Archive for April, 2008
Paramount is so Blu
PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT’S FANTASTICAL HIT THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES LAUNCHES DAY-AND-DATE WORLDWIDE ON BLU-RAY There Will Be Blood, Cloverfield, Bee Movie, Face/Off and Next Also Released in Time for Memorial Day and Father’s Day; Focus Remains On Immersive High-Def Home Entertainment Experiences LOS ANGELES (April 29, 2008) – Paramount Home
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Blu-ray fumbles after winning format wars
Hot on the heels of last week’s report from ABI Research noting that many consumers may not see the picture quality difference between Blu-ray and standard DVDs comes the latest Blu-ray sales figures from NPD Group. And they’re not pretty. According to NPD, sales of Blu-ray standalone players plummeted
Details on Seth Rogan’s the Green Hornet
Most of you will know, the pair has been working on superhero-update The Green Hornet, but Goldberg let us in on what fans can expect from next year’s superhero movie, “We decided to make it before he was the Green Hornet, when they [the Green Hornet and his sidekick Kato] had to work out their partnership.
Sir Ian on Tolkien… and Magneto
“Yes, it’s true,” he said. “I spoke to Guillermo in the very room that Peter Jackson offered me the part and he confirmed that I would be reprising the role. Obviously, it’s not a part that you turn down, I loved playing Gandalf.” “We talk occasionally and he’s looking forward to coming
Brad & Angelina go to France
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie returned with their soon-to-expand brood to France on Monday evening for what a source tells PEOPLE will be a “a stay of long duration.” The couple, their four children, two nannies and three bodyguards arrived in a private Gulfstream jet at Nice and drove to
The Uma Thurman & Kubrick movie that never was
“I was going to make a film with him — for a long time I was scheduled to make a film with him,” she said of “Wartime Lies,” a movie she was signed on to make with Kubrick in the early 90s. “I was contracted to do it and things happened and he shelved the film. He never made the film.” The
The latest Plan B for Brad Pitt
Paramount Pictures and Plan B have acquired pic rights to the David Sheff memoir “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction” and the Nic Sheff memoir “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines.” Studio and producer will use the recently published books
Diddle Diablo’s Twitter
Oscar winner Diablo Cody is exposing her Twitter to all: I strung Christmas lights on my gate so the Pizza Hut guy could find me more easily. True story. about 6 hours ago from txt Now he’s face-fucking one of my Vans. He likes the smell. about 9 hours
Michael Eisner and Robin Cook think small
Not only is the budget, cast and crew bigger this time, but “Foreign Body” is also tied in to the launch of a book of the same name by bestselling author Robin Cook, the author of “Coma,” who is a sort of don of medical thriller writers. Cook supplied a story outline and Big F
J.D. Salinger hated Raiders of the Lost Ark
In the letter, written to his lover Janet Eagleson, J.D. Salinger says: “Have seen no good movies, except The Last Metro…I got hooked into seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark, which might be excused for its unwitty, unfunny awful socko-ness if it had been put together by Harvard Lampoon seniors” Bid,
Jonah Hill in Talks for Transformers 2
Jonah Hill is in early negotiations to co-star opposite Shia LaBeouf in Transformers 2 for Dreamworks and Paramount. Hill (Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) will provide the comic relief as a sidekick to Shia’s Sam Witwicky. (A source tells EW.com that he’ll play Sam’s college roommate,
Phillip Noyce wants ‘Money’
Phillip Noyce is in negotiations to direct “The Art of Making Money,” a DreamWorks project about a notorious counterfeiter who printed more than $10 million in fake bills. The DreamWorks project centers on Art Williams, the alias of an audacious Chicago counterfeiter who printed fake $100
Hey yeah. Sleestaks!
Director Brad Silberling (Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) says he fought to keep the human shape of the Sleestak from Sid & Marty Krofft’s original production, and not give into the urge to render them as spindly computerized beings. In the ’70s TV show, they were
Oprah and Tom Cruise Acting Stupid Part 2
Tom Cruise is making a highly-publicized return to Oprah in a two-parter, this Friday and next Monday. He hasn’t sat down with the talk show host since his infamous couch jumping almost 3 years ago. Pegged to discuss his 25 years in show business, the pair also dig into weightier topics, like