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Johnny Depp Talks Sweeney Todd 
Johnny Depp reveals
how disturbing it was to film one scene in his new hit movie, Sweeney Todd.
The 44-year-old actor says that a simple flashback scene in 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' had him and director Tim Burton shaken to their cores. It was when young Sweeney's happy life before he was sent to prison by the judge. Although seemingly normal, the actor and the director who created the movie couldn't stomach it. "I think that was the weirdest thing I ever had to shoot," Depp says in an interview. "[Burton] literally was sobbing. He left the set of his own movie." The 49-year-old director says the melodrama of the scene was too much to bear. "That's when I knew [Depp] was a great actor, because that was terrible. That was so bad."Sweeney Todd has gotten rave reviews from critics and has been nominated for a number of Golden Globe awards. Posted on December 28, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati  Disney's new film Enchanted
laid a spell on moviegoers over the holiday weekend. It topped the box office for the three day weekend, making $35,332,000. The film made $50,048,000 over the five day weekend. In second place was This Christmas which made $18,600,000. In third place was Beowulf, which made $16,240,000. That brings its take so far to $56,361,000.
In fourth place was Fox's Hitman which shook off its terrible reviews to make $13,035,000. In fifth place was Bee Movie, which made another $12,010,000. That brings its total take to date to $112,069,000. Clearly, moviegoers are in a family-friendly frame of mind when it comes to filmgoing. Posted on November 25, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Saw IV Rules the Box Office  Saw IV
topped
the box office this past weekend, making an estimated $32,110,000. That probably ensures the joyous arrival of Saw IV next Halloween. Joy. In second place was Steve Carrell in Dan in Real Life, which made $12,081,000 with a very nice per theater take of $6,288. In third place was 30 Days of Night which made another $6,700,000, bringing its cumulative total to $27,318,000.
In fourth place was The Game Plan, which made another $6,257,000. The film has now grossed $77,067,000 domestically, which is very good news for The Rock. In fifth place is Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married, which made another $5,740,000, bringing its domestic take to $47,300,000. In sixth place was George Clooney in Michael Clayton, which made another $5,030,000. That brings the film's total take to date to $28,774,000. And in seventh place was Gone Baby Gone, starring Casey Affleck and directed by Ben Affleck. In its second week, the film took another $3,900,000, which brings its cumulative to $11,310,000. Posted on October 29, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati 
Sony's 30 Days of Night topped the box office this past weekend, making an estimated $15,951,902. The vampire flick stars Josh Hartnett and Melissa George. In second place was Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married which made another $12,186,011. That brings its gross to $38,950,821. In third place was The Game Plan which made an estimated $8,178,646, bringing its gross to date to a mind-boggling $69,206,626. This means lots more movies for The Rock.
In fourth place was George Clooney in the well-reviewed Michael Clayton, which made another $6,677,272, putting its gross at $21,563,586. In fifth place was The Comebacks, which made an estimated $5,554,594. The Ben Affleck-directed Gone Baby Gone opened in fifth place, with an estimated take of $5,501,406. The excellently-reviewed film opened in only 1,713 theaters and had a per theater take of $3,211. Rendition, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon, really tanked at the box office. It opened in ninth place, with an estimated take of $4,060,012. Posted on October 22, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati A Gruesome Thriller Called Pathology  Below is the movie trailer for a thriller called Pathology that will hit theatres on November 30, 2007. The film stars Milo Ventimiglia - who is best known to many as Peter Petrelli in Heroes. Ventimiglia plays Ted Gray a top ranked med student who gets accepted to a prestigious program called Pathology only to find out that members of the program are playing a creepy game to see who can commit the perfect murder. Given the name of the film and the R-rating it's bound to offer moviegoers some gruesome thrills. Lauren Lee Smith, Alyssa Milano and Johnny Whitworth also star in the movie.
When med school student Ted Gray (Milo Ventimiglia) graduates top of his class he joins one of the nation's most prestigious Pathology programs. With talent and determination Ted is quickly noticed by the program's privileged and elite band of pathology interns who invite him into their crowd. Intrigued by his new friends he begins to uncover secrets he never expected and finds that he has unknowingly become a pawn in their dangerous and secret after-hours game at the morgue of who can commit the perfect undetectable murder. As Ted becomes seduced into their wild extracurricular activities the danger becomes real and he must stay one step ahead of the game before he is the next victim. Posted on September 26, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati  Rob Zombie's remake of the John Carpenter classic horror film Halloween led the box office this past weekend, making an estimated $26,503,000, despite universally withering reviews. In second place was Superbad in its third week, which made an estimated $12,200,000. Balls of Fury, the ping pong comedy which has been trashed by critics, opened in third with a weak $11,604,795. Even Christopher Walken couldn't save that one.
In fourth place was The Bourne Ultimatum which made another $10,183,000, bringing its U.S. tally to date to $199,603,000. Rush Hour 3 made another $8,560,000, bringing its U.S. tally to date to $120,416,000, which is still less than its $140 million budget. It will do well on DVD of course, but the film's totals are lagging behind Rush Hour 1 and 2, making a sequel unlikely at this point. The Kevin Bacon revenge thriller, Death Sentence opened with a dismal $4,180,000. Posted on September 3, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Elisha Cuthbert Talks Captivity  Ryan Stewart of Cinematical
talks
to Elisha Cuthbert about her controversial new horror film, Captivity. The film has been criticized for glorifying torture and for having a gruesome marketing campaign. Elisha talks about doing torture scenes.
RS: When you're doing torture scenes in a film like 'Captivity,' do you need to come to the set every day in a bad mood?We're thinking that the drowning in sand thing would be a huge bummer. That Elisha, she's tough. You can see the billboard that got so many complaints here. You can see the trailer and some 17 and older only videos here. Posted on July 18, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati The Search for the New Elvira  A "casket call" has just
gone out to find the next Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. From the official release:
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, is searching for an evil handmaiden to assist with her Halloween hosting duties on the Fox Reality Original "The Search for the Next Elvira," which debuts on Fox Reality, the only all-reality, all-the-time cable and satellite network, on Saturday, October 13 at 9:00 PM PT / 12:00 AM ET. Natural 9 Entertainment ("Reality Remix," "Fox Reality Really Awards") is producing the series exclusively for Fox Reality.We're not sure how many Elviras we can stand. One seems like more than enough. Although, don't get us wrong. Her film Elvira: Mistress of the Dark really is a camp classic. And can anyone fill her costume quite like the original? We didn't think so. Posted on June 15, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Disturbia stayed atop the weekend box office for the third weekend in a row, making an estimated $9,100,000. That puts the film's total take to date at $52,186,000. In second place was the teen ghost story The Invisible, which made $7,606,000. In third place was Paramount's Next, which stars Nicholas Cage in a paranormal thriller which made $7,200,000. In fourth place was Fracture, which made $7,075,000 in its second week. The Condemned starring "Stone Cold" Steve Austin as a death row inmate who fights for his freedom in a reality TV competition came in ninth, making $4,000,000 in its opening weekend. Also opening this weekend was the Jamie Kennedy comedy, Kickin It Old School which made a mere $2,800,000. Altogether, it was a very slow weekend at the box office: that should all change with the opening of Spider-Man 3 this week. Posted on April 30, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Disturbia Stays Atop Box Office Shia LaBeouf and Disturbia ruled the box office for the second week in a row, beating out two suspense/horror newcomers. The film made an estimated $13,460,000. In second place was Fracture starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. The film made an estiamted $11,175,000. In third place was Blades of Glory, which made another $7,808,000, bringing its total tally to $101,082,000. In fourth place was Vacancy starring Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale trapped in the hotel from hell. It made a disappointing $7,600,000. In fifth place was Meet the Robinsons which made $7,088,000 in its fourth week of release. Hot Fuzz came in sixth because it played in relatively few theaters. It made $5,837,000, but had an impressive $7,075 per theater average. Posted on April 23, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Disturbia Tops the Box Office Disturbia was tops at the box office this past weekend, making an estimated $23,025,000. The horror flick stars Shia LaBeouf, who has just landed a gig in the new Indiana Jones flick. In second place was Blades of Glory, which made an estimated $14,065,000, bringing its total take to a hefty $90,195,000. In third place was Meet the Robinsons in its third week, which made $12,103,000 for a total gross to date of $72,004,000. In fourth place was Sony's Perfect Stranger starring Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, which opened with $11,500,000. The numbers were actually better than they looked, with a $4,321 per screen average take. Sony's comedy Are We Done Yet? came in fifth making $9,200,000. In sixth place was Fox's Pathfinder: Legend of the Ghost Warrior which opened with $4,800,000. Posted on April 16, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Brendon Frasier Signs on for Mummy 3 Brendon Frasier has signed on for the third installment of the Mummy franchise. Alas, Rachel Weisz is not coming back. Brendan Fraser has closed a deal to return in The Mummy 3, but Rachel Weisz is not coming back, Variety reported. Rob Cohen will direct the sequel, which is expected to begin production late in the summer. It will be set in China and will introduce Jet Li as a villain. Universal is planning a summer 2008 release; the franchise has earned more than $830 million worldwide. The Mummy debuted in 1999 and The Mummy Returns in 2001.We think Rachel should change her mind and do the sequel. It's a guaranteed hit and the fans won't like it that she's bailed out. Posted on April 12, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Grindhouse Flops at the Box Office Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse absolutely tanked at the box office this past weekend, coming in fourth with a paltry $11,596,613 in revenues. It was a major disappointment for Tarantino, Rodriguez and the Weinstein Brothers. The winner at the box office this past weekend was Will Ferrell's Blades of Glory, which came in first with $22,522,330, bringing its total to $67,905,237. In second place was Meet the Robinsons, which made $16,715,437. In third place was Are We Done Yet?, which made $14,262,724. Also having a disappointing opening was Hillary Swank's The Reaping, which opened in fourth place with $10,025,203. Harvey Weinstein is so unhappy with the Grindhouse numbers, that he said he's going to re-release the two films separately later this month, which was the plan for the European market. The fact that Grindhouse is a double feature which runs 3 hours limited the number of theaters it could play in, and Weinstein is hoping that the good reviews and plentiful violence will draw in viewers. Posted on April 9, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati M. Night Shyamalan Looks to India for Financing Variety reports that Indian media conglomerate UTV Motion Pictures will help finance M. Night Shyamalan's next film, which is entitled The Happening. The thriller is produced by Fox. UTV confirmed that it will distribute the $57 million-budgeted pic in India and share in worldwide revenues, while Fox distributes worldwide. Fox boarded the pic earlier this month. UTV CEO Ronnie Screwvala, who was introduced to Shyamalan via CAA, flew to Philadelphia prior to Fox's commitment to hammer out a deal with Shyamalan.Shyamalan needs a hit -- The Lady in the Water was a critical and box office disaster. Posted on March 15, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati The Messengers Tops the Box Office Super Bowl weekend is traditionally one of the worse box office weekends of the year, and this year was no exception. In first place was The Messengers, a horror flick where little children see awful things, which made $14,713,321. In second place was the Because I Said So starring Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore, which made $13,122,865, despite absolutely devastatingly bad reviews. In third place was Epic Movie, a spoof of -- you guessed it, epic movies -- which made $8,411,993. In fourth place was the juggernaut Ben Stiller film, Night at the Museum, which made another $6,385,843, putting its domestic gross to date at $225 million. Does this mean that Dick Van Dyke will get offered more film roles? Because we think Ben Stiller should add him to his brat pack, along with Owen Wilson. Posted on February 6, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati John Travolta is Edna Turnblad  No, it's not a Halloween prank, although it is the scariest thing we've seen in long time -- and that includes Saw III. Yes, that's John Travolta in full drag for his upcoming film Hairspray.
Travolta said goodbye to the generously proportioned Edna Turnblad — the same role created by the late Divine in the 1988 John Waters film and by Tony winner Harvey Fierstein in the smash Broadway show. Travolta's version is expected in theaters next summer. "It's good," said the exhausted actor of finally being freed of Edna's cumbersome body. "The effect that I caused is fun and all, but it's a lot of work, man."We'll know he'll do a great job in the role, but still...That photo is deeply disturbing on so many levels. Posted on October 31, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Saw III Terrorizes the Box Office  Saw III scared off the competition this past weekend, making a whopping estimated take of $34,300,000. The Departed came in second with an estimated $9,840,000 and The Prestige made an estimated $9,626,000 in its second week.
The new Brad Pitt/Cate Blanchett film, Babel opened in only seven theaters nationwide and made $366,000: that works out to an amazing $52,285 per theater take. Saw III's blockbuster performance was not a surprise really -- it was the weekend before Halloween, after all. But the Babel numbers show that adults are looking for movies to watch -- and they don't want to see Saw I, II, or III. Posted on October 30, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Spooky Halloween Entertainment  The Washington Times has an article listing TV Guide's choices for the top ten Halloween TV specials of all-time.
Among the list of 10 Halloween specials amassed by TVGuide.com, the typical Halloween fare presented on "Roseanne" was selected, along with "The Office's" second season festive episode and "The Slutty Pumpkin" episode offered in season one by CBS's "How I Met Your Mother."We were glad to see a Buffy made the list. This season the Halloween special with the most buzz has to be The Simpson's "Treehouse of Horror XVII" episode. The episode is schedule for November 5th. You can read more about it in this Canadian Press article. While you wait you can also amuse yourself by playing the Simpon's zombie game. Wikipedia has an article describing the past "Treehouse of Horror" Simpsons specials. TV Guide has also prepared a Halloween TV Hot List for some of the scariest viewing this Halloween. The list includes 100 Scariest Movie Moments Marathon, Scariest Places on Earth and Vampire Secrets. Viewers that love horror films should also keep the FearNet cable network in mind -- it launches on October 31st. In theatres, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and The Grudge 2 are currently playing. Horror fans will also appreciate that Saw III is opening this weekend. If none of those work for you there is always the DVD store -- Slither, An American Haunting, The Omen and Feast are all recent horror releases. Posted on October 26, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati FearNet to Launch October 31st  USA Today reports that Comcast has teamed up with Sony and Lionsgate to new launch a new cable network called FearNet. The new network will debut on October 31st.
FearNet will offer Comcast digital customers horror shorts and trailers and about 70 hours of movies a month from the studios' combined libraries, which include Poltergeist, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Carrie, Ghoulies, Night of the Living Dead, The Howling and the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.The old horror movies should find lots of interest from the target demographic of 18- to 34-year-olds. Horror has been on a roll at the box office climbing 15% in earnings in 2005 after a 78% jump in 2004. In 2006 there seems to be at least one big film in the horror genre released each week. You can see a very short teaser for the channel on the FearNet website. Posted on October 25, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Grudge 2 Tops Box Office  The Grudge 2
won the box office this past weekend with an estimated take of $22,000,000. In second place was The Departed with an estimated box office take of $18,675,000. The Robin Williams comedy, Man of the Year, came in third with an estimated take of $12,550,000.
The Marine came in sixth with $7,000,000, and the Christian-themed film One Night with the King came in ninth with $4,326,000. Overall, grosses for this weekend were up 27% from the same weekend last year. Posted on October 16, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Can The Grudge 2 Win the Box Office?  Sarah Michelle Gellar has been hitting all the talk shows to promote this weekend's The Grudge 2. Although Gellar actually isn't in the movie for very long, she's clearly a draw. And Jennifer Beals has a lovely turn as a frustrated housewife. But this time Amber Tamblyn (of the cancelled Joan of Arcadia) is the star who has a date with the house from hell. And speaking of Joan of Arcadia, we really liked that show until the second season when it totally jumped the shark. Why did the writers put Joan in the mental ward? That infuriated us. But back to the The Grudge 2: we think it has a chance of winning the box office this weekend. Although the reviews have been absolutely horrendous.
Scorcese's The Departed has been holding strong all week and may have excellent box office numbers. Also opening this weekend is the Robin Williams comedy, Man of the Year, and The Marine starring John Cena, which is produced by the WWE. Wrestling fans could give this one good numbers. It's an odd weekend for movies, that's all we can say. Posted on October 13, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati The Covenant Tops Box Office  The Covenant was number one at the
box office this past weekend, with an estimated take of $9,000,000. In second place was Focus Films' Hollywoodland with $6,008,000. Hollywoodland is playing in over 1,000 less theaters than The Convenant, and had a higher per theater take of $3,881 per theater.
Hollywoodland's box office may get a bump from Ben Affleck's surprise win as Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his portrayal of actor George Reeves. Invincible was in third place with $5,784,000, for a total take so far of $45,654,000. The Protector opened in fourth place with an estimated take of $5,032,000. Posted on September 11, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Talledega Nights Holds Off Snakes on a Plane For Box Office Victory Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby fought off stiff competition from Snakes on a Plane to retain the top box office spot this past weekend, making an estimated $14,100,000. Snakes on a Plane came in second with $13,850,000, averaging a nice $3,895 per theater. Oliver Stone's World Trade Center was in third place; to date the film has made $45,005,000. Snakes on a Plane actually opened on Thursday night, so if those totals were counted toward the weekend take, Snakes won the box office with a total take of $15.3 million. Universal's college comedy, Accepted came in fourth with $10,112,000, and the new Hilary Duff film, Material Girls, came in ninth with $4,620,000. Little Miss Sunshine went into wider release and made an estimated $5.7 million while playing at only 691 theaters. There were six films all aimed at the same demographic, which led to the strange, spread-out box office results over the weekend. It will be interesting to see how these films hold up next weekend. Update The final weekend box office numbers came in and it turns out that Snakes on a Plane made just enough to beat out Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby for the #1 spot. Snakes made $13,806,311 to Talledega Nights box office take of $13,755,387. Step Up also earned $10,157,605 which was enough to bump Accepted out of the 4th slot. Posted on August 21, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Snakes on a Plane Ready to Bite Into Box Office 
Today, we we finally see how Snakes on a Plane does at the box office after the amazing Internet buzz the film has enjoyed for the past several months. The film has been widely discussed on blogs and on web forums. The Technorati blog search engine shows over 50,000 blog posts about Snakes on a Plane. Recently, posts have spiked to around 3,000 per day as you can see by the graph on the right. The buzz has also led to the publishing of several books, including Snakes on a Plane: The Guide to the Internet Ssssssensation by David Waldon. There's even Snakes on a Plane jewelry.
If Snakes on the Plane has a big box office score it could mean that fans will get more input on some future films. And it will definitely mean more movie studio executives will be keeping an eye on Internet buzz. The buzz began when Samuel L. Jackson threatened to quit if the studio changed the title of the movie. Even more buzz was generated when screenwriter Josh Friedman suggested a hit line for the film in this post on his blog. A Hollywood Reporter news story cites industry experts who say the film could make between $20 to $30 million. New Line remains confident. The studio is opening the film in 3,555 theaters, the widest release for an R-rated New Line film ever -- 630 more than "Wedding Crashers" last year. Even if it opens at the low end of expectations, most handicappers are confident that "Snakes" will be the top grosser of the frame. Estimates for the $35 million production range from the low-$20 millions to the low-$30 millions.There is no competing horror movie opening this weekend, so Snakes on a Plane should do well. This will confirm what we already know -- that Internet buzz can truly boost a film's performance at the box office. The only downside of Snakes being a box office smash is that we may have to deal with all sorts of "Something on a Something" sequels. You know, Snakes on a Boat, Snakes on a Train, Snakes on Your Bike, Snakes on a Segway. And when they run out of Snakes titles, they could always go for the cute, with Kittens on a Plane. That sounds like a good holiday movie. Posted on August 18, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Night of the Living Dead For Free  On2 Technologies is offering a free online showing of George A. Romero's 1968 horror classic, Night of the Living Dead.
We are proud to announce the first full-length feature movie in Flash 8 video--created with our On2 Flix Pro software, of course!If you like zombies or you just want to check out On2's software you can see the film here. The film quality looks good and the film loads immediately. A good review of Night of the Living Dead can be found here on HouseofHorrors.com. Posted on August 17, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Lady in the Water Sinks At Box Office  M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water didn't fare well at the box office in its opening weekend. It took in only $18,210,000. The film cost $55 million to make, and certainly the studio was expecting a much bigger return. One problem is that the movie is being marketed as a horror film, and it's not. It's a fairy tale that M. Night made up as a bedtime story for his children. Although it has some scary elements, it's certainly no horror film.
Pirates of the Caribbean ruled at the box office again, bringing its total take to date up to $321,733,000. In second place was Sony's animated Monster House, which took in a respectable $23,000,000. You, Me and Dupree showed some staying power, coming in at fourth, putting its total box office take at $45,318,000. It cost $54 million to make, and after DVD sales it will definitely be profitable. Two films that did not fare well on opening weekend were Clerks II ($9,625,000) and My Super Ex-Girlfriend ($8,700,000). Some buzz about My Super Ex-Girlfriend indicates that women do like the two stars of the film but they really dislike the premise of the film: that Uma Thurman's character is basically crazy. A script retooling would have helped here: making the screenplay more of a madcap comedy, perhaps Uma's character finds her fiance in a horribly compromising position (through no fault of his own) so that she has a good reason to get revenge. Hilarious misunderstandings ensue and there's a happy ending as Luke's character is exonerated. But in the current script, she's just overly needy and obnoxious. In fact a lot of women feel the movie is quite misogynistic. Which is a shame, because this film could have been very funny, indeed. Posted on July 24, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Joel Siegal vs. Kevin Smith: The Unhinging  Richard Johnson of Page Six
reports on the feud between Post film critic Joel Siegel and Kevin Smith, director of Clerks and Clerks 2.
Siegel hated Clerks II so much that he walked out of the screening, declaring the film to be "smut." But that wasn't all -- he yelled "Time to Go!" and tried to get the other critics to leave the screening, as well. Smith was not amused. "Time to go!" roared Siegel to his fellow critics. "First movie I've walked out of in 30 [bleeping] years!" His tirade came 40 minutes into the long-awaited Weinstein Company sequel to Smith's 1994 cult classic about two foul-mouthed Long Island convenience store clerks who razz customers and goof off.Yikes. What was Siegel thinking? I mean if the whole donkey thing was so offensive to him, the polite thing to do would have been to quietly start sending furious text messages to PETA. Yelling in the middle of a film is likely to induce another patron to start text messaging Homeland Security about the unhinged nut job who's trying to incite a riot during the film screening of Clerks II. Posted on July 19, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Snakes on a Plane in a Month  In just a little over a month Snakes on a Plane (SoaP) will finally debut in theatres. The film opens on August 18th. The blogosphere has been buzzing about the movie for several months now. AskMen.com has a good overview of the story behind Snakes on a Plane in case you seriously haven't heard of it before. The film's star Samuel Jackson insisted New Line Cinema keep the film's title.
Most films start production with a working title that is eventually changed after the marketing department spends millions of dollars and countless hours conceiving and testing new, usually lamer names. Such was the case with SoaP (as it is known in cheesy Net-shorthand): Snakes on a Plane was originally just one of the temporary titles, and the studio decided to change it to the presumably more marketable Pacific Air Flight 121 after Samuel L. Jackson signed on.The article also explains how a mock trailer created by a fan was responsible for some of the dialogue added to the film. It will be interesting to see how a movie performs after so much Internet publicity. It is probably the first movie to become a cult classic before being released. Defamer and I Watch Stuff have found a poster from the French version of the movie, Des Serpents Dans L'Avion. More information about Snakes on a Plane can be found on the official website, IMDB.com, Wikipedia and the Snakes on a Blog site. Posted on July 12, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Director Uwe Boll Challenges Film Critics To A Duel 
Uwe Boll is widely known as one of the world's worst directors...after all, who else would have cast Tara Reid as an archeologist? And having just come straight from a viewing of BloodRayne on DVD, well, let's just say that his reputation is intact. Here are a few highlights: Ben Kingsley is a vicious vampire who has a climactic fight with Kristanna Loken who is a half-vampire, half-human. This amazing film also starred Lost's Michelle Rodriguez sporting a British accent and lots of black leather, as well as Meat Loaf in drag cavorting with naked women. Sound like fun? It actually was, for the first two-thirds of the film. But, alas, we hit the last third and somehow the movie just kind of trailed off into incoherency. After her big fight, the heroine just sits there with a blank look on her face while we get a seemingly endless flashback of every body part being cut off, while fake blood spurts everywhere. No resolution. No closure. Nothing. For this we have followed the lithesome Lokanna all over medieval Romania?
We apologize if that summary made absolutely no sense. But, believe us, if you see the film, it will. But back to the Duel of the Ages... June 12, 2006 -- Vancouver, BC -- We are proud to announce that Dr.Uwe Boll's Bloodrayne starring Kristanna Loken, Michael Madsen, Matthew Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Sir Ben Kingsley, Will Sanderson, Udo Kier, Meat Loaf, Michael Pare & Billy Zane had a successful release May 23rd., 2006 on DVD in both Canada & USA.We won't be accepting the challenge because we feel fairly sure we'll have a prior engagment for whatever the date of the fight is. We did have one positive thing to say about BloodRayne: Kristanna Loken is in excellent shape. (Hat tip to SKNR.net.) Posted on June 14, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Creepy Omen Box Office Tally Ends in 666  The Omen's 6-6-06 opening resulted in a Tuesday box office record. The creepy Tuesday total even ended in 666. Box Office Mojo reports that The Omen made $12,633,666 at 2,660 theaters. If only it had been 2,666 theaters. That would have been really scary.
The Omen edged out Meet the Fockers by about $4,000 to claim the highest Tuesday gross ever, and the previous Tuesday opening high was Ali, with $10.2 million. Movies generally never open on Tuesdays unless it's around Christmas day, which Ali fell on.The Omen's box office score will probably start to fall now but the marketing strategy clearly helped convince quite a few people to see a scary movie on 6-6-06. BloggersBlog.com has more about what fear of the number 666 is all about. Posted on June 8, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Liev Schrieber And The Curse Of The Omen  SciFi.com
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that the new film, The Omen, may really be cursed.
Liev Schreiber, who stars in the upcoming remake of The Omen, told SCI FI Wire that he had his own encounter with the so-called "Omen curse," which caused him to break a rib during a climactic scene. In the scene, Schreiber's character, Robert Thorn, and a photographer played by David Thewlis are chased through a graveyard by a pair of vicious dogs. "I've always been good with dogs," Schreiber (The Manchurian Candidate) said in an interview.The Omen opens in wide release on -- of course -- 6-6-06. Posted on June 1, 2006 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati |
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