This is a bantam white cochin rooster. Isn't he cute? (Photo stolen from TheBigWRanch12)Let's call him Chester, because I can't for the life of me remember the exact name of the bantie white cochin rooster I'm about to tell you......

Last week it was reported that Eddie Murphy had been cast as Richard Pryor in the Bill Condon-produced biopic of the famous comedian. What will Eddie Murphy’s Pryor sound like? OWF points us to a video clip from the classic 1988 Raw comedy special (which we haven’t seen in quite a few ye...

This post is result of my curiosity about what is happening as a result of the economic meltdown. Yes, we hear a lot about it on the news, but that’s all about big banks, auto companies, and bail out package. But what I was curious about was the stories the don’t make it onto CNN; what e...

Bill Condon had his biopic Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? in development at The Weinstein Company, but they put it into turnaround so now Condon has attached Eddie Murphy as star and gone out to court the studios for a new deal. Condon previously threatened to relaunch Murphy’s acting ...

I’ve liked each and every film by Alejandro Amenabar more than I did the previous one - and even when you rewind right back to Tesis, his debut feature, I was already digging his work plenty. You know, then, that I’m beset with anticipation for his next picture, simply on this spurious b...

Michael Mann’s Public Enemies was test screened on Thursday night in Sherman Oaks, CA. It was a blind screening, which means that they didn’t give the name of the film when soliciting for moviegoers.  A bunch of reviews have been floating around the message boards. You can read five rev...

Last week Brad Bird revealed that he was still trying to crack the screenplay for his live-action debut 1906 , which seemed baffling to us. In March 2008, our spies told us that Pixar was busy building virtual scale models of a period-era San Francisco and that Warner Bros had put a hold on all of t...

The Departed screenwriter William Monahan has more projects on his plate than Guillermo del Toro, but the scripter hopes to direct a movie based on the career criminal Myles Connor. Producer Quentin Curtis has acquired Myles’ upcoming memoir The Art of the Heist which will be published in Apri...

We haven’t heard much lately about Brad Bird’s live-action debut, a big screen adaptation of James Dalessandro’s novel 1906 .  Our friends at LatinoReview caught up with Bird at the premiere of Coraline, and was able to get an update. “We’re looking at places to shoot ...

Spike Lee and his production company, 40 Acres and a Mule, has nabbed the rights to "Now the Hell Will Start," a nonfiction book written by Brendan Koerner. Check out the book’s Web site here. The true story follows Herman Perry, a black Army private during World War II who snapped and w...