Maybe you didn’t pay attention to the recent political satire, Charlie Wilson’s War. (Don’t worry, not too many people did.) Here’s what’s next: War, Inc., scheduled to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival next month. The poster immediately recalls Lord of War with Nicolas Cage — the bullets, I guess — and touts a cast that’s, well, questionable.
Sure, John Cusack […]
2007 brought tons of discussion about the power of movie endings. Now, the buzz around two specific finales has spilled over to their 2008 DVD releases. The first is I Am Legend (see our preview notes on the new ending), just out last Tuesday. The alternate ending we wrote about in December hit online video […]
Our friends at Burbanked created an ingenious trailer highlighting the redundant, regurgitated material coming to theaters in 2008. More Indiana Jones. More Mummy. A new Get Smart. And it got us thinking about just how many sequels and remakes were released in 2007. So we counted. 32. That’s 32 sequels and remakes in one year — […]
Man, Sam Raimi knows how to keep a paycheck coming. The director/producer is going from one mega-franchise (Spider-Man, of course) to another, reviving Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character, with a first film scheduled to begin in 2010. Variety reports that, after his upcoming thriller Drag Me to Hello, Raimi’s on the hook to direct “a series of […]
As many of you know, we talk movies for ten minutes every week with Wes McElroy on WRNL radio (Richmond, VA) – and here’s our latest guest spot.
You can listen live, Friday nights at 6:10pm ET. Or you can just check here each week for our own Meet In the Lobby Radio Rerun.
This week’s show:
:: The best (and […]
We kick off our latest addition to Meet In the Lobby, Trailer Tuesday, with a two-for-one celebration. Here you get two Get Smart trailers, from the 2008 film adaptation of the Mel Brooks / Buck Henry TV series. Steve Carell is Maxwell Smart and, honestly, I can’t think of anyone better for the job. The teaser […]
