Here’s why I miss working in the movie industry…and here’s why I don’t. »

I can never get enough of behind-the-scenes film blogs. There’s certainly a delight to be found in reading movie reviews, fanboy rants and all of the latest Hollywood news, but when it comes to the nuts-and-bolts of filmmaking, from the people who are down in the thick of it, I eat it up like a [...]

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This will sound like I have something against Gwyneth Paltrow. And maybe I do, but that’s not my point. »

I’m of conflicting opinions when I look at this nearly terrific Iron Man one-sheet. It truly is a great poster and all the bloggers who were on top of this last week (such as Screen Rant, where I grabbed this one) who pointed out that this has been designed as an old-school Star Wars-looking thing [...]

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Oh boy. Can’t wait. »

Just about on the heels of the last useless superhero movie in development over there in the Hollywood Cine-Crap Machine© comes word from The Hollywood Reporter that Warner Bros. will be giving the live-action treatment to the X-Men wannabes DC Comics series Teen Titans.
The young superheroes, whose “fresh” and “clever” hook was that they were [...]

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A Sub-Mariner story for the 14 people out there who will care about it. »

Of course it shouldn’t be considered “news” that Hollywood will ride the superhero movie trend like a rented pony until the poor beast is dirty, broken and dead. The catalog of superheroes is vast and deep and certainly represents our own brand of modern-day pop culture mythology – but does that mean that every hero, [...]

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Here’s the Fantastic Four…doing fantastically nothing. »

Today Peter at /film is featuring some 45+ photos from the upcoming sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and although the pictures are fine and all of that, they did cause animated question marks to appear above my head.
Now admittedly I never saw the first movie, so maybe this is a silly question. [...]

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Jeff Bridges pulls Burbanked back from the brink. »

A funny thing happened after my last post in which I joked that writing another, completely annoyingly idiotic post, somehow shut down my interest in blogging.
What happened was that my interest in blogging shut down for two weeks. A guy who once trained me for a job in college said to me, “Life is a [...]

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Filmmakers create a Fantasticar, decide not to add The Thing carseat option. »

From USA Today, this is a very cool, if somewhat stagey, picture of the much-ballyhooed Fantasticar from next year’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer sequel:

But where’s The Chiklis?
I understand that his character requires a lot of makeup and setup and perhaps the requirements of photo size and composition might have made it harder [...]

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