If you're an aspring screenwriter, Max Landis is the kind of guy you hate. Not because he's a hack and he's getting work and you're still at home living with your parents and working at Burger King, but because Landis is young and talented and has a ton of projects coming up.
For those who don't know, World War Z is a book by Max Brooks (Mel Brooks, son, yes) that chronicles a future zombie apocalypse through the oral accounts of its survivors. The main character is Max Brooks himself, because when you're an author you can do that sort of thing, and also because it makes it all the more realistic. He's a journalist, see, going around the planet and recording conversations with some key survivors.
There are those sceptics out there that'll say, no, you can't make a good movie out of a fighting game. And sure, they've got the examples to back it up - Street Fighter and Dead Or Alive were two of the shittiest movies ever made: all who gazed upon them were gifted with 90 minutes of burning eyes. But Warner Bros. don't care about that. They're gonna make a movie out of the Mortal Kombat video game, and nobody or nothin' can stop 'em.
"Slavery, sir. It's done." Those are the defining words uttered by Daniel Day-Lewis's Abraham Lincoln in the final trailer for Steven Spielberg's upcoming Lincoln, which looks to be getting even more epic with every glimpse of footage we see.
Despite the fact that Disney have made a movie about an 8-bit game character for children who have never played an 8-bit game, this previous weekend's box office receipts prove that, you know, bright colors and the promise of Sonic the Hedgehog are enough to bring in the big crowds as Wreck-It Ralph scored an impressive $49.1 million in North America alone.
Do you like hamburger phones and cute phrases like "honest to blog"? No? Oh. Well, maybe stop reading this article, then, home-skillet. If you do happen to like super-quirky things like that, though, you'll be thrilled to hear that indie queen Diablo Cody is developing a new TV show about similarly quirky quirks. Want to know what it's about? No? You're making this job really hard for me, buddy.
Old people are everywhere. Not just in real life, but in movies now, too. And just when we thought that the cinema was the one place we could retreat to escape grandma's bedpan and grandpa's reminiscing on "the good old days."
Last week we gave you the official tracklisting for Peter Jackson's upcoming The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (if you haven't seen it yet, you can view it again below). Now, Tolkien fans (or perhaps we should say Howard Shore fans, because that's probably never been said), you can actually listen to an exclusive slice of the soundtrack.
It really is the end of the saga for George Lucas, who recently stunned the world when he sold LucasFilm to Disney for $4 billion. And now the 68-year-old billionaire and, uh, Red Tails producer has announced that he won't help to pick a new director for the upcoming trilogy (set to kick-off in 2015). In the words of Jar-Jar Binks (and in a reference that absolutely nobody will enjoy), "Phoo-eee!"
Ever since the good old days when Michael Jackson was beloved by all and music videos hadn't been 13-minute long short films until Thriller shocked the world over, dancing zombies have been the epitome of cool. Well, we think so, anyway.
