Finally, some good news coming out of Hollywood! I just read today that a revolutionary new technology has been created to help moviegoers stop feeling so bad about spending money for substandard product at the theater. You know I’m a big fan of spending my movie money wisely, so I just had to share this [...]

Hollywood has reacted quickly to the worldwide blockbuster weekend success of Get Smart with a huge announcement that Sony has secured the remake rights to classic TV skein Happy Days. John Davis of Davis Entertainment (Daddy Day Camp, Norbit, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, Fat Albert) will produce for Sony who will distrib after [...]

Hi, Sharon Stone. It’s me, Burbanked. I figured, as a fellow western Pennsylvanian and an accredited member of the burgeoning Pittsburgh film bloggers community, I would take the initiative to reach out and bestow upon you the kind of true kindness that only kind people can give so freely and kindly.
Sharon Stone, it’s time for [...]

Absolutely go visit the Dads in Media Blog-a-thon going on throughout the weekend over at RC’s terrific Strange Culture site. Plenty of fatherly advice, classic cinematic dad remembrances and more to be found there!
It’s impossible to separate the practice of fatherhood from the frequent and consistent dispensing of advice. Every day I make a [...]

As I’ve mentioned and speculated again, writer-director Frank Darabont’s rejected Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods draft has reached near-mythic heights of speculation around the bloguverse over the last year or so by fanboys such as myself who wondered why Lucas rejected it and what would come of the final product.
Of course, now [...]

If the old adage is true that there are no original ideas in Hollywood, then it would certainly follow that there are no original marketing ideas, either. A good friend of mine who happens to be something of a TV game show expert (and just try to convince me that we don’t need more of [...]

I’m sort of amazed by the fact that a lot of movie sites are featuring this new trailer for the Angelina Jolie/James McAvoy actioner Wanted without offering comment on its many, seemingly directly influenced, The Matrix-like story elements. And when they do mention it, they often come across like the comparison is a positive thing. [...]