There’s nothing better than a director talking straight up to moviegoers, especially when his or her movie is still in the works. That’s what we have here: A not-yet-published blog post from The Spirit writer-director Frank Miller, on the role CGI plays in moviemaking. (See our recent character posters from The Spirit.)
Miller, a CGI skeptic and huge […]
June 20th, 2008
Categories: Action Movies, Interviews, Movie Previews . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: No Comments
Documentary director David Modigliani is pissed. He’s angry at the American tidal wave of political rhetoric–and the soapbox filmmaking that comes with it.
But Modigliani has actually done something about it. He’s the guy behind Crawford, an entertaining look inside the tiny Texas town the Bushes suddenly called their own. You know when the President talks about “the ranch?” You’d […]
May 22nd, 2008
Categories: Independent Film, Documentaries, Interviews . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 2 Comments
In a practically filter-free interview on The Howard Stern Show, Iron Man director Jon Favreau (below, with Robert Downey, Jr.) said his “heart would be broken” (Howard’s words) if he weren’t locked in for the Iron Man sequel. As Lobby writer Allison reported last week, Favreau’s really the only major Iron Man player not signed […]
May 14th, 2008
Categories: Action Movies, Interviews, Box Office News . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 2 Comments
Here’s another week’s worth of possibly worthless Meet In the Lobby opinions… as spoken on Wes McElroy’s show on WRNL radio last Friday.
TOPICS:
:: Leatherheads Preview and John Krasinski’s Short Filmography
:: Scorsese and The Rolling Stones’ Shine A Light
:: DVD Pick of the Week
Press that play button to check it out. If you’re so inclined, you can listen […]
April 9th, 2008
Categories: New on DVD, Interviews, Movie Previews . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 2 Comments
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 […]
March 18th, 2008
Categories: Interviews, Movie Previews . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 2 Comments
As Oscar-friendly films — No Country for Old Men, Juno, There Will Be Blood — wind their way through theaters this holiday season, here comes blockbuster I Am Legend this weekend. Box-office hero Will Smith stars in this long-awaited sci-fi thriller as the last man on the planet.
After poring through press material, here’s some I Am Legend stuff worth […]
December 12th, 2007
Categories: Movie Posters, Interviews, Science Fiction, Movie Previews, International Cinema . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 9 Comments