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Stuff You Need to Know, Saturday, September 6, 2008
A George Washington biopic is in the works to be scribed by Nicholas Meyer. Meyer is best known around these parts for helming both the excellent time travel pic Time After Time and some flick called...
A Brief History of "Ghostbusters 3"
With word that Columbia is actually actively looking at Ghostbusters 3 again, it seemed like a good reason to take a look at the long, slow process of nothing that the sequel has been shambling throug...
Special Edition: Make the Bad Men Stop 2008
For this episode, join us as we have our annual "Make the Bad Men Stop" panel at DragonCon, hosted by the X-Track. It was a Monday morning at 10am. What the hell was that about? In attendance for th...
RIP: Don LaFontaine
Don LaFontaine, probably one of the most recognized voices that belong to a person that most people couldn't name and simply referred to as "You know, that guy" (ranking up there with the likes of Pau...
Stuff You Need to Know, Thursday, September 4, 2008
Fox and MGM are creating a boxed set for...well, I'm not sure who the target audience is. It's their fifty best known musicals in a sixty-one disc set called The Hollywood Musicals Collection that is...
Stuff You Need to Know, Monday, September 1, 2008
The teenage years of John Lennon are going to be the subject of Nowhere Boy, directed by Sam Taylor-Wood. The film "follows Lennon through his formative years growing up in Liverpool, the tense relat...
Stuff You Need to Know, Thursday, August 28, 2008
Chemical Wedding is the biopic of Aleister Crowley. And it's written by Bruce Dickinson, former frontman for Iron Maiden. And it's starring Simon Callow as Crowley. According to the IMDB, Julian Do...
Macaulay Culkin is Robert Neville
I have nothing against Will Smith. I think he should try out for the part of Neville if they ever decide to actually make an I Am Legend movie. But this here looks like a great movie... Direct link...
Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind - Adverse Video Review
Sammo Hung Kam-bo + Chinese Ghouls + Voodoo + a Murder plot + a bet gone wrong + kung-fu + pranks = Awesomeness for all ages. Golden Harvest Productions has done it again! This kung fu comedy brings n...
Stuff You Need to Know, Friday, August 22, 2008
Some sites will write 500 words to tell you that somebody's directing some film. The actual information you need to know can usually be given in one-tenth that amount. We boil it down for you to sav...
RIP: Julius Carry
Julius Carry--aka The Shogun of Harlem, famed villain of The Last Dragon and the baddest mo-fo, low-down, around this town--has died of pancreatic cancer at age 56. Donations in his memory can be sen...
Stuff You Need to Know, Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Amazon is having a 45% off sale on coffee makers of the single server, espresso and drip varieties. Find that here. Source: Dealhack. Interesting. Guillermo Del Toro and Peter Jackson were looking ...
Your Monday Morning Mental Sorbet: Sammo Hung And His Bag
For this morning's whacked out video, we present what is, quite possibly, the best fu trailer of all time. And we do not make that claim lightly. This is Sammo Hung starring in Spooky Encounters, ak...
Wanted (2008) - Movie Review
Written by: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas and Chris Morgan, based on a story by Brandt and Haas, which was in turn based on the comic book by Mark Millar and J.G. JonesDirected by: Timur BekmambetovStarr...
Stuff You Need to Know, Saturday, August 16, 2008
For the eco-minded among you, be aware that Amazon now has a Green section where they sell everything from lighting to paper products to computer monitors. Be sure and check it out. Banner is below....
Win Righteous Kill Swag!
Righteous Kill is coming, and for once we've got Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro appearing on screen together and on the same side of the law. It sounds good to me: Pacino, DeNiro, badges and guns vs. a ...
Raising Arizona: It's a Way Homer
So I went to go find the "Why do you say you feel...trapped in a man's body?" bit and stumbled across the whole film. So how can I not post it? Be aware there are ads in this, but hey, it's Raising ...
Stuff You Need to Know, Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Witches of Eastwick: The Series. Okay, sure. So it's like an older, wiser Charmed? Maggie Friedman, scribe for Dawson's Creek, will scribe here as well. Apparently NBC has a pilot in 1992 for one ...
RIP: George Furth
George Furth, character actor and playwright, has died at age 75. Cause of death is unreported at the moment. The playwright portion of his career I knew about, of course, but just never connected (f...
Win a Signed Tropic Thunder Poster!
We are just about to get hit with Tropic Thunder, the film that I hope delivers on its promise of ridiculous mayhem. And Paramount has set aside two movie posters from the film. You can win them. A...
Stuff You Need to Know, Monday, August 11, 2008
I know a lot of you have a tremendous love for The Big Lebowski. I'm not one of you. I know, I know, but if we agreed on everything then you'd be the one in therapy and not me. But then again, if y...
Win The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made (the book, not the movies themselves)!
Many moons ago I reviewed the original version of this book, out from Titan. Now they're reissuing the book in a revised edition. This book is fascinating. If you want to read about how Dali almost...
Stuff You Need to Know, Sunday, August 10, 2008
Why spend your time reading press releases hopped up as features? We run the stuff through a juicer so you can get your 100% RDA of pop culture updates in less time. It that should surprise no one t...
Drona, Krrish and Rajni
io9 clues us into another Bollywood super-hero movie, to tide us over until Shah Rukh Khan does his Spider-Man bit. I have no idea from watching this trailer WTF is happening but I do know that there...
RIP: Bernie Mac
Bernie Mac passed away today due to complications from his bout with pneumonia. "I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy. I decided to try to make other people laugh when there wasn't a l...
The Fly: The Opera
No, I'm not kidding. I had no idea this was going on until I saw this article in Variety talking about how movies are being translated to Broadway and now they're being translated to the opera stage....
James Cameron's "Avatar," Fourteen Years in the Making
When I started at Corona's Coming Attractions, around 1997 or so, there were a number of pages that predated me getting there. One was Cameron's Avatar. And before the site went away, that page was ...
Stuff You Need to Know, Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Christopher Knight, formerly Peter Brady of the original Bunch is going to host the syndicated of the new Trivial Pursuit: America Plays TV game show. It starts September 22nd. Previously there was ...
Stuff You Need to Know, Monday, August 4, 2008
Bioshock is being made into a film, with a script by John Logan (Gladiator) and Gore Verbinski (Pirates) at the helm. The game's sequel, set for 2009, should come out before this film. Anybody got t...
Good News: Morgan Freeman Going To Be Okay
Morgan Freeman's publicist released the following and since I've seen everything from "serious condition" (although broken bones to me is serious enough, no doubt) to a YouTube RIP memorial for the gu...