Before Sam Raimi made mega-blockbusters Spider-Man 1 through 3, he was revered by film geeks for films like Evil Dead and Army of Darkness. His newest film, Drag Me To Hell, looks to be a return to form: Early buzz on the film has been pretty positive and a work-in-progress print of the film is sche...

The idea of people doing whatever needs to be done in order to make money and provide for their families is a common trope in novels, television and movies. Usually, though, this takes the form of someone entering into prostitution, selling drugs or doing something else that’s illegal/unethica...

So the big question today seems to be “But what does $56 million meeean?� The question, of course, is in relation to the first weekend box-office take for Watchmen. The $56 million is quite a bit shy of the first bit of speculation, which pegged the movie taking in around $70 million or so in th...

Last summer at the 2008 San Diego Comic Con, the convention center was peppered with random, cryptic signs such as the one pictured here, which featured variations on the phrase “For Humans Only.� The signs were bizarre, eye-catching, and kind of adorable, with their strange-looking alien figure...

I’ve been following the “sponsored conversations” discussion quite fervently the last few days. The kerfluffle was started, this time, by a Forrester Research report that said sponsored conversations were here to stay and can be a smart tool for some marketers to pull out of their ...

Is Warner Bros. paying street marketing teams to vandalize public property in New York City? Well, when put that way, it sounds like something the film industry monolith wouldn’t want to own up to. Whether or not they’re responsible, the words “Who Watches the Watchmen?â€� have appeared in...

The problem with “unfilmmable” pieces of literature is that they usually wind up getting filmed anyway. Everyone, as late as 1999, said the Lord of the Rings trilogy was unfilmmable because of the fantastic characters that inhabited the story and, indeed, the scope of the story itself. E...

The words “Who Watches The Watchmen ?” have begun to appear spray-painted on walls around New York City. There is no evidence that Warner Bros is paying underground street marketing teams to tag the catchphrase around the city. It is possible that renegade vandals are to blame, but I wou...

Say what you want about Christian Bale, and we often have great things to say, the man has got us talking about Terminator Salvation . Now he’s the one talking about the film, and we have pics to prove it. The latest issue of Empire Magazine has an exclusive interview with Bale, and offers a g...

“Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France…” someone got the fuck beaten, stabbed, or shot out of them. At least that’s what these badass new posters for Tarantino’s next blood soaked romp Inglourious Basterds tells us. It sure looks like it’s a bad time to be a Na...