The Business from KCRW: “The producers of the hit show Ghost Whisperer on making great TV…and a successful marriage. Plus, we talk to the newly-elected president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.”
It was a fight to the finish between the two competing horror movies at the box office this weekend. The Final Destination, which was smartly marketed with the tagline, “Death Saved The Best for 3D”, beat out Halloween II and easily slashed its way through the rest of the competition, Read more…
Its Friday! Which means it’s time once again for the weekly video round-up of my favorite pop culture atrocities, misfires and entertaining trainwrecks. This week’s theme: The Halloween Series!
Rob Zombie‘s reboot sequel is hitting theaters today, so I thought I’d take a look back to the original series. In 1978, John Carpenter wrote (along with Debra Hill), directed and composed the music for Halloween, starring a then-unknown Jamie Lee Curtis. According to IMDb, it was shot in 21 days on a teeny budget of $300,000 (cheap even for that time). When Halloween opened on October 25, 1978, Read more…
The Weinstein Company may be celebrating for the second week in a row now that Halloween II is invading theaters. Last weekend, Bob and Harvey Weinstein scored big with Quentin Tarantino‘s Inglourious Basterds and they’re hoping that Rob Zombie‘s second stab at the Michael Myers reboot will take them to the top of the box office again. It could happen– but that’s if it can Read more…
On Jimmy Kimmel‘s late night chatfest, Robin Williams proved that not even heart surgery can slow him down.
Ever since she retired from acting 1992, I often wondered what happened to Shelley Duvall. She added so much quirk and rich dimensions to many classic films of the 1970s and 1980s, including Robert Altman‘s Nashville, Popeye and 3 Women; Woody Allen‘s Annie Hall; and Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining, among others. She also produced and hosted one of my favorite shows growing up, Showtime’s Faerie Tale Theatre, which ran from 1982 to 1987. After that she Read more…
It appears that Winona Ryder‘s dream of a Heathers sequel has gone up in smoke. According to Variety, Gary Lucchesi, president of Lakeshore Entertainment–the company that owns the rights to the 1989 cult favorite, has made a deal to turn it into a TV series. He said, Read more…
At the ripe age of 84, screen legend Lauren Bacall has still got her wits about her. Not only has she managed to stay hip by appearing in provocative indie films like Dogville, but she has also been quite outspoken with her opinions on the current state of Hollywood. Earlier this week, she told AP reporters: Read more…
We see a series of Quentin Tarantino-esque close ups of milk being poured into a pan. The stove is turned on and there’s a sizzle as the milk starts to heat up. Watching over the stove with a cigarette in his mouth, Don Draper drifts off into LaLa land. As his mother’s death flashes before his eyes, the milk starts to burn and he’s jolted back to reality. He then joins his pregnant wife, who is lying awake in bed, unable to fall asleep, and asks him, Read more…