Browsing Month May, 2008
Coen Brothers’ BURN AFTER READING Red Band Trailer
By Norm Schrager at May 30, 2008 | 9:42 pm | 1 Comments
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 almost unbelievable, but that more...
It’s Official: Hollywood Is Out of Ideas
By Norm Schrager at May 29, 2008 | 12:50 pm | 0 Comment
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 all seance artists as kids. Of more...
Free DVD Giveaway: CASSANDRA’S DREAM
By Norm Schrager at May 28, 2008 | 9:51 pm | 205 Comments
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 we're excited, one year later, to offer a more...
HBO Adds Alexander Payne, Alan Ball
By Norm Schrager at May 28, 2008 | 12:35 pm | 1 Comments
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, more...
