My humiliation lasted longer than Six Days, Seven Nights. »

Is there a movie that you would simply delete from history if you could? Just travel back in time, knock off the screenwriter and then watch the movie’s IMDB page fade away into the space-time continuum?
We’ve all got these, right? Historically speaking, we’d all have been better off if some movies just didn’t exist. [...]

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WB and the man in the red reboots. »

I just want to make sure I’ve got this straight: Just two years ago, Warner Bros. gave us Superman Returns, a reboot of a dead franchise. Now in 2010, according to a number of sites, the studio will reboot the franchise again because the last one “didn’t quite work as a film in the way [...]

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The Dark Knight of Burbank, Part II: An Obsession Revealed! »

I woke up just after 4:30 am on January 17th, 1994, on the floor of the one bedroom in my Burbank one-bedroom apartment. This was not the result of the previous night’s drunken binging or Hollywood partying with producers, starlets and celebrities, but rather a function of the rather sizable earthquake that had hit the [...]

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The Dark Knight of Burbank, Part I: Fear of the Outsider. »

I’m pretty sure I’m in the minority on this one, but Burbank, California, is the most fascinating place I’ve lived in. What I truly loved about it was the way that it sits in the middle of about half of all the major moviemaking studios in L.A.; it’s seemingly the cradle of a one-industry town’s [...]

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There he goes. There goes Speed Racer. »

What a bummer.

“But then they proceed to vomit out a movie so thoroughly incomprehensible and complicated that it can do nothing but bore/ alienate/ lobotomize kids everywhere. I will not attempt to summarize it simply because it cannot be understood. I defy anyone to completely explain this film that isn’t either the Wachowski Brothers or [...]

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The Dark Knight is all about the chaos, baby. »

This is all the convincing I need that Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan have absolutely figured out how to bring innovation and excitement back to the way movies are marketed. Please go ahead and click on that one-sheet; make it bigger, drink in that red and orange fire, read that frigging great tagline again. Then [...]

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Giving hope to those Freddy Vs. The Dark Knight rumors. »

Time Warner is expected to announce that New Line Cinema will soon become a part of Warner Bros. /film looks like the first site to run this news, including a letter to employees from New Line bigwigs Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne. Really, though, New Liners shouldn’t fear for their jobs; if the studio is [...]

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