For the 27 people who were super-psyched to see Roland Emmerich's explosive classic in 3D, we've got some really bad news. Yes, even though that scene where a large UFO hovers over the White House and proceeds to blows it up with a giant laser would've probably looked pretty cool in all three-dimensions, Fox have cancelled plans to re-release Independence Day in theatres near you. No reason has been given for said cancellation, leaving us to logically assume that aliens contacted Fox and told them to cancel the 3D conversion, fearing negative intergalactic relations should they ever bring themselves to our planet for a chat.
Join us in our decade-based film retrospective, as we delve backwards all the way from 2009 to 1910. Most decade-based best movie lists grant you a whooping 50-100 entries, which makes perfect sense given all the years you have to take into consideration. But what if you were defining a decade in just ten films? Which movies would you recommend to somebody who might only watch a handful from a given decade? This week, join us as we look back at the Nineties.
Now that Hugh Laurie has officially hung up his stethoscope and has stopped talking in an American accent, he might like to dedicate his time to something other than unlikely blues guitar albums and bad movies that nobody ever went to see. Well, shiver me timbers: it's been reported that the former House M.D. star could follow in the footsteps of fellow Brit Ian McShane in playing infamous pirate bastard Blackbeard for upcoming pirate-themed TV show Crossbones. Yes, Crossbones. That's its name.
You may know Sharlto Copley because he was absolutely the best thing about Neill Blomkamp's District 9, or because he was absolutely the best thing about that A-Team movie that nobody went to see, but you're also going to know Sharlto Copley given that he's starring in Spike Lee's Oldboy remake and you want to see the Oldboy remake, don't you? They're remaking Oldboy?! OhmyGod, I know. But are they doing the right thing given that the original is such an established world cinema classic, which is the same Spike Lee joke I will always make when talking about this.
For anybody who likes to hear what cast members have to say about projects they are merely "actors for hire" within, Chris Hemsworth - Thor himself - has been talking out about the upcoming sequel Thor: The Dark World, which he claims is much bigger than anything they've done previously. Check it out below:
The chances of getting your spec Simpsons script made into an episode are even lower than the chances that Colin Trevorrow will get to helm a Star Wars film, given that the show doesn't actually accept spec submissions and you'd just be wasting your precious life years writing one. Unless, of course, you plan to be an established celebrity at some point in future. In that case, write a spec script for a show you anticipate will one day run low on steam and will need to bring in 22-year-old spec scripts that weren't good enough in the heyday.
In a comparison we can't really comprehend because it doesn't make sense in our brains, Kevin Eastman, the co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, has compared the upcoming Michael Bay-produced movie version as being like The Avengers. And by making such a comparison we hope he isn't expecting it to make a billion dollars at the box office, because we very much doubt that will happen without establishing characters in five other solo installments first. That's how this works, Eastman.
There are so many wonderful things about R. Kelly's seemingly never-ending "hip-opera" Trapped In The Closet, be it that in the first episode he chooses to rhyme the word "dresser" with "Berreta", or just simply that it's still actually going on after like, seven years. But his zany, midget-clad musical masterpiece might be getting the Broadway treatment, given that R. Kelly has reportedly been offered a deal to turn the whole saga into an all singin', all dancin' extravaganza.
It hasn't been a particular good week for The Hobbit, what with all those mysterious animal deaths and now that the J.R.R. Tolkien estate have decided to sue Warner Bros. for $80 milion. And you thought it was going so well, Peter Jackson, didn't you? Yes, the Tolkien estate, eager to get their greedy mits around cash they may or may not deserve, have filed a lawsuit against both Warner Bros. and New Line over something to do with "online slot machines and digital merchandising" that dates back to an original agreement they had in 1969.
Quentin Tarantino has made some of the best movies of the last twenty years: movies dense with pop cultural nods, obsure movie references, memorable quotes, dynamite characters and innovative sequences that stick in your memory long after you've left the theatre, the man definitely knows how to give audiences a good time.
