question of the day: How much is too much to spend on producing a movie?
Disney shuts down production on The Lone Ranger over budget concerns even though it seems like a sure thing. Have we finally hit a ceiling on production costs?
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The Help (trailer)
The film is not the sort of happy, silly Southern froth this trailer makes it out to be.
John Carter (trailer)
Shhh! Don’t say John Carter of Mars! He’s not of Mars, okay?
Winnie the Pooh (review)
Oh, it’s more of the same old crap we’re feeding our kids these days: Gratuitious destruction of the English language. Partial ursine nudity. Hunny abuse.
David Tennant ‘Fright Night’ poster (for real this time)
Have a good long hard drool. Watch out for the keyboard.
Brave (teaser trailer)
A girl heroine! In a Disney movie! And she’s not a princess! (Well, she is, in fact. *grumble*)
Maria Shriver leaked Arnie’s shame; Alan Rickman’s awesome open letter to J.K. Rowling; Disney abandons ‘Seal Team 6’ trademark; more: leftover links
Plus: Pirates of the Caribbean for Dummies; The Hangover and the rise of the jokeless comedy; HuffPo employees fleeing…
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (review)
I’ve listened to my fellow critics snarking on the film’s many many faults and I’ve laughed, but only at myself, because they’re not wrong and yet still it doesn’t change the fact that I really had a lot of fun with this movie.
Facebook smears Google; Disney trademarks “Seal Team 6”; men made ‘Bridesmaids’ suck; more: leftover links
Plus: Johnny Depp can’t see his own 3D POTC movie; Woody Allen sorta down on his own movies; why did Mel Gibson’s The Beaver flop?
Disney is very concerned that you don’t mistake that fake ‘Fright Night’ David Tennant poster for the real thing
Don’t be thinking the coolness of that poster is in any way the doing of Disney…
