Coen Brothers’ BURN AFTER READING Red Band Trailer

Here’s the latest from Focus Features: The just-released red band trailer for Burn After Reading, the next film from our current heroes, The Coen Brothers.

As you can tell, the Coens head back to comedy territory with Burn After Reading — albeit their unique, awkward yet refined, disturbed sense of comedy. The cast is so good, […]

It’s Official: Hollywood Is Out of Ideas

Two of today’s news items are sure signs there may be nothing creative or unique to ever again come from a big studio.
:: 1. Paramount has set Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills Cop IV into motion, with Brett Ratner directing
:: 2. Michael Bay will direct a film version of Ouija Board. Yes, as in the Hasbro board “game” that made us […]

Free DVD Giveaway: CASSANDRA’S DREAM

THIS CONTEST HAS NOW ENDED. We’re accepting all entries that were posted by the 5pm deadline, and will select a winner some time this week. If you entered, thanks for participating and good luck!
One of the first news items we covered here at The Lobby was the Weinsteins’ acquisition of Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream. So […]

HBO Adds Alexander Payne, Alan Ball

Hot on the heels of their newest movie, Recount, HBO is collecting some top-flight talent to stop the sliding viewership. And possibly quiet the closed-minded masses who think the network sucks since the conclusion of The Sopranos…
:: Writer-director Alexander Payne, Oscar winner for Sideways, will develop a new series called Hung. It’s about a guy who’s, well, […]

Trailer Tuesday: TRUMBO

First, we previewed the documentary Trumbo with a revealing poster of the blacklisted writer chilling out in his bathtub. Today we have the film’s trailer, courtesy our friends at Samuel Goldwyn Films.

You can catch Trumbo in theaters beginning June 27.
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Review: RECOUNT

While Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama fight tooth-and-nail for every last delegate, HBO’s Recount relives George W. Bush and Al Gore doing much of the same in Florida– with the 2000 Presidency up for grabs and an election process in question.
Oh, who are we kidding? By the time director Jay Roach (Austin Powers trilogy, Meet the Parents) wraps this entertaining […]