‘Hobbit’ films gets titles, release dates
Letting the squeeing commence. Only 18 months to wait!
MGM
does Hollywood have a new formula?; James Franco and ‘Twilight’?; the 11-year-old movie critic; more: leftover links
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question of the day: Is James Bond dead?
*Entertainment Weekly* is suggesting, in its latest issue, that the Bond franchise may be dead…
question of the day: What if Christopher Nolan took over the James Bond franchise?
I haven’t seen Inception yet — I’ll see it tonight — but I’m even more intrigued to hear writer-director Christopher Nolan say this about the film (to BBC News): The Bond influence on the film was very intentional because, for me, growing up with the Bond films – they’ve always stood for grand-scale action… for … more…
question of the day: Now that Guillermo Del Toro has departed from the project, who should direct ‘The Hobbit’?
It was only this past Friday when learned that the Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit was stuck in preproduction limbo because of the disintegration of MGM, which holds some of the rights to the project. But all indications were that director Guillermo Del Toro was ready to go ahead as soon as the … more…
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Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
