Actually, the coolest news I could find out there this morning is that Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who crafted the simply splendid Harvey Pekar bio "American Splendor," are now about to give the same treatment to Sam Kinison for HBO. The duo are adapting the Kinison bio "Brother Sam" f...

Il commence à s'arrondir, le premier poivron : Il est un peu en retard sur le piment qui s'est très vite développé. Les attaques répétées de pucerons y sont peut-être pour quelque chose : Avec le coup de bombe qu'ils......

While health inspectors may have fallen head over heels in love with Pixar's restaurant impresario "Little Chef", it seems they can't stomach a vermin infestation at mold-friendly Newsroom Cafe. The eatery, favored by pseudo vegetarian starlets, went from achieving average status to full-blown suspe...

As corny as this certainly sounds, if you've seen Pixar's "Wall-E" (and if you haven't, why the heck not?), can you think of any movie in any genre for the last 20 years or so that had more to say about the power of love? Well, robot love, of course, but the story of Wall-E and Eve still just grabs ...

Filed under: Animation, New Releases, RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Scripts, Newsstand, Politics A couple of people have been griping about Wall-E director Andrew Stanton's refusal to admit that his cute little movie about a robot in love actually contains some pretty upfront green polit...

This week in our movie summer is so bad that I'm just gonna have to pretend it doesn't even exist. "Get Smart" vs. "The Love Guru"? The only loser here appears to be the viewer. I can't even look at Mike Meyers without wincing, and even with Steve Carell and the very funny Ken Davitian on board I ju...

This weekend, comedic actor Jack Black makes his foray into the world of voice-over work in the CG animated film Kung Fu Panda . With the release, he becomes just the next in a long line of comedic talents, both stand-up and otherwise, to take the lead in a major animated film. And over the years, t...

This week The McKinsey Quaterly asks: what does stimulating the creativity of animators have in common with developing new product ideas or technology breakthroughs? Apparently, a lot. In Innovation lessons from Pixar, McKinsey writes: Brad Bird makes his living fostering creativity. Academy Award-w...

Filed under: Obits Abby Mann (1927-2008) - Oscar-winning screenwriter of Judgment of Nuremberg. He was also nominated for writing Stanley Kramer's Ship of Fools. He also worked on Vittorio De Sica's The Condemned of Altona, wrote John Cassavetes' A Child is Waiting and Gordon Douglas' The Detective,...

Attitude: Yup, that is right. We are not asking you how many Burritos can you engine cook with its heat, but we want to know how many miles your vehicle can go on a single Burrito. If it can go many, many miles on the energy of a single Burrito, then is it more efficient than the human body? The big...