General movie news
Dec 01
Empire has been bringing us really good coverage of the new Wolverine film. As part of its Wolverine coverage in the magazine’s new issue, Empire has debuted this first official photo of Taylor Kitsch (“Friday Night Lights”) as Gambit. He isn’t quite how I saw Gambit but I will keep a very open mind because …
Nov 29
Baz Luhrmann’s wannabe epic Australia has tanked on its first day at the US Box Office. According to news.com.au, Variety and the Herald Sun, the film made $3.4 million on its first day (Thanksgiving). This works out to an average of $1318 per screen. Compare this to Twilight’s takings of an average $35.055 per screen …
Nov 27
Empire magazine has revealed some new shots (including the cover) from “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”. Forget the movie “Australia,” Hugh Jackman was born to play Wolverine! He had this to say about the new film, “There’s a scene in the first X-Men movie, where Wolverine’s introduced in a bar, fighting in a cage, and you felt that …
Nov 27
Geeks of the world unite! Battlestar Galactica is almost back. As we discussed on this weeks podcast (episode 16), SCI FI Channel has revealed a new promo for the second (and final) part of the fourth season for “Battlestar Galactica.” The season continues January 16, 2009. As everyone knows, the series is going to go …
Nov 21
According to AAP (Australian Associated Press) and reported in the The Sydney Morning Herald and News.com.au, Baz Luhrmann’s (want to be) epic film “Australia” may suffer by the casting of Nicole Kidman. The choice of actress has been savaged by British newspaper columnist Melanie Reid (The Times). She describes the casting of Kidman as a …
Nov 21
For those of you that are of my generation, you are all familiar with Astro Boy. Well, he is hitting the big screen in 2009. I feel better about this than I did Speed Racer because at least the creators of Astro Boy have gone the straight CG route instead of trying to make a …
