Whilst enjoying myself at the cinema last night, I got to see the trailer for Gus Van Sant’s upcoming biopic Milk starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and others. I’m not a huge fan of Van Sant (or Penn for that matter), although it’s a terrific trailer and the movie looks like decent Oscar-bait.

But the extraordinary [...]

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 [...]

If you’re a movie fan or movie blogger, you probably know John August’s great screenwriting site. He provides deep insight into the movie industry, the development process, the studio system and a lot more. Personally, I wish he’d write more posts in which he provides alternative answers to the insipid questions posted to Parade magazine, [...]

The bullet-train of hype for next year’s Transformers movie has cranked to life again today, in the form of a Yahoo! webcast in which the movie’s screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman will be on hand to announce the names of the robots who will appear in the film.
Certainly this is good news for fans [...]

So what do you think, those links are just going to take themselves out? Now you just march yourself down there and do it like your mom told you to, or I’ll give you something to cry about. Don’t you roll your eyes at me!
From Bulletproof Bracelets, this is among the most unintentionally odd [...]

We suppose that if Satan/Azazel/Lucifer/Pazuzu/Nergal/Thanatos/Crimson King/Chernobog were to actually rain down destruction, misery and pestilence on humanity, it probably would be on a day like today – when all of us were too jaded by the silliness of Hollywood movie marketing to take any of it very seriously.
Nevertheless, the power of 20th Century Fox compels [...]