One of cinema’s biggest disasters just got the ultimate fan cut. When it was launched in 1980, the period epic Heaven’s Gate was already far behind schedule, not the least because director Michael Cimino shot over 220 hours of footage – surpassing Francis Coppola’s obsessive record from Apocalypse Now. He delivered a film of over five hours long, which the …
It doesn’t matter how good you are, every director is bound to make a bad film or two in their career. Kevin Smith is one such director, having almost left Hollywood after some recent failure. Lately though, Smith has been re-energised, working on plenty of new material. While Clerks 3 is still a ways away, it looks like he’ll be …
Over the last year I’ve written a lot about the Star Wars Expanded Universe – the collection of books, TV shows, games, comics, etc that elaborate on the story before, between and beyond the six feature films – and most of it was lamenting at the ever more clear fact that Lucasfilm would be axing the EU as non-canon and …
Want to know who the real breakout stars of all the recent Marvel movies is? That’s easily Clark Gregg, AKA Agent Coulson AKA Son of Coul. He’s been a constant presence, helping to shepherd that franchise into a billion dollar empire. Of course, Couslon isn’t going to be saving the world 24/7, and he does need some downtime. So what …
Action, jilted lovers and one of the final Paul Walker movies ever made dominated the North American box office over the weekend. Despite boasting some solid casting and kinetic setpieces however, Brick Mansions couldn’t match revenge-com The Other Woman, which walked off with a high-heeled first place. But then again, that first place victory was nabbed from the sales rack. …
What’s in a name? A Hobbit by any other name is still a Hobbit, right? Well, not according to writer-director Peter Jackson, and especially since he didn’t need so many originally. Adapting JRR Tolkien’s first book (a brisk 310-pager, I might remind you) into two movies, as prequels to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, was the early plan, but …
The existence of a Justice League movie has been one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood so far, much like Ben Affleck’s dead hooker dumpster and Kervyn’s obsession with ABBA. Warner Bros is looking to create a film franchise that can rival Disney’s the Avengers, and with Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel making a decent bank, they’ve found a …
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