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Friday, November 20, 2009 at 2:16PM If conditions hold, it looks as though Dustin Hoffman is out of Little Fockers. Entertainment Weekly says Hoffman wants a more sizable role in the threequel, in addition to squabbles about the shooting schedule.
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 11:48AM We knew New Moon would be headed for a great big weekend, but this big? Even that's a little surprsing. Deadline Hollywood cites sources from other studios saying that the Twilight sequel has debuted in the mid-$20 million range for midnight showings, slightly better than Harry Potter, and substantially more than The Dark Knight last summer.
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in Box Office, New Moon, Twilight | Print Article | Email Article | 2 Comments | Share Article Friday, November 20, 2009 at 9:52AM I can't even begin to fathom how exacting the work is to make a film like The Fantastic Mr. Fox. A feature-length production that is literally shot frame-by-frame instead of scene-by-scene is grueling enough to consider, but then there's the mechanical setup required for every frame, which as you probably know, only constitutes 1/24th of a second. Now extend that amount of work over 87 minutes...that's over 125,000 frames, and each one (not counting credits, obviously) has to be completely engineered from the ground up.
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 8:06AM Well, all I can say is I hope there's still enough story left to tell: Cinematical reveals that Paramount is pushing a Jackass 3-D into theaters next year. Clearly falling into the "better you than me" category, watching the Jackass stunt players risk life and limb in the most ridiculous, grotesque fashion imaginable has been downright huge business for the studio, which of course, always had an inside track thanks to the show's MTV roots.
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in 3D, Jackass | Print Article | Email Article | Post a Comment | Share Article Friday, November 20, 2009 at 5:34AM 
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 3:11AM | The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner  |
Like last year's toy left out in the yard to endure the elements, The Twilight Saga has lost its novelty with the second
entry, New Moon. Fans of
the series probably won't be disappointed, but that's what fans are for. If you're only mildly curious or in any way objective, it's
hard to call this movie a success.
On a certain level (and only one), it's slightly better than Twilight, but that film had a greater sense of
arrival and better storytelling. New Moon is at odds with itself, alternately taking itself way too seriously and interjecting uncomfortable humor where it's not necessary.
The best thing about New Moon is probably its moody cinematography. It shares that, generally speaking, with its predecessor,
but Chris Weitz is a more assured visual director than Catherine Hardwicke, and the film looks like the world it's supposed to
portray. And unfortunately, Weitz doesn't even make the most of his best feature, never trying with any consistency a more Gothic
directorial style that could certainly feel at home here. It's fairly pedestrian outside of its color palette.
The visual effects, which have to be considered under the same umbrella, show the seams of a cheap production, or at least a
production not at all concerned with realistic werewolves. If you're making, I dunno, The Godfather, CGI werewolves probably
aren't a top priority. But if you're making a film that is in part about a guy who transforms into a wolf, it's rather important. It
undercuts, to a degree, the accomplishment of the cinematography.
But the praise for New Moon more or less ends there, and I think you'll admit, it was fairly faint praise. The great Michael Sheen, who should have at least one Oscar nomination based on his work in The Queen and Frost/Nixon, was
apparently handsomely paid for playing the evil, calculating vampire mafioso Aro, and the producers got their money's worth. His
performance is the only standout, and it's all too brief.
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:02AM | The Messenger
Starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, and Samantha Morton  |
The best parts of the Mel Gibson Vietnam film We Were Soldiers did not take place on the battlefield. Instead, they were the
quiet moments when the bad news was delivered to loved ones that a soldier was killed in action. And it's an interesting perspective
to see if you've never really thought about it, particularly in that environment, where it is balanced with the a different kind of
savagery altogether.
Or so I thought at the time. And now I've seen The Messenger.
Centered on the unenviable task at hand and the relationships these soldiers forge with each other and - in a turn of events that is
strictly against protocol - the next of kin (stripped of its emotional impact by the military abbreviation NOK), The
Messenger is a poignant film without wringing the tears out of you at every opportunity. And it features very strong
performances by Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, and Samantha Morton.
Staff Sgt. Will Montgomery (Foster) is new to the job, and is obviously not prepared for what it entails. The first rule of
delivering this news to the next of kin is to never make physical contact with them, which could be for personal safety, emotional
distance, or both. He is shown the ropes by grizzled veteran Capt. Tony Stone (Harrelson), who we can imagine was a lot like
Montgomery once upon a time, before the rigors of the job turned him into something else, someone more mechanical, and probably
because he had no choice.
The conflict arises from a meeting that has unexpected fallout: Montgomery tells Olivia (the always strong Samantha Morton) that her
husband was lost in battle and she reacts in an unusual way: She feels sympathy for her messenger, forced to to be forever linked
with the deaths of all of these soldiers. What's the protocol for that kind of response?
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 10:50PM 
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 8:25PM Here's another big get for Brad Pitt's Plan B production company: Pitt will produce and star in an adaptation of the Capcom video game Dark Void. Plan B has teamed up with Reliance Big Pictures, an Indian financing outlet, to possibly turn Dark Void into a franchise.
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in Brad Pitt, Sci-Fi, Video Game Movies | Print Article | Email Article | 2 Comments | Share Article Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:02PM Poseidon...you are the father. That's the jumping off point for Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, which involves a kid (Logan Lerman) who discovers he the demi-god son of the the Greek landlord of the oceans and seas.
