We don't regret the radiant, blinding love we developed for Boom Blox the First, though the physical toll it took on our ball chuckin' arm was nigh-unbearable. Therefore, the latest trailer for Boom Blox Bash Party , EA's follow-up to the highly enjoyable tower toppler, has left equally intrigued an...

Many people think that a movie needs to avoid an R-rating in order to become a blockbuster. Most recent top earners have followed that dictum, with only four R-rated movies among last year's top 25 at the box office. Zack Snyder's 300 was a defiant exception in 2007, earning more than $456 million w...

Not that this is any great surprise, but word comes from Upcoming Film Scores that frequent Steven Spielberg collaborator John Williams will be doing the score for The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn . Confirmation comes from Williams’ agent. I’m not sure if this implies that...

What’s better than a good list? A bad list, obviously. And Entertainment Weekly is once again happy to oblige with their ranking of the “50 Greatest Active Film Directors.” The only qualification they put before the ranking is that they’re “counting down the most talent...

EW loves lists like this one, the top 25 active directors, designed to inspire healthy debate. Did they get it right? And what do they mean by active, exactly? "Most talented, in-demand directors behind the camera today?" They're trying to have it both ways--it's a power list measuring fame, heat, i...

Disney and DreamWorks today sent out official confirmation of their shotgun wedding, issuing a release around town raising more questions about its relationship than it answers. —The announcement arrived this morning, with Disney slotting six 'Works films per year, as per its usual. The first ...

So the DreamWorks distribution deal with Disney is done. (The full release is on the jump.) The outstanding questions to be resolved: 1. Why did Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider--and their reps, Alan Levine and Skip Brittenham-- secretly chase the Disney deal, risking the wrath of Universal honcho...

We mentioned last year that Steven Spielberg and his "people" were working hard to make Dreamworks a totally independent studio. Things seemed to be going Steven's way (i.e. a big Indian media company offered to back them with a few hundred million dollars)….until now. Dreamworks was going to ...

After Thursday night's pre-Oscar Frost/Nixon celebration at L.A.'s Nobu, several reporters at the party called Universal execs to inform them that they had heard that DreamWorks was negotiating a new distribution deal with Disney. This came as a shock to Universal, which had been trying to accommoda...

Though some may think otherwise (paging Paul Blart), Hollywood is plummeting into a serious financial mire. And now the biggest, importantest canary of 'em all has gone and croaked. Steven Spielberg can't get financing. We are talking about the Father of the Modern Blockbuster here. People don't say...