trailer break: ‘Green Lantern’
I dunno… there’s an awful lot of CGI in this trailer. Is the whole movie going to be one big cartoon?
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Sanctum 3D (review)
Sanctum is extreme people in extreme danger in an extreme place. In 3D! The good kind of 3D. And both Ioan Gruffudd and Richard Roxburgh take their shirts off. What, you need Shakespeare, too, on top of all that?
question of the day: What vibe do you get off Steven Spielberg’s ‘Terra Nova’?
Somehow I missed the news last spring that Steven Spielberg and some creative folks from Star Trek and 24 were launching one of the most expensive science fiction TV series ever. But now Terra Nova is on the Fox broadcasting schedule — a two-hour preview will air on May 23 and May 24 before the show returns for 13 episodes in the fall of 2011 — and the anticipation (or the dread) is building…
trailer break: ‘Sanctum’
Poor Ioan Gruffudd. He was gonna be such a big star after Horatio Hornblower…
question of the day: Which movie stars are actually overpaid?
Forbes considers Will Ferrell the No. 1 most overpaid star because his movies bring in, on average, “only” more than three times his salary. By the time we get down to No. 10, Jim Carrey, he’s bringing in $8.60 for every dollar he’s paid. How can that be considered overpaid?
tres cool: ‘Errol & Olivia: Ego & Obsession in Golden Era Hollywood’
Olivia de Havilland was 19 and Errol Flynn was 26 when they met doing screen tests for Captain Blood, and the chemistry between them — onscreen and off — was pretty much instant. Their tempestuous relationship encapsulates the heyday of the studio system, as this new book beautifully documents…
Stephen Fry is Mycroft Holmes; Emma Stone is Gwen Stacy; Armie Hammer is NOT the Winklevi (but he kinda is); more: leftover links
Plus, Avatar sex toys, Cory Doctorow on the real cost of free, how the rich buy journalists, and more.
Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D (review)
Paul W.S. Anderson loves him some style without style, texture without substance: this is all white noise, visual static to make the movie pop more in 3D.
‘Toy Story 3’ continues to tear up the British box office
As of this past weekend, *Toy Story 3* has earned almost £59 million in the U.K…
