Aug 25
The film adaptation of the book “The Accidental Billionaires” written by Ben Mezrich has finally been given the greenlight from Columbia Pictures. The film, which has been retitled “The Social Network”, like the book is about the creation of Facebook. When I first heard about ‘the Facebook movie’ I groaned and thought it was a …
Aug 20
Variety reports today that Robert Zemeckis is in negotiations with Disney to produce and direct a remake of the psychedelic 1968 cartoon, “Yellow Submarine”. The new film would be rendered in the same MoCap (Motion Capture) CG as Zemeckis’ “The Polar Express”, “Beowulf” and this years “A Christmas Carol”. Now before anyone starts jumping up …
Aug 13
Now here is a film that I didn’t need any more of, “Death Race”. Not the 1070’s original “Death Race 2000” by Paul Bartel (which is a camp Roger Corman cheapie, and kind fun when drunk!), but the Paul WS Anderson 2008 remake (sorry I think it was suppose to be a prequel to the …
Aug 09
Exciting news sweeps the net today as Sources report that Steven Spielberg may have taken the reigns of the Halo films, a reliable source has confirmed that “active negotiations” have begun on the full length feature film. Which is weird because I had thought in my mind that it would have been more of a …
Aug 07
John Hughes, Born on the 18th of February 1950 – Died on the 6th August 2009, he was 59 years old. As a teenager of the 1980’s, John Hughes was the voice of my generation. As a writer he was responsible for the National Lampoon Vacation movies and Mr. Mom amongst many more but it …
Aug 06
Okay, a couple of days ago /Film (click the link to read their story) reported that director Steven Spielberg is directing a remake of the classic Jimmy Stewart film “Harvey”. This is a union made in heaven as far as I am concerned, Spielberg was born to direct this film. Now I am not generally …
