wtf: violence at San Diego Comic Con

I’m sure the rush for seats is always a dangerous game, but seriously? (via 10News.com, a local San Diego TV station): A young man who stabbed another near the eye with a pen Saturday at the Comic-Con convention at the San Diego Convention Center was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, police … more…

wtf: isn’t Daniel Radcliffe a little young to play a lawyer? (also, Hammer Films is still around?)

Big news today from Daniel Radcliffe World. A press release distributed today announced that the Harry Potter star: Daniel Radcliffe will take the lead in The Woman in Black, Hammer Films and Alliance Films hotly anticipated adaptation of Susan Hill’s best-selling novel, it was announced today by Simon Oakes, and Nigel Sinclair of Exclusive and … more…

wtf: daycare sends six-year-olds to an R-rated movie

Um, what? A Texas day care center is facing a state probe over allegations that it took a group of 6-year-olds to see a raunchy R-rated movie in Waco in July. Young Expressions Childcare in the Waco suburb of Bellmead, Texas, is under investigation by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, a spokesman … more…

wtf: ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ done up funny

Just when you think the shamelessness and the senselessness of Hollywood can’t possibly get any shamelesser or senselesser, Variety is there to correct this misapprehension: Paramount has snagged an untitled action/comedy pitch from the scripting team of Will Block and Jake Emanuel for Lorenzo Di Bonaventura to produce. Story is based on the framework from … more…