This weekend’s box office take on the soaringly popular James Cameron directed Avatar came to an “estimated $68.3 million in the States during it’s third weekend out, destroying the previous record of $45 million set by Spider-Man 3.” Astonishingly, “This weekend’s box office total of $68.3 million will be almost $30 million larger than the all-time [...]
Actor Nicholas Cage has “lost two homes in New Orleans worth a total of $6.8 million in a foreclosure auction Thursday…Birmingham, Ala.-based Regions Bank purchased (one of) Cage’s (homes)…(in New Orleans) French Quarter appraised at $3.5 million for $2.3 million. For the second home, the Bank “paid $2.2 million for Cage’s 2523 Pataniya Street property [...]
In an unsurprising piece of news, director Kenny Ortega’s posthumous Michael Jackson documentary Michael Jackson’s This Is It had a sensational gross over the first five days of its release. The film became “…the highest-grossing concert film worldwide” in the five days since its release. The $101 million dollar worldwide gross pushed the film well [...]
The venerable Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise “has acquired the global rights to the property from the Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment.” ”The global intellectual property rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… cost $60 million.” Nickolodeon already has plans for the newly acquired property: the company’s “sister company Paramount will steer a new [...]
At long last, the cult series Millenium may be paying a visit to the big screen. The show was one of the darkest series in both subject matter and texture to ever grace television screens. It was very stylized, with a neo-gothic colour palette. Key to the series was Lance Henriksen, who starred as Frank [...]
“Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz and his co-executive producer James Vallely are working on a screenplay for the long-debated feature version of their short-lived Fox series…Hurwitz would also direct the Fox Searchlight feature.”
The groundbreaking series launched the career of future Juno star Michael Cera (a newcomer at that point) as well as making a [...]
Mike Judge’s slacker cartoon characters Beavis and Butthead (whom he voiced, in the MTV show he also created) appear in a trailer called “Film Forum with Beavis and Butthead.” It promotes Mike Judge’s new film Extract starring, among others, Jason Bateman and Mila Kunis. In the trailer, Beavis and Butthead are parodying the stiff and [...]
Harry Knowles from Aint It Cool News, every film geek’s favourite purveyor of movie gossip, has reported that “The THIRD chapter of Christopher Nolan’s Caped Crusader’s saga could very well be FULLY shot in IMAX, not IMAX Digital – but the beautiful, stunning IMAX that we saw pieces of THE DARK KNIGHT in.” Knowles acknowledges [...]
Variety reports: “Disney and director Robert Zemeckis are negotiating to remake Yellow Submarine, the 1968 psychedelic animated film based on the music of The Beatles… The studio has been quietly brokering a complicated rights deal that would give Zemeckis access to 16 original Beatles songs for a movie he will direct in the performance-capture 3-D [...]
According to Page Six, a documentary surrounding the life of reggae groundbreaker Bob Marley entitled Marley has allegedly lost Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme. He is the second major director to leave the project; apparently Martin Scorsese “dropped out of the project citing ’scheduling conflicts,’ and Demme was brought on to replace him.” [...]
One of the foremost comedy writer/directors of the last 25 years has died. John Hughes, creator of such teen comedies as Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, and his opus, the terrific The Breakfast Club died of a heart attack at the age of 59. He almost single-handedly defined the concept of “teen comedy” as we [...]
MJ Documentary?
The King of Pop continues to be incredibly lucrative, even in death. The latest posthumous venture concerns the “…rights to the approximately 80 hours of high-definition, full dress rehearsal footage captured by AEG Entertainment, the company behind Jackson’s concert series.” It’s the rehearsal footage for the “This Is It” series of 50 live shows [...]
New cast in Kervorkian film:
The cast of the new film about the high profile doctor, Dr. Jack Kervorkian, who fought “…to establish the right to die for terminally ill patients…” has announced an expansion of its cast. The made-for-TV film is entitled “You Don’t Know Jack,” and it will be directed by Barry Levinson. As [...]
Awkward Kissing on Harry Potter set
Emma Watson (“Harry Potter’s Hermione) recently commented that “…in a new interview on the BBC’s “Friday Night with Jonathan Ross,” the 19-year-old revealed kissing Rupert (Grint), who plays teen wizard Ron Weasley, was just about the most uncomfortable filming experience she’s had in her career so far.” Emma commented: “We [...]
