Guillermo del Toro to co-write trilogy of vampire novels
Since the Potter-likeTwilight craze, vampires have been popping up in every media form—copycat novels, remakes of Swedish monster movies, and most recently in the awesome new HBO series True Blood. The trend is undeniable, especially now that it's even jumping genres: Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro—known for the screenwriting and direction of offbeat, intensely visual movies that showcase the fantastic—has signed on with HarperCollins to complete a trilogy of vampire novels. ... read more
Tom Wolfe's Charlotte Simmons to become HBO series
Tom Wolfe’s 2004 college expose I Am Charlotte Simmons turned out to be thick in more ways than one. Despite well-publicized research and one of the sharpest eyes for social satire in the genre's history, the 676-page tome was angrily dismissed by critics and by many in college circles as shrill, obvious nonsense. ... read more
Fox's Do Not Disturb becomes first TV casualty of Fall
Memo to actors: if you find yourself starring in a show alongside Jerry O'Connell, don't expect to be employed for long. Mr. Rebecca Romijn (O'Connell de-Stamos'ed her) will find himself on the short-end of the sitcom stick for the second straight time, with Entertainment Weekly reporting Fox has decided to cancel his Do Not Disturb vehicle after just three episodes.... read more
Buzz for Ricky Gervais to host next year's Oscars begins
Those who caught this year's dismal Emmy Awards know that one of the lone bright spots was when... read more
True Blood confirms regulars for second season
HBO's new vampire series True Blood, which was just optioned for a second season despite sluggish viewership, has now confirmed four forthcoming regulars.... read more
Miracle at St. Anna
A lot of words come to mind when discussing... read more
Paul Newman: 1925-2008
Despite the fact that by the time the film opened in 1969... read more
Mr. Wouters' Machines
It’s easy to mistake Roel Wouters for a filmmaker. “[What I do is] more about creating a certain circumstance or a certain condition,” insists the 32-year-old Dutch artist who works under the moniker Xelor... read more
Johnny Depp saddles up for another Pirates, much more
Hollywood golden boy Johnny Depp has essentially betrothed himself to Disney. Not only will he lace up his boots as Captain Jack Sparrow for a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film, he has officially signed on to be the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's version Alice in Wonderland as well as Tonto, a Native American who's one half of the crime fighting duo in an adaptation of The Lone Ranger. ... read more
The Lucky Ones
Audiences haven’t exactly been flocking to movies dealing with the Iraq War... read more
Choke
It doesn’t require much brainpower to underestimate the work of... read more
Watch the trailer for Nortorious
A film on the life of the Notorious B.I.G. seems alternatively like a no-brainer and doomed before it’s even released. Judging from the brief, new teaser trailer for Notorious, the first fiction film about the rapper since his 1997 murder, it looks to be a little of both. The heavy-handed trailer fuses faux-hip-hop-video tropes with an apparently affectionate portrait of the late star. ... read more
Wanted director to helm "revisionist" take on Moby-Dick
We’re not normally the types to hammer Hollywood on principle, but this has to be the most inexplicable thing we’ve heard in a long time. Timur Bekmambetov, the Kazakh-Russian zealot responsible for the (admittedly sort of awesome) flying cars and bomb-strapped rats in last summer’s Wanted, will craft a “revisionist” take on Moby-Dick, Herman Melville’s definitive work. ... read more
Despite rocky start, HBO picks up True Blood for season two
Does HBO know something we don't know? Despite mixed reviews and a small viewer base so far, the network has already picked up True Blood for a second season, sticking with the hard-knuckled publicity campaign it has already orchestrated for the series.... read more
Hulu tries to edge out the competition with new developments
[Above: One of Hulu's many streams, The Daily Show]In the battle to obtain the most prized online video content, YouTube is far and away the winner. So much so that it seems pointless that any contenders would even worry too much about where they fall underneath, right? Wrong. It seems nothing will stop Hulu, which boasts 900 film and TV titles, from inching its way, ever so slowly, from obscurity (and away from competitor Joost). ... read more
Watch Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising here
What's a political season without a Michael Moore documentary? After trying with all his might to rally citizens against George W. Bush in 2004 with his scathing Fahrenheit 9/11 documentary, Moore returns this election with his latest, Slacker Uprising. But, what a difference four year makes. Whereas Fahrenheit 9/11 debuted in theaters (and swiftly became the highest-grossing documentary ever), Slacker Uprising will debut online...for free. In fact, it already has.... read more
Owen Wilson to headline "vampire-buddy comedy"
Owen Wilson has made his non-Wes Anderson career out of variations on the buddy comedy (Night at the Museum, Starsky & Hutch, the Shanghai cycle), and it looks like he’s sticking with it. The actor will produce and star in Blood Brothers, which will adopt a supernatural take on the classic genre with the story of a man whose best friend turns out to be a vampire. ... read more
Watch the trailer for Revolutionary Road
First optioned for film in 1967, Richard Yates’s classic novel Revolutionary Road has had a long run-up to the screen. Published almost contemporary to its action in 1961 and yet starkly modern in thought, the story concerns a husband and wife in suburban Connecticut circa 1955, she deeply discontent with the social prerogatives of the period, he more and more immersed in them.... read more
Steven Soderbergh developing a Liberace biopic
Steven Soderbergh has been hard at work on a bold, daring biopic that dares to go where other directors fear to tread. No, we're not talking about his movie Che, because plenty of other people have and likely will create films centered on Mr. Guevara. Soderbergh's truly revolutionary biopic is on Liberace. ... read more
Hurts So Good: Love and Bad Movies
My boyfriend Joe and I have been together for years—through high school, college at separate universities 120 miles apart, and beyond. Many people find this unusual, even unfathomable, so we’re frequently asked, “How do you do it?” My answer is simple, and three-pronged... read more
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