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I’m being facetious, of course. I’m sort of surprised that an actor getting angry on a movie set is news at all, but there we are. McG, director of the new Terminator movie during the shooting of which Bale went off on a tirade, defended the actor at Comic Con in New York this weekend: … more…
I’m in London at the moment, and I hope to get the chance to go to a movie here. Though to be honest, it’s low on my list of priorites. Talking to people here about movies is high on the list, but it does seem kind of silly of waste precious hours here on a … more…
The new martial-arts movie Chocolate is being promoted, in part, by gleeful announcements that “no wires” and “no stunt doubles” were used. (You can see that in the trailer.) And the end credits of the film run over a montage of some of the many injuries the fighters incurred in the course of making the … more…
It’s always an evening of surprises at the Oscars, of course, but I’m not talking about dark horses coming from behind to snag a little golden guy or some chick tripping over her gown in her four-inch heels as she climbs to the podium. I’m talking about this: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Oscar organizers on … more…
Fans of the anime series Avatar: The Last Airbender are up in arms over the casting of the live-action movie adaptation, being directed by M. Night Shyamalan and scheduled for release in 2010: not one member of the cast is Asian or Inuit, as the setting and ethos of the original series suggests they should … more…
As BBC News noted this weekend, the recent films The Reader and Valkyrie have raised some questions about how accents should be handled on film, particularly by how these two films handle the same matter very differently. In The Reader, German characters who are supposedly speaking German to one another speak English with German accents. … more…
The continued transition of the Chronicles of Narnia book series to the big screen seemed in doubt lately as Disney gave up the films last month, citing budget issues. But now we’re hearing that 20th Century Fox has snapped up the fantasy franchise with an eye toward releasing The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in … more…
It’s the only secular holiday we have in the U.S. that is absolutely guaranteed to fall on a weekend: Super Bowl Sunday. And any excuse for a party, right? Yesterday I overheard someone being invited to a party on Sunday, and responding: “I don’t really like football.” And the inviter replied: “What does a Super … more…
A nationwide transition to digital TV broadcasting, which was scheduled to occur on February 17, looks likely to be postponed to June 12, if a bill that passed the Senate on Monday gets through the House today. Some locales have already switched over, though, and even if the delay to June 12 is approved, it … more…
Yesterday, former New York Times Hollywood correspondent Sharon Waxman launched her new site, The Wrap, which will feature, we’re told, “authoritative original reporting, curated news from around the globe, and exclusive contributions from insiders in the entertainment industry.” The site’s about-us page includes this: “Our aim is to create the premiere news and information site … more…
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