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 [...]

ring-ring. ring-ring.
“Hello, this is Walter Koenig calling. Is Warren available? Yes, of course.”
“Hi, Warren. Yeah, great. Listen, I appreciate all the press notices I’m getting for agreeing to stand in as George’s best man at his gay wedding - ”
“That’s okay, it’s his event, he’s the bride - ”
“No I didn’t.”
“Anyway, what I was wondering [...]

Of course a lot is being said and written about the passing of comic actor Harvey Korman at the age of 81. And from what I’ve seen so far, much of the movie bloggers’ tributes rightly focus on Korman’s terrific turn as Hedley Lamarr in Mel Brooks’ classic Blazing Saddles.
But as it happened, I never [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Hollywood, May 2, 2008
With the June 18 release date for his upcoming blockbuster geo-eco-thriller The Happening, writer-director-actor M. Night Shyamalan is preparing to engage film lovers all over the world in an entirely new, immersive moviegoing experience! Hollywood is abuzz with the introduction of:
The M. Night Shyamalan MEoh™!
Let’s hear the details straight [...]

Last time when I wrote about character actor John Getz and the critical role he played in one of David Cronenberg’s classic gross-out scenes, I approached it from the standpoint that Getz had an everyday kind of face in an industry filled with extraordinary-looking people. My thought at the time was that, while the faces [...]