For over 20 years, filmmaker Todd Solondz has confronted audiences and what they hold true with brutal satires of human interaction and the politeness that convolutes it. His subject matter has probed, often with a sense of humor, taboos like child abuse, rape, and exploitation. His 1998 movie Happiness offered a…
Another firetruck has caught fire in the course of fighting fires, this time en route to a blaze in in Silver Spring, Maryland. "Damage to the building was estimated at $150,000," the Washington Post reports, "and truck damage was put at $200,000."
Because you monsters continue to insist we need these bloated, thinly-plotted blockbusters based on previous blockbusters you liked two decades ago, the latest rumored plot details of the new Jurassic World are definitely not surprising, but absolutely sound dumb.
Robin Williams is set to reprise his role as the granny who can hip-hop, be-bop, dance 'til ya drop, and yo yo, make a wicked cup of cocoa. Yes, a Mrs. Doubtfire sequel is in the works, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The sequel to the silent Christmas classic The Snowman is set to air this Monday, more than 30 years after the original's premiere. The Snowman was nominated for an Academy Award and is broadcast annually throughout Great Britain. Occasionally shown with an incongruous introduction by David Bowie, it tells the…
This is a time of year, you may have noticed, when many people choose to re-watch their favorite movies. It's a comforting tradition, certainly, and I'm very much in favor of watching movies repeatedly in a general sense, but there are times when I find myself wishing some of these classics, hampered as they are by…
Sleeping with the director will not always advance your career: Kristen Stewart has been dropped from the planned Snow White and the Huntsman sequel, presumably because of her very public dalliance with director Rupert Sanders.
At the Expendables 2 panel at Comic-Con yesterday, actor-turned-governor-turned-actor Arnold Schwarzenegger confirmed to the world that the rumored sequel to his 1988 movie Twins is officially on.
According to Tim Burton, Johnny Depp will be playing the role of Jeffrey Jones in the Beetlejuice sequel.
Hollywood Reporter via NYDN: "After months of headaches over stars Bradley Cooper, Zack Galifanakis and Ed Helms' $15 million-plus contract demands, Warner Brothers is nearing a deal" for The Hangover III. Hollywood will not stop until it grinds this franchise into the ground, sucking every last dollar and ounce of…
In the future all movies will either be remakes, reboots, or the millionth sequel of some cartoon or amusement park ride or fairy tale. To prove this sad end of originality, look at the announcement Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman made today.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's team is shopping around yet another Terminator sequel, in which the former governor would reprise his iconic role as a herniated, lactose-intolerant killing-machine on an unstoppable mission to find a chiropractor who accepts his health insurance. [Hollywood Reporter]
In 1997, Pacific Gas & Electric paid $333 million in settlements to residents of Hinkley, California over groundwater laced with cancer-causing chromium. Today, the same town from Erin Brockovich is under threat from a "plume" of chromium in the groundwater.
Warm up your catch-phrases, guys: A new Bill and Ted may be unleashed in the near future. Both Alex Winter ("Bill") and Keanu Reeves ("Ted") have expressed interest in a third film, and a script is in development!
The revolution truly eats its children in the new media world. One day you're the harbinger of a new era; the next day you're desperately trying to cling to the some other harbinger's coattails.
To be honest, it's Friday and I'm not sure I can do justice to the whole saga. (If you want to catch up, reading through his tag page will be educational.) So suffice it to say that he sought out to capitalize on his reputation as a misogynist and lothario, this site pretty much cemented it, which was hilarious to…
Sad news: on a day that has already seen the ignominious shitcanning of Hollywood's best "cyborg dinosaurs rescue kidnapped children" franchise, word has emerged that screenwriter Eric Roth has quietly buried his unnecessary script for Forrest Gump 2 out by the old oak tree. While promoting The Curious Case of…
While regular Nikki Finke readers know she don't do geek, you'd be forgiven for assuming from today's column that she occasionally dabbles in dweeb: Watch as she churns a Spidey Wiki's worth of Peter Parker biographical material cross-referenced with the latest villain indexes into the mother of all Spider-Man 4…
George Lucas is still traumatized by the sullen faces of Star Wars fans who filed out of the first preview screenings of The Phantom Menace, and, spotting its jittery director standing by the exit, spit, "You ruined Christmas, my childhood, and Life Day!" before whipping their crumpled comments cards at his head. So…
