The usual suspects are emerging in the efforts to acquire MGM, which is all but buried under $3.7 billion in
debt. How much movie money is that? Well, let's assume MGM released Transformers, Harry Potter, and Ice Age 3, the
year's top three movies in total ticket sales. The studio would still need $700 million just to keep the lights on, even if those
movies were 100% profit.
Variety says that more solvent studios, like the vertically integrated Time-
Warner and News Corp. (Fox) are seriously appraising MGM, but have not yet carefully investigated the studio's finances, which
should be quite a mess. Sony may also be interested is taking over MGM, but appears to be waiting to see what the offers are.
Another player in all of this is Qualia Capital LLC, a media and entertainment investment company.
Geek Deal: 24-DVD College Movie Collection for $40
As you probably know, Woot.com is a deal a day. /Film reader David D just alerted me that Woot is selling a College Essentials 24-DVD Movie collection for only $39.99. Movies include: Leaving Las Vegas, Escape from New York, The Usual Suspects, Platoon, Dances with Wolves, Windtalkers, Hoosiers, Bull Durham, Kingpin, Wargames, Hackers, Antitrust, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, This is Spinal Tap, Airheads, Spaceballs, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Legally Blond, Heartbreakers, The Cutting Edge, Bio-Dome, Back to School and PCU. Get it while you can.
It doesn’t take a skilled critic of the art form of motion pictures to see the drop off that occurred between X2: X-MEN UNITED and X-MEN: THE LAST STAND. Anyone who knows anything about the franchise realizes that drop off came at the absence of direction by one Bryan Singer. Now, four years after leaving the franchise, the USUAL SUSPECTS and VALKYRIE filmmaker is talking return.
I’m still looking to possibly returning to the X-MEN franchise. I’ve been talking to Fox about it.
Singer spoke those words at the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea. The Hollywood Reporter picked up the story courtesy of the Associated…
Horror films by literal definition are movies that elicit the emotion of fear or terror from the viewer. Their plots normally involve the central themes of death, violence, psychosis, the supernatural, the unexplained, or science gone awry to name just a few usual suspects. However, the Horror genre doesn’t have an exclusive stranglehold on our nerve centers.
I personally feel any film, re...
Penn & Teller Get Killed and Become Detectives - New DVD, New TV Series
Seven seasons into their bunkum-busting Showtime series Bullshit, and on top of their decades of stage magic mastery, Penn & Teller are about to take their double act onto primetime TV in a most intriguing way. They'll be starring in a new hourlong mystery series as themselves, give or take: Las Vegas performers who sideline as reluctant detectives. The detective bit is obviously where the give and take comes in.
Similarly brilliant is the news, perfectly timed to coincide with this TV show's announcement, that the duo's mini-classic movie Penn & Teller Get Killed is now finally available for order on DVD.
I'm a real lover of stage magic and illusions and also love to see that kind of misdirection and trickery at work in cinema, whether it's in something like The Illusionist or Magicians, a 'trick thriller' like The Sixth Sense or The Usual Suspects, or simply in a clever bit ...
Who Should Play The New Fantastic Four?
Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:28 PM | From Screen Rant
Ok so I had to redo this intro because as I was writing this MTV Splash Page happened to post (a day earlier than usual) their weekly fantasy casting column about…the Fantastic Four. My goal was to get this up today and scoop the usual Friday, blogosphere speculation fest… but C’est la vie.
Thankfully for me, [...]
Bryan Fuller and Bryan Singer Team Up for SELLEVISION Show
Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:07 AM | From Collider
Writer/producer Bryan Fuller (”Heroes,” “Pushing Daisies”) and director/producer Bryan Singer (”X-Men,” “The Usual Suspects”) are teaming up with NBC and Mark Bozek, formerly of the Home Shopping Network, to create an hour-long dramedy series of Augusten Burroughs’ “Sellevision.” The novel follows the inner-workings of a fictional home shopping channel, but the series will be less [...]
Sex and the City Snags a New Beau
Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:14 AM | From Latino Review
Sex and the City may have ended its cable run in 2004, but that didn't stop the 2008 film version from arriving at theaters, and it's certainly not slowing down the sequel Sex and the City 2 that's currently shooting in New York City.
Starring the usual list of suspects, Sex and the City 2 is now adding Max Ryan to the cast as a European architect who meets the self-proclaimed "try-sexual" Samantha (Kim Cattrall).
The role marks a change of pace for Ryan, a British actor best known for action-oriented movies like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Kiss of the Dragon, and Death Race. Sex and the City, meanwhile, is better known for its sex-based romantic comedy and predominantly female audience.
And if the Sex and the City sequel is anything like the first film, it will boast a few false endings, terrible potty humor, and insulting two-dimensional portrayals of women. And to make matters worse, it will likely do great at the box office, since the original movie raked in well over $400 million worldwide.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil) and Warner Bros are collaborating on an effort to resurrect King Arthur and the knights of the round table. Warner Bros is currently still working on their acquisition of rights for remaking John Boorman’s 1981 film EXCALIBUR and Singer is also not yet been officially secured for the project.
The 1981 movie starred Nigel Terry as Arthur and Cherie Lunghi as Guenevere and featured early performances from Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart and Gabriel Byrne. The movie told the well-known myth, in a gritty and dramatic fashion, of the young man who draws the sword…
Christopher McQuarrie Trusted With The Future Of Wolverine
Friday, August 14, 2009 10:49 AM | From Cinema Blend
The rumors about Wolverine taking on ninjas are true. Christopher McQuarrie has been hired to write the script for the Wolverine sequel, and will be setting the film in Japan, where Wolverine struggles between his animal instincts and the samurai code.
Not only did McQuarrie win an Oscar for writing Bryan Snger's The Usual Suspects, but he helped create the current cinematic version of Wolverine by contributing to the X-Men script back in 2000. According to THR the new storyline will ...
