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Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 9:02AM High Fidelity should have done better at the box office a million years ago. It did OK considering - $27 million plus about another $20 million internationally, but I think Disney was probably the wrong place to distribute it, and it probably never made a big impression on a lot of people until it hit the home video market.
Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 6:45AM Should this news turn out to be true and a movie version of Micronauts happens, I'm pretty glad J.J. Abrams would be involved. The Wall Street Journal says Abrams is in talks to produce a film based on the old Japanese interchangable toys - a precursor to Tranformers, Go-Bots, and Alexis Arquette.
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in J.J. Abrams, Toys | Print Article | Email Article | Post a Comment | Share Article Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 4:30AM What to do about The Wolfman? Originally, this was a fantastic idea. Universal was going all the way back to its vaults and reintroducing the monster movies of the 1930s, most of which have stood the test of time. You had Rick Baker doing make-up effects (the created the Oscar in that category for his work on An American Werewolf in London, still unsurpassed), and Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) lined up to direct Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, and Hugo Weaving.
Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 2:11AM We're just a couple months away from the acknowledged end of the decade (it's really next year, because there was never a year zero, so this decade actually ends in 2010), and that means we'll get Best of the Decade lists on top of Best of the Year lists. I'm actually looking forward to the process myself and I'm revisiting some of the 25 movies or so I think have a chance to make my own list.
"It may not have been the best film of the decade. It may not have been the best film Moore has made (that honour still belongs to 1989’s Roger and Me). Nevertheless, it’s hard to overstate the importance of this film, a modestly funded political documentary that was shunned by its Disney backers but went on to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, coin more than $220 million around the world, and boost the emergence of politically liberal, agenda-driven multiplex fare such as Supersize Me (sic) and An Inconvenient Truth."I can think of one problem right away: Super Size Me came out about two months before Fahrenheit 9/11 and spent three weeks in summer 2004 in the top ten despite only playing in a couple hundred theaters. So I can't see how 9/11 had a tremendous impact on Morgan Spurlock's movie.Secondly, while there have been great documentaries since 2004, this decade may have seen even better documentaries before Fahrenheit 9/11, and I'd argue that Moore's film might have actually diluted the effectiveness of the non-fiction film, based in part on his reliance on shaky half-truths to tell a more incendiary story. There's a fair amount of tabloid journalism in that film, and I'm not sure that's what the format is supposed to foster. So here's the top 25 films of the past decade, according to the editors of The Telegraph:
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in Documentary, Lists, Michael Moore | Print Article | Email Article | 2 Comments | Share Article Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 12:06AM It will not be Jim Sturgess slinging webs on Broadway in the new comic book musical Spider-Man Turn of the Dark. Instead, director Julie Taymor (Across the Universe) has hired another young actor she recently cast in a film version of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Reeve Carney will play Peter Parker to Evan Rachel Wood's Mary Jane Watson, and here's a look at the 26-year-old actor.
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 5:20PM I would have thought Brothers would be in the conversation by now. You know the conversation, the end-of-the-year talk where movies come out of nowhere to gain the indie world's rapt attention. But so far, it's kind of flying under the radar.
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 3:46PM 
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 1:06PM If these things lived in a vacuum, it might be a different story. On its own, there's nothing wrong or inherently evil about making a movie based on The Flintstones or Scooby Doo or even Rocky & Bullwinkle. But when you add them all up (and pay attention to the success rate), you start to get a bad taste in your mouth. That's probably why I was so opposed to this update initially.
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 11:03AM Brüno was damn funny in small doses, but as an entire movie, it kind of lost its way. But when the film comes out on DVD November 17th, it will have a few more small doses, like this deleted scene with Pete Rose.
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in Bruno, DVD, Sacha Baron Cohen, Video | Print Article | Email Article | Post a Comment | Share Article Friday, November 6, 2009 at 9:56AM We've gotten plenty of traffic here at The Big Picture thanks to the story alleging that Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis will have mad sapphic sex in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, so thanks for the hits. Portman recently talked to V magazine about the film and the scene, and while she makes a semantics argument against what's been reported, Natalie is certainly not denying it.
