-last weekend of August 2010 went down like this:
Add a comment (1)Friday, August 20, 2010
Imaginary Enemies has friends
One day after DreamWorks Animation moves a step forward on one of their gestating projects comes word of another new idea hatching at the studio. Imaginary Enemies is about the creatures that little children once believed in, now come back years later when the youngsters are all grown up and ready to get some revenge for all the acts of trouble they were blamed for back then.
Add a comment (0)Thursday, August 19, 2010
Boo U has Seth Rogen as its pupil
After working with the studio as a supporting player on two past projects, DreamWorks Animation has picked Seth Rogen as the star for Boo U. The 3D 'toon, which is tentatively scheduled for release sometime in 2012 or '13, sees Rogen playing a spirit that is enrolled in a supernatural school for spooks. There his character has to learn better ways to haunt the living. So it's Casper meets Dangerous Minds?
Add a comment (0)Sunday, August 15, 2010
The Expendables wins the box office, Scott Pilgrim bombs
The results of this weekend's box office results are going to be used by movie studios in determining what kind of movies they should make in the coming years. What it shows is that the age of the 80's action star isn't over (as long as you can cram in a dozen of them into a single film); that Julia Roberts feel-good romantic dramas with lovely exotic scenery continue to be good gambles for the late summer berth; and that comic books beloved by a core but small nichel audience don't translate into box office hits.
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It's Ok to laugh at M. Night's Escalation
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Official Trailer: The Walking Dead
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Neil Gaiman's Sandman getting second shot as a TV series
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The Star Trek: The Next Generation that almost was
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Exclusive: Terra Nova pilot script reviewed
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Christina Hendricks, London Fog and Photoshop: not the threesome you had in mind
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Spec'd: Predators
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Half-Life game creators only want themselves to make the movie
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Paul Verhoeven tackles Islam, colonial rule, adultery and psychic powers
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Watch this trailer for Hobo With a Shotgun before you eat