Bruce Willis’ Red Gets a Director

According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Robert Schwentke (the upcoming “The Time Traveler’s Wife”) is currently in negotiations to take the helm of Bruce Willis’ movie adaptation of the Warren Ellis comic book “Red”, about a retired spy who must come out of retirement...

July 28th, 2009 | Read More

Freddie Prinze Jr. is an ex-Marine turned Badass CTU Agent in 24

When you think badass Marine turned fearless counter terrorist brawler, you of course think Freddie Prinze Jr. Right? Well the folks casting 24’s eighth season do, and they’ve just cast the former “She’s All That” star as a “recently returned ex-Marine” who is...

May 28th, 2009 | Read More

Brett Ratner Confirmed for Conan Remake?

Well, as “confirmed” as you can get when an anonymous “spy” emails someone over at AICN with the news, which is to say, it’s confirmed as long as no one else comes out and confirms otherwise. I.e. No, it’s not “confirmed”, it’s just what some movie...

October 17th, 2008 | Read More

Steve Niles’ Wake the Dead Finally Gets a Director

I still find it pretty amusing that Hollywood has all but wiped the words “comic book” out of their vocabulary and replaced it with “graphic novel”. It’s funny, because I’ve been reading comics since I was a kid, and I never thought of the word as being “lesser”...

June 2nd, 2008 | Read More

Leonardo DiCaprio to Play James Bond’s Fleming?

Maybe, maybe not. But Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way will definitely be producing a movie called “Fleming”, which will be based on the life and times of Ian Fleming, the man who wrote the James Bond novels, and who was himself a spy during World War II. The biopic...

May 14th, 2008 | Read More

The Spirit Action Figure Looks Spirit-y

Lionsgate yanked all the images of The Spirit that were leaked onto the net last week, but apparently they didn’t think to tell DC Comics not to show us what the Spirit looks like in full costume, because the site has released a look at the Spirit 1:6 scale Deluxe Collector Figure, which is going...

April 15th, 2008 | Read More

The Sci-Fi Week That Was: 4/4/08 – 4/10/08

In case you missed it, here are the science fiction-related news from the week of 4/5/08 to 4/10/08 from our sister site SciFiCool.com (visit for the latest in science fiction movie and TV news). This week’s highlights: “V: The Second Generation” the movie franchise? Vincenzo Natali’s...

April 10th, 2008 | Read More

Dr. Seuss and Tyler Perry Tops at Box Office

You can’t keep a good CGI elephant down. For the second straight week, the Jim Carrey-voiced “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who” was tops at the U.S. box office, taking in $25 million in its second week of release, for a total of $86 million in just two weeks. And proving that Tyler...

March 23rd, 2008 | Read More

A “Tentative” Deal is Reached to End Writer’s Strike

See that? That’s light at the other end of the tunnel, as the WGA officially announced that it had reached a “tentative” deal with the studios to end the 3-month long writer’s strike that has crippled Hollywood and the viewing habits of TV fans everywhere. Now it’s up to...

February 9th, 2008 | Read More

Michael Eisner Says the Writers Strike is Over

According to former Disney head honcho Michael Eisner, the Hollywood Writer’s Strike is over, with a deal having been reached between the two parties involved in the dispute, and that he expects writers to be back at work “very soon”. Given that Eisner was more than a little disparaging...

February 8th, 2008 | Read More

Saving Private Ryan’s Beach Scene on the Cheap

Ever wondered how Steven Spielberg did his famous beach scene from the WWII movie “Saving Private Ryan”? It’s Hollywood, so that means a mega budget, thousands of extras, and enough technical gadgets to make 100 war movies. But wait — can three guys, given four days, a digital...

February 5th, 2008 | Read More

Hannah Montana Juggernaut Dominates the Box Office

Holy Mother of God. I’ve actually seen the Hannah Montana TV show because my nieces and nephews can’t get enough of it, but I didn’t know it had such wide appeal with the rest of America’s children. But apparently it does, because with just a measly 683 screens to work with, the...

February 4th, 2008 | Read More

Stallone Locks and Loads Two New Action Films

Sylvester Stallone is a wanted man. No, I’m not talking about the plot of “First Blood”, the first Rambo movie, I’m talking about the man himself: after the surprise success of his latest “Rocky” and “Rambo” sequels, Stallone has now inked a deal to star...

February 4th, 2008 | Read More

Rumor: The Writers Strike is Almost Over

Is the writer’s strike about to be history? Are the two sides finally close to an agreement? Will we finally get the good word sometime tomorrow or earlier? Can I possibly stop asking questions and start answering them? Maybe on all counts. Continue on… The news that the writers strike may...

February 2nd, 2008 | Read More

Marvel Studios and Lionsgate Strikes Deal with WGA

Maybe the WGA knows what it’s doing after all. After failing to get producers in Hollywood to agree to a deal, and indeed, they’re still “talking” behind the scenes, the WGA has instead adopted a “divide and conquer” strategy, striking their own interim deals with...

January 25th, 2008 | Read More

National Treasure 2 Dominates Christmas Box Office

For the second straight week, the Nicolas Cage sequel “National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets” reign supreme over the U.S. box office, pulling in an additional $35 million in its second week for a total take of $124 million in two weeks of release. The other big surprise is “Alvin and...

January 1st, 2008 | Read More

Top 10 Hollywood Box Office Hits of 2007

Yahoo! Movies has a list of the top ten movies that made major bank at the U.S. box office in the year 2007. To no one’s surprise, “Spider-Man 3″ nailed the #1 spot with a $336 million dollar take, followed closely by “Shrek 3″ with $321 million. My personal favorite movie...

December 26th, 2007 | Read More

Sacha Baron Cohen Retires Borat and Ali G

Sacha Baron Cohen, the “brains” behind Borat and Ali G, tells the newspaper The Daily Telegraph that he’s decided to “retire” his two most famous (or is that infamous?) creations. Borat, as you’ll recall, was the “star” of a major Hollywood hit, the eponymously...

December 25th, 2007 | Read More

The Lost in Translation Final Scene Whisper Revealed? Eh, Maybe.

Remember that scene at the end of Sofia Coppola’s magnificent 2003 lost-in-Japan movie “Lost in Translation” with Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson)? Remember that last scene, when Bob tracks Charlotte down in the Tokyo streets, and in the midst of the hustle...

December 13th, 2007 | Read More

Writers Strike Update: We Are All Screwed

Well it looks like all our worst fears regarding the Writers Strike has come to fruition: the studios have said “screw’em” and are digging in their heels. Which will translate into TV becoming a vast wasteland of crappy Reality TV programming, and on the big screen — well, it’s...

December 11th, 2007 | Read More