What Judd Apatow backlash? For every New Yorker who happily proclaimed the end of the producer/director’s run of luck after the flops of Walk Hard and Drillbit Taylor, there was one (if not two, three or four) who ran out to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall (no. 1) this weekend. The comedy racked in $382,590 dollars Read More
Bob and Harvey Weinstein have activated a $285 millon fund for the acquisition and development of a slate of 21 films and 10 direct-to-video titles shot and directed over the next six years in Asia.
Some of the titles to be included under the fund include a live-action version of "Mulan"; Read More
Despite some attempts to set the record straight, the story persists that Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, starring Kirsten Dunst as the Austrian girl who becomes the Queen of France, was generally despised at this past spring’s Cannes Film Festival, and that the French particularly hated it. The movie did draw some scattered boos at the Read More
After A.I. , Steven Spielberg’s extravagant
summer banquet, everything else at the movies is scraps. Signaling the arrival
of dog days, we have several bits of flotsam to get out of the way. Most controversial
of them all is Bully , a disturbing
but ultimately pointless little horror from Larry Clark, the overrated director
of Read More
